(CNN) -- Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban commander whose capture was made public this week, is one of the most senior figures in the movement to be seized -- second only to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.

Baradar was Afghanistan's deputy defense minister when the Taliban controlled the country, according to the U.N. committee in charge of sanctions on al Qaeda and Taliban members.

In recent years, he has been a senior military commander and a member of the Taliban's governing Quetta Council, the committee said.

He has been "very much in control of the military operation in Afghanistan, responsible for appointing the commanders" on the ground, said M.J. Gohel, executive director of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, a think tank focusing on security.

"Baradar is known to have had a very close relationship with Osama bin Laden in the past," Gohel said. "If anyone would know where the senior leaders are of al Qaeda and the Taliban, then Baradar is someone who would be privy to that kind of information."

Afghanistan Crossroads blog: More on Baradar and the Taliban

It was critical to keep his capture secret at first, Gohel said. It is not clear exactly when he was detained in the Pakistani city of Karachi.

But Reva Bhalla, director of analysis at the Stratfor think tank, said she doubted he could lead the CIA straight to those who are most wanted.

"It's not like you have one guy, and that immediately opens the door to everyone else," she said, adding that the Taliban guard information carefully because the militant group knows its members could be captured.

Baradar was cagey about his contacts with his superior in an interview that Newsweek magazine said it conducted with him by e-mail last year.

Asked if he was "in direct contact with Mullah Omar," he responded, "Continuous contacts are not risk-free because of the situation. [But we] get his advice on important topics."

He appeared to consider the possibility of breaking ties between the Taliban and al Qaeda if it would get the Americans out of Afghanistan.

"Our decisions are made on the basis of our national interests," Baradar said, according to Newsweek.

He could be replaced by a more radical figure, said Rand Corp. analyst Arturo Munoz.

"Mullah Zakir is actually notorious because he was in Guantanamo for six years, and then he was released and immediately returned to Afghanistan and rejoined the Taliban," Munoz said.

"He left Guantanamo very much more radicalized, and I think Mullah Zakir is actually much more radical than Mullah Baradar, and much more dogmatic and much more in the al Qaeda mindset."

Stratfor's Bhalla said the capture could be important for what it shows about U.S.-Pakistani ties, regardless of its effects on the battlefield or the hunt for bin Laden.

"It's hard to believe that this will lead to this huge intelligence coup, but if the Pakistanis are shifting their mode of cooperating [with the United States] that is significant," Bhalla said.

"Pakistan didn't do this for free -- they are going to be asking for some very concrete concessions" from the United States, she said.

She noted reports that Baradar represented Omar in secret negotiations brokered by Saudi Arabia.

"Baradar is one of the main mediators," she said.

Pakistan's cooperation with the U.S. in capturing him may be its way of telling Washington to deal with Islamabad -- not Saudi Arabia -- if it wants to negotiate with the Afghan Taliban, she said.

"The Saudis have been very involved in back-channel talks, and Pakistan wants to show it is the only one that has the real leverage and intelligence to wield carrots and sticks," she said.

It is not clear that the Saudi-brokered talks are still going on.

"The Taliban leadership through Mullah Baradar engaged with the Saudis by conducting talks with Saudi intelligence chief, Muqrin," Mehlaqa Samdani of the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote last week.

"These talks came to

Question: Who is in control of military operations in Afghanistan?

Question: who is mullah abdul ghani baradar?

Question: Who was captured in Pakistan?

Question: Who has had a close relationship with Osama bin Laden?

Question: Who controls the military operation in Afghanistan?

Answer: Mullah

Answer: the Afghan Taliban commander

Answer: Mullah

Answer: "Baradar

Answer: Mullah

Summary:
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in control of military operation in Afghanistan, experts say .
Afghan Taliban's second-in-command reportedly captured in Pakistan .
Baradar has had close relationship with Osama bin Laden, analysts say .
Capture may suggest change in Pakistan's cooperation with U.S., some experts say .


(CNN) -- Multiple Oscar winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" has brought the plight of India's slum dwellers to the rest of the world. But up to a million slum dwellers in the economic capital Mumbai are set for upheaval as the city is poised for a radical makeover

Dharavi, where parts of "Slumdog Millionaire" were filmed, is one of the largest slums in the world.

Five years after the regional government announced its intention to redevelop Dharavi, the vast Mumbai slum where parts of "Slumdog Millionaire" were filmed, developers are finally submitting their blueprints for the project.

Nineteen consortiums from around the world are vying to redevelop the 500-plus acres of land occupied by Dharavi and the bulldozers could move in within six months.

The scheme is the brainchild of Mukesh Mehta, an Indian architect who made his name in the U.S. His vision is to use private money to redevelop the slum and turn Mumbai into an international business destination.

