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Posh ban takes gloss off paint

AN op-shop selling cheap tins of luxury paint to helpthe needy has been beset by rich families keen to baga bargain. The $85, five-litre tins of Farrow&Ballpaint were being sold in the Tree of Life store in arun-down area ofWythenshawe, Greater Manchesterfor just £5 — $7.40. To try to stop home owners fromone of Britain’s wealthiest areas, Wilmslow in nearbyCheshire, cashing in, the shop now insists customersprovide proof they are on benefits.

Kill accused demands cereal

OLYMPIA: Awoman chargedwith four murders hasdemanded she be allowed to eat Cocoa Puffs whileincarcerated. Holly Grigsby, who haswhite-supremacist links, claims her constitutional rights arebeing denied by not having access to her favouritechocolate breakfast cereal. Lawyers for the 24-year-oldWashington state resident demanded she alsohave access to candy bars and other snack foodswhile awaiting trial onmurder charges.

Argies back Scotland

EDINBURGH: Argentina is reportedlytrying to drum up support from Scotlandfor its claim to the Falkland Islands.Argentine President Cristina Fernandezde Kirchner is considering sending representatives tojoin Scottish celebrations of the 700th anniversary ofRobert the Bruce’s win over the English. First MinisterAlex Salmond hopes to hold a referendum on Scottishindependence in 2014.

KEYNUCLEARTALKSTEHRAN: A team of inspec-tors from the UN nuclearwatchdog has arrived inTehran for what are set tobe key talks about Iran’s nu-clear program. The Internat-ional Atomic Energy Agencyteam arrived yesterday. Thisis the second IAEA visit toTehranwithin amonth.

KILLERWINTERKABUL: More than 40 peo-ple have frozen to death inAfghanistan’s coldest win-ter in years, most of themchildren. The Government’sHealth Ministry has re-corded 41 deaths fromfreezing in three provinces.All but three or four of thosekilledwere children.

JAIL GUN-BATTLEMANILA: Dozens of gunmenarmed with grenades andbombs stormed a southernPhilippines jail trying to freea detained comrade, butthey were repulsed by pol-ice in a night battle that kil-led three people, officialssay. Fifteen people werewounded, most of them civ-ilians, outside Kidapawan’scity hall compound. Formermembers of a Muslim rebelgroup have been blamed.

AVALANCHEDEATHSWASHINGTON: Four peoplewere killed yesterday aftertwo avalanches struck, in-cluding a snowboarder whowas swept off a cliff byloose snow. An avalanchenear Stevens Pass, in theCascade Mountains north-east of Seattle, buried threeexperienced skiers. Thethree victims were all allmen in their 30s and 40s.Twelve skiers were caughtin the avalanche. Mean-while, about 64km south atSnoqualmie Pass, a 41-year-old snowboarder died afterbeing swept off a cliff whenhe triggered an avalanche.

Obamaunder fireCUMMING, Georgia: Re-publican presidential con-tender Rick Santorum hasaccused Barack Obama ofadvocating a ‘‘world view’’different from most Ameri-cans, as he back-pedalledfrom an attack on the USPresident’s Christianity.

Mr Santorum, an op-ponent of abortion and gayrights, has surged past MittRomney in opinion polls ofRepublican voters afterwinning in Minnesota,Colorado and Missouri.

A day after telling anOhio audience Mr Obama’sagenda is based on ‘‘somephony theology, not a the-ology based on the Bible’’,Santorum told CBS tele-vision: ‘‘I believe the Pre-sident’s Christian. I amtalking about his worldview, and the way he app-roaches problems in thiscountry. I think they’re dif-ferent than how most peo-ple do in America.’’

Bali bomb mix role

Umar Patek

JAKARTA: Alleged terroristUmar Patek has admitted topreparing the explosivesused in the 2002 Bali bomb-ings but denies knowing thefull extent of the plot thatkilled 202 people, including88 Australians.

