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• Raja Pervez Ashraf successful in pacifying Gilani
• NATO names Allen to succeed Stavridis as supreme commander
• 2 US scientists win Nobel chemistry prize
• Turkish jets force Syrian plane to land over suspicious cargo
• Islam's inroads in land of Voodoo and Christianity
• Djokovic into 3rd round at Shanghai Masters
• Top-ranked Azarenka wins opener in Austria
• 26 testify against Lance Armstrong in doping case
• Oil prices fall on mixed signals for economy
• Dollar trades in tight ranges after Beige Book
• Obama disgusted by shooting of Malala
• Wrist sensor to replace remote control
• Clinic develops smart artificial heart
• Faisalabad: Love marriage couple shot dead
• Pakistan, India clash over Kashmir at UN

Raja Pervez Ashraf successful in pacifying Gilani Posted: Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf Wednesday managed to pacify former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and took him to the Aiwan-e-Saddar.Media reports stated that Raja Parvez Ashraf without protocol came to Islamabad Club to conciliate Gilani and was successful in winning heart of Gilani.After which, the meeting among current premier, former premier and President Asif Ali Zardari held that discussed important matters.Gilani informed the President and the current PM about his reservations.

NATO names Allen to succeed Stavridis as supreme commander Posted: US General John Allen will take over as NATO supreme commander and be replaced as head of alliance forces in Afghanistan by Joseph Dunford, currently US Marine Corps deputy commander, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.Allen, who succeeds Admiral James Stavridis in a post traditionally held by a US officer, led the NATO campaign in Afghanistan from July 2011.Panetta made the announcement after a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels. Both nominations by President Barack Obama are subject to US Senate confirmation.For more than a year, General Allen has served with distinction as the commander of US forces and NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, seeing us through a critical period in our military efforts and in Afghanistans transition, a statement from Obama said.I have personally relied on his counsel and am grateful for his devotion to our national security and to the safety of the men and women with whom he serves, Obama said.Under General Allens command, we have made important progress towards our core goal of defeating Al-Qaeda and ensuring they can never return to a sovereign Afghanistan.Allen played a key role in countering the Iraq insurgency during 2006-08 and took over from General David Petraeus in Afghanistan to oversee a surge in US troop levels to force back the Taliban who appeared to be making ground.During his tenure in Afghanistan, General Allen established his credibility with our NATO allies and ISAF partners as a strong and effective military leader, Obama added.In Afghanistan, Allen commanded a coalition force from 50 different countries, giving him the experience to deal with the often sensitive and conflicting wishes of NATOs 28 member states and 22 partners.In Iraq, Allen pushed alliances with local Sunni tribes to tame an insurgency which at one stage looked as if it could not be brought under control.Patraeus, his then commander in Iraq, later expanded the tactic to the entire country.Dunford will assume command of 68,000 US troops who make up the bulk of the coalition force of some 100,000 as the Afghan army takes on increasing responsibility for security and NATO ends its combat mission in 2014.

2 US scientists win Nobel chemistry prize Posted: Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of how the cells in our bodies pick up signals as diverse as hormones, smells, flavors and light work that is key to developing better medicines.Those signals are received by specialized proteins on cell surfaces. Dr. Robert Lefkowitz and Dr. Brian Kobilka made groundbreaking discoveries about the inner workings of those proteins, mainly in the 1980s, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.The proteins are called G-protein-coupled receptors. Many of todays drugs maybe about half act on these receptors, including beta blockers and antihistamines. Experts say the prize-winning work and subsequent research is helping scientists as they try to improve current drugs and develop new ones.The receptors pick up signals outside a cell and relay a message to the interior.They work as a gateway to the cell, Lefkowitz told a news conference in Stockholm by phone. As a result, they are crucial ... to regulate almost every known physiological process with humans.Lefkowitz, 69, is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.Kobilka, 57, worked for Lefkowitz at Duke before transferring to Stanford University School of Medicine in California, where he is now a professor.Lefkowitz said he was fast asleep when the Nobel committee called, but he didnt hear the phone because he was wearing ear plugs. So his wife picked up.She said, Theres a call here for you from Stockholm, Lefkowitz told The Associated Press. I knew they aint calling to find out what the weather is like in Durham today.He said he didnt have any inkling that he was being considered for the Nobel Prize.Initially, I expected Id have this huge burst of excitement. But I didnt. I was comfortably numb, Lefkowitz said.Kobilka said he found out around 2:30 a.m., after the Nobel committee called his home twice. He said he didnt get to the phone the first time, but that when he picked up the second time, he spoke to five members of the committee.They passed the phone around and congratulated me, Kobilka told AP. I guess they do that so you actually believe them. When one person calls you, it can be a joke. But when five people with convincing Swedish accents call you, then it isnt a joke.He said he would put his half of the 8 million kronor ($1.2 million) award toward retirement or pass it on to my kids.

