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Friday, September 11, 2009 WASHINGTON: The US Coast Guard, on high alert for the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, fired 10 rounds on a suspicious boat on the US capital's Potomac River, a US news channel reported Friday.It was not immediately clear if the boat posed any danger to Washington, as President Barack Obama for the first time led ceremonies to mark the eighth anniversary of the attacks.The vessel was challenged in a restricted part of the river, adjacent to the Pentagon where Obama was attending a ceremony to mark the 2001 attacks, the channel said.Contacted by a foreign news agency the coast guard said they could not immediately confirm the incident, and were checking the details. Police declined any comment saying they were not handling the situation.

Friday, September 11, 2009 ANAHEIM: The Walt Disney Co. kicked off its four-day exposition, dubbed "D23 Expo," in Anaheim, Calif.The event is the company's attempt to create buzz around its brands and build the loyalty of its fan base, by granting special early access to soon to be released movies and the opportunity to meet with franchise celebrities. Attendees will also be able to get a first look at the company's future plans for its theme parks, listen to keynote speakers and will be able to view an extensive display of memorabilia from the company's archives.The expo will also help to build on its online fan club, the D23 club, which grants members exclusive benefits and behind-the-scenes fan club access for a $75 annual membership fee. Disney is charging $30 per adult and $22 per child for admission to the Expo.

Friday, September 11, 2009 WASHINGTON: In the largest study of its kind (with over half a million subjects), it was found that mature people in the US Americans who eat large amounts of red meat like beef, pork and lamb, and processed meats like hot dogs and bacon were discovered to have a higher risk of death from cancer or heart disease.This research back up the long-standing advice of experts to limit red meats in the diet, and appears in the March 23, 2009 Archives of Internal Medicine.The researchers looked at over 545,000 subjects aged 50 to 71 years old, recruited from AARP members as part of the National Institutes of Health Diet and Health Study, and asked about their eating habits.The results relied on participants remembering what they ate, and this of course isn’t always accurate. Over 70,000 of the subjects died during the decade long study, and the researchers accounted for risk factors like smoking, high BMI (body mass index) and family history of cancer in their analysi...

Friday, September 11, 2009 RIYADH: A total of 128 swine flu cases among Umrah performers and residents have been reported since the beginning of Ramadan, a Ministry of Health medical bulletin said. It said all cases had fully recovered and that no deaths among the visitors to the Prophet’s Mosque and Umrah performers have been reported so far. Ajyad Emergency Hospital has been provided with all necessary medical equipment and facilities to meet any medical contingency. Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeah, Minister of Health, said the ministry has set up six health centers with trained medical personnel inside the Holy Haram. Two of the centers have recently been set up by the ministry to provide medical services to Umrah performers in Mataf and Masa’ while the rest are situated in the upper part of the Holy Haram near the King Fahd Gate.Meanwhile, Egypt decided to delay the start of classes for schools and universities as a precautionary measure.

Friday, September 11, 2009 LONDON: Tall people lead happier lives than their more vertically challenged peers, according to a new study which found that most miserable men are almost an inch shorter than average.Researchers found that shorter people tended to be more dissatisfied with their lot in life. The study interviewed more than 450,000 adults about how they viewed their life. The volunteers were asked to place themselves somewhere on a “life ladder” and asked about their emotions. According to the findings, people who were taller were also more likely to be positive about their life and were more likely to judge themselves a happy. They were also less likely to feel a range of negative emotions, including sadness and physical pain, although they were more likely to experience stress and anger, and if they were women, to worry. Men who reported that their lives were the "worst possible" were in general more than eight tenths of an inch, or two centimetres, shorter than ...

Friday, September 11, 2009 LONDON: Millions of "worried well" Britons are wasting their money and possibly risking their health by taking vitamin supplements, a leading nutritionist has said.Popular multivitamin supplements are completely pointless for the majority of people on a healthy diet, Professor Brian Ratcliffe from Robert Gordon University, in Aberdeen argued. He added that topping up on vitamins could occasionally prove dangerous.Safe levels of vitamin A can easily be exceeded, for instance, by taking both multivitamin and fish oil supplements, Prof Ratcliffe said.Excess vitamin A, which accumulates in the liver, led to headaches and nausea, and over a long period of time increased the risk of osteoporosis.Large doses of vitamin C - taken in the belief they fight colds - may be harmless but are largely excreted and have unpleasant effects on the stomach, said the professor, an expert advisor to the Food Standards Agency.Speaking at the British Festival of Science at...

Friday, September 11, 2009 WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed at White House, the deputy supreme commander of the United Arab Emirates armed forces, the White House said.The two "discussed ways to deepen the strong political, security and economic relationship" between the United States and the UAE, as well as ways to "bolster regional security, and advance Israeli-Arab peace efforts," the White House said in a statement on Thursday.Obama and the Crown Prince also discussed civil nuclear cooperation, including the administration's support for the US-UAE Agreement for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation.