Rue

North Korean leader leaves China after visit
CNN August 30, 2010
Almost as soon as it was confirmed, the visit of reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-ll to China was over Monday.
State-run news outlets in China confirmed Kim's visit Monday.
Kim met with Chinese President Hu Jintaoin Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, on Friday, the state-run Xinhua news agency of China reported Monday.

Ningin

Trapped Chilean miners talk with family members
Copiapo, Chile (CNN) August 29,2010
The 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks spoke directly with family members for the first time Sunday.
One person per family was given about 20 seconds each to talk through a line that was rigged to connect the miners with life above ground.

Moroheiya

NASA called in to support 33 trapped Chilean miners
Copiapo, Chile(CNN) August 27,2010
The 33 miners trapped inside a Chilean mine since August 5 have been told for the first time that they could be stuck underground for as long as four months, the head of the rescue operation said Friday.
But Andre Sougarret, the mines manager for the state mining company, and Chilean government representative Jimena Mastos also said they are working on a "Plan B," which could help speed up the rescue process.

Nasu

Video of trapped Chilean miners shows patriotism and humor
Copiapo, Chile (CNN) August 27,2010
The 33 men trapped deep in a mine in Chile since August 5 sent a video message to their families Thursday in which they expressed thanks to for the efforts under way to free them and displayed occasional flashed of humor and patriotism.

Keigou

Trapped miners in Chile assuming different roles
Copiapo, Chile(CNN) August26,2010
The 33 men trapped deep in a mine in Chile since August 5 have begun to assume different roles to help them survive what could be a months-long effort to bring them to the surface from 2,300 feet below ground, rescue official said Thursday.

Sanmon(Tofukuji temple)

Visit Tofukuji temple.

European Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Go to Kyoto and see European Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Kyoto municipal museum of arts.

Hassaku

Ebola drug to be tested on humans
BBC 23 August 2010
Scientists developing a drug to treat the Ebola virus have been given permission to test it on humans.
Authorities in the United States approved limited clinical trials after the treatment was sown to be effective in monkeys.

Wakegi

Protesters rally against, for planned Islamic center in New York
New York (CNN) 8/22, 2010
With chants and banners, opponents of the planned construction of an Islamic Community center and mosque near ground zero faced off Sunday with demonstrators in favor of the facility.
Hundreds of critics and supporters of the proposed center in New York showed up despite an overcast and drizzly sky to express their views amid the national debate over the facility.

Shjinpaku

Sweden drops rape accusation against founder of WikiLeaks
Stockholm, Sweden(CNN) August 21, 2010
Swedish authorities say they have revoked an arrest warrant that had alleged rape against Julian Assange, the founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WiliLeaks, less than a day after issuing it.

Tubaki(Seiobo)

Australian election bout enters final throes
Sydney, Australia (CNN) August 20,2010
Like a pair of exhausted boxers entering the twelfth round, clinging onto one another as they drunkenly trade jabs, the two contenders to be Australia's next prime minister have both been swinging, hoping for bruising blows, but neither has emerged as a clear winner yet.

Goya

Last U.S. combat convoy has left Iraq
Mosul, Iraq(CNN) August 19,2010
The last U.S. brigade combat team in Iraq has left country, a move that helps U.S. President Barack Obama reach his goal of 50,000 troops in the country by September1.
Their departure leaves about 56,000 U.S. troops in the country, according to the U.S. military.
Capt. Christopher Ophardt, spokesman for the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd infantry Division, said the last of the 4,000members of the unit cro9ssed the border into Kuwait early Thursday.

Donguri

Government workers striking in South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) August 18, 2010
Public sector workers embarked on a countrywide strike in South Africa on Wednesday.
Nomusa Cembi, of South African Democratic Teachers Union --- an affiliate of Congress of South African Trade Unions --- said hospital workers, education employees and civil servants demand better compensation and benefits from their government.
"We are trying to bring them to their knees." Cembi told CNN by phone from Johannesburg, referring to the South African government. "We took a decision yesterday that we would go on strike indefinitely until our employer gives us a better offer."

