Asian stocks rise on hopes for EU debt fix (AP)

BANGKOK ? Asian stock markets rose Thursday, with investors feeling bold enough to wade into risky assets after European leaders reached an agreement on a plan to reduce Greece's massive debts.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.5 percent higher at 8,795.28. South Korea's Kospi index added 1 percent to 1,913.07 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index gained 1.1 percent at 19,273.66. Benchmarks in Taiwan, Singapore and the Philippines also rose.

Early Thursday, European leaders agreed on a plan to provide Greece with more rescue loans to help relieve its crushing debt obligations. European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said the deal will reduce Greece's debt to 120 percent of its GDP in 2020. Under current conditions, it would have grown to 180 percent.

Strong earnings reports also propelled stocks higher.

Shares of Hong Kong-listed Agricultural Bank of China, one of the country's four major state-owned commercial lenders, jumped 3.6 percent after the Beijing-based bank announced its third-quarter profit rose 40 percent on growth in interest and fee income.

Anhui Conch Cement, China's largest cement producer by output, jumped 6.3 percent, a day after announcing its net profit more than doubled in the third quarter of 2011.

Meanwhile, strong economic reports helped send Wall Street higher on Wednesday.

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 1.4 percent to 11,869.04. The S&P 500 index rose 1.1 percent to 1,242. The Nasdaq composite added 0.5 percent to 2,650.67.

Reports in the U.S. showed businesses ordered more heavy machinery and other long-lasting manufactured goods last month. That indicates businesses are still spending on equipment despite worries about a weak economy and Europe's debt problems. Sales of new homes rose in September after falling for four straight months.

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APNewsBreak: Eurozone to boost bailout fund

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to brief the faction and party leaders of the German parliament party's about yesterday's European Summit on the Euro financial crisis at the chancellery in Berlin, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to brief the faction and party leaders of the German parliament party's about yesterday's European Summit on the Euro financial crisis at the chancellery in Berlin, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to brief the faction and party leaders of the German parliament party's about yesterday's European Summit on the Euro financial crisis at the chancellery in Berlin, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German chancellor Angela Merkel, left, accompanies German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble prior to a meeting of the party executive committee in Berlin Monday Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/dapd/Michael Gottschalk)

FILE - In this Saturday Oct. 4, 2008 file photo, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, speaks as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, receives help with her earphone from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a media conference at an emergency financial summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Berlusconi lashed out Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, at his German and French counterparts who have demanded Italy introduce tough new measures to spur economic growth, chiding them for trying to "give lessons" to Rome and insisting Italy's economy was stable. Berlusconi's pointedly critical statement came as he summoned his Cabinet for an emergency meeting to discuss growth measures the European Union has demanded so Italy doesn't get further dragged into Europe's debt crisis. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2011 file photo, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel participate in a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels. They were so close at one point that people started calling them "Merkozy" but you can always count on money to break up a beautiful relationship. Merkel and Sarkozy still talk on the phone every day and meet plenty for dinner. But nowadays, as yet another summit of European leaders approaches Wednesday, they mostly just discuss the finances that divide them some hundreds of billions of euros. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

BERLIN (AP) ? The 17-nation eurozone is set to shore up its bailout fund to contain the debt turmoil that threatens to engulf more countries across Europe, and German lawmakers said Monday the plan could boost the fund's lending capacity to more than euro1 trillion ($1.39 trillion).

A document obtained by The Associated Press shows the currency zone wants to boost the euro440 billion ($600 billion) bailout fund by offering sovereign bond buyers an insurance against possible losses and by attracting capital from private investors and sovereign wealth funds.

Eurozone governments hope that the enhanced the European Financial Stability Fund, or EFSF, will be able to protect countries such as Italy and Spain from being engulfed in the debt crisis. To do that, however, it needs to be bigger or see its lending powers magnified.

Leading German opposition lawmakers, who were briefed earlier Monday by Chancellor Angela Merkel on the plan, said the fund's lending capacity will be boosted "beyond euro1 trillion" ($1.39 trillion).

But the draft document by the eurozone working group ? which Germany's government was sharing with key lawmakers Monday ? did not provide a headline figure for the bailout fund, stressing "a more precise number on the extent of leverage can only be determined after contacts with potential investors" and rating agencies.

Because of the move's significance, members of Merkel's party proposed that the change receive full parliamentary approval on Wednesday ? although it would have been enough for the parliament's budget committee to approve the plan.

The changes look likely to pass by a wide margin in Germany's parliament.

Lawmakers will vote only hours before an EU summit in Brussels that is set to adopt the new rules for the EFSF.

The enhanced bailout fund rules are meant to guarantee "continued market access of euro area member states under pressure and the proper functioning of the sovereign debt market," the document said.

Therefore the EFSF is set to have the ability to provide investors with a partial insurance against losses from its member states' government bonds, thus making them a safer and more attractive investment.

The eurozone document also foresees setting up one or several special investment vehicles that would partly compensate possible losses on sovereign bonds in a bid to attract outside investors such as sovereign wealth funds, combining "public and private capital to enlarge the resources available."

The draft document stressed that the EFSF would "benefit from the flexibility to deploy both options, which are not mutually exclusive."

The insurance model is designed to increase the demand for newly issued eurozone government bonds, lower the yields, "thereby supporting the sustainability of public finances," the document said.

Lowering the yields for troubled eurozone governments is a key step to counter the widening debt crisis because spiraling yields on debt issued by Greece, Portugal and Ireland eventually cut them off from market financing, forcing the eurozone to provide those nations with an emergency loan package.

In the event of a default, "the investor could surrender the partial protection certificate" and "receive payment in kind with an EFSF bond," the document said, referring to the insurance model.

The new investment facility, a so-called Special Investment Purpose Investment Vehicle (SPIV), is meant to create "additional liquidity and market capacity to extend loans, for bank recapitalization via a member state and for buying bonds in the primary and secondary market," the eurozone draft document said.

Any assistance from the fund for member states, however, would come with tough strings attached and the "appropriate monitoring and surveillance procedures," the document said.

Greece, for example, must implement harsh austerity measures in return for last year's euro110 billion bailout.

Beefing up the EFSF is one part of a three-pronged eurozone plan to solve the crisis.

The other two parts are reducing Greece's debt burden so the country eventually can stand on its own and forcing banks to raise more money so they can take losses on the Greek debt and ride out the financial storm that will entail.

Greece's private bondholders agreed in July to accept losses of 21 percent on their holdings, and getting them to take deeper losses to lighten the country's debt load is proving particularly difficult.

Experts agree that Greece needs to write off more of its debt ? German officials have said up to 50 or 60 percent ? if it is ever to make it out of its debt hole.

But many say such a deal with private creditors needs to be voluntary. Imposing sharp losses against the banks through a so-called haircut could trigger massive bond insurance payments that could cause panic on financial markets.

Charles Dallara, managing director of a global banking lobby group currently negotiating a wider Greek debt reduction with eurozone officials in Brussels, cautioned that "there are limits to what could be considered as voluntary."

He insisted that any approach not based on cooperative discussions but unilateral actions would be tantamount to a Greek default, isolating the country for years from capital markets.

"It would also likely have severe contagion effects, which would cost the European and the world economy dearly in terms of employment and growth," Dallara said in a statement.

The European Central Bank, meanwhile, has been taking on the role of firefighter by buying the bonds of financially weakened governments on the open market. That keeps the bond prices up and the rates down, allowing the countries to borrow on financial markets at lower rates than they otherwise could.

The ECB said it bought euro4.5 billion ($6.3 billion) in government bonds last week. That was up from euro2.2 billion the week before, bringing the total of sovereign bonds held by the ECB to euro169.5 billion.

The ECB hopes it will be able to stop the bond-buying program once the bailout fund's new powers are active.

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Melissa Eddy and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Three killed in Yemen violence (Reuters)

SANAA (Reuters) ? Gunfire and shelling in the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed two people on Sunday, medics said, two days after the United Nations issued a resolution condemning the violence and urging President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

A third person was killed in the southern city of Taiz during protests demanding an end to Saleh's 33-year rule, while street fighting between state troops and soldiers and tribesmen siding with the opposition showed no sign of slowing.

At least 14 soldiers were injured on Sunday, including five aligned with top general Ali Mohsen, who defected from Saleh in March and threw his weight behind the protesters. Demonstrators accused government snipers of shooting at their camp in Sanaa.

"There are one dead and six injured due to firing in the south of Change Square at dawn," said Dr Mohammed al-Qubati, the head of a field hospital in the camp, earlier on Sunday.

Government and opposition traded blame for the death of a young girl who was killed when a shell landed on her family's house, also injuring her mother, witnesses said.

A nine-month confrontation between Saleh and a fractured opposition of student protesters, tribal leaders and dissident army factions has escalated in recent weeks after a three-month lull.

Saleh has thrice backed out of signing a Gulf-brokered transition plan that would see him leave office and says he will only transfer power to "safe hands."

On Friday the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution condemning the crackdown on protesters and urging the veteran leader to sign a deal proposed by Gulf states which would see him step down in return for immunity from prosecution.

The Arab League in a statement on Sunday welcomed the resolution, calling on Saleh to quickly sign the Gulf intiative and allow its implementation to begin.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators set off on a protest march on Sunday from Change Square, the street intersection next to Sanaa University on the capital's ring-road where the opposition has set up camp.

In Saturday's clashes, five soldiers loyal to the opposition and five civilians were killed, witnesses and Sanaa residents said.

State news channels said five soldiers and three civilians had been killed, blaming the violence on non-government militias.

Rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and automatic weapons were used in the al-Hasaba, Soufan and al-Nahda districts of northern Sanaa, where soldiers loyal to the opposition are based.

(Reporting by Mohamed Sudam; Writing by Angus McDowall and Isabel Coles; Editing by Andrew Roche)

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Moms who lose a baby face higher stillbirth risk (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Parents who've suffered the death of an infant may have a higher-than-normal risk of stillbirth in the next pregnancy, a new study suggests.

Stillbirth refers to the death of a fetus after the 20th week of pregnancy. It's known that, as a group, women with a history of stillbirth have a higher-than-average risk of suffering another.

But the new study suggests that the death of a baby in the first year of life also points to an increased risk of stillbirth in the next pregnancy.

Researchers found that among more than 320,000 women, the rate of stillbirth during a second pregnancy was just over four per 1,000 births. But the risk was nearly three-fold higher for women who'd lost their first baby before the child's first birthday, versus mothers whose first baby survived.

It's not entirely clear why the relationship exists. But the researchers say the findings suggest that women who've lost a baby should be counseled before their next pregnancy.

"What we're trying to do is, look at women's history and see if we can identify mothers who are likely to be at higher risk of stillbirth," said Dr. Hamisu Salihu, a professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa who worked on the study.

The precise cause of a woman's stillbirth is often unknown. In fact, that's true in about 50 percent to 60 percent of cases, Salihu told Reuters Health.

But there are certain risk factors linked to stillbirth that are changeable. Obesity and smoking are two, Salihu noted.

In addition, certain health conditions in the mother -- like high blood pressure or diabetes that arise before or during pregnancy -- are tied to stillbirth (because they can lead to problems with the placenta or affect the growth of the fetus).

So Salihu suggested that couples who've lost a baby visit with their doctor before their next pregnancy to talk about any modifiable risk factors for pregnancy complications. During pregnancy, a woman may need to make more-frequent prenatal care visits to monitor for problems, depending on her situation.

"That has to be decided on a case-by-case basis," Salihu said.

The findings, published in the obstetrics journal BJOG, are based on medical records from 320,350 Missouri women who had their first and second pregnancies between 1989 and 2005.

Of those women, 2,483 -- about eight percent -- lost their first baby before the child's first birthday. And they had a three-fold greater risk of having a stillbirth with their next pregnancy compared with women whose first baby survived.

Black women had a particularly elevated risk: Those who'd suffered an infant death were more than four times more likely to have a stillbirth than black women whose first baby survived.

That finding is in line with past research showing that African-American women face a higher stillbirth risk than white women do.

It's not clear from the study why infant deaths were linked to stillbirth risk in the next pregnancy. But Salihu said it's possible that the same underlying factors that contributed to the first baby's death -- whether genetic or environmental, like poor growth due to smoking -- also contributed to fetal death in the second pregnancy.

In support of that idea, the researchers found that the death of a newborn -- versus an older baby -- was more strongly linked to stillbirth risk in the next pregnancy.

The overall stillbirth rate in the study was 0.4 percent. So even with a relatively increased risk, most couples who've lost a baby would not have a stillbirth next time.

"Couples should not give up," Salihu said. What they should do, he added, is get "preconception" counseling to try to spot any known risk factors for stillbirth.

"Some of those risk factors are modifiable," Salihu said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/pjPFKf BJOG, online September 21, 2011.

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Heir to Saudi throne dies in New York

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia ?? The heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz, died Saturday in the U.S. after an illness. He was 85.

The death of the crown prince ? who was the half brother of the ailing Saudi King Abdullah ? opens questions about succession.

NBC News reported that Sultan died at a hospital in New York City. He is expected to be buried Tuesday in Riyadh.

'A strong leader'
Sultan, who was the oil-rich kingdom's deputy prime minister, had been defense minister and minister of aviation for about four decades.

"With grief, King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz mourns the death of Sultan bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud, crown prince and his brother," the palace said in a statement.

Saudi television broke its schedules early on Saturday to broadcast Koranic verses accompanied by footage of the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam's holiest site.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the crown prince as "a strong leader and a good friend to the United States over many years, as well as a tireless champion for his country."

Sultan underwent surgery in New York in February 2009 and spent nearly a year abroad recuperating in the United States and at a palace in Agadir, Morocco. According to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable from January 2010, Sultan had been receiving treatment for colon cancer since 2009.

Sultan oversaw a defense spending spree which made the kingdom one of the world's biggest arms buyers.

Sultan had an intestinal cyst removed in 2005 and had spent several months abroad for treatment and recreation.

Advanced weapons
While Saudi Arabia insisted he was fully cured, diplomats in Riyadh said he gradually retreated from participating in decision-making and often worked only for one or two hours a day.

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Many of his duties had been informally shifted to other princes, most notably to his son Khaled who led Saudi and Arab forces during the 1991 war to remove Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army from Kuwait. Prince Khaled, who is assistant defense minister, is also the owner of influential pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.

While defense minister, Sultan spent hundreds of billions to modernize the forces of the country where Islam was born 1400 years ago, doubling the regular armed forces to more than 100,000 men and buying advanced weapons from all over the world.

Born in Riyadh, Sultan was educated by private tutors and spoke some English. He also went to a school for princes.

He was keen to maintain close ties with the West, especially the United States, though like the rest of the royal family he distanced himself from the U.S.-led attack on Iraq in 2003.

Story: Obama: All US troops out of Iraq by end of year

The most likely candidate for the throne after Sultan is Prince Nayef, the powerful interior minister in charge of internal security forces. After Sultan fell ill, the king gave Nayef an implicit nod in 2009 by naming him second deputy prime minister, traditionally the post of the third in line.

Anyone who rises to the throne is likely to maintain the kingdom's close alliance with the United States. But there could be internal differences. Abdullah has been seen as a reformer, making incremental changes to improve the position of women, for example, and to modernize the kingdom despite some backlash from the ultra-conservative Wahhabi clerics who give the royal family the religious legitimacy needed to rule. Nayef, for example, is often seen as closer to the clerics.

Abdullah is aged in his late 80s and underwent back surgery earlier this month but has been pictured since then in apparently good health.

Unlike in European monarchies, the line of succession does not move directly from father to eldest son, but has moved down a line of brothers born to the kingdom's founder Ibn Saud, who died in 1953.

NBC News, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44996642/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

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Nearby planet-forming disk holds water for thousands of oceans

Public release date: 20-Oct-2011
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University of Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planets.

Water is an essential ingredient for life. Scientists have found thousands of Earth-oceans' worth of it within the planet-forming disk surrounding the star TW Hydrae. TW Hydrae is 176 light years away in the constellation Hydra and is the closest solar-system-to-be.

University of Michigan astronomy professor Ted Bergin is a co-author of a paper on the findings published in the Oct. 21 edition of Science.

The researchers used the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI) on the orbiting Hershel Space Observatory to detect the chemical signature of water.

"This tells us that the key materials that life needs are present in a system before planets are born," said Bergin, a HIFI co-investigator. "We expected this to be the case, but now we know it is because have directly detected it. We can see it."

Scientists had previously found warm water vapor in planet-forming disks close to the central star. But until now, evidence for vast quantities of water extending into the cooler, far reaches of disks where comets and giant planets take shape had not emerged. The more water available in disks for icy comets to form, the greater the chances that large amounts will eventually reach new planets through impacts.

"The detection of water sticking to dust grains throughout the planet-forming disk would be similar to events in our own solar system's evolution, where over millions of years, these dust grains would then coalesce to form comets. These would be a prime delivery mechanism for water on planetary bodies," said principal investigator Michiel Hogerheijde of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Other recent findings from HIFI support the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth's oceans. Researchers found that the ice on a comet called Hartley 2 has the same chemical composition as our oceans.

HIFI is helping astronomers gain a better understanding of how water comes to terrestrial planets---Earth and beyond. If TW Hydrae and its icy disk are representative of many other young star systems, as researchers think they are, then the process for creating planets around numerous stars with abundant water throughout the universe appears to be in place, NASA officials say.

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The paper is titled "Detection of the Water Reservoir in a Forming Planetary System." Also contributing are researchers from California Institute of Technology, the University of Amsterdam, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Johns Hopkins University, the European Southern Observatory, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and the Max-Planck-Institut fr Extraterrestrische Physik.

Herschel, a European Space Agency mission with NASA participation, is an orbiting telescope that allows astronomers to observe at the far-infrared wavelengths where organic molecules and water emit their chemical signatures.

Ted Bergin:
www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/~ebergin/Teds_Home_Page.html

NASA's Herschel website:
www.nasa.gov/herschel

ESA's Herschel website:
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/index.html

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Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
ncmoore@umich.edu
734-647-7087
University of Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planets.

Water is an essential ingredient for life. Scientists have found thousands of Earth-oceans' worth of it within the planet-forming disk surrounding the star TW Hydrae. TW Hydrae is 176 light years away in the constellation Hydra and is the closest solar-system-to-be.

University of Michigan astronomy professor Ted Bergin is a co-author of a paper on the findings published in the Oct. 21 edition of Science.

The researchers used the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI) on the orbiting Hershel Space Observatory to detect the chemical signature of water.

"This tells us that the key materials that life needs are present in a system before planets are born," said Bergin, a HIFI co-investigator. "We expected this to be the case, but now we know it is because have directly detected it. We can see it."

Scientists had previously found warm water vapor in planet-forming disks close to the central star. But until now, evidence for vast quantities of water extending into the cooler, far reaches of disks where comets and giant planets take shape had not emerged. The more water available in disks for icy comets to form, the greater the chances that large amounts will eventually reach new planets through impacts.

"The detection of water sticking to dust grains throughout the planet-forming disk would be similar to events in our own solar system's evolution, where over millions of years, these dust grains would then coalesce to form comets. These would be a prime delivery mechanism for water on planetary bodies," said principal investigator Michiel Hogerheijde of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Other recent findings from HIFI support the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth's oceans. Researchers found that the ice on a comet called Hartley 2 has the same chemical composition as our oceans.

HIFI is helping astronomers gain a better understanding of how water comes to terrestrial planets---Earth and beyond. If TW Hydrae and its icy disk are representative of many other young star systems, as researchers think they are, then the process for creating planets around numerous stars with abundant water throughout the universe appears to be in place, NASA officials say.

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The paper is titled "Detection of the Water Reservoir in a Forming Planetary System." Also contributing are researchers from California Institute of Technology, the University of Amsterdam, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Johns Hopkins University, the European Southern Observatory, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and the Max-Planck-Institut fr Extraterrestrische Physik.

Herschel, a European Space Agency mission with NASA participation, is an orbiting telescope that allows astronomers to observe at the far-infrared wavelengths where organic molecules and water emit their chemical signatures.

Ted Bergin:
www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/~ebergin/Teds_Home_Page.html

NASA's Herschel website:
www.nasa.gov/herschel

ESA's Herschel website:
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/index.html

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Kristen Stewart Hurt On 'Snow White' Set?

'It's a wrap for today. Kristen has hurt herself,' co-star on the film tweeted.
By Jocelyn Vena

Kristen Stewart on the set of "Snow White and the Huntsman" (file)
Photo: Splash News

Kristen Stewart was reportedly hurt on the set of "Snow White and the Huntsman," halting production until Friday. While details about her injury remain a mystery as of press time, her co-star Max Manganello, who plays one of the duke's soldiers in the film, announced it on Twitter.

The tweet has since been taken down, but according to E! News, Manganello had this to say about the injury on Tuesday: "It's a wrap for today. Kristen has hurt herself ... nothing scary. We shoot on Friday."

A rep for the movie studio had not responded to MTV News' request for comment by press time and little else is known about Stewart's condition.

Stewart has been busy shooting the film abroad. In late September, she was spotted in Pembrokeshire, Wales, filming a battle scene, and days later she was photographed drenched and wearing a gown on the back of a white horse.

The film is expected to open on June 1, 2012 and also features Charlize Theron (the Evil Queen), Chris Hemsworth (the Huntsman) and Sam Claflin (Prince Charming). The story centers on the struggle between Snow White and the Evil Queen, who, jealous of Snow White's beauty, wants to destroy her. The catch is that Snow White has been training with the Huntsman, who has also been ordered to kill her. And in true fairy-tale form, Prince Charming is enamored with Snow White.

"It's not a little girl sitting by a well with little tweety birds telling her what to do and where to go," Stewart told MTV News of her character. "[The costume] makes you feel kind of strong occasionally, sometimes, but I kind of feel tiny, my pinhead sticks out of these enormous things."

Check out everything we've got on "Snow White and the Huntsman."

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1672777/kristen-stewart-snow-white-injury.jhtml

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Greenpeace launches state-of-art campaign ship (AP)

BREMEN, Germany ? Greenpeace launched a new Rainbow Warrior on Friday, a $33 million schooner that replaces its battered 50-year-old boat, which saw numerous encounters with whalers, seal hunters and illegal loggers.

The new schooner's first mission will likely be in the United States to campaign against the burning of coal for electricity. It will then head south to the Amazon to draw attention to rainforest destruction.

The 58-meter (190-foot) ship, with two A-frame masts soaring almost as high over deck, is equipped with a helicopter pad and rapid-action release system for its inflatable boats, which in the past have carried activists into confrontations at sea.

Melina Laboucan-Massimo of the Cree nation in Canada blessed the ship with a prayer in the Cree language, using smoke from sage and braided sweetgrass as well. The 30-year-old Greenpeace activist whose grandmother was a traditional healer followed a different tradition later ? breaking champagne over the hull.

The name Rainbow Warrior is drawn from an apocalyptic Cree prophesy that in the days when the Earth faces manmade devastation, mankind will join together to heal it and will be known as warriors of the rainbow.

Those dark times "are upon us," she said at the shipyard naming ceremony.

"Until my generation, my family was able to live sustainable off the land," she said, adding that now northern Alberta's watershed has been polluted, its air poisoned and its land destroyed by tar sand mines. "People and animals are being sacrificed for the benefit of a few."

Greenpeace's flagships bear the name of the first ship that was sunk by French intelligence agents in a New Zealand harbor in 1985 for opposing nuclear testing. The second Rainbow Warrior was retired this year to become a hospital ship in Bangladesh. Its last mission was to conduct radiation tests off the Japanese coast following the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in March.

Greenpeace director Kumi Naidoo said the environmental movement is more engaged in talking to business and government leaders now than in earlier days, when it became known for its showdowns with the U.S. Coast Guard and the French navy protecting exclusion zones for nuclear testing.

While diplomacy is preferred, "we also recognize that time is running out for the planet, and Rainbow Warrior and all our activism will, if need be, celebrate the best traditions of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action," Naidoo said in a shipboard interview.

Although the ship is expensive, Naidoo said "we will never be able to match the power of the oil, coal and gas companies." Greenpeace has an annual budget exceeding $250 million and has offices in about 40 countries.

At the ceremony, Naidoo called the schooner "the perfect ship with which to navigate the perfect storm" of ecological and economic crises, and vowed that it "will confront environmental criminals across the world."

Among their most recent actions, activists climbed an oil rig off the coast of Greenland to disrupt deepwater exploration in the sensitive Arctic. Naidoo and another protester were arrested in June, fined for trespassing and deported, but two months later the Greenland government met one of the group's demands and released Cairn Energy's oil spill plan for its Arctic drilling.

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SFPD raids OccupySF camp, seizes gear, but protesters remain ...

