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Heavily armed insurgents wearing suicide vests struck Tuesday at two of the most prominent symbols of the American diplomatic and military presence in Kabul, the United States Embassy and the nearby NATO headquarters, demonstrating the Taliban’s ability to infiltrate even the most heavily fortified districts of the capital.

As the insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades, Westerners sought shelter — one rocket penetrated the embassy compound — and Afghan government workers fled their offices, emptying the city center. NATO and Afghan troops responded with barrages of bullets. At least 6 people were killed and 19 wounded.

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As the gunfire pounded, loudspeakers at nearby embassies kept repeating: “This is not a drill, this is not a drill. If you are in a secure location, do not move.”

Though staved off after about five hours, the attack was the most direct on the American Embassy since it opened here 10 year ago, and was freighted with intended symbolism. It was one of several recent attacks in Kabul that demonstrated the Taliban’s ability to terrify the population, dominate the media and overshadow the West’s assertions that the Afghan government and security forces will soon be able to handle the insurgency.

The insurgents have made such guerrilla-style attacks the centerpiece of their new strategy after a year in which the addition of 30,000 more American forces to the war set back the Taliban’s capacity for frontal attacks and its ability to control entire districts in the south.

Congress has no reason to wait on jobs bill

Imploring Congress to follow his lead,wholesale silk tie President Barack Obama on Tuesday lobbied lawmakers to adopt his nearly $450 billion jobs plan, promising it would help workers in the construction industry and rebuild schools in crumbling condition.wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIE Said Obama: "My question to Congress is, what on earth are we waiting for?"

From a high school christian louboutin weddingin the critical electoral state of Ohio, Obama delivered a fiery speech to plug his plan. The outdoor audience was receptive to the point of adopting his refrain and chanting it back to him, shouting: "Pass this bill!"

The event had the feel of an Obama re-election event, right down to the music that played as Obama came out to speak, suit coat off and sleeves rolled up on a sunny day. He tailored his latest pitch to how his proposed legislation would help education, built around a $25 billion spending initiative for school renovations.

In Ohio alone, Obama said, the bill would create jobs for tens of thousands of constructions workers.

Yet Republican lawmakers who control the House flatly oppose his plans to pay for his plan by raising taxes on wealthier Americans.

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Taliban in deadly Kabul attacks

Taliban gunmen armed with suicide vests and heavy weaponry on Tuesday launched co-ordinated attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul, targeting NATO's headquarters, the US embassy, and the Afghan intelligence agency.

Heavy gunfire continued to be heard late into the night as Afghan forces battled to clear a building in the city's diplomatic quarter which had been taken over by heavily armed fighters. Rockets have reportedly been fired at the US and other embassies in the area.

At least three policemen and four civilians have been killed and many others injured, according to police and hopsital sources.

Police surrounded the occupied building, calling in air support to end a siege carried out by gunmen resisting inside the building.

NATO has confirmed that they are providing Afghan forces ground and air support in the operation.

Al Jazeera's Abdullah Shahood, reporting from Kabul, said the police had cleared three stories of the building,Chicago Bears Jerseys but the gunfired continued.

"As we speak right now,china nfl jerseys wholesale the attack is still ongoing. There are two fighters still in the building and Afghan forces are trying to clear the building," he said.

Hamid Karzai,cheap nfl jerseys from china the Afghan president, condemned the attacks and and said it could not not hamper the security transition from NATO to Afghan forces.Probowl jerseys wholesale

"The attacks cannot stop the process (transition) from taking place and cannot affect, but rather embolden our people's determination in taking the responsibility for their country's own affairs," Karzai said in a statement.

Amar Singh: King of the sting operation now falls to one

Amar Singh lived by the sting, and died by it.

The corporate-turned-politician, who scared the world by tapping conversations,Moncler jackets sale fell to a similar operation which exposed his aides on video, 'buying' MPs to back the Congress government in the trust vote in Parliament in 2008. His brazen denial, despite his secretary figuring in these clips, could take him till September 6 but no further.