Turkish jets force Syrian plane to land over suspicious cargo Posted: A Syrian passenger plane was forced to land in Ankara on Wednesday evening on suspicions that it was carrying weapons, Anatolia news agency reported citing officials.We received information that the planes cargo did not comply with rules of civil aviation, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying by the agency.Davutoglu noted that international law would apply if weapons were found on the Syrian aircraft, without elaborating further.The plane carrying 35 passengers was escorted by two Turkish jets to Ankaras Esenboga Airport for security checks on its cargo by Turkish special operation units.The A-320 plane was travelling from Moscow to Damascus when it was intercepted by Turkish authorities at around 1430 GMT, according to NTV news channel.The search for weapons and ammunition is ongoing.Ankara on Wednesday also warned Turkish airline companies against using Syrian airspace to avoid a possible retaliation from Damascus, NTV added.After that warning, that a Turkish Airlines plane carrying Turkish pilgrims from the northwestern city of Bursa landed urgently in Adana city in the south, according to NTV.The plane is waiting for Ankaras green light to take off again for its destination in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Islam's inroads in land of Voodoo and Christianity Posted: School teacher Darlene Derosier lost her home in the 2010 earthquake that devastated her country. Her husband died a month later after suffering what she said was emotional trauma from the quake. She and her two daughters now live in tents outside the capital of Port-au-Prince, surrounded by thousands of others made homeless and desperate by the disaster.Whats helped pull her through all the grief, she said, has been her faith, but not of the Catholic, Protestant or even Voodoo variety that have predominated in this island country. Instead, shes converted to a new religion here, Islam, and built a small neighborhood mosque out of cinderblocks and plywood, where some 60 Muslims pray daily.Islam has won a growing number of followers in this impoverished country, especially after the catastrophe two years ago that killed some 300,000 people and left millions more homeless. A capital where church attendance is so prevalent that the streets echo with Christian hymns on Sundays now has at least five mosques, a Muslim parliament member and a nightly local television program devoted to Islam.The disaster drew in aid groups from around the world, including Islamic Relief USA, which built 200 shelters and a secondary school with 20 classrooms.After the earthquake we had a lot of people join, said Robert Dupuy, an imam or Islamic spiritual leader in the capital.We were organized. We had space in the mosques to receive people and food to feed them.Derosier said she was drawn to the religions preaching of self-discipline, emphasis on education and attention to cleanliness. The constant washing, she said, helps her and other Muslims avoid cholera, the waterborne illness that health officials say has sickened nearly 600,000 people and killed more than 7,500 others since surfacing after the quake.This is a victory for me, the 43-year-old woman said about her post-quake conversion. The former Protestant spoke in the tent-filled courtyard of her home, her face framed by a clean, black head scarf. Its a victory that I received peace and found guidance.In part, the Muslim communitys growth can be attributed to the return of expatriates who adopted the faith in the U.S., said Kishner Billy, owner of the islands Telemax TV station and host of the nightly program Haiti Islam.Billy and some others believe that Islams Haitian past goes back before the countrys independence in 1804, and that a Jamaican slave and Voodoo priest named Boukman who led the slave revolt that ousted French colonizers was actually a Muslim.Islam is coming back to Haiti to stay, said Billy, who says he converted from Christianity 20 years ago. Future generations, my sons and daughters, will speak about Islam.There are no firm statistics on the number of Muslims in Haiti, just as there are no reliable figures for many things in the country, including Port-au-Princes exact population.A 2009 study by the Pew Research Center on the worlds Muslim population estimated that Haiti had about 2,000 devotees. Islamic leaders in the country insist the figure is much higher and growing.Islam is hardly unknown in the Caribbean; countries such as Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname and Guyana have significant Muslim populations. Many of those nations have strong roots in countries such as India and Indonesia where Islam is widespread.The ancestors of Haitians, by contrast, were brought largely from non-Muslim areas of Africa. Haitis French colonial rulers also imported their Christian beliefs.The recent growth of Islam, as well as other new religions, shows Haiti is modernizing and becoming more pluralistic, said Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, a professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Inroads made by Islam (and by extension, by Mormonism and Rastafarianism) tell me that Haiti is very much a product of this century, subject to all winds, ill-winds and otherwise, that blow over the Caribbean nation-states, Bellegarde-Smith wrote in an email.Rosedany Bazille, a 39-year-old teacher who converted several months after the earthquake, said she had felt rudderless before embracing the religion and was looking for a way forward.

Djokovic into 3rd round at Shanghai Masters Posted: Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round of the Shanghai Masters by beating Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday.The second-seeded Djokovic won the China Open in Beijing last week for his fourth title of the year and 32nd of his career. He has now won 66 matches this season, the most of any player on tour.Djokovic didnt offer Dimitrov a break-point opportunity and never lost more than one point in any service game. He also served four games at love.Very pleased with my serving in Beijing and obviously the first match today, Djokovic said. So thats something that Ive been working on, obviously. Relying on the serve in todays tennis is a big advantage. So I try to get as many free points as possible. It helped me a lot to defeat my opponent.If Djokovic wins in Shanghai and Roger Federer loses before the quarterfinals, the Serb would reclaim the No. 1 ranking next week.Andy Murray received a walkover into the third round on Wednesday following the withdrawal of Florian Mayer of Germany because of a rib injury.I went to the gym this morning in the hotel, and he was in the gym at the same time, Murray said. I didnt know until 15, 20 minutes ago.Murray is the two-time defending champion at the tournament with a 9-0 record after winning finals against David Ferrer last year and Federer in 2010. The third-ranked Briton also won the Olympic gold medal at the London Games and a title in Brisbane title earlier this year.Fifth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Benoit Paire 7-6 (7), 7-5 in an all-French match.For the second straight day at the tournament, a match went to three tiebreaker sets. Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus upset 12th-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3).Sam Querrey of the United States came from behind to beat 14th-seeded Kei Nishikori 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 in another second-round match.Nishikori sought a medical timeout for a right ankle injury that he sustained last week.Its disappointing, but I was close to a win even with this injury, Nishikori said.

Top-ranked Azarenka wins opener in Austria Posted: Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka started off her last tournament before the season-ending WTA Championships by beating Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands 6-0, 6-2 Wednesday in the first round of the Generali Ladies.Two-time former winner Ana Ivanovic also advanced with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Monica Niculescu of Romania.Coming off her win in Beijing, Azarenka dominated the match from the start as Rus looked overwhelmed. The Dutch player double-faulted eight times and won only two points on her serve in the opening set.It was definitely not easy, Azarenka said. Ive done something incredible last week. The court here is different but I did well to adapt.Azarenka, who conceded one break and saved three more break points in the second set, will next play Simona Halep of Romania.Being No. 1 means youre more targeted by the other players, Azarenka said. I just try to stick to my own game. The 12th-ranked Ivanovic, who won the title in 2008 and 2010, dropped serve once in each set but was in control throughout against Niculescu.The Serbs next opponent is Andrea Petkovic of Germany.Julia Goerges became the first player to advance to the quarterfinals by defeating Romina Oprandi of Switzerland 6-3, 6-3.The fifth-seeded German saved all four break points she faced against Oprandi, who was a quarterfinalist in Beijing last week.Goerges will next face Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden, who defeated Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 6-4, 7-6 (4).Patricia Mayr-Achleitner became the only Austrian player to reach the second round by defeating eighth-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany 6-1, 6-3.

