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The child was among 11 people killed in the central city of Homs while another 10 died in the town of Maaret al-Naaman, located near the western city of Idlib, the activists said.

They said security forces also killed two people in the southern region of Daraa, epicentre of protests that have gripped Syria since March 15, one in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, another in the port city of Latakia and two in the eastern town of Deir Ezzor. Dozens were wounded.

The authorities in Tripoli slammed Obama’s comments as “delusional,” while strongly denying reports that Kadhafi’s wife and daughter had fled to Tunisia and that Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem had defected.

“NATO and coalition air assets continued their precision air strikes against pro-Kadhafi regime forces overnight with a coordinated strike against pro-Kadhafi forces in the ports of Tripoli, Al-Khums and Sirte,” the Western alliance said.

Lagarde is “practically a shoo-in” as the European Union’s candidate to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF managing director, an EU source said.

An EU announcement was expected at the May 26-27 Group of Eight summit in France, the source said.

The announcement was welcome news for the British energy giant at the end of a week in which BP saw its hopes of exploiting Russian Arctic oil shattered.

In a statement on Friday, BP said MOEX USA Corporation had agreed to pay BP $1.065 billion (744 million euros) in compensation.

A carbon dioxide sensor failed in the spacesuit worn by American astronaut Greg Chamitoff after he embarked on his first-ever spacewalk along with fellow astronaut and veteran spacewalker Drew Feustel.

The glitch gave no indication that harmful CO2 levels would rise, but NASA shaved about 10 minutes off the excursion as a precaution.

A capacity crowd at the Wankhede Stadium witnessed Warne, captain of Rajasthan Royals, in action for the last time during his team’s final league match against Mumbai Indians.

Rajasthan, already out of contention, gave a fitting send-off to the Australian with a 10-wicket victory over the local favourites. Warne picked one wicket for 30 runs off four overs.

The therapy marks an exciting advance in the quest to overcome crippling injuries of the spinal cord, they said.

“This is a breakthrough,” said Susan Harkema, a professor at the Spinal Cord Research Center at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, who led the 11-member team.

The British duo, world champions in 2009 and 2008 respectively, believe that the long opening straight at the Circuit de Catalunya will give them the chance to do just that – and lay the foundations for a sustained bid for the title.

Button said: “There is a very long drag down to Turn One here and, even if they qualify half a second ahead of us, providing we can qualify right behind them, we can get them into the first corner.”

A US embassy spokesman said no US personnel were seriously wounded in the rush-hour attack in the volatile northwestern city, which runs into the tribal belt that Washington has branded a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda.

Police said two foreigners were lightly wounded. One of two armoured vehicles was damaged by what a bomb disposal official said was 50 kilos of low-grade explosives packed into a car and detonated by remote-control.

Hamilton told “60 Minutes” that he witnessed Armstrong using EPO (erythropoietin), which is designed to increase endurance by boosting production of red blood cells.

“I saw it in his refrigerator,” Hamilton told the American news programme in the interview to air Sunday. “I saw him inject it more than one time like we all did, like I did many, many times.”

The beleaguered utility posted an annual net loss of 1.247 trillion yen ($15 billion), the biggest ever for a non-financial Japanese firm. The company did not give an earnings forecast for the current financial year.

With compensation liabilities estimated at tens of billions of dollars, the utility warned the “significant deterioration” in its financial position “raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern”.

But in a statement suggesting divisions between policymakers over how to handle the crisis, a European Central Bank official said it was mainly up to Greece to rescue itself — and that Athens could be cut off from aid if it did not act.

Ajai Chopra, head of the IMF mission in Ireland, said the European Union needed to adopt a more comprehensive and consistent approach to the crisis and urgently strengthen its bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility.

Saleh has twice backed out of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) transition deal, most recently on Wednesday, despite diplomatic wrangling by U.S., Gulf and European officials.

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in cities across Yemen on Friday, demanding Saleh end his three-decade rule now.

The Western alliance, working under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians from government forces, says military and political pressure is weakening Muammar Gaddafi’s hold on power and should eventually dislodge him.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday said the Libyan leader’s downfall was “inevitable” and that it would be the only way for a transition to democracy to take place.

One year into its European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout, Greece is struggling with weak revenues and a deep recession, fuelling speculation that it will have to restructure its debt to pull itself out of the fiscal mess that triggered a euro zone crisis.

“The rating downgrade reflects the scale of the challenge facing Greece in implementing a radical fiscal and structural reform program necessary to secure solvency of the state and the foundations for sustained economic recovery,” Fitch said in a statement.

Police said a car bomb had been detonated by remote control as the convoy passed, killing one Pakistani. Twelve people were wounded.

U.S. embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said two U.S. nationals were among the wounded, with minor injuries. Police said the two were security guards.

Much-criticized president, Masataka Shimizu, 66, resigned to take responsibility for the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986, making way for an insider, managing director Toshio Nishizawa, 60.

