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Mubarakiya bad odors to be removed soon KUWAIT: In a bid to solve the problem of the bad odor experienced in and around the Al-Mubarakiya market, particularly since it is a historic market and making any structural changes there is difficult, Kuwait Municipality said that a contract had been signed with the KAM Biotechnology Ltd. of Canada to study what was causing these odors and then provide odor control services without affecting the historic and cultural IlatiLte of the market and its vicinity. A municipality statement stressed that a high-tech non-chemical organic product that is accredited and approved by international and Canadian research cen- ters as well as world environmental organization, would be used to treat the odors. Speaking at a press conference held in this regard, the regional manager of the National Cleaning Company, Muhsen Bosheri, stressed that he was per- sonally concerned with the bad odors at the Mubrakiya market, which holds much significance for Ministers congratulate HH Crown all the citizens and people who ever lived for any length of time in Kuwait. On his part, KAM Biotechnology founder and CEO, Prince on recovery from surgery Professor Mongi Ferchichi said that the water used in cleaning the market was contaminated with organic KUWAIT: A number of Kuwaiti ministers visited His Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- material and hydrogen disulfide, which was the main Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- Sabah, Minister of Communications and Minister of State cause of the bad odors. “This gas and other elements Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday to congratulate him on recovery for Housing Affairs Salem Mutheeb Al-Utheina and Minister will be turned into non-harmful organic elements and from a successful surgery. of Commerce and Industry Anas Khaled Al-Saleh-congratu- the water will be cleaned,” he stressed, noting that HH the Crown Prince underwent a successful minor lated HH the Crown Prince on the success of the surgery organic waste would also be turned into hydrogen, back surgery in Germany on May 4. HH Sheikh Nawaf and wished him everlasting health and well-being. which is an environment-friendly gas. — Al-Jarida received the well-wishing ministers at his residency in the The meeting was attended by HH Crown Prince German city of Munich with the attendance of National Diwan Chief Sheikh Mubarak Faisal Saud Al-Sabah, Guard Deputy Commander Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al- Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Jaber Al-Sabah. The visiting ministers - namely Minister of Kuwait Ambassador to Germany Musaad Rashid Al- State of Cabinet Affairs and Minister of State for Municipal Haroun. — KUNA JP Morgan made $108m profit from contract cancellation Government advisor co-owns DOW-Chemicals

KUWAIT: Now, when things are done ty that the whole thing had been care- money”, explained the sources won- and the Dow Chemical contract was fully netted and prepared beforehand dering why the finance minister and terminated and the$2.5 billion fine to avoid having a strange neutral advi- the government had not demanded paid, it seems that a new scandal still sor and risk rejecting the deal. payment of the loan before paying the KUWAIT: The Bait Al-Othman Museum is a historical involves the Dow contract, said Moreover, the sources explained full fine value. “Why, then did PIC’s monument that reflects Kuwait’s long and rich history, informed sources noting that even that according to the J.P. Morgan’s chairman of board and managing said Governor of the Capital City Sheikh Ali Al-Jaber Al- after the final verdict obliged Kuwait share in the Dow, it would get $45.7 director, Maha Mulla Hussein spend Ahmad Al-Sabah here yesterday. Sheikh Ali Al-Jaber to pay the penal clause, Kuwait’s million of the fine value in addition to millions on lawyers if she knew from told the press after visiting Bait Al-Othman with Lord Petrochemical Industries Company the $17 million it had collected for the the beginning that the fine be ulti- Mayor of Sheffield, Councilor John Campbell that the (PIC) sought advice from its current consultancy and the profits its shares mately paid! Museum is a great step in preserving the traditions of consultant; the J.P. Morgan Bank for made in a month as per market value, Meanwhile, in a related statement, Kuwait. —KUNA which it charged Kuwait with $17 mil- which all adds up the total gains the the 11/11 bloc said that the Dow issue lion. The sources added that the bank bank made to $108.8 million. was the biggest economical crime in also recommended immediate pay- Furthermore, the sources highlight- Kuwait’s history and that what makes TEC’s new summer timing ment of the penal clause value. ed that during the initial negotiations, things worse was that it took place “Things are logical enough, so far”, PIC had suggested setting the con- right under the noses of lawmakers KUWAIT: Yacoub Al-Duaij Acting Director of Operations and said the sources remaking that the tract’s penal clause value at only one from the Public Action Bloc (PAB) and Activities at TEC said that recreation city is open for visitors cur- illogical thing about the whole deal is billion dollars (5 percent of the con- the Islamic Constitutional Movement rently at the summer timing, which is from 5 pm - 1 after mid- that Kuwait’s financial advisor turned tract value) while the Dow asked to (ICM) who had always bragged of night all week days without stoppage, and Monday of evening out to be a major partner in the Dow make it $4.7 billion. “Was the whole being ‘public fund defenders’. week is specialized for women only. Adding that preparation Chemical with 25.1 million share in its thing a prefabricated scenario to reach “We will never stay silent about this are being made to prepare bonds and 2.08 per cent of its capital. a comprise with the final $2.5 billion?”, scandal and the people must know programs and recreation The question is: ‘How can one of wondered the sources. that the ‘bribed’ PAB and ICM mem- activities of different kinds and the rivals be at the same time a finan- In a related development, other oil bers have premeditatedly contributed all workers are doing their cial advisor to the other side?’, won- sources stressed that the Dow in this disaster when disagreed about best to provide best services. dered the sources noting that it had Chemical had had a one billion dollar the value of the commission each of In addition to making period- been natural enough that the J.P. loan from Kuwait’s Investment Bureau them would get”, added the statement ic maintenance to the games Morgan would urge the Kuwaiti side in London to compensate the Rom & noting that this disagreement was the and prepare special programs to immediately pay the fine since it Haas Petrochemicals Co. for cancelling direct reason behind cancelling the for women on their special was one of the beneficiaries as a share- a deal before the Dow. “At that time, contract. The statement also urged the day, and distribute gifts and holder. The sources further wondered and in view of the economic crisis, the speaker of the House, Ali Al-Rahsid to prizes to children, visitors can whether the Kuwaiti side knew of this Dow could not get any bank loans and investigate the matter and hold those communicate through the partnership or ignored it for some rea- thus PIC got Kuwait’s London responsible for the considerable loss following sites: www.face- sons. They even hinted at the possibili- Investment office to loan them the legally accountable. — Al-Watan book.com/kuwaittourism Yacoub Al-Duaij local SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 French boy drowns in swimming pool

KUWAIT: A 15-year-old French teenager died in an ambulance on his way to hospital after swallowing large quantity of water while swim- ming in one of the sports clubs in Hawally. Security received a call about the boy getting drown. A police man reached there and got him out of the pool and was taken to the medical emergency at Mubarak Hospital but he could not be revived in spite of the efforts made by doctors. A case was filed.

Al-Juwaihel arrested A member of the annulled assembly Mohammad Al-Juwaihel gave himself up to airport police as soon as he returned to Kuwait, as he was wanted to serve a three month jail for insulting a tribe over Twitter. Al-Juwaihel said he was happy to return home, and happier to have the law being implemented while he waits for the appeals court ruling. Al-Juwaihel was handed over to the concerned authori- ties.

Woman custom officer praised A woman customs inspector proved herself at the Kuwait International Airport after stopping an Asian passenger who was hav- ing a pack of cigarettes filled with marijuana drugs. The suspect and cigarettes were sent to the concerned authorities. Kuwait customs administration director Ibrahim Al-Ghanim said that recruiting females in customs inspection came after a long study and training and proved successful in the field.

Strange accident A strange accident occurred at Nowaiseeb border point yester- day, where a vehicle destroyed the car shade and the counter for MoI, National Guard finalizing paper works. Three parked vehicles were also affected by the accident and one citizen was injured. As per security sources, bor- der men were surprised by the car which was heading towards them hold seminar courses at full speed and collided with three cars, before it stopped after destroying another car shade and a counter. Sources said that the Kuwaiti driver was rushed to Al-Adan Hospital and kept under obser- KUWAIT: Under the Patronage of held under the title dealing with Razzaq, media consultant at Egyptian vation. Security sources suggested that the man was having some Assistant Undersecretary General media and press conferences. The MoD. The seminar aims at teaching health problem which made him loose control of the car and himself. Ahmad Nawaf Al-Sabah and the pres- course was organized by strategic participant the way of administering ence of Assistant Director for National institute studies during the period 5 - press conference and how to deal with House burgled Security College Brig. Fawzi Yousuf Al- 9 May 2013 and 17 trainees participat- the media and how to give media dec- A Kuwaiti man reported to Ali Al-Salem police station against Suwailem and Director of Strategic ed in it from different ministry sectors laration. Modern media was kept unknown who was able to break into his house after breaking the Studies Director Colonel Hizam A. from Ministry of Interior and National under focus during the seminar cours- outside door. The thief stole a safe box containing 5 birth certificates Rahman Al-Rashidi. The National Guard. es and its effects on societies. The of his children children and two Kuwaiti passports and three other Security College finalized the seminar The seminar was presented by Lt seminar included practical training for passports that belonged to his maids and driver, some important course for middle leaders which was General Dr Hussain Ali Al-Abdul dealing with all kinds of media. documents and some gold jewellery. He refused to accuse any one. A case was filed. In the meantime, an official at MEW reported to Al-Rawdha police accusing unknown thieves of breaking into the transformer at block 5, in Rawdha and stole copper cables. A case was filed. In Surra an Kuwait planning to Indian expat reported to the police against some thief who broke the window of his car and to steal but found nothing. execute mega projects Brothel raided A police force from Hawally security stormed a house in LONDON: State of Kuwait plans to exe- he said, adding that the government will Rumaithiya after learning that it turned into a brothel. Policemen also cute mega projects in various sectors in privatize several sectors in coordination discovered a liquor factory inside, as scores of Asians were arrested. the coming decade in coordination with with local and international mega com- Hawally security director Brig Ghuloum Habeeb learned about a house in Rumaithiya full of Asian labor of both genders where the local and foreign entrepreneurs, panies, noting that the process would acts were being committed. Police conducted the raid and arrested affirmed Kuwait’s Minister of target, in the near future, communica- many. Communications and Minister of State tions, transports and air navigation. for Housing Affairs Salem Al-Utheina. Al-Utheina expressed optimism that Reckless driving The Kuwaiti Government is seeking the privatization process would be suc- Hawally police arrested and Egyptian expat for driving recklessly. to carry out guidelines of His Highness cessful, particularly in light of enactment He did not have a driver’s licence, and attempted to escape causing the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- of several legislations. For his part, injury to a police officer in the process, but some passersby stopped Jaber Al-Sabah rapidly with respect of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah said in a kept him from running away. After his arrest it was found that his iqa- execution of a number of development statement to KUNA meeting of the min- ma expired and there were six travel bans against him. ventures that directly affect citizens’ dai- isters with the students was held in line ly living, said Al-Utheina during a meet- with guidelines of the political leader- Indian commits suicide ing with a group of Kuwaiti students ship to listen to them about their prob- An Indian expat, 29, killed himself in his sponsor’s house. A securi- studying in the United Kingdom, late on lems. Remarks that were made by a ty source said a citizen told them that his driver committed suicide Thursday. number of students would be referred inside his room. Police found out the man hanged himself with a Al-Utheina is a member of a high- to the relevant authorities, he said, not- rope. Police are investigating. ranking Kuwaiti delegation including ing that some students protested high Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and cost of living in the UK, others requested Policemen attacked Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Salem Al-Utheina higher monthly financial allocations and Fintas police arrested a citizen and his father for attacking two Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- nal capitals. Elaborating, Al-Utheina stat- a number asked for lower airfares. policemen during an event in which statements of both sides contra- Mubarak Al-Sabah and Minister of ed that the government is also seeking The government, according to dicted each other. A security source said that two policemen in their Commerce and Industry Anas Al-Saleh. to privatize a number of sectors, indicat- instructions of His Highness the Prime patrol car asked a driver to stop, but he ignored them so they fol- Also present at the meeting was the Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- lowed him until he stopped near a building, then confronted the ing in particular at Kuwait Airways, fleet head of the Kuwaiti Cultural Office, Dr. Hamad Al-Sabah, will spare no effort in policemen, and discovered that one of them has a previous dispute of which would be upgraded very soon. Mohammad Al-Hajeri. tackling any obstacles that may face the with him, so he started beating him as three others appeared at the Also in this vein, the minister indicated scene and joined in beating the policemen. The driver and one of his The Kuwaiti ministerial delegation that the government would not neglect students with scholarships to study helpers were brought under control, while the two others escaped. took part, on Wednesday, in a conven- rights of the employees serving in the abroad, he affirmed. The source said policemen found out that the other arrested person tion on investment opportunities in sectors that would be privatized. Minister Al-Saleh made identical is actually the father of the driver. Investigations are ongoing espe- Kuwait, aimed at promoting recently- Moreover, the State of Kuwait will remarks urging the students to do their cially that the suspects claimed policed used force against them with- endorsed legislations intended to impose on companies that win invest- best to enhance their skills and serve out reason, and pulled their guns against them. encourage investments and lure exter- ment tenders to employ Kuwaiti youth, Kuwait. — KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Al-Duwaisan lauds role of UK-Kuwait friendship society Delegation’s visit to UK ‘successful’

LONDON: The British-Kuwaiti friend- strong relations between the two The Kuwait Investment opportuni- ship society plays an important role in countries stressing that Kuwait and ties conference, held here last boosting bilateral relations between Britain are looking forward to further Wednesday, was a good chance for the two nations, said Kuwaiti bolster ties in the future. both nations to explore possibilities to Ambassador to the UK Khaled Al- On his part, Chairman of the boost economic cooperation, said Al- Duwaisan. This statement came on the Kuwaiti-British business council and Shaya. Meanwhile, friendship society sideline of the society’s annual dinner member of the friendship society, member Kuwaiti Minister of State for banquet which was attended by a Mohammad Abdulaziz Al-Shaya laud- Cabinet Affairs and Minister of State for number of diplomats, British business- ed relations between Kuwait and the Municipal Affairs Sheikh Mohammad KUWAIT: The firefighters’ meeting in progress. men, and Arab media figures. UK, affirming that both nations were Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah called The ambassador said that the huge keen on boosting relations particularly on British companies to explore the Fire fighters meet turnout at the celebration reflected the within the economic domain. investment opportunities provided by Kuwait, noting that his country was to limit obstacles eager to bolster ties within the eco- nomic and commercial domains. By Hanan Al-Saadoun Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti ministerial delegation’s visit to the UK was a suc- KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait Fire Service cessful venture which would certainly Directorate Maj General Yousuf Al-Ansari held a meeting develop relations with various domains with Deputy Director General for Fighting and Human in that industrial nation, said Minister Resources Development Brig Khalid Al-Mikrad in the pres- of State for Cabinet ence of governorates directors and heads of centers to dis- Affairs and Minister of State for cuss matters related to enhancing the efficiency of fire Municipal Affairs Sheikh Mohammad fighters and limit obstacles they face while dealing with Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah here the various types of accidents. yesterday. Speaking to KUNA before The meeting also discussed the points of the new vision departure, Sheikh Mohammad indicat- adopted by the directorate which aims at raising the com- ed that the delegation, consisting of petence of firemen. officials from Ministries of Al-Ansari said the human element is the most important Communication, Housing, Commerce, in the field of fire fighting and rescue as well as planning as well as the Municipality, provided and how to direct and follow up. their British counterparts with details Meanwhile Brig Al-Mikrad said the directorate is keen about possible investments in Kuwait. on the safety and health of its firemen which is the main They also informed the British about factor to make fighting and rescue a success. Al-Mikrad the State of Kuwait’s ambitious devel- spoke about negatives and positives that the fireman may opment plan and investment opportu- face and special missions. nities available within it. A conference on investment opportunities in Kuwait was held here last Wednesday with a Amendments large number of government officials, economists and business leaders from to co-op law LONDON: Ambassador Al-Duwaisan at the Kuwait-British Friendship Kuwait and the United Kingdom Society dinner banquet. — KUNA attending. — KUNA KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s Health, Social, and Labor committee approved here administrative amendments to the cooperative societies law. The committee’s Chairman MP Salah Al-Atiqi told the press Malabar Gold and Diamonds hits that one amendment set the legal age for joining the board of a cooperative society at 30 rather than 21. The 90th mark, second outlet in Kuwait new amendment also required that a member should attain an academic degree before joining the board, KUWAIT: Malabar Gold & Diamonds opens its 90th out- All these offers are valid until 17th May 2013. To mark said the MP. He noted that cooperative societies’ new let in Souk Al Watya, Kuwait today at 5 pm. This will be this occasion, the jewellery chain has unveiled more elections law will allow one vote rule, adding that the the group’s 2nd outlet in Kuwait and 29th in the Middle designs in their branded jewellery segment; Era- Uncut process to choose the position of board chairman, East. Diamond collection, Mine- Diamonds Unlimited, Ethnix- deputy chairman, and treasurer should be done within The showroom displays an extensivecollection of hand crafted designer jewellery, Divine- heritage jew- a period of a week. gold, platinum and diamonds in exquisite designs and ellery, Precia- precious gem jewellery and Starlet- kids styles to suit the tastes of today’s international cus- jewellery to suit any budget and occasion. tomers. Their latest range of jewellery in gold & dia- Malabar Gold & Diamonds, one of the world’s fastest Kuwait plans automation of monds specially designed for the festive season will also growing jewellery chains, has seen rapid growth in just exams correction process be available at this showroom. 20 years of operations, currently operating 89 retail out- The group also announced their inaugural offers that lets, manufacturing facilities and supply chain divisions KUWAIT: Kuwait Minister of Education and Minister of last until 17th May 2013. On every purchase of gold jew- spanning 7 countries. Higher Education Nayef Falah Al-Hajraf announced that his ellery worth KD 250, the customers can avail a gold coin Targeting to have 220 outlets by 2015, the group is ministry plans to automate the correction of secondary absolutely free and on buying any of their timeless and planning for an aggressive expansion and intends to school exams. In press statements following a meeting elegant diamond jewellery worth KD 250, 3 gold coins open its 100th outlet in Kolkata in the month of August. with Farwaniya Education Directorate’s officials and teach- can be gained. In Kuwait, they are all set to open another outlet in Lulu ers, Al-Hajraf said the Ministry has ambitious plans to Old ornaments purchased from any of the jewellers in Hypermarket, Dajeej shortly. employ new technology in different stages of the educa- GCC can be exchanged with the brand new enchanting This year, Malabar Gold & Diamonds has marked tional process. collection of Malabar Gold & Diamonds without any loss. another milestone by declaring its latest CSR policies A delegation will visit the Sultanate of Oman shortly to Any 22 ct old gold ornaments purchased from GCC can during its 20th anniversary celebrations. The group will get acquainted with their experience in the automation of be exchanged with Malabar Gold & Diamonds designs allocate 10% of its profits for the benefit of the needy exam correction process, Al-Hajraf said. He added the min- by paying only making charges ensuring they don’t lose and several projects including environment conserva- istry also plans to set up a central exam department to be any value on the rate of gold. tion, women empowerment as well as to support the in charge of preparing, printing, and correcting exams. The customers also get a fantastic opportunity to buy medical and educational sectors for the less fortunate in The minister unveiled that new school curricula will be 8 gms of gold coin with absolutely no making charges. the society. taught, starting with the primary schools curricula as of the academic year 2014/2015. — KUNA

LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Education with a difference

By Sunil Cherian more”, said Susan Baum, a grandmother To teachers as well as students, Dr Baum who knows the pulse of today’s kids. “In a gives a problem solving technique: magine a student doing her homework classroom with multiple intelligences, SCAMPER. in front of TV between her snacks and instructing students to sit quietly is adver- S: Substitute (What similarities exist?). Iphone calls while her social networks sary. Exercise lights up the brain and mov- C: Combine (Bring something together to are on and still can listen to music from an ing around with a partner and other activi- lessen). iPod. That brings us to difficult to imagine ties like drawing enhance education”, A: Adapt (What adjustments can be a teacher with her chalk-and-talk method- Baum said. To one teacher who said made?). ology. Here is where Dr Susan Baum, ‘there’s no place in the classroom to move M: Modify (Change the situation by mag- author of several educational books and an around’, Baum, the dynamic teacher nifying or minifying). international faculty with the State replied: “then go to the playground”. P: Put to other uses (Could parts from University of New York (SUNY) interferes. Teachers have great job in differentiat- previous idea be used?). Her comprehensive strategies are ed instructions, said Dr Baum. First is to E: Eliminate (Could something be designed in differentiation for all kinds of acknowledge and celebrate individual dif- removed?). learners regardless of their abilities. She ferences among your children. The teach- R: Rearrange (Reverse the sequence). firmly believes teaching to be differentiat- ing content, the educational process and ed ‘because learners are varied’. its product, and the learning environment Dr Susan Baum during the workshop Last week Dr Baum was at Kuwait are to be varied and differentiated. “Our learning. Talent developing is relieving a Another child-friendly method is tiered Bilingual School, Jahra to give a lecture on instruction is aimed for tomorrow’s leaders slow learner from the ‘mandatory’ writing instruction, a procedure by which the ‘Differentiated Instructions and Their and it is to be based on emotion, excite- exercise. It is better for Abdullah to spend teacher has a concept to teach and the Choices’. The universal educational truth ment and empowerment”. time on building blocks than to write, write teaching activity is to the whole class but she underlined - learning occurs when stu- Teaching becomes more challenged and write. Peer-learning is coupling two differs according to the students’ abilities. dents are excited about what they are when the slow learners and early finishers students in an assignment to learn from Dr Baum admits the task of the educator is learning and when such excitements in the classroom are extreme. For the fast each other. Ask the musically talented many-folded in a differentiated environ- linked with positive memories spark moti- finishers, Dr Baum offers these quips to bright student to compose music or to ment. The quickest way possible for the tra- vation to stay in the struggle - holds true teachers: acceleration (go faster; skip a les- make a music instrument. Ask the not-so- ditional teacher to be fit into a differentiat- for teachers as well, as some Jahra teachers son) and compacting (get rid of what the bright (usually the undisciplined) one to ed classroom is to increase the resource said. students already know). create a car model. Both are assignments materials, Dr Baum said. “Today’s students are more active and For the so called slow catchers, the two but different according to talents and And what if there aren’t enough energetic because visual stimulations are strategies are talent developing and peer- strength levels. resources? “Well, there’s an app for that”. Boosting Kuwait capital spending

KUWAIT: As hydrocarbons’ contribu- Should Kuwait hasten the roll out of ule in 2012-13. At least part of the rea- tion to Kuwait’s GDP is predicted to fall its capital works projects, the effect son for the delayed roll out of projects this year, growth is increasingly seen as could be significant. In the budget for has been laid at the door of Kuwait’s hinging on the success of an ambitious the 2013-14 financial year, which political opposition, which blocked state investment program. However, began on April 1, the government set many of the major projects in the concerns over delays to its implemen- out an infrastructure program worth investment program, and even forced tation have raised questions as to how $17.5bn, part of a much wider $110bn the cancellation of the refinery in 2008, significantly it will boost GDP. development plan first approved in though it was later reinstated. In late March the Central Bank of early 2010. The plan comprises, inter However, with the opposition having Kuwait (CBK) issued its latest outlook alia, increased investment in the trans- boycotted the general elections of Municipality confiscates report and predicted that real econom- port, communications and energy December last year over objections to 85 vehicles, empty drums ic growth would come in at 1.9 percent industries, including, in the latter case, changes to the electoral laws, the gov- in 2013, compared with the 6.3 percent a $14bn oil refinery. ernment has a more supportive legisla- By Hanan Al-Saadoun recorded in 2012. The CBK said it However, last year’s performance ture, one less likely to stall spending expected the hydrocarbons sector’s suggests that Kuwait may have difficul- programs. If so, it will be a welcome KUWAIT: One of the largest field campaigns by Jahra contribution to GDP to contract by 3.4 ty achieving its spending goals. For the development for many in the private municipality to remove neglected vehicles and scrap from percent this year, compared with the first 10 months of the 2012-13 financial sector. The IMF has said the low volume Amghara area resulted in the removal of 85 vehicles along 8.2 per cent expansion in 2012. Last year, which concluded on March 31, of public spending also resulted in the with six lorry loads of drums. year, with energy prices rising and pro- Kuwait posted a $60.5bn surplus, private sector being slow to invest in Director of Public Cleanliness and Road Occupancy duction at near capacity, oil GDP grew according to data issued by the 2012, suggesting a wariness on the part Department Mamdouh Al-Najdi said a cooperation agree- by 15 per cent, following on from the Ministry of Finance at the end of that of banks and businesses to commit too ment between the municipality and traffic department will 10 per cent increase in 2011. On the month. While some of this was a result deeply to investments in an climate of be launched soon to remove cars on display for sale in vari- positive side, the CBK predicted non-oil of higher than forecast oil prices, lower economic uncertainty. A similar failure ous areas, as those who wish to sell their cars can display GDP to expand by up to 5.3 per cent in than projected state spending also to undertake development projects in a them in designated areas. 2013, in part a reflection of higher state played a part in bolstering the budget- timely manner this fiscal year could infrastructure spending. ary balance. again discourage private sector invest- The IMF has also reassessed its fore- Revenue was 11.6 percent up on the ment and limit loan growth. cast, announcing in early April that it same period for 2011-12, and almost Some of the country’s banks, having had lowered its GDP growth projection double the budget projections for the complained of the slow pace of imple- from 1.8 per cent to 1.1 per cent for entire fiscal term. While earnings were menting the investment program, have 2013. According to the IMF’s represen- up, on the back of higher oil produc- restricted investment and lending oppor- tative in Kuwait, Ananthakrishnan tion and above expected prices, state tunities, local and international media Prasad, the delayed implementation of spending had fallen well short of pro- have reported. While banks and private the national development program has jections, with outlays less than half of sector players would welcome more a slowed non-oil economic expansion, the budgeted $48.8bn. With recurrent more rapid implementation of the state but he added that the fund expects spending - which reflects wages, pen- development program, investors will be more rapid progress in 2013. Indeed, sions and social support projects - tak- mindful of the extended planning, ten- the IMF has projected 4 per cent non- ing up much of the expended outlays, dering and approval processes that oil GDP growth this year, compared to it is clear that the government’s capital could moderate the flow of project roll 2.7 per cent in 2012. works program fell well behind sched- out. — Oxford Business Group SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 UAE Islamists deny plot, Abu Qatada to leave Seeking office, Marcos demand abuse inquiry 8 Britain voluntarily 10 ensures dynasty lives 13

LAHORE: Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif addresses his supporters during an election campaign rally late Thursday. —AP Pak to vote under threats Sharif’s PML-N expected to win, Khan’s PTI may upset cart

PESHAWAR: The Taleban yesterday stepped up their threats under army supervision. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, an ally of the outgoing government, had against Pakistan’s landmark elections, warning voters to boycott Most commentators expect Sharif’s centre-right Pakistan offices nearby. Witnesses and officials said 15 people were taken polling stations to save their lives as bloody attacks targeted party Muslim League-N (PML-N) to win but it remains unclear how far to the state-run Miranshah hospital, some of them in a serious offices. Campaigning ended at midnight with impassioned pleas Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) can provide an upset and restrict his condition. In the southwest, a low-intensity bomb planted on the for votes from frontrunner Nawaz Sharif, a steel tycoon bidding for chances of forming a stable coalition. More than 600,000 security roof of the office of a PPP candidate in Quetta wounded five peo- a historic third term as prime minister, and cricket star Imran Khan personnel, including tens of thousands of soldiers, have been ple early Friday, police said. The device detonated when support- looking for a breakthrough. Pakistan’s umbrella Tehreek-e-Taleban ordered to deploy to guard against attacks on polling day. ers of former cabinet minister and PPP national assembly lawmak- (TTP) movement says democracy is unIslamic and has singled out Yesterday, a motorbike bomb killed four people and wounded 15 er Sardar Omar Gorgaj were gathering in his office. the outgoing parties for particular threat, curtailing campaigning close to offices of different parties in the main town of North Yesterday’s polls are the first time in Pakistan’s turbulent history for the Pakistan People’s Party and its main allies. Waziristan, the premier stronghold of the Taleban and Al-Qaeda- that an elected civilian administration has handed power to Attacks on politicians and political parties have killed more linked groups on the Afghan border. another through the ballot box. The nuclear-armed state has been than 120 people since mid-April, according to AFP, and the Security officials said PML-N, PTI and right-wing religious party ruled by the military for half its life. More than 86 million voters Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said the elections have from 8 am to 5 pm to elect 272 lawmakers to the 342-mem- were the most violent in the country’s history. “To revolt against ber national assembly and lawmakers to four provincial assem- this system, the TTP have planned several actions on May 11, so Saudi king sacks blies. No one claimed responsibility for Friday’s bombings, but the we appeal to the people to stay away from polling stations to save Taleban, who consider the election un-Islamic, have carried out their lives,” Taleban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said. The PPP numerous attacks to undermine the polls and say they have dis- has run a lacklustre and rudderless campaign in the face of the air force chief patched suicide bombers for polling day. threats and with its chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, too young to RIYADH: Saudi King Abdullah has dismissed and retired The Taleban have singled out the secular-leaning PPP and its run. air force chief General Mohammed Al-Ayesh by royal main coalition partners, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which HRCP on Friday voiced “acute concern” not just from threats decree, the official SPA news agency reported yesterday, controls Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi, and the Awami National and violence targeting individuals “but much more from the man- without elaborating why. The monarch named General Party in the northwest. On Thursday, a son of former PPP prime ner in which the violence has already impaired the fairness of the Fayadh bin Hamed Al-Rowaili to succeed him, the agency minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was kidnapped and two of his aides elections almost beyond repair”. It called on all institutions to added. In April, the deputy defence minister, Prince killed in the central city of Multan. Gilani told reporters yesterday “stretch themselves to their absolute limit to ensure security of Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, a member of the royal that there had been no claim of responsibility for the abduction of voters, candidates and polling stations on Saturday so that the family who played a key role in the 1991 Gulf War over his son, Ali Haider Gilani, a 27-year-old PPP candidate for the people can exercise their right to choose their representatives”. Kuwait, was also dismissed by royal decree. Again, no assembly in Punjab province. “We should create a conducive The election commission says that 179 million ballot papers are explanation was given for the move. —AFP atmosphere for the elections, so that polls look fair and transpar- being distributed to around 70,000 polling stations nationwide ent,” Gilani said. —AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

Assad, Nasrallah threaten new frontline in Golan

BEIRUT: Threats from Damascus and its Lebanese ally “resistance front” - suggesting he had given a green light Hezbollah fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, firing Hezbollah to turn the Golan Heights into a “resistance to guerrilla groups to launch retaliatory attacks. Assad’s ally thousands of rockets into northern Israel. Nasrallah said front” against Israel could end nearly four decades of calm Hassan Nasrallah, head of the powerful Lebanese militia that in response to the Israeli air raid, which intelligence across the increasingly tense ceasefire line separating Hezbollah, followed with a promise to support his efforts sources said targeted weapons destined for his fighters, Israeli and Syrian forces. President Bashar Al-Assad, and his “to liberate the Syrian Golan”. “When Assad said this, Israeli Syria would supply Hezbollah with more sophisticated father before him, kept the front line between Syria and officials mocked,” Israeli military affairs analyst wrote in weaponry. “If the Israeli enemy thinks it can destroy Syria, the Israeli-occupied Golan quiet despite an official state of Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. “But when Assad let me tell you that Syria and Hezbollah can destroy Israel,” war between the two countries and Syria’s support for mil- and Nasrallah voice the exact same threat, it should be tak- Syrian parliamentarian Sharif Shehada told Hezbollah’s itants in Lebanon and Gaza. en seriously. Hezbollah could begin to find a foothold on Manar television. “When President Assad says Syria has But following Israel’s weekend air raids near Damascus, the Israeli-Syrian border which, in the absence of a central become a nation of resistance, he is certain of what he is Assad was quoted as saying he would turn the Golan into a government in Damascus, is becoming chaotic.” saying”. —Reuters

UAE Islamists deny plot, demand abuse inquiry Call for independent probe

DUBAI: Islamists charged with a coup plot in aims to counter the foundations of this state in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have said they order to seize power and of contacting foreign were abused in custody and, in a statement on entities and groups to implement this plan,” social media, demanded an independent WAM said. Local media, which have attended inquiry. The trial of 94 Emiratis, which began in the trial proceedings, have said the accused March, is seen as an attempt by the U.S.-allied deny the charges. Foreign media have been Gulf Arab state to address what it says is a barred from attending. The group, which security threat from the banned Muslim signed the letter dated May 7 as ‘Prisoners Brotherhood. The 94 were among dozens of from the Islah group’, said they were “unjustly people detained in a crackdown on Islamists accused of planning to seize rule”. over the past year amid heightened worries “We ... have been subjected to solitary con- among officials about a spillover of unrest in finement for many months in tight cells with other Arab countries. no windows and with continuous light morn- In an open letter to the UAE president and ing and night,” the letter said. The group com- MASHHAD, Iran: Iranian officials try to save a man with a noose around his neck seconds after vice-president published on a Twitter account plained of insults and threats and said some his public execution for killing a policeman in this northeastern city on May 8, 2013. —AFP belonging to the Islamist group Al-Islah, the had been physically abused or had not been defendants said they had been insulted, allowed to speak to their lawyers. “(We call for) threatened and in some cases subjected to ... the formation of an independent committee physical abuse after arrest. It was not clear how to investigate these abuses,” said the group. Murderer pardoned as many of the 94, most of whom are in custody, Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s state minister for had signed the letter or how it had been com- foreign affairs, dismissed the letter as “nothing municated outside prison. Most of the new”. “Actually it is a repetition of the cam- he swings from gallows detainees belong to Al-Islah, which denies paign that the Brotherhood has chosen government charges that it is an arm of the against the nation,” Gargash, who is also state TEHRAN: An Iranian man condemned to the gallows man and holding him until they could remove the Muslim Brotherhood. Attorney-general Saleem minister for Federal National Council Affairs, for murdering a policeman was pardoned by the vic- noose from around his neck. The aborted execution Saeed Kubaish said in January that group said on his Twitter page late on Thursday. “The tim’s family and his life saved only moments after he took place in the northeastern city of Mashhad. Under members had sought to penetrate state insti- statement repeats this tale about torture, was hanged, the Mehr news agency reported on Iranian law, the family of a victim is entitled to pardon tutions, including schools, universities and which it wants to attach to the nation ... and Thursday. Relatives “cried out their pardon after the a criminal and save him from execution. In such cases, ministries, according to state news agency the statement disregards that the Emirates’ murderer had already been hanging for a few seconds” a murderer must pay blood money currently set at WAM. The defendants are accused of “belong- measures took place within a constitutional the agency said, publishing a photo of people grab the $36,000 and serve a prison sentence. —AFP ing to an illegal, secret organisation ... that and legal framework,” he said. —Reuters Kuwait launches sports... Survivor pulled from...

