Tuesday, December 08, 2009 GUADALAJARA: A remote-controlled dinosaur robot worth about 100,000 dollars has been stolen from Australia's "Walking with Dinosaurs" show in Guadalajara, event organizers said Monday. "Only in Mexico! How it happened, we don't know. We don't even know if whoever stole it knows its value," show spokeswoman Karla Arroyo told reporters. It was the first time an exhibit has been stolen from the show, which has toured worldwide and been seen by more than four million people, she said. "Walking with Dinosaurs" opened in Guadalajara on Friday, and staff discovered that one of the smaller robots was missing after the show closed that same day. The missing reptilian is 1.50 meters (59 inches) tall and moves by remote control. At around 100,000 dollars, it is the least expensive of its fellow robots at the show, which measure up to 13 meters (42.6 feet) and cost up to one million dollars, Arroyo said. Despite the robbery, Arroyo said the show "did not stop." "Everything went on as usual," she added.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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