XYDO.COM: top articles for World News http://www.xydo.com San Francisco's Department of Environment plans to ban city agencies from buying Macs after Apple pulls out of an environmental scheme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18790729 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18790729 Members of indigenous groups in south-western Colombia confront Farc rebels and the security forces fighting them to demand both groups leave the area. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18791301 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18791301 The highest court in Egypt overturns a decree by President Mohammed Mursi in which he recalled parliament in defiance of the ruling military council. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18789992 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18789992 One of the UK's richest women has been found dead in west London and a man arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs, the BBC understands. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18789629 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18789629 BAMAKO (Reuters) - Islamist militants destroyed two tombs on Tuesday at the famous 14th century Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu, classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site, residents said. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-mali-crisis-timbuktu-idUSBRE8690O420120710?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-mali-crisis-timbuktu-idUSBRE8690O420120710?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 The International Criminal Court will hand down its first-ever sentence Tuesday to a Congolese warlord convicted of turning children into killers. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/10/world/africa/hague-icc-congo/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29 http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/10/world/africa/hague-icc-congo/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29 Barclays executive chairman Marcus Agius is to being questioned by MPs about the bank lending rate scandal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18779089 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18779089 Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was found guilty Tuesday of one count of corruption but acquitted of two other counts. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/10/world/meast/israel-olmert-corruption/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29 http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/10/world/meast/israel-olmert-corruption/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29 Essex Police continue their hunt for a gunman suspected of killing off-duty policeman Ian Dibell and vow they "will not rest" until he is caught. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-18778574 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-18778574 Essex Police continue their hunt for a gunman suspected of killing off-duty policeman Ian Dibell and vow they "will not rest" until he is caught. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-18778574 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-18778574 Eurozone finance ministers agree to offer Spain 30bn euros to help its troubled banks, following emergency talks in Brussels. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18778193 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18778193 83% OF DOCTORS 'HAVE CONSIDERED QUITTING' OVER OBAMACARE(Main headline, 1st story, link) http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/09/report-83-percent-of-doctors-have-considered-quitting-over-obamacare/ http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/09/report-83-percent-of-doctors-have-considered-quitting-over-obamacare/ Egypt's military council says the country's constitution must be upheld after new President Mohammed Morsi defies a decision by the council to dissolve parliament. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18777150 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18777150 Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini signs a new five-year contract with the club. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18774631 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18774631 Scientists to march through Ottawa in white lab coats in protest at cuts to research and environmental damageCanada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, faces a widening revolt by the country's leading scientists against sweeping cuts to government research labs and broadly pro-industry policies.The scientists plan to march through Ottawa in white lab coats on Tuesday in the second big protest in a month against the Harper government's science and environmental agenda.Harper is accused of pushing through a slew of policies weakening or abolishing environmental protections – with an aim of expanding development of natural resources such as the Alberta tar sands.His government is also accused of jeopardising Canada's scientific reputation by shutting down the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a research station that produced critical evidence to help stop acid rain."In my view there are a lot of attempts in this country, and other countries too, to push through resource-based economies," said Prof John Smol, a freshwater lake biologist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. "People working at ELA are constantly finding reasons why you can't just put a pipeline here, or an industry there, because there are going to be environmental costs."Andrew Weaver, a climate scientist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, was even more pointed. "It's not about saving money. It's about imposing ideology," he said. "What's happening here is that the government has an ideological agenda to develop the Canadian economy based on the extraction of oil out of the Alberta tar sands as quickly as possible and sell it as fast as it can, come hell and high water, and eliminate any barriers that stand in their way."The prime minister's office refused to comment on the protests or the budget cuts. The environment minister, Peter Kent, also declined to respond.The showdown between the government and scientists was set late last month by the passage of a budget bill that weakened or abolished scores of environmental laws.The government claims the cuts are intended to shift more resources towards monitoring development of the Alberta tar sands, the core of Harper's economic strategy.Critics say the changes gut the country's strongest environmental law, the Canadian Fisheries Act, by easing earlier requirements on mining and other industries to protect fish habitat.In addition, the C-38 budget bill cut dozens of jobs for government scientists, scrapped research projects, and pollution control programmes. It abolished the unit in charge of monitoring emissions from power plants, furnaces, boilers and other sources, for a net saving of about $600,000.It cut funding entirely for two-well established bodies: the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, an advisory panel, and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science, which