European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday met with Israeli President Shimon Peres who said that Israel’s policy towards construction in Jerusalem should not be changed.
“For 40 years there was a certain pattern which is that we build in the suburbs which are basically Jewish, and we didn’t build in the suburbs which are basically Arabs. That was done by all governments. It was accepted by everybody including, in fact, the Palestinians. It never disturbed the negotiations. I think that we have to continue the same policy,” said Peres.
During their private meeting in Peres’ residence in Jerusalem, Ashton — on a first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories since she took office — said the aim of her trip is to support the peace process.

“I’ve come with two purposes in mind: the first is to support the peace process and to ensure that the European Union plays its part in support of that process, and to have the opportunity to discuss the issues of concern with the leadership here and also to have the opportunity to visit some of the projects that we’re supporting.

And my second purpose is to recognise the bilateral relationship, especially economically,” Ashton told Peres.
Ashton’s visit came as tensions between Palestinians and Israel peaked with violent incidents erupting in and around Jerusalem.

Israel angered the Palestinians and touched off a spat with US President Barack Obama’s administration after announcing plans, during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden last week, to build 1,600 homes for Jews near East Jerusalem, in West Bank territory it annexed after a 1967 war.

SYDNEY: Pregnant women may be far more at risk from swine flu than thought, according to a survey published on Friday that was carried out in Australia and New Zealand.

An investigation carried out among American women between April and May last year, in the first month of the H1N1 virus’ outbreak, suggested pregnant women were four times likelier to develop severe illness requiring hospitalisation compared with non-pregnant counterparts.

But the new paper, published online by the British Medical Journal (www.bmj.com), found in a small sample that the risk of critical illness was between seven and 13 times as much.

From June 1 to August 31 last year, 209 women of child-bearing age were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in Australia and New Zealand with confirmed swine flu, 64 of whom were either pregnant or had recently birth.

The fact that almost one in three of the admissions were women who were pregnant or post-partum was significant, says the paper.

When extrapolated to the child-bearing population of both countries, a pregnant or post-partum woman with H1N1 was more than seven times likelier to be admitted to an ICU compared to a non-pregnant counterpart who also had flu.

In the case of flu-infected women who were more than 20 weeks’ pregnant, ICU admission was 13 times higher than a non-pregnant, infected counterpart.

The study also showed high rates of ventilator and oxygen use to help the pregnant women breathe.

Seven of the women died, four babies were stillborn and three died in infancy.

Of the surviving births, 22 were pre-term and 32 needed treatment at a neonatal intensive care unit.

None of the women had been vaccinated against seasonal flu, despite recommendations that pregnant women be immunised.

In an editorial, Stephen Lapinsky, a professor of critical-care medicine at the University of Toronto in Canada, said mortality from H1N1 during pregnancy seemed high, although not as bad as in previous flu pandemics.

In the 1918-9 outbreak of so-called Spanish flu, which slew tens of millions of people, maternal mortality was reported in one study to be as high as 27 percent, while in the 1957-8 “Asian” flu pandemic, which may have killed two million, half of the women of child-bearing age who died were pregnant.

“Despite evidence of an increase in maternal mortality after infection with H1N1, in the later phases of the pandemic its effect on pregnant women has been less than was initially anticipated,” said Lapinsky.

This could be explained by vaccination advice and early use of antiviral drugs to women with flu symptoms of flu, he suggested.

H1N1 caused at least 16,713 deaths as of March 7, according to a March 12 posting on the World Health Organisation website (www.who.int).

A Soyuz TMA-16 spaceship carrying two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully landed in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency’s mission control center outside Moscow said Thursday.

After more than three hours of automatic flight, the spacecraft’s reentry vehicle landed as scheduled at around 2:25pm Moscow time (1125 GMT) near the Kazak town of Arkalyk.
The spaceship undocked from the station at 11:03 Moscow time (0803 GMT), with Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and US astronaut Jeff Williams on aboard.

Surayev and Williams parachuted to the designated landing site in the reentry vehicle, said the NAST website. After preliminary medical examinations, they are to fly to Moscow to meet coworkers and families.
It was the first time in almost ten years for a landing capsule to bring back only two astronauts rather than three. The third vacancy seat has taken some additional cargoes from the ISS.
The two astronauts, who have been on a space mission for about 169 days, received two U.S. space shuttles and two Russian cargo spaceships. Surayev also performed one space walk together with his Russian colleagues.

Russian Oleg Kotov, Japanese Soichi Noguchi and American Timothy Creamer will continue to work in orbit, until a Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft delivers three more astronauts to the ISS on April 2.

US citizen of Pakistani origin David Headley has admitted 12 counts of conspiracy. He pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai.

Prosecutors will therefore ask for a lesser sentence since Headley was cooperating with the prosecutors, but US District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber said Headley could still be jailed for life. David Headley, at his trial in Chicago, also admitted plotting to attack a Danish newspaper that published a cartoon many Muslims deemed offensive.

