Former Bonds Employee: I Saw Trainer Inject Home Run King

Former baseball player Barry Bonds arrives for his trial at federal court in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds' personal buyer said he saw former personal trainer jet in the navel Bonds before a trip during the 2002 season.

Kathy Hoskins said Thursday it was Bonds bedroom packing clothes for a trip to the seven-time NL MVP and trainer Greg Anderson walked into the room. Anderson expressed concern about his presence and Bonds said he did not need to worry Hoskins, why is my girlfriend. "

Hoskins testified that he then saw Anderson injected Bonds. She said he did not ask questions about the injection, but the volunteers bonds as "a little something, something for when I go on the road. You can not detect it."

Bonds is accused of lying to the grand jury when he said that no one other than the doctor who injected anything. It 'also accused of lying when he testified that he never knowingly used steroids.

Libya's Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa speaks to the media at a hotel in Tripoli, Libya.

Two senior Libyan officials have resigned from their posts Thursday, dealing a further blow to the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi.






Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Kousser and Abdel-Salam Ali al-Trek, a former foreign minister who had been representing Libya at the United Nations, defected from the regime of Gaddafi.

Britain has refused to offer immunity from prosecution after his defection clear that the rebels want him ordered to stand trial for murder and crimes against humanity Kousser.

The assertions of the Libyan opposition Koussa, considered one of the closest allies Muammar al-Gaddafi, played a role in the brain in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people, most of them Americans. Kusa was expelled from Britain in 1980 after giving an interview to promote the use of violence to silence critics of the British government of Libya.

"We want to bring him to justice. This guy has so much blood on their hands. There is documented executions, torture. There is evidence that Musa Kusa did," the rebel spokesman Mustafa Gheriani told the Guardian.

Prosecutors in Scotland say they want to ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs has jumped on the Lockerbie bombing and asked the British government to talk to him.

A spokesman for the Libyan government confirms that Koussa resigned.

"If someone wants to retire, that's their decision," said Ibrahim Moussa, during a press conference in Tripoli on Thursday.

Ibrahim said the Libyan government has given permission to leave home Koussa Libya for medical treatment before he was defecting.

British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said the resignation Koussa one of the most senior members of the Qaddafi government shows that the regime of Libyan leader is "fragmented, under pressure and ruin."

But Hague said: "Koussa enjoy no immunity from the UK or international justice," dampen speculation that the British government might want to ignore the claims - led by the Libyan opposition - he played a crucial role in '1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, among other atrocities.

"Gaddafi must think to himself:" Who will be next to walk? "Said Hague.

The Hague said it would be "useful for advertising" or not other members of the regime intended to stop, but he believes that many private equity opposition to Qaddafi.

Authorities questioned consultant Koussi, reliable and long-time Gaddafi and Libya, the robust administration, when he fled to Britain on Wednesday, private aircraft, Tunisia - apparently hardly notice the British government. Koussi Hague said it was "a safe place in the United Kingdom," but gives no further details.

His name is also linked to the attack against a French plane over Niger in 1989, but in recent years he has contributed to diplomatic progress, breaking the international isolation of Libya.

The former foreign minister, Jack Straw, described as a key player Kousser there was a "crucial" role in negotiations to bring Libya into the international community sometimes in the early 1990 after the terrorist attacks damaged the reputation east African countries. Kousser out could tip the balance away from Gaddafi, if only psychologically.

"Desertion Musa Kusa is clear - indeed, his unexpected visit here - is a very important factor in the simple addition of the peso against the Gaddafi regime and tip the balance against him," Straw told the BBC: "For now, this . that is clear is that it is unlikely to be a "victory" any member of either side. Therefore, it depends on which side collapses psychologically. "

Kousser move would be the first high-level resignations from the air attacks in the United States has led the Libyan forces have begun. Justice ministers from Libya and resigned earlier inside the war and joined the fight against rebels in the east.

Although the name long associated with Koussa liquidation of dissidents in Arab and Western capitals, he later became involved in negotiations with the West, which led to the dismantling of Libya's nuclear program.

In 2003, Libya accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and agreed to repay the victims. Gaddafi also announced that it dismantle its nuclear weapons program, takes a major step forward in US-Libya relations. These plans were the United States and Europe to lift sanctions against Libya.

Britain restored diplomatic relations in 1999, ending Libya's international isolation.

Guma El-Gamaty, the organizer of the Libyan opposition leader in Britain, said the action Koussi would be a "big one" that would weaken Qaddafi.

"Says outgoing," said El-Gamaty. "It means that she is defecting. He is a man of trust Gaddafi for many years running the intelligence, the implementation of the Lockerbie negotiations under way for many things."

