Athletics: Lagat regains indoor record
Bernard Lagat regained the American indoor 5,000-meter record on Saturday with a victory at the 104th Millrose Games, the first in 98 years to be staged outside of Madison Square Garden.
Three-time Olympian Lagat won in 13mins 7.15secs, showing his fitness six months before the London Olympics at age 37 by breaking the US mark of 13:11.44 set by Galen Rupp last year in the British city of Birmingham.
“I had a few problems in training this past week and rested a bit more than I usually do, so to run 13:07 at this time of the year, in a week like this, that s a good indication I can do a lot better,” he said.
Lagat, a two-time 1,500 Olympic medalist, performed just as coach James Li had expected right down to the second.
“Bernard did exactly what we expected,” Li said. “We knew from his training that he was ready for something like this.”
Kenya s Lawi Lawang, Lagat s training partner, was second in 13:08.28 to smash the US college record that was also owned by Rupp.
Rupp answered by breaking Lagat s two-mile American record, winning in 8:09.72 at the USA Track and Field Classic in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
“That s the way it goes,” Lagat said. “You win some, you lose some.”
In a showdown of US Olympic contenders, David Oliver won the 60m hurdles in 7.51 with Terrence Trammell second in7.52 and Aries Merritt third in 7.53.
Two-time US Olympic relay medalist Sanya Richards-Ross won the 400 in 50.89, surpassing Bulgarian Vania Stambolova for the fastest time in the world this year.
Matthew Centrowitz, the son of a two-time US Olympian, won the men s mile in 3:53.92.
Women s world 1,500m champion Jenny Simpson won the 1,500 title in 4:07.27 while LaShawn Merritt, the 2008 Olympic 400-meter champion and 2011 world 400 runner-up, won the rarely contested 500m in 1:01.39.
World high jump champion Jesse Williams of the United States cleared 2.32 to win while Russian Olga Kucherenko of Russia won the long jump in 6.75 and world leader Jenn Suhr took the pole vault by clearing 4.58m.
Two Westerners kidnapped in Pakistan held by Taliban
February 11, 2012 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two Western aid workers kidnapped in Pakistan in January are being held by the Pakistan Taliban near the border with Afghanistan, a senior militant commander told Reuters on Saturday.
Gunmen stormed a house in Multan in southern Punjab province on Jan. 19 and drove away with two foreigners — one an Italian citizen and the other believed to be a German.
“The two NGO (non-governmental organization) workers who were kidnapped in Multan nearly a month ago are in our custody near the border. We haven’t made any demands yet,” a senior commander of the Pakistan Taliban said.
“They are in good health.”
A Punjab provincial police chief said last month the foreigners were being held for ransom.
Criminal gangs often target foreign aid workers in Pakistan in hope of securing large ransoms for their release. Pakistani officials say militant groups such as the Taliban are also involved in kidnappings.
The senior commander said the Westerners were being held by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella group of Pakistani militant factions formed in 2007 which is also allied with the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda.
In January, a Kenyan aid worker and his Pakistani driver went missing in southern Sindh province. A British doctor with the International Committee of the Red Cross was kidnapped by gunmen from the southwestern city of Quetta on Jan. 5.
Last year, American aid worker Warren Weinstein was kidnapped from the central Pakistani city of Lahore. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for Weinstein’s abduction in December.
In July, a Swiss couple was kidnapped from the southwestern Baluchistan province by the Pakistani Taliban.
Such kidnappings in Pakistan put off long-term investors. Foreign direct investment in Pakistan fell 37 percent to $531.2 million in the second half of 2011 from $839.6 million in the final six months of 2010. AGENCIES
Adele sings publicly for first time since surgery to Anderson Cooper
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Cooper chats with Adele on ’60 Minutes’ which will air before the Grammys. In the interview, Cooper gets Adele to sing a few lines of her hit song “Rolling In The Deep,” states RadarOnline.com.
Adele is reportedly not only singing at the Grammys on Sunday, but allegedly opening the show.
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PM not afraid of jail, says Defence Minister
Talking to the media at Lahore Airport, Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar said that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani respected the judiciary and was not afraid of jail as he had spent many years in prison.
The defence minister blamed the Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif for not taking any more interest in the memo case and left for London after raising the issue.
MQM terms ANP leaders statement confession of killings
Addressing a press conference in Karachi, Muthidda Qaumi Movement leader Faisal Sabzwari said that Awami National Party’s leader Illays’ Bilour’s statement regarding the MQM would cause further bloodshed in the city.
He said that Bilour had said that his party tamed the MQM which was a confession of Karachi killing adding that ANP tamed the MQM by killing its workers.
Sabzwari urged Chief Justice of Pakistran Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo moto on Bilour’s statement.
Lifestyle changes can help prevent cancers: WHO
Among key risk factors for cancer are tobacco and alcohol consumption, a diet low in fruit and vegetable intake and lack of physical activity.
“Tobacco use is the most important risk factor for cancer causing 22 percent of global cancer deaths and 71 percent of global lung cancer deaths,” the UN health agency said.
Halting tobacco use, for instance, could therefore help cut cancer mortality rates.
According to latest available figures dating to 2008, cancer caused 7.6 million deaths worldwide during the year, making up about 13 percent of global mortality.
Lung, stomach, liver, colon and breast cancers caused the most fatalities.
About 70 percent of all cancer deaths in 2008 occurred in low- and middle-income countries.
The WHO projected that deaths from cancer will continue rising, and will hit an estimated 13.1 million in 2030.
PM to address public gathering in Jaranwala on Saturday
PM will address a public meeting at Benazir Park and will hold important meeting with local leaders. He will also announce a huge development package for the area.
Preparations for the meeting are in full swing and target to bring more people has been given to party leaders.
PML-N urges Gilani to write to Swiss courts
According to sources, during a meeting, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has stressed Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani not to make it an issue of ego while writing a letter to Swiss government. The meeting discussed 20th amendment and other important issues as well.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif also said that court’s verdicts should be implemented as it is not revenge but a step for justice.
The meeting was attended by senior leaders including Ishaq Dar, Ch Nisar Ali Khan.
CIA website offline, Anonymous takes credit
The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was unresponsive on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline.
“CIA Tango down,” a member of Anonymous said on @YourAnonNews, a Twitter feed used by the group. “Tango down” is an expression used by the US Special Forces when they have eliminated an enemy.
Attempts to access the CIA website at cia.gov were unsuccessful.
A CIA spokesman had no immediate comment.
Anonymous last month briefly knocked the websites of the US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation offline.
Those attacks were in retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload.
There was no immediate explanation from Anonymous for the targeting of the CIA site.
Most Anonymous cyberattacks are distributed denial of service attacks in which a large number of computers are commanded to simultaneously visit a website, overwhelming its servers.
Detainees will be produced today: agencies attorney
While talking to the News Trends, attorney for agencies Raja Irshad in missing people case said the detainees would be produced in the Supreme Court today, though he couldn’t confirm the time.
He further said he has informed the authorities concerned that the detainees would have to be produced today.
Earliar, a special bench of the SC led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry conducted hearing of the missing persons’ case.
The counsel for the secret agencies Raja Irshad said that it was not possible to bring the detainees in the court today as some of them were sick while others are in Parachanar.
After hearing arguments, the Supreme Court ordered that the detainees should be appeared before the court at every cost, even by helicopter.
Chief Justice consulted the counsel for the secret agencies, “Inform us as which authority is violating court orders.”