The unravelling of the Singh saga ends an incredible journey where the Thakur from Azamgarh walked the fine edge for so long, proving observers wrong at every step. None saw him going too far when his main weapon became public - taped conversations or stings for every occasion, good or bad.Nfl bears jersreys cheapdigital video recorders

If Vishwanath Chaturvedi alleged corruption against Mulayam Singh Yadav, there was a tape with him bragging to manage the post-retirement life of the adjudicating judge. When Anna Hazare aides cornered the Centre over Lokpal bill, Singh played out a purported conversation which had Shanti Bhushan assuring the SP chief that his son Prashant would manage the concerned Allahabad judge for a handsome fee. Even actor Sanjay Dutt claimed to have 'stung' then law minister H R Bhardwaj on Singh's bidding when he went to meet him about his TADA case. The split with SP in February 2010 came with threats that he had 'Netaji's' secrets in his cupboard which he would not reveal.Human hair Full lace wigs

The stings were not that many, but fear of what Singh could do built his aura. "Sting is king" was the mantra.

Colleagues said Singh's fall was long seen as coming but it took really long. "He really survived well with all the controversies," a leader said.

Prudential's 3-pronged strategy to push sales

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For the financial year ended December 31 2010, PAMB registered a record RM1.02 billion in new business annual premium equivalent (APE). This represented a 24 per cent growth over the 2009 figures.

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For the fist six months of 2010, PAMB's new business sales grew 13 per cent to RM450 million from RM397 million last year.Human hair Full lace wigs The new business sales measured on an APE include life insurance sales and takaful contributions.

"The excellent half-year results were driven by the successful implementation of our strategies, high productivity contributed by our 12,900 strong agency force and expanding bancassurance business," Oropeza said.

This has led PAMB to end its second quarter of 2011 with RM231 million in new business sales, an increase of 13 per cent from the RM204 million achieved in the same period last year.

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Yahoo Board Fires Chief Executive

Carol A. Bartz, Yahoo’s chief executive, was fired Tuesday, ending a rocky two-year tenure in which she tried trying to revitalize the online media and search company.wholesales mac Lip gloss

In an e-mail to employees titled “Goodbye,” Ms. Bartz wrote: “I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s chairman of the board.starcraft 2 Coaching”

She said, “It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.” Ms. Bartz has been under pressure from her first day in the job to turn the company around, and in recent months the pressure from major investors intensified. The company remains adrift despite management team shuffles, layoffs and the shedding of underperforming services. She engineered a deal that turned over its search operations to Microsoft, but that has also failed to live up to expectations.

Timothy Morse, the company’s chief financial officer, will serve as the interim chief executive. Yahoo also said it had started a strategic review of the company’s options, including a possible divestment of its Asian holdings.Pittsburgh Pirates Jerseys It cautioned that no decisions had yet been made.

The company also said its directors named five other senior Yahoo executives to an executive leadership council that is supposed to help Mr. Morse manage the company.

Investors have long tried to pressure Yahoo to sell itself or at least sell major pieces of the company. Yahoo rejected a buyout offer from Microsoft in 2008.

Ms. Bartz joined Yahoo in January 2009 after investors had become dissatisfied with the stagnant growth and indirection under its previous chief, Jerry Yang, a co-founder of the company.steeler jerseys cheap Her hiring was initially met with optimism by Wall Street, which saw her as a tough-talking savior who could kick the company into shape.

BYU football: Cougars will likely stay put if Big 12 implodes

Provo ? A week ago,Moncler women's jackets on the day Texas A&M University informed the Big 12 Conference it was leaving that league if accepted by another conference, Brigham Young University and high-ranking officials of the faith that owns it appeared to be on the cusp of having to make a monumental decision regarding its athletics future.

Stay independent in football and a member of the West Coast Conference in most other sports, or join the Big 12? The possibility of BYU joining the Big 12 in football only was also discussed.

There are strong indications now, however, that the decision won’t have to be made at all, because the Big 12 as it currently stands may not exist beyond this school year.

The New York Times and the San Jose Mercury News, among others, have reported in the past few days that Big 12 kingpins Texas and Oklahoma could leave the league for the Pac-12, and most likely would take Texas Tech and Oklahoma State with them, forming the first so-called 16-school "superconference" in cPrada handbag saleollege athletics and triggering a seismic shift of the conference landscape.