El-Koussi Gamaty said he does not believe is destined to remain in Britain, but probably end up in another country to avoid possible prosecution.

He said Koussi does not accept the opposition movement because of his previous actions on behalf of the Gadhafi government.

What Recession? California Mansion Sells for $100M

New home sales may still be in slumpsville, but not in the world of one Russian billionaire.

Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire investor, paid $100 million for a mansion in Los Altos Hills, Calif., marking the highest known price paid for a single-family home in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal.

The 25,500-square-foot home was not on the market at the time the deal was done, the Journal reported. Among its many luxury amenities, the French Chateau-style mansion has a ballroom, home theater, wine cellar, indoor and outdoor pools and outdoor tennis court. Design plans for the house began in 2001 and the home was completed around 2009, according to the report.

The buyer, Milner, is the head of Digital Sky Technologies. According to the WSJ report, his investments include Web giants Facebook and Groupon, along with Zynga, Inc. Milner purchased the property from Fred and Annie Chan; Fred is the founder of ESS Technology.

As of right now, Milner has no immediate plans to move into his new home, the Journal reported.

Few deals are known that rival this one in size, according to the Journal. Here are some cited in the report as notable mentions: In 2007, investor Ron Baron paid $103 million in East Hampton, N.Y. for 40 acres of vacant land. In 2008, an investment company linked to Russian fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev paid $95 million for an estate owned by Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla.; Mr. Trump had been asking $125 million. Former Global Crossing chairman Gary Winnick around 2000 acquired a Los Angeles estate in the Bel-Air neighborhood in a complex deal involving money and property for more than $90 million.

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Searches soar on doomed cosmonaut flight

Serious space buffs probably know the name Vladimir Komarov: He was the first human fatality in space. But now a controversial new book, "Starman," along with a blog post on NPR—have prompted popular interest and Web searches related to his story to soar.

The account involves the Russian space race in 1967 and its star, the Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin was the first human to go into outer space—where he spent a total of 108 minutes orbiting Earth. But the world at large still knows very little about the highly secretive Soviet program, or the other cosmonauts who were the program's unsung heroes.

The story of Vladimir Komarov in "Starman" comes principally from a single source, a KGB officer. If the account is true—and some historians are taking issue with its veracity—it is horrifying: Gagarin was a backup pilot in a doomed spacecraft called Soyuz I, which ended in a fatal crash. Komarov was a close friend of Gagarin's. He had agreed to ride in the structurally unsound capsule in order to spare Gagarin from going, even though he knew the Soyuz's flight would surely end in disaster.

Indeed, as the readers of "Starman" learn, Komarov crashed full speed into Earth, and his body turned molten on impact. Audio from the flight records the cosmonaut screaming and cursing the "people who had put him inside a botched spaceship."

The final words of the Russian man's last minutes were picked up on the sly in 1967 by U.S. intelligence. You can listen to the recording—in Russian—on NPR.

News of the story caused big gains in Web searches for "yuri gagarin." Lookups also increased on "yuri gagarin profile," "space race," and "cosmonaut crashed into earth crying in rage."

Of course, the former Soviet Union wasn't the only country that suffered devastating losses during the early phases of global space exploration. As Bing Quock at the California Academy of Sciences noted, "Political pressures and the intensity of the 'space race' during the late '60s led to both the U.S. and the Soviet Union taking some very dangerous risks—some of which we already know didn't go well."

Indeed, in the same year of the Soyuz I disaster in Russia, the U.S. also lost astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee when the Apollo I capsule caught fire in the midst of a pre-flight test while it was still on the launch pad. And even President Nixon kept remarks at the ready in case the first astronauts to the moon didn't make it.

Study Sees 42 Groups Of Diseases In 13 States

Cancer Cells

There are 42 so-called disease groups in 13 U.S. states, show the incidence of various cancers and other chronic diseases, the Natural Resources Defense Council reported.

A study by NRDC and the National Alliance on disease clusters, from research by the federal, provincial and local officials peer university, and urges coordination and support of the federal government help confirm these groups and determine their causes.

"Before we are able to detect such clusters, and the sooner we can determine the reasons, we can better protect the residents of communities affected" NRDC Dr. Gina Solomon, a co-author of the study, said in a statement.

The study examined the clusters that have occurred since 1976, when Congress passed the Toxic Control Act, which was intended to govern the use of toxic chemicals in industry, commerce and consumer goods.

U.S. Center for Disease Control define a research group as "an examination of an unusual number, real or perceived, of health events (such as reports of cancer) grouped in a time and place."

