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Wed, 08/05/2009 6:05 PM | National Hindu followers pray during the Pagerwesi ceremony at Pura Jagatnatha in Denpasar on Wednesday. ( JP/Zul T. Edoardo )

Adianto P. Simamora , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 08/05/2009 10:15 AM | Headlines Publish Post Doctor?: An unidentified man puts on a face mask during a health campaign aimed at improving public awareness about the spread of H1N1 virus in Indonesia, in Jakarta on Tuesday. JP/P.J. LEO With the A H1N1 influenza beginning to spread within the local population and infections not only from abroad, the disease could now spread more quickly, an official warned here on Tuesday. Data from the Health Ministry showed that of the 561 confirmed A H1N1 infected patients as of Monday, the majority had not been outside Indonesia before contracting the disease. “The problem is that many people do not have clean and healthy lifestyle habits, which allows H1N1 to spread more quickly because it is now transmitted from human-to-human at the community level,” Andi Muhadir, the director of surveillance of epidemology and immunization at the ministry, told repor...

Erwida Maulia , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 08/05/2009 10:00 AM | Headlines President re-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says the new Cabinet he intends to form with running mate Boediono will consist mainly of figures from political parties in coalition with the Democratic Party. The move was a solution to incompatibilities between the country’s presidential and multiparty democracy systems, he said. “The presidential Cabinet [system] and multiparty democracy don’t really fit together very well,” Yudhoyono said while addressing a press conference at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday. “Thus the ‘middle-way’ solution is while we keep attached to the presidential system, our executive board and especially the Cabinet should represent political parties, so as to create good political stability and ensure that the government runs well,” Yudho-yono said. The coalition that had been formed between the Democratic Party and other parties supporti...

Audrey McAvoy , The Associated Press , Honolulu, US | Tue, 08/04/2009 2:04 PM | Sci-Tech In this file photo from Feb. 6, 2009, the USS Port Royal, right, a Navy guided missile cruiser, sits grounded atop a reef about a half-mile south of the Honolulu airport's reef runway in Honolulu. Navy tugs tried early Friday to nudge the 9,600-ton warship away from the spot it hit but were unsuccessful. Wrecking coral will cost you in Hawaii. A Maui tour company is paying the state nearly $400,000 for damaging more than 1,200 coral colonies when one of its boats sank at Molokini, a pristine reef and popular diving spot. Another tour operator faces penalties for wrecking coral when it illegally dropped an anchor on a Maui reef. The state plans to sue the U.S. Navy to seek compensation for coral ruined when a guided missile cruiser the length of two football fields ran aground near Pearl Harbor in February. The fines began issuing fines two years ago as ...

By Mary Morningstar Washington 04 August 2009 Michael Jackson Autopsy Results Delayed Indefinitely Michael Jackson (Nov. 2007 file photo) The Los Angeles coroner's office announced that the release of Michael Jackson's autopsy results have been delayed indefinitely. The Associated Press reported that Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said further investigation needs to be done. On July 28, Los Angeles police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents searched the Las Vegas home and business office of Jackson's personal doctor, cardiologist Conrad Murray, 56. They reportedly were looking for evidence that would support a manslaughter charge and violations of the California Business and Professions Code. That code states that physicians are prohibited from prescribing drugs to anyone with a chemical dependency problem. Jackson's Mother Gets Full Custody of Children Katherine Jackson with...

By VOA News 05 August 2009 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech after taking the oath of office during a swearing-in ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, 05 Aug 2009 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his second term in office Wednesday, as hundreds of opposition supporters took to the streets to demonstrate against his re-election. Mr. Ahmadinejad was sworn in Wednesday in Tehran at an inauguration ceremony with members of Iran's parliament attending. There were notable absences, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and defeated reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. Mr. Ahmadinejad heralded his re-election as an "unprecedented epic" victory for the Iranian people and the Islamic establishment. Iranian state-run media report thousands of security forces were deployed near Parliament to stop demonstrators from gathering. Witnesses said police detained several p...

By Aru Pande Washington 05 August 2009 Pres. Barack Obama speaks at the White House, 05 Aug 2009, about the release of two American journalists in N. Korea U.S. President Barack Obama is welcoming the release of two American journalists who were detained in North Korea, but U.S. officials say the move will not necessarily result in a warming of relations between the two countries. Euna Lee and Laura Ling returned home to the United States early Wednesday after being pardoned by the North Korean government, during a visit to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton. A humanitarian mission to bring two U.S journalists home ended successfully with a plane carrying Euna Lee and Laura Ling arriving California early Wednesday. President Barack Obama expressed relief in remarks to reporters in Washington. Freed journalists Laura Ling, left, and Euna Lee, are met by family members as they return home t...