Yemen's Ali Abdullah 'to step down within days'

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said that he will step down from power within the "coming days".

Mr Saleh has appeared to be ready to resign several times, but pulled out of deals to stand down at the last moment.

He returned to Yemen unexpectedly last month from Saudi Arabia where he had been receiving treatment after his office was shelled in June.

He is faced with protests and an insurrection by renegade army units.

He has also repeatedly refused to sign a transition deal brokered by Gulf states, and first presented in March, whereby he would hand over power to his vice-president in return for immunity from prosecution.

But Yemen's deputy information minister told the BBC that Mr Saleh was no longer clinging to power.
'Reject power'

In Mr Saleh's speech, broadcast on state television, he gave no precise date for standing down.

"I reject power and I will continue to reject it, and I will be leaving power in the coming days," he said.
"It's not because I crave power, I reject power and I will leave it in the coming days and leave it behind," Mr Saleh said.

"There are sincere men, whether they be military or civilian," who are capable of governing Yemen, he added.

But the speech appears not to have referred to the Gulf-mediated transition deal.

Indeed in his first interview since returning to Yemen in late September, Mr Saleh said he would not stand down as promised if his opponents were allowed to stand in elections to succeed him.

His rivals for political power are currently Gen Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, who declared his support for the protest movement in March, and the powerful Ahmar family.

Anti-government protesters have been camped out in an area of the capital Sanaa - dubbed Change Square - since January, demanding an end to President Saleh's rule.
Security challenges

The leading Yemeni activist, Tawakkul Karman, who was one of the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, said Mr Saleh's statement could not be trusted and vowed that protests would continue.

"We don't believe this man and if he wants to step down, okay, that belongs to him," she is quoted as saying on al-Jazeera television.

"He has to hand over the power; he has to give the power that he has stolen to the revolution people, the revolution rule," she added.

Yemen is facing multiple security challenges, including fighting between political factions and an al-Qaeda militancy in the south.

And there are concerns that Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda are taking advantage of the turmoil in the country, stepping up attacks on government forces there

Around the time of Mr Saleh's return, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, warned that Yemen was at a "dangerous crossroads".

Correspondents say that there are acute fears that if the violence continues, the country could slip into civil war.

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Apple 'visionary' Steve Jobs dies

Steve Jobs, co-founder and former chief executive of US technology giant Apple, has died at the age of 56.

Apple said his "brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve".

Jobs announced he was suffering from pancreatic cancer in 2004.

US President Barack Obama said that with his death, the world had "lost a visionary".
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"Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it," said Mr Obama.

Microsoft boss Bill Gates said Jobs' "profound impact" on the world of technology would "be felt for many generations to come".

Mr Gates added: "For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honour. I will miss Steve immensely."

And New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that "America lost a genius who will be remembered with Edison and Einstein, and whose ideas will shape the world for generations to come".
'The face of Apple'

In the statement, Apple said Jobs's "brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives".
"The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."

A message on the Apple website says they have "lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being".

Flags are being flown at half mast outside the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, while fans of company have held vigils and left tributes outside Apple shops around the world.

"What he's done for us as a culture, it resonates uniquely in every person," said Cory Moll, an employee at an Apple shop in San Francisco.

"Even if they never use an Apple product, the impact they have had is so far-reaching."

At the company's Shanghai shop, customer Jin Yi said Jobs had created gadgets which had "changed people's perceptions of machines".
Jobs had built a reputation as a forthright and demanding leader who could take niche technologies - such as the mouse and the graphical window-based interface - and make them popular with the general public.

He introduced the colourful iMac computer, the iPod and the iPhone to the world. His death came just a day after Apple unveiled its latest iPhone 4S model.

In 2004, Jobs announced that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer and he had a liver transplant five years later.

In January, he took medical leave, before resigning as CEO in August and handing over his duties to Tim Cook.

In his resignation letter, Jobs said: "I believe Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role."

However, Jobs stayed on as Apple's chairman.

More than almost any other business leader, he was indistinguishable from his company, which he co-founded in the 1970s.

Apple - whose market value is estimated at $351bn (£227bn) - is now the world's most valuable technology company. Only oil giant Exxon Mobil is worth more.

As the face of Apple, Jobs represented its dedication to high-end technology and fashionable design.

And inside the company he exerted a level of influence unheard of in most businesses.

Despite a high profile, however, he remained fiercely protective of his private life.

He married his wife Laurene in 1991, and the couple had three children.