Monday ', the search is the first of many they are scheduled. It examined the clusters in Texas, California, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas.

Only one of 42 groups - in Libby, Montana - showed a specific source of chemical contamination: asbestos. In the other groups, NRDC has seen signs that the documented exposure to toxic chemicals that harm people living nearby.

The Senate Environment and Public Works has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, groups of diseases and environmental health.

NASA: Mars Rover, Home Phone Season Especially After Sleeping Over

LOS ANGELES - may never hear about Mars rover Spirit is disappearing, if not responded to repeated earth.

Although the gloomy outlook, NASA makes last-ditch attempt to communicate with Spirit, which was silent for a bit 'more than a year ago. If there is still no contact with the next month or so, the space agency to reduce its campaign to listen to the Spirit and to focus on healthy living, "Opportunity.

Spirit has not called home suggests that something more serious wrong than just a power problem, "said John Callas, program manager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California

solar-powered rover got bogged down in sand trap, and in 2009 a race routine. Despite efforts to swing freely, has been captured, and not expensive in itself to the Martian winter approaches DOM without a sufficient amount of energy when the solar panels, went to sleep.

Engineers had planned to wake Spirit once there was a solar maximum, which is trapped. But the moment came and went earlier this month with no response.

Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis, put the odds of hearing a signal now in less than 50-50. Yet he stands behind the attempted appeal.

"I'd be surprised if restore communication - happy, but surprised," said Arvidson, assistant researcher with the primary mission "is so long.."

Flight controllers are paging Spirit over the frequency range and at different times of the day, if his internal clock has stopped working and lost track of time. They are also commands for the rover back on the case of a radio transmitter, the most important, is dead.

Finally, NASA will need to declare Spirit lost if there are no words. When this happens, it will be reduced to sporadic listen until the end of the year, "said Callas.

Spirit and Opportunity parachuted to opposite sides of Mars in 2004. Both have worked beyond their original mission of three months during which they found geological evidence of water on Mars.

While Spirit's odometer is stuck at 4.8 miles, Opportunity finished exploring the crater rim of Santa Maria on Mars and runs to another crater. 16.6 mi has accumulated to date.

Arizona State University astronomer Jim Bell said the loss of communications has been the worst time possible, because the Spirit has made a valuable contribution to science and property.

"It 's disappointing if we actually lost the job," he said. "But it's the best kind of disappointment can be. We had a phenomenal adventure that Rover."

Romantic Breakups Cause Real Pain

Rejection evil literally - the experience and memory to get dumped by a loved one triggers brain regions associated with physical sensations of pain, scientists find.

Around the world people for centuries have used the same language - words like "evil" and "Pain" - to describe the mental anguish and physical suffering, leading researchers to wonder if the feelings n 'do not activate the same parts of brain.

Speculatively, it is logical that you get a broken heart can literally feel something break. During human evolution is rejected by the group can do very vulnerable, researcher Edward Smith, a cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia University, New York, told LiveScience, "so it could be the reason for the connection between the developed and the pain of rejection, so we want to avoid rejection. "

Previous research has not found much to recommend its rejection led to pain in areas of the brain. However, these studies have tried to provoke feelings of rejection in the test subjects, telling them they had been excluded from a computer game, for example, or anonymous comments suggested that a foreigner does not like - the examples that could lead just warm feelings of rejection. "We wanted something bigger," said Smith.

Smith and colleagues routes in Manhattan and online ads on Facebook and Craigslist in search of people who experienced unwanted break from a novel in the last six months. As the brains of 40 volunteers were scanned using magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), half the time looking at photos of his ex, and half the time looking at photos of a friend. In both situations, participants were asked to focus on the experiences we share with the people in the photos.

In comparison with their reaction to physical discomfort, whether participants had probes placed on the forearms, which could be painfully hot.

The scientists found that parts of the brain linked to physical pain also comes on when people have been failures, bad memory.

"The rejection hurts literally," Smith said.

Researchers are now looking for possible techniques to relieve mental suffering, including methods that therapists are already using. "For example, a table when you think of the refusal to consider the experiences with a former partner as an outsider in the distance," Smith said. "We want to see if it actually helps the brain."

Smith did not recommend aspirin for pain like that. "An hour later, you might start thinking about that person," he said.

The researchers detailed their findings online Monday (March 28) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tiger Comeback Brewing India, Census Data Show

A Royal Bengal tiger cools off in the water at a zoo in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 28, 2011. India's latest tiger census shows an increase in the numbers of the endangered big cat.

NEW DELHI - India Census Tiger later shows an increase in the number of big cat endangered, but the threats to their territory roaming could reverse these gains, officials said Monday.

