Flamboyant Gaddafi no stranger to bloodshed- Muammar Gaddafi's love of comic-opera uniforms, exotic female bodyguards and Bedouin tents provided a theatrical backdrop for 42 years of bloody repression that in the end could not withstand a determined uprising backed by NATO air power.

Two miners trapped in Kellingley, north Yorkshire, A rescue operation is under way to reach two miners trapped underground in North Yorkshire, the National Union of Mineworkers said.

The union said the men are trapped up their waist by debris after a roof fall at Kellingley Colliery, close to Knottingley.

They are said to be some distance from the entrance shaft. An air ambulance was deployed at about 17:00 BST.

Managed by UK Coal, it is one of Britain's deepest remaining mines.

She has lived behind a veil for the past two years, but today Charla Nash, the woman who survived a vicious attack by her friend's chimpanzee, has revealed her new face for the first time.

Ms Nash, who was left permanently blind, and lost her nose, eyes and lips in the attack, received a ground-breaking face transplant in May.

Speaking of her incredible recovery in an interview for the Today show, she said that for the first time since the horrific ordeal she can smell, eat solid food and feel sensation on her face. And remarkably, her new features are beginning to show.

'I’m beginning to feel my jaw and chin. And I can move my mouth and smile. I still feel weak. But little by little I’m getting stronger,' she said off air. Her first meal after the surgery, she said, was eggs and cream cheese.

In May, a team of more than 30 surgeons, nurses and anaesthetists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, led by Dr Bohdan Pomanhac, painstakingly rebuilt her face. They kept the date secret to protect Ms Nash's privacy.

President Barack Obama declared on Monday there would be no deal on raising the government's debt limit if Republicans won't compromise, and he said he would not sign a short-term extension — raising the stakes on volatile negotiations with the clock ticking toward an Aug. 2 deadline.

The president once again called a news conference to brief reporters on the status of the negotiations, just hours ahead of a third White House meeting with congressional leaders.

Obama said Monday morning in the briefing room, "We still have a lot of work to do," but applauded House Speaker John Boehner's "good faith efforts" to craft a deal. "Speaker Boehner has been very sincere" in his efforts to "do something big."

The president said, "We should use this opportunity to do something meaningful," adding, "Now is the time to deal with these issues. If not now, when?"

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is facing new misdemeanor harassment charges accusing him of threatening two homeowner association security guards outside his Las Vegas home.

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The charges filed Thursday in Las Vegas stem from an October dispute over parking with guards in the gated community where the undefeated prizefighter lives.

Mayweather's lawyer, Karen Winckler, didn't immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Mayweather already faces a September trial on a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from allegations that he poked a 21-year-old guard in the face during a separate argument over parking tickets in November. He also faces unrelated felony charges in a domestic argument with his ex-girlfriend and two of their children last year.

The new charges allege Mayweather threatened the guards after they cited several of his vehicles parked on the street in violation of association rules.

According to a police report, guard Miguel Burgos told police that Mayweather approached him and co-worker Aaron Ryan after they cited the cars and told them not to touch his vehicles.

The guards tried to explain the association's parking rules, but Mayweather said he had 29 vehicles and they didn't need to touch them, Burgos told police.

"I already have a pending gun charge and I don't want any problems, but my homeboys have guns and I'll call them to come over and take care of you guys," Mayweather said, according to Burgos' account. "What do you guys want to do?"

Mayweather does not have gun charges pending against him.

The guards said Mayweather then took the citations and put them on the windshield of the officers' vehicle while laughing, repeating the threat several times and telling them to leave.

Police said the guards left and called police, but told officers they didn't want to press charges. Ryan called police two weeks later saying he wanted to move forward with the case.

Winckler told police in March that Mayweather would not be available for an interview.

Mayweather, 34, is 41-0 in his professional career with 25 knockouts. His last fight was against Shane Mosley a year ago.
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WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama released a $3.73 trillion budget for fiscal-year 2012 Monday where he sought to balance two competing and conflicting agendas: dramatic cuts to federal spending while also investing in programs to improve U.S. competitiveness. He ended up with a product that offers up more than $1 trillion in deficit reductions over a 10-year period—three-quarters coming from spending cuts and the balance from tax increases or the elimination of existing tax breaks.

In fiscal 2012 alone, the administration proposed reducing or closing 200 federal programs at a savings of $33 billion.

"My budget makes investments that can help America win this competition and transform our economy, and it does so fully aware of the very difficult fiscal situation we face," Mr. Obama said in his budget message.