Continued from Page 1 head of the Women’s Sports Federation. But Continued from Page 1 tion with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “The in the ensuing decades, the influence of prime minister has offered special prayers for her female athletes to compete in the London Islamic hardliners grew in the country and We conducted the rescue work for 45 minutes. and talked to her by phone. During the conserva- Olympic Games following months of intense sports for women all but disappeared. We brought her out by using light hammers, tion, Reshma cried,” said Jahangir Kabir Nanak, pressure from the International Olympics Hardliners believe that sports will promote hand saw and drilling machines.” the deputy local government minister. Committee. immoral behavior and uniforms inappropri- Jamil Ahmed, a fire service officer who was The last survivor had been found April 28, and Still, women’s sports remain nearly an ately reveal female bodies. The low point part of the rescue team, told AFP that the bulldoz- even her story ended tragically. As workers tried underground activity in the kingdom, which came a few years back when a Kuwaiti ers and cranes which had been churning through to free Shahin Akter, a fire broke out and she died is home to Islam’s holiest site in Makkah. Only women’s football team was publicly the rubble had been ordered to stop work as of smoke inhalation. Hundreds of people who the largest female university in the kingdom - denounced after returning from playing a soon as it emerged that Reshma was alive. “We had been engaged in the grim job of removing Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University - regional tournament in neighboring United dug a hole and there she was, standing up. She decomposing bodies from the site raised their has a swimming pool, tennis court and exer- Arab Emirates. told us: ‘My name is Reshma, please save me, hands together in prayer for her survival. “God, cise area for its students. No other university “We’re taking baby steps toward progress,” please save me, brother’. “We used light ham- you are the greatest, you can do anything. Please in Saudi Arabia has sports facilities for female Sabah said. “As with any society that is reli- mers, a hand saw and drilling machines to open allow us all to rescue the survivor just found,” said students and staff. Women are also bound by giously strict, we need to test the waters and up the gap. There was an air pocket inside and a man on a loudspeaker leading the supplicants. strict rules when it comes to their attire, so take small steps. Everyone in Kuwait now val- she had enough space to crawl about comfort- “We seek apology for our sins. Please pardon us, they cannot, for example, be seen by men ues sports. You see people walking and jog- ably. Major Moazzem slipped into the hole and pardon the person found alive.” while jogging in sweat pants. Female athletes ging every day. There is this increasing inter- took her into his arms and then we pulled her News of the rescue came as recovery teams cannot register for sports clubs or league est in playing sports in general.” Shatti said out.” Another rescuer said that Reshma had had were preparing to wrap up their work at the site competitions. They are banned from entering the best sign that things are changing was access to food supplies for the first fortnight of after discovering scores more corpses in the tan- national trials, making it impossible for them the number of women and girls who turned her ordeal but had run out two days ago. “She gle of concrete overnight. A spokesman for the to qualify for international competitions. out for the basketball game. A music teacher said she has not eaten for the last two days. She army, which is overseeing the recovery opera- Kuwait is typical of the struggle women who also cycles and jogs with her husband, said she has eaten some dried food like biscuits,” tion, said the toll had reached 1,045, making it have endured in the Gulf. The 1970s were Shatti is only hoping to get more chances to said the rescuer. “She said she had found a safe one of the world’s deadliest industrial disasters. described as the golden era where women play. “It felt like the first step toward a better place and found some air and light.” A govern- More than 3,000 workers were on shift on the were allowed to freely participate in sports in future for sports for us here in Kuwait,” she ment minister told reporters that Reshma had morning of April 24 when the building suddenly Kuwait, according to Naeema Al-Sabah, the said after her team’s victory. —AP wept tears of joy during a brief phone conversa- caved in. —Agencies INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Israel seeking to ‘sabotage’ peace: Palestinians

JERUSALEM: The chief Palestinian “counterproductive”. “As the presi- Abbas. Hagit Ofran of Israel’s Peace negotiator has accused the Israeli dent said, Israelis must recognise Now settlement watchdog, who on government of trying to “sabotage” that continued settlement activity is Wednesday had confirmed that no US moves to rekindle peace talks by counterproductive to the cause of new tenders had been issued since signing off on plans for nearly 300 peace and that an independent the start of the year, lashed out at new settler homes near Ramallah. Palestine must be viable, with real the announcement, accusing The Israeli announcement on borders that have to be drawn,” Netanyahu of playing a double Thursday came just days after Prime State Department spokesman game.”This initiative proves Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Patrick Ventrell said. Netanyahu is deceiving the world,” reportedly ordered a freeze on ten- Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb she told AFP. “On the one hand, he ders for new West Bank settler Erakat said the move sent a clear lets us believe that he is putting the homes to avoid harming efforts by message to Washington that Israel brakes on settlement and on the US Secretary of State John Kerry to was not interested in resuming the other, he gives the go-ahead for an bring both sides back to the negoti- direct talks, frozen in 2010. “We con- enormous building project.” ating table. “The Civil Administration demn this new decision which is Earlier this week, senior Israeli has given the green light for 296 officials quoted by Haaretz newspa- housing units at Beit El,” said the proof that the Israeli government per said Netanyahu had promised spokesman for a defence ministry wants to sabotage and ruin the US unit which administers the West administration’s efforts to revive the JERUSALEM: Palestinians chant slogans during a demonstration in sol- Kerry he would “rein in” settlement Bank. He said the plan was peace process,” he told AFP. “This is a idarity with the Al-Aqsa mosque following Friday prayers outside the construction in both the West Bank announced last year as a compensa- message to the American adminis- Dome of the Rock yesterday. — AFP and annexed east Jerusalem until tory measure after the government tration and a blow to the peace opment, news of which reached her Americans about the development. mid-June in light of US efforts to ordered the evacuation of the unau- process,” he said, suggesting it as she was meeting Kerry in Rome on Kerry said on Wednesday he would renew negotiations between Israel thorised Ulpana outpost on the out- would drag the region towards vio- Wednesday afternoon. “There is no make his fourth trip to Israel and the and the Palestinians. In parallel, the skirts of Beit El. lence rather than peace. need for this to become a pretext for Palestinian territories on May 21 or Palestinians agreed to suspend for Washington warned Israel that its But his Israeli counterpart, Tzipi drama or anger,” she told army radio, 22 for talks with Netanyahu and two months all efforts to seek inter- plans for settlement housing were Livni, sought to play down the devel- saying she had updated the Palestinian president Mahmoud national recognition. —AFP Khamenei adviser enters Iran presidential contest Khatami urges Rafsanjani to run in race

DUBAI: An adviser to Iran’s Supreme sensed there was a possibility of real Mashaie who they accuse of promoting a Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei joined the change in Iran. “deviant current” within Islam that under- presidential race yesterday, with powerful After years of ever tougher internation- mines the role of the clergy. If he does run, conservatives keen to make the June vote al sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear pro- it would be seen as a direct challenge to a peaceful contrast to the upheaval that gram, many Iranians care more about the Khamenei’s authority. followed the disputed 2009 poll. economy than political infighting. The Among other candidates who regis- Khamenei has the final say on all matters election is unlikely to have much effect on tered on Friday were veteran Iranian politi- in Iran and in theory stands above the Tehran’s nuclear policy which is closely cian Mohsen Rezaie, who lost to JERUSALEM: A Jewish woman from the ‘Women of the political fray, but it is thought he wants a controlled by Khamenei. The most power- Ahmadinejad in 2009, and reformist Wall’ organization leads a prayer at the Western Wall yes- ful person in Iran, Khamenei endorsed Mohammad Reza Aref, who served as vice- terday. — AP reliable follower in the presidency after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s two turbulent Ahmadinejad’s victory in 2009, rejecting president under former moderate Arrests mar Jewish terms in office. Reformist groups have opposition charges of election fraud. But President Mohammad Khatami. Khatami, been suppressed or sidelined since 2009 the president later alienated the leader by who was elected in landslide victories in women’s prayers and the next president is likely to be pursuing his own policies in often 1997 and 2001, has not made it clear picked from among a handful of politi- provocative ways. Khamenei is now whether he will run this time but on Friday JERUSALEM: Jerusalem police were yesterday holding five cians known for fealty to Khamenei, min- thought to want to thwart any attempt by he threw his support behind moderate for- ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who tried to disrupt landmark imising the chances of political rifts lead- Ahmadinejad to preserve his influence by mer President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani prayers by women Jewish activists at the Western Wall plaza in ing to post-election chaos. promoting a favoured successor, possibly and urged him to stand in the vote. “I the Holy City. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP that Former parliament speaker Gholam-Ali the outgoing president’s former chief of believe the best person who can help the 1,000 ultra-Orthodox men were kept away from a large group Haddad-Adel registered to run, state news staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie. establishment and solve the current prob- of “Women of the Wall” activists conducting their monthly agency IRNA reported, becoming the first Conservatives are vehemently opposed to lems is Mr. Hashemi. —Reuters prayer using prayer shawls, after a court ruled they could do of a trio of Khamenei loyalists expected to so. “Police arrested three ultra-Orthodox men and detained do so. Allied with Haddad-Adel are former another two” for public disturbances,” Rosenfeld said. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati and Ultra-Orthodox men had tried to break through reinforced Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf - police lines and reach the women, some calling police holding Iranian media say two of them will step them back “Nazis” and yelling offensive remarks at the women aside later in favour of whoever appears to while others blew on whistles to drown out their prayers. An have the best chance of winning the elec- AFP correspondent said they also threw bags containing liq- tion. “Our final choice will be announced uid, water bottles, bags of rubbish, plastic chairs and eggs at after the Guardian Council’s decision,” the the police and women worshippers. Two police officers were semi-official Fars news agency quoted lightly injured and treated at the site, but no women were hurt Haddad-Adel as saying after registering, and they managed to complete their prayers, some holding referring to a body which vets applicants flowers alongside prayer books. When the prayer ended, police before they are allowed to run. escorted the women to a bus which was hit by stones as it left The conservative council, normally the area, Rosenfeld said. The women activists have for more than 20 years demand- made up of six clerics and six jurists, will ed to be allowed to pray using their form of liberal Judaism at publish the final list of candidates it has the site, while wearing fringed prayer shawls and other reli- approved later this month. The June 14 gion-related objects and reading from Torah scrolls. But police, vote is a test for Iran after Ahmadinejad’s acting under court orders, would distance and detain them for re-election in 2009 ignited the biggest conduct considered “provocative” to ultra-Orthodox believers, street protests in the Islamic Republic’s his- some of whom would accost the women, creating distur- tory, badly denting the legitimacy of its bances. Last month, a court determined the women’s conduct entrenched leaders and its hybrid clerical- TEHRAN: Conservative Iranian lawmaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel shows his was not causing disruption, rather it was those who were electoral system. But there is little of the identification and inked finger to the media after he registers his candidacy for attacking them, and ruled that the Women of the Wall could popular enthusiasm there was in the run- the upcoming presidential election at the election headquarters of the interior pray at the site using their rites. —AFP up to the 2009 election when many ministry yesterday. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Abu Qatada to leave Britain voluntarily Cleric to return when Jordan treaty ratified LONDON: Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada cleric that reads “Must try harder to kick out jail on March 9 this year after police found will return to Jordan voluntarily when the Qatada”. Once described by a Spanish judge 17 mobile phones, 3 USB sticks, five digital Jordanian parliament ratifies a deal with as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in mobile devices and 55 recordable CDs or Britain that ensures he will receive a fair trial, Europe”, Abu Qatada is seen as a security DVDs in his house. VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis (right) and the Coptic the cleric’s lawyer told a London court yes- risk in Britain but has never been charged Yesterday’s court hearing was to hear Orthodox leader Tawadros II pose during a private terday. Abu Qatada’s pledge is a victory for with any offence there. his application for bail. The hearing was the British government after nearly eight Jordan convicted Qatada in his absence adjourned until March 20. Judge Stephen audience in the pontiff’s library yesterday at the years of unsuccessful attempts to deport of encouraging militants there who Irwin asked for evidence to be presented at Vatican. — AFP the cleric, who is accused of spreading radi- planned bomb attacks in 1999 and 2000, the next hearing about how long it would cal ideas that once inspired one of the Sept but under a 2005 agreement between take for the new treaty to come into force Coptic leader 11, 2001 hijackers. Courts have repeatedly Amman and London he will be retried if he in Jordan. The judge also said Abu Qatada’s blocked deportation on the grounds that a eventually returns. The cleric has been in bail terms were aimed at “stopping this trial in Jordan of Abu Qatada, whose real and out of jail in Britain since first being man from communicating his ideas” and visits Francis name is Mohammed Othman, risked being arrested in 2001 and in recent years has the breaches had been “significant”. He tainted by the use of evidence obtained been living at a house in London under asked for further evidence about the VATICAN CITY: At the Vatican yesterday not one, not two, but using torture. tight bail conditions including a 16-hour breaches to be presented at the next hear- three popes were inside the tiny city-state’s walls at the same time. Britain last month announced it had curfew and a ban on using any telecommu- ing. In the meantime, Abu Qatada remains Coptic Pope Tawadros II and Catholic Pope Francis, each addressing signed a new treaty with Jordan aimed at nications equipment. He was sent back to in prison.— Reuters the other as “Your Holiness”, prayed together for reconciliation addressing those concerns. “If and when the among communities and nations without mention of events in Jordanian parliament ratifies that treaty, Mr Egypt. Tawadros has previously denounced a wave of anti-Christian Othman will voluntarily return to Jordan,” attacks there. A short walk from where they met in the Apostolic Edward Fitzgerald, a lawyer representing Palace, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is living out his retirement in a him, told a special immigration tribunal. convent in the Vatican gardens. There were no plans for Tawadros, That would be a relief to Home Secretary making his first trip outside Egypt since his election in November, to Theresa May, the British interior minister, meet Benedict. who has faced media pressure over repeat- The tall, black-robed Tawadros is the head of the Coptic ed failures to deport Abu Qatada. “The Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the largest Christian Church in Home Secretary’s focus remains on seeing Egypt. He is only the second Coptic pope in history to visit the Abu Qatada returned to Jordan at the earli- Vatican. In their public speeches, neither Francis, 76, nor Tawadros, est opportunity,” Security Minister James 60, made direct mention of the recent sectarian violence in Egypt Brokenshire said in a statement issued by between majority Muslims and Christians, who make up about 15 the Home Office shortly after the news from percent of Egypt’s population of 84 million. court emerged. “We continue to pursue this Francis spoke of an “ecumenism of suffering” among Christians case before the courts and to work with the and in joint prayers afterwards in a Vatican chapel both leaders Jordanian government to achieve this.” heard a prayer for “all countries and communities which are victims Yvette Cooper, the opposition Labour of conflict and violence” and for “peace and harmony without dis- Party’s spokeswoman for interior affairs, crimination and injustice”. Attacks on churches and sectarian ten- said: “This could be very good news if it sions increased after the rise of Islamists to power in Egypt follow- means Abu Qatada returns to Jordan as ing the 2011 uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak, soon as possible”. The deportation of Abu although Christians had demonstrated alongside Muslims for his Qatada has become a cause celebre for removal. Christians in Egypt have long complained of discrimina- some popular newspapers that have pillo- LONDON: In a file picture taken on Nov 13, 2012 Jordanian terror suspect tion in employment and treatment by the authorities and have ried the government over the issue. The Sun called for changes in laws to make it as easy to build or renovate tabloid has a special logo for stories on the Abu Qatada arrives at his home in northwest London after he was released churches as it is for mosques.—Reuters from prison. — AFP Ladies swoon as Prince Harry begins US tour

WASHINGTON: Britain’s Prince Harry broke hearts in as he chatted with Senator John McCain, 76, a Vietnam war was “the world’s single largest financial supporter of demi- Washington’s corridors of power Thursday, showing more veteran whose wife Cindy is a HALO board member. ning and conventional weapons destruction,” even as it pur- interest in landmines than in the excited fans who greeted There were no public remarks, but Harry was overheard sues “an ongoing policy review” on whether to adopt the him at the start of a week-long US visit. Squeals ricocheted inquiring about the price of mine detectors when he cast an Ottawa Treaty. “Since 1993, we have delivered over $2 billion down the halls of the Russell Senate Office Building on eye over mannequins in cobalt blue outfits combing the pol- in more than 90 countries for mine clearance, survivor assis- Capitol Hill as the 28-year-old eligible bachelor inspected a ished marble floor for imaginary unexploded ordnance. tance, mine risk education and the research and develop- photo exhibit set up by the HALO Trust, a charity favored by Harry is the honorary fundraising patron of HALO, the ment of new demining technologies,” the official said. his late mother Princess Diana. Harry, a British army officer in world’s biggest demining organization, which since its Harry paid a surprise visit to the White House, where First Afghanistan, ignored the giddy posse of twentysomethings founding 25 years ago has unearthed more than 1.4 million Lady Michelle Obama offered him afternoon tea in the com- landmines in 9,800 minefields around the world. “He’s very pany of American military veterans. “He has a very busy much tuned in to the landmine issue,” said HALO chief exec- schedule, but when he heard about this tea and all of you... utive Guy Willoughby, who also conversed with Harry at the he wanted to be here to personally thank you for your serv- exhibit aptly installed outside the Senate Armed Services ice,” she said as Harry kept a polite silence. Harry is on his Committee hearing room. best behavior after snapshots of the party-loving prince in a Diana famously toured minefields cleared by HALO teams Las Vegas hotel suite - totally naked, with hands cupped over in Angola shortly before her death in a Paris car crash in his crown jewels - spilled onto the Internet in August. August 1997, a year after her stormy divorce from Prince His official schedule in Washington also included a dinner Charles, heir to the British throne. The United States is the at the home of British Ambassador Peter Westmacott - scal- only NATO member state not to sign the 1997 Ottawa Treaty lops and roasted veal were served - and a solemn wreath-lay- banning landmines, but since the late 1990s, it has con- ing Friday at Arlington National Cemetery. Before the dinner, tributed $150 million to support HALO’s work. “The commit- at a reception for 200 invited guests that included Iraq war ment of the American government to fund humanitarian amputees, Harry commended the “charitable instinct” of mine clearance far, far, far outweighs the political niceties Americans, saying they had been “enormously generous” in about whether they have or have not signed the Ottawa supporting HALO. This weekend, Harry travels to Colorado to WASHINGTON: First Lady Michelle Obama ges- treaty,” Willoughby told AFP. If funding levels are sustained, open the Warrior Games for soldiers wounded in war. Next tures during a surprise visit from Prince Harry at he said, it would be possible to clear virtually every minefield week, he’ll be in New Jersey to see first-hand the damage in every erstwhile combat zone in Africa and Asia in the next inflicted on the Atlantic seaboard state by superstorm Sandy an event in honor of military mothers in the East five to 10 years. A State Department official said Washington in October. — AFP Room of the White House on Thursday. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 GOP sees cover-up ‘Political, not military’ as Benghazi debate revived solutions needed: Hagel WASHINGTON: The top Republican in Congress demanded on Pentagon chief addresses Mideast woes Thursday that the Obama administration release emails about its handling of last year’s deadly attack in Libya, after a dramat- WASHINGTON: The problems that plague but we must engage wisely,” he said. “This still investigating the allegations. After the ic congressional hearing breathed life into the party’s accusa- the Middle East, including Iran’s nuclear will require a clear understanding of our speech, when asked about Syria, Hagel tions of negligence and cover-up. US House of Representatives ambitions and Syria’s civil war, require national interests, our limitations, and an said the administration would not take Speaker John Boehner called on the White House to order the “political, not military” solutions, US appreciation for the complexities of this any action until it had all the facts and State Department to make public more internal emails sent Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said unpredictable, contradictory, yet hopeful alluded to the intelligence disaster in the after the killings in Benghazi of the US ambassador and three Thursday. Saying the “old order” was van- region of the world,” he said. The war in run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. other Americans. ishing in the region, Hagel stressed in a Syria was turning “sectarian” and the pos- “It’s fair to say that we’re all probably Boehner’s remarks kept up pressure a day after the hearing speech that the United States would work sibility the state would break apart was a little wiser today than we were before - dismissed by Democrats as mostly partisan posturing - won to promote democratic reform while bear- “increasing,” he said. The war was putting and when we take action, there is always front-page headlines following months of Republican accusa- ing in mind the “limitations” of American Syria’s “stockpiles of chemical weapons the reality - that you accept that there may tions that Washington failed to respond quickly enough to the power. Although the Pentagon chief made and advanced conventional weapons at be consequences and unintended conse- assault by suspected Islamist militants on the US mission in clear that Washington had not ruled out risk, and the escalation of violence threat- quences may come from that,” he said. Benghazi. “Last November, the president said he was ‘happy to potential military action against Iran or ens to spill across its borders,” he said. “There are also consequences and unin- cooperate in any way Congress wants,’” Boehner told a news Syria, his remarks highlighted President But Hagel struck a restrained tone on tended consequences that come from conference. “This is his chance.” Barack Obama’s cautious stance on resort- Syria and did not reiterate Obama’s inaction,” he added. In answering the Republican critics believe the emails could reveal evidence ing to armed force in the volatile region. declared “red line” warning Damascus not question on Syria, Hagel joked about his that the administration initially tried to play down the assault He said that regional challenges to use its chemical weapons. The Obama outspoken style before he took over at the in Benghazi as stemming from spontaneous demonstrations including “the nuclear challenge posed by administration has faced renewed calls for Pentagon in February. He said now he by Libyans, as opposed to being a planned militant operation. Iran, dangerous instability in Syria, or the intervention after US intelligence agencies had to watch his words more carefully as The emails are believed to detail senior diplomats’ views of continuing threat of Al-Qaeda and other said the Syrian regime probably used he was no longer a senator and he who was behind the Sept 11, 2012, attacks and how adminis- terrorist groups” must be addressed chemical weapons on a small-scale. But couldn’t “speak as irresponsibly as I would tration officials discussed ways to present the incident to the through “coalitions of common interests,” the White House says the spy services are like”. — AFP public. The State Department said it had already been working including Israel and other allies in the with Congress to provide the emails it wants - a process com- region. “A common thread woven into the plicated by secrecy rules. Middle East fabric is that the most endur- Republicans have been complaining loudly about the ing and effective solutions to the chal- Benghazi attack for eight months, often without much atten- lenges facing the region are political, not tion in the mainstream media. The killings and their aftermath military,” Hagel told an audience at the have - until this week at least - failed to inflict much political Washington Institute for Near East Policy. damage on President Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, who “America’s role in the Middle East is to headed the State Department at the time of the attack and is continue to help influence and shape the considered the top Democratic prospect for the 2016 presi- course of events - using diplomatic, eco- dential race. Clinton is clearly a major focus of Republicans’ nomic, humanitarian, intelligence, and attempts to get to the heart of what they believe is a national security tools in coordination with our security scandal. allies,” he said. Foreign Policy magazine counted 32 separate discussions Arab uprisings had shaken the estab- mentioning Clinton during Wednesday’s hearing of the House lished political landscape in the Middle Oversight Committee. The featured witness was Gregory Hicks, East, he said. “The old order in the Middle a former top US diplomat in Libya who gave a dramatic East is disappearing, and what will replace account of the night that Ambassador Christopher Stevens was it remains unknown. “There will continue killed. Congressional committees have held about a dozen to be instability in the region as this hearings on Benghazi and more are in the works. There are five process plays out and we all must adjust different committees of the Republican-led House investigat- accordingly.” Prospects for stability in the ing Benghazi: Oversight, Intelligence, Armed Services, Foreign longer run would hinge on the outcome of Affairs and Judiciary. Chris Lehane, a veteran of congressional political transitions in Egypt, Libya and investigations of former President Bill Clinton’s White House, Syria, said Hagel, who traveled to the said Republicans were using the hearings just to pressure the region last month. “The best hope for Obama administration. “Congress using and sometimes abus- long-term stability relies on countries like ing the investigative process is about as predictable as the Egypt, Libya, and Syria making transitions KAFR NABIL, Syria: Anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a poster depicting cicadas coming to DC, although it happens much more fre- to democratic rule,” he said. Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei quently,” said Lehane, referring to an insect that emerges in The United States would “remain huge numbers on the East Coast periodically.— Reuters Lavrov (center) and US President Barack Obama (right) during a demon- engaged in helping shape the new order, stration in this town in Idlib province yesterday. — AP Mexico’s abusive well-heeled get rare comeuppance

MEXICO CITY: The arrogant among Mexico’s can end with the threatening phrase, “You said it had to wait for driver of the Porsche to Bistrot in the same trendy neighborhood well-heeled got a sharp rebuke Thursday, don’t know who you’re messing with.” sober up. The pedestrian injured in the crash where the Porsche crashed and apparently when two women who crashed in a Porsche But the city government said it is follow- was taken to a hospital, where she was recov- didn’t get the table she wanted or had and injured a pedestrian were hauled off to ing a policy of “zero tolerance for impunity” to ering from her injuries. Mexicans took to been promised April 26. Hours later, inspec- jail while threatening police and proclaiming the long-standing custom of wealthy or well- social media and quickly dubbed the two tors showed up with official “Suspended” their political connections after what authori- connected citizens browbeating cops into arrested women “The Ladies of Roma” - an signs to punish the restaurant, even though ties said appeared to be an all-night drinking releasing them. The pair of women were in a echo of another pair of women who were the agency never acts that fast on similar spree. Federal authorities, meanwhile, sus- Porsche Boxster, a luxury sports car few caught on video insulting, threatening and complaints from regular citizens. pended four officials in the country’s con- Mexicans can afford, when it went out of con- trying to punch officers in the upscale The action was documented by other din- sumer protection agency for allegedly pun- trol early Thursday at a street corner in Mexico Polanco neighborhood in 2011, earning ers using smartphones and cellphones, and ishing a restaurant that had angered the City’s leafy Roma neighborhood, hitting a them the sobriquet “The Polanco Ladies.” the incident blew up into an Internet sensa- daughter of the agency’s chief prosecutor last parked SUV and a pedestrian. When police In the case involving the federal con- tion in Mexico. Local media have also report- month. showed up, “both women argued, saying sumer protection agency, the federal ed in recent weeks on the flashy lifestyle of Mexicans have long complained about they were related to or knew a public servant comptrollers’ office announced Thursday the children of allegedly corrupt members of such behavior, but social media have made it in the police department ... and threatened that it was suspending four civil servants the governing Institutional Revolutionary easier to document and ridicule people the officers that they would lose their jobs if and investigating them for allegedly pun- Party, known as the PRI. One story described involved, as happened with both incidents, they tried to arrest them,” the city’s Public ishing the restaurant in retaliation for how the son of an oil workers union leader and tolerance for such behavior has dropped. Safety Department said in a statement. It said angering the daughter of their boss. had bought multimillion-dollar apartments Police officers, who get little pay and less officers ignored the threats, took the women Andrea Benitez, whose father, Humberto in Miami and a Ferrari even though his respect, often bear the brunt of the arrogant, in to get medical evaluation and face Benitez, is the federal attorney general for father’s official salary couldn’t pay for any- and traffic stops involving politicians’ relatives charges. The city Attorney General’s Office consumer protection, went to the Maximo thing near that expensive.— AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Pakistan’s youth election - but who’s listening?

