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1. LibérationLe Français Martial Mbandjock, déjà médaillé de bronze, est à nouveau troisième. Le quinquagénaire, qui réalisait un reportage sur «l'intégration des minorités dans les cités en France», s'est fait asperger de gaz lacrymogène par deux individus, qui l'ont frappé à coups de pied et de poing. Le document « confidentiel » sur lequel repose une consultation publique a été dévoilé, et contient des pistes inquiétantes sur le futur des? L'avocat Alain Mikowski réagit à la décision du Conseil constitutionnel d'abroger d'ici un an le régime actuel de la garde à vue. La Cimade, elle, estime que le Président «tient un discours qui peut être celui de la droite extrême». »
[+] London cyclingLa capitale londonienne rejoint le club de moins en moins fermé des villes équipées d'un système de vélos en libre-service. Cédée au groupe Centre France La Montagne, «La République du Centre» est en passe de connaître le plus remarquable renouvellement de plumes de son histoire. Sur un total de 74 rédacteurs, 35 ont (ou vont) quitter le journal. Chaque année, le château de Grignan dans la Drôme, rendu célèbre par la correspondance de Mme de Sévigné, accueille une pièce de théâtre? Selon l'organisme, elle ne sera que de 1,6% en 2011 et 1,8% en 2012, alors que le gouvernement table sur une croissance de 2,5% par an de 2011 à 2013. Nicolas Sarkozy a fait une série d'annonces chocs: extension des peines planchers, retrait de la nationalité pour certains criminels, réévaluation des droits et prestations des sans-papiers. L?audition d?Eric Woerth à son ministère plutôt que dans les locaux de la police suscite des critiques dans la classe politique et le monde judiciaire. Au moins 5.000 ouvriers du textile ont manifesté à Dacca, la capitale du Bangladesh. Ils demandent des hausses de salaires. De Google à Disney en passant par NewsCorp ou les magasins de jeux vidéo GameStop : le jeu social est l'investissement phare de cet été. Suivez les principaux moments de la compétition barcelonaise en images Le magazine «Star» a retrouvé des vieilles photos de l'actrice américaine dans des poses très osées. Ella Pamfilova fait le constat d'une «impasse», alors qu'une nouvelle loi élargissant les pouvoirs des services spéciaux vient d'être votée. Selon l'organisation écologiste, entre 60.000 et 90.000 tonnes de brut ont été déversées dans la Mer jaune après l'explosion le 16 juillet de deux oléoducs. Et aussi: la société de François-Marie Banier qui recevrait 710.000 euros de l'Oréal chaque année, selon Le Monde. Prenant au mot les vues de Mark Zuckerberg sur la vie privée, le site Gawker lui a collé un paparazzi aux fesses... Tous les habitants de Villers-au-Tertre connaissent Dominique C., mise en examen pour le meurtre de huit nouveaux-nés. Le village vit une espèce de sidération accentuée par la déferlante des journalistes. Privé de Thierry Roland depuis 2005, Jean-Michel Larqué quitte TF1 après vingt-six ans au micro. Son commentaire métaphorique restera dans les mémoires. L'agence américaine et le moteur de recherche ont investi dans Recorded Future, une entreprise qui scrute la Toile en profondeur. Le festival Jazz in Marciac commence aujourd'hui. Et il dit merci aux vignerons du Gers. L'association Droit au logement (DAL) s'appuie sur une vidéo pour dénoncer des «brutalités» de l'intervention des forces de l'ordre. Selon la préfecture, l'évacuation s'est faite «dans de relatives bonnes conditions». Le Français a survolé l'épreuve des championnats d'Europe, s'approchant même de son record national. L'accident s'est produit jeudi soir à une centaine de mètres du pont d'Iéna. Les 51 occupants autrichiens n'étaient heureusement pas à bord. Les deux hommes, qui représentent les deux courants du parti au pouvoir, ne cessaient de s'opposer ces derniers mois. Pour Berlusconi, la stabilité de son gouvernement n'est pas en péril. Un rapport du Sénat révèle qu'entre 4.900 et 6.600 tombes du cimetière américain, près de Washington, sont ornées de pierres «sans aucune inscription» ou «avec des erreurs dans l'inscription». La Cour d'appel de Paris a rejeté la demande de remise en liberté du berge corse, dont la condamnation à la réclusion à perpétuité pour l'assassinat du préfet Erignac a été annulée par la Cour de cassation. A l?instar du préfet Eric Le Douaron, en Isère, l?Elysée nomme de plus en plus de policiers à des postes clés. [+ desc][+ titles]
2. Le mondeLa pédopsychiatre Catherine Jousselme et la sociologue Sylvie Cadolle donnent des clés aux familles recomposées.