Hekuso-Kazura

Reports of looting, violence surface in flood-ravaged Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) August 17, 2010
Desperation erupted into violence Tuesday in flood-ravaged Pakistan as survivors who have yet to receive aid scrambled to put food in their empty bellies.
People in Sindh province blocked a highway to protest the slowness of aid delivery and clashed with police, the United Nations said. In a hard-hit district of Punjab, hungry mobs unloaded two aid trucks headed to a warehouse. Local aid agencies reported other incidents of looting.

Goya

Girl band singer accused of infecting partner with HIV
CNN August 16, 2010
An HIV-positive German pop singer went on trial on Monday accused of ailing to tell sexual partners about her condition, causing one of them to become infected.
Nadja Benaissa, 28, former singer in the girl band No An2004gels, is charged with causing grievous bodily harm and attempted bodily harm, a court spokesman told CNN.
Benaissa had unprotected sex on five occasions betwee 2000 and 2004 with tree people and not tell them she was infected, Agence France-Press reported the charge sheet as saying. She had allegedly known her status since 1999.

Sarusuberi

UN chief visits flood-stricken Pakistan as cholera concerns loom
CNN August 15, 2010
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met Sunday with Pakistan's president, and both men urged the international community to step up efforts to help the millions affected by flooding in Pakistan.
"i am here...to share my sympathy and solidarity of the United Nations together with the people and government of Pakistan." Ban said. " I am here also to urge the world community to speed up their assistance to Pakistani people."

Yaburan

Flood-ravaged Pakistan marks independence with solemnity.
Islamabad, Pakistan CNN August 14, 2010
Pakistan marked its 63rd birthday Saturday in the befitting a nation one-fifth under water.
That's how much of the south Asian country -- an area the size of Florida - - has flooded in relentless monsoon rains, the United Nations say. Nearly 1,400 people have died and 875,000homes have washed away or are damaged, the Pakistan Disaster Authority says.

Mukuige

Crews in Gulf will go ahead with drilling of relief well
CNN August 13, 2010
Allen said crews probably did "too good a job on the top kill." Cement and mud got into a core area of the well. But Allen said it's not clear how thick the cement layer is, or how vulnerable it maght be to pressure inside the well.
"Everyone agrees we need to go forward with the relief well,"Allen said.

Togarashi

What's behind the weather chaos?
CNN August 12, 2010
Is the record-shattering heatwave that has been blamed for the death of thousands in Russia somehow related to the devastating flooding in Pakistan?
Are these disasters happening more frequently---and are they a result of global warning?
Sometimes these connections can clearly be observed and understood. At other times they are more complex, taking place across time scales much longer than we are able to observe.
One thing is for sure: as global weather disasters will continue to happen, and our knowledge and coverage of them continues to improve, we will continue to question if they are related, and what is really causing them.

Goya

Pakistanis begin Ramadan with misery of floods
Nowshera, Pakistan(CNN) August 11, 2010
The start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coincided in Pakistan on Wednesday with the nation's worst natural disaster.
The Pakistan Disaster Authority confirmed 1,313 deaths Wednesday. it said 1,588 people have been injured and 352,291 people have been rescued . More than 722,000 houses have been damaged.

Hiogi

Heat and smog double death rate in Moscow
Moscow, Russia(CNN) August10,2010
The mortality rate in Moscow, Russia, has "doubled recently" because of an extended streak of heat and smog, Andrei Seltsovsky, the head of the city health department, told Russian news agencies Monday.
Seltsovsky said that the average daily mortality rate in Moscow is 360 to 380 cases, but "today the rate is around 700."

Ningin

Japan remembers Nagasaki
BBC 9 August 2010
Japan has marked the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.
The attack killed more than 70,000 people and led to Japan's surrender less than a week later.
A Choir of survivors of the nuclear attack performed a song as the ceremony began, called Never Again. And at two minuted past 11 a bell tolled, to mark the moment the bomb fell on Nagasaki 65 years ago. The crowd stood in silence.