26 testify against Lance Armstrong in doping case Posted: Lance Armstrong said he wanted to see the names of his accusers. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency gave him 26, including 11 ex-teammates.The worlds most famous cyclist said he wanted to see the hard evidence that he was a doper. The agency gave him that, too: About 200 pages filled with vivid details from the hotel rooms riders transformed into makeshift blood-transfusion centers to the way Armstrongs ex-wife rolled cortisone pills into foil and handed them out to all the cyclists.In all, a USADA report released Wednesday gives the most detailed, unflinching portrayal yet of Armstrong as a man who, day after day, week after week, year after year, spared no expense financially, emotionally or physically to win the seven Tour de France titles that the anti-doping agency has ordered taken away.It presents as matter-of-fact reality that winning and doping went hand-in-hand in cycling and that Armstrong was the focal point of a big operation, running teams that were the best at getting it done without getting caught. Armstrong won the Tour as leader of the U.S. Postal Service team from 1999-2004 and again in 2005 with the Discovery Channel as the primary sponsor.USADA said the path Armstrong chose to pursue his goals ran far outside the rules.It accuses him of depending on performance-enhancing drugs to fuel his victories and more ruthlessly, to expect and to require that his teammates do the same. Among the 11 former teammates who testified against Armstrong are George Hincapie, Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis.USADA Chief Executive Travis Tygart said the cyclists were part of the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.Armstrong did not fight the USADA charges, but insists he never cheated.His attorney, Tim Herman, called the report a one-sided hatchet job a taxpayer funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories.Aware of the criticism his agency has faced from Armstrong and his legion of followers, Tygart insisted his group handled this case under the same rules as any other. Armstrong was given the chance to take his case to arbitration and declined, choosing in August to accept the sanctions instead, he noted.We focused solely on finding the truth without being influenced by celebrity or non-celebrity, threats, personal attacks or political pressure because that is what clean athletes deserve and demand, Tygart said.The report called the evidence as strong or stronger than any case brought in USADAs 12 years of existence.In a letter sent to USADA attorneys Tuesday, Herman dismissed any evidence provided by Landis and Hamilton, saying the riders are serial perjurers and have told diametrically contradictory stories under oath.The testimony of Hincapie, one of Armstrongs closest and most loyal teammates through the years, was one of the reports new revelations.I would have been much more comfortable talking only about myself, but understood that I was obligated to tell the truth about everything I knew. So that is what I did, Hincapie said of his testimony to federal investigators and USADA.His two-page statement did not mention Armstrong by name. Neither did statements from three other teammates-turned-witnesses, all of whom said this was a difficult-but-necessary process.I have failed and I have succeeded in one of the most humbling sports in the world, Christian Vande Velde said. And today is the most humbling moment of my life.Tygart said evidence from 26 people, including 15 riders with knowledge of the U.S. Postal Service teams doping activities, provided material for the report. The agency also interviewed Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie. Andreus wife, Betsy, was another key witness.She has been one of Armstrongs most consistent and unapologetic critics.It took tremendous courage for the riders on the USPS Team and others to come forward and speak truthfully, Tygart said.

Oil prices fall on mixed signals for economy Posted: Benchmark crude rose early in the day after the government reported wholesale stockpiles rose, and sales were up for the first time in four months.Companies typically boost their inventories when they expect sales to rise in coming months. More restocking helps drive economic growth, which ramps up demand for energy.However, the latest jobs data tempered that optimism.The Labor Department said Wednesday that job openings dropped by 32,000 to 3.56 million in August. Julys openings were also revised lower. The job market remains very competitive. With 12.5 million people unemployed in August, there were 3.5 unemployed people, on average, competing for each open job. In a healthy economy, that ratio is 2 to 1.Employers overall did hire 4.39 million people in August the most since May.Benchmark crude finished down $1.14 to settle at $91.25 in New York. The price of oil rose more than 3 percent Tuesday on concerns about supplies from the Middle East and the North Sea.Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, fell 12 cents to $114.25 on the ICE Futures Exchange in London.