awards research grants. It also cut other research grant programmes.The Harper government has clashed regularly with environmental groups over its strategy of developing the tar sands and shipping the oil to America and China.Earlier this year, the natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, accused foreign radicals and "jet-setting celebrities" of trying to hijack the country, by opposing development of the tar sands.The government has also directed the tax authorities to investigate the funding of environmental groups.There were protests, too, when government scientists were banned from speaking to media without an official "minder", and when news of the cost-cutting proposals first trickled out.More than 500 groups took their websites down for 24 hours last month in protest at the budget cuts, which they claim were an excuse to weaken environmental protections.But the cuts that seem to have galvanised the protests on Tuesday was the government's decision to shut down the Experimental Lakes Area in March 2013."It's a culmination of all of the cuts to government science and environment," said Diane Orihel, a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta, leading the campaign to save the labs. "The ELA is one small little morsel in a much broader problem." But she added: "We are starting to see momentum."Since the decision first trickled out – as a government leak – the Harper government has faced widening criticism in Canadian media.Scientists say the closure, due in March 2013, would rob researchers of a rare chance to conduct science on a real-life scale – not just in a laboratory flask, said Smol.Over the years, it has provided critical evidence on the causes of acid rain, and the effects on fish and their habitats of dumping fertilisers, detergents, or mercury."Any water quality problem we have on the planet, the research started out there," Smol said. "I think we need that information to get solid policy to deal with our environmental problems."The government argues it can no longer afford the research station, which costs about $2m a year to run.Critics dismiss that argument, pointing to the Harper government's promotion of the Alberta tar sands and its opposition to the Kyoto protocol agreements on climate change."The Harper government is the most environmentally hostile one we have ever had in Canada. Harper pulled Canada out of the Kyoto protocol, gutted the Fisheries Act (our strongest freshwater protection law), and hollowed out our environmental assessment legislation, making it easier for extractive industries to get licences to exploit," said Maude Barlow, a former UN advisor on water and chair of the Council of Canadians. "It is heartlessly shutting down a programme that costs very little to run given the incredible benefits it brings, in order to silence the voices who speak for water."Stephen HarperCanadaAmericasFossil fuelsEnergyFishingPollutionWaterSuzanne Goldenbergguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/09/canada-stephen-harper-revolt-scientists http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/09/canada-stephen-harper-revolt-scientists The deputy governor of the Bank of England says he did not give Barclays instructions to lower its Libor submissions in 2008. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18773498 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18773498 Chris Vallance reports on a new search engine which reveals physical systems connected to the internet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18770126 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18770126 Egypt's new president on Sunday ordered a parliament dominated by his Islamist party to reconvene, challenging the authority of the generals who had dissolved the assembly in line with a court order. http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/09/12636920-game-of-chicken-egypts-new-president-defies-the-military-orders-parliament-to-reconvene?lite http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/09/12636920-game-of-chicken-egypts-new-president-defies-the-military-orders-parliament-to-reconvene?lite Spanish 10-year bond yields rise above 7% ahead of a summit of eurozone finance ministers, which is due to start later on Monday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18767056 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18767056 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will call on Monday for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 a year, according to a White House official, seeking to spare the economy the impact of taxes going up on January 1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/09/us-usa-obama-taxes-idUSBRE86805220120709?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/09/us-usa-obama-taxes-idUSBRE86805220120709?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 BMW is to invest £250m in its UK factories over the next three years to expand production of the Mini, the company has announced. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18764730 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18764730 Greece's new coalition wins a no-confidence vote in parliament, as eurozone ministers gather for talks amid new concern over the debt crisis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18765108 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18765108 BEIJING (Reuters) - China's annual consumer inflation cooled to 2.2 percent in June, from May's 3.0 percent, official data showed on Monday, giving Beijing more scope to ease monetary policy to support growth without stoking upward price pressures. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/09/us-china-economy-inflation-idUSBRE86801120120709?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/09/us-china-economy-inflation-idUSBRE86801120120709?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 More than 300,000 people worldwide, including many in the US and UK, could lose internet access later as the FBI shuts off servers used by cyber thieves. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18735228 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18735228 Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine dies in LA at age 95 http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=741560&affid=100055 http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=741560&affid=100055 Deaths bring to eight the number of Nato soldiers killed in the country over the weekendNato has said an explosion has killed six members of its Isaf force in eastern Afghanistan.The Nato statement said the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device in eastern Afghanistan.The statement provided no further details about the attack and did not identify the dead service members.The statement said Nato's policy is to allow "national authorities" to give details about the soldiers.The deaths took the number of Nato troops killed in the last two days to eight, one of the deadliest periods of violence for foreign troops in weeks.A string of roadside bombs and clashes in the south killed at least 24 Afghan civilians and police earlier on Sunday.NatoAfghanistanguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/08/six-nato-troops-killed-afghanistan