Life-saving AIDS drugs push HIV numbers to new high

(batkhela.tk) LONDON: More people than ever are living with the AIDS virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years, the United Nations AIDS programme (UNAIDS) said on Monday.

In its annual report on the pandemic, UNAIDS said the number of people dying of the disease fell to 1.8 million in 2010, down from a peak of 2.2 million in the mid-2000s.

UNAIDS director Michel Sidibe said the past 12 months had been a "game-changing year" in the global AIDS fight.

Some 2.5 million deaths have been averted in poor and middle-income countries since 1995 due to AIDS drugs being introduced and access to them improving, according to UNAIDS.

Much of that success has come in the past two years as the numbers of people getting treatment has increased rapidly.

"We've never had a year when there has been so much science, so much leadership and such results in one year," Sidibe said in a telephone interview from UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva.

"Even in this time of public finance crises and uncertainty about funding, we're seeing results. We are seeing more countries than ever before (achieving) significant reductions in new infections and stabilising their epidemics."

Since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, more than 60 million people have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. HIV can be controlled for many years with cocktails of drugs, but there is as yet no cure. (Reuters) 

Weightless US teachers eye giant science leap

LONG BEACH: "Excited," "nervous," "terrified" - just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally.

The 30 classroom professionals donned blue "astronaut" jumpsuits to defy gravity in the skies above California, in a project designed to help them capture the imagination of young science students.

On the back of her jumpsuit, teacher Michelle Luke taped a drawing made by her pupils at Manhattan Beach Middle School, southwest of Los Angeles, showing two figures taking a giant weightless leap into space. 

But with only a couple of hours to go before the flight, her smile was still a little tense.

During the flight - in which a specially-decked out plane does a series of parabolic climbs and dives, the only way to experience weightlessness without going into space -- the body is subject to 1.8 G forces.

That makes the body feel nearly twice as heavy as it is - the downside in the steep climb phase, before participants fly up off the floor, shrieking as they float around the cabin like astronauts in the International Space Station. (AFP)

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After ten minutes away on the demand of dowry

   (batkhela.tk)    Human rights groups operating in Bangladesh to get married this woman has received a few minutes later to ask for dowry from her husband refused to go along.
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Osama msfq and had a soft heart: Zawahiri

Ayman al-Zawahiri's new chief has released a video in which Osama bin Laden 'soft' and 'msfq, said.Osama in Pakistan last May, after the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took responsibility for the network said the former leader Osama bin Laden was a sensitive man.Jihadi Web sites on the thirty-minute video titled "night and day spent with Al.Ayman al-Zawahiri said that his goal of releasing this video of Osama bin Laden a "common man" is to reveal the personality of the people.In the video Zawahiri was wearing a white gown. He said: "People do not realize that this very kind person, kind and delicate feelings msfq and owned.  (batkhela.tk) Zawahiri said: "We did not see this person '.
Bin Laden and Zawahiri in the 1980s, the Soviet forces in Afghanistan met while they both supported the Mujahideen who were fighting against. They spent time with bin Laden to 'honor' was declared.Ayman al-Zawahiri said, recalling the moments when they learned of the death of my loved ones how to embrace them with eyes full dlash Osama did.Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri said, despite a persistent location to another location that was special care that their children get good education.He said he had a teacher who taught children the Qur'an.Zawahiri said bin Laden wanted to be remembered that those who had attacks of September eleven. The United States in nearly three thousand people were killed in these attacks.Analysts believe that Osama bin Laden video in memory of this issue and its proximity to Bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri's emphasis on the al-Qaeda supporters to increase their popularity.

Carrying 15 tons of bombs in the U.S. weapons stockpile kaazafh

WASHINGTON  U.S.(batkhela.tk) Air Force has confirmed that the weapons store in a new and very large bomb was increased, the 15 tons heavy and 20 feet long the bomb recent U.S. Air Force to have been Maceio Ordinance pynytrytr Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a time bomb in the underground bnkrz destroying the extraordinary capacity of the concrete 60 mytrmuty layer cyrkrapny target kunsanh a can, analysts, senior aursmaly kuryaas bomb targeting could have its nuclear facilities underground have earned up, the fifty-two American ships through astylth will drop bombs on target and will guide the satellite. two and a half tons of explosives with a six-meter thick layer of concrete before exploding a bomb hole in your target can reach, U.S. Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Jack mlrky the 32 million dollar deal under the U.S. company Boeing Air 8 a bomb would extend the spokesman not told how many U.S. Air Force to have been, analysts MOP bomb Iran to build aursmaly koryak underground bnkrzaursrngun kunsanh hthyarky turprdykha is important. amrykatuatrky khtarhahy with the air strikes to prevent Iran aursmaly Korea established its nuclear facilities underground is earned.(AFP)

Recalled its ambassador to France from Syria

 France Paris .(batkhela.tk).. its ambassador back toSyria blualya. French Foreign Minister,diplomatic missions in Syria, according to Alanjup attacks and other violent incidents on the riselater decided to withdraw the Frenchambassador's home. They the Syrian presidentsaid in recent days due to protests againstbsaralasd violence has increased in France forall of your Consular offices in the evening anddecided to stop tyuts Cultural Institute.