Des activistes coréens militant pour les droits des animaux ont manifesté le jeudi 7 août à Séoul, déguisés en chiens, la veille de la journée traditionnellement consacrée aux aliments bons pour la santé en été.
Commercialisé par Orange, le téléphone portable Bic se veut basique : il permet uniquement de téléphoner et d'envoyer des SMS.
En version CC (pour coupé-confort), l'honnête berline de la marque allemande devient méconnaissable.
Le 12 juin, disparaissait sans raison connue ce mangeur compulsif, à la 40e étape d'un périple qui devait le conduire en 68 jours dans les 68 trois-étoiles Michelin de la planète.
En version CC (pour coupé-confort), l'honnête berline de la marque allemande devient méconnaissable.
A partir de la rentrée, les parents de 1,2 million d'enfants anglais seront systématiquement prévenus par lettre du surpoids de leur enfant.
Commercialisé par Orange, le téléphone portable Bic se veut basique : il permet uniquement de téléphoner et d'envoyer des SMS.
Presque trente ans de bons et loyaux services et toujours quelque 4 000 prestataires accessibles via ce canal.
L'association britannique forme les plus défavorisés à la photographie pour leur redonner un moyen d'expression
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3. BBC newsSoham killer Ian Huntley is to sue the Prison Service for compensation after his throat was slashed in an attack by a fellow inmate. The founder of Wikileaks rejects US claims he has blood on his hands after releasing leaked documents on the Afghan war. Many more people will have to pay back some of the money paid to them as tax credits because of Budget changes, experts say. A royal commission report into Australia's worst bushfire disaster, which left 173 people dead in 2009, is to be made public. A lack of specialist medics to care for rape victims could be hampering conviction rates, doctors believe. The new identity of Jon Venables must be kept secret because there is "compelling evidence" of a threat to his safety, a judge says. Many young people working free as interns may legally be entitled to pay, a report says. Germany prepares for a memorial service one week after a deadly stampede killed 21 people at the Love Parade dance festival. Counties appear set to be dropped from postal addresses in future years after complaints about out-of-date names. Israel launches air strikes into the Gaza Strip, reports say, hours after a Palestinian rocket hit the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Sports presenter Clare Balding makes an official complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over an article which mocked her sexuality. The fossil of a whale is at the centre of a bizarre customs wrangle at Cairo airport, the BBC's Jon Leyne reports. A 20-year-old Christian mobile phone shop manager in Florida stops a would-be armed robber by preaching to him. Andy Turner leads Great Britain's medal haul on the fourth day of the European Championships as he takes gold in the 110m hurdles. Birthday boy James Anderson produces a superb bowling display to put England on top in the first Test against Pakistan at Trent Bridge. Bristol City sign England goalkeeper David James following his release from Portsmouth. Red Bull appear to be in control as McLaren struggle during second practice for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix. »
[+] Leeds 12-26 WiganPat Richards kicks 10 points as Wigan move one step closer to the Super League leader's shield with victory over defending champions Leeds. A coroner raises ongoing safety fears as an inquest jury blames a points failure for the 2002 Potters Bar train crash, in which seven died. A Romanian man and a woman are jailed for 30 months for forcing six children, the youngest aged two, to beg on London's streets. A toddler drowned after falling into a garden pond during a visit to a house in Edinburgh, it has emerged. The grounding of flights because of volcanic ash cost an airports operator £45,000 each day air services were disrupted. The widow of a man believed to have been killed by the IRA in 1981 said she felt sad but relieved that her husband's remains appeared to have been found. A Catholic bishop calls for an independent inquiry into the deaths of 11 civilians killed by the Army in Ballymurphy in west Belfast in 1971. A nine-year-old girl from Wales has died in a rafting accident while on holiday in Turkey. Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of a "brave, courageous and loyal" soldier killed in Afghanistan. Three Kenyans are charged with the murders of 76 people killed when bombs exploded as they watched the World Cup on TV in Kampala, Uganda. Four white South Africans are fined $2,700 (£1,700) each after making a video humiliating black university workers. At least 15 people die at a mine in northern China, as a suspected explosives store blows up. Search teams in north-east China are still searching for thousands of barrels of toxic chemicals washed into a major river by flooding. Forest fires kill at least 23 people in central Russia, while a forecast of heavy rain brings relief to Moscow. Greece will use military vehicles to restore fuel supplies cut by a lorry drivers' strike, the government says. Colombia's Farc rebel group issues a call for dialogue with the new government after Juan Manuel Santos's election as president. A gay couple become the first to marry in Argentina under a new law allowing same-sex unions. Syria's