Headley, 49, had denied the charges but changed his plea to avoid the death penalty or extradition to India, Pakistan or Denmark.

Croatian veteran Ivan Ljubicic ousted a weary world number two Novak Djokovic 7-5, 6-3 as defending champion Rafael Nadal booked his quarter-final berth at the BNP Paribas Open.

While third-seeded Nadal advanced on Wednesday with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 triumph over big-serving American John Isner, Djokovic couldn’t keep pace with the blistering serves and clean groundstrokes of Ljubicic, a former world number 3 now ranked 26th in the world.

World number four Andy Murray secured his quarter-final slot with ease as Spain’s Nicolas Almagro retired while trailing with an apparent left ankle injury. Murray led 6-2, 1-0 when Almagro called it quits after receiving treatment on court at the end of the first set.

The tournament has now lost its top two men’s seeds, after world number one Roger Federer was stunned by Marcos Baghdatis in the third round on Tuesday. That left Spain’s Nadal as the highest-ranked player to make it into the quarters as he withstood a barrage of 22 aces from the 24-year-old American Isner.

Joslyn James Text Messages : Tiger Woods Text Messages To Mistress – to mistress can be found here. Joslyn James who claims that she was having an affair with Tiger Woods has created her own website where she has posted over 100 extremely graphic text messages that are allegedly from the golfer.Here are few text from the site:

The text conversations took place over the course of several months last year.
Here are just some of the alleged Tiger texts from the site:
“OK, I would like to have a threesome with you and another girl you trust…”
“Hold you down while I choke you and F*** that a** that I own…”
“I want to treat you rough, throw you around, spank and slap you…”
“I want you to beg for my c***. Kiss you all over to convince me to let you have it in your mouth…”
“You are my f*****g whore… hold you down while I choke you.”
This is just a sample of more than 100 text messages. Interestingly, Joslyn omitted replies she sent to Tiger that may have incited him.
After the news first broke of Tigers’ affairs with more than a dozen women, James, whose real name is Veronica Siwik-Daniels, tearfully demanded an apology from Woods as her attorney, Gloria Allred stood by her side. James said she fell in love with the golf pro, and claims that he impregnated her twice.

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MUMBAI INDIA : Tanushree Dutta plans to celebrate her birthday with her family. Tanu who has been quite busy with her schedule, plans for an outing with her family in Mumbai.

An excited Tanushree says, “I turn 24 this year and I am on a high since my last movie is doing quite well…just waiting for my next release Apartment where I have a complete new look and I am getting a lot of compliments for it. One thing that hasn’t changed since my last birthday is my yoga routine with which I start my day. I plan to do the same tomorrow with no-social dos, all the time for my family. ”

Well, Tanu we wish you all the luck and best wishes for the year ahead!

God of War 3 Walkthrough Ps3, Set in the realm of Greek mythology, God of War III for the last time puts Kratos at the center of the carnage and destruction as he seeks revenge against the Gods who have betrayed him. A single-player game, this final chapter allows players to take on the climatic role of the ex-Spartan warrior, Kratos, as he treads through the intimidating heights of Mt. Olympus and the dark depths of Hell once more to seek revenge on those who have betrayed him. Armed with double-chained blades, Kratos must take on mythology’s darkest creatures while solving intricate puzzles throughout his merciless quest to destroy Olympus.

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Kari Ann Peniche goes from Playboy Bunny to Hollywood wh*re. Kari Ann went to a private school in the Portland area and would always tell everyone that she was a virgin and a total good girl. Everyone new that was a lie. Now there is video proof. The girl has been a total sl*t her whole life. I have actually seen do c*ke off the top of a toilet in a strip club. It doesn’t get any DIRTIER than that. If you have seen the tape it wouldn’t be the first time she has done something like this. My buddy was actually had the same thing happen to him one night in Portland. Kari Ann and her friend got totally c*ked up and took him back to there apartment. They got all naked and were running and well you can imagine what happened next. She is a total wh*re and definitely needs to be on the Dirty. She f*cked Pauly Shore for God sake. Doesn’t get much worse than that.

KARACHI, Pakistan News: The funeral prayer of the prominent religious cleric and the head of Aalami Majlis-e-Khatm-e-Naboowat organization Mulana Saeed Jalalpuri and others will be offered after Friday’s prayer here at the Banuri Town, while they will be laid to rest within the limits of Mulana Yousuf Ludhianvi’s mausoleum.

Meanwhile, religious scholars have called upon government of Sindh for judicial inquiry into his assassination.

This was decided during a meeting comprising of many religious clerics, which held in Banuri Town late on Thursday night.

Dead bodies of the martyred Mulana Mufti Saeed Jalalpuri, his son and others had been shifted to Jamiatul Uloom Islamia located in Banuri Town yesterday.

Police have also closed down for traffic, the Jamsheed Road stretched from Guru Mandir to Jail Chowrangi owing to security arrangements, besides deployment of heavy contingents of police and rangers, police sources said.