The Mirror
THE 100 MOST SUCCESSFUL STARS OF ALL TIME.. EVER
ELVIS PRESLEY IS THE KING OF BRITISH MUSIC CHARTS
By Cameron Robertson
ELVIS yesterday won the crown as the most successful music star of all time in Britain.
The King, who died in 1977, has had a total of 2,463 weeks in our single and album charts - easily beating home-grown heart-throb Cliff Richard, who came second with 1,972 weeks.
Following Elvis and Cliff were the Beatles on 1,749, then Queen at 1,725 and Madonna fifth on 1,653 weeks.
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The Buenos Aires Herald
IMF grants rollover
Multilateral lender agrees to delay 22 instalments of loans maturing over the next year. Lavagna: “We are moving ahead brick by brick.”
"The IMF unanimously approved the request to defer upcoming instalments," Economy Ministry spokesman Armando Torres told reporters.
"This is just another step in the negotiation," Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna said, "we are moving ahead brick by brick."
Argentina is currently negotiating a new standby agreement with the IMF after it postponed talks...
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/business/note.jsp?idContent=165528&hideIntro=true
Tax breaks for energy sector
President Néstor Kirchner and Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido made the announcement flanked by most of the Cabinet, businessmen and trade union leaders in Government House yesterday.
Kirchner encouraged businessmen to follow the "extreme efforts" that the government is undertaking to facilitate tax breaks to investments in the energy...
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=165538&hideIntro=true
Los Angeles elects latino
Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa joins hands with his wife Corina and their son after upseating Mayor James Hahn to become the city’s first Hispanic mayor since 1872. See World...
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/the_world/note.jsp?idContent=165543&hideIntro=true
Vietnam News
Hard issues not resolved on Bush EU trip
Choosing Europe as the first overseas trip of US President George W Bush’s second term reflects the fact that mending badly damaged relations with the US’ long-time allies is important if the Bush administration wants to achieve its ambition of restructuring the world order to fit its goals and images. However, Bush didn’t get much from this trip.
President Bush received favourable press accounts, but no basic concessions. French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder were firm in defending their positions on Iran, China and Iraq, but, like Bush, they were also courteous.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01COM280205
Economy will benefit from planned restructuring, regional co-operation
(05-01-2005)
Viet Nam still needs to improve in the area of socio-economic development planning and management, an official of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said.
Interviewed by the Viet-nam News Agency, Ramesh Adhikari, Head of Country Programmes and Economics of the bank’s Resident Mission, said that a ‘system approach’ to socio-economic development planning, taking into consideration policies, institutions, investment needs and resources (ODA, FDI, SME and Government) would be more useful than the traditional approach.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02OPI050105
‘Words must be matched by deeds’: General Secretary evokes Uncle Ho
(19-05-2005)
President Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
Ha Noi — The crucial value of Ho Chi Minh Thought was enshrined in the daily saying, "Words must be matched by deeds," Viet Nam Communist Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh said yesterday.
The General Secretary was speaking at a grand gathering held in Ha Noi to celebrate the birth of President Ho Chi Minh 115 years ago.
It was attended by President Tran Duc Luong, National Assembly Chairman Nguîen Van An and numerous senior Party and government officials.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=05SOC190505
Viet Nam commits to assist Bangladesh
(19-05-2005)
President Tran Duc Luong and Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia at their talks yesterday. — VNA/VNS Photo Nhan Sang
Prime Ministers Phan Van Khai and Khaleda Zia review an honour guard of the Viet Nam People’s Army. — VNA/VNS Photo The Thuan
HA NOI — Viet Nam will share its experience with Bangladesh in developing agriculture production and reducing poverty, President Tran Duc Luong affirmed yesterday in talks with visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.
Zia arrived in Ha Noi on Wednesday for a three-day visit, the first to Viet Nam by a Bangladesh leader.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=04POL190505
Ministry adopts 2010 dairy plan
(19-05-2005)
HA NOI — The Ministry of Industry has recently approved a plan to spend more than VND2,195 billion (US$139.8 million) on the development of Viet Nam’s milk industry by 2010.