By Yael Chanoff

Last night, San Francisco Police officers showed up at Occupy San Francisco for the first hostile altercation that the SF movement has had with cops so far, and among the first police crackdowns on the larger Occupy Wall Street movement. The encampment was cleared of tents and supplies, but protesters remained at the site and the incident could serve to broaden the movement and strengthen its resolve.

Around 9:30 pm, a police officer pulled up in an unmarked car and, with little comment, distributed fliers amongst the approximately 200 protesters camped out in front of the Federal Reserve building at 101 Market Street, where I was camping with the protesters and reporting a story for next week's Guardian.

The fliers stated that we were in "violation of one or more of the following local ordinances or state laws," and then listed six laws, including open flames on a city street without a permit, lodging in a public place, preparing or serving food without a permit, and violating the city's sit/lie ordinance. The order did not look legitimate, as it did not include an author, a timeline for the police action, or any dates. The atmosphere turned tense as protesters tried to decide how to react.?

The camp had substantial infrastructure at this point, with a kitchen area, medical tent, supplies tent, tech area, and about 20 other tents for meeting and for lodging. The kitchen was largely set up by Food Not Bombs and had a propane-powered stove. Kitchen committee members immediately turned off the stove and closed the kitchen upon receipt of the notice, eliminating any open flames and serving of food.

A general assembly was called and emotions ran high as protesters fleshed out the intricacies of nonviolent protest, resistance, and the consensus-based decision making system that had served them so well in past weeks, when faced with a more urgent and high-stakes situation. Despite anger and disagreements, the group vowed to remain nonviolent.

A call was put out via Twitter, Facebook, email, and phone for supporters to come to the scene. Within a half hour at least 100 more people had come, including members of Occupy Oakland, which just began this week.

Around 11 pm, about 60 cops showed up as well as four Department of Public Works trucks. The cops stood on the far side of Main Street, seemingly awaiting orders. Thirty minutes later one protester, Alexandra List, told the General Assembly that she had speaking to the commanding officer, Captain Charlie Orkes. He told her that if the camp and all the food, equipment, and other items that the camp had amassed were not completely removed in 30 minutes, they would arrest everyone.?

Some protesters sprang to action taking down tents, while others discussed the possibility of risking arrest. It was unclear what would happen to confiscated items and for many travelers and homeless individuals currently living and organizing at the camp, they risked losing most or all of their personal belongings. All the tents were taken down, but the stuff was not removed. The camp had been receiving truckloads of donations per day, and finding a vehicle and destination to transport it all was difficult.??

Fear and anticipation mingled with the excitement of having so much support and interest, locally and around the country. One protester,?Zaigham Kabir of Oakland,?said "There's been a lot of confusion. It looks like a couple hundred people just came here. I also heard that there's 10,000 people watching on livestream right now."?

Sup. John Avalos ? the only mayoral candidate to take part in last week's rally and march ? came to the site around 12:40 am. He spoke several times with Capt. Orkes and also reportedly called Police Chief Greg Suhr in an attempt to mediate the situation and protect the protesters. He was the only supervisor or mayoral candidate to arrive on the scene.

Around 1 am, protesters saw cops put on riot gear and bring out batons. They then marched up Main to Market and formed a line around the remainder of the physical encampment, blocking protesters from their belongings. As protesters sat on the ground, imploring the cops to leave their things alone and chanting "Join Us! You're the 99 percent too!" DPW workers loaded everything into five trucks. Tubs of food were spilled on the ground as they dismantled the kitchen, taking donated food, water. and supplies (there was so much food in the kitchen that only hours before, protesters had begun turning away food donations).

It was 1:45 am when protesters began taking to the streets to block the trucks. About 20 ran in front of the line of trucks to link arms and stacked wooden pellets, which had been used to elevate the camp during the rain, to form a barricade. One man lay down in front of the truck, smiling with his banjo in hand. They yelled, "That's not trash! Don't throw it away!" Soon, about 250 protesters were linking arms, surrounding the line of trucks. A few brought over municipal trash cans and road blocks to form a barricade around the perimeter.

Throughout the night, many protesters reported conflicted expressions on officers' faces. One such officer stood now in front of a truck with an American flag that had flown in the camp still valiantly flying from its post in the DWP truck-bed garbage heap.