ISLAMABAD: In a bustling market in a middle-class dis- trict of Islamabad, Raja Mehran rallies his friends as they prepare to campaign door-to-door for Pakistan’s general election today. The wiry 22-year-old is one of an estimated 25 million voters aged under 30 who are expected to play a decisive role in the poll, marking the first democratic handover of power after a civilian government has served a full term. The rapid rise over the past two years of former cricket star Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party has shifted the attention of other mainstream politi- cians towards the young. The PTI has preached a gospel of change, pledging to break the old structures of politics, giving 35 percent of its party tickets to under-35s and promising young people the chance to build a “new Pakistan”. In a country where entry into politics traditionally depends on family ties and patronage, the appeal of this message is obvious. Mehran the student activist has heard it and is a believer. “This is the only party which is giving tickets to youth, which actu- SRINAGAR: Relatives of slain Indian police officer Farooq Ahmed mourn during his funeral yesterday. Assistant Sub- ally makes them representatives of this nation,” he told Inspector Ahmad was shot from point-blank range by unidentified gunmen in Pulwama town, 32 km from Srinagar, AFP. “If I try hard, if I work hard for this party and for this a police spokesman said. This is the second militant attack on policemen in the Valley within a fortnight.— AFP country, definitely I can be one day prime minister of Pakistan, or any boy like me can be the prime minister of Pakistan.” India urges efforts to It is uncertain how far the PTI’s message will penetrate beyond the educated urban centres of Punjab, the coun- try’s richest province, or even whether Imran Khan can avoid China tensions translate his huge popularity into seats in parliament. Some youngsters are unconvinced, saying that while Khan is charismatic, he lacks the experience of Nawaz Sharif, the two-time prime minister who leads the centre-right Incident glossed over in meeting Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and is tipped to BEIJING: China and India need to work trip - his first overseas visit since taking on talks have failed to resolve the dispute. emerge on top. “I support PML-N because the leadership harder to avoid flare-ups along their dis- the post of premier in March. It’s unclear Despite occasional tensions, China has qualities are there,” Adnan Latif, 19, a student in the south- puted border and resolve those that do what triggered the incident, although the become India’s biggest trading partner, western city of Quetta, told AFP. “Imran Khan is a nice per- happen more quickly, India’s top diplomat sides often accuse each other of crossing with two-way trade jumping from $5 bil- son but he doesn’t know about the very difficult circum- said yesterday. On the second day of a visit the frontier high in the western Himalayas lion in 2002 to nearly $75 billion in 2011. stances we have here in Pakistan, so I don’t understand to Beijing, External Affairs Minister Salman or of violating agreements with new con- Most of that trade is skewed in China’s why you would hand these responsibilities to him.” Khurshid praised the relatively smooth struction or boosted deployments. Asian favor, another source of worry for India. In Regardless of the outcome, columnist and political ana- resolution of a three-week standoff giants with more than 1 billion people a separate commentary, Xinhua praised lyst Mosharraf Zaidi said the PTI had shifted the political between border troops from either side each, India and China have had chilly rela- the way the standoff had been resolved in discourse, forcing more of a focus on young people. “It’s that ended Monday. But in an interview tions since they fought a brief but bloody a “quick fashion as the two-way ties are already made a difference - the rhetoric of every single with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, border war in 1962. India says China is getting more mature each day.” It said party is according to the idea that the majority of Khurshid said the incident’s occurrence occupying 38,000 sq km of territory in the both countries have an obligation “to Pakistanis are below 25,” he told AFP. “Politicians need to and duration were “two important dimen- Aksai Chin plateau in the western keep a cooperative and healthy relation- find a way to engage with, excite and sustain interest in sions that we need to examine further.” Himalayas, while China claims around ship because neither the region nor the these parties among young people.” “Therefore we need to do our own respec- 90,000 sq km in India’s northeastern state world could afford to see the two coun- Khan burst into the political limelight with a huge rally tive analysis as to why it happened and of Arunachal Pradesh. Fifteen rounds of tries constantly at odds.” — AP in Pakistan’s second largest city Lahore in late 2011. Since then, if such a thing was to happen again, then the PML-N, which controls Lahore, has given scholar- which, I hope is unlikely, we should be ships and free laptops to students and built a metro-bus able to resolve it much quicker than we public transport system in the city in double-quick time. did this time,” Khurshid said. Taleban flexing Newspaper campaign adverts by the Pakistan People’s New Delhi had accused Chinese troops Party - which led the outgoing ruling coalition - this week of crossing the de facto border between have compared the age of Nawaz, 63, and Imran, 60, with the countries on April 15 and pitching muscle in Karachi that of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the party’s 24-year-old camp in the Depsang valley in the Ladakh chairman - still four months away from being old enough region of eastern Kashmir. Although China KARACHI: The threat of Taleban attacks hangs over Pakistan’s historic election, but to stand. “Only young leadership can bring a revolution. said its troops stayed on their side of the not in some parts of the financial capital Karachi, where the militants hold sway Only a leader who truly personifies and understands the frontier as recognized by Beijing, India after chasing secular parties away. A little over six months ago, what should have spirit and aspirations of the new generation can shape a moved its soldiers just 300 m from the been the headquarters of the Awami National Party (ANP), an ally of the outgoing new future,” the PPP advert says.— AFP Chinese position. A series of meetings government, in the working class district of Sohrab Goth were abandoned. “A small were held and troops from both sides group of Taleban came to the ANP office and told them to leave quickly. They withdrew on Monday. didn’t even have to force them,” a neighbour said. ANP activists complied immedi- The incident was glossed over in a ately. That was well before the start of the campaign for today’s polls and they meeting between Khurshid and Chinese have not been seen since. Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday The Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella militant group which has evening, in a sign it was unlikely to harm been waging a domestic insurgency for nearly six years, has launched numerous future high-level contacts, including an bloody attacks across the country against what it calls the “un-Islamic” polls. The important visit later this month to India by ANP, which like the other secular allies of the outgoing government have been sin- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Wang was gled out for Taleban attacks, has had to close around 50 offices, some attacked in quoted by China’s official Xinhua News bloody strikes, in Pashtun areas of Karachi. Ageny as saying China remains committed In Sohrab Goth, a TTP stronghold in Karachi, the militants have allowed others to a negotiated resolution of the border to campaign, notably religious parties such as the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI- dispute and to “jointly maintain peace and F), reputedly close to the militants. “Religious parties have no problem, they can tranquility” until that happens. Khurshid campaign. We see their supporters regularly,” said Qari Ahmadullah, a trader in was scheduled to meet later yesterday Sohrab Goth’s Al Asif market. Mullah Karim Abid, the JUI-F candidate, was happy at with Li and senior foreign policy adviser how things were going. “Our campaign is good, there is interest among people. In ISLAMABAD: In this photograph taken on April Yang Jiechi. Sohrab Goth, they vote for religious parties,” he told AFP. “Taleban? What Taleban? 29, 2013, youth of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) The border incident had threatened to overshadow the minister’s visit, which was There are no real Taleban on the ground. All these things are fabricated by authori- gather ahead of a door-to-door election cam- ties.”— AFP paign. — AFP intended to set the agenda for Li’s India INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Seeking office, Marcos ensures dynasty lives Imelda nearing final chapter of tumultuous life MARCOS, Philippines: Twenty-seven years tering summer heat, showing off several her blood sugar levels. Bodyguards stood after her dictator husband was ousted by a “mothering centers” she had built to pro- close by when she alighted from her van or public revolt, Imelda Marcos has emerged vide health services and livelihood training the stairs. Talks with journalists strayed into as the Philippines’ ultimate political sur- to poor villagers. She cradled newborn the legacy she will leave behind, and she vivor: She was back on the campaign trail babies before a tangle of photographers mentioned that she had decided what her this week, dazzling voters with her bouffant and cameramen in the centers, each dis- epitaph would read: “Here lies love.” Marcos MANILA: Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic hairstyle, oversized jewelry and big talk in a playing a painting of a young Imelda said she would not step down as long as she Resources director Asis Perez points to a map yes- bid to keep her seat in Congress. She is embracing a child at the entrance. “We care had energy. “If God will bless me with good terday showing where a Philippine fisheries patrol widely expected to win in Monday’s con- and love you all,” reads a sign at the door. health, as long as I’m alive and I’m strong, vessel manned by the coastguard shot at a gressional polls. Approaching 84, Ferdinand Although she said she still brimmed with I’m going to give it all to the Filipino peo- Taiwanese fishing vessel the day before near Marcos’ widow, who once astounded the energy, a crew of nurses trailed her to check ple,” she said.—AP world with a mammoth shoe collection Balintang island in the northern Philippines.— AFP amassed amid nationwide poverty, is near- ing the final chapter of her tumultuous Philippines admits political life. Never showing any remorse for her past, she has against all odds succeeded to shooting at in orchestrating the rebirth of a political dynasty tainted by allegations of corruption Taiwanese boat and abuse during her husband’s rule. “I’m running for re-election,” the puffy- MANILA: The Philippines admitted yesterday that its coast- faced Marcos, clad in her trademark party guard fired at a Taiwanese fishing boat in an incident that gown, diamond and pearls, proclaimed authorities in Taipei said left a crewman dead and triggered before hundreds of villagers in Paoay town widespread outrage on the island. Taiwanese President Ma in northern Ilocos Norte province. Despite Ying-jeou demanded that the Philippines apologise for her reputation for extravagance, including Thursday’s shooting, which the Taiwanese government said expensive shopping trips and lavish beauti- killed a 65-year-old fisherman and badly damaged the vessel. fication projects in a nation where a third of But Philippine coastguard spokesman Commander Armand about 94 million live on $1 a day, Marcos Balilo said the incident took place in Philippine waters and twice ran unsuccessfully for president and the Filipino personnel had been properly carrying out their won seats in the House following her return duties to stop illegal fishing. “If somebody died, they deserve from exile. She is currently campaigning for our sympathy but not an apology,” Balilo told reporters. a second of a maximum three terms to rep- Balilo said the incident happened just north of the main resent Ilocos Norte, a vote-rich agricultural Philippine island of Luzon in the Balintang channel, which is region where many are fiercely loyal to the part of the Philippines’ territory and not claimed by any other late dictator because of the money he country or Taiwan. “This is part of Philippine waters,” he said. poured into development. ILOCOS NORTE, Philippines: In this May 5, 2013 photo, former Philippine Balilo said the 30-m coastguard vessel initially saw two fish- After lingering until midnight at the ing vessels and tried to approach them. He said the coast- town fiesta, Marcos barnstormed farming First Lady Imelda Marcos reacts as she carries a baby at a “Mothering guard crew fired at the smaller of the two vessels after it tried villages the following morning in the swel- Center” in this province in the northern Philippines.— AP to ram the Filipino boat. “They fired at the machinery to dis- able it. They were able to disable the vessel although they were not aware at the time that somebody had been hit,” he Dynastic rule tightens grip on Philippines said. Balilo said the coastguard quickly left the area after it MANILA: Another Benigno Aquino is set with a landslide election victory that was polling well is Nancy Binay, daughter of saw a third vessel, “a big white ship”, come into view.”Our to become one of the Philippines’ most largely due to a sudden surge of emotion- Vice President Jejomar Binay. Once a people felt threatened so they left the area,” he said. powerful politicians next week thanks to al support following the death from can- human rights lawyer, the patriarch is In Taipei, Ma insisted the Philippine side was at fault. “We his name, part of what analysts warn is an cer of his mother, Corazon Aquino. She led building his own dynasty, with two other demand the Philippines investigate and clarify the truth, to increasingly destructive system of dynastic the revolution that overthrew dictator children already holding top political apologise, apprehend the killer and compensate,” he told rule. The 36-year-old nephew and name- Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, then served as posts. Other likely new senators will be JV reporters. Taiwanese Foreign Minister David Lin also said he sake of the current president is one of the president for six years. Her husband, also Ejercito, son of ex-president Joseph was “very angry”. The incident dominated Taiwanese media, frontrunners to be elected to the Senate in named Benigno Aquino, was a wealthy Estrada, and Jack Enrile, son of current which strongly condemned the Filipinos and carried reports mid-term elections, with many other landowner and politician assassinated by Senate president and former Marcos-era from the boat’s captain insisting he did not cross over into favourites also owing their expected suc- Marcos forces in 1983. defence minister Juan Ponce Enrile. Philippine waters. “Barbaric Philippine vessel fired at our fish- cess to bloodlines. Political dynasties have The youngest Benigno Aquino Political activists say the problem is just ing boat, seasoned fisherman shot dead,” read the headline long been a feature of politics in the emerged from political obscurity - he has as bad at the provincial and local levels, of a front-page story in the Taipei-based China Times news- Philippines but analysts say that clan rule no experience in elected office - to where families often rule regions like fief- paper. is becoming more entrenched, with become one of the favourites for a Senate doms for generations, controlling the Hung Yu-chih, the captain of the boat who is also the remarkably few families dominating elect- seat after similarly campaigning on his economies as well as political structures. In dead man’s son, told the China Times that Philippine gunmen ed posts at national and local levels. “We family name. Another political neophyte Monday’s elections, 18,000 local, provin- fired several shots at them. He said one of the shots hit the say we have a democracy but we don’t cial and national posts will be up for grabs fuel tank of the vessel, which had only four people on board. actually have many options...power is but critics of dynastic rule say the event is Two Taiwanese fishing boats came to Hung’s rescue after he being effectively monopolised,” Ronald not genuinely democratic because voters called for help, and towed the boat back to a port in southern Mendoza, an economist at the Asian will rarely have a genuine range of choic- Taiwan. In 2006, a Taiwanese fishing boat skipper was shot Institute of Management who has exten- es. “Elections provide the mechanism for dead off the northern Philippines. Taipei protested then to sively researched dynasties, told AFP. conferring legitimacy to elite power and the Philippines over what it said was the improper use of While other countries also have famous create the illusion once every three years weapons. political dynasties - such as the Kennedys that ‘change’ is possible”, the Center for Taiwan has ruled itself since 1949, but China still considers in the United States or the Gandhi family People Empowerment in Governance, a the island part of its territory. The Philippines, like most coun- in India - Manila-based Mendoza said think-tank, wrote in a study on the issue. tries, officially recognises China over Taiwan but maintains dynastic rule was more deeply ingrained Even when someone has the money or trade ties with the island. The incident comes at a time of in the Philippines. Seven out of every 10 celebrity power to break a family’s stran- heightened tensions around the region over rival claims to members of the nation’s lower house glehold on an electorate, they typically the nearby South China Sea. China, the Philippines, Taiwan, belong to a political dynasty - defined as start building their own dynasty. One cur- Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei all have competing claims to having other relatives in elected positions rent example is boxing champion Manny parts of the sea. China’s increasingly aggressive tactics to - with the figure climbing to 80 percent in Pacquiao, a former street kid who used his assert its authority over the waters in recent years have raised the Senate, according to Mendoza. hero status and wealth from sports to beat alarm among the rival claimants. China said on Tuesday it had One of the most famous and powerful an entrenched dynastic ruler of a southern sent one of its largest fishing fleets into the sea. —AFP families is the Aquino clan. The current province for a seat in the nation’s lower president was propelled into office in 2010 Benigno Aquino IV house in 2010.— AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 School questions linger 5 yrs after Sichuan quake

BEIJING: Five years after thousands a child is having hope, and without earthquake,” he said. Many are still of Chinese children died as their children there is no hope,” said Zhu, seeking answers on how the quake schools collapsed in an earthquake, a police officer who rebuilt the family destroyed so many schools when it new babies have given devastated home using 100,000 yuan ($16,000) struck during afternoon classes. They families hope even as questions over in savings, plus government hand- have become known as “tofu poor building work and corruption outs. schools” in China, likening their remain. The 8.0 magnitude tremor Authorities said 5,335 pupils in structural instability to the popular struck Sichuan province on the after- Sichuan were confirmed as dead or soft bean curd dish. noon of May 12 2008, entombing missing. At Beichuan Middle School No-one appears to have been both Zhu Jian’s wife, a teacher, and alone, 1,300 students and teachers prosecuted over the school collaps- their 10-year-old daughter in the lost their lives. For many parents es. But calls for transparency from rubble of their school in Beichuan, China’s one-child policy meant the the government on how many stu- the epicentre of the quake. Zhu’s implications - and the pain - were dents were killed led to beatings and wife Liu Lin was pulled from the particularly severe. The quake left arrests of activists. Among those tar- debris severely injured, and was left 8,000 families childless. The govern- geted were dissident artist Ai disabled, but the disaster killed their ment adopted a series of measures Weiwei, who said he was badly beat- daughter, whose name the couple - to encourage them to have new chil- en by police when he tried to testify bearing deep psychological scares - dren, including free reverse vasec- in support of activist Tan Zuoren, are unable to speak. tomies, and about 2,400 babies have who had investigated the school They were in one of 7,000 schools been born to them since. “We just buildings. The earthquake aftermath that were badly damaged in the had to have a descendant. That is the marked the emergence of Ai - cho- MIANYANG, China: This picture taken on May 8, 2013 shows children southwestern province, triggering way in China,” said Zhu, whose wife sen by the authorities to help design skating on a square in new Beichuan county in southwest China’s accusations of shoddy construction, was able to claim free maternity the Bird’s Nest Stadium in the Sichuan province. — AFP corner-cutting and possible corrup- treatment. Chinese capital which hosted the pened.” Other prominent campaign- tried to cover things up and to settle tion, especially as many other build- But he declined to be drawn on Olympics athletics events three ers have signed an open letter circu- the situation by jailing those people ings nearby held firm. Statistics from the mistakes of the past, preferring months after the tremor - as one of lating online calling for the release of who demanded the truth, and since the local education department to focus on life after the disaster. Beijing’s most outspoken critics. “I Tan. The writer and environmentalist then they never really learned any- showed that 3,340 schools needed Asked whether he believed any have made documentary films and was sentenced to five years in prison thing from it.” But for Zhu and his to be rebuilt. To this day Liu Lin, 38, is blame could be attached to authori- artworks relating to it,” said Ai, who in 2010 for “inciting subversion of wife, their experience has left them too traumatised to talk about her ties for the collapse of buildings in organised a citizen’s probe into the state power” over articles he pub- seeking only a future for their son. ordeal. But the couple have renewed Sichuan, Zhu paused in thought. school collapses. “This is to remind lished online about Beijing’s brutal “We just hope he is healthy, and we optimism following the birth of their “The government have done a good people they have to respect life and crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen have nothing else to ask from him,” son Zhu Tian two years ago. “Having job rebuilding the area since the also to refuse to forget what hap- protests. Ai said: “The government Zhu said. — AFP Protests raise pressure in ‘polarised’ Malaysia Pressure mounts on long-ruling regime

KUALA LUMPUR: A planned wave of protests over disputed Malaysian elec- tions is the most provocative challenge to the government in years, upping pres- sure on a long-ruling regime already smarting from the polls. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim offered a preview NEW YORK: In this May 6, 2013 photo, South Korean of the movement’s potential Wednesday President’s spokesman Yoon Chang-jung (third right when he rallied a huge display of citizen top) watches South Korean President Park Geun-hye sign power in Kuala Lumpur estimated to the guestbook as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon number up to 100,000 people. Anwar looks on at the United Nations headquarters. — AP says his opposition will push a nation- wide campaign to dispute last Sunday’s South Korea prez election in which it won a majority of the popular vote but still lost to the 56-year- fires spokesman old government, which he accuses of SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-Hye fired her massive electoral fraud. spokesman over an unspecified “unsavoury” act midway Any move to overturn the result looks through a summit trip to the United States this week, Yonhap doomed to fail, with the opposition news agency reported yesterday. Senior presidential press sec- accusing the Election Commission and PUTRAJAYA: Malaysian students shout slogans outside the Election retary Lee Nam-Ki announced Yoon Chang-Jung’s dismissal, courts of being in the government’s Commission offices during a protest outside Kuala Lumpur yesterday. — AFP saying he was “personally involved in an unsavoury incident”, pocket. But the drive could lead to insta- described as “an inappropriate act for a high-level official” that bility in the multi-ethnic country if Anwar, leadership challenge in party elections by Barisan, accused of corruption and “hurt national dignity.” who has battled the Barisan Nasional year-end. In much-analysed comments authoritarianism, suffered unprecedent- Lee did not elaborate but said South Korea’s embassy in (National Front) government for 15 years, after the election, influential former hard- ed losses in 2008 to its reform-minded Washington was looking into the incident and the findings can deliver promised “proof” of fraud, line leader Mahathir Mohamad expressed rivals, prompting Najib to subsequently would be made public. Yonhap news agency cited a Washington said pollster Ibrahim Suffian. “If the oppo- disappointment with Najib’s perform- woo disaffected minorities in a bid to win police complaint as saying a 56-year-old man grabbed a sition can produce meaningful evidence ance. “Of course, the people will question back support. That appears to have woman’s buttocks in a Washington hotel on Tuesday. Yoon, who of fraud, the government may fall into a his capacity and his strategies,” Mahathir failed, with the nation’s economically is 56, wasn’t named in the report. Yoon had returned to Seoul crisis of legitimacy,” said Ibrahim, who said, adding “the party may take action, powerful Chinese, who make up 25 per- from Washington on Wednesday without accompanying Park on runs independent opinion researchers as happened with Abdullah”. He was cent of Malaysia’s 28 million people, her visit to Los Angeles, the final stop of her visit to the United Merdeka Centre. referring to former premier Abdullah rejecting his government in unprece- States, sparking speculation on why he cut his trip short, Yonhap That would further squeeze Prime Badawi, who was dumped by UMNO fol- dented numbers Sunday. said. Earlier this week, Park held a summit with President Barack Minister Najib Razak, whose standing in lowing a weak 2008 election showing, in Najib poured fuel on the fire after Obama, with the two leaders united in a vow to offer no conces- the United Malays National Organisation a party putsch spearheaded by Mahathir the election by appearing to blame sions when dealing with North Korea. Park also addressed a joint (UMNO), the power behind Barisan, is less that brought Najib to power. Chinese for his disappointing showing. session of the US Congress, stressing that Pyongyang had to give than clear. Besides losing the popular Barisan, which is dominated by ethnic “We are more polarised and fragmented up its nuclear weapons while also proposing small peace steps vote, the coalition ceded a number of Malays, has controlled parliament for than ever,” political scientist Faisal Hazis after months of sky-high tensions. —Agencies parliamentary seats, prompting specula- decades while a small and ineffectual said, adding that Najib faced a “dilemma” tion over whether Najib would face a opposition has largely looked on. But in healing the divisions. — AFP G7 finance chiefs gather Britain, US, Australia Syria oil smugglers Businessas dollar tops 100 yen 16hunt for tax evaders 19 benefit from chaos 20 SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 India car sales on a declining streak 18

PITTSBURGH: A person inserts a debit card into an ATM machine in Pittsburgh. A gang of cyber-criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said.—AP Hackers drain cash machines Global network of hackers steal $45 million from ATMs

NEW YORK: The sophistication of a global net- Here’s how it worked: Hackers got into bank last one, and if the modus operandi proves to be they are still accepted around the world. work of thieves who drained cash machines databases, eliminated withdrawal limits on pre- successful crooks will exploit it time and again.” Lynch would not say who masterminded the around the globe of an astonishing $45 million paid debit cards and created access codes. There were two separate attacks in this case, attacks globally, who the hackers are or where in mere hours sent ripples through the security Others loaded that data onto any plastic card one in December that reaped $5 million world- they were located, citing an ongoing investiga- world, not merely for the size of the operation with a magnetic stripe - an old hotel key card or wide and one in February that snared about $40 tion. The New York suspects were US citizens and ease with which it was carried out, but also an expired credit card worked fine as long as it million in 10 hours with about 36,000 transac- originally from the Dominican Republic who for the threat that more such thefts may be in carried the account data and correct access tions. The scheme involved attacks on two lived in the New York City suburb of Yonkers. store. Seven people were arrested in the US, codes. A network of operatives then fanned out banks, Rakbank in the United Arab Emirates and They were mostly in their 20s. Lynch said they all accused of operating the New York cell of what to rapidly withdraw money in multiple cities, the Bank of Muscat in Oman, prosecutors said. knew one another and were recruited together, prosecutors said was a network that carried out authorities said. The cells would take a cut of the Such ATM fraud schemes are not uncommon, as were cells in other countries. They were thefts at ATMs in 27 countries from Canada to money, then launder it through expensive pur- but the $45 million stolen in this one was at charged with conspiracy and money laundering. Russia. Law enforcement agencies from more chases or ship it wholesale to the global ring- least double the amount involved in previously If convicted, they each face 10 years in prison. than a dozen nations were involved in the inves- leaders. Lynch didn’t say where they were locat- known cases, said Avivah Litan, an analyst who The accused ringleader in the US cell, Alberto tigation, US prosecutors in New York said ed. covers security issues for Gartner Inc. Yusi Lajud-Pena, was reportedly killed in the Thursday. It appears no individuals lost money. The Middle Eastern banks and payment proces- Dominican Republic late last month, prosecu- “Unfortunately these types of cybercrimes thieves plundered funds held by the banks that sors are “a bit behind” on security and screening tors said. More investigations continue and oth- involving ATMs, where you’ve got a flash mob back up prepaid credit cards, not individual or technologies that are supposed to prevent this er arrests have been made in other countries, going out across the globe, are becoming more business accounts, Lynch said. Ori Eisen, a cyber- kind of fraud, but it happens around the world, but prosecutors did not have details. An indict- and more common,” said Rose Romero, a former crime expert and founder of 41st Parameter, a she said. “It’s a really easy way to turn digits into ment unsealed Thursday accused Lajud-Pena federal prosecutor and regional director for the fraud detection and prevention firm, said the cash,” Litan said. Some of the fault lies with the and the other seven New York suspects of with- US Securities and Exchange Commission. “I $45 million heist was on the “high-end” of what ubiquitous magnetic strips on the back of the drawing $2.8 million in cash from hacked expect there will be many more” of these types can be done by cybercriminals who exploit cards. The rest of the world has largely aban- accounts in less than a day. of crimes, she said. Brooklyn US Attorney Loretta banking systems connected to the Internet. doned cards with magnetic strips in favor of Arrests began in March. Lajud-Pena was Lynch, who called the theft “a massive 21st-cen- “Given the scale of the global credit card net- ones with built-in chips that are nearly impossi- found dead with a suitcase full of about tury bank heist,” announced the case Thursday works, it is almost impossible to detect every ble to copy. But because US banks and mer- $100,000 in cash, and the investigation into his in New York. kind of attack,” he said. “This attack is not the chants have stuck to cards with magnetic strips, death is continuing separately. —AP business SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

Nikkei surges; Wilting yen G7 finance chiefs sends ripples across Asia gather as dollar tops 100 yen Yen slumps to four-year low against dollar AYLESBURY: Finance ministers and central bank chiefs TOKYO: Japanese equities soared to 5- Thursday. For the week, the index is set Investment Corp. Signs of a steady US from the Group of Seven top economies will gather 1/2-year highs yesterday, with the dollar for a gain of 0.8 percent. recovery could heighten speculation yesterday for talks on spurring growth, with currency sailing past the symbolic 100 yen level A strong dollar dented appetite for over when the Federal Reserve will factors likely to feature after the US dollar surged past and beefing up the outlook for safe-haven US Treasuries, pushing the begin scaling back its aggressive quanti- 100 yen. A central issue is disagreement between some Corporate Japan, but shares elsewhere 10-year Treasury yield up to a 1-month tative easing to push up US yields, countries in Europe and the United States over the in Asian shares retreated as global equi- high around 1.844 percent in Asia, while attracting funds from lower-yielding scale of austerity. The G7 - comprising Britain, Canada, ties paused overnight from recent ral- rallying Japanese stocks lifted 10-year countries such as Japan. France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the lies. European stock markets will likely Japanese government bond yields up Capital flows data showed Japanese United States-is expected to build on last month’s inch higher after the pan-European 10 basis points to 0.690 percent, their investors were net buyers of foreign wider Group of 20 meeting, while looking ahead to next month’s G8 heads of state summit in Northern FTSEurofirst closed flat overnight to stay highest since late February. “It’s global bonds in the last two weeks, reversing Ireland. Britain is this year president of the G8 - or G7 near five-year highs. Financial spread- buying of the US, with more investors their relentless net selling since late plus Russia-and is using the platform to also push for betters predicted London’s FTSE 100, feeling comfortable buying the dollar. January. They repatriated a total of 9.33 greater multilateral co-operation in tackling tax eva- Paris’s CAC-40 and Frankfurt’s DAX US stocks are stabilizing four years after trillion yen in January-April. The dollar sion. The two-day G7 meeting in Buckinghamshire, would open up as much as 0.2 percent. the Lehman collapse. extended Thursday’s gains to hit a fresh north of London, will begin later. US stock futures were up 0.1 percent, It’s a good sign for markets when four-year high of 101.20 yen, having In the run-up to the high-profile event, the dollar suggesting a slightly firmer Wall Street funds target the US, where investors are stalled for a month after reaching a high vaulted past the key 100-yen barrier for the first time in open after US stocks slipped from willing to take on risk,” said Goro of 99.95 yen in early April. The euro rose more than four years on Thursday, as Tokyo’s aggres- record highs on Thursday. The US cur- Ohwada, president and CEO at Japan- to 131.91 yen, its highest since January sive stimulus efforts to lift the Japanese economy con- rency was buoyed after Thursday’s based fund of hedge funds Aino 2010. — Reuters tinue to depress its currency. A weak yen leads to weekly US data showed initial jobless cheaper Japanese exports. And yesterday, it raced as claims fell to the lowest level in more high as 101.42 yen, touching a level last seen on April 6, than five years, following last week’s 2009, with sentiment boosted also by upbeat US labor much stronger-than-expected monthly market data. nonfarm payrolls report for April. “What “Finance ministers are due to discuss a number of you need to understand about what is issues including ways to get the global economy mov- going on in the United States is that ing again, as well as the controversial topic of central we’re growing, this recovery is real. banks,” noted analyst Craig Erlam at traders Alpari. “So There may be some bumps, but the fun- far, they have attempted to distance themselves from damental push forward is there,” said suggestions that certain central banks are intentionally Carl Larry, president of the Houston- devaluing their currencies in order to increase competi- based Oil Outlook and Opinions. tiveness, but with more central banks cutting rates and The yen’s resumed downtrend bodes announcing large stimulus programs, it could only be a well for Japanese exporters and expec- matter of time until we see their tone change.” tations of robust earnings drove the Last month, G20 nations gave the green light to Nikkei stock average up 3 percent to its aggressive stimulus by Japan, despite recent heavy crit- highest since January 2008. The index is icism in Europe that the Asian country is forcing down up 6.4 percent, on track for its biggest the yen’s value to help its exporters. Japan’s monetary weekly gain since December 2009 when TOKYO: People walk through a concourse at the Yokohama Station in easing has sparked sharp falls in the value of the yen, it jumped 10.4 percent. MSCI’s broadest Yokohama near Tokyo yesterday. The dollar soared above 100 yen for the sparking fears of a global currency war in which rival index of Asia-Pacific shares outside first time in more than four years yesterday, driven by improved US eco- nations drive down their units to gain a trade advan- Japan shed 0.9 percent, after climbing nomic figures and Tokyo’s aggressive credit-easing that aims to revive tage. Japan maintains however that the policy is aimed to its highest since July 2011 on Japan’s sluggish economy. — AP at bringing growth and overcoming deflation. Emerging economies seen leading the way. The G7 nations, which together produce about half of the world’s economic output, are slowly recovering from a late 2012 slowdown, the OECD said recently, with Japan automakers step Japan and the United States leading the way, ahead of a struggling, two-speed euro-zone. Emerging economies were tipped to remain by far the strongest on profit accelerator growth performers, with China expected to expand by well more than 8.0 percent in the first half of 2013, the TOKYO: Japan’s automakers have wrapped up the latest ing strong growth in emerging markets and a weakening Organization for Economic Development and earnings season on a high note, booking mostly healthy yen, which boosts automakers’ competitiveness overseas Cooperation said. profits as a weak yen, cost-cutting and strong demand in and inflates the value of repatriated foreign income. Forecasts remain very uncertain however, the OECD the US and Asia inflated their bottom line. The results The dollar surged past 100-yen on Thursday, to levels added, with new-found buoyancy on financial markets cement a recovery after the quake-tsunami disaster two last seen more than four years ago, with many observers yet to feed through to the wider economy. The US and years ago devastated sales and production, although a pointing to further yen weakness, as Tokyo’s policy pre- Frankfurt stock markets have raced to record high more recent diplomatic dispute between Tokyo and scription of big spending and aggressive central bank points this week following positive economic data out Beijing-and subsequent boycott of Japanese products- easing to boost the limp economy helps depress the cur- of the United States and Germany, but some analysts weighed on sales in China, the world’s biggest vehicle rency. “The upbeat trend in Japan’s auto sector is nearly believe the rally will be short-lived due to euro-zone market. 100 percent due to the yen’s decline,” said Tatsuya debt worries. The dispute was particularly tough on Nissan, which Mizuno, auto analyst with Mizuno Credit Advisory. “As Ahead of the G7 gathering, the United States has said yesterday its annual net profit barely moved from a long as that continues, automakers should see positive meanwhile called on Europe further to ease fiscal con- year earlier as its exposure to recession-riddled Europe results for the current fiscal year. But there are several solidation to avoid more economic damage. Europe’s also slammed the brakes on growth. By contrast, Toyota uncertainties, including the negative impact of Japan- leaders have been successful at removing some of the this week said profit in its fiscal year to March more than China relations... The situation appears calmer, but noth- more immediate risks in the euro-zone debt crisis, a tripled to 962.1 billion yen ($9.5 billion). The Camry and ing has fundamentally changed.” senior US Treasury official told reporters. “Now the Corolla maker, which last year overtook General Motors The long-standing dispute flared again in September focus needs to shift to boosting demand and employ- to regain the title of world’s biggest automaker, said when Tokyo nationalized some of a chain of East China ment, to avoid lasting damage to the economy,” the things would get even better and it was expecting a net Sea islands also claimed by Beijing, sparking huge official told a briefing. “It’s important to recalibrate the profit of 1.37 trillion yen for the fiscal year ending March demonstrations across China and the damaging boycott. pace of fiscal consolidation...continued sharp fiscal con- 2014. Honda, Japan’s third-biggest automaker, said its Germany’s Volkswagen and US-based General Motors solidation risks undermining demand.” net profit jumped nearly 75 percent to 367.15 billion yen have tried to capitalize on their Japanese competitors’ The European Union recently granted France two over the fiscal year. Smaller carmakers including troubles in the country, but Toyota and Honda both say extra years to meet its deficit target on condition that it Mitsubishi and Suzuki rolled out rosy results as well, cit- their sales in China were returning to normal. —AFP pursues reforms. —AFP business SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

Economy deters Croatia long for investors investors Fund slashes French property price but drags feet on reforms LONDON: German fund Degi has put a Parisian office block on sale for 95 million euros ($124 million), just Red tape suffocates investment over half what it paid in 2008, as France’s economic woes erode its status as a top European target for prop- DUBROVNIK: The barren Srdj plateau In some cases the investment flow is reforms. Scandinavian-style furniture erty investors. The fund, owned by Aberdeen Asset overlooking the mediaeval city of reversing just as Croatia joins the single retailer IKEA, for example, had to wait Management, is selling the River Plaza complex about Dubrovnik is a real estate developer’s European market. Some local firms are five years to obtain all the necessary four miles northwest of central Paris in AsniËres-sur- dream, offering breath-taking views of moving production to neighboring permits to open a store in Croatia, and Seine, where tenants include L’Oreal and Fujitsu, two Croatia’s top tourist destination. That’s Balkan countries that will remain out- hopes to begin business in 2014. sources close to the deal said. precisely why an Israeli-Croatian con- side the EU to remain competitive in “Croatia has too many people living The modest price tag reflects increasing concern for sortium began planning a billion-euro their backyard. Foreign direct invest- off the budget,” said Zrinka Zivkovic France’s economic health amid rising taxes, record golf resort there in 2006. Seven years ment in Croatia peaked at around 4.2 Matijevic, an analyst at Raiffeisenbank. unemployment and doubts about President Hollande’s on, construction has yet to start. This billion euros in 2008, before the global “Any serious reform should deeply bid to revive growth through public spending. project typifies the problems facing financial crisis fully struck, and had cut (welfare and public sector) rights Aberdeen Asset Management declined to comment. foreign investors in Croatia, which joins dwindled to a mere 326 million two and the privileged groups, at the risk of But other fund managers said they were re-evaluating the European Union on July 1, more years later. losing the next elections. So far no one the level of profit French property could deliver. than 20 years after it broke away in war It climbed back to 973 million euros has been willing to do that, even Property investors have a more pessimistic view on from socialist Yugoslavia. in 2012, but these figures pale in com- though everyone knows what needs to the French rental market than anywhere else in Europe Worth about 1.1 billion euros ($1.44 parison with an investment boom over be done,” she said. Weak foreign direct including Greece, according to a survey last month by billion), Golf Park Dubrovnik has the past decade in the likes of Slovakia, investment has contributed to a reces- the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). “We become tied up in red tape, ever- Hungary and the Czech Republic in ex- sion that has lasted four years. The cur- are asking a lot more rigorous questions about what is changing municipal building plans and communist eastern Europe. Romania, rent Social Democrat-led government supporting the French economy and have brought our most recently the ire of Dubrovnik’s the poorest member of the EU, attract- has made improving the business cli- return forecast down because of the economic residents. A referendum in April, forced ed 23 billion euros between 2006 and mate its top priority to spur growth. malaise,” said Will Rowson, chief investment officer for by civic groups who said the project 2008. Slovenia, Croatia’s western “At the moment we’re pursuing 60 Europe, the Middle East and Africa at CBRE Global would spoil the eco-system, failed due neighbor and a fellow ex-Yugoslav different activities aimed at removing Investors, which manages $91 billion of real estate to low turnout. But the developers say republic, blazed a trail for the Balkans investment barriers, primarily to speed globally. the damage has been done, reinforc- when it joined the EU in 2004 and the up procedures and reduce costs,” said Axa Real Estate, which owns more than 14 billion ing Croatia’s image as hostile territory euro zone in 2007. However, Ljubljana Deputy Prime Minister Branko Grcic. euros of French property, forecasts the market will yield for foreign investors. is now paying the price of refusing to “We believe we’ll be able to unblock total returns - a figure that includes rental growth and “This is the biggest greenfield give up state control over around half investment projects this year worth rises in property values - of 4.4 percent this year versus investment in tourism in Croatia’s of the economy as it tries to avoid an around 1.2 billion euros,” he said, citing 8.2 percent in Germany and 7.8 percent in Britain. Funds modern history,” project director Ivan international bailout. Croatia, by con- the tourism, industry and energy sec- are still buying property in the best streets of Paris and Kusalic told Reuters, standing on the trast, sold its banks and telecoms and tors. The government also plans to London to preserve wealth in the belief such buildings shrub-covered plateau that is still lit- oil firm after independence, but green- invest 14.3 billion kuna ($2.47 billion) will remain highly-prized. But beyond the glitzy shop- tered with landmines from Croatia’s field investments have been few and this year in projects including two ping boulevards and top business districts, Paris is los- 1991-95 war of independence. “A lot of far between. power plants and an overhaul of the ing its pulling power. After years of strong rental growth investors interested in Croatia have railways. But the challenges facing the at mall owners like Unibail-Rodamco and Klepierre, contacted us and are watching close- RED TAPE, SLOW REFORMS country of 4.4 million people are great. investors now worry that the economic environment ly.” Analysts say an over-sized state lies Tourists, who flock every summer to Croatia ranked 84th on the World will make it hard to sustain those levels of rent as leases behind many of the problems experi- Croatia’s Adriatic coast and over 1,000 Bank’s 2012 ease of doing business list, expire. —Reuters enced by such projects. Successive islands, account for almost 20 percent dropping four places from 2011 behind governments have hesitated in cutting of national output. Yet only a handful poorer Balkan neighbours Macedonia the public administration and its of communist-era hotels have been and Montenegro and former Soviet American Airlines settles employees’ socialist-era benefits for sold to foreigners. Successive govern- republics such as Armenia, Georgia and fear of losing votes. ments have dragged their feet on Kyrgyzstan. —Reuters safety claims for $24.9m

DALLAS: American Airlines has agreed to pay $24.9 million to settle $162 million in potential fines that were proposed by US safety regulators. American called the payment “a reasonable resolution” to the Federal Aviation Administration’s claims that American had violated safety regulations involving electrical wiring on planes and other issues. The airline’s parent company, AMR Corp, disclosed the settlement Thursday in a filing with the federal bank- ruptcy court in New York. Airlines frequently negotiate with the FAA to reduce potential penalties. A spokes- woman for American said the airline was pleased with the settlement over a claim that FAA had lodged during AMR’s bankruptcy reorganization. “This settlement recognizes the many changes, includ- ing enhancements to our maintenance and engineering processes, increased training, inspections, and audits that have taken place at American over the past several years that address past FAA concerns,” the spokeswoman, Andrea Huguely, said in a statement. The settlement is subject to the bankruptcy court’s approval. AMR expects to emerge from bankruptcy protection and merge with US Airways Group Inc. by the end of September. In 2010, the FAA proposed a record penalty of $24.2 million against American over maintenance lapses that caused planes to be grounded and thousands of flights to be canceled in 2008. The FAA said that American crews had not followed proper procedures in restraining electri- cal wires on many planes, raising the risk of fires and fuel- tank explosions. The airline always insisted that passenger safety was never compromised and that the FAA’s charges BARCELONA: Visitors look at the Renault Twizy Sport F1 during its presentation at Barcelona’s International were overblown. —AP Motor Show 2013 yesterday in Barcelona. — AFP business SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Africa’s emerging Egypt report casts doubt over middle class Centamin’s gold mine appeal drives growth Shares fall as much as 21%, biggest FTSE-350 loser

and democracy CAIRO: Shares of Egypt-focused gold the biggest percentage loser on the FTSE- Customs officials have held up exports miner Centamin Plc fell as much as 21 350 index yesterday morning. and the country’s petroleum ministry has JOHANNESBURG: After years of headlines about Africa’s pover- percent after the company said an advi- Speaking to Reuters by telephone, disrupted fuel supplies to the mine. The ty, its emerging middle class is now grabbing attention as a sory body had made unfavourable rec- Centamin Chairman Josef El-Raghy said: company is appealing a decision by the driver of growth and democracy and an expanding pool of con- ommendations to the court that will “We see (the recommendations) as hav- Egyptian Administrative Court last sumers for market-hungry retailers. Consumer demand is a decide the fate of its only operating mine. ing no bearing on how we’ll progress our October that declared its right to operate motor of Africa’s economic and investment surge, and analysts Centamin is appealing to the Supreme appeal process.” the Sukari mine invalid. The ruling was see middle class buyers with swelling disposable income as Administrative Court of Egypt to overturn He declined to reveal details of the suspended in March pending the out- fuelling this boom from South Africa to Nigeria and Kenya. a decision by another court to revoke its recommendations in the report. The come of the appeal. “The whole Egyptian In its Africa Pulse report last month, the World Bank said lease for the Sukari gold mine in Egypt’s State Commissioner’s Office was not situation with Centamin has been a consumer spending accounted for more than 60 percent of Eastern Desert. available for comment on Friday, a holi- rollercoaster ride,” said Carole Ferguson, Sub-Saharan Africa’s buoyant economic growth, which it fore- The mine, which produced 262,958 day in Egypt. “The office’s recommenda- senior research analyst at SP Angel. “The cast would accelerate to more than 5 percent over the next ounces of gold last year, is continuing to tions are advisory only and non-binding, fact that they can’t have clarity at this three years, far outpacing the global average. “It’s probably the operate normally pending the final out- but the apparent negative undertone has stage ... will just make investors very fastest growing consumer class in the world, as a region,” said come of the court process, Centamin said potential to make the appeal more chal- nervous.” Centamin, also listed on the Michael Lalor, director of Ernst & Young’s Africa Business Center in a statement. Centamin, which has a lenging,” said Numis Securities analyst Toronto Stock Exchange , said in March in Johannesburg. market capitalization of about $780 mil- Cailey Barker. Egypt has experienced that it expected the Sukari mine to pro- From mobile phones, cars, food, and clothes to financial lion, said the first appeal hearing would more than two years of political and eco- duce 320,000 ounces of gold in 2013, 22 services and entertainment, multinational companies are hom- be on June 19. It added that the Egyptian nomic turmoil since the overthrow of percent more than last year. The mine is ing in on lucrative new markets as millions of Africans aspire to State Commissioner’s Office had pro- President Hosni Mubarak, hammering located 700 km (440 miles) from Cairo. claw their way out of still widespread poverty. “The poor don’t duced a report containing non-binding foreign investment and prompting budg- Centamin also holds exploration licenses drive demand in an economy, it’s the middle class that drive recommendations for the court. These et and currency crises. Centamin has in Ethiopia. The company’s shares were demand in an economy,” African Development Bank Chief recommendations were “not positive”, been hounded by a string of bureaucratic down 14.5 percent at 39.00 pence at 1040 Economist Mthuli Ncube said. “Reducing poverty means creat- Centamin said. The company’s stock was difficulties in Egypt in recent months. GMT.— Reuters ing a middle class. Sometimes people think pushing the middle class means forgetting about poverty, but it’s the other side of the coin,” he added. Global demand for African commodities, driven by China, has also boosted economic growth along with strong invest- ment in productive industries and infrastructure. The World Bank forecast foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa will reach $54 billion by 2015, up from $37.7 billion in 2012. At the same time, a greater number of African countries are achieving relative stability in politics and economic policy, allowing the middle class to emerge. Accurately quantifying this African middle class has become an obsession for institutions such as the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank, as well as consultancies advising corporate clients seeking an edge in this booming continent. But this is a challenging task in a very diverse region - still the least developed on the planet - where reliable data is patchy and whose more than 50 economies range from regional pow- erhouses South Africa and Nigeria to UN Development Index laggards such as Niger and Mozambique.

A CONSUMING CLASS “There are elastic definitions ... The middle class is very differ- ent in Kenya, for example, where you need far less disposable income than you might need in the United States,” said Ernst & Young’s Lalor. One of the most frequently quoted - and debat- ed - studies is a 2011 report by the African Development Bank. This said that, based on a daily per capita consumption defini- AHMEDABAD: A young Indian child walks past a car during the inauguration of Gujarat’s first Volvo Dealer’s showroom tion of $2-20, Africa’s middle class had risen by 2010 to 34 per- near Ahmedabad. Car sales in India fell around 10 percent in April 2013 - its sixth straight monthly decline. — AFP cent of its population - or nearly 350 million people - from about 126 million or 27 percent in 1980. Indian car sales on longest ever declining streak Given that $2 a day or below is widely accepted globally as a poverty indicator, many economists see the AfDB’s middle class MUMBAI: Car sales in India slid by over 10 India’s central bank last week cut its main capacity to meet what they hope will be big range, as cited in its 2011 report, as too broad and optimistic. percent in April, industry data showed yes- interest rate by 25 basis points-its third such growth in a market that could equal China’s Standard Bank economist Simon Freemantle says other studies terday, marking the longest ever stretch of reduction this year-in an effort to kickstart and offset weakness in the developed indicate a more “African-appropriate” measure of middle class monthly declines in the country’s once red- sharply slower economic growth. world. Still, India-with its 1.2-billion popula- level income of between $15 and $20 a day. “There, Africa’s hot car market. “We have never seen a suc- The Congress party-led government tion, low penetration of car ownership and middle class would be closer to 120 million, out of a population cessive monthly decline of six months,” said expects at least six percent growth this year rising incomes-is a compelling destination of just over a billion, so roughly 10 percent,” he said. Citigroup’s the Society of Indian Automobile after the economy grew by an estimated for international carmakers aiming to hike Africa Economist David Cowan preferred not to use the term Manufacturers (SIAM)’s senior director five percent in the previous year, its lowest sales in the longer term, analysts say. “middle class” at all in relation to Africa. “I don’t believe there’s Sugato Sen, who called the latest numbers rate in a decade. Domestic passenger car The number of cars per 1,000 Indians is an African middle class,” he said, when compared with Europe “not good”. Domestic passenger car sales, sales fell by 6.7 percent in the year to March just 15 compared to 58 in China and or Asia. Cowan would rather speak of a rapidly expanding seen as a pointer to overall economic 2013 to 1.89 million units from a year earli- around 800 in the United States, according “huge consuming class”, with ideally $5,000-7,000 of disposable health, fell by 10.43 percent to 150,789 vehi- er-the first contraction in 10 years. Car sales to analysts. On the April sales, Mahantesh income a year ($14-19 a day). “That’s a level at which people can cles in April from the same month a year are projected to grow by three-to-five per- Sabarad of Fortune Equity Brokers said: really make consumer purchases ... middle class in my mind earlier. cent in the 12 months to March 2014, “Despite the fall, the quantum of decline should able to afford a washing machine and go out and buy a High borrowing costs, worries over a according to SIAM, but this is far below a has been narrowing which is a good sign.” motorbike,” he said. sharp slowdown in the economy and costly record 30-percent rise notched up in 2010- Analysts expect demand to also be helped fuel have kept buyers out of showrooms. 11. The declining sales have raised ques- by forecasts of a normal monsoon, which DRIVERS OF DEMOCRACY The weak demand has forced automakers tions about large investments by foreign should improve rural demand and Few doubted that the emerging middle class was an impor- to introduce “buy now, pay later” schemes, auto giants building new capacity in India. automakers’ new model line-ups. Ford is tant group for defining Africa’s economic and political course. interest-free repayments and double-digit Ford, for instance, has earmarked nearly set to launch its mini sports-utility-vehicle As keen users of mobile phones and the Internet, including discounts. Sen said he expected the market $1 billion to build a plant in western Gujarat EcoSport while Mahindra & Mahindra will social media networks, they were plugged into the digital world to remain sluggish for another two to three state that will be able to turn out 240,000 unveil its hatchback Verito Vibe. A new and international news and therefore had a role as opinion months, but added that purchases could cars a year by 2014. GM, Toyota Motor Corp small car from Hyundai India is also expect- makers and agents of reform and change. —Reuters pick up once auto loans become cheaper. and Maruti Suzuki have also been boosting ed, analysts say.— AFP business SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Nissan’s annual profit growth stalls

TOKYO: Japan’s Nissan said yesterday that its annual net profit had barely moved from a year earlier despite market conditions that helped rivals Toyota and Honda book soaring profits. The pair logged huge gains largely owing to a sharply weaker yen and cost-cutting that helped inflate their bottom line. Nissan, part- owned by France’s Renault, has also benefited from the yen’s decline with its fourth-quarter earnings jumping due to the weak- er currency. But its heavy exposure to China, the world’s biggest vehicle market, and recession-riddled Europe slammed the brakes on growth. “Compared with its rivals, Nissan faces several uncertain fac- tors, including its relations with Renault, its electric vehicle strate- gy and the China issue,” said Tatsuya Mizuno, auto analyst with Mizuno Credit Advisory. Japan’s automakers suffered from a diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing that sparked huge riots across China and a damaging consumer boycott of Japanese brands. Nissan’s sales to China, which make up almost one-quar- ter of its total sales, far higher than its domestic rivals, fell 5.3 per- cent on-year to 1.18 million vehicles, it said. While sales to China last month were better than a year earlier, Nissan conceded it has lost market share as Volkswagen and US- based General Motors tried to capitalize on their Japanese rivals troubles in the country. “We are working hard to recover from the impact of the island dispute,” Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn told a press briefing yesterday. “I consider the recovery achieved com- pletely when our market share will come back to what it was before” the dispute flared, he added. Demand in Europe including the key Russian market and in Japan slipped from a year earlier with strong sales in the United States and emerging markets including Thailand and Brazil pick- ing up the slack, Nissan said. Ghosn laid out a grim prediction for Europe this year as the continent remains mired in recession. “I YOKOHAMA: Nissan Motors’ “Skyline coupe” is on display at the showroom of its headquarters in Yokohama, think Europe is going to be bad, but again it’s like when you know south of Tokyo yesterday. Nissan said its annual net profit came in nearly flat from a year earlier, a result that that Europe is going to be bad then you can manage Europe,” stood in stark contrast to rivals Toyota and Honda which have booked soaring profits.— AFP Ghosn said. “There is no illusion.... we are not absolutely not fore- casting any growth in Europe.” However he offered a more upbeat view on Nissan’s bid to boost disappointing sales of its LEAF electric vehicle, saying gov- UK, US, Australia hunt for ernments are working on infrastructure to charge the eco-friendly cars. Consumer fears about range and not being able to charge the vehicles out on the road have been a major impediment to tax evaders yielding leads commercial success, analysts say. “We think that when consumers will feel comfortable by seeing infrastructure everywhere (those fears) will disappear and will help a lot to increase sales,” Ghosn Three countries comb data trove said. Overall, Nissan said it sold a record 4.91 million units globally LONDON: A joint effort by Britain, the ties to help speed up analysis of 400 giga- and incorporation dates. “The files illus- in the past fiscal year, up 1.4 percent, as it rolled out a string of United States and Australia to track down bytes of data they have obtained. Michael trate how offshore financial secrecy has new models. It posted a net profit of 342.4 billion yen ($3.4 billion) people who conceal wealth in offshore tax Danilack, a deputy US Internal Revenue spread aggressively around the globe, on sales of 9.63 trillion yen for the fiscal year ended in March. structures has helped identify more than Service commissioner said the United allowing the wealthy to avoid taxes,” the Japan’s number-two automaker-which posted a slightly lower 100 individuals, the UK’s tax authority said States was willing to share this informa- ICIJ said in a statement. Britain’s HMRC 341.43 billion yen net profit a year earlier-said it expected earn- on Thursday. “The message is simple: if tion with other countries. said some of those identified as a result of ings to rise almost 23 percent to 420 billion yen this year. you evade tax, we’re coming after you,” UK and US officials declined to identify the three-country collaboration were A weakening yen has helped make Japan’s exporters more said Britain’s Finance Minister George the source of the information. “This data is already under investigation for tax eva- competitive overseas and inflated the value of their foreign Osborne. another weapon in HMRC’s arsenal,” sion, and more than 200 other account- income, boosting profits. The benefit of currency fluctuations After a string of high-profile multina- Britain’s Osborne said. The data may over- ants, lawyers and advisers face scrutiny appeared likely to continue as the dollar soared past 100-yen in tional companies were shown to be pay- lap with data leaked to The International over their roles in setting up offshore tax US forex trading Thursday, a level last seen more than four years ing little or no tax in the UK, Britain has Consortium of Investigative Journalists structures. Early results from the project ago. The dollar hit a record low around 75 against the Japanese been pushing the European Union and (ICIJ), the watchdog group said on with the US IRS and the Australian Tax currency in late 2011, setting off howls of complaints from other major economies to clamp down on Thursday. In April, the ICIJ and media part- Office highlighted the use of trusts and Japanese manufacturers. Nissan shares were up 3.0 percent to tax evasion and avoidance. Her Majesty’s ners began reporting on alleged tax eva- companies in territories such as Singapore, 1,063 yen in Tokyo yesterday, before its latest results were pub- Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said it had sion cases stemming from 260 gigabytes the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman lished— AFP teamed up with Australian and US authori- of information, including cash transfers Islands and the Cook Islands.— Reuters Panasonic logs $7.5 billion annual loss

TOKYO: Panasonic said yesterday it had whole “continued to be in a severe busi- a bounce from a weakening currency tions in the value of the yen and gains logged another eye-watering net loss in ness situation including sluggish demand because their products become more com- from a string of asset sales-including the year to March, coming up $7.5 billion in flat-panel TVs mainly in Japan”. petitive overseas and their repatriated unloading its Manhattan office building for dollars short, but pledging to turn a profit Panasonic, like key domestic rivals Sony profits are worth more at home. more than $1.0 billion-while its television over the next 12 months. The struggling and Sharp, has long suffered in its televi- Ahead of the results announcement, and electronics business continues to electronics giant booked a 754.25 billion sion business where foreign rivals have the company’s Tokyo-listed shares closed struggle. The maker of PlayStation gaming yen ($7.5 billion) net loss over the year to proved tough competition, while its debt 3.74 percent up at 749 yen. For the year to consoles and Bravia televisions has March, only slightly better than the 772.17 has been inflated by the purchase of small- March 2014, Panasonic resolved to return launched a massive corporate overhaul to billion yen hole in its balance sheet the er rival Sanyo. The company also booked to net profit of 50 billion yen and increase stem losses, including thousands of job previous year, one of the worst-ever losses some 508 billion yen as a business restruc- operating profit to 250 billion yen. But it cuts and the asset sales. Panasonic and for a non-financial Japanese firm. turing expense. The firm said the yen’s rap- expected annual sales to fall 1.4 percent to Sharp have also begun huge restructuring Its operating profit however jumped id fall against the dollar and the euro 7.2 trillion yen. On Thursday, rival Sony said plans to rescue their bleeding balance 268 percent to 160.94 billion yen as the toward the end of last year had mitigated it had booked its first annual net profit in sheets. Century-old Sharp warned last year firm carried out aggressive cost cutting its problems somewhat. The Japanese unit five years, offering a glimmer of hope for that its survival was at stake. The cash- and reform programs, while sales came to was trading well above 100 to the dollar the former market leader. strapped company put up its Osaka head- 7.3 trillion yen, down 6.9 percent. The com- yesterday, against a rate below 80 in the But the once-iconic firm’s jump back quarters as collateral for life-saving bank pany said the electronics industry as a middle of last year. Exporters generally get into the black was largely due to fluctua- loans.— AFP business SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Syria oil smugglers benefit from chaos

BEIRUT: In Syria’s eastern province of Deir As well as production facilities, tribal fighters the European Union hoped would benefit city of Deir al-Zor before dealing with those al-Zor, a network of tribes and smugglers had seized control of pipelines, often drilling from last month’s EU decision to allow the it calls the “oil thieves” - an emerging class of has exploited the chaos of war to create an into them to extract oil. purchase of oil from the Syrian opposition, warlords linked by oil, money and arms. illicit oil trade that makes European hopes of Thousands of barrels of crude are smug- concede they have little immediate “This is very difficult, people now have tast- buying crude from President Bashar al- gled to Turkey daily by small tankers using prospect of winning a share of the trade. The ed money and also tasted the power that Assad’s opponents a distant prospect. farm roads, said Abu Ramzi. The oil is taken power of the tribes in the deeply conserva- comes with it. They will not give up without Powerful Sunni Muslim tribes have to the Bab al-Hawa or Tal Abiad border tive and traditional east of the country, and a fight,” said a rebel commander. “The rebels deployed armed fighters around oil produc- posts, a source close to the smugglers in the fact that they have fighters in many of do not want to clash with anyone right now. tion facilities and pipelines that have fallen Deir al-Zor said. The price of a barrel the different rebel brigades, makes tribal It is a tribal province and anything could under their control and set up smuggling depends on the quality of the crude oil and leaders almost untouchable. The patchwork backfire against the rebels - who themselves and trade deals, according to sources in the the cost of transport - the shorter the trip the of tribes and fragmented opposition are are sons of tribes.” Some rebel sources said province including rebels, an oil company cheaper - but it could be 8,000 Syrian complicating Western efforts to find an their commanders had made contact with employee and people with ties to the tribes. pounds, slightly over $50, he said. In recent effective response to the crisis in Syria. some tribes, seeking to convince them to Deir al-Zor is critical to Syrian oil output weeks, some wealthy smugglers have The other force in the region is the al share a percentage of their profits. So far the that has more than halved in the past two begun using “mobile refineries” stationed Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, which has talks have been fruitless. “We can not get years of fighting. The hijacking of the oil on trucks to process crude into fuel and oth- reached an understanding with the tribes close to it without blood, let’s be realistic,” industry by tribes complicates Western er products. Costing up to $230,000, a medi- over the division of spoils, sources say. The one source in the rebel command said via efforts to help the Syrian opposition fund um sized mobile plant can refine up to 200 Nusra Front has used its profits to buy more Skype. Another source close to one of the itself and will make any future reconstruc- barrels a day. Fuel smuggled into Turkey weapons and pay its fighters. The Western- strongest tribes in the area said the collapse tion even more difficult. “Each tribe now is sells for roughly 50 percent more than in backed rebel military command fears that of central authority after two years of con- in control of at least a part of an oil field, it Syria. any attempt to take control of the oil fields flict in Syria had allowed the tribes to depends how big it is and how many fight- would trigger a bloody confrontation and become increasingly organized and power- ers it can deploy,” said the state oil firm TRIBAL POWER create a lasting cycle of tribal revenge. ful. “These people will not allow anybody to employee who gave his name as Abu Ramzi. Western-backed rebel commanders, who Its immediate priority is to take over the touch the pipelines,” he said.— Reuters

Homebuilders can’t find enough Oil slips below $104, qualified workers rising supply weighs WASHINGTON: US builders and the subcontractors they depend on are struggling to hire fast enough to meet ris- ing demand for new homes. Builders would be starting Nagging doubts on China recovery work on more homes - and contributing more to the econ- omy - if they could fill more job openings. In the mean- LONDON: Brent crude oil slid below $104 narrowest since 2011. The spread yester- leader Hassan Nasrallah said Syria would time, workers in the right locations with the right skills are a barrel yesterday as rising supplies and day widened out to around $8.19. Oil may respond to Israeli raids around Damascus commanding higher pay. Consider Richard Vap, who owns doubts over China’s economy yesterday draw some support from heightened ten- by giving his group more sophisticated a drywall installation company. The resurgent housing outweighed stronger signs of a US recov- sion in the Middle East after Hezbollah new weapons. — Reuters market has sent builders calling again. Vap would love to ery. A firmer dollar also pressured oil. “US help - if he could hire enough qualified people. economic data have proved better than “There is a shortage of manpower,” says Vap, owner of expected - initial jobless claims fell last South Valley Drywall in Littleton, Colo. “We’re probably week to their lowest level since the begin- only hiring about 75 or 80 percent of what we actually ning of 2008 - but at the same time there need.” The shortage of labor ranges across occupations - are ample supplies on the oil market,” said from construction superintendents and purchasing agents Commerzbank. Brent was down 56 cents to painters, cabinet makers and drywall installers. The at $103.91 a barrel by 0938 GMT. US crude National Association of Home Builders says its members eased 67 cents to $95.72. have complained of too few framers, roofers, plumbers Investors had grown more confident and carpenters. The shortage is most acute in areas where after the number of Americans filing new demand for new homes has recovered fastest, notably in claims for jobless aid fell last week to its Arizona, California, Texas, Colorado and Florida. lowest in more than 5 years, underlining The problem results largely from an exodus of workers resilience flagged earlier by a strong April from the industry after the housing bubble burst. employment report. But doubts persisted Experienced construction workers lost jobs. And many about the health of the world’s No 2 econ- found new work - in commercial building or in booming omy, China. While consumer inflation rose and sometimes higher-paying industries like mining and in April, China’s factory prices fell for a natural gas drilling - and aren’t eager to come back. 14th straight month. In the first quarter, Hispanic immigrants, largely from Mexico, who had filled China’s gross domestic product grew by a jobs during the boom were among those who left the less than forecast 7.7 percent, frustrating industry and, in some cases, the United States. investors who had hoped for a strong Dave Erickson, president of Greyhawk Homes in rebound of at least 8 percent. Columbus, Ga, lost an employee who took a job this year US investment bank Goldman Sachs in Texas. The former employee is now installing fiber-optic said the spread between Brent and US cable and earning 30 percent more than he did as a con- crude could shrink to $5 in the third quar- struction supervisor. “I think he’s frustrated with the cycle ter as the bottleneck at Cushing, we went through in recent years,” Erickson says. A short- Oklahoma, the US midwest storage hub, age of labor in a well-paying industry might seem incon- eases as pipelines expand. “... the opening gruous in an economy stuck with a still-high 7.5 percent of the Ho-Ho pipeline that connects the unemployment rate. But it reflects just how many former Houston crude market with the refineries skilled construction workers have moved on to other in St. James will allow the glut of light fields. In 2006, when the boom peaked, 3.4 million people sweet crude that is developing in the worked in homebuilding. By 2011, the figure had bot- Texas Gulf Coast to be distributed more tomed at about 2 million. As of last month, about 2.1 mil- evenly on the entire US Gulf Coast,” the lion people were employed in residential construction. bank said. Jobs in the industry did rise 4.1 percent in April from a Stockpiles of US crude hit another year earlier, faster than overall US job growth. But they’d record level last week due to growing have to surge 24 percent more to reach 2.6 million, their domestic production. Expectations that 2002 level - “the last time the market was normal,” says further capacity utilisation could suck NORTH DAKOTA: The horse head (top) and bridle are pictured in this file David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association more oil out of Cushing and over to US photo taken near Tioga, North Dakota. According to the Department of of Home Builders.— AP refiners on Thursday pulled the spread Energy the US is enjoying a boom in its crude oil reserves with 395.3 mil- between US crude and Brent to $7.47 - its lion barrels, the highest since 1982. — AFP appeal global with Harvard wows Rapper Psy SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 www.kuwaittimes.net PAGE 27 California. —AFP on May9,2013inBeverlyHills, held attheBeverlyHillsHotel Television AcademyHonors” Straten attendsthe“6thAnnual Actress KristinBauervan feminist nightmare Barbie Dreamhouseapink PAGE 25 SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

son will Nick Lachey’s be ‘a rock and roll kid’ he 39-year-old singer is planning to bring his wife Vanessa and their seven-month- old son Camden on tour this summer with his band 98 Degrees and Nick is excited Tabout hitting the road with his family. He said: “Camden will be a rock and roll kid. We’re pretty chill first time parents. We’re not overly obsessive or controlling, I like to think and we’re cool and hip.” Nick - who was previously married to Jessica Simpson - also revealed he has never been happier since he and Vanessa, 32 became parents. He told People mag- Ian Somerhalder azine: “We were at the point in our lives where we were 100 per cent ready to become split parents. Every single thing in your life changes and we were ready for that. “I have a beau- tiful wife who is a beautiful mother and our life is everything I could have possibly envi- Nina Dobrev sioned for my family. These are shaping up to be the most magical years of my life. It’s been a long time since I felt this calm.” he ‘Vampire Diaries’ co-stars have reportedly ended their three- year romance, but vowed to remain professional and cordial on Tthe set of their hit supernatural TV show. A source told Us Weekly that despite their split, Ian, 34, and Nina, 24, are “consummate professionals” and “will continue to work together and remain best friends, which is where the relationship started.” The couple met on Keira Knightley the set of the hit US TV show - in which Nina plays Elena Gilbert, a high school student torn between vampire brothers, Damon (Ian) and Stefan (played by Paul Wesley) - in 2009 but they didn’t go public with their relationship until 2011. Nina recently admitted she didn’t is honeymooning intend to date where she works, but couldn’t resist her feelings for her hunky co-star. She said: “I didn’t want to be dating one of my co- stars-my goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you in Corsica can’t help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long-which I did for a really, really long time.” The former flames he 28-year-old actress and her will avoid any awkward encounters in the immediate future as the TKlaxons musician husband James fourth season of ‘Vampire Diaries’ has already wrapped production, Righton, who tied the knot in the but they are expected to return to the show’s Atlanta, Georgia set in south of France last weekend, are enjoy- July for filming of the fifth season. ing a romantic getaway on the French island in the Mediterranean Sea. According to People, the couple were spotted “ relaxing and soaking up the sun”. Keira and James married in a small ceremony at the town hall in Mazan, 67 miles from Marseilles, before speeding Gwyneth Paltrow slams the Met Gala back to her family’s nearby $5 million vineyard for a 50-guest reception in a sil- he ‘Iron Man 3’ actress was among a host of stars who attended the Costume ver Renault Clio. Speaking about the cere- TInstitute Ball in New York but insists it will be her last time because she hated every mony, Mayor Aime Navello, who oversaw minute of it. Gwyneth told USA Today: “I’m never going again. It was so un-fun. It the couple’s vow exchange, said recently: was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.” “Their two witnesses were Keira’s parents However, Gwyneth admitted she did enjoy spending time [Sharman Macdonald and Will Knightley]. with her fellow celebrities and despite recently being vot- The other people were all brothers, sisters ed the World’s Most Beautiful Woman by People maga- and family. There were no other celebri- zine, was struck by supermodel Miranda Kerr’s beauty. ties as part of the town hall ceremony. “It She said: “I was like, ‘Is it weird to be that pretty?’ And she was held in the upper room where the was like, ‘No.’” Gwyneth, 40, also named the 30-year-old weddings are usually done. There were no former Victoria’s Secret Angel the best-dressed celebrity flowers.” It was recently revealed that at the star-studded event. She said: “She was wearing a Keira’s wedding band used to belong to black Michael Kors dress that was sort of like a sparkling 29-year-old James’ grandmother. A source bandeau, and her whole stomach was showing. “It was said: “The ring he gave her was a family really beautiful. It was a little punk-y. She’s just so pretty, heirloom. He really did think it all through. it’s abnormal.” “It was an amazing wedding, the whole thing was really sweet and down to earth.” SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Miley Cyrus stalked by ghosts in London he 20-year-old singer and her family rented an apartment in Tthe English capital during her 2009 European tour but they had to move to a hotel after a number of ghostly encounters. She told British Elle magazine: “It was seriously so terrifying. One night, my little sister-it sounds crazy to tell you-but she was standing in the shower and all of a sudden, I hear her scream. I run in there and the water had somehow flipped to hot but it was still ... It wasn’t like the water had just changed, the knob had turned but she hadn’t turned it and it was burning her. She was really red. “I thought I had seen a little boy sitting on the sink watching me take a shower so I felt really freaked out. I was sitting there the next night and maybe I’m crazy, but I could have sworn I could see this little boy sitting there on the sink, kicking his feet.” The family later discovered the apartment was reportedly haunted and Miley has vowed never to stay there again. She said: “We found out that there was this older man that owned it [the bakery that had once been in the building] and his son lived with him there, and I guess the wife died or some- thing, she had gotten sick. “So it was just the son and the dad that lived there in the bakery, and then the dad died and the son took over the bakery, and I thought I was seeing the son. I’m not even kid- ding. “I had to move. That’s not a lie. I will never stay there ever again.”

Ireland Baldwin Jessica Alba stole can’t wait to her parents’ car become a big sister when she was 12 he 17-year-old model’s father Alec Baldwin’s second wife Hilaria is Tpregnant and she is excited about welcoming a half-brother or sis- he ‘Sin City’ actress has revealed she was a wild child ter to the family. She said: “I have always wanted a sibling, I’m so Tand drove her parents crazy with her rebellious antics, excited to meet my sister. I want her to know that I’m here for whatever including going for joy rides in the family car and she needs.” Ireland - whose mother is Alec’s ex-wife Kim Basinger - also drinking alcohol when she was just 11. In a joint interview revealed she has a great relationship with her stepmother. with her mother Cathy on ‘Entertainment Tonight’, the 32- She told People magazine: “I love Hilaria. She saved my dad, getting him year-old screen beauty confessed she and a boyfriend into amazing shape. And she brought him out of a bad place of being experimented with alcohol, saying: “We accidentally drank lonely.” While Ireland’s parents had a bitter break-up, she insists they Wild Turkey. How old was I? 11?” The star’s mum retorted: have put all of their differences aside for her sake. She said: “My parents “It’s a little shocking. You drank Wild Turkey in sixth always manage to work things out. In fact they can have each other over grade?!” But the ‘Spy Kids 4’ actress’ list of offences don’t for Thanksgiving just to make me happy. The co-parenting is intact.” Alec end there - she also admitted to taking her parents’ car out has previously said he can’t wait to be a father again because he regrets for a spin, but rather than hitting the open road, Jessica missing out on so much of Ireland’s childhood. He said: “It’s really like a would settle for the local drive-thru. She told her mother: dream come true. Because as much as I have struggled as a divorced par- “Do you remember when I used to steal the car and go to ent - and God knows, I’ve had my ups and downs - the only thing that I regret Jack in the Box? We would go and get food. That was our was that I missed so much of my daughter’s childhood because of this con- activity. I was 12.” Despite her trouble-filled childhood, tentious situation.” Cathy is proud of how her A-list daughter - who now has two daughters of her own, Honor, four, and 21-month-old Haven, with husband Cash Warren - has blossomed into a doting mother herself. She said tearfully: “When I see her look at her babies with that unconditional love... I love you, Julia Roberts won’t attend her sister’s wedding pumpkin.” he ‘Runaway Bride’ star, 45, doesn’t approve of her younger half-sister Nancy Motes’ fiance John Dilbeck Tand plans to boycott their upcoming nuptials because she is worried she might have to foot the bill. A source told The National Enquirer: “Julia doesn’t think much of Nancy’s husband-to-be. She’s convinced he’s sponging off Nancy, who doesn’t have much money in the first place. “Now, Julia won’t go to her wedding because she’s worried Nancy will try to tap her for more money.” Nancy, who shares the same mother as Julia, is said to work as a production assistant on ‘Glee’ because her Oscar-winning sister got her the job. Julia married her own husband Danny Moder on July 4, 2004 at her 82-acre ranch in Taos, New Mexico. The wedding was a surprise to the 60 guests, who were invited to an Independence Day party. The couple have three children, nine-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, and seven-year-old Henry. It was recently claimed Julia and her family are keen to leave Hollywood and move to Hawaii permanently so they can “live off the land” and surf all the time. A source previous- ly said: “Julia has been into healthy eating for some time, but she got even more interested in it after deciding to lose the 10 pounds she gained while playing the Evil Queen in ‘Mirror, Mirror’. “She’s even considering moving to Hawaii, where her family vacations every year, so they can live off the land, bask in the sun and surf 365 days a year.” —Bangshowbiz SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

India court rejects Bollywood starʼs jail plea ndia’s highest court yesterday rejected a At a news conference following the Iplea by Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt to March hearing, Dutt declared himself “a review his conviction and five-year jail shattered man”. Some prominent figures term for possessing arms supplied by plot- had called for the actor to be pardoned, ters of the deadly 1993 Mumbai blasts. The including the Press Council of India chair- muscular, tattooed 53-year-old was convict- man Markandey Katju, a former Supreme ed by an anti-terrorism court in 2006 but was Court judge. The actor shot to fame in the freed on bail after serving 18 months in prison. In March, the Supreme Court upheld Dutt’s conviction but cut his jail term to five years from six. He now has to serve the remaining three-and-a-half-years of his term. The Supreme Court on Friday said there was “no merit” in the actor’s petition to review his conviction and also dismissed sim- ilar requests by six others sentenced in the case. Dutt was convicted for possessing arms supplied by Mumbai’s criminal underworld which plotted a string of deadly blasts in 1993, killing 257 people. Dutt still can file another so-called “curative” petition in which Mexican filmmaker Gaz Alazraki is seen during an interview in Mexico City. —AFP the court is asked to review its final decision but lawyers said such a plea would likely be dismissed as it would be heard by the same judges. In Mexico, comedy and scandal Dutt was likely to surrender to jail authori- ties on May 15, according to local media. The expose class schism actor, whose mother was Muslim and father ow the mighty have fallen in Mexico-at life thanks to his deep pockets-decides to teach a Hindu, was acquitted in 2007 of more seri- least on movie screens and in social them a lesson by faking his bankruptcy and stag- ous conspiracy charges in the blasts seen as H retaliation for religious riots in which mainly media. A comedy lampooning the rich ing a police raid on his property to force them to Muslims died after the razing of an old has become the highest-grossing film in get jobs. The oldest son, Javi, likes to party and Sanjay Dutt Mexican cinema history, with five million movie- fly on a private jet to Miami-until he ends up mosque. goers laughing at the story of a construction driving a bus in Mexico City’s congested streets. Despite the acquittal, Dutt was found tycoon fooling his spoilt children into a life of The daughter, Barbie, talks down to the help guilty of possession of an automatic rifle and 1980s in a string of action movies in which poverty. “Nosotros Los Nobles” (“We Are The and leaves bad tips, but she suddenly finds her- a pistol, which he insisted were only meant he performed his own stunts, earning him Nobles”) has hit a nerve-or the funny bone-in a self serving tacos in a cantina. When she learns to protect his family amid the highly the nickname “Deadly Dutt”. He is best country with one of the widest income gaps in she has to share tips with co-workers, she asks: charged atmosphere in Mumbai following known for playing a mobster with a heart of the world, where 10 percent of the people con- “Are we in Cuba now or something?” The the mosque’s destruction. Analysts estimate gold in the “Munnabhai” series. Dutt’s first trol 40 percent of the wealth while almost half youngest, Charlie, gets kicked out of university about 2.5 billion rupees ($45 million) are rid- wife died of cancer while his second mar- live in poverty. for sleeping with a professor and takes up a job ing in Bollywood on Dutt, whose parents riage, to a model, ended in divorce. He wed Then last month, in a real-life scene that as a bank teller. were two of India’s biggest stars, with up to for a third time in 2008 and has two young could have come right from the script, inspec- Mexican cinema has produced successful five films in the pipeline. children. —AFP tors from the Profeco consumer protection dramas in recent years, like “The Crime of Father agency tried to close a restaurant after their Amaro,” which was Mexico’s box-office champ boss’s daughter complained she was denied her for 11 years until “Los Nobles” dislodged it last table of choice. But the tables turned on her month. But Alazraki said he decided to make a creature when Mexicans denounced her behavior on “Hollywood movie in Spanish.” The movie-made Gigantic balloon Twitter, dubbing her #LadyProfeco. Some with a relatively modest budget of $2.4 million- mocked her as a daddy’s girl, asking her to shut has raked in more than $20 million over six splits opinion in Australia down a volcano spewing ash, but many saw it as weeks, finishing in the second spot last weekend the latest example of the elite’s sense of entitle- behind Hollywood blockbuster “Iron Man 3.” ment. Film critics say Alazraki’s comedy resonated gigantic whale-like balloon with pendu- others enjoyed the sense of fun. Gary “Gaz” Alazraki, the 35-year-old director among moviegoers because it is an easy laugh, Alous udder-like appendages, designed On the Daily Telegraph website, Tim Blair of “Nosotros Los Nobles,” said the young returning to an old formula from 1940s Mexican to mark the centenary of Australia’s cap- said it was the perfect symbol for the city woman’s behavior is typical of the privileged few cinema showing the tribulations of the poor and ital Canberra, has divided opinion, with some which is home to the national parliament-”a in Mexico, who often think they are above the the rich. “The poor are happy, they have a big branding it an ugly waste of money and others bloated, gaseous, multi-breasted monster law, and he wanted to use comedy to depict the heart and they live in the real world, while the saying it is an inspiration. Skywhale, believed feeding those who dwell in its poisonous disconnect between the elite and the poor. “This rich are the people who must beg for affection,” to be the first hot-air balloon commissioned to shadow while leeching off the rest of us”. “I’ve film was a caricature, done with lots of love, of Jorge Ayala Blanco, an author of 11 books on celebrate a city’s 100th birthday, has the flow- seen more attractive road kill than the how Mexico is today, emphasizing the good and Mexican cinema, told AFP. ing form of a giant pink-and-black-hued fish. grotesque #skywhale,” was once response on the bad, but with a hopeful tone saying that this Leonardo Garcia Tsao, a film critic for La But its face could be that of a parrot, or a turtle, Twitter. is only a bad period,” Alazraki told AFP. Jornada newspaper, said the middle-class goes and the renowned artist who designed it, But the odd-looking balloon also drew sup- “Mexico today is similar to the United States to the movies in Mexico, and “in this case, the Patricia Piccinini, refuses to say just what it is. port despite the fact that whales are never in the 1930s: Divided social classes, a sharp film mocks the rich, which they’re not, and the Piccinini, whose work has been shown at seen in Canberra, a landlocked city between wealth gap, not only between how much one or poor, which they’re not either.” The audience the Venice Biennale and London’s Victoria and Sydney and Melbourne. “The naysayers will the other has, but also between the color of laughed throughout the film at a movie theater Albert Museum and who recently exhibited have a go at #skywhale with knee-jerk reac- one’s skin,” the blue-eyed filmmaker said. in the posh district of Polanco, two blocks from a works in the US, Turkey and London, said tions about wasting public money. I think it’s Alazraki readily admits it: He comes from the dealership that sells Ferraris while children beg Skywhale was a piece about “wonder and an imaginative & inspiring work,” wrote one same world as the Nobles. His father, Carlos for money across the street. nature”. “It’s meant to inspire a sense of won- supporter on Twitter. Alazraki, is a well-known advertising guru who “It’s one of the few funny Mexican movies,” der in ‘what is it?’” she told the ABC of the tow- The Skywhale will be officially unveiled worked on several presidential campaigns. said Beatriz Arrechiga, a 35-year-old radio ad ering sculpture which used more than 3.5 kilo- outside the National Gallery of Australia on When he turned 18, he got mad at his father consultant. “It shows the classism in this country. metres (2.2 miles) of fabric and took 16 people Saturday as part of an international sculpture for reneging on a promise to buy him a car. But There is a message for a class of young people some seven months to make. symposium, before making its first flight over he felt bad when he saw his university friends who depend on their dads.” Lady Profeco and At 34 metres long and 23 metres high, the Canberra on Monday. The balloon, which has commute by bus. “I felt a little guilty about hav- her father Humberto Benitez, meanwhile, have Skywhale is at least twice as big as a standard been designed to carry a pilot plus two pas- ing thrown such a fit. But it showed how discon- apologized and the Maximo Bistrot voluntarily hot-air balloon and weighs half a ton. The bal- sengers to an altitude of 3,000 feet, will be nected I was from the realities of the country,” closed temporarily. While Benitez avoided the loon, which was made in Bristol in the United seen at the Museum of Old and New Art the filmmaker said. ax, lawmakers want him to testify and four of his Kingdom and cost Aus$172,000 (US$173,000) (MONA) in Hobart and the Australian Centre In the movie, businessman German Noble- subordinates were suspended after a probe has sparked outpourings on social media, with for Contemporary Art in Melbourne later this tired of seeing his three children cruise through ordered by President Enrique Pena Nieto. —AFP some describing it as a waste of money while year. —AFP SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Berlin’s Barbie Dreamhouse a pink feminist nightmare

he opening this month of the first mansion has become a lightning rod marvellous kitchen, rummage through the doll’s image, moving beyond the Tlife-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in ahead of the May 16 inauguration. her sequin-studded wardrobe in the beach beauty to create surgeon dolls Europe may be the fantasy of Just a few steps from Alexanderplatz, blonde bombshell’s “endless” walk-in and even a presidential candidate. many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are the main shopping district of east Berlin, closet and lounge in her-pink, of course- “Barbie has again become a tool for mobilising against what they call a sex- the 2,500-square-metre (26,900 square living room while admiring hundreds of some to advance their own agenda,” a dolls on display. spokeswoman for the company’s “For 22 euros ($29), you can have German unit said. two careers-model or pop star! What The conflict is due to come to a kind of image is that presenting to head on May 16, the opening day, with young women?” grumbles Michael a planned demonstration under a Koschitzki, the proudly feminist male “Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse” banner. leader of a grassroots group of oppo- “We will be very happy if we can bring nents of the Barbie Dreamhouse, and a together 100 people,” admits member of the youth wing of the far- Koschitzki, whose protest group left party Die Linke. includes several leftist organisations A Facebook faction called “Occupy and the initiative Pinkstinks, which is Barbie Dreamhouse”, created in March fighting against the gender-stereotyp- with a wink at the New York anti-greed ing produced by the colour’s hegemo- movement Occupy Wall Street, has ny in the little-girl universe. drawn more than 1,000 supporters Barbie’s Dreamhouse, which was since its launch in March when the conjured up by Vienna-based Event Berlin plans came to light. It regrets Marketing Service with a licence from that “the vast majority of little girls play Mattel and has a twin sister at a shop- with a doll that, if she were real, would ping mall in southern Florida, is already be anorexic and whose life would con- drawing curious families. A 28-year-old sist of waiting for Ken in the car”, tourist who gave her name as Lucy said Koschitzki said. all the pink caught her attention, as she An angry fist piercing adverts for pulled out her camera. Having played the attraction was printed on 10,000 with Barbies as a child, she did not see flyers to publicise the fight against a problem with the Dreamhouse, such “sexist propaganda” in a country although she admitted it could “influ- headed by a childless woman and in ence a young girl so she thinks that which battles of the sexes are being everyone has to be blonde, tall and fought on several fronts. Germany, big-breasted”. where combining family and work is “It’s up to parents to explain that it’s notoriously difficult, has a fertility rate just a doll and not an example,” said among the lowest in western Europe Emma, a 36-year-old Berlin mother of and is debating binding quotas for two girls, aged four and six, who shook This picture shows the exterior of the Barbie Dreamhouse in Berlin. —AFP female executives to diversify its over- with anticipation to get inside the doll whelmingly male-dominated board- paradise. Barbie, for her part, will have ist icon. With her ironed-straight blond foot) slice of Malibu lifestyle is nestled rooms. to pack her bags on August 25. The tresses, doe-like baby blue eyes, blind- between a railway and old communist Having weathered half a century of Dreamhouse will then be dissembled, ing smile and super-human measure- housing blocks. Inside, young Barbie feminist rage, US Barbie manufacturer placed in moving crates and sent on a ments, the mistress of the giant Barbie fans can pretend to bake cupcakes in a Mattel notes that it has modernised tour of other European cities. —AFP Heavy hitters return for Riviera film fest

he Coen Brothers, Roman Polanski flamboyant entertainer Liberace, who Polanski, who turns 80 in August, Naru” (“Like Father, Like Son”) by Tand Steven Soderbergh return to never disclosed that he was gay during returns with “La Venus a la Fourrure” Hirokazu Kore-Eda, one of his country’s the Cannes Film Festival from his lifetime, in Soderbergh’s biopic (“Venus in Fur”), a drama starring his leading filmmakers known for his sensi- Wednesday, with a string of younger tal- “Behind the Candelabra”. The film is apt wife, French actress Emmanuelle tive portrayals of contemporary life. ents snapping at their heels in the race for in a watershed year for gay rights, with Seigner. There will also be a special From China there will be “Tian Zhu Ding” the coveted Palme d’Or. Baz Luhrmann’s more and more states granting gay peo- screening of an updated version of (“A Touch of Sin”) by former under- take on “The Great Gatsby” starring ple the right to marry or adopt. “Weekend of a Champion”, Polanski and ground filmmaker Jia Zhangke. US critic Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, It could also be something of a swan- Frank Simon’s 1971 film on Formula One John Powers has predicted Jia’s films will will lay on the glitz when it opens the 12- song for Soderbergh, who has threat- racing driver Jackie Stewart as he still be of interest 100 years from now for day fest on Wednesday evening. “Gatsby” ened to retire. The 50-year-old director attempted to win the Monaco Grand his “sustained effort to capture the pre- is not in the quest for the Palme, but and screenwriter, who shot to promi- Prix. cise moments when China’s past is being behind the razzmatazz of its European nence after winning the Palme d’Or in In another documentary special tossed on the ash heap of history”. The premiere, Luhrmann is under pressure to 1989 with “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” screening, Stephen Frears’ “Muhammad only woman director competing for the deliver F Scott Fitzgerald’s Roaring has complained that Hollywood studios Ali’s Greatest Fight” will recount the box- Palme d’Or will be Valeria Bruni- Twenties classic to a new generation. refused to fund the new feature as it was er’s battle to refuse the draft as a consci- Tedeschi, sister of former French first The Australian director’s $100 million “too gay”. In the end, it was financed by entious objector. Meanwhile, in compe- lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, with “Un extravaganza has been filmed in 3D and is US payTV, where it will be commercially tition, director Nicolas Winding Refn and Chateau en Italie”. scored by rapper Jay-Z, with tracks from screened. “Drive” star Ryan Gosling collaborate Women are better represented in the Beyonce, will.i.am and Emeli Sande. The The Coen Brothers, last in competi- again in “Only God Forgives”, also star- parallel new talent section Un Certain brash formula has gone down poorly tion in Cannes in 2007 with “No Country ring Kristin Scott Thomas. Regard which will be opened by Sofia with some reviewers in the US, although for Old Men”, have made the official Like “Drive” it is expected to shock for Coppola’s “The Bling Ring”. The film is others said they liked the eye candy. selection this year with “Inside Llewyn its violence, this time set in Bangkok inspired by a true story of a group of Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Douglas, Davis”, the story of a singer-songwriter gangland and filmed on location in adolescents who rob the homes of Matt Damon and Ryan Gosling are set against the 1960s New York folk Thailand. Other films to watch include celebrities after becoming obsessed with among the A-listers expected to tread the scene. The film is the second appearance Asghar Farhadi’s “Le Passe”, following his the world of “beautiful people”. Riviera red carpet, while Steven Spielberg at Cannes this year for Mulligan. The best foreign language film Oscar for “A Following controversy last year, organis- heads an equally star-studded jury that elfin-faced 27-year-old Briton ignored Separation” in 2012 and Jim Jarmusch’s ers tried to head off any criticism of the includes Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and early advice to forget acting and “marry vampire romance, “Only Lovers Left number of women directors nominated Christoph Waltz. a banker” instead. She went on to earn a Alive”. saying Bruni-Tedeschi’s film had been In one of the most keenly-awaited best actress Oscar nomination before Japan has two films in the race for the selected because it was a good film not films in competition, Douglas plays the she was 25. Palme d’Or including “Soshite Chichi Ni because it was made by a woman. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

This undated promotion- al image released by Getty Museum in LA lands Sunglass Hut shows mother-daughter models Georgia May Jagger (left) Rembrandt, Canaletto works and Jerry Hall posing for he Getty Museum of Los Angeles announced Campo San Marcuola” a sunglasses ad. TThursday it has acquired a self-portrait by will be the second Canaletto displayed at the Together, they enjoy rid- Rembrandt and a painting by the Venetian Getty Museum. The other is a scene of Rome. “The ing horses, spa days, gar- artist Canaletto. “Rembrandt Laughing,” a small oil Getty Museum possesses the most significant collec- dening, cooking and on copper work probably done around 1628, came tion of early Rembrandts in the United States, and if reading the Sunday onto the art market in 2007 after spending centuries you had asked what addition would best cap it off, newspaper, especially as part of private collections. It was at first attributed the answer would have been a self-portrait, which to contemporaries of Rembrandt, but later authenti- many regard as his greatest and most sustained their horoscopes. They cated by the Rembrandt Research Project. achievement,” said museum director Timothy Potts. share clothes now, too, The painter, then around 22, is dressed as a sol- “The Canaletto likewise is a tremendous addition to and are starring in a cam- dier and smiling broadly. The museum already had our growing collection of Italian view paintings,” paign for Sunglass Hut, four works by Rembrandt. It has now also acquired Potts said. Founded by oil baron John Paul Getty, the their first major joint a piece by landscape painter Canaletto, or Getty Museum is part of the world’s richest art foun- modeling gig. —AP Giovanni Antonio Canal, done around 1738. “The dation, with assets worth an estimated $7.9 billion in Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to 2011. —AFP 1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play?

iles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet said. “Of course that didn’t happen, but the telegram brings a lookalike. The bizarre story, supposedly supported by hints Mand guitar masters have long known that Miles us something to dream about. This is a document, proof that on Beatles records and album covers, briefly gained world- Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to they had an idea to do an album.” The telegram raises more wide credibility. Its dark nature apparently prompted the record together in the year before Hendrix’s sudden death in questions than it answers. It’s not clear if McCartney was exasperated McCartney to retreat with his family to their 1970. But less attention has been paid to the bass player they even aware of the unusual, apparently impromptu invitation farm in Scotland. were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney, who was busy with It also came at a time when the Beatles were falling apart another band at the time. due to business and artistic conflicts that likely would have This tantalizing detail about the super group that never been exacerbated by McCartney appearing on a record with was - jazz standout Tony Williams would have been on Hendrix and Davis. McCartney was also still bound by a song- drums - is contained in an oft-overlooked telegram that writing partnership with John Lennon that might have fur- Hendrix sent to McCartney at The Beatles’ Apple Records in ther complicated the release of any McCartney-Hendrix- London on Oct 21, 1969. “We are recording and LP together Davis compositions. And then there is the question of what the proposed group would have sounded like. Davis was moving away from his jazz roots toward a fusion-based sound. He said in his autobiography that by 1968 he was lis- tening primarily to James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone and, particularly, Hendrix musicians joined by a love of syn- copated funk not found on Beatles’ tracks. It is not clear either how McCartney’s melodic, subtle bass playing would have made its presence felt in a band that included Hendrix’ guitar and Davis’ trumpet. “At first, though, it sounds really weird and off the wall. But on second thought it makes perfect, Hendrix-type sense to chuck in someone who’s a great musician but comes from a different tradition,” said Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray. “I regret this never actually took place... it would have been magnificent.” McCartney is the only one of the four musicians who is still alive. His spokesman, Stuart Bell, said the former Beatle is too busy on his world tour to comb his memory for his thoughts about a telegram sent more than four decades ago. In this 1970 file photo, Jimi Hendrix performs on the In his autobiography, Davis said he and Hendrix occasionally Isle of Wight in England. —AP jammed together at his apartment in New York City and tried to get into the studio to record but were hampered by finan- this weekend,” it says, complete with a typographical error. cial matters and by their busy schedules. Murray and others “How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas maintain that Davis wanted $50,000 up front to attend the 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams.” session. The telegram, advising McCartney to contact producer The Juilliard-trained trumpeter Davis described Hendrix, Douglas if he could make the session, has been part of the who learned his chops backing up the Isley Brothers and oth- Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia collection since it was pur- ers, as a self-taught “natural musician” who could not read chased at auction in 1995. Still it has only generated atten- music but was able to pick up complicated pieces in the blink tion in recent months with the successful release of “People, In this July 11, 1987 file photo, Miles Davis plays his of an eye. Davis says in the book that he and arranger Gil Hell & Angels,” expected to be the last CD of Hendrix’s studio trumpet during the annual North Sea Jazz Festival Evans were in Europe planning to record with Hendrix at the recordings. held in the Hague Netherlands. —AP time of his death in London. “It’s not something you hear about a lot,” Hard Rock histo- “What I didn’t understand is why nobody told him not to rian Jeff Nolan said of the telegram, now displayed at the to rush from his London base to New York for the planned mix alcohol and sleeping pills,” Davis wrote. Hendrix’s death restaurant in Prague. “Major Hendrix connoisseurs are aware session. Beatle aide Peter Brown replied on McCartney’s dashed their plans to record together, with or without of it. It would have been one of the most insane super- behalf, telling Hendrix the following day that McCartney was McCartney. Eddie Kramer, the engineer who produced most groups. These four cats certainly reinvented their instru- on vacation and not expected back for another two weeks. of Hendrix’s music, said there will always be speculation ments and the way they’re perceived.” French promoter and The invitation came at an extremely awkward moment for about what might have been. “I think it would have been Hendrix fanatic Yazid Manou, who has researched the the Beatles’ bassist. It was sent the same day a prominent phenomenal,” Kramer said. “Lord knows where it may have telegram, says it offers a glimpse of what might have been. New York City radio station gave wide exposure to a rumor gone; those huge egos in the studio at the same time! I would “It’s amazing because of the names of the people,” he that McCartney had died in a car crash and been replaced by have loved to have done that one. But it was not to be.” —AP SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Rapper Psy wows Harvard with global appeal

outh Korean rapper Psy said he “partied hard” when his dance number Sdrew its first 10 million views on YouTube last summer. Little did he know “Gangnam Style” would become the most-viewed video in the online service’s history, with a global following and nearly 1.6 billion views as of Thursday. “I partied hard to celebrate 10 million views!” Psy told about 1,000 people at Harvard University on Thursday evening, as he recalled his reaction when the song took off, making him a cultural phenomenon and leading to meetings with Los Angeles record producers. “This is so unrealistic!” he recalled thinking. Formally dressed and speaking in sometimes-halting English, Psy spoke for more than an hour and occasional- ly lapsed into signature dance moves such as grasping the reins of an imagi- nary trotting horse. Psy’s talk was partly a homecoming as he recalled his days as a student in Boston in the mid-1990s. But it was also a seminar about the star’s surprise worldwide cultural appeal and the economic influence of East Asian culture. Harvard professor Alexander Zahlten introduced Psy, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, as a global figure who has shown the ability of Korean music stars, video-game programmers and other entertainment figures to find over- seas popularity through Internet channels. “He’s a global citizen, and in turn influences people all over the world,” Zahlten said. “He’s deeply connected to digital culture.” After “Gangnam Style” set records, the video for Psy’s follow-up song “Gentleman” received more than 20 million hits in the first 24 hours after its release last month, easily beat- ing the previous record of 8 million views for Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend” in the first 24 hours. Psy, 35, told the audience at the Ivy League school that music trumps national divides. “Music makes everyone united,” he said. “Something beyond language.” At some performances, he said, “I’m so proud. The crowd doesn’t know what the lyrics are about, but they look so happy!” Later he said the word for “style” conveyed similar meanings in all languages, and that he wrote the lyrics for “Gentleman” hoping they would find a similar worldwide resonance. “Really , it was linguistics,” he said. Psy also poked fun at his own less-than-stellar academic record. He said his nickname in college was “WWF” for his grades, “withdraw, withdraw, fail.” He said he kept thinking big and poked fun at his robust midsection. “I dreamed someday, some Korean artist would be well-known in the US,” he said. “I Korean pop star Psy speaks in Memorial Church at Harvard University in Cambridge, Thursday, dreamed about it but didn’t dream that was me, because as you see I have a May 9, 2013. —AP very special body type.” —Reuters Life after Amelie: Audrey Tautou in Cannes spotlight udrey Tautou, this year’s Cannes Tautou told Girard in an interview for Le she appeared with Tom Hanks in the AFilm Festival mistress of cere- Figaro. Her tendency to immerse herself blockbuster “Da Vinci Code”. But Tautou monies, won hearts around the in roles meant she often saw her own has struggled to shake off her image as world-if not those of critics back home-as family almost as strangers during filming, the gamine from Montmartre. “The prob- the pixie-faced heroine of “The Fabulous said Tautou. lem for Audrey Tautou is that she is Destiny of Amelie Poulain”. Still wrestling “That’s why I don’t do more than two doomed to trail clouds of ‘Amelie’ wher- with the burden of that success and films a year and one day I will stop... per- ever she goes,” said US reviewer Anthony A file picture from the 65th Cannes film festival in famously ill at ease with the limelight, haps,” she said. Brought up in France’s Lane of her performance in 2009’s “Coco Tautou will be put to a radical test as the south-central Auvergne region, Tautou Before Chanel.” Cannes shows French actress Audrey Tautou posing frontwoman for the world’s most presti- enjoyed a sheltered childhood. Her par- “Those inky round eyes and that pixie as she arrives for the screening of the film “Therese gious movie festival. ents - a dental surgeon and a doctor- mug insure that hers are the features, Desqueyroux”. —AFP Raised in a quiet corner of rural turned-teacher - inculcated in Tautou poor thing, that social anthropologists France, Tautou has largely shunned and her two sisters and brother a respect will eternally reach for when asked to Hollywood and says she does not see for education and hard work. She devel- illustrate the term gamine.” Twelve years herself as a movie star. Her role at oped an interest in acting at school and after “Amelie”, attitudes appear to be soft- Wednesday’s night’s opening ceremony after passing her Baccalaureate, the ening at home. The Nouvel Observateur, Kate Upton will require her to put on the glitz and set French high-school diploma, asked her while stressing that it regarded “Amelie” aside self-effacement as she welcomes parents to send her to theatre summer as “unwatchable”, last month hinted that some of the biggest names in the indus- school. it saw Tautou’s recent choices in a more try, from Steven Spielberg to Nicole In 1999, she appeared in Tonie favourable light. “Therese Desqueyroux”, goes ‘Vogue’ Kidman. “Amelie”, in which a quirky Marshall’s “Venus Beauty”, picking up the an adaptation of Francois Mauriac’s 1927 ate Upton has gone from a Sports Illustrated swim- Montmartre waitress played by Tautou Cesar for most promising young actress novel with Tautou in the lead role, closed suit issue cover model to the front page of Vogue. decides to dedicate herself to helping at the following year’s French film Cannes last year. K Upton tells Vogue that runway modeling is “not others out, took over $173 million world- awards. Just one year later in 2001, she Her latest film “L’Ecume des Jours” what I set out to do” and that she desires to front a major wide and remains the highest-grossing was catapulted into the stratosphere about a woman whose illness can only be fashion campaign and maybe even launch her own lin- French-language film ever released in the with “Amelie”. Some French critics did treated surrounded by flowers has just gerie line. She also says she would like to continue acting. US. not mince their view that the film was been released in France. “In accepting the Upton has appeared in “The Three Stooges” and “Tower One recent interviewer, Isabelle shallower than a Paris puddle. Philippe role as maitresse de ceremonie and pre- Heist.” She’s also got a part in an upcoming film called Girard, concluded that although famous Lancon of the daily Liberation blasted the senting herself in more ambitious films,” “The Other Woman” starring Cameron Diaz and Leslie everywhere from “Hollywood to movie for transposing “Euro Disney to the weekly Nouvel Observateur said, “we Mann. Of her various goals she says, “I’m American - more Kyrgyzstan”, Tautou was a shrinking vio- Montmartre”. can hope that the second half of Tautou’s is more!” This week, Upton attended the annual Met Ball in let who took pleasure in making herself Stephen Frears’ “Dirty Pretty Things” career might flourish away from medioc- New York, which is hosted by Vogue. The Vogue June appear invisible. “Celebrity makes me and Cedric Klapisch’s “L’Auberge rity: to be more precious, rare and issue goes on sale May 21. —AP awkward. I am not comfortable with it,” Espagnole” followed in 2002 and in 2006, unique.” —AFP SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

Visitors look at an art made by piles of colorful scraped cars, entitled “2013 Rebirth” on display at an art zone renovated from an old factory in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province yesterday. —AP Hawn and Hudson talk mother-daughter beauty

hen Kate Hudson first burst onto the because we don’t want to lose our mother. It’s AP: Everyone talks about how you two look all of our features and they’re not alike. What scene with the movie “Almost a very, very interesting walk. alike. Do you see the resemblance? we do have is a way of being that is both very W Hudson: Hawn: Famous,” her uncanny resemblance I think when I had Rider I think I do. similar. Katie’s eyes are different. She looks to her mother Goldie Hawn had everybody that’s when you really start to see your parents Hudson: I used to say, ‘Why do people say more like my mother. It’s interesting how you talking. Hudson didn’t see it. But now that and connect with them in a different way and that? I look nothing like my mom’ but I some- can feel it’s in the DNA. Katie said it perfectly, she’s a mother herself - of two sons, Rider and you start to see yourself differently as to what times walk across a mirror and just get a she said, ‘Why does everybody always talk Bingham - the 34-year-old actress says she you put your parents through, you sort of glance and I see it. about this and that and us’ and she said, ‘What treasures the comparison. The mother-daugh- empathize. Hawn: We don’t really look alike. You take do you expect? I’m my mother’s daughter!’ ter pair - Hawn an Oscar winner for “Cactus Hudson: And you know what, I am damn Flower” and Hudson a nominee for “Almost proud of it! It’s a very repetitive question that I Famous” - has never acted together, but they get a lot in my life and it’s something that I feel teamed up for an Almay ad for Mother’s Day. the rarity of being in that position is I really In a discussion of motherhood and beauty, look at that as a real blessing because the rela- both said their glow comes from the inside. tionship between mother and daughter is very Hawn also said daily meditation allows her to complex and to be able to talk about the “connect to spirit.” “Growing up with my importance of the relationship is something mom there was always a sense of fun and it that I look forward to. It really informed such a comes down to optimism as well,” Hudson huge part of who I am and the confidence that said in an interview with The Associated Press. I have as a woman. It really does come from “When you learn how to be optimistic and the closeness that I have with mommy. Now as wake up in the morning and appreciate I get questions about mom it’s so much deep- things and create that in your brain, I think er and so much more complex that I look for- you start to have an enjoyment of life and it ward to sharing that more and more with peo- shows.” ple. AP: Now that Kate is an adult and a mom AP: What’s the best beauty advice you ever herself, has your relationship gone from par- received from your mother? ent and child to friends? Hudson: Beauty is an inside-out job and I Hawn: The truth is that no matter how old think when you are connected to the things we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we that you love, whether it be your children or want our mother. And it’s a very powerful your creativity, that they bring out a level of relationship if it’s healthy. I miss my mother This file photo shows actress Goldie Hawn (left) and her daughter Kate Hudson joy and circulate all the endorphins in your today. I think the transition does happen but I brain and then you have that, that’s when don’t think we ever lose our positioning at the premiere of “Nine” at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. —AP beauty starts to reveal itself. —AP SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

Models display creations by the designers’ collective Wayuu during the Bogota Fashion Week, in the Colombian capital. —AFP photos Bogota Fashion Week technology SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Investors challenge Dell takeover plan

NEW YORK: Dell’s largest independent focused on shareholders’ best interests the letter states. “Do not make another by unhappiness with Michael Dell’s offer shareholder has teamed with activist while accepting Dell’s offer to buy the putting the company through an unneces- shortly after the company announced it in investor Carl Icahn in another challenge to company at a price “far below what we sary debilitating proxy fight. “Allow the early February. In a letter to Dell’s board of founder Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion bid to consider its value to be.” shareholders to decide for themselves directors, Southeastern CEO O. Mason take the struggling computer maker pri- “You not only sanctioned Michael Dell’s which offer they choose.” If the company Hawkins warned he would lead a share- vate. Southeastern Asset Management and offer, which amazingly allows him to pur- fails to give shareholders a choice, it will holder mutiny unless the company came Icahn said in a letter sent Thursday to the chase the company from shareholders with face “legal liability,” the letter threatened in up with an alternative. A competing bid Dell Inc. board that they want to let share- their own money but, to add insult to all capital letters. Dell spokesman David from buyout specialist Blackstone Group holders keep their stock and give them injury, you have agreed to give Mr. Dell a Frink said a special committee of the com- LP then emerged, and Icahn also made a either $12 per share in cash or additional break-up fee of up to $450 million,” the let- pany’s board is reviewing the letter from preliminary proposal to buy 58 percent of shares in a deal that keeps the company ter states. Southeastern and Icahn said Icahn and Southeastern. Dell stock for $15 per share. But Blackstone publicly traded. They said this would give they own about 13 percent of the compa- PC sales have been declining as people said last month that it had dropped its plan shareholders a stake in future gains made ny’s outstanding shares. They said that if delay replacing desktop and laptop com- to buy most of Dell’s outstanding stock for by the Round Rock, Texas, company. An the board does not deem their offer superi- puters and spend money instead on smart- $14.25 per share due in part to the slump- investment group led by Michael Dell or, they will work “assiduously” to convince phones and tablet computers. Michael Dell ing PC market. The Wall Street Journal also offered earlier this year to pay $13.65 per the other shareholders to reject Michael believes he can turn around the company reported that Icahn was unlikely to follow share in a deal that would take the compa- Dell’s bid. They also would nominate a by diversifying into more profitable niches through on his preliminary offer. Icahn did ny private. Southeastern and Icahn criti- dozen directors at the company’s annual such as business software, data storage not mention his preliminary proposal in cized that proposal in a scathing letter to meeting to challenge the current board. and consulting. The company founder the May 9 letter. Dell shares climbed 5 Dell’s board outlining their latest offer. The “This company has suffered long wants to do this without worrying about cents to $13.37 yesterday before markets letter accused the Dell board of insulting enough from very wrong-headed decisions Wall Street’s fixation on short-term results. opened. The stock has ranged from $8.69 shareholder intelligence by claiming to be made by the Board and its management,” But major shareholders expressed their to $15.81 over the past year. — AP Wearable robots turn lighter, more portable ‘Powered exoskeletons’ tested in hospitals

CHICAGO: When Michael Gore stands, it’s for example, for a paralyzed person to they are refined. The Indego was invented a triumph of science and engineering. walk across a street before the light at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Eleven years ago, Gore was paralyzed from changes, said Arun Jayaraman of the tested at the Shepherd Center, a rehabili- the waist down in a workplace accident, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, who is tation hospital in Atlanta. It’s now licensed yet he rises from his wheelchair to his full testing a number of similar devices. to Cleveland-based Parker Hannifin Corp, 6-foot-2-inches and walks across the room “None of them have fall prevention which makes precision engineered prod- NEW YORK: Joshua Knoller, an account manager with with help from a lightweight wearable technology,” Jayaraman said. “If the per- ucts like aircraft wheels and brakes. Like Nicholas & Lence Communications, looks at the robot. The technology has many nick- Facebook page of his mother, Rochelle Knoller of Fair names. Besides “wearable robot,” the Lawn, NJ, on his office computer, in New York. — AP inventions also are called “electronic legs” or “powered exoskeletons.” This version, More than just called Indego, is among several compet- ing products being used and tested in US rehab hospitals that hold promise not only a mother, now for people such as Gore with spinal injuries, but also those recovering from she’s your ‘friend’ strokes or afflicted with multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. osh Knoller, a young professional in New York City, spent Still at least a year away from the mar- years refusing his mother’s “Friend Request” on ket, the 27-pound Indego is the lightest of JFacebook before, eventually, “caving in.” Today they the powered exoskeletons. It snaps have an agreement: she’ll try not to make embarrassing com- together from pieces that fit into a back- ments, and he can delete them if she does. “We actually got pack. The goal is for the user to be able to into some pretty big fights over this,” says Knoller, 29. “I love carry it on a wheelchair, put it together, my Mom to death but she’s a crazy, sweet mother and I was a strap it on and walk independently. None little worried about what she might post in front of my clos- of the products, including the Indego, are est friends.” yet approved by federal regulators for per- As Mother’s Day approaches, 1 in 3 mothers are connect- sonal use, meaning they must be used ed with their teens over Facebook, according to the social under the supervision of a physical thera- networking giant’s review of how users self-identify. With pist. more than 1 billion Facebook users, that’s a lot of mothers Gore, 42, of Whiteville, NC, demonstrat- and kids keeping in touch through social media, says ed the device this week at the American CHICAGO: In this photo, Michael Gore (center) who is paralyzed from a Fordham University communications professor Paul Spinal Injury Association meeting in spinal injury, walks with the use of the Indego wearable robot under the Levinson, author of “New New Media.” “Facebook has been a Chicago, successfully negotiating a noisy, supervision of physical therapist Clare Hartigan during a meeting of the boon to family relationships,” said Levinson. crowded hallway of medical professionals American Spinal Injury Association at a downtown hotel. — AP Kelly McBride, an assistant professor of communications at and people with spinal injuries in wheel- LaSalle University in Philadelphia, says her students who chairs. When he leans forward, the device son falls, they can hurt themselves badly. If many other research participants in clini- “friend” their mothers keep their Facebook pages benign, takes a first step. When he tilts from side to you fall down, how do you get off a robot cal studies, Gore receives a stipend for his using other social media like Instagram or Twitter for the racy side, it walks. When Gore wants to stop, he that is strapped into you?” They need to participation from Vanderbilt University. stuff. “They may be willing to ‘friend’ their mother, but when leans back and the robotic leg braces be even lighter and have longer-lasting It’s unclear exactly how much the they do, they take down the drinking or partying or sugges- come to a halt. Gore uses forearm crutches batteries, he said. Still, Jayaraman said, the devices will cost if they become available tive photographs,” she says. for balance. A battery in the hip piece devices might help prevent pressure sores for personal use. Some technology news McBride says she’d like to get her own mother, who is 77, powers the motors in the robotic legs. from sitting too long in a wheelchair, media reports have said $50,000 to onto Facebook. “I’ve offered repeatedly to make her a “Being able to speak with you eye-to- improve heart health, develop muscle $75,000. Indego’s makers want to bring Facebook page so I could friend her, but she just won’t do it,” eye is just a big emotional boost,” Gore strength, lift depression and ultimately the cost below that, said co-inventor Ryan she says. Parenting expert Susan Newman recommends that said to a reporter. “Being able to walk up bring down medical costs by keeping Farris of Parker Hannifin. Experts say it will mothers wait until their children are independent adults to you and say hello is not a big thing until healthier patients out of the hospital. take years of research to prove health ben- before friending them. “Being a friend with your son or you cannot do it.” The devices won’t Companies in New Zealand and efits before Medicare and private insur- daughter on Facebook, to me is synonymous with reading replace wheelchairs, which are faster. California make competing devices, and all ance companies would consider covering your teenager’s diary,” she says. — AP None of the devices are speedy enough, the products are becoming less bulky as the expense.—AP technology SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 YouTube’s pay channels go from campy to kids YouTube catches up with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon

LOS ANGELES: Roger Corman’s campy B time is now.” YouTube will keep slightly tries would have taken a long time,” Hirsh movies, children’s shows like “Sesame less than half of the revenue generated by said. Doing it with YouTube takes just a Street” and “Inspector Gadget,” and inspi- the subscriptions. Corman’s wife and pro- “metaphorical flip of a switch.” rational monologues by celebrities - these ducing partner Julie Corman said they As is the case with free videos on are among the offerings on 30 channels were taken aback at YouTube’s potential YouTube, the pay channels will be avail- that will soon require a paid monthly sub- after a clip of their 2010 movie able for viewing on computers, mobile Dan Smith scription on YouTube. Although the “Sharktopus” went viral with 11 million devices and Internet-connected TVs. world’s largest video site has rented and Hidden security sold movies and TV shows from major stu- dios since late 2008, most people watch threat: Multi videos on YouTube for free. It’s the first time YouTube is introducing all-you-can- function printers watch channels that require a monthly fee. n March 2008, an attack known as an SQL injection was The least expensive of the channels will used to install spyware on Heartland Payment Systems’ cost 99 cents a month but the average Inetwork, exposing 134 million credit and debit cards. The price is around $2.99. vulnerability to SQL injection was well understood; security In the field of paid video content analysts had warned retailers about it for several years. Yet, online, YouTube is playing catch up to the continuing vulnerability of Web-facing applications made services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, all SQL injection one of the most common forms of attack of which have millions of paying cus- against websites at the time. tomers. But with a billion monthly visitors Fast forward to 2011, when a massive breach of Sony’s from around the globe, the Google-owned PlayStation Network led to 77 million accounts being hacked video service hopes to quickly add sub- and millions of dollars in lost revenue for Sony. Hackers scribers and add to the money it already gained entry via a hole in the network that had been open for makes from online advertising. “This is just quite some time, even though analysts continually recom- the beginning,” said Malik Ducard, mended identifying and applying security controls consis- YouTube’s director of content partner- tently across the entire organization. ships. The site plans to roll out a way for a What’s notable about these attacks - as well as many oth- broad number of partners to also launch pay channels on their own soon. LOS ANGELES: In this photo, producer Roger Corman poses in his Los ers - is the fact that there were many warnings about the Angeles office. — AP potential vulnerabilities in these networks, but nothing was Corman, a producer and director done until it was too late. So here’s a warning for 2013: it’s whose influential cult classics like views. If even 1 percent of those viewers People who are accustomed to watching time to take multifunction printer security seriously. “Deathrace 2000” and “Piranha” earned signed up for a subscription, it would videos for free on YouTube are in for a According to InfoTrends, there are almost 30 million print- him an honorary Oscar in 2009, said he’s amount to a healthy revenue stream, she slightly new experience. When viewers ers and multifunction devices in offices and homes through- kept his 400-film library off of video said. stumble upon a video requiring payment, out the US and Western Europe, and most are connected to a streaming sites until now. In an interview “The numbers are astonishing. We’re they’ll get a free preview up to 2 minutes network. This means they are just as susceptible to malware with The Associated Press, he said he waiting for the fireworks display,” she said. long before being asked to subscribe. and hacker attacks as PCs -but for a variety of reasons they turned down an offer from Hulu for about DHX Media Ltd, a Canadian company that Each channel comes with a 14-day free are often overlooked by IT professionals and used without $5,000 to $6,000 per film several years owns the rights to 8,500 episodes of chil- trial, but customers have to enter their proper safeguards by employees. To further this point, con- ago, but sees promise in the YouTube dren’s TV shows, is launching three paid credit card information through Google sider these telling findings. A recent Xerox-McAfee study offering. His channel, “Corman’s Drive-in,” YouTube channels, two for different age Wallet if they haven’t already. Several revealed that more than half (54 percent) of employees say will cost subscribers $3.99 per month for a categories and one called “DHX Retro” channels offer discounts on the monthly they don’t always follow their company’s IT security policies. rotating selection of 30 movies, refreshed that replays old programs such as fee with an annual subscription, and some Also, half (51 percent) of those employees whose workplace with new interviews and clips from films “Inspector Gadget” and “Archie’s Weird include features on top of access to has a printer, copier or MFP say they’ve copied, scanned or that are in production. It is set to launch in Mysteries.” It plans to launch in 10 coun- videos. Big Think, a New York-based maker printed confidential information at work. June. tries and seven languages - something of educational videos, will give subscribers “I believed for many years that the that is much easier online than over tradi- who pay $2.99 a month access to videos of Sounds familiar? future of motion picture distribution, par- tional cable or satellite networks, accord- luminaries like Malcolm Gladwell, but also The study goes on to say that more than half (54 percent) ticularly for the independents, is on the ing to DHX executive chairman Michael provide live question-and-answer sessions think computers pose the biggest security threat to their Internet,” the 87-year-old said. “I think the Hirsh. “Clearing a channel across 10 coun- of an hour or more with experts.—AP company’s network compared to other IT devices, while only 6 percent say it is MFPs. This small percentage is proof that employees simply do not realize their office MFPs really are true networked devices that behave the same way their PCs do - and have similar vulnerabilities. Pair these stats with the fact that the average organizational cost of a data breach is $5.5 Million and you have a pretty strong argument for taking this warning seriously. But I know what you’re thinking: none of those massive breaches are possible through an MFP, right? Wrong. Just about anyone can launch full-scale attacks against a network and a company’s information assets through an MFP if its physical and electronic access points aren’t securely con- trolled and protected. Those attacks can be as simple as someone picking up documents left in the MFP’s output tray, to malicious worms pulling sensitive documents off the net- work. Consider this example of hacking the network through an MFP: Today’s combination of mobile workers, cloud print- ing and the continuing penetration of Android-based person- al devices make it possible for an attacker to create a malware app that infects the mobile device, opportunistically attaches itself to a cloud print job, gets downloaded to a networked MFP, and from there infects the entire enterprise network, completely bypassing firewall and intrusion detection con- trols. In this case, it’s complexity that creates the vulnerability. There is also the issue of something called device decom- missioning. Enterprise MFPs handle large volumes of data NEW DELHI: Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Stephen Elop displays a Nokia Asha 501 mobile phone during its and have integrated disk drives. launch in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Nokia unveiled the first of a new family of Asha smartphones with the Nokia Asha 501 priced at $99. — AP TV listings SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

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Farm 02:25 Dastardly And Muttley 19:40 Taz-Mania 00:30 Patent Bending 10:40 Code: 9 02:50 Dastardly And Muttley 20:05 Taz-Mania 00:15 Wheeler Dealers 00:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 01:00 The Future Of... 11:05 Cheetah Girls 2 03:00 Dexter’s Laboratory 20:30 The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo 01:10 Wheeler Dealers: Trading Up 01:20 A Haunting 01:50 The Colony 12:35 A.N.T. Farm 03:30 Wacky Races 20:55 The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo 02:05 Fifth Gear 02:05 Scorned: Crimes Of Passion 02:45 Tech Toys 360 13:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place 03:55 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries 21:20 Tom And Jerry Tales 03:00 Mythbusters 02:55 Most Evil 03:10 Tech Toys 360 13:45 Good Luck Charlie 04:20 Tom & Jerry 22:10 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries 03:55 Border Security 03:45 I Almost Got Away With It 03:35 The Future Of... 14:10 That’s So Raven 04:45 The Garfield Show 22:35 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries 04:20 Auction Hunters 04:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 04:25 Superships 14:35 A.N.T. Farm 05:00 Bananas In Pyjamas 23:00 Moomins 04:50 Storage Hunters 05:20 A Haunting 05:15 The Gadget Show 14:55 Code: 9 05:25 Gerald McBoing Boing 23:50 Duck Dodgers 05:15 How Machines Work 06:10 Nightmare Next Door 05:40 How Tech Works 15:20 Shake It Up 05:45 Jelly Jamm 05:40 How It’s Made 07:00 Mystery Diagnosis 06:05 Prophets Of Science Fiction 15:45 Austin And Ally 06:00 Ha Ha Hairies 06:05 Sons Of Guns 07:50 Street Patrol 07:00 James May’s Man Lab 16:10 Jessie 06:25 Baby Looney Tunes 07:00 Magic Of Science 08:15 Street Patrol 07:50 X-Machines 16:35 A.N.T. Farm 06:50 Cartoonito Tales 07:25 Magic Of Science 08:40 Real Emergency Calls 08:40 The Gadget Show 17:00 Go Figure 07:15 Krypto: The Super Dog 07:50 You Have Been Warned 09:05 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 00:00 Private Crimes 09:05 How Tech Works 18:30 Wizards Of Waverly Place 07:40 Lazytown 08:45 Mythbusters 09:30 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones 00:30 Peace, Love And Murder: The 09:30 Superships 18:55 Code: 9 08:05 Gerald McBoing Boing 09:40 Mythbusters 10:20 Murder Shift Ira... 10:25 Superships 19:20 Jessie 08:30 Bananas In Pyjamas 10:30 Bear Grylls’ Wild Weekend 11:10 Disappeared 01:30 Gangland 11:20 Superships 19:40 Shake It Up 08:55 Jelly Jamm 11:25 Bear Grylls’ Wild Weekend 12:00 Mystery Diagnosis 02:30 Psychic Detectives 12:10 Superships 20:05 Austin And Ally 09:20 Ha Ha Hairies 12:20 Yukon Men 12:50 Street Patrol 03:00 Evil Up Close 13:00 Superships 20:30 Wizards Of Waverly Place 09:45 Baby Looney Tunes 13:15 Yukon Men 13:15 Street Patrol 04:00 Private Crimes 13:50 Patent Bending 20:50 Wizards Of Waverly Place 10:10 Cartoonito Tales 14:10 Yukon Men 13:40 Forensic Detectives 04:30 Private Crimes 14:20 The Gadget Show 21:15 Jessie 10:35 Krypto: The Super Dog 15:05 Yukon Men 14:30 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones 05:00 Crime Stories 14:45 How Tech Works 21:40 Hannah Montana 11:00 Lazytown 16:00 Yukon Men 15:20 Real Emergency Calls 06:00 Crime Town USA 15:10 X-Machines 22:00 Jonas 11:25 Ha Ha Hairies 16:55 Yukon Men 15:45 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 06:30 Crime Town USA 16:00 Unchained Reaction 22:25 Sonny With A Chance 11:50 Gerald McBoing Boing 17:50 Wheeler Dealers: Trading Up 16:10 Disappeared 07:00 Psychic Detectives 16:55 Space Pioneer 22:50 Sonny With A Chance TV listings SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

17:00 Murder Shift 14:00 True Justice: Urban Warfare-PG15 10:00 Cougar Town 16:00 Smallville Wings-FAM 17:50 Forensic Detectives 15:45 Deadly Hope-PG15 10:30 Samantha Who? 18:00 C.S.I. New York 06:00 A Mother’s Choice-PG15 18:40 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones 17:30 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon- 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 19:00 The Glades 08:00 Project Nim-PG15 19:30 Disappeared 20:15 House Of The Rising Sun-18 12:00 Arrested Development 20:00 Criminal Minds 10:00 Austin Powers In Goldmember 20:20 Nightmare Next Door 00:00 World’s Deadliest 22:00 Nick Of Time-PG15 12:30 Seinfeld 21:00 The Mob Doctor 12:00 Big Miracle-PG 21:10 Couples Who Kill 01:00 World’s Wildest Encounters 23:45 The Shining-R 13:00 Til Death 22:00 Sons Of Anarchy 14:00 Valentina-FAM 22:00 Deadly Affairs 01:55 Untamed Americas 13:30 Samantha Who? 16:00 Project Nim-PG15 22:50 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 02:50 World’s Deadliest Animals 14:00 Friends 18:00 The Beaver-PG15 23:15 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 03:45 Maneater Manhunt 14:30 Cougar Town 20:00 My Week With Marilyn-PG15 04:40 Bite Me With Dr. Mike Leahy 23:40 On The Case With Paula Zahn 01:30 The Vow-PG15 15:00 Go On 00:15 The Keeper 22:00 Hanna-PG15 05:35 Warrior Bees 03:15 The Wild Thornberrys Movie-PG 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 02:00 Piranha 3DD 06:30 Fish Warrior 05:00 Marion Jones: Press Pause-PG15 16:00 The Colbert Report 04:00 Bunraku 07:25 Monster Fish 06:00 Muhammad And Larry-PG15 16:30 Arrested Development 06:15 Season Of The Witch 08:20 Salmon Wars 07:00 Warbirds-PG15 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 08:00 Thor 09:15 World’s Deadliest Animals 09:00 The Vow-PG15 18:00 Breaking In 10:00 True Justice: Urban Warfare 02:00 Trans World Sport 10:10 Built For The Kill 5 01:45 Raging Bull 11:00 Extremely Loud & Incredibly 18:30 Happy Endings 11:45 Green Lantern: Emerald Knights 03:00 NRL Premiership 11:05 Mother Croc 03:50 Sometimes They Come Back Close-PG 19:00 The Neighbors 13:15 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 05:00 NRL Premiership 12:00 The incredible Dr. pol 05:25 Pope Of Greenwich Village 13:15 Spooky Buddies-PG 19:30 The Office 16:00 True Justice: Urban Warfare 07:00 Live AFL Premiership 13:00 Untamed Americas 07:25 The Good Wife 15:00 A Separation-PG15 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 17:45 Deadly Hope 10:00 Trans World Sport 14:00 World’s Deadliest Animals 09:00 Bananas 17:15 The Speed Of Thought-PG15 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 19:30 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 11:00 ICC Cricket 360 15:00 Maneater Manhunt 10:20 A Funny Thing Happened... 19:00 On The Inside-PG15 21:30 The Colbert Report 22:15 House Of The Rising Sun 11:30 Live Super Rugby 16:00 Dolphin Army Forum 21:00 The Five Year Engagement-18 22:00 Saturday Night Live 13:30 Live Super Rugby 17:00 World’s Deadliest Continent (AKA 11:55 The Private Life Of Sherlock 23:15 Pariah-18 23:00 Legit 15:30 Trans World Sport Australia’s Deadl Holmes 23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 16:30 Futbol Mundial 17:30 World’s Deadliest Continent (AKA 14:00 Lights! Action! Music! 17:00 Live Super Rugby Australia’s Deadl 00:00 Venus And Vegas-PG15 15:00 A Dog’s Breakfast 19:00 Super Rugby 18:00 Maneater Manhunt 02:00 Analyze This-PG15 16:30 What’s New Pussycat? 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 21:00 Live PGA Tour 19:00 World’s Deadliest 04:00 Smooch-PG15 18:20 In The Time Of The Butterflies 01:00 The Colbert Report 00:00 Breakout Kings 20:00 Untamed Americas 06:00 Hop-PG 19:55 Mgm’s Big Screen 01:30 George Lopez: It’s Not Me It’s You 01:00 Survivor: Caramoan 21:00 World’s Deadliest Animals 08:00 Police Academy 7: Mission To 20:10 Number One 02:30 Legit 02:00 Smash 22:00 Maneater Manhunt Moscow-PG15 22:00 The Visitors 03:00 Breaking In 03:00 Treme 00:00 WWE SmackDown 23:00 Dolphin Army 10:00 The Smurfs-PG 23:25 The Taking Of Pelham 123 03:30 Friends 04:00 American Idol 02:00 Super Rugby 12:00 Smooch-PG15 04:00 Seinfeld 05:00 Smash 04:00 PGA Tour the Players 14:00 Arthur-PG15 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 06:00 Breakout Kings Championship 16:00 The Smurfs-PG 05:30 Til Death 07:00 Smallville 10:30 Live NRL Premiership 00:00 Piranha 3DD-R 18:00 The Year Dolly Parton Was My 06:00 Arrested Development 08:00 C.S.I. New York 12:30 Live NRL Premiership 02:00 Bunraku-18 Mom-PG 06:30 Samantha Who? 09:00 Glee 14:30 Futbol Mundial 00:45 International Open House 04:15 Season Of The Witch-PG15 20:00 Bad Teacher-18 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 10:00 American Idol 15:15 ICC Cricket 360 01:40 Earth Tripping 06:00 Thor-PG15 22:00 How To Make Love To A Woman 08:00 Seinfeld 11:00 Survivor: Caramoan 02:35 David Rocco‚s Dolce Vita 08:00 True Justice: Urban Warfare-PG15 15:45 Live Top 14 08:30 Til Death 12:00 Smallville 03:30 Market Values 09:45 Green Lantern: Emerald Knights- 18:00 AFL Premiership 09:00 Breaking In 14:00 C.S.I. New York 04:25 Somewhere In China PG15 20:30 Inside The PGA Tour 09:30 Go On 15:00 Breakout Kings 05:20 On Surfari 11:15 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon- 21:00 Super Rugby 05:45 On Surfari 01:00 Mad Bastards-PG15 23:00 Super Rugby 06:15 Roam 03:00 Swing Kids-PG15 06:40 Graham’s World 05:00 You And Me-PG15 07:10 Extreme Tourist Afghanistan 07:00 Paws-PG 08:05 On Hannibal’s Trail 08:45 Departures-PG15 00:00 Trans World Sport 08:30 Treks In A Wild World 11:00 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance 01:00 Pro 12 09:00 Deadly Arts Kid-PG 03:00 Total Rugby 09:55 Don’t Tell My Mother 13:00 The Way-PG15 03:30 AFL Premiership 10:50 International Open House 15:15 Departures-PG15 06:00 Golfing World 11:15 International Open House 17:30 The Conspirator-PG15 07:00 Pro 12 11:45 Earth Tripping 19:30 S. Darko-PG15 09:00 Top 14 12:10 Earth Tripping 21:15 The End Of The Affair-18 11:00 Total Rugby 13:35 Market Values 23:15 Roadie-18 11:30 Trans World Sport 14:00 Market Values 12:30 Live AFL Premiership 14:30 Somewhere In China 15:00 Asian Tour Golf Show 15:25 Scam City 16:00 Total Rugby 16:20 On Hannibal’s Trail 01:15 Toyz Goin’ Wild 16:30 Live Rugby League Challenge 16:45 Treks In A Wild World 02:45 Quest For A Heart Cup 17:15 Deadly Arts 04:15 The Lucky Dragon 18:30 NRL Premiership 18:10 Don’t Tell My Mother 06:00 Cinderella II: Dreams Come True 20:30 Trans World Sport 19:05 On Surfari 08:00 Emperor’s Secret 21:30 Live Pro 12 19:30 On Surfari 10:00 Treasure Buddies 23:30 AFL Premiership 20:00 Roam 11:30 Happy Feet Two 20:30 Graham’s World 13:15 The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2 21:00 Extreme Tourist Afghanistan 14:45 Scooby-Doo! Music Of The 22:00 Scam City Vampire 00:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 22:55 My Sri Lanka With Peter Kuruvita 16:15 Mandie And The Secret Tunnel 00:30 WWE SmackDown 23:20 My Sri Lanka With Peter Kuruvita 18:00 Treasure Buddies 02:30 WWE Bottom Line 23:50 Don’t Tell My Mother 20:00 Brave 03:30 Ping Pong World 22:00 The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2 04:30 US Bass Fishing 05:00 NHL 07:00 WWE SmackDown 09:00 WWE Bottom Line 10:00 WWE Vintage Collection 00:00 Blowdown 00:15 Bel Ami-18 11:00 UAE National Race Day Series 01:00 Race To The Bottom of The Earth 02:00 Battle For Terra-PG 12:00 PGA Tour 02:00 Search For The Super Snake 03:30 This Means War-PG15 18:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 03:00 Naked Science 05:30 Mission: Impossible - Ghost 19:00 European Le Mans Series 04:00 Dangerous Encounters Protocol-PG15 20:00 NHL 05:00 Pirate Patrol 07:45 Unmatched-PG15 22:00 WWE SmackDown 06:00 Great Migrations 09:00 Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax-PG 07:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 10:45 Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of 08:00 Blowdown Shadows-PG15 09:00 Race To The Bottom of The Earth 13:00 Into The Wind-PG15 TCM01:35 The Gypsy Moths 10:00 Search For The Super Snake 14:00 A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A 03:20 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore- 11:00 Naked Science Song-PG 18 12:00 Dangerous Encounters 16:00 Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax-PG 05:10 Key Largo-PG 13:00 Pirate Patrol 18:00 The Big Year-PG 07:05 San Quentin-PG 14:00 Great Migrations 20:00 The Girl-PG15 08:20 Red Dust-FAM 15:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 22:00 J. Edgar-18 09:45 Giant-PG 16:00 Blowdown 13:00 A Star Is Born-FAM 17:00 Bones of the Buddha 16:00 Dark Victory-PG 18:00 In The Womb 17:45 The Barretts Of Wimpole Street- 19:00 Wild Russia 00:00 Amphibious-18 19:30 Ice Station Zebra-FAM 20:00 Caught In The Act 02:00 Big Miracle-PG 22:00 Brass Target-PG 21:00 Breakout PARIAH ON OSN CINEMA 04:00 Tinker Bell And The Secret Of The WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

The English Madrasa conducts Sports 2013 he English Madrasa for Islamic Studies conducted its first TSports event at the Rawda Public Garden. The function started off with the recitation from the Quran by Abdul Rahman Ameer followed by the presidential address by the Madrasa Principal Faisal Manjeri. Under the guidance of the Sports convener Sameer Mohammed the competitions were conducted among the Students from various age groups who competed under 9 different categories. Various sports items included 100M race, 50M race, Lemon and Spoon race, tug of war, 100M walking, water filling, ball throw, musical chair and long jump. Prizes were distributed to the various winners by Fareedudheen (PTA President), Mohammed Khaled (PTA ‘Cinderella Rockerfella’ at KNES Secretary), Mohammed Saleem (PTA Treasurer), Zahida Azghar (PTA Member), Faisal Manjeri (Principal), Anwar Saed uwait National English School (KNES) students from dition was born! (KIG Gen. Sec.), Ansar Moideen, Ashraf Vaakath, Warda Anwar years 7 and 8 recently took to the stage to give an This was the first time any of the students had ever per- (IWA President) and other dignitaries present at the gathering. K excellent performance of “Cinderella Rockerfella” - a formed on stage and it proved to be a very positive experi- The individual championships in their respective age modern take on the traditional Cinderella story in pan- ence, summed up by this quote from one of the students: groups were bagged by: Ahyan Irfan - Junior Kids, tomime form. The students sang, danced and acted their “I’m so sad it had to end. I loved the whole cast and all the Mohammed Abdul Wahid - Kids Boys, Afeefah - Kids Girls, hearts out to the great appreciation of the whole audience rehearsals together. I couldn’t ask for a better cast or play. Hajara Ashiq - Sub Junior Girls, Ikhtiarudheen - Sub Junior including the school’s director Madame Chantal Al- We were one big happy family and it was the best experi- Boys, Ayisha Imran - Junior Girls, Ahmed Faad - Junior Boys, Gharabally. All the hard work paid off and a new school tra- ence ever!” Firas Faisal - Senior Boys and Laila Sameeha - Senior Girls. Various sport events such as 100M walking, 100M race, lemon and spoon and tug of war were also conducted for the par- ents. The overall championship cup was awarded to the Green group.

Announcements

The TIES Center’s ‘trip’ he TIES Center cordially invites those who are inter- Tested in its trip to the Historical, Vintage and Classic Car Museum, which is the first museum in Kuwait spe- cializing in old cars on May 30th at 6:00 pm. Revisit past memories or learn something new. If you love cars then this is the trip for you. Even if you don’t love cars, come anyway; you will enjoy the trip. For more information/regis- tration, log onto: www.tiescenter.net.

Basketball Academy he new Premier Basketball Academy offers coaching Tand games every Friday and Saturday from 10 am onwards for 6 to 18 year olds, boys and girls. Located in Bayan Block 7, Masjed Al-Aqsa Street by Abdullah Al- Rujaib High School. Free Basketball and Tee Shirts for all participants, with certificates and special awards on com- pletion of each 6 week course. Qualified and experienced British and American Coaches, Everyone Welcome.

KPFA honored by Kuwait Red Crescent Society

akistan Friendship Association (KPFA) was recently Phonored by the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) for its tremendous contribution in promoting the brotherly relations among the two nations and working closely with KRCS in times of any calamity in Pakistan. The appreciation certificate was received by the President of KPFA Rana Ijaza and Executive Council member Khalid Amin from the Vice Chairman of KRCS Yousaf Al Maraaj who pre- sented the certificate on behalf of KRCS Chairman Barjes Humoud Al Barjes. KPFA President also presented the badge of KPFA to Yousaf as a memento. WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Embassy Information

EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: info.aus- [email protected] (VFS) [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 ICSK Junior celebrates (Visa Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, nursery graduation day Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, t was a nursery graduation day with sang “What a wonderful world”. ment and appreciation, quoted that Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: Ia difference in ICSK Junior Branch A scintillating dance performance every child is divine and it was our 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their on April 24, 2013, when the cur- by the tiny tots brought the house duty to help them achieve their website www.vfs-au-gcc-com for more informa- tains opened at the ICSK Senior down as the children showed their dreams. He expressed great happiness tion. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas Auditorium. Keeping in mind that dancing abilities. There were thunder- in seeing these tiny tots graduate and on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm. April 22nd was Earth Day, everything ous applause of “Once More!” make their way up the academic lad- ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ about the event was planned with a resounded in the auditorium, proving der. specific purpose. The backdrop that given proper training and motiva- While presenting a memento to EMBASSY OF CANADA showed the caption, “Save the Earth”. tion, small children can amaze us. Master Steve Sunil, Mr Vijay Karayil, The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does A special globe which glowed with Students with 100% attendance were Honorary Secretary to the Board of not have a visa or immigration depart- light and a lighted tree were the cen- honoured with mementos. Master Trustees appreciated the creativity in ment. All processing of visa and immi- tre of attraction and the programme Shawn delivered the vote of thanks children and said that the manage- gration matters including enquiries is conduct- was a celebration of life on earth. The with the clarity and confidence of a ment would always encourage any ed by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, backdrop was a combination of draw- practised speaker. effort to identify such talents in the UAE. Individuals who are interested in working, ings of a six year old artist, Master Steve Sunil and the event was a dedi- studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada cation to Earth Day. should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu The traditional lighting of the lamp Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.going- inaugurated the programme. This was tocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi-im- followed by a dance by the little boys [email protected]. The Embassy of and girls dressed in their traditional Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, wear welcoming the audience, carry- Block 4 in Da’aiyah. Please visit our website at ing small lighted lamps. www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is The Principal Incharge Mrs. Gayatri open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through Ravindran spoke in her welcome Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to speech how this programme was 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens planned with a difference. She said are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday that the seed of greatness lies in each through Wednesday. child and it is our responsibility to nur- ture that seed and help it to grow. She ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ also said that by celebrating music, EMBASSY OF CYPRUS dance and colours small children In its capacity as EU Local Presidency in the State become aware of a form of Mother of Kuwait, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Earth - Life. And in a special message on behalf of the Member States of the EU and to take care of the environment, the The Chief Guest Ashok Kalra, students. associated States participating in the Schengen dignitaries were presented with Honorary Chairman to the Board of The program was attended by Mr cooperation, would like to announce that as from 2nd saplings as ‘Gifts of Life’. Trustees, said in his speech that ICSK is Dinesh Kamath, Honorary Treasurer October 2012 all Schengen States’ Consulates in Kuwait A dance drama was presented on filled with talented children who just and Dr Kamlesh Kumari, Honorary will use the Visa Information System (VIS). The VIS is a cen- unity in diversity and how if we come need an opportunity to show what Joint Secretary, PAC Representatives tral database for the exchange of data on short-stay (up to together as one, we can make many they are capable of. He was amazed at Mr George Mathew of Junior Branch, three months) visas between Schengen States. The main changes in our lives. This was fol- the performance of the small children Mr Mughal Akbar of Amman Branch, objectives of the VIS are to facilitate visa application pro- lowed by a fashion parade, where stu- who completely stole the show. He Mr Ninan Joseph of Khaitan Branch, cedures and checks at external border as well as to dents dressed up as trees, flowers, also assured the parents that ICSK was Principals and Vice Principals of all the enhance security. The VIS will contain all the Schengen their favourite cartoon characters and committed to identify and nurture the branches and PAC members of Junior visa applications lodged by an applicant over five years professionals. They were ushered in talents of students and for every tal- Branch. and the decisions taken by any Schengen State’s con- by talented young comperes of ICSK ented student who leaves the school A special photo session of the sulate. This will allow applicants to establish more easily Junior, Diya and Shivani. Little after completing his/her studies, there young graduates in their gowns and the lawful use of previous visas and their bona fide status. nightingales among the graduates are a hundred waiting to take their hats completed a very memorable For the purpose of the VIS, applicants will be required to came up to sing some beautiful num- place. ICSK can be proud of the talent programme. The evening was also provide their biometric data (fingerprints and digital pho- bers. In keeping with the theme, pool in her students. The Guest of special as it witnessed cent per cent tos) when applying for a Schengen visa. It is a simple and Junior Branch Choir presented a Honour, Mr. Rajan Daniel, Honorary participation of all its students who discreet procedure that only takes a few minutes. beautiful song “We are the world”, Vice-Chairman to the Board of have moved from the Kindergarten to Biometric data, along with the data provided in the and Master Benjamin appropriately Trustees, in his words of encourage- the Primary level. Schengen visa application form, will be recorded in the VIS central database. Therefore, as from 2nd October 2012, first-time applicants will have to appear in person when lodging the application, in order to provide their fingerprints. For subsequent applications within 5 years the fingerprints can be copied from the previous applica- tion file in the VIS. The Cypriot Presidency would like to assure the people of Kuwait and all its permanent citizens that the Member States and associated States participat- ing in the Schengen cooperation, have taken all necessary technical measures to facilitate the rapid examination and the efficient processing of visa applications and to ensure a quick and discreet procedure for the implementation of the new VIS. HEALTH SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Australian sky-gazers witness ‘ring of fire’ Eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific

SYDNEY: Sky-gazers across the Australia in six months. In November, a scientifically important or dramatic as Australian Outback were among the total solar eclipse plunged the country’s November’s, because the moon is too far lucky few to witness a solar eclipse yes- northeast into darkness, delighting from Earth - and therefore appears too terday as the moon glided between Earth astronomers and tourists who flocked to small - to completely black out the sun. and the sun, blocking everything but a the region from across the globe to wit- Unlike a total solar eclipse, which essen- dazzling ring of light. The celestial specta- ness it. tially turns day into night, an annular SEATTLE: This file photo shows filets of Copper River cle, known as a “ring of fire” eclipse, is the Yesterday’s eclipse, also called an eclipse just dims the sunlight. Salmon from Alaska in Seattle. —AP second solar eclipse visible from northern annular solar eclipse, is not considered as “A total eclipse is overall far more spec- tacular, far more emotional,” said Andrew Jacob, an astronomer at Sydney Fish oil doesn’t Observatory. Still, he said, yesterday’s eclipse “will give you a nice ring of sun- help prevent light in the sky - it will be quite different.” At remote outposts across Australia, sci- entists and spectators gathered to watch heart attacks as the eclipse began casting its approxi- mately 200-kilometer-wide (120-mile- Eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does wide) shadow at dawn over Western not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already Australia, before moving east through the taking medicines to prevent them, a large study in Italy found. Northern Territory and the top of The work makes clearer who does and does not benefit from tak- Queensland state. The shadow was drift- ing supplements of omega 3 fatty acids, the good oils found in ing across Papua New Guinea, the fish such as salmon, tuna and sardines. Previous studies have Solomon Islands and the tiny island suggested that fish oil capsules could lower heart risks in people nation of Kiribati, and will eventually end with heart failure or who have already suffered a heart attack. The in a largely uninhabited area of the Pacific American Heart Association recommends them only for people Ocean. who have high levels of fats called triglycerides in their blood, The eclipse lasted between three and says the group’s president, Dr Donna Arnett of the University of six minutes, depending on its location, Alabama at Birmingham. and blacked out around 95 percent of the Fish oil capsules failed to prevent flare-ups of atrial fibrillation, sun at its peak. A partial eclipse was visi- a common heart rhythm problem, in a large study in 2010. The ble to people in other parts of Australia, new study was led by the Mario Negri Institute for Indonesia, New Zealand and the South Pharmacological Research in Milan. It tested 1 gram a day of fish Pacific. US astronomer Jay Pasachoff, who oil versus dummy capsules in 12,513 people throughout Italy. traveled to Australia to view his 57th solar They had not suffered a heart attack but were at high risk of hav- eclipse, drove to a remote hill in the ing one because of diabetes, high blood pressure, high choles- Outback about 50 kilometers (30 miles) terol, smoking, obesity or other conditions. Most already were north of the Northern Territory town of taking cholesterol-lowering statins, aspirin and other medicines Tennant Creek, where he and around 100 to lower their chances of heart problems. others enjoyed one of the best and Researchers at first planned to compare the rate of death, longest views of the eclipse in Australia. heart attacks and strokes in the two groups, but these were less Amateur astronomers clicked away on frequent than anticipated. So they started measuring how long it cameras and local high school students was before people in either group suffered one of these fates or measured the drop in temperature as the was hospitalized for heart-related reasons. After five years, the moon moved in front of the sun and rate was the same - about 12 percent of each group had one of blocked out much of the light. The these problems. moment, Pasachoff said, was magical. “They’re very high-risk people and so the level of other treat- “The color of the light changes in an eerie ments was very high,” Arnett said. “When you’re being aggres- fashion, and you sense that something sively treated for all of your other risk factors, adding fish oil yield- very strange and weird and wonderful is ed no additional benefits.” Results are published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. Makers of fish oil supplements SYNDEY: The moon crosses in front of the sun during a partial solar going on,” said Pasachoff, an astronomy professor at Williams College in helped pay for the study. Eating fish is known to help protect eclipse seen through an iron cross on a church yesterday. —AP Massachusetts. —AP against heart disease, and the Heart Association recommends it at least twice a week. “People who choose to eat more fish are more likely to eat heart healthier diets and engage in more physical activity,” and Two people in France ill after studies testing the benefit of supplements may not be able to completely adjust for differences like these, said Alice contact with coronavirus victim Lichtenstein, director of the cardiovascular nutrition lab at Tufts University in Boston. The results do show that people can’t rely LILLE: Two people who had contact with a Frenchman eases consultation,” the ARS said in a statement. “The on a pill to make up for a bad diet, she said. “It is sort of like break- who is seriously ill with the new SARS-like coronavirus results of the tests carried out on these two people will ing a fish oil capsule over a hot fudge sundae and expecting the have fallen sick and been admitted to hospital, health be known soon and will be made public.” effect of the calories and saturated fat to go away,” she said. —AP officials in northern France said on Thursday. One is a As France reported the 65-year-old as its first case of patient who shared a ward with the 65-year-old man the coronoavirus on Wednesday, the World Health WHO: Cambodia can end infected with the virus when he was in a hospital in the Organisation said it would send experts to visit a Saudi town of Valenciennes, northern France, at the end of hospital from which the virus has spread, killing seven HIV infections by 2020 April, and the other is a doctor who treated him there. people so far. The French case brought the total number PHNOM PENH: Cambodia is on track to become one of the few The 65-year-old carrier, who fell ill on his return from a of known infections worldwide to 31, of which 18 result- countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic trip to Dubai, has since been transferred to an isolated ed in death. and may eliminate new infections by 2020, the World Health intensive care wing in a hospital in Douai, near the north- Coronavirus is from the same viral family that trig- Organization said yesterday. The Southeast Asian nation has ern city of Lille, where he is in a critical condition. gered the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent The ARS local health authority said the two other men Syndrome (SARS) that swept the world from Asia in late among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the were in individual rooms in separate hospitals, one in 2003, killing 775 people. Despite there being no evi- whole population, the WHO said in a joint statement with the Lille and the other in the nearby town of Tourcoing, and dence so far of sustained human-to-human transmission, Cambodian health ministry. “Cambodia is moving towards an that tests had been carried out on both of them. “They health experts’ concerns aregrowing over clusters of new AIDS-free generation and is one of the few countries globally to show symptoms which require a special infectious dis- cases. —Reuters have successfully reversed its HIV epidemic,” the statement said, adding it was on track to meet the 2020 goal. —AFP HEALTH SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

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Daily Sudoku Yesterday’s Solution SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Lagares, Baxter lift Mets over Pirates

NEW YORK: Rookie center fielder Juan Atlanta beat San Francisco to begin a four- on six hits and five walks in six innings. and four walks in three innings, his first loss Lagares robbed Andrew McCutchen of a game series between NL division leaders. Phillies manager Charlie Manuel set a fran- since Game 2 of the World Series at San go-ahead hit in the top of the ninth inning, Julio Teheran (2-0) pitched seven efficient chise record with his 1,332nd game as the Francisco last October. It was his shortest then pinch-hitter Mike Baxter’s single in the innings after his last scheduled outing was club’s skipper. The 69-year-old Manuel, the career start other than an outing at bottom half sent the New York Mets over rained out Saturday. Craig Kimbrel earned 51st manager in the team’s 123-year histo- Cleveland in August 2011 when he was tak- the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 Thursday night. his 100th career save, becoming the sec- ry, passed Gene Mauch, who managed en out after two innings because of a long Baxter delivered his second winning pinch- ond-youngest pitcher to do so. Buster Philadelphia from 1960-68. rain delay. hit in three days. His 10th-inning single Posey hit a two-run homer and an RBI sin- Tuesday beat the Chicago White Sox. This gle, but the Giants were done in by the fifth INTERLEAGUE YANKEES 3, ROCKIES 1 time, Baxter batted for Lagares and won it. inning when the Braves batted around. San NATIONALS 5, TIGERS 4 CC Sabathia and five relievers held Lagares was equally responsible for the vic- Francisco (20-15) fell into a first-place tie in Ryan Mattheus, Drew Storen and Rafael Colorado to four hits, Robinson Cano tory. With a runner on first and two outs, the NL West with Arizona. Ryan Vogelsong Soriano combined for shutout relief after smacked a solo homer and New York beat McCutchen hit a loud shot into faraway (1-3) gave up six runs and seven hits in 4 1- Dan Haren nearly squandered a four-run Colorado in a game that was delayed more right-center field. Lagares glided back, per- 3 innings. He is winless in five starts. lead, and Washington beat Detroit to com- than two hours by rain. Cano also had an fectly timed his leap and plucked the ball at plete a two-game sweep of the AL champi- infield single in the third inning for his the top of the fence as he rammed into the DIAMONDBACKS 2, PHILLIES 1 ons. Ryan Zimmerman had three hits, help- 1,500th hit as the Yankees took two of padded wall. Marlon Byrd singled to start Patrick Corbin won his fifth consecutive ing the Nationals to their first four-game three from the Rockies. A steady rain the Mets’ ninth off Jason Grilli (0-1). Andrew decision to start the season and drove in a winning streak of the year. Tigers pitcher delayed the first pitch by 8 minutes. In the Brown sacrificed and Baxter followed by run to help Arizona beat Philadelphia. Doug Fister (4-1) had an RBI single in the fourth, another thunderstorm halted the grounding a single up the middle, easily Corbin (5-0) scattered four hits over 6 1-3 second off Haren (4-3), but the Nationals game for 1:59. That break meant the end of scoring Byrd. Bobby Parnell (4-0) pitched innings and allowed one run to lower his made it 5-1 in the bottom half on consecu- the day for Sabathia, who allowed one run the ninth. The Pirates have lost four of five. ERA to 1.75. The left-hander became the tive run-scoring singles by Zimmerman and and one hit in four innings. A stream of Pedro Alvarez hit a solo home run in the first pitcher to throw at least six innings and Adam LaRoche. Haren allowed four runs relievers picked up where he left off. Adam eighth off Mets reliever LaTroy Hawkins allow two or fewer runs in his first seven and nine hits in six innings, giving up a Warren (1-0) picked up his first big league that made it 2-all. starts of a season since Ubaldo Jimenez had three-run homer to pinch-hitter Matt win by getting five big outs after the delay. 12 straight such outings for Colorado in Tuiasosopo. Soriano converted his 12th Mariano Rivera pitched the ninth to remain BRAVES 6, GIANTS 3 2010. Heath Bell threw seven pitches in a save in 13 chances, retiring Prince Fielder perfect in 13 save chances. Jeff Francis (1-3) Brian McCann hit a two-run homer and scoreless ninth for his third save in three on a game-ending flyout to the center-field threw four innings and gave up two runs an RBI single in his third game this season nights since taking over for injured closer JJ warning track with a runner on. Fister gave before rain forced the umpires to signal for since coming off the disabled list, and Putz. Cole Hamels (1-5) gave up two runs up five runs - four earned - on eight hits the tarp. — AP Indians end series with a convincing blowout

CLEVELAND: Jason Kipnis, Nick Swisher and over Houston. The struggling Angels Mark Reynolds hit indisputable home runs snapped a four-game skid and avoided an and Scott Kazmir struck out 10 in six innings, embarrassing sweep against last-place leading the Cleveland Indians to a 9-2 win Houston in a game that took 4 hours, 7 min- over Oakland on Thursday and a four-game utes - the longest nine-inning game this sea- sweep of the Athletics. The Indians ended son. Josh Hamilton and Brendan Harris the series with a convincing blowout, one homered for the Angels. Garrett Richards (2- day after they won 4-3 with the help of a 3) pitched a scoreless seventh for the win blown call in the ninth inning when umpires, and Ernesto Frieri got five outs for his fifth after watching a video replay, ruled that an save. Hector Ambriz (0-2) took the loss. apparent tying home run by Oakland’s Adam Rosales was a double. RAYS 5, BLUE JAYS 4, 10 INNINGS Major League Baseball acknowledged the Luke Scott drew a bases-loaded walk with umpires made an “improper call,” but execu- two outs in the 10th inning to give Tampa tive vice president Joe Torre said the deci- Bay a victory over Toronto. The Rays loaded sion is final. Kipnis hit a two-run homer in the the bases on Evan Longoria’s double off first off Bartolo Colon (3-2) for the Indians, Aaron Loup (1-3) and two walks. The game who won for the 10th time in 11 games and featured a rare matchup of reigning Cy improved to 13-4 since April 20. Kazmir (2-1) Young Award winners, however David Price allowed one run and five hits and has won and R.A. Dickey were not involved in the back-to-back starts for the first time since decision. Dickey allowed three runs and five 2010. Josh Donaldson homered for the A’s, hits, walked five and struck out five in six who fell to .500 (18-18) for the first time since innings for the Blue Jays. Price worked eight April 4. innings for Tampa Bay, yielding four runs - two earned- and seven hits in eight innings. TWINS 5, RED SOX 3 Kyle Farnsworth (2-0) pitched one inning to Oswaldo Arcia hit a two-run homer and get the win. Minnesota capitalized on a costly throwing error by Boston starter John Lackey to beat ROYALS 6, ORIOLES 2 the struggling Red Sox. Lackey’s wild throw Alex Gordon and Eric Hosmer homered in to second on a potential inning-ending dou- a four-run fourth inning, Jeremy Guthrie ble play gave the Twins another chance in pitched effectively against his former team the sixth and they responded with four and Kansas City avoided a three-game unearned runs to take a 5-2 lead. The Red sweep. Gordon and Hosmer both connected Sox lost for the sixth time in seven games against Freddy Garcia (0-1) with a runner on. and fell out of first place in the AL East. Kevin Mike Moustakas also homered for the Royals, Correia (4-2) pitched 5 1-3 innings for the who snapped a three-game skid. The three Twins and Glen Perkins pitched the ninth for home runs were a season high for Kansas his eighth save in eight chances. Lackey (1-3) City, which began the game with an AL-low allowed six hits and one walk and struck out 19 long balls. Facing the Orioles for the first eight in seven innings. time since they traded him to Colorado in February 2012, Guthrie (5-0) allowed one ANGELS 6, ASTROS 5 earned run, seven hits and three walks in six Mark Trumbo hit a two-run double in the innings to lower his ERA to 2.28. Garcia NEW YORK: New York Mets’ Mike Baxter (left) celebrates with Marlon Byrd after eighth inning before Alberto Callaspo’s go- retired the first 10 batters he faced before Baxter hit a walk-off single to score Byrd during the ninth inning of a baseball ahead sacrifice fly sent Los Angeles to a win getting into trouble in the fourth. — AP game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field. — AP SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 One dead after America’s Cup boat capsizes

SAN FRANCISCO: British double Olympic sail- heartfelt condolences are with Andrew’s wife The yacht involved is an AC72 catamaran, the sailing community,” the Oracle team said ing medalist Andrew Simpson died Thursday and family.”A spokeswoman for the San the Swedish team’s first, according to the in a statement. “Andrew Simpson was a great when a 72-foot catamaran of Swedish team Francisco Fire Department, Mindy Talmadge, online statement, which said the incident person, a terrific sailor, and a good friend to Artemis capsized during America’s Cup train- said Simpson was pronounced dead at the St. occurred between 12:30 pm and 1:00 pm. The all of our team. Our thoughts are with his fam- ing on San Francisco Bay, officials said. Francis Yacht Club. AC72 boats developed for the America’s Cup ily and the entire Artemis team. He will be Simpson, a 36-year-old who won Olympic “Our dispatch center was notified... that an were described by event organizers as dearly missed.” gold in 2008 and silver in 2012 in the keelboat Artemis boat had capsized and one person “speedsters” powered by 130-foot tall wing The Louis Vuitton Cup to decide a chal- star class, was trapped under the Artemis was reportedly in the water 10 or 15 minutes. sails and with the ability to hydrofoil-essen- lenger will be held July 4 through September Racing boat for about 10 minutes, according One of the chase boats pulled the gentleman tially rise out of the water to reduce drag. 1, with Artemis scheduled to take on Team to a statement on the America’s Cup website. out of the water and began CPR,” Talmadge They can reach top speeds in excess of New Zealand and Italy’s Luna Rossa for the “It is with immense sadness that Artemis said. “Rescue workers continued CPR as the twice the windspeed, and place strenuous right to take on Oracle for the America’s Cup Racing confirms the tragic death of man was transported to the St Francis Yacht physical demands on crew members. The in September. Oracle Racing’s AC72 capsized crewmember Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson today in Club, where paramedics were waiting. catamarans have been adopted for the vener- in spectacular fashion in October on San San Francisco,” the team said in a statement. Unfortunately, they ended up pronouncing able yachting competition this year in a bid to Francisco Bay, but no one was injured. “Despite attempts to revive him, by doctors him dead at the Saint Francis Yacht Club,” she make the event more exciting. The Oracle Veteran skipper Russell Coutts capsized a sim- afloat and subsequently ashore, his life was said.A second crew member suffered injuries syndicate, owned by software billionaire Larry ilar but smaller catamaran in San Francisco lost,” it said. “The entire Artemis Racing team not thought to be life threatening, she said. Ellison, defeated Switzerland’s Alinghi in a tri- Bay in June 2011. Talmadge said she did not is devastated by what happened,” said Twelve people were on the boat when it cap- maran to win the last edition of the America’s know what sequence of events led to the Artemis chief executive Paul Cayard. “Our sized and all have been accounted for. Cup in 2010. “Today is a sad day for all of us in Artemis Racing craft’s capsizing. — AFP Blackhawks eliminate Wild Nuggets’ Ujiri named NBA’s top executive Penguins blank Islanders 4-0 DENVER: Even as Masai Ujiri accepted the NBA’s executive CHICAGO: Marian Hossa scored twice to of the year trophy from club President Josh Kroenke on back a strong effort by goalie Corey Thursday, the Denver Nuggets general manager said he Crawford, and the Chicago Blackhawks would have given it up gladly in exchange for a deep playoff beat the Minnesota Wild 5-1 Thursday run. “It’s a little bittersweet for me,” Ujiri said at a news con- night to win their first-round playoff ference a day after the Nuggets’ George Karl took the trophy series 4-1. Chicago is moving on in the for coach of the year. “I would trade that to be playing right postseason for the first time since the now.” Ujiri, the first African-born GM in major American championship run in 2010, and will face sports, built the Nuggets team that won an NBA franchise- either San Jose or Detroit if the Red record 57 games and went an NBA-best 38-3 at home before Wings get past Anaheim. The way the going down in the first round. Blackhawks have dominated, anything “There was an unbelievable energy in this city and that’s less than a trip to the Stanley Cup finals why we had kind of a little disappointment when we lost to the Golden State Warriors, who’s not such a bad team from would be a disappointment for them. what they are doing right now,” Ujiri said. “We hope to kick They got off to a record start and cap- their butts next year but they’re not too bad right now. We tured the Presidents’ Trophy for finish- understand we are a growing team. We knew there were ing with more points than any other going to be pains. This is part of the process and we’ll con- team. Now, they’re eyeing the biggest tinue to grow.” Ujiri assembled a team that had nine players prize of all. And after bowing out in the average between 8 and 16.7 points and the city, the first round the past two years, they sure Nuggets’ fans and the organization embraced the club’s per- are looking good. sona as a team without a superstar that nevertheless got the job done. Until the third-seeded Nuggets were beaten in six Senators 6, Canadiens 1 games by the sixth-seeded Warriors, led by their fast-rising Craig Anderson made 33 saves and NEW YORK: Matt Cooke #24 of the Pittsburgh Penguins hits Matt Carkner #7 of star, Stephen Curry. Cory Conacher scored twice on a shaky the New York Islanders into the boards in Game Four of the Eastern Ujiri said that after the Nuggets’ first-round exit, his disap- Peter Budaj as the Senators advanced to Conference Quarterfinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.— AFP pointment was so keen he didn’t even watch basketball for the second round. Ottawa took the best- several days. He finally tuned in Wednesday night to watch of-seven series 4-1 and put a punctua- PK Subban scored for injury-struck is today in New York. Evgeni Nabokov an NBA playoff game and came to the office Thursday tion mark on its dominance in moving Montreal. made 23 saves for the Islanders, but also recharged, spoiling to get started on next season. “We’ve on for the first time since 2007, when gave up breakaway goals to Crosby and got work to do,” he said. “I think we’re beginning to get over the Senators lost in the Stanley Cup Penguins 4, Islanders 0 Kennedy and botched a lazy wrist shot our emotional state. You know what? You have to move on.” finals to the Anaheim Ducks. The victory Tomas Vokoun stopped 31 shots in from Murray that gave the Penguins all Ujiri said he’s confident his deal, which expires in the sum- gives Ottawa time to rest up and heal his first playoff start in six years and the the offense they would need. Vokoun mer, will be renewed or extended. “Josh and I continue to bruises from the physical series before Penguins took a 3-2 lead in their first- was thrust into the lineup after have conversations. I’m very positive that things will work the conference semifinals begin next round series. Sidney Crosby, Tyler Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma benched out,” he said. And he said a top offseason priority will be to week. Zack Smith, Kyle Turris, Daniel Kennedy and Douglas Murray scored Marc-Andre Fleury, who had started 79 lock up Andre Iguodala with a long-term deal. “He’s a great Alfredsson and Erik Condra also scored during a seven-minute stretch in the straight postseason games but strug- kid and I think he’s great for our basketball team,” Ujiri said. for Ottawa, underdogs as the seventh second period and Kris Letang added a gled in a 6-4 loss in Game 4. The 36-year- “There’s a lot he brings to our program and we’re proud of seed in the East, but bolstered down the power-play goal in the third as old Vokoun didn’t look intimidated by him and the year he had. We hope we auditioned ourselves stretch by the return of top players on Pittsburgh moved a step closer to the stage as the Penguins restored a lit- well for him. It’s going to be his decision, but we’ll do every- defense Erik Karlsson and Jared Cowan. advancing to the second round. Game 6 tle order to a wide-open series. — AP thing on our part as an organization. We want him back.” He vowed the Nuggets will be back for another playoff run next season. “Our goal is to be better and to be better in the play- Malaysia cry foul over Lin Dan wildcard offs, and we’re going to do everything we can to get there,” he said. Ujiri totaled 59 points and received eight first-place KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s singles coach has suggested a win.” The Badminton World Federation (BWF) gave Lin special votes from a panel of his fellow team basketball executives conspiracy after badminton chiefs handed four-time Chinese permission to play the world championships after his ranking throughout the league. The Los Angeles Clippers’ Gary Sacks finished second with 28 points (three first-place votes) and winner Lin Dan a wildcard for this year’s world championships, a dropped to 41 following an eight-month break since last year’s the Houston Rockets’ Daryl Morey and the New York Knicks’ report said yesterday. Tey Seu Bock told the New Straits Times Olympics in London. Glen Grunwald finished tied for third with 25 points (four that the wildcard entry for the double Olympic champion- “What we have been hearing is that Lin Dan has been seri- first-place votes). Ujiri, who spent three years with the which could affect the chances of Malaysia’s world number one ously contemplating retirement and it is a real surprise that Toronto Raptors before joining the Nuggets, was named to Lee Chong Wei-gave China an unfair advantage. “I don’t under- China have accepted the wildcard,” the coach said. “It will be his current position on Aug. 27, 2010. He worked for the stand the reason behind BWF’s decision to give Lin Dan a wild- tricky as Lin Dan will be unseeded and there is a possibility he Nuggets organization as a scout from 2003-07, and served as card despite China having three players in the men’s singles. I could meet Chong Wei as early as the first round and this is the team’s director of international scouting during the cannot help thinking that people want China to win the title,” going to be a massive challenge.” Malaysia’s Lee, a three-time 2006-07 season. Ujiri’s predecessor, Mark Warkentien, won he said. world player of the year, has been irresistible in many tourna- the honor in 2009. Denver’s Vince Boryla also won the award “Chong Wei will now have to face four China players, which ments but he is still searching for his first world or Olympic title in 1984-85. — AP is a huge mental challenge but it is not impossible for him to after a heartbreaking series of losses to Lin. —AFP sports SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Basketball: Russia Unheralded Castro leads target clean sweep as McIlroy, Woods lurk MOSCOW: Russian men’s and women’s basketball clubs have a chance this weekend of sweeping every European trophy for the first time in the country’s history, in a throwback to PONTE VEDRA BEACH: Unheralded ninth hole and adding another at the 16th time winner this season. Soviet domination of the sport. With two women’s tourna- Roberto Castro fired a 63 to tie the course and appeared poised to tie for second on Also in the group that included Woods ments and the men’s second-tier European cup already record for a three-shot lead over Rory 66. But Woods’s approach aimed at the was Casey Wittenberg and Ryan Palmer, secure, CSKA Moscow just need to win the Euroleague title to McIlroy and Zach Johnson with Tiger back right pin at 18 trickled over the edge with Bohn and Swedes Henrik Stenson complete an extraordinary clean sweep. Lokomotiv-Kuban Woods lurking after Thursday’s first round of the green and down a slope. He hit a and David Lingmerth, Australian Greg from the Russian southern city of Krasnodar clinched their of the Players Championship. The world Chalmers, Ireland’s Padraig Harrington first-ever continental trophy by downing Bilbao Basket 64-75 class leaderboard also included US Open and Spaniard Sergio Garcia another shot in the Eurocup final at Charleroi, Belgium. champion Webb Simpson, US Ryder Cup back. Castro, whose best PGA Tour finish is This year’s Russian female champions UMMC from players Steve Stricker and Hunter Mahan a tie for seventh at last year’s Greenbrier Ekaterinburg grabbed their second women’s Euroleague title in a group with Woods another shot back Classic and whose best result this year is a by beating Turkish outfit Fenerbahce 82-56 in the final, while on 67, but it was Web.com graduate tie for 16th at Phoenix, gained a jolt of Dynamo Moscow bagged the women’s Eurocup beating Castro who stole the spotlight. momentum as he finished his opening another Turkish side, Kayseri. Meanwhile, a rampant CSKA Staging a clinic with his irons to recep- nine. Starting on the back nine, he made Moscow will challenge for their third Euroleague title in the tive greens, Castro, ranked 267th in the the turn in five-under 31 with birdies on Final Four tournament, held in London this weekend. The world, made seven birdies and an eagle to each hole of the challenging finishing Red Army side will take on their old foes Olympiakos in the match the mark shared by Greg Norman stretch called “The Gauntlet.” semi-final, while Spanish arch rivals Real Madrid and and Fred Couples in his debut on the He two-putted the par-five 16th from Barcelona will determine the other finalist. Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. “It gives 65 feet, tapped in at the par-three 17th The Soviet Union-with the full might of the USSR republics me proof that when you play great, you’re island green from 19 inches and at the including the basketball-mad Baltic states-were a global force good enough,” Castro, 27, said about the par-four 18th from 23 inches. Castro in the game, famously defeating the United States for gold in confidence boost he gained from a bril- eagled the par-five second hole after hit- the 1972 Olympics. The rise of club basketball in Russia seems liant round that set the bar in the morning ting a three-iron inside four feet for sole paradoxical as the game is currently out of fashion compared wave. Castro’s playing partner, Jason possession of the lead. He followed that to a true basketball boom after the collapse of the USSR, Bohn, said he had never seen anything with birdies from 21 inches at number four when Russian youth discovered for themselves the NBA bas- quite like the red-haired American’s round. and from 18 inches at the sixth. “I hit it ketball stars. But the wave of basketball popularity brought “Ultra impressive,” said Bohn, who shot close a lot,” said Castro, whose aunt, Jenny into the sport dozens of young talents, the best of whom are a four-under 68. “I’ve never seen a 63 shot Lidback, played on the LPGA Tour and now playing for Russian and NBA professional clubs.Flagship like that. His iron play was like a clinic, he whose family on his mother’s side comes side CSKA Moscow-winners of 24 Soviet and 20 Russian titles, had so many kick-ins. That’s the highest from Peru. four European Champions cups and who twice topped the score he could have shot. He was awe- Hitting it as close as possible at the par- Euroleague-served an example for other sides. some.” Castro had six birdie putts within three eighth hole that was playing 233 CSKA have always had solid funding, attracting sponsors five feet, including four within two feet yards was Michael Thompson, who made with their stable top-class performance both in the national and did not make a single putt of more the only ace of the day with a perfect than 10 feet in his 63. World number two three-iron. Castro set up his irons with his championship and the European cups. The club, currently Roberto Castro owned by one of Russia’s biggest mining companies Norilsk McIlroy also took advantage of greens own accuracy off the tee, hitting all but Nickel, have never bought players wholesale, instead pursu- softened by last week’s heavy rains to weak chip that hung in the fringe and one fairway. ing a shrewd transfer policy allowing them not only to per- reverse a trend of poor results for him at needed two strokes to get down, ruining He had 10 one-putts and 26 putts in all. form well on the pitch but also to retain good chemistry in Sawgrass, where he had never broken par his bid for his first bogey-free round at Defending champion Matt Kuchar was the dressing room. The club has bet on a combination of or made the cut in three prior appearances Sawgrass in 56 tries. Woods was pleased eight shots off the pace after opening with home-grown talents and European basketball stars like their in the tournament. with his round. “I made a couple key putts a one-under 71, while four-times major current charismatic leaders, Greek player Theodoros Top-ranked Woods, the 2001 winner, here and there, and I really took care of winner Phil Michelson was a further shot Papaloukas and Serbian star guard Milos Teodosic.— AFP led the way among the afternoon starters, the par-fives. I birdied all of them today, back after mixing four birdies with two making four consecutive birdies from the which is nice,” said Woods, the only three- bogeys and a double-bogey.— Reuters Alonso on top in wet practice in Spain

BARCELONA: Local favorite Fernando The weather deprived both of the chance told reporters. McLaren sporting director the more evolutionary approach favoured Alonso led a Ferrari one-two in a damp first to put in meaningful miles, with Button and Sam Michael added: “We’ve got enough by others, have been working overtime to practice for the Spanish Formula One Grand Mexican team mate Sergio Perez spending parts for two cars, but we’re limited on fix the aerodynamic problems with the team Prix yesterday while Jenson Button failed to part of the session watching from the spares so we’d like to avoid crashing or using up one of their ‘jokers’ so mechanics set a lap time in his heavily updated garage as McLaren erred on the side of cau- going into gravel.” could break an overnight curfew. “I think we McLaren. Alonso produced a lap of one tion. Button was already resigned to that Button, the 2009 world champion, has have to reserve judgment until we actually minute 25.252 seconds right at the end of before the session started, however. “We finished no higher than fifth so far this sea- drive the car. There’s a lot that’s different,” the session on a drying track but the time - won’t be running so much in the wet. When son after winning the final race of last year Button said. “It looks nice. There’s some real- more than five seconds slower than the you turn up to a place with new parts, you in Brazil with what was then deemed to be ly cool looking little bits on the car but I fastest in pre-season testing at the Circuit de don’t normally have a lot of them so I don’t the fastest car. McLaren, who brought out a don’t think it’s going to be enough to really Catalunya - was purely a crowd-pleaser. think we’ll be doing a lot of wet running,” he significantly new car this season instead of fight right at the front,” he added.— Reuters Plans to provide more track action by giving drivers an extra set of prototype long- lasting hard tyres were stymied by the weather, with leaden skies and drizzle replacing yesterday’s sunshine. Felipe Massa was just behind his team mate in 1:25.455 while Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne was third fastest in a Toro Rosso with compatriot Romain Grosjean fourth in a Lotus. Red Bull’s triple world champion and overall leader Sebastian Vettel was 19th quickest of the 22 cars, waiting until the track was drying late in the session before venturing out for a proper lap, with Australian team mate Webber 20th. Kimi Raikkonen, second overall and 10 points behind Vettel, managed the eighth best lap for Lotus. All teams have brought updates to the first race of the European season but for- mer champions McLaren and Williams have more riding on them than most after strug- gling in the first four races in Asia and the MONTMELO: Ferrari’s Spanish driver Fernando Alonso drives during the second practice session at the Circuit de Middle East. Catalunya in Montmelo near Barcelona yesterday ahead of the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix. — AFP sports SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Everton feel the pinch of Moyes’ departure

PARIS: Once lauded as ‘The Bank of finances at the club. The sale of their son-there’s no money in the world, there’s England Club’, Everton had to wave good- Bellefield training base in the city raised £9 no point in me being replaced, we need bye to manager David Moyes as they were million ($13.9 million, 10.6 million euros), someone with money,” Kenwright told a no longer able to satisfy the ambitions of a which went-along with revenue from play- fans’ forum. man restrained by the Merseysiders’ finan- er sales-immediately to the bankers in an The club has since battled to cling onto cial straitjacket. The Goodison Park side, effort to reduce debts of £45 million. some of their most high-profile playing founder members of the Football League In a leaked document, Kenwright admit- assets. However, there has already been and nine-time champions, were once one ted he had even received three death speculation that the likes of Leighton of the English game’s superpowers, both threats during his tenure, despite his drive Baines and Marouane Fellaini may be tar- on and off the field. to find new investment. His search for back- geted to follow Moyes to Old Trafford. If But the Premier League of the 21st cen- ers was not helped by the club’s long- Moyes has the impossible task of matching SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE: Paris Saint-Germain’s tury, with its global stars and mind-bog- drawn out saga of attempting to find a new Ferguson’s achievements at Old Trafford, French Goalkeeper Ronan Le Crom takes part in a train- gling television deals, is a different beast home away from their ageing Goodison his successor at Goodison Park will have an ing session yesterday at the French L1 football club from the cosy old First Division. Despite Park ground. “There has to be a reason equally imposing job of keeping Everton in PSG’s training camp in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near being unable to compete with the foreign- nobody is buying Everton. There is a rea- the chasing pack.— AFP Paris. — AFP injected cash reserves of Manchester United, his new employers, as well as French League Preview Manchester City and Chelsea, the 50-year- old Moyes was widely praised for his 11- year Everton career. PSG try to avoid He guided them to the top eight every season since 2006. But with Everton only further bumps on once reaching the Champions League-a brief, painful flirtation in 2005, which start- the title road ed and ended in the qualifying rounds- Moyes knew that he would never have the LYON: Paris Saint-Germain could wrap up a first French title finance that will be freely on tap at Old since 1994 this weekend, but given recent troubles they may Trafford. Everton were dubbed ‘The School be expecting further bumps in the road as they travel to Lyon of Science’ in the championship-winning tomorrow. PSG could have sealed the deal a week ago, and seasons of 1962-63 and 1969-70, and one given they were hosting mid-table Valenciennes, they could of the Big Five in 1984-85 and 1986-87, have been forgiven for putting the champagne on ice. when they won the last two of their titles. Yet that turned into an unexpected banana skin, and not Back then, they would have expected a just because the champions-elect dropped two points. They financial windfall from two European Cup lost centre-back Thiago Silva to a red card before half-time campaigns. and saw five players booked as they needed a late leveler However, the 1985 Heysel disaster, from Alex to snatch a share of the spoils. What’s more, sport- which sparked a six-year ban on English ing director Leonardo got himself into hot water with an clubs playing in Europe, also led to the apparent shove on referee Alexandre Castro in the tunnel break-up of that Howard Kendall-coached after the game, leading to a temporary ban. squad. With the exception of an FA Cup tri- That came just a week after PSG had both Marco Veratti umph in 1995, honors have been impossi- and David Beckham sent-off in an ill-tempered 1-0 victory at ble to come by ever since. At the start of relegation-threatened Evian before goalkeeper Salvatore the 2011-12 season, chairman Bill Sirigu also saw red after the final whistle. Although Beckham Kenwright revealed the brutal state of David Moyes will be back to face Lyon, Sirigu and Veratti are still banned for another match, while Silva must sit out two games. Leonardo, who has protested his innocence and claims to have been Moyes contract shows value of stability pushed into Castro, will also be absent as Champions League chasing Lyon look to stall the Parisians’ title party for another PARIS: Throughout all the whirlwind furor United’s chiefs deserve a certain share ting 13th in the table-a move described by week at least. surrounding Alex Ferguson’s retirement of Ferguson’s remarkable success at the Ferguson as “absolutely ridiculous”. Taking on Remi Garde’s team with several first choice play- and David Moyes’s appointment as club for having stuck by the Scot through Blackburn survived that season but were ers missing is far from ideal for PSG, particularly as their oppo- Manchester United manager, one crucial some of the more difficult periods, notably relegated a year later. Owners Venky’s nents have important objectives to play for. Lyon currently element in the Red Devils’ recent success at the beginning of his tenure.He took have since fired three more managers and hold third place, the final Champions League qualifying posi- could not fail to be noticed: stability. three-and-a-half years to win his first tro- only narrowly escaped relegation to third- tion, but travel to fourth-placed Nice in a week. If they drop Having given their previous manager phy, the FA Cup in 1990, and another tier League One this season. Things are points to PSG, they could risk falling out of the top three alto- more than 26 years at the Old Trafford three more years before delivering a even more drastic on the continent and gether should they lose to former coach Claude Puel’s side helm to rebuild and revamp a faltering league title. His side finished 11th twice Italy in particular. While he remains the next week. Lyon have been in inconsistent form recently, win- side before turning them first into title and 13th once in his first four seasons exception rather than the rule, Palermo ning three of their last four, although having lost three on the winners and then establishing a legacy of whilst just under a decade ago United president Maurizio Zamparini has bounce before that. achievement, United’s directors handed went three seasons without the title as changed coaches four times this season Should PSG win they will definitely secure a third league Moyes a six-year contract. While that may they appeared to have been surpassed by alone as his team battles against relega- title but they might already be champions if Marseille lose at not match the hasty eight-year deal first Arsenal and then Chelsea. That a tion. In 26 years as a club president with home to Toulouse today. Carlo Ancelotti’s side have a seven- Newcastle offered Alan Pardew following three-year period without winning the first Venezia and then Palermo he has point lead with only nine points still up for grabs. If the south- their surprise fifth-placed finish last sea- Premier League should be so noteworthy gone through 43 different coaches, some ern giants draw then a point would be enough for PSG too, son, it is still a hefty contract in the mod- just goes to show how much success of which were fired more than once. He while a defeat for Marseille would hand the title they last won ern age. Ferguson brought to United. may have brought Palermo back up to 2010 to their bitter rivals. It would take a remarkable collapse Yet it proves how important stability Since the inception of the Premier Serie A after a 31-year hiatus but the lack for PSG not to be crowned champions and Lyon are only four and continuity is considered at the League, that period from 2004-2006 was of stability has certainly contributed to points behind Marseille in the race for direct qualification for Manchester United institution. This is no the only time when United gave up their their struggles this season. A six-year con- the Champions League group stages next season. knee-jerk reaction or stop-gap appoint- crown for more than a year at a time, and tract would be unheard of in Italy where Even so, Marseille coach Elie Baup refused to say who he ment in the post-Ferguson era. United they twice held onto it for three years in a Massimiliano Allegri was given only two would be cheering for tomorrow. “Our worry is to keep con- have picked Moyes, and they plan to keep row. Numerous times during that period, years when hired by AC Milan. Even after centrated on the (Toulouse) match. We have to be ready him. Such an attitude contrasts sharply Ferguson was written off or questioned by winning Serie A in his first season, that was because the finishing line is not far,” he said. “First things first, with the example displayed by other pundits before always proving his detrac- only enough to earn a two-year extension we have to succeed in our match against Toulouse. They’ve teams, such as Chelsea where Rafael tors wrong. Such long-sightedness has when his contract was up. just had a great performance (in beating Lille 4-2).” Lille’s Benitez was picked to replace Roberto Di stood United in good stead and the club The majority of Italian coaching con- defeat last week hurt their Champions League qualification Matteo in November, but only on an inter- does not look likely to change that tracts, which are usually signed through chances, leaving them six points behind Lyon. Nice, who trail im basis until the end of the season. approach any time soon. Such vision is not the course of a season following someone Lyon by three points, and Saint-Etienne, a point further back, Benitez is the 10th Chelsea boss in billion- shared by everyone, though. else’s unhappy sacking, run either until look to be the only two remaining threats to a top three finish. aire Russian owner Roman Abramovich’s Take Blackburn, for example, who fired the end of the current campaign or the fol- They travel to Evian and Lorient respectively.— AFP 10 years at the club. Sam Allardyce in December 2010 when sit- lowing one. —AFP sports SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Amir Shooting Tourney set to conclude today

By Abdellatif Al-Sharaa of activity and achievements. HH the standing Qatari shotgun shooters who points while KSSC shooter Mubarak Al- Amir will be represented by Information are keen on participating along with the Subaiee was second with 188.9 and his KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Minister, State Minister for Youth Affairs Kuwaiti shooters in HH the Amir shooting colleague Mohammad Adel third with a Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Shooting Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Hmoud tournament. score of 177.8 The closing ceremony will Tournament will be concluded today, Al-Sabah in the closing ceremony. He said a special event was held for be held at 5 pm today at Sheikh Sabah Al- bringing to a close a shooting season full Competitions which began Thursday the differently-abled and they showed Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex. evening were very strong and shooters highly-skilled techniques.23 shooters were keen on good results to win the from KSSC and the military associations prestigious cup, not overlooking the fact exerted great efforts in the preliminaries that the result will count as members will before National Guard shooter Hamad be selected from the national teams to Abdallah won the cup by scoring 194.9, participate in tournaments outside while his colleague Suhail Jasim ended in Kuwait. second place by scoring 187.4 and Bader Secretary General of the Arab and Al-Muhaini from the military association Kuwait Shooting Federations Obaid Al- was at third with 168.7. Osaimi said HH the Amir Shooting In the differently-abled category, Tournament was held over three days shooter Nizar Ramadhan won first place starting Thursday, and results of the in the 10m rifle event by scoring 520.12 shooters are very promising and added points while Mohammad Hawwash was that there are some new shooters who second by scoring 515.8. Meanwhile Atif showed great skills, especially in the rifle Al-Dousary was third with 437. and pistol disciplines while moving In the 10m event, pistol shooter Khalid towards making significant achieve- Mallouh was first with a score of 471.3, ments. He said that owing to the impor- Tawfeeq Ashkanani second with a score tance of this tournament, all Olympic of 467.3 and Ali Mohammad Khalifa third events were included in addition to with 366.2 points. archery. Al-Osaimi said National Guard, In the 10m air rifle event, shooter military, police associations and club Abdallah Al-Harby from the Military Fuhaid Al-Daihani shooters participated in addition to out- Association was first by scoring 201.6 Shahad Al-Hawal Chiefs toss Force out Reds poach Sharks with 22-21 in Super Rugby

PUKEKOHE: All Blacks flyhalf Aaron Cruden kicked 17 points in first half feeding frenzy an unexpected starting appearance for the Chiefs who edged the Western Force 22-21 in Super Rugby yesterday. Cruden was listed to begin the match in the reserves, to enjoy a small Reds bleed Sharks 32-17 respite in the 13th round, but was promoted into the starting lineup when fullback and regular goal kicker Gareth Anscombe BRISBANE: The Queensland Reds capi- Cooper ran the ball out of defence rather bling a kick behind the Sharks’ 22-metre was diagnosed with a broken toe. The Hamilton-based Chiefs talised on a brilliant first half to coast to a than booting it to safety, setting up a blis- line, and Davies enjoying the spoils of a needed Cruden’s conversion and five penalties to edge the 32-17 win over the Sharks in their Super tering run down the left wing by centre ruthless clean-out by his team mates. 13th-placed Force by a point; to remain atop the New Zealand Rugby match in Brisbane yesterday. The Chris Feauai-Sautia. Feauai-Sautia gave the The bamboozled Sharks headed for the conference but a point behind the ACT Brumbies on the over- Reds shrugged off the absence of injured ball off to livewire winger Digby Ioane, sheds trailing 29-3, but emerged a differ- all tournament standings. captain James Horwill and a disappointing who cut back inside and sent it to Genia. ent side after halftime. They had their first Winger Pat Dellit scored a try in each half for the Perth- draw to the lowly Western Force a week Rather than risk passing the ball forward to try within five minutes of the break when based Force who outscored the defending champions by two ago, notching up four tries and a bonus Davies, who was streaming down the right flyhalf Patrick Lambie fed Lindeque at the tries to one. The Chiefs led 22-11 immediately after halftime point six minutes before halftime at Lang wing, the pint-sized scrumhalf grubbed a right corner. Minnie gave the Sharks faint but the Force enjoyed the better of a scrappy second half, clos- Park. Winger Rod Davies scored a brace of kick along the ground that bounced up hope of snatching victory when he ing within a point when flyhalf Jayden Hayward converted tries, with the Faingaa twins, hooker Saia perfectly for the winger to gather and carry sneaked away from a line-out drive to cross Dellit’s second try in the 61st minute. The Chiefs had seemed in and inside centre Anthony, scoring one across the line. for his team’s second try, trimming the control of the match in the first half, scoring a try through Lelia each for the 2011 champion Reds. Cooper then set up Anthony Faingaa lead to 12 with 14 minutes left. Cooper, Masaga and leading 19-11 at halftime. But they lost all momen- The shell-shocked Sharks restored some for the Reds’ third try five minutes later, however, calmly slotted home his second tum in the second half, couldn’t reach the gain line, began to pride with second-half tries for winger Piet dispatching a flat pass to put the inside penalty kick to release the pressure in the slip off tackles and were lucky to save the match against the Lindeque and replacement flanker Derick centre over at the left corner. The Reds had 73rd minute, allowing his team to coast to Force, who finished with only 14 men. Minnie, but the Reds coasted home to give their fourth try and a bonus point six min- a confidence-building win ahead of their The Force conceded long strings of defensive penalties in outgoing coach Ewen McKenzie his first utes before the break with Cooper drib- tough road trip to South Africa. — Reuters both halves and tighthead prop Kieran Longbottom was sin- win over the Durban-based South Africans. binned in the 71st for deliberately collapsing a scrum, though The five-point victory also ensured the it seemed he had lost his footing on a wet and sub-standard Reds kept the heat on the rival ACT playing surface. The wet conditions confounded attempts Brumbies who lead the Australian confer- from both sides to play fluent, attacking rugby. Dellit’s tries for ence in the southern hemisphere competi- the Force were well taken and Masaga scored after a steady tion with seven rounds left before the play- buildup by the Chiefs but both sides made too many handling offs. errors to make the match entertaining. “Very happy, we spoke all week a bit “It’s a win but pretty frustrating,” Chiefs captain Craig Clarke more about playing a bit more expansive said. “We made a few errors and I know it’s wet but we’re prob- rugby, a bit more creative rugby,” ably pretty disappointed. “The conditions were a bit difficult. scrumhalf and stand-in skipper Will Genia The ball’s a bit wet but it’s not the worst conditions you could said in a pitchside interview. “We weren’t play in. Obviously, it’s still not an 80-minute performance from too disciplined in our structures in the sec- us.” The Force may have been fortunate to have been awarded ond half... All credit to them for forcing their first try to Dellit in the third minute from what seemed a their way back into the game.” forward pass. But they were unlucky to be as heavily penalized Reds flyhalf Quade Cooper boosted his as they were for the remainder of the first half when it seemed chances of selection in the Wallabies squad the Chiefs also infringed frequently at breakdowns. The Force for the upcoming tour against the British played more assertively in the second half and, after Cruden and Irish Lions, booting three conversions had kicked the last points for the Chiefs in the 44th minute, and two penalty goals and having a hand threatened to snatch the match with Dellit’s second try. “The in all of the Reds’ tries. The New Zealand- second half was good for us,” captain Matt Hodgson said. “We born pivot set up Saia Faingaa for the Reds’ let them get away to a good start with a lot of stupid penalties first try in the sixth minute and was the first in our own half and they kicked away to a good lead. “We’re a link in a magical second to Davies 10 min- team that has a good system in place and when we stick to it utes later. we get results. We did that in the second half.”—AP BRISBANE: Reds player Digby Ioane is tackled by a Sharks player during Starting behind the Reds try-line, the Super Rugby game in Brisbane yesterday. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

SPL Preview Celtic aim for title party finish

GLASGOW: Celtic striker Georgios Samaras is looking striker, who will collect his third title in six seasons at The three league games between the clubs so far to finish the season with a flourish as the champions Celtic, said.”It will be a great day for everyone. After all this season have ended in draws but Pat Fenlon’s side prepare to host St Johnstone in a title party at the hard work we have had all season - from the start knocked Hearts out of the Scottish Cup on their way Parkhead today. The Hoops will be presented with the of July to now is almost 10 months - and it’s a day we to the final. Hearts future remains uncertain following Scottish Premier League trophy following their penul- can enjoy and the fans can enjoy the game with no bankruptcy proceedings against Ukio Bankas, to timate league game of the season.The Glasgow giants pressure, and then we can have a nice celebration. whom they owe £15 million. And manager Gary Locke have struggled for form since clinching their second “We have had a very tough season with a lot of knows that the fans will be desperate to end the sea- successive title with several first team players being games and not much rest, and you need some rest to son with a derby win to give them something to cheer rested for the defeat against Motherwell and last protect your body from injuries and I feel fresh again.” about. “It would be great for the club to finish above week’s draw with Ross County. The Hoops are going for their 12th consecutive home Hibs,” Locke said. “But that isn’t the target for me. The However, manager Neil Lennon will have a full win in the SPL, and their manager wants them to give target is to finish the best of the rest in the bottom six. squad to pick from for the match against St Johnstone the fans a title party to remember in their final outing “By beating Hibs that will help us along the way as Celtic begin their preparations for the Scottish Cup at Celtic Park this season. but it is going to be a difficult game. “They have a final against Hibernian on May 26. Victory at “Everyone’s back,” Lennon said. “The guys we cup final to look forward to and I know all the players Hampden would deliver the domestic double for the wanted to have a break have had their break so it’s there will be looking to try and impress Pat over the Hoops, and alongside their achievement of reaching been intensive training this week and we’ll go really next few games. “We want to be as high up the the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, Samaras strong for the game today and hopefully we can cele- league table as we can and put behind us what has reckons it would make a special season an outstand- brate with a great performance.” Tomorrow, crisis club been a pretty disappointing season.” Elsewhere ing one. Hearts host Edinburgh rivals Hibernian at Tynecastle. tomorrow, relegated Dundee take on Kilmarnock at “We have had some days off and missed some Hearts lead 10th-placed Hibs by one point, although Rugby Park while Inverness Caledonian Thistle will games but we have a full squad now and are looking the Easter Road side have a game in hand over their hope to clinch a European spot with a win against forward to the game against St Johnstone,” the Greek city rivals. Dundee United. —AFP

German League Preview Italian League Preview Bayern lift league title Under-fire Allegri Bayern look at tradition, golden oldies in title party eyes Champions BERLIN: Bayern Munich will collect their This will be Bayern’s third Champions lead Bayern to the first ever treble of League hotspot first silverware for three years today when League final in four seasons with European, league and cup titles by a they are presented with the Bundesliga Rummenigge insisting they have learnt the German side. “There are two big finals yet MILAN: AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri is looking for a shield and chairman Karl-Heinz lessons from defeats to Chelsea last year to come, that is why we need rhythm, so potentially job-saving victory against Roma tomorrow, know- Rummenigge insists it won’t be the last tro- and Inter Milan in 2010. “We have learnt our we have to preserve our form,” said ing that would be enough to clinch Serie A’s final Champions phy they lift this season. And Rummenigge lesson from Madrid in 2010, then in Munich Heynckes. League spot. Allegri has dragged Milan from the abyss of their has his sights firmly set on the Champions last year. Our team will win the Champions Training tomorrow has already been worst ever Serie A start to the brink of Europe’s premier club League final. After hosting Augsburg at League in 14 days,” Rummenigge wrote in cancelled, but Bayern have a big three competition, but speculation in the press suggests his job Munich’s Allianz Arena, Bayern will be the Bayern magazine. Before the Wembley weeks ahead of them as they face VfB depends on pushing his team over the finishing line. Milan Stuttgart in the German Cup final the took a giant step towards claiming third place, which offers today after their Wembley date on May 25. Champions League football through a preliminary round, with Bayern had a minor injury scare on a 4-0 rout of Pescara on Wednesday. With a four-point lead Wednesday when key midfielder Bastian over fourth-placed Fiorentina and just two games left, the Schweinsteiger limped out of training with Rossoneri can cement third with a win. an ankle knock after a crunching tackle And with his job likely to hinge on such a scenario, Allegri from centre-back Dante. “You train like you is taking nothing for granted. “We hope to take the win play. It’s an old saying, but it’s still true,” said Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. tomorrow against Roma that would mathematically guaran- With second-place in the Bundesliga tee us third place. But we have to remain focused,” he said. A and next season’s Champions League Milan defeat and a win Fiorentina would resurrect the place secured, Dortmund travel to mid- Florentine side’s hopes of competing against Europe’s big table VfL Wolfsburg looking to keep their boys next season, but coach Vincenzo Montella does not first-choice side free from injury. Defensive appear too hopeful. midfielder Ilkay Gundogan is nursing a leg He indicated that Fiorentina, who have played some crack- knock from last Saturday’s 1-1 draw with ing football this season thanks to the likes of striker Stefan Bayern in Dortmund, while reserve centre- Jovetic and playmaker Adem Ljajic, would be happy just to back Patrick Owomoyela is out for the sea- secure fourth spot and a guaranteed Europa League place. son after injuring his hip. Fourth-placed “Our season has been very positive and we’ve made few errors. Schalke 04 can move a step closer to secur- We can’t change anything, but we have no regrets,” said MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s defender Holger Badstuber (seventh right) ing a spot in next season’s Champions Montella. “I want to consolidate this fourth place.” A Fiorentina League when they host Stuttgart having win would give La Viola a four-point lead over Udinese with and his teammate midfielder Toni Kroos (fourth left) pose with employ- extended the contract of promising ees of the new Bayern Munich Fan Shop which opened yesterday. —AFP one game remaining and mathematically secure fourth place. Germany midfielder Julian Draxler until That would leave the fight for the final Europa League spot 2018. down to fifth-placed Udinese and Rome pair Lazio and Roma, handed the league trophy having won the showpiece, Bayern plan to celebrate their There is plenty to play for at the foot of who are both two points adrift. Bundesliga title at the start of April, a record 23rd German title in style, with the custom- the table with Werder Bremen, Fortuna Udinese and their on-form striker Antonio Di Natale host six games before the season’s end with a ary beer showers expected when players Duesseldorf, Augsburg and Hoffenheim all Atalanta looking for a seventh consecutive win. Lazio have also massive 20-point lead. empty huge glasses over each other on the battling to stay up. Bottom side Greuther It was Bayern’s first trophy success since pitch today. Fuerth are already relegated and they can built momentum, at least in terms of scoring goals. After a tur- May 2010 as rivals Borussia Dortmund Fans attending the Bavarian derby have avoid an unwanted Bundesliga record if bulent season, Vldaimir Petkovic’s side completed a 6-0 rout of dominated the league for the next two sea- been asked to come in traditional costume, they pick up their first home league win of Bologna last weekend - when Miroslav Klose scored a club sons. The Bavarian giants are sure to name with brass bands and shoe-slapping dances the season against Freiburg. No other record five goals - and then ended Inter Milan’s hopes of a weakened side against an Augsburg part of the celebrations. Coach Jupp team has ever gone a whole Bundesliga European football with a 3-1 win at the San Siro Wednesday. In team in the mire of the relegation battle as Heynckes, who celebrated his 68th-birth- campaign without at least one home win the event Udinese hold on to fifth, one of the capital clubs will Bayern focus their attentions on the day on Thursday, steps down at the end of and Fuerth are desperate to finish their have a chance to secure Europa League qualification by win- Champions League final against Dortmund the season, to be replaced by Pep debut season in the top flight without the ning the Italian Cup final on May 26. —AFP at Wembley on May 25. Guardiola. But before he goes, he hopes to most unwanted of records. —AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Ronaldinho Photo of the day boosts Confed Cup chances SAO PAULO: Ronaldinho seems to be thriving again just at the right time. The two-time world player of the year significantly increased his chances of mak- ing Brazil’s squad for next month’s Confederations Cup after a superb per- formance in the Copa Libertadores. Ronaldinho “put on a private show,” as read a headline in a local newspaper on Thursday, a day after leading Atletico Mineiro to a 4-1 rout of Sao Paulo and a spot in the quarterfinals. The perform- ance comes just five days before coach Luiz Felipe Scolari announces Brazil’s squad for the World Cup warm-up tournament that begins on June 15. Ronaldinho was in need of a good performance after struggling in his last appearance with Brazil’s national team, a 2-2 result against Chile which drew loud jeers from nearly 50,000 home fans in Belo Horizonte just a few weeks ago. The high-profile Copa Libertadores match in Belo Horizonte attracted all the attention in Brazil and Ronaldinho took advantage of the spotlight. “Another show by Ronaldinho,” read a headline at the Estado de Minas news- paper. Scolari has hinted that he will pick between veterans Ronaldinho and Kaka for a spot at midfield in his Confederations Cup squad. And while Kaka is struggling to get a chance to play with Real Madrid, Ronaldinho is making the most of his matches with Atletico Mineiro. The former Barcelona star set up one of the three goals scored by striker Jo and took control of the match from the start at the Independencia Stadium on Wednesday. He nearly scored himself just three minutes into the game, but his free-kick shot struck the crossbar as Sao Paulo goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni could only watch. Ronaldinho displayed some of the skills that made him one of the best players in the world while playing in Europe in Competitors perform at the Red Bull Mini Drome at Axelborg, Copenhagen, Denmark. the last decade. Near the end of the match, he used nifty moves to dribble —www.redbullcontentpool.com past two defenders at once near the sidelines, bringing the Atletico fans to their feet. —AP

Matches on TV Cahill eyes glorious (Local Timings)

English Premier League Aston Villa v Chelsea 14:45 finale for Chelsea Abu Dhabi Sports HD BIRMINGHAM: Chelsea defender Gary Cahill has the season still ongoing and with the manager playing well enough. We’ll see if we can hurt Spanish League challenged his side to finish the season in tri- not here or chosen yet. It would be easy to them. “The defeat hurt like it did for everyone Bilbao v Mallorca 17:00 umphant style as they aim to qualify for the speculate. “But he is certainly one of the great- else. But the team never let heads go down, Champions League and win the Europa League est, if not the greatest, manager in world foot- never wilted, kept going and now the fruition Al-Jazeera Sport +2 in their remaining three games. The midweek ball.” Villa have won five of their last eight is there for everyone to see - we’re playing Valladolid v Coruna 19:00 failure to beat Tottenham means Rafael Benitez’s matches, which has lifted them to 13th on 40 really well.” Al-Jazeera Sport +2 side must win at Aston Villa today if they are to points and the verge of safety. Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov will lead out his Osasuna v Getafe 21:00 go into the Europa League final against Benfica And boss Paul Lambert insists Chelsea will team mates for the traditional lap of honor at Al-Jazeera Sport +6 with a top four finish already secured. face a different team to the one they thrashed the end of Villa’s final home game of the cam- Espanyol v Real Madrid 23:00 Anything less could mean the trip to 8-0 at Stamford Bridge in December. “We’re a paign today after announcing his retirement Amsterdam on May 15 is overshadowed by con- threat, I think everyone knows we have play- on Thursday. The Bulgarian is fighting against Al-Jazeera Sport +2 tinuing uncertainty about their chances of play- ers who can hurt teams. I’m pretty sure leukaemia but is currently in remission. “For ing in next season’s Champions League. The Chelsea will know we have guys on top of Stiliyan himself, the most important for me Italian League odds are stacked in favor of the Blues, with the 2- their game,” Lambert said. “But we know it’ll was for him to survive that horrible illness,” Juventus v Cagliari 19:00 2 draw against Spurs ensuring they sit third, be hard. The beauty of it is everybody apart Lambert said. “I’m delighted first and foremost Al-Jazeera Sport +1 three points ahead of Andre Villas-Boas’s side in from us and our fans expect Chelsea to win, that he’s alive - he said that himself, that’s Catania v Pescara 21:45 fifth, and two points clear of Arsenal in fourth. because of the team they are. “The onus is on vital. For him to go out and do this will make it And while Villa have shown improved form us to make the running and we’re certainly a great occasion.” —AFP Al-Jazeera Sport +1 to move clear of the bottom three, Benitez’s side would expect to overcome a team that has German Bundesliga struggled for form and confidence for much of Bayern Munich v Augsburg 16:30 the season. Victory in their two remaining Dubai Sports Premier League games - they play Everton at Schalke v Stuttgart 16:30 Stamford Bridge on the final day of the season - and over Benfica will mean Chelsea finish third, Dubai Sports guaranteeing passage to the Champions League Wolfsburg v Dortmund 16:30 group stage, and again collect silverware. Dubai Sports And England centre-back Cahill said: “There are three games left in total and they will deter- French League mine our season. “It is a huge game today fol- Marseille v Toulouse 18:00 lowed by the Europa League final which is obvi- ously massive. So we go again and we are in a Al-Jazeera Sport +4 good run of results at the moment and decent Ajaccio v Troyes 21:00 form.” Chelsea’s search for a new manager is Al-Jazeera Sport +10 attracting almost as much attention as their Bastia v Montpellier 21:00 efforts on the pitch with Frank Lampard adding Al-Jazeera Sport +4 his support for the return of former manager Brest v Sochaux 21:00 Jose Mourinho. Lampard, who has not been offered a new Al-Jazeera Sport +7 LONDON: Chelsea’s Spanish striker Fernando Torres (left) falls after being contract to remain at the club, said: “I think it fouled by Tottenham Hotspur’s Belgium defender Jan Vertonghen (right) dur- Valenciennes v Stade Rennes 21:00 would be a great thing for the club. He is a ing the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Al-Jazeera Sport +8 successful manager and he would be a great thing for any club. “It’s hard to comment with Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge on May 8, 2013. —AFP Everton feel the pinch of Moyes’ departure 44 SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 11, MAY SATURDAY, SportsSports

MADRID: Rafael Nadal from Spain serves the ball to David Ferrer from Spain during the Madrid Open tennis tourna- ment yesterday. — AP Nadal unhinges Ferrer Nadal reaches Madrid Open semis

MADRID: Rafa Nadal recovered from acciden- the decider to set up a semi-final meeting “I think maybe David deserved more than Roger Federer became another high profile tally striking himself in the face with his racket today against Japanese 14th seed Kei me to be in the semi-finals but that’s sport for casualty on Thursday when he lost his third- to see off Spanish compatriot David Ferrer 4-6 Nishikori or Spanish wildcard Pablo Andujar. you,” the 26-year-old added. “In the third set round match to Nishikori of Japan. Former 7-6 6-0 in the Madrid Open quarter-finals yes- Nadal had a scare when leading 4-0 in the David dropped his intensity a bit and I didn’t world number one Nadal has won four titles terday. World number four Ferrer, ranked one third set when his racket bounced up off the have to do all that much. “I was playing since his return from injury in February and place above Nadal following the Majorcan’s court as he was stretching down to play a aggressively on my forehand and I am very will be chasing an eighth Roland Garros seven-month layoff with a knee injury, shot and struck him above the eye. pleased with how that is going, it’s working crown in Paris starting later this month. showed why he is considered one of the most After a brief interruption he was able to much better than in the events leading up to In yesterday’s remaining quarter-finals on tenacious competitors on the circuit to take continue and closed out the victory on his Madrid.” Nadal has managed to avoid the fate the other side of the draw, British third seed the first set of the last-eight clash at the clay first match point when he broke Ferrer for a of world number one Novak Djokovic, who Andy Murray meets sixth-seed Czech Tomas Masters event. seventh time. “It was a very tight match,” was upset by unseeded Bulgarian Grigor Berdych and seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Nadal clung on to edge the second-set Nadal said in an interview with Spanish televi- Dimitrov in the second round on Tuesday. of France plays Swiss 15th seed Stanislas tiebreak 7-3 and then switched up a gear in sion broadcaster La Sexta. Second seed and defending champion Wawrinka. — Reuters