Engineers are battling to plug radiation leaks and bring the plant northeast of Tokyo under control more than two months after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and deadly tsunami that devastated a swathe of Japan’s coastline and tipped the economy into recession.

Dubbed “los indignados” (the indignant), tens of thousands demonstrating against unemployment and deep austerity measures have filled the main squares of Spain’s cities for five days, marking a shift after years of patience with an economic slump.

The electoral board ruled on Thursday that protests would be illegal on Saturday, the eve of elections when Spaniards will choose 8,116 city councils and 13 out of 17 regional governments.

According to a fresh batch of cables released by WikiLeaks, Pakistan’s chief of army staff General Ashfaq Kayani asked Admiral William J. Fallon, then commander of U.S. Central Command, for increased surveillance and round-the-clock Predator coverage over North and South Waziristan, strongholds for Taliban militants.

“Referring to the situation in Waziristan,” the February 11, 2008 cable says, “Kayani asked if Fallon could assist in providing continuous Predator coverage of the conflict area.”

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has been holding talks with Chinese leaders during a visit that comes as ties with the U.S. have faltered after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan this month.

Pakistan’s Defense Minister Ahmad Mukhtar told media that his country was aiming to receive “50 aircraft in six months” from China at between $20 million and $25 million per aircraft.

Liberty Media is offering $17 per share, a 20.5 percent premium over Barnes & Noble’s closing share price on Thursday, in a deal that would give it a foothold in the growing e-books industry dominated by Amazon.com Inc.

Barnes & Noble, which has faced years of declining print book sales, put itself up for sale last August saying its shares were undervalued.

Rob Summers, a 25-year-old former college baseball pitcher, can also move his hips, knees, ankles and toes — and has regained some bladder and sexual functionality, researchers said on Thursday.

“It opens up a huge opportunity to improve the daily functioning of these individuals … but we have a long road ahead,” said Susan Harkema, lead researcher of the study from the University of Louisville in Kentucky. The results were published in The Lancet medical journal.

Some Romans and tourists say the bronze statue looks more like Italy’s wartime dictator Benito Mussolini than the widely beloved pope.

“How could they have given such a kind pope the head of a Fascist?” said 71-year-old Antonio Lamonica.

According to the poll, the share of all Americans who say increases in the price of gasoline will cause serious financial hardship for them or their families in the next six months now tops 4 in 10.

Overall, 71 percent said rising prices will cause some hardship for them and their families, including 41 percent who called it a “serious” hardship. Just 29 percent said rising prices are not causing a negative impact on their finances.

Two Americans suffered minor injuries, but one Pakistani passer-by was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in the attack in the city of Peshawar, officials said. The strike was the first on Westerners since the May 2 raid by American commandos on bin Laden’s hide-out in an army town around three hours from Peshawar.

The Pakistani Taliban, an al-Qaida-allied group behind scores of attacks in recent years, claimed responsibility.

The adviser, who disclosed the plans on the condition of anonymity in advance of next week’s announcement, said Pawlenty will formally enter the race during a town hall-style event in Des Moines, Iowa.

He’s choosing to make his long-expected bid official in a critical state in his path to the GOP nomination. Advisers acknowledge that Pawlenty, 50, must win or turn in a strong showing during next winter’s caucuses in the neighboring state of Iowa to have any chance of becoming the Republican who will challenge President Barack Obama, a Democrat, next November.

In a GOP presidential race peppered with millionaires, Pawlenty is the closest thing in sight to a regular guy – and it’s a card he plays often.

Pawlenty will declare his candidacy in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa on Monday, an adviser told The Associated Press. The adviser, who disclosed the plans on the condition of anonymity, said Pawlenty will then head to Florida, New Hampshire, New York and Washington, D.C.

Two Americans suffered minor injuries, but one Pakistani passer-by was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in the attack in the city of Peshawar, officials said. The strike was the first on Westerners since the May 2 raid by American commandos on bin Laden’s hide-out in an army town around three hours from Peshawar.

The Pakistani Taliban, an al-Qaida-allied group behind scores of attacks in recent years, claimed responsibility.

“You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency,” wrote Dr. Ali Khan on the emergency preparedness blog of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Above the post is a photo of what appears to be a dirty-fingered female zombie.

The IMF insists the departure of former chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has not hurt its day-to-day operations, but it is clearly under pressure to find a successor fast to lead an organization that provides billions in loans to stabilize the world economy. A new chief would also draw attention away from the seamy scandal surrounding Strauss-Kahn, who quit this week to face charges in New York that he tried to rape a hotel maid.

Lagarde’s chances for the top IMF job got a boost Friday when Kemal Dervis, a former finance minister for Turkey, said he did not want to be considered for the job.

Yet Toussaint, who quit work and dipped into her retirement early to care for her seizure-prone son, was shocked to learn that most of the fulltime lifeguards in this city earn well over $100,000 in total compensation a year – more than Toussaint made in her previous life as a nurse and more than she believes is right in an economy where pink slips have become common fare.