Many of these proposed budget cuts and tax increases have been proposed earlier and met strong opposition in Congress.


Mr. Obama is proposing cuts to programs such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which would stand to lose $2.5 billion, while $300 million would be cut from community-development grants. In doing so, Mr. Obama said his budget includes cuts to "many programs whose mission I care deeply about, but meeting our fiscal targets while investing in our future demands no less."

The president called for a five-year non-security discretionary-spending freeze and a two-year freeze of federal government employees' salaries.

But those proposed savings go nowhere near the short-term reductions that House Republicans are pushing for. Friday night, the party's leaders released details of a plan to slash $62 billion in the remaining 7½ months of fiscal 2011, and they promised to cut more in their fiscal 2012 budget plan.

The Obama budget reductions don't come close to the $4 trillion in savings recommended by a White House-appointed deficit commission. This is largely because the president's budget shies away from pushing for any substantial changes to entitlement programs Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Nor does it include a specific outline for overhauling either the corporate or individual tax codes.

The budget acknowledged that the proposed cuts to discretionary spending were only a beginning to addressing the core fiscal problems facing the country.

"But non-security, discretionary spending represents approximately 12% of all spending," the budget said. "The solution to our long-term fiscal problems cannot rest on this alone."

On Social Security, Mr. Obama sought to start the conversation by outlining a series of principles for an overhaul effort. He is proposing no reductions in basic benefits for seniors, and future beneficiaries could not see their "benefits slashed."

Republican lawmakers criticized Mr. Obama for failing to spell out how to reduce entitlement spending.

"We're not having any leadership" at all, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), the top Republican on the Senate budget committee said on CNN. "I do believe he deserves serious criticism for that."

Mr. Sessions added his party stood ready to begin negotiations with Mr. Obama on overhauling the entitlement programs.

White House Budget Director Jacob Lew said the budget did in fact attempt to meet the goals set out by the deficit commission.

"We accomplished the goal that the commission was set out to accomplish, which was to get to a sustainable deficit as a percentage of the economy in the middle of the decade," Mr. Lew said on CNBC.

Under the president's budget, the deficit as a share of U.S. gross domestic product would decline from its projected 10.9% in fiscal 2011 to 2.9% by fiscal 2018. Most economists agree that a deficit lower than 3% of GDP is sustainable.

But then under the White House budget, the deficit would begin increasing again as a share of GDP in the latter years of the decade, largely as a result of the costs of the entitlement programs.

Mr. Obama does propose aggressively cutting the Pentagon's budget—which along with the entitlement programs and interest on the national debt account for the lion's share of federal spending.

He would cut defense spending by $78 billion over the next five years, bringing the Pentagon budget down to zero real growth. Combined with reduced expected spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the coming years, that would reduce defense spending substantially.

On the investment side, Mr. Obama called again for making the research and development tax credit permanent—at a cost of $106 billion over the next decade.

The president proposed $36 billion in loan authority for the construction of new nuclear-energy power plants as well as $2 billion in loan guarantees for other new renewable-energy projects.

The $7,500 tax credit available toward the purchase of new electric vehicles would be transformed into a rebate available to all consumers upon purchase. The president reiterated his goal of having one million advanced-technology vehicles on the roads by 2015.

The budget would create 100,000 teaching positions in science, math, technology and engineering over the next 10 years.

It would maintain the current maximum of a $5,500 grant available to poorer college students—it would pay for the substantial cost of doing so by eliminating the grant's availability during summer school, and interest would begin accruing on loans taken out by graduate students from their inception.

 
Not only Roman Abramovich can afford doroguschy toys bought with petrodollars. Now a luxury yacht is the president Medvedev. The yacht is called Sirius, or just Sirius, if in Russian, before it was known as Leo Fun. Since the FSO believes that the price of the yacht - a state secret, the price can only be called exemplary. So, the yacht Sirius, which was bought by the Office of Presidential Affairs, is worth about $ 40 million. Press secretary of the administration of President Viktor Khrekov said that the president will take on his vessel dignitaries Olympics 2014 The yacht is not new, previously anyone could rent it for 350 thousand dollars a week. Guests Dmitry will meet on the deck with a Jacuzzi for 6 people, in the gym or in the dining room for 14 people with a barbecue and bar. Cabins are equipped with the latest technology, wireless internet access, ultra-modern furniture and shower. Maximum speed Siriuasa -17 knots. Now let's take a look inside.