http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/08/six-nato-troops-killed-afghanistan Roger Federer won his record-tying seventh Wimbledon title Sunday, beating Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 under a closed roof on Centre Court. http://espn.go.com/tennis/wimbledon12/story/_/id/8140852/roger-federer-thwarts-andy-murray-seventh-wimbledon-title http://espn.go.com/tennis/wimbledon12/story/_/id/8140852/roger-federer-thwarts-andy-murray-seventh-wimbledon-title Egypt's newly elected president announced Sunday that he's overriding a military edict that dissolved the country's elected parliament and calling lawmakers back into session. The move is likely to please President Mohamed Morsy's backers in the Muslim Brotherhood, which won the largest share of seats in parliament in elections earlier this year. But it may put him at odds with constitutional experts and Egypt's military, which said it was following a court ruling that declared the vote invalid. "The decision will be met with objections from constitutional legal experts, and it may be the first test on the relations between Morsy and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces since Morsy took office," said Aly Hassan, a judicial consultant affiliated with the Justice Ministry. http://www.ksat.com/news/Egypt-s-president-calls-back-parliament/-/478452/15441584/-/19jswn/-/index.html http://www.ksat.com/news/Egypt-s-president-calls-back-parliament/-/478452/15441584/-/19jswn/-/index.html Egypt's President Mohammed Mursi orders parliament to reconvene, a month after it was dissolved by court order amid a row over voting. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18761403 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18761403 Police in Morocco arrest a prime suspect sought for more than a year over the murders of the Ding family in Northampton. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16742350 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16742350 Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs is named as the Great Britain captain for the London Olympics. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18759625 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18759625 Russian President Vladimir Putin orders an inquiry into whether enough was done to prevent mass deaths in the southern flood-hit Krasnodar region. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18758895 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18758895 "One thing I guarantee is that I'll fight my absolute heart out," writes the British number one in his column for BBC Sport. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/18755705 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/18755705 The electoral commission in Libya says there was a 60% turnout on Saturday in the first national election since the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Preliminary results are due to be announced on Monday or Tuesday. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/110148/libyan-election-has-60-percent-turnout http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/110148/libyan-election-has-60-percent-turnout Dozens of flood warnings remain in place across Britain, including one severe one, with more heavy rainfall forecast for some areas later. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18758462 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18758462 BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic Representative Barney Frank wed his longtime partner, James Ready, on Saturday, becoming the first sitting congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/08/us-usa-barneyfrank-wedding-idUSBRE86700820120708?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/08/us-usa-barneyfrank-wedding-idUSBRE86700820120708?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 Brother of Nobel prize-winning Colombian writer says side-effects of cancer treatment have accelerated his declineThe Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel García Márquez is suffering from senile dementia and can longer write, his brother has revealed.Jaime García Márquez told students in Cartagena, Colombia, that his older brother, affectionately know as Gabo, calls him on the telephone to ask basic questions."He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I'm losing him," he said.The 85-year-old Colombian writer won the Nobel prize in 1982 and is best known for novels including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold.He has fought a long battle against lymphatic cancer which he contracted in 1999 and it is believed that the cancer treatment has accelerated his mental decline."Dementia runs in our family and he's now suffering the ravages prematurely due to the cancer that put him almost on the verge of death," said Jaime. "Chemotherapy saved his life, but it also destroyed many neurons, many defences and cells, and accelerated the process. But he still has the humour, joy and enthusiasm that he has always had."Jaime said that he tried to keep his brother's condition a secret, "because it's his life and he's always tried to protect it". However, he was moved to speak openly because of the inaccurate speculation he encountered.Jaime said: "The fact is there are lots of comments. Some are true but they're always filled with morbid details. Sometimes you get the sense they'd rather he were dead, as if his death were some great news."Márquez's chaotic upbringing provided ample material for his complex novels.His parents' courtship was resisted by his maternal grandfather, who objected to his father's conservative political views. The wedding was eventually allowed to take place and Márquez was born in Aracataca which became the fictional village of Macondo in his novels.Márquez's parents left him in the care of his maternal grandparents when they travelled to work.His grandfather was a soldier and a hero of the liberal movement and instilled in him an interest in social justice and the gravity of taking human life.The 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a work of magical realism telling the history of seven generations of the Buendía family in a fictional Colombian village, begins with the story of a family unable to care for their senile grandfather. It went on to sell more than 30 million copies and was translated into 37 languages. His last novel, Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, published five years ago, received mixed reviews.Márquez now lives in Mexico and has not written anything since his last novel.The popularity of his writing led to friendships with many prominent Latin Americans including the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.Jaime García Márquez, who heads the Ibero-American New Journalism Foundation, founded by Gabo in 1994 in Cartagena, said it was regrettable that his brother was not in a condition to write the second part of his autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale."Unfortunately, I don't think that'll be possible, but I hope I'm wrong," he said.Gabriel García MárquezColombiaAmericasFidel CastroFictionConal Urquhartguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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