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The Trafalgar Square Festival 2006 presents a programme of colourful performances in the summer

The Trafalgar Square Festival returns to London this year in a huge showcase of outdoor performances and events. Over three weeks in August Trafalgar Square will be alive with vibrant shows, demonstrating cultural diversity in the capital.

World culture at the Trafalgar Square Festival
A diverse variety of shows and performances from all over the world will be taking place in the Trafalgar Square Festival 2006, transforming the area into an international stage of world culture. Performance art, acrobatics and dance are only a few of the activities exploding into Trafalgar Square in August.

New for 2006
Crowds will be able to enjoy free art and performances from the UK and overseas, including a selection of new commissions coming to the UK for the first time. Visitors to the Trafalgar Square Festival can expect eclectic, colourful and unusual art in London at one of biggest outdoor events of the summer. The concept for 2006 is City on the Move, designed to relect the energy of life in London.

Join the crowds at the Trafalgar Square Festival 2006
Last year’s festival attracted somewhere in the region of 200,000 people in total and the Trafalgar Square Festival 2006 is expected to be just as popular an event. With performances taking place all over the Square, including inside the fountains, the Trafalgar Square Festival is guaranteed to be a memorable London occasion. Join the crowds for free art in London and make it a cultural summer for 2006.

The Trafalgar Square Festival takes place from Thursday 3rd August – Sunday 20th August, from Thursday to Sunday each week. Events are free to attend.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The Comanchero Motorcycle Club is auctioning off a day in the life of a biker, including a visit to the infamous site of a shootout with a rival gang that left six people dead.

The club has advertised the chance to spend eight hours with three or four Comancheros on their Harley Davidsons in Sydney on internet auction site eBay, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

The advertisement also promotes the chance to visit the scene of one of Australia's bloodiest biker wars, known as the Milperra Massacre.

The Comancheros lost four members at the Viking Tavern on Father's Day in 1984, while two members of the rival gang, the Bandidos, were killed. A teenage bystander was shot in the face.

The auction has a reserve price of 2,000 Australian dollars (US$1,500), and the club has pledged to donate half the final bid to the cystic fibrosis unit of The Children's Hospital at Westmead.

"We could've done this as a business for ourselves, but one of our members' 10-year-old daughter, Sarah, has cystic fibrosis and we thought, 'Why not give half to a charity,'" club spokesman Charlie Graham told the newspaper. "It's for a good cause."

FERRYVILLE, Wis. (AP) As if the broken ribs and totaled car weren't enough.

Ferryville Police Chief Larry Deluhery was cited for driving without a license last week when he was injured in a traffic accident while pursuing a speeding vehicle.

Deluhery, the town's sole officer, also suffered four broken ribs and totaled the police department's SUV in the accident on July 14, authorities said Friday.

He was also cited for making an unsafe turn by Wisconsin State Trooper Dan Breeser, who investigated the accident in Ferryville, a village of 174 residents in southwestern Wisconsin.

The citation does not say how long the 53-year-old was driving without a license.

According to the state patrol, Deluhery made a U-turn to pursue a vehicle speeding through the village's main route. While turning, he was struck behind the driver's door by another SUV.

Deluhery had to be removed from the vehicle. He was flown to a medical center and released two days later. The driver of the other SUV and his wife were treated for minor injuries.

Messages left Saturday by The Associated Press at Deluhery's home in Prairie du Chien and at the police department were not immediately returned.

Deluhery has been placed on medical leave and it's unclear when he will return to work, said Remi Moore, president of the Ferryville Village Board.

Moore said Deluhery, who has been police chief since August 2002, was a ``good asset'' and helped a great deal in catching motorists speeding through the village, a major concern for Ferryville.

Somebody want enjoy this special "Water Bed". So funny~!

New camera angle shows what exactly was said between Zidane and Materazzi.

How to ditch work. lol.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A driver stranded on a remote stretch of Australian highway Wednesday tried to summon help by playing dead in the middle of the road, a police officer said.

A woman who was driving with her two children spotted the man and had to swerve to avoid hitting him, said Doug Backhouse, a detective with the Western Australia state police.

"She drove around the body - which didn't move at all - and got to the nearest phone," Backhouse said.

Local police arrived with an ambulance and found the man alive and well, but with car troubles.

"The best way he thought to get a vehicle to stop was to lay down in the middle of the road and pretend to be dead," Backhouse said, adding that the man didn't think anyone would stop if he were standing up.

Police said they told the man that lying in the road was "a stupid thing to do," but didn't charge him with any offense.

The incident occurred near Esperance, about 450 miles southeast of the state capital, Perth.

Damn. I know the locals in the middle east drive like crap. Do they?

Beastie Boys - Beastie wants to say animalesco. However the name of this band (Beastie) means: “Boys Entering Anarchistic States Toward Internal Excellence”.