“When I first heard that I was amazed at how much they make. To think that these are lifeguards! That’s more than some doctors make,” said Toussaint, 55, as she sat by the beach with her son’s therapy dog, Romeo. “It does kind of make me feel like, `Gosh, maybe I should be a lifeguard.'”

In an interview with “60 Minutes,” Hamilton admitted that he doped and said Armstrong did, as well – using the blood booster EPO in the 1999 Tour and before the race in 2000 and 2001. Armstrong’s string of seven straight wins lasted from 1999-2005.

“I saw (EPO) in his refrigerator. … I saw him inject it more than one time, like we all did. Like I did, many, many times,” Hamilton said in the “60 Minutes” interview that was aired Thursday on the “CBS Evening News.”

In a case watched by psychiatrists, family advocates and defense attorneys, the court found that neither the U.S. nor the Wisconsin Constitution prohibits life sentences without parole for 14-year-olds in homicide cases and no national consensus has formed against such sentences.

“We … confirm what objective evidence already informs us: Contemporary society views the punishment as proportionate to the offense,” Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler wrote for the majority.

Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, said there’s no chance of meeting President Barack Obama’s August deadline.

“I’ve been very, persistently clear that we cannot get this done by summer,” Kline said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It is just not going to happen.”

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu, criticized for his low profile during the disaster’s early days, vowed that the utility would continue doing its “utmost” to bring the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant under control.

Fuel rods appear to have largely melted at three of the plant’s reactors after a March 11 earthquake triggered a tsunami that knocked out cooling systems – the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. Leaking radiation has prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents, and the perilous struggle to contain the reactors is expected to continue into next year.

Chicago FBI spokeswoman Cynthia Yates said the bureau wants DNA from “numerous individuals” including Kaczynski, although she wouldn’t provide details about any of the others. The FBI’s efforts to get Kaczynski’s DNA became publicly known because of a court motion he filed seeking to keep materials he claims would exonerate him in the Tylenol case: items from his Montana cabin that the U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning off.

Kaczynski lived in the tiny cabin as he sent off mail bombs that killed three people and wounded several others in attacks that began in the late 1970s. The FBI dubbed the man the Unabomber because the bombs originally targeted university professors and airline executives.

With a major Asia-Pacific economic summit set for Honolulu in November – one that will draw dozens of heads of state and focus international attention on the tourist mecca – state leaders have begun pressing for solutions to solve a homelessness problem that’s as deeply entrenched in Hawaii as nearly anywhere in the country.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie recently announced a hotline to find homeless people who may need help. He also gave details Tuesday on a 90-day plan to increase mental health care services, repair shelters, and move the chronically homeless into permanent housing.

Since the Oct. 26, 1881, “gunfight at the O.K. Corral,” the famed frontier lawman has loomed large over this former boomtown. The silver deposits that gave birth to the city have long since been played out, but Tombstone has survived largely by mining the legend of the West’s most infamous shootout.

And in popular culture, the Earps have always been the good guys; the McLaurys and Clantons, the bad guys.

Illegal immigrants and their families who harvest southeast Georgia’s trademarked sweet onions are considering leaving rather than risk deportation in the wake of a law signed by Gov. Nathan Deal targeting illegal workers.

While most states rejected immigration crackdowns this year, conservative Georgia and Utah are the only states where comprehensive bills have passed. With the ink barely dry on Georgia’s law, among the toughest in the country, the divisions between suburban voters and those in the countryside are once again laid bare when it comes to immigration, even among people who line up on many other issues.

The brown marmorated stink bug, a three-quarter-inch invader native to Asia, is believed to have been brought first to the Allentown, Pa., area in 1998. The bug began appearing in mid-Atlantic orchards in 2003-04 and exploded in number last year.

This spring, stink bugs have been seen in 33 states, including every one east of the Mississippi River and as far west as California, Oregon and Washington.

As parent ospreys circled overhead and shrieked, the licensed Louisiana wildlife volunteer lifted the chick gently from the messy, four-foot-wide nest of sticks and handed it to the boat’s operator. Rehabilitator Donna Gee then banded it and placed the bird in a plastic portable kennel.

The rising waters unleashed in parts of Louisiana by the opening of the Morganza spillway, to protect New Orleans and Baton Rouge from Mississippi River flooding, has sent people and wildlife searching for higher ground while leaving birds such as the osprey chicks at risk.

The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday announced the May 6 ruling against Global Horizons Inc., whose president and other officials are facing criminal prosecution in Hawaii on accusations of exploiting Thai workers in what the FBI has called the country’s largest human trafficking case.

The company also has been subject to at least four separate labor cases and a federal lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Now the families of victims of last year’s West Virginia mine explosion say they want justice, even as the Virginia-based company disputed the findings released in a 113-page report Thursday.

“I want to see men pay for this,” said Clay Mullins, whose brother Rex died in the chain-reaction blasts that rocked the Upper Big Branch mine near Montcoal on April 5, 2010.