Jobs also leaves a daughter from a previous relationship, and as an adult he discovered that he had a biological sister, US novelist Mona Simpson.

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It's like Vietnam. Miss Vietnam International, together with like.

Become popular in the Vietnamese community. When a series of nude women. Be posted on the site. The girl in the picture looks very similar to the Ge and she's a hot girl in Vietnam. International and Miss Vietnam 2011 contest which was held in August the past. City of Long Beach. California.

This picture was posted on a website, and have argued that such images. Some people say that. I first saw it, they decide that it's different for Ge and of course, but the image was taken just before she has surgery. She is also a fashion model who was then at home. Pretty in the Motor Show only

However, there are many who say that. Nudity in this one. It can be cut further. Or is it still the face of Miss Vietnam.

There is no doubt that many people. Traditional advertising is not. She is currently visiting Korea to promote her lingerie modeling for And at the end of this year will be advertised in Thailand.

The G for Ge as a model for the ads that are in Vietnam and was nicknamed the Queen of lingerie. The fashion shoot at a time. She received a $ 3,000 fee ever.

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Foreign news agencies reported that the boy's 8-year-old Park Pass at the Abu Bali area. East of India. I like a normal body. With a smile of happiness. After a year ago. Doctor's Hospital, Bangalore. Before the surgery arm and a leg and an abnormal growth of twins attached at the abdomen. Excess and creates a weak point for him.

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The number of whale aground along the coast in England.

Foreign news agencies. Report of a whale aground last in the AL Number of Rory's life away from the coast, approximately 731 meters, which are still wondering why the whale was found aground along the coast in England, many The whale was found aground just a few.

Previously the whale was 10 m long, floating in shallow water in the village of Cave Fish. East of the hands of York session. The conservation of whales, which they survey found that more than 95 percent of the females was aground.

The whale experts. Some believe it may be due to changes in the Arctic Ocean currents are lower temperatures. Flows into the North Sea. By default, the water temperature is higher.

The whale just as Andy Gibson, the organization of wildlife in reserves for York session. After the whale had just aground. The opportunity to see whales just aground, is going to be very little in 20 years ago, the whales just aground in the United Kingdom, only three characters, and although it is sad that the whale just aground. But at least it would have taken a lesson.

In addition, a recent whale Fin whale, a creature with just one family। Neighbourhood Impact aground just north of Birmingham City, Lincoln Financial. It also found the remains of whales and other whales at the mouth of the river as well.

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Theresa May's diary left at Glasgow police event

A print-out of the home secretary's weekly engagements was left at an event in Glasgow, the Home Office confirmed.

It contained detailed information on Theresa May's plans and mobile numbers of staff and people she was visiting.

A reporter for the magazine Police Review found the document at the National Police Memorial Day at Glasgow's Concert Halls on Sunday.

Home Office officials described it as an "embarrassment" rather than a major security breach.

The five-page A4 document is circulated every week to officials and detectives.

It is unclear who left the document in the concert hall.

According to the diary, Mrs May was to meet senior police officers and attend the National Security Council at Downing Street.

The document also included details of the Maidenhead MP's engagements in her Berkshire constituency, such as trips to the gym and a charity cabaret.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We are aware that a document was misplaced and are looking into the circumstances of how this occurred.

"The paper was not protectively marked. Security was not compromised."

Keith Vaz, Labour chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said: "It's serious that someone with the security importance of the Home Secretary should have her security compromised in this way.

"It is very disappointing that this has happened."

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Rocket launches Chinese space lab

A rocket carrying China's first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, has launched from the north of the country.

The Long March vehicle lifted clear from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 21:16 local time (13:16 GMT).

It will be a few hours before controllers can confirm that the lab has been put in its correct orbit.

The 10.5m-long, cylindrical module will be unmanned for the time being, but the country's astronauts, or yuhangyuans, are expected to visit it next year.

Tiangong means "heavenly palace" in Chinese.

The plan is for the module to operate in an autonomous mode, monitored from the ground. Then, in a few weeks' time, China will launch another unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou 8, and try to link the pair together.

This rendezvous and docking capability is a prerequisite if larger structures are ever to be assembled in orbit.

Assuming the Shenzhou 8 venture goes well, two manned missions (Shenzhou 9 and 10) should follow in 2012. The yuhangyuans - two or three at a time - are expected to live aboard the conjoined vehicles for up to two weeks.

China has promised to build a fully fledged space station at the end of the decade.

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