Under the plan, there will be synchronous development of facilities and equipment for all stages of the milk production process, anticipating increases in domestic demand for milk - expected to reach an annual average of 10 kilos per person by 2010 - and export orders.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=11ECO190505
Deputy PM calls for devising plans for managing disasters
(19-05-2005)
Crews build up an embankment in the central coast province of Binh Thuan. — VNA/VNS Photo Xuan Truong
HA NOI — Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan yesterday called on scientists and experts of Asian countries to share experiences on and devise policies and measures to prevent and mitigate damages caused by natural disasters.
Speaking at the opening of a regional conference on disaster management and at a ceremony for the Day for Flood and Storm Control and Disaster Mitigation, Khoan said natural disasters have increased all over the world due to global climate fluctuations.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02MIS190505
Exhibits offer personal glimpse of Uncle Ho
(18-05-2005)
Life and times: Museum goers view rare items relating to the late President Ho, on display at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Ha Noi. — VNS Photo Doan Tung
Nearly 200 rare items relating to much-loved late President Ho Chi Minh are being displayed at an exhibition titled President Ho Chi Minh and the Cause of National Prosperity in Ha Noi.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01ART180505
The Athens News
A curse of riches in Jerusalem
JOHN PSAROPOULOS
Few patriarchs can have carried their cross of office as wearily as Jerusalem's beleaguered Eirinaios. He took possession of a patriarchate deeply at odds with its flock after an unusually bitter election in 2001. It took him two years to secure Israeli recognition, only to uncover an assassination plot against him by one of his former opponents. Earlier this year, a Greek media wildfire over corrupt land deals in the church and judiciary leaped across the Mediterranean into Eirinaios' back yard. Revelations of a secret lease of church land in east Jerusalem enraged Palestinian Christians.
...The patriarchate owns vast tracts of land, including the land on which the Knesset (parliament) and Great Synagogue are built. It is deemed to own about a quarter of the Old City, which Palestinians want as a future capital and Israel also claims as its own. This means that land deals made now could play a role in how the final status of Jerusalem - the prickliest issue between Israelis and Palestinians - is negotiated.
Palestinians argue that Orthodox holdings are formerly Arab holdings, and should not be treated as the private property of the church but as land held in trust for the Palestinian people. They are afraid of collusion between the patriarch and the Israeli government to create Israeli settlements in advance of talks on Jerusalem.
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13130&t=01&m=A99&aa=9
Power deregulation at snail's pace
As the government finally unveiled its long-stalled electricity market'codes', the state utility's chairman dismisses criticism from private powerplant licence-holders that the PPC has safeguarded its monopoly privileges foryears to come
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13130&t=03&m=A21&aa=1
A pact with Pakistan
Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis visits Islamabad to discussillegal immigration and law enforcement cooperation with Pakistani governmentofficials
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13130&t=11&m=A13&aa=1
The Chicago Tribune
She's fast first, female 2nd
As a girl in Roscoe, Ill., Danica Patrick dreamed of racing in the Indy 500. This week, she missed pole position by a split second
By Ed Hinton
Tribune staff reporter
Published May 19, 2005
INDIANAPOLIS -- This was Danica Patrick at 12.
"I went to pass her," recalls Sam Hornish Jr., who was 15 then. "She tried to block me, but I was already there."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0505190307may19,1,2343084.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Red Cross told U.S. of Koran incidents
By Cam Simpson and Mark Silva
Washington Bureau
Published May 19, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The International Committee of the Red Cross documented what it called credible information about U.S. personnel disrespecting or mishandling Korans at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and pointed it out to the Pentagon in confidential reports during 2002 and early 2003, an ICRC spokesman said Wednesday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505190306may19,1,278199.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true
Muslims Skeptical of Newsweek Retraction
By PAKINAM AMER
Associated Press Writer
Published May 19, 2005, 8:47 AM CDT
CAIRO, Egypt -- The now-retracted report that American interrogators flushed a Quran down a toilet did not spark violent protests in the Middle East as it did in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- but it added another layer of bitterness among many Arabs who see the United States as anti-Muslim.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-mideast-quran-desecration,1,206367.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Chemical spill shuts school, sends 3 to hospital
Tribune staff reports
Published May 19, 2005, 12:44 PM CDT
A chemical spill in a south suburban elementary school this morning closed the building and sent three adults to a local hospital, CLTV reported.
