Algarve and Club Albufeira Portugal News and Events

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:38:27 PDT
Regularly updated news and events about the Algarve and Club Albufeira holiday resort for the holiday maker.If you are looking for something in particular go to the foot of the page and click on "Click to Browse Archives" which go back as far as January 2005.

Google Expands Trend Tracking With %u201CInsights For Search

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:48:44 PDT
Google has just written a blog post introducing “Insights for Search”, an extension to its Google Trends and AdWords products that allows users to track keywords across different verticals, geographic locations, and time periods. According to the post, the new service is designed to help advertisers and marketers get a better understanding for user

USOC abandons its own

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:52:55 PDT
Wednesday's news conference was not one of the USOC's finest hours. In addition to essentially disowning Cheek, the USOC did a remarkable tap dance around the problems athletes may face because of the still-oppressive humidity and hazy air.

IT Security Trends for This Year (by ISS's XForce)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:53:40 PDT
The IBM ISS X-Force Research and Development team has released a midyear report addressing vulnerability and malicious code trends reported in the first six months of 2008. Trends and explanations are included for the most common types of attacks and exploits.

FEATURE: Auschwitz will stay with me forever

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:35:52 PDT
India's "unnatural sex" law should be revised says High Court judge The Bombay High Court said last week that the controversial Section 377 of Indian Penal Code that deals with unnatural sex needs revision. Two killed in gun attack on US church supportive of gay rights A gunman who killed two people when he opened fire on a Tennessee Unitarian Church over the weekend said he targeted the church because he hated gays and liberals. Ugandan police accused of torturing gay activist

Twitter Bombs and the #DontGo Revolution...

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:38:04 PDT
A right-leaning group has called on supporters to include a #dontgo hash in all their Twitter posts. Its now the top trending topic on the site. Not to be outdone, left-leaning hacktivists are trying to pollute that stream by dropping Twitter bombs using the same method.

Morgan Freeman and Wife Call It Quits After 24 Years

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:22:26 PDT
Morgan Freeman hasn’t even recovered from his car accident yet but already has more disappointing news coming his way. His wife of 24 years,Myrna Colley-Lee, is reportedly filing for divorce.

Google Expands Trend Tracking With %u201CInsights For Search

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:48:44 PDT
Google has just written a blog post introducing “Insights for Search”, an extension to its Google Trends and AdWords products that allows users to track keywords across different verticals, geographic locations, and time periods. According to the post, the new service is designed to help advertisers and marketers get a better understanding for user

S&P Picks and Pans: Whole Foods, Freddie Mac, Cisco Systems, News Corp., Polo Ralph Lauren (BusinessWeek)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:45:56 PDT
Analysts' opinions on stocks in the news Wednesday

Pork Production Trends for the Top 20 Countries

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:36:27 PDT
With firm data for 2005 now available from various national and international sources, we examine the scene for pork production globally and among the 20 countries that were largest on annual output last year.

Cheap Flight Tickets to Europe

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:06:14 PDT
Europe is home to some of the World's top travel destinations and all this is good news for those searching for cheap flight tickets to Europe. London. Amsterdam, Rome, Paris, Athens, Barcelona and Munich are some of the better known cities and getting cheaper airfare should not be a problem throughout the year.


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Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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