Two accused of terrorism in Karachi incident was identified

 (batkhela.tk)  Islamabad: Federal Interior Minister RehmanMalik said that terrorism in Karachi massacrelast night's incident, two suspects have beenidentified. Talking to media outside ParliamentHouse in Islamabad, Interior Minister said thattwo terrorists has been identified as one of themis from Punjab and Sindh, a terrorist's brother isa police sub inspector is also being investigated.He is standing behind People's party and ltafAltaf Hussain police will not tolerate abusive.

Zulfiqar Mirza of Scotland lyndyard officials, the documents were

 (batkhela.tk) Islamabad: Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza, a former Scotland Yard officials in London andsome documents were handed over. They saythat only a quarter of the evidence given toScotland Yard. Zulfiqar Mirza sources Scotlandyard officials lasted one hour. sources saidZulfiqar Mirza, some documents were handed over to Scotland yard. presented Lord NazirAhmed, Farooq Habib John and the Londonpolice investigate murder case 5 officials werealso present. the media Mirza said that duringthose two days in contact with Scotland yardofficers and their application in London is brhadyperiod. Zulfiqar Mirza they are the proof andevidence that they have only one quarter ofScotland yard. Zulfiqar Mirza said the Britishauthorities that they would respond afterreviewing all the evidence.

Mullen confirms existence of secret memo

(batkhela.tk) WASHINGTON: Former Chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Mike Mullen has confirmed receiving memo from Mansoor Ijaz but said he never paid any attention to it and took no follow up, prestigious US publication The Cable reported.

Mansoor Ijaz, US business tycoon alleged in an Oct. 10 op-ed in top UK daily Financial Times that on May 10, in the wake of Osama bin Laden's killing in Abbottabad, Zardari had offered to replace Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence leadership and cut ties with militant groups. Ijaz said he was directed to craft the memo by a senior Pakistani official close to Zardari. Ijaz has implied -- and the Pakistani press has speculated -- that this official was Haqqani.

Kirby told The Cable that Mullen now acknowledges that the Ijaz memo does exist, that he did receive it -- but that he never paid any attention to it and took no follow up action.

"Adm. Mullen had no recollection of the memo and no relationship with Mr. Ijaz. After the original article appeared on Foreign Policy's website, he felt it incumbent upon himself to check his memory. He reached out to others who he believed might have had knowledge of such a memo, and one of them was able to produce a copy of it," Kirby said. "That said, neither the contents of the memo nor the proof of its existence altered or affected in any way the manner in which Adm. Mullen conducted himself in his relationship with Gen. Kayani and the Pakistani government. He did not find it at all credible and took no note of it then or later. Therefore, he addressed it with no one."

Last week, The Cable published an exclusive report on Mullen's comments about the memo. "Adm. Mullen does not know Mr. Ijaz and has no recollection of receiving any correspondence from him," Mullen's spokesman Capt. John Kirby said Nov. 8."I cannot say definitively that correspondence did not come from him -- the admiral received many missives as chairman from many people every day, some official, some not. But he does not recall one from this individual."

Ijaz shot back in an article in Pakistan's The News, in which he published extensive Blackberry Messenger conversations with the Zardari-linked Pakistani official, allegedly Haqqani. He insisted that the memo did, in fact, exist, and that it was delivered from Ijaz to Mullen through another secret go-between, this one a senior US government official.

"There can be no doubt a memorandum was drafted and transmitted to Admiral Mullen with the approval of the highest political level in Pakistan, and that the admiral received it with certainty from a source whom he trusted and who also trusted me," Ijaz wrote.

In an interview late on Wednesday afternoon, Washington time, Haqqani confirmed to The Cable that he will travel to Islamabad and has sent a letter to Zardari offering his resignation.

"At no point was I asked by you or anyone in the Pakistani government to draft a memo and at no point did I draft or deliver such a memo," Haqqani said that he had written in his letter to Zardari.

"I've been consistently vilified as being against the Pakistani military even though I have only opposed military intervention in political affairs," Haqqani said that he wrote. "It's not easy to operate under the shadow of innuendo and I have not been named by anyone so far, but I am offering to resign in the national interest and leave that to the will of the president."

Haqqani declined to comment to The Cable whether or not he played any role in the controversy surrounding the memo -- for example, discussing it with Ijaz before or after the fact, as the scandal deepened. It's widely rumored that Haqqani and Ijaz have known each other for many years.

PML-N resignations will not hurt democracy: Nawaz

 (batkhela-movies)SHIKARPUR: PML-N President Nawaz Sharif said Thursday that democracy would not be hurt even if his party members resigned from the assemblies.

Speaking to Geo News, Sharif said corruption was everywhere and no one was taking action against corrupt officials.

Prior to making these statements, Sharif addressed a rally in Madeji and said the government did not care about the people. The PML-N president added that he would take all necessary steps to solve national problems.