Blink-182 - They wanted to call Blink but already she had an Irish band with this name. 182 are number it of times that Al Pacino says the word “f**k” in the film “Scarface”.

Bloodhound Gang - Name of a satirical picture of televising program “3210 Contact”.

Bush - Allusive the “Sheperd's Bush”, quarter in London.

(My favorite)
Chumbawamba - In a dream, a member of the band wanted to go to the house-of-bath but in the doors of the same, instead of Men and Women it was written Chumba and Wamba.

DMX - DM is “Dark Man”. X is probably a referencia Malcom X.

Elton John - Taken off of the musicians Elton Dean and John Baldry. Its true name is Reginald Dwight.

Green Day - One is about a reference to the grass (cannabis). One day green is one day where if it leaves to make the habitual obligations to be only to smoke it. Also quoted as inspiration, a plate in the film “Soilent Verde” written “Green Day”. The band called Sweet Children.

Guns N'Roses - Taken off of the names of Tracii Guns and Axl Rose or of its respective bands, LA Guns and Hollywood Roses.

Jamiroquai - Two versions. Jay Kay is interested itself for the indios Iroquai, and for bands who can touch “they jam” (improvising). Australian term for bands with one hit only.

Limp Bizkit - the name Limp Bizkit appeared during a colloquy between the vocalista Fred Durst and a friend whom that said its brain seemed one “limp biscuit” (a amolecida big cookie). It liked the idea and adoptou the name.

Linkin Park - the band called “Hybrid Theory”, changed the name for “Linkin Park” for legal questions therefore already existed another band with this name. They had chosen this name because the Chester Bennington (vocalista) regularly passed for the Lincon Park in Mónica Saint (that it was a place where the without-shelter costumavam to go) and this name gained the attention of all for its good noise. They had changed some coisinha in the name because thus they could buy the domain therefore linconpark.com was very expensive.

Marilyn Manson - the junction of the names Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. Two opposing celebrities of fame extremamete.

Metallica - Lars Ulrich helped a friend to arrange the name for a Magazine Metal. One of the suggestions was Metallica that was not used to advantage for the magazine. Lars then caught in it for it.

Nickleback - Mike Kroeger (stock exchange operator) was who baptized the band with the name of Nickelback. It worked in a coffee of Vancouver, where the coffee cost $1.95 had that to always say “here's your nickel back”. Of in such a way repeating this, in the hour that they had asked for suggestion of the name of the band, Mike said “Nickelback soon” and all had approved.
Oasis - It is the name of a porting center in Swindon, England.

Offspring - They had taken off the name of film B “The Offspring - They Were Born You the Kill” (the Decendentes - They Had been born To kill).

P.O.D. - Abbreviation of “Payable on Death”. Word used technique in the banks. It wants to say that when a person dies somebody she goes to inherit its money.

Pearl Jam - One of the probable origins of the name Pearl Jam it has to see with a geleia (they jam in English) done for the grandmother of Eddie Veder (called Pearl). Other versions inform that Pearl Jam would be slang, meaning sperm. They had almost called themselves “Mookie Blaylock” in homage to a player of basquete.

Pet Shop Boys - English Slang for homosexuals.

Prodigy - Taken off of the Moog Prodigy, first sintetizador of Liam Howlett.

Ramones - the Beatle Paul McCartney used the pseudonym Paul Ramone during the first excursion of the Beatles to the Escócia. The band took off of it the last name.

REM - One is about the acronym for “Rapid Eyes Movements”, spasmodic fast movements e of the eyes during sleep that mark the beginning of the dreams.

Savage Garden - Taken off of a book of Ann Rice.

Sex Pistols - the name of the band was based on the name of the store of Malcolm McLaren (Sex). It is also a connotation for the pénis.

Skunk Anansie - Anansie is a pertaining creature to the Jamaicano folklore. It would be half man, way spider. Skunk is opossum. A species of cannabis geneticamente modified in laboratory exists and of I smell well accented that it takes care of for this name.

Soulfly - Soul Flies. Max Cavelera homaged its deceased godson.

System Of the Down - the name comes of a poem of the guitarist, Daron, called Victims Of the Down. System was chosen by being a stronger word.

U2 - Model of used airplane for espionage, developed for the American government. Bono declared a time that the name comes of the idea of interatividade with publishes it, “You Too”, you Also.

THE PURPOSE and the timing of Hezbollah's attack on Israel yesterday should be transparent to all concerned. Hezbollah's rocket attacks into northern Israel and the group's capture of two Israeli soldiers during an ambush inside Israeli territory have been presented by Hezbollah as a military action in solidarity with Hamas and Palestinians suffering under Israeli assaults in Gaza. Hezbollah says its aim is to force Israel to release Palestinian and Hezbollah detainees in exchange for the two soldiers held in Lebanon and the one still held in Gaza.