Patek’s lawyers told theWest Jakarta District Courtyesterday the 45-year-olddoes not deny mixing the ex-

plosives used ina co-ordinatedattack on twonightclubs inthe tourist areaof Kuta a decadeago. One bomb,

a huge 700kg device, wasloaded into a van and deton-ated outside the Sari Club onJelan Legian near KutaBeach, 20 seconds after a sui-

cide bomber launched an at-tack on the same street at thenearby Paddy’s Bar. A thirddevice was detonated nearthe US Consulate but did lit-tle damage.

Patek is charged with pre-meditated mass murder forhis alleged role in the Balibombings. He could be sen-tenced to death if convicted.

But defence lawyer Ainal,

who goes by one name, toldthe court his client did notknow the bombs, on whichhe put the finishing touchesdays before the October 12 at-tacks, were to be used to killWestern tourists.

‘‘The defendant was onlyinvited by Imam Samudra tocome and mix the bomb ma-terial,’’ Ainal told the court.

‘‘There is no legal argu-

ment that could prove the de-fendant deliberately partici-pated in the plan to takelives. The person who car-ried the bombs to be ex-ploded was Ali Imron.’’

Samudra was executed in2008 for his role in the Balibombings, along with Am-rozi and Ali Ghufron.

Imron is expected to testifyagainst Patek.

Teams throw oranges at each other during the traditional Battle of the Oranges, held during the carnival in Ivrea, near Turin, yesterday. The event marksthe rebellion of the people against tyrannical lords who ruled the town in the Middle Ages, with the revellers on carts representing guards of the tyrants

Rape captive marries

Elizabeth Smart

ELIZABETH Smart, the young Utahwoman kidnapped at knifepoint at14 and held captive for nine monthsby an itinerant street preacher, hasmarried her Scottish fiance at aMormon temple in Hawaii.

A family spokesman said shemarried Matthew Gilmour, ofAberdeen, Scotland, on Oahu’sNorth Shore yesterday. Smart, 24, is

in her last year atBrigham Young Uni-versity. She met MrGilmour while doingMormon missionarywork in Paris. Brian

David Mitchell was convicted in2010 of Smart’s 2002 kidnapping andsexual assault.

He is serving a life sentence.

South Korea drillsSEOUL: South Korea has begun live-fire military drills from frontline is-lands near its disputed sea borderwith North Korea, despite Pyong-yang’s threat to attack.

The drills, which were scheduledto last two hours, happened in anarea that was the target of a NorthKorean artillery attack in 2010 thatkilled four South Koreans.

South Korean military officials re-ported no immediate action byNorth Korea. Residents on thosefrontline islands were asked to go tounderground shelters before thedrills started, according to an officerat Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. NorthKorea called the drills a ‘‘premedi-tated military provocation’’ andwarned it would retaliate.

Dark day remembered

John Key

WELLINGTON: Theearthquake that left185 people dead inChristchurch last yearwill go down in historyas one of New Zea-land’s darkest days,Prime Minister JohnKey says.

Mr Key will visitChristchurch tomor-

row withfive of hissenior min-isters. Theywill attendseveral

services marking thefirst anniversary ofthe 6.3 magnitudeearthquake.

Uprising ‘lacks support’

Assad

ALLEPO: A top USmilitary adviser saysit is premature to armthe Syrian opposition,reinforcing the beliefof rebels the uprisingis an ‘‘orphan revolut-ion’’ without anyinternational support.

It follows reportsthat at least 23 people

died yester-day in at-tacks bySyrianforces, asPresidentBashar al-

Assad’s regime hit outover the killings of anattorney-general anda judge.

Monk torches himselfBEIJING: A Tibetanmonk has died after aself-immolationprotest in China.

Hundreds of monksand lay Tibetans pre-vented police fromseizing the body of themonk after he set fireto himself in Sichuanprovince, the rights

group InternationalCampaign for Tibetsaid.

The Buddhist monkhad shouted his sup-port for Tibetan spiri-tual leader the DalaiLama. It was the latestof about 20 such pro-tests in recentmonths.