Gobo

' A hundred rockets a day was a good day' doctor's widow says
CNN August 8, 2010
Risking their lives to help disadvantaged Afghans became almost a norm for Tom and Libby Little.
"We raised our three daughters through what was, at times, just hell." Libby Little said. "A hundred rockets a day was a good day."
Family members lived underground to avoid bombings, she said. Yet they stayed out of a love for the people and a passion for providing eye care for the needy.
But violence prevailed on Thursday.
Tom Little, a New York optometrist, was among 10 people killed by gunmen in Badakhshan, a remote northeastern region of the country. The mostly foreign members of a medical team were robbed and shot one-by-one on a remote road.

Nggi

Top officials in California urge judge to allow same-sex marriage
CNN August7,2010
Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a federal judge Friday to allow same-sex marriages while an apppeal over the struck-down law that banned them makes its way through the courts.
Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown filed briefs two days after Chief U.S district Judge Vaughn Walker ruled California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples.
In his Wednesday ruling, Walker also issued a temporary stay, which stopped his decision from taking effect.

Moroheiya

'Relief well' next up in Gulf oil cleanup
(CNN August6, 2010)
The beginning of the end could be little more than a week away for the capped, sunken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico -- that is, if the latest timeline for permanently killing the ruptured well holds up.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the head of the government's oil spill response, said Friday that BP tentatively expects to intercept the ruptured well through the closer of two relief wells around August 14 or 15.

Oguruma

Allen:Static kill will 'virtually assure' no more oil leak
Washington(CNN) August 5, 2010
In what appeared to be his most optimistic statement to date, the government's point man for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said Thursday a "significant milestone"is near in the long-running effort to permanently seal BP's ruptured well.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said that the cementing phase of the "static kill"operation "is not he end" of the process, "but it will virtually assure us there's no chance of oil leaking into the environment"

Myoga

Judge overturns California's ban on same-sex marriage
A federal fudge in California on Wednesday struck down the states ban on same-sex marriage, ruling that voter-approved Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution - handing supporters of gay rights a major victory in a case that both sides say is sure to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. (CNN August 5, 2010)

Shoga

'Static kill' under way in effort to seal Gulf oil well
August 3, 2010 Houston, Texas (CNN)
BP says it has started its effort to help seal its crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico through a "static kill" by pumping mud into the well from above.
The move started at about 4 P.m. ET, the company said in a news relese.
It said the operation is being carried out with the approval of the federal official overseeing the response to the oil sill, retired Adm. Thad Allen.

Satoimo

Testing to precede 'static kill' maneuver in Gulf
CNN New Orleans, Louisiana August 2,2010
One of two efforts to seal the ruptured BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico once and for all is set to take place Tuesday, after a crucial test is conducted Monday to determine whether it will work, BP's senior vice president told reporters.
In the "injectivity" test, "base oil" will be pumped into the ruptured well bore to determine if t will go back into the reservoir, Kent Wells said Monday.

Nigauri

Report:BP used excessive dispersants
Documents released by a congressional subcommittee indicate taht Coast Guard officials allowed BP to use excessive amounts of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is overseeing the federal response to the BP oil spill, said Sunday that he is "satisfied"with the amount of dispersants that have been used to clean up the disaster, saying crews have used them only when needed.
Allen's comments were in response to new documents released by a congressional subcommittee that indicate Coast Guard officials allowed BP to use exessive amounts of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico. (CNN August 1, 2010)

Togarashi

Bangladeshi workers protest over pay
BBC 30 August 2010
Police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka a say thousand of garment factory wokers, who want higher minimum wages, have blocked roads and attacked shops and factories.
Officials say thousand of workers first blocked one of the city's key link roads and then started attacking several cars in a factory district. A senior police oppicial told the BBC that the protesters later started throwing stones at the factories.