Eventually, the trucks backed out of the circle and began driving down Main Street, when protesters ran to try stand, sit, and lie in front of them. While trying to remove the protesters, one woman was hit and pushed and another man was beaten down and reportedly kneed in the stomach. There was one arrest. It has been reported that the officer responsible for most of this behavior was Officer Pascua, who apparently said to several protesters, including Dylan Brignon of Fremont, "I can't wait til I get the chance to beat your faces in."?

The Guardian has called Chief Suhr, Mayor Ed Lee, and the SFPD and is awaiting a statement on the tactics and decision to raid the camp.

The trucks made it out of there by about 2:30 am. About 50 cops and 100 protesters remained in a standoff on Main and Market, and protesters chanted, sang, and held a large sign reading "We love you" and police stayed in a silent line, batons in hand.

By 3 am, protesters had regrouped. All of the structure was gone, but the occupation was still there. Protesters pledged to remain indefinitely despite the night's events, and to continue to grow. Around 4 am, some cops returned to the site, and throughout the night there were seven or eight police cars circling the block at all times.?

Protesters awoke this morning to a dozen or so police officers guarding the Federal Reserve building. There had already been donations of money, blankets and sleeping bags at 3 am in response to the events, and at 7 am the first food donation since raid came in and the protesters ate a free breakfast.?

Said Kabir, "The fact is, we're all here in solidarity. We're still here. And we're not leaving."

Source: http://www.sfbayguardian.com/politics/2011/10/06/sfpd-raids-occupysf-camp-seizes-gear-protesters-remain

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Ralph Atkins, Frankfurt bureau chief, has been writing about European economics and politics for the Financial Times for more than 20 years following an economics degree from Cambridge. He has been watching the European Central Bank and eurozone economies since 2004. He has previously worked in London, Bonn, Berlin, Jerusalem and Brussels. RSS

Robin Harding is the FT's US economics editor, based in Washington. Prior to this, he was based in Tokyo, covering the Bank of Japan and Japan's technology sector, and in London as an economics leader writer. Robin studied economics at Cambridge and has a masters in economics from Hitotsubashi University, where he was a Monbusho scholar. Before joining the FT, Robin worked in asset management and banking. RSS

Claire Jones is Money Supply economics team writer, based in London. Before joining the Financial Times, she was the editor of the Central Banking journal and CentralBanking.com. Claire studied philosophy and economics at the London School of Economics. RSS

James Politi is US economics and trade correspondent for the Financial Times, based in Washington DC. He joined the Washington bureau in January 2008 following four and a half years as US deals correspondent covering M&A and private equity. James Politi joined the FT in London in 2000 with an MSc at the London School of Economics, and undergraduate degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Florence. RSS

Source: http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/2011/10/06/qe2-ahoy-2/

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Dr. Karen Becker: A Dozen Great Reasons to Adopt Your Next Pet

One of the best things about adopting a rescued pet is the knowledge you are saving a deserving dog or cat from languishing in a shelter or being put to death. In honor of National Pet Week and all the wonderful shelter animals waiting patiently for new forever homes, here are a dozen more great reasons to adopt an abandoned or rescued cat or dog.

12 Great Reasons to Adopt Your Next Pet from a Shelter or Rescue Group:

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Every dog or cat not purchased from a pet store or backyard breeder improves the pet overpopulation problem created by irresponsibility and greed. Every dog or cat not purchased from a pet store or backyard breeder improves the pet overpopulation problem created by irresponsibility and greed.

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There are countless benefits to pet ownership, and when you know you saved your furry companion from an unpleasant fate, it makes the bond you share that much more meaningful.

Dr. Karen Becker is a proactive and integrative wellness veterinarian. You can visit her site at: MercolaHealthyPets.com.

Her goal is to help you create wellness in order to prevent illness in the lives of your pets. This proactive approach seeks to save you and your pet from unnecessary stress and suffering by identifying and removing health obstacles even before disease occurs. Unfortunately, many veterinarians in the U.S. are trained to be reactive. They wait for symptoms to occur, and often treat those symptoms without addressing the root cause.

By reading Dr. Becker's information, you'll learn how to make impactful, consistent lifestyle choices to improve your pet's quality of life.

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