Dollar trades in tight ranges after Beige Book Posted: The dollar traded in tight ranges against other major currencies Wednesday after a Federal Reserve survey said that the economy improved in most parts of the country.The report, known as the Beige Book, said that growth improved in 10 of the Feds 12 regional banking districts from mid-August through September. Rising home sales helped lift home prices in most districts and auto sales rose in most parts of the country.The euro rose to $1.2897 in late trading Wednesday from $1.2880 late Tuesday. The British pound rose to $1.6008 from $1.6004.The dollar fell to 78.19 Japanese yen from 78.22 yen and to 0.9385 Swiss franc from 0.9404 Swiss franc.The dollar rose to 98.08 Canadian cents from 97.76 Canadian cents.

Obama disgusted by shooting of Malala Posted: US President Barack Obama sees the shooting of a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who protested against the Taliban as tragic and barbaric and has offered air ambulance services, his spokesman said Wednesday.I know that the president found the news reprehensible and disgusting and tragic, White House spokesman Jay Carney said, adding that US forces were ready to offer transport and treatment to Malala Yousafzai.Directing violence at children is barbaric, its cowardly and our hearts go out to her and the others who were wounded as well as their families.Pakistani doctors earlier removed a bullet from Malala, who was shot in the head by the Taliban on a school bus in a horrific attack, but she was still unconscious and too ill to travel.Carney said that the US military had already agreed to provide air ambulance services and medical treatment to Malala if it became necessary.There was shock and revulsion in Pakistan, where schoolchildren across the country on Wednesday offered prayers for the recovery of Malala, an outspoken child campaigner for the right to have an education.

Wrist sensor to replace remote control Posted: Television remotes and video game controllers could soon be a thing of the past Scientists have developed a sensor, worn on the wrist like a watch, which allows the wearer to control any electronic device with a simple flick of the wrist.Researchers at Newcastle University and Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSR) created the sensor ‘Digits’ which tracks the 3-D movement of the hand and allows the user to remotely control any device. The gadget uses a minute camera to track hand movements and can recognise specific gestures, which it translates into commands – such as a thumbs up to answer the phone. Mapping finger movement and orientation, the device gives the user remote control anywhere and at anytime. “The Digits sensor doesn’t rely on any external infrastructure so it is completely mobile,” Researcher David Kim, from Newcastle University, said.“This means users are not bound to a fixed space. They can interact while moving from room to room or even running down the street. What Digits does is finally take 3D interaction outside the living room,” he said in a statement. “We needed a system that enabled natural 3D interactions with bare hands, but with as much flexibility and accuracy as data gloves. We wanted users to be able to interact spontaneously with their electronic devices using simple gestures without even having to reach for them.

Clinic develops smart artificial heart Posted: The AbioCor Replacement Heart by AbioMed is fully implantable, meaning that no wires or tubes penetrate the skin, and, therefore, there is less risk of infection.It weighs less than a pound, and Cleveland Clinic biomedical engineer Dr. Leonard Golding believes it is the future of the artificial heart that will not only keep people alive if theyre waiting for a heart transplant or not, but also allow them to have a normal quality of life.The unique device is one of the first high-tech advances since the artificial mechanical heart came on the market 30 years ago.SmartHeart Total Artificial Heart, which is a total artificial heart and left ventricular assist device designed for long-term, durable use in patients suffering from biventricular heart failure.

Faisalabad: Love marriage couple shot dead Posted: According to police, the couple was living in hiding in Chak No 209 in the jurisdiction of Police Station Cantt. Police said that 24-year-old Arif and 20-year-old Lubna contracted love marriage about three months ago against the wishes of girl’s family.Police disclosed that two of the relatives of girl entered the house and opened indiscriminate firing, killing Arif and Lubna on the spot.

Pakistan, India clash over Kashmir at UN Posted: During the plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly on Report of the work of the Organisation, Pakistans Deputy Permanent Representative Raza Bashir Tarar said his country appreciates the United Nations continued involvement and oversight in Jammu and Kashmir through its peacekeeping mission UNMOGIP (United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan).We believe that peaceful settlement of long standing disputes like Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir will help promote international peace and stability and enhance the prestige and sanctity of the UN, Tarar said.The India delegate said Pakistan has made untenable references about Jammu and Kashmir which is and has always been an integral part of India.

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