The census counted at least 1,706 tigers in the forests around the country, about 300 more than four years, a government official said Monday.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh called up good news, but warned against complacency in the effort to save the iconic animals from extinction.

"The increase is the result of hard work, but the decline of tiger corridors are alarming," said Ramesh.

Wildlife experts who conducted the census says that brokers tigre, which are the routes used by the big cats to move from one reserve to another, had shrunk considerably in the high-energy projects, mines and roads cut habitat.

"To maintain these corridors should be taken as a priority," said Rajesh Gopal, Director of the National Conservation Authority Tigre.

But India continues its economic program, the threat of increasing the tiger as the government tries to reconcile the demands of development and conservation of wildlife, said Ramesh.

Contrary to previous estimates of individual Pugmark tiger when tigers were counted, this time the Conservatives have used hidden cameras and DNA tests to count the cats in 17 states in India, where tigers live in the wild.

"The count is more scientific this time, and therefore more accurate," said Gopal.

Census, 70 tigers in the eastern Indian Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, which has not been calculated on the last census in 2007. Sunderbans of the population does not count the number of the latest increase reflects approximately 16 percent.

The 2007 census showed 1,411 tigers, a sharp decline in the population of around 3600, five years earlier.

A century ago, 100,000 tigers roamed the forests of India.

Shrinking habitat of wild cats have brought in conflict with the farmers who live near tiger reserves, and poachers who kill the skins and body parts valued in traditional Chinese medicine.

The release of the latest tiger census results coincided with the start of a three-day international conference to review progress on the 2010 Summit in St. Petersburg in 13 countries, home to wild tigers.

In the New Delhi meeting, countries will present strategies for implementing the World Recovery Program adopted in St. Petersburg Tigre, which plans to double the population of tigers in 2022, curbing poaching and illegal trade in tiger skins and other parts the body.

Homosexuality Is The Basis Of A Chemical In The Brain?

Male mice mate desire is male or female is determined by the levels of serotonin in the brain, scientists report a new study. Find shows for the first time that the neurotransmitter regulates sexual mammals.

Serotonin is known to regulate sexual behavior, such as erection, ejaculation and orgasm in mice and men. The compound tends to reduce sexual activity, for example, antidepressants that increase the amount of serotonin in the brain can decrease libido. [10 Aphrodisiacs]

Neuroscientist Yi Rao of Peking University and National Institute for Biological Sciences in Beijing, and colleagues have shown that serotonin has also led to the decision of a male courting a woman or another man. They published their findings in the March 24 edition of the journal Nature.

Rao and his team genetically male mice and the lack of serotonin-producing nerve cells or proteins, it is important to serotonin in the brain. Both the mouse could not serotonin.

Unlike the typical male, showed deficient mice neurotransmitter no desire to mount sexually receptive females more than men, even preferring to smell the female genitalia or litter. Instead, they climbed men and serenaded with love songs ultrasound more often than usual. The males emit these vocalizations when they encounter women to make them more receptive to mating.

While all the men who had mounted the first women serotonin, nearly half of the mice that lacked serotonin crawled on men before women, and about 60 percent have spent more time sniffing or hovering above genital odors and litter men and women.

When the researchers injected a compound in these mice to restore the levels of neurotransmitters, they found that animals mounted more women than men. But too much serotonin between men and women reduce assembly, suggesting that the amount of this chemical should remain within certain limits to promote heterosexual rather than homosexual behavior.

"The inevitable question whether our results [serotonin] is a function of sexual or other animals," the authors wrote the paper. But one of the co-authors, neuroscientists, Zhou-Feng Chen Washington University, warned against hasty conclusions about the potential effect of this neurotransmitter on human rights and sexual orientation.

Elaine Hull, an expert on the sexual behavior of rodents at Florida State University, who did not participate in the study, said the findings "may influence homosexuality or bisexual behavior in humans," adding that the neurotransmitter could help to guide sexual development.

However, Chen says he feels overinterpreting results.

"Many people who read more than she can or can not be justified," said Hull LiveScience. "Further information is needed to clarify the brain areas affected and possible developmental regulation of serotonin in these areas before we can proceed to the conclusion that serotonin is the factor that inhibits male attraction to men. "

NASA's Curiosity Cans Cameron's Cameras

An artist's conception of NASA's next Martian rover, called Curiosity, one of many U.S. missions to the red planet.

Pasadena, California - a high-resolution camera 3-D "Avatar," director James Cameron have contributed to building the next Mars rover NASA not to fly after all.

NASA said Friday that work on the camera zoom was arrested because there was insufficient time to test it properly before launch.