president and the Saudi king call on Lebanon's rival factions to avoid turning to violence amid mounting political tensions in the country. The UN refugee agency urges Saudi Arabia to stop deporting Somalis, saying 2,000 have recently been sent to Mogadishu. Floods caused by heavy monsoon rain kill more than 400 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, washing away whole villages, roads and bridges. Five Taliban are removed from a sanctions list by the UN Security Council, a move sought by Kabul to ease rapprochement with insurgents. US economic growth slowed between April and June, with GDP growing by an annualised rate of 2.4%, the US Commerce Department says. Former US Vice President Al Gore will not face charges over claims he assaulted a masseuse in an Oregon hotel room in 2006. BA reveals a steep quarterly loss of £164m after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud. Northwest Airlines will plead guilty and pay a $38m fine for fixing air-cargo prices, the US justice department says. Government plans to limit the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into the UK are criticised by the Lord Mayor of London. The intelligence on Iraq's weapons threat was "not very substantial", former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott says. Merging all tax credits and benefits into a single payment is one option being considered by Iain Duncan Smith in a "radical" welfare shake-up. Three ex-Labour MPs and an ex-Tory peer lose appeals over a ruling that they are not protected by parliamentary privilege from prosecution over expenses fraud allegations. Calcium supplements taken by many older people could be increasing their risk of a heart attack, research shows. The right of women to choose whether they have home births is being questioned by a leading medical journal. A father persuades the NHS to give his sick daughter a "miracle" drug he found on the internet. The Education Secretary insists there no is rush for schools in England to become academies, after criticism over the number of schools coming forward. Plans to reform A-levels could put students off maths and lead to university department closures, an academic body warns. More than 150 top schools in England have applied to become academies, government documents show. Owners of mobile phones are being asked to test the security of their network to see if enough is being done to stop eavesdropping. Newsbeat's had an exclusive look at new training being given to UK soldiers at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire. Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users. The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl reveals evidence of mammals declining in the exclusion zone. Land in the north of Chile is "ready" for another major earthquake, say researchers, adding that authorities did not act on previous warnings. The incoming BP chief executive has said it is time to scale back some parts of the oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. Comedienne and chat show host Ellen DeGeneres is leaving American Idol after one season on the judging panel. Ben Shephard bids farewell to GMTV after 10 years telling viewers: "I'm going to miss all of you, every single one of you." Welsh rock band Bullet For My Valentine scoop two prizes at this year's Kerrang! Awards, including best British group for the third year running. »
[+] Quiz of the week's newsThe Magazine's weekly quiz of the news, 7 days 7 questions - plus the Weekly Bonus Question. Tug of war, croquet and cricket have all featured at the Olympics. See what else has been in and out over the years. More women in the developed world are choosing not to have children. So why do others think it's OK to question this decision? China is struggling with an arduous clean up after the country's worst oil spill, with grim conditions for those involved. London Mayor Boris Johnson sells the benefits of the London bike hire scheme to the world media. A Canadian woman has said she played dead in order to escape from a bear during an attack in Montana that left one man dead. A north London grocery store is committing "wildlife massacre" by selling squirrel meat, an animal welfare group has claimed. Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva) accused a branch of Budgens of supporting a "barbaric and needless cull" of grey squirrels. More than 400 people have been killed and nearly 400,000 displaced in floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in northern Pakistan. Thousands of children in Gaza appear to have broken their own world record for the number of kites flown at the same time, the UN says. Wild fires have continued to rage in central and western Russia, with more than 20 people now reported to have died. Hundreds of amateur musicians have set the sights and sounds of Yorkshire to music. »
[+] Wedding belleWhy Chelsea Clinton continues to fascinate »
[+] Life without a stomachThe sisters who had surgery to combat family cancer threat »
[+] 'Short-changed'Relatives' anger lingers over Potters Bar crash »
[+] Bad tripAre family holidays worth all the hassle? »
[+] Ultimate rejectionWhat could drive a mother to kill a child in their first few minutes of life? »
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AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said he has deployed troops and air units in case of a conflict with neighboring Colombia.