The timing of the Hezbollah action could not be more revealing. Hezbollah commandos crossed into Israel on the same day that Iran was supposed to give its answer to the package of incentives that the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany offered to Iran if it will suspend uranium enrichment and enter negotiations to bring it into compliance with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Because no answer was forthcoming from Tehran, yesterday was also the day that the five permanent Security Council members expressed ``profound disappointment" at Iran's refusal to respond, and said they ``have no choice but to return to the United Nations Security Council" to consider possible sanctions against Iran.

Hezbollah's attack on Israel serves not only to distract from Iran's defiance of the international community. It also plays into a propaganda campaign that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has conducted in recent months, conflating the issue of Iran's nuclear program with what he has condemned as the intolerable existence of Israel. Also, by having Hezbollah strike now at Israel, the Iranian regime clearly means to neutralize Arab regimes that are fearful of Iran's spreading influence in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had just disclosed publicly that he had worked out a prisoner swap with Israel and Hamas, but that ``other parties" he would not name forced Hamas to sabotage the deal. It can be assumed that Syria and Iran are the other parties, the two countries having signed a military cooperation agreement last month that Syria's defense minister described as establishing ``a joint front against Israel."

Knowing that Iran is behind Hezbollah's act of war, Israeli leaders -- who are openly warning of devastating strikes on Lebanon's infrastructure -- would be well advised to avoid a reflexive military response that lands Israel in an Iranian trap. If the regime in Tehran wants to provoke Israel to bomb Lebanese power plants, roads, and bridges, maybe this kind of military retaliation is not such a good idea.

Adorable kid singing a Malay song.

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A Malaysian appealed for help after authorities ruled him dead more than four years ago, saying he was unable to work because of the mistake.

According to official records, Minggu Mang anak Madang died from head injuries in the town of Bintulu in the eastern state of Sarawak on January 18, 2002, and was buried.

But Minggu Mang, 40, said he was alive and had been fighting for years to prove to authorities he was not dead.

"Please help me to convince the authorities concerned that I am not dead. I am very much alive," he was quoted by the state Bernama news agency as saying.

"The going has been very tough, very stressful since I was officially certified dead by the Nyalau Hospital in Bintulu four years ago."

Minggu Mang said he had found out about the mistake when he went to renew his driver's license on December 19, 2003.

The former building contractor, who is married with three children, said he was told all his records with the transport department had been erased as he had been certified dead.

Minggu Mang, who has since been struggling to prove he is alive, said he could not work since he no longer officially exists -- a situation he labelled "ridiculous."

"Now I am the living dead as I cannot work," he said, adding he had complained to police over the matter.

"There seems to be no clear indication when the investigations will end. I know the police are doing their best but I have a life to live," he said.

Minggu also called for authorities to investigate the people who reported his death and work out who actually died and was buried.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - More than 20 desperate students in Vietnam paid up to 50 million dong ($3,125) to don elaborately wired wigs and shirts that allowed them to cheat on their college entrance exams, police said Monday.

During a weekend raid, Hanoi police confiscated 50 mobile phones, 60 earphones, 150 SIM cards, eight shirts and five wigs, an officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Ring leader Nguyen Hong Hai, 39, told police that more than 20 students paid 20 million dong to 50 million dong ($1,250 to $3,125) to get wigs or shirts that were wired to mobile phones so they could call in test questions and answers, he said.

The officer said the operation had been running since 2003. The price depended on the popularity of the college the student was enrolling in.

The case was uncovered when two students taking entrance exams for Hanoi's Banking Institute were caught carrying mobile phones to get answers last Thursday, he said.

Operators of the ring gave the students a training course on how to use mobile phones, and wired wigs were used if their hair was too short to cover the earphone, he said. They also used wired-up shirts.

College entrance exams, which take place in the first two weeks of July, are highly competitive, with only about 10 percent of students being admitted into universities.

LONDON (AP) - A 62-year-old child psychologist has given birth to a boy, becoming the oldest British woman to have a baby.

Patti Farrant - known professionally as Patricia Rashbrook - delivered her son, J.J., by Caesarean section on Wednesday, according to The Daily Mail newspaper. The baby was conceived after fertility treatments.

Farrant has three grown children from a previous marriage. It is the first child for her husband, John, 60, an education management consultant.

"He is adorable, and seeing him for the first time was beyond words," she told the newspaper. "Having been through so much to have him, we are overjoyed. His birth was absolutely wonderful and deeply moving for both of us."

Other older British mothers include Liz Buttle, from Wales, who was 60 when she gave birth to a son in 1997.

The oldest woman in the world to give birth is believed to be Romanian Adriana Iliescu, who was 66 when she had a daughter in Bucharest in January 2005.

What happens if Microsoft had designed the Ipod?

Description removed due to illegible language (French).

Golden Goose - A yearly talent show held at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. This video is a "live" performance of the first level from Super Mario Brothers.