Cameron last year lobbied NASA to revive a plan to give the rover a curiosity best pair of eyes and worked with engineers to build it.

Project scientist John Grotzinger said the current camera curiosity is powerful enough to achieve the objectives of the mission.

In a statement released by NASA, Cameron said he believes that future missions will benefit from the work he and others invested in curiosity did not.

Curiosity $ 2,500,000,000 is expected to launch later this year and land on Mars in August 2012.

US Airport Security Fails to Spot Knife on New Jersey-bound Flight

NEWARK, N.J. -- Transportation Security Administration (TSA) scanners failed to spot yet another knife when a pharmaceutical businessman carried a five-inch ceramic blade onto a flight from Puerto Rico to Newark, N.J., according to sources cited Sunday in the New York Post.

After the agents missed the blade Friday in Puerto Rico, scanners in Newark spotted it as 48-year-old Victor Torres-Rivera went through screening before his trip home to Puerto Rico.

Sources said Torres-Rivera told them that he carried the knife for protection and simply forgot that it was in a day planner.

The Pfizer employee was not believed to be a terror threat, but he was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor weapon possession, sources said.

The TSA did not immediately comment.

"Mr. Torres-Rivera, who was released ... is cooperating fully with law enforcement," a Pfizer spokesman said.

The missed knife came after a series of incidents in the past few months at New York-area airports, including a man who carried a small stash of box cutters onto a plane.

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Study: Large Earthquakes Are Not Offset Other Later

NEW YORK - This is good news in the wake of the disaster in Japan: A new study shows that major earthquakes do not trigger another world more dangerous. Large earthquakes are not triggered a local mirror, but the researchers found no sign of fire from medium sized events, beyond 600 miles.

It will not surprise most experts, "says lead study author Tom Parsons. But it differs from his previous research, which is not the overall impact of set-off of small earthquakes," said Parsons, the U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, California

Parsons and Aaron Velasco of the University of Texas at El Paso reported on Sunday in the online journal Nature Geoscience.

They saw seismic records across the world for 30 years ending in 2009. There were 205 major earthquakes, with the extent of 7 or more and 25,222 moderates with sizes between 5 and 7

Then the researchers examined the timing of such evidence that large earthquakes triggered events moderated. They have been a delay of up to 24 hours, until the seismic waves in large quakes to dry.

Found an increase in moderate earthquakes, but only about 600 miles from the initial event, and miles in almost all 375. At distances beyond 600 miles, the number of moderate earthquakes after a major event was not higher than normal.

Although the study did not examine whether the large quakes trigger other large earthquakes far, the new data suggest they are not, "said Parsons. Anyway, while only about seven to the world average earthquake size 7 or more per year, such an effect has been observed already, "he said.

The new results agree with what most seismologists believe just experience, "said Klaus Jacob of the Observatory of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth. "It's nice to see it confirmed by a thorough investigation," said Jacob.

Parsons said the magnitude-9 event in Japan on March 11 was looking at the world map to search for any influence of distant earthquakes. He did not see anything.

"It seems to match what we've seen before," said Parsons.

Soldiers Charged With Embezzling $ 1 Million In Afghanistan

Fayetteville, NC - Two soldiers from North Carolina, accused of embezzling more than $ 1,000,000 and sent to Afghanistan in 2009, the News & Observer newspaper reported Sunday.

Vando Edwin Rivera and Juan Lamboy, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, were accused of having nearly $ 1.3 million in payments to suppliers, and an Afghan interpreter, according to the U.S. District Court documents filed Thursday.

According to court documents was Vando Sergeants Rivera and the 82nd Battalion of Finance, was deployed to Camp Eggers in Kabul from May to June 2009th They worked in the finance office, monitoring payments to commercial suppliers.

Two men, both Afghan interpreter identified only as "RJ" was accused of embezzling money from Abdul Wasi Faquiri Co. Ltd., which provides clothing and military equipment to the Afghan army and police.

Vando and Rivera were charged on Thursday, but their cases date back to July, when the relevant documents were filed under seal, according to the report.

Projections Stunt Plane Crashes, Killing Pilot

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Authorities say a single-engine stunt plane broke formation during an airshow in Florida and crashed, killing the pilot.

Carl Laundrie, a spokesman for Flagler County, told The Florida Times-Union that the crash happened Saturday afternoon. The Florida Highway Patrol identified the pilot as 58-year-old William Walker of Cookeville, Tenn.

Walker was flying a Yak-52, which was originally designed as a Soviet warplane and now is popular at airshows.

It wasn't immediately clear what caused the crash. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

The Wings Over Flagler Fly-In continued Sunday with fly-overs but no aerobatics.