Oklahoma’s president said Saturday the school is exploring its options,Golf Ladies Clubs and Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott has acknowledged recently that multiple universities have approached the Pac-12 about membership. The Mercury News reported that Pac-12 presidents and chancellors do not want to expand but might be forced into it if the SEC and Big Ten do so.Cheap moncler jackets

BYU officials declined to publicly comment on The Salt Lake Tribune’s report last week that said they were in discussions with the Big 12, referring reporters to last Wednesday’s statement that the school was "focused on the opportunities ahead," which is to say their relationship with ESPN as a football independent, and their affiliation with the WCC. BYU signed an eight-year agreement to have its home football games televised by ESPN when it broke away from the Mountain West Conference.

Carol Bartz Fired as CEO of Yahoo

Carol Bartz was fired Tuesday as Yahoo Inc.'s CEO nearly three years into a tenure in which the company fell short of the turnaround she was charged with leading.

The company said Bartz will be replaced by Chief Financial officer Timothy Morse on an interim basis. The company plans to search for a permanent replacement for Bartz.Breitling watches wholesale

Bartz, 63, has had a rocky tenure at Yahoo since she was appointed CEO in January 2009. Most recently, Yahoo settled a dispute surrounding a Chinese payment service called Alipay in a way that ended up diminishing Yahoo's stake in the company.

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Yahoo made more money under Bartz because of layoffs, service closures and other cost-cutting moves since her arrival.Golf Ladies Clubs

Google, though, has gotten even stronger in the past two years while Facebook, the owner of the Web's most popular hangout, has emerged as a formidable threat that's attracting more of the major marketing campaigns that once went to Yahoo.

The departure was first reported by the Wall Street Journal's All Things D technology blog.

Yahoo shares jumped 74 cents, or 5.7 percent, to $13.65 in after-hours trading. That's about 12 percent higher than they were when Bartz was named CEO.

10 Biggest Winners and Losers from the NFL's Week 1

The Dallas Cowboys blow another season opener on Sunday Night, Cam Newton throws for 422 yards and the Bengals,Beautiful mood Bills and Redskins win handily?

That's just the beginning of the madness we witnessed on the first Sunday of the 2011 NFL season.

How about the Bears, Texans and Ravens making some major statements sending the Falcons, Colts and Steelers back to the drawing board.

We've still got two games tonight, but let's take a look at the biggest winners and losers from Sunday's action. (In no particular order.)

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US coastline faces new storm threat

THE center of Tropical Storm Lee stretched across the central US Gulf Coast early yesterday, dumping torrential rain that threatened flooding in low-lying communities as a taste of what cities further inland could face in coming days.

Early yesterday, Lee boasted maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The storm is crawling northeast at 5kph.

By yesterday, 15 to 25 centimeters of rain had fallen in some areas along the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts, and the National Weather Service warned there was a threat of extensive flooding and flash floods because of the storm's slow movement inland.

The flash flood threat could be more severe as the rain moves from the flatter Gulf region north into the rugged Appalachians, National Hurricane Center specialist Robbie Berg said.

Closer to the Gulf, the water is "just going to sit there a couple of days," he said. "Up in the Appalachians, you get more threat of flash floods, so that is very similar to some of the stuff we saw in Vermont."

Vermont, in the northeast US, is still cleaning up and digging out dozens of communities damaged and isolated by heavy rain from Hurricane Irene last week.

Lee could dump up to 50cm of rain in some areas.

No injuries were reported so far from the storm. But even before Lee swept ashore, there were scattered instances of water entering low-lying homes and businesses in Louisiana's bayou country - a region of fast-eroding wetlands long vulnerable to hurricanes and tropical storms.

The storm prompted evacuations in bayou towns such as Jean Lafitte. Thousands were without power.

Profits were hit at many coastal businesses that depend on a strong end-of-summer weekend.

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The storm was denting offshore energy production. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement said 237 oil and gas production platforms and 23 drilling rigs have been evacuated.

The agency estimates about 60 percent of oil production in the Gulf and almost 55 percent of natural gas production has been shut down.

Meanwhile, in the open Atlantic, Katia has regained hurricane status, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Katia has shifted between tropical storm and hurricane status while moving across the open Atlantic, according to the center's Berg.

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Early this morning, Katia's center was about 600km northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands, moving at 19 kph toward the northwest.

Berg said Katia poses no threat to land over the next 48 hours, but he urged those on the US East Coast and in Bermuda, a British territory in the mid-Atlantic, to remain watchful.