The incident happened about 8 a.m. at Burbank School, 8235 Linder Ave. in Burbank, officials said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050519chemical,1,5074970.story?coll=chi-news-hed
NASA science uncovers texts of Trojan Wars, early gospel
By Tom Hundley
Tribune foreign correspondent
Published May 19, 2005
OXFORD, England -- The scholars at Oxford University are not sure how it works or why; all they know is that it does.
A relatively new technology called multispectral imaging is turning a pile of ancient garbage into a gold mine of classical knowledge, bringing to light the lost texts of Sophocles and Euripides as well as some early Christian gospels that do not appear in the New Testament.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505190301may19,1,6312107.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The New York Times
New Monkey Species Is Found in Tanzania
By REUTERS
Published: May 19, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - Two separate teams of researchers working hundreds of miles apart have discovered a new species of monkey in Tanzania.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/19/science/19cnd-monkey.html?hp
The New Zealand Herald
Toyota 4WDs recalled over faulty ball joints
20.05.05 8.00am
Toyota New Zealand is recalling hundreds of four-wheel-drive vehicles discovered to have been fitted with faulty ball-joints.
General manager Paul Carroll said 678 Landcruiser Prado vehicles made between May 2001 and December 2003 and bought new in New Zealand were fitted with lower front suspension ball-joints that were prone to premature wearing.
He said the problem also affected an unknown number of used Prados and Hilux Surfs which were imported second-hand.
Anyone with queries should phone 0800 TOYOTA.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10126501
Noose case inflames race tensions in Queensland
20.05.05
BRISBANE - One law for whites, another for blacks.
Aboriginal leaders are convinced that’s the state of play with the justice system in Queensland.
Small fines handed out this week to a white man and his son who assaulted an indigenous teenager and dragged him with a noose around his neck have inflamed already tense race relations on the Queensland-NSW border.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126492
Rwandan minister apologises for genocide
20.05.05
KIGALI - Rwanda's defence minister has apologised for serving the Hutu government responsible for the country's 1994 genocide but he said on Thursday that did not mean he took part in the mass slaughter.
Major-General Marcel Gatsinzi said he made the apology before a crowd of genocide survivors attending a village "gacaca" court in the southwest town of Butare on Wednesday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126520
Israel vows to get tough with militants
20.05.05
JERUSALEM - Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz has ordered the army to use "all necessary means" to strike at Gaza militants firing mortars and rockets, as a shaky, three-month-old truce threatened to unravel.
But security sources said any response to Palestinian attacks would be measured to avoid a serious escalation in the Gaza Strip that could complicate a planned Israeli withdrawal from the occupied coastal territory in mid-August.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126508
Police charge man over Northern Ireland Omagh bombing
20.05.05
CRAIGAVON, Northern Ireland - A man has been charged with murder over the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people in Northern Ireland’s bloodiest attack in 30 years of sectarian violence, his lawyer said.
Electrician Sean Hoey, 35, who is currently in jail facing other matters, is the first person to face murder charges over the incident.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126497
Police charge man over Northern Ireland Omagh bombing
20.05.05
CRAIGAVON, Northern Ireland - A man has been charged with murder over the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people in Northern Ireland’s bloodiest attack in 30 years of sectarian violence, his lawyer said.
Electrician Sean Hoey, 35, who is currently in jail facing other matters, is the first person to face murder charges over the incident.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126497
Marburg fever death toll tops 300 in Angola
20.05.05
Marburg fever has killed more than 300 people in Angola, mainly through exposure to the deadly virus at home and at funerals, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126452
Tsunami help reaches $4b
19.05.05
Sri Lanka says international donors have now pledged US$3 billion ($4.29 billion) in aid and debt relief to help the Indian Ocean island rebuild after December’s tsunami - twice what the Government says it needs.
Wrapping up a two-day donor conference which focused heavily on tsunami aid, Finance Minister Sarath Amunugama said fresh aid commitments from Japan and China had helped boost the previous tally of US$2.2 billion in aid and US$300 million in Paris Club debt relief
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126244
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Overcast
-18.0°
Updated Friday 20 May 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
48 °F / 9 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
87%
Dew Point:
45 °F / 7 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.66 in / 1004 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Few 4300 ft / 1310 m
Mostly Cloudy 5000 ft / 1524 m
Overcast 6000 ft / 1828 m
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