Time.com - After the former head of Microsoft China's academic credentials have come under scrutiny, a nationwide debate is raging on the place of integrity in Chinese society
AP - A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled the northeast Iranian city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh on Friday, injuring at least 110 people. AP - Mexico's biggest television network canceled a popular news show to protest the kidnapping of four reporters in what media advocates said Friday is an escalation of a campaign by drug gangs to control information.
Reuters - Growth in Canada's economy edged up in May after stalling unexpectedly in April, helped by strength in the goods-producing sectors led by oil and gas extraction, while the service sector faltered for a second straight month. Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is heading for a shock defeat at elections on August 21, a new opinion poll showed Saturday, as government infighting and damaging cabinet leaks threatened to derail her campaign. McClatchy Newspapers - ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — As the U.S.-led coalition launches its most critical military operation of the nine-year war in Afghanistan, doubts are growing about whether the United States and its allies can contain the surging Taliban-led insurgency and prevent the country from reverting to an al Qaida sanctuary or erupting in civil war. The Christian Science Monitor - Wyclef Jean is considering running for president against his politician uncle, although some observers are skeptical if the earthquake-ravaged country is even capable of holding elections this year. Time.com - Felipe CalderÓn has been criticized for not going hard enough after the Sinaloa cartel. Now he's started but there's more bloodshed to come OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jul 30 (IRIN) - Less than three years after a closely fought
presidential election plunged Kenya into widespread violence and
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5. forbes HeadNews»
[+] Linear Avoids Big DealsCEO Lothar Maier on why the company has never made a large acquisition. »
[+] ThoughtsOn the business of life. Economic growth slumps in the second quarter. Gold miners set record revenues and profits on all-time highs in the price of gold. Questions multiply about $100 million Islamic center planned near Ground Zero. Marvell's Weili Dai takes her place on our list of entrepreneurs, innovators and businesspeople who left home and made their mark in the U.S. Fiction is so last century. Reality TV now takes centre stage on our TV screens. Varun Duggirala, who produced Get Gorgeous 5, Launchpad 3 and Kidnap, tells us what really goes on behind the 'reality'. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair says future bank bailouts won't likely happen. The big banks will be allowed to fail. Economist Kenneth Rogoff believes financial crises are endemic to human nature. These airlines are a cross between a scheduled airline and on demand charter operator with a nimble Literature's greatest dandy actually hated fashion. Company reports big rise in revenue, profits. Bill McCuddy reviews the ad campaigns featuring Bruce Willis and Hugh Hefner. Days after ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson resigned, Lee has been named his replacement. There are 2.1 million unsold U.S. houses. Excess inventory is the enemy of house prices, which may fall another 20%. Economic growth slumps in the second quarter. Gold miners set record revenues and profits on all-time »
[+] Un-FreakonomicsA Harvard professor uses economics to save lives, assign doctors and get kids into the right high school. »
[+] SportsMoney 50-50The world's most valuable teams and athletes. In trading on Friday, the First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2%. Analyst warns of challenging times ahead for industry after cost cuts drive strong quarter for refiner. Fed comments in recent days have shifted from cheerleading to restraint. That's scary. [+ desc][+ titles]
6. Reuters top newsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Friday approved the toughest reforms ever to offshore energy drilling practices, as Democrats narrowly pushed through an election-year response to BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as the House of Representatives voted to toughen regulation of offshore energy drilling.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. bank failures reached 108 so far in 2010 on Friday as regulators seized five small banks in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast, none publicly traded.
DETROIT/CALGARY (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc's chief executive said on Friday he was unable to say when the company would be able to restart the Michigan pipeline that ruptured earlier this week, spilling more than 800,000 gallons of oil.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are worried about what other secret documents the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may possess and have tried to contact the group without success to avoid their release, the State Department said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for convicted U.S. Ponzi schemer Tom Petters on Friday asked an appeals court to send the case back for a new trial, saying they were not able to fully present arguments against some of his accusers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday called on Iran to immediately release three Americans who were detained a year ago after straying across the border while hiking in the mountains of northern Iraq.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter as companies invested heavily in equipment from abroad and the pace of consumer spending eased, raising concerns about the recovery in the rest of 2010.
PESHAWAR (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rains have triggered the worst floods in decades in Pakistan's northwest, killing more than 400 people and forcing thousands from their homes as authorities struggle to reach stranded villagers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Friday voted to end the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling for oil companies that meet new federal safety requirements.
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