"If effectively designed and well planned Dharavi could be not very different from London's Canary Wharf. If we plan creatively and bring in the best architects in the world we could create a new language of architecture and buildings for Mumbai," he told CNN.

What's novel about Mehta's plan is that rather than seeing a need to entice developers into slum regeneration, he views the land as a resource that developers will pay handsomely to get their hands on.

The plan is for developers to demolish the slum and build apartments on the site, which will be given free of charge to 57,000 families currently living in Dharavi. The incentive? For every 100 sq ft of apartment space the developers give away, they will get to build 133 sq ft of commercial space, which they can sell at market rates.

Back in 1997, it was Mehta who realized that Dharavi's location made it an asset. In the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is connected by all three of the city's railway lines.

The two highways that link Mumbai to the rest of India both start nearby and just half a kilometer away is the Bandra Kurla complex, Mumbai's emerging financial hub, where land prices are astronomical.

Mehta estimates that the government could end up making $2 to $3 billion, the developers stand to make huge profits and Dharavi's residents will get real homes with running water. So why has the scheme taken 12 years to get off the ground?

Part of the problem is the word 'slum.' Dharavi is terribly overcrowded, with a chronic lack of clean water and a dearth of toilets. Sewage runs freely and the stench of feces is ever present.

But there is a real sense of community, the streets are buzzing with activity and thriving cottage industries, such as pottery and recycling workshops, operate from the ground floor of people's homes.

"The Dharavi redevelopment should not be thought of as just a housing project. Almost every house is involved with some kind of economic activity," says Sundar Burra, an advisor to the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Entrees, which has been campaigning for years to ensure Dharavi's residents don't lose out in the redevelopment.

Burra says it is essential that residents can continue to work from their homes in the new Dharavi, or they won't be able to afford the maintenance costs of their new apartments.

"If this is not considered, people will sell and the area will become gentrified. Even though new housing stock will be added to the city, the people for whom it is meant will not be able to benefit," he told CNN.

In June 2007, some 15,000 Dharavi residents marched against the proposals, which they felt benefited developers at their expense.

Mehta says planners have been listening to people's concerns. The new apartment buildings will incorporate communal spaces where residents can carry on their trades and thousands of businesses currently operating illegally in Dharavi will be legalized.

Following objections from residents, the floor space allocated to each family has been increased from 225 sq ft to 300 sq ft.

But not everyone in Dharavi stands to benefit. Many residents lease

Question:
how many families will be rehoused?
what its one of the biggest slums?
What is Dharavi?

Answer: 57,000

Answer: Dharavi,

Answer: vast Mumbai slum

Summary:
Dharavi, in the heart of Mumbai, is one of the biggest slums in the world .
The massive redevelopment of Dharavi could begin within six months .
57,000 families will be rehoused on site, but many others will have to move on .
Scheme is "a model that can be used to rehabilitate slums around the world"


(CNN) -- Mumbai is extreme India. In this booming metropolis all the wealth, inequalities, colors, flavors and passions of India are magnified to an almost unbearable degree.

For many Indians, Mumbai is the place where dreams can come true.

Somewhere between 13 and 20 million people are squeezed into the city that is India's leading financial and industrial center and the home of the Bollywood movie.

For countless migrants from all over the country, be they business school graduates, aspiring actors or destitute laborers, Mumbai is the place where dreams can come true.

Those who like to think of India as a land of tradition and mystery would be shocked by the way modern Mumbai has embraced western consumerism. In Mumbai the rigidities of India's traditional caste system are being replaced by a kind of brutal meritocracy in which the winners become extraordinarily rich and the losers struggle for survival.

While Mumbai is fearlessly embracing modernity, minting millionaires and erecting skyscrapers, its infrastructure is hopelessly outdated and creaking under the weight of the city's ever-expanding population.

Mumbai's road traffic is legendary -- a chaotic melange of cars, mopeds, motorized rickshaws and red double-decker buses, seemingly fused together in a writhing, gridlocked mass.

All big cities have deprived areas, but in Mumbai the deprivation is impossible to avoid. Up to half of Mumbai's residents live in slums, about a million in the shacks of Dharavi, the biggest slum in Asia. In these cities within a city children play next to the sewers that run through the streets, whole families often live in a single room and clean water is scarce.

Yet while the slums can be grindingly poor, they are also buzzing with activity. Many residents of Dharavi work in cottage industries and in the thriving recycling trade, and their biggest threats are the annual monsoon floods and the developers eager to clear the slum in order to exploit the prime real estate it occupies.

For outsiders, the contrast between rich and poor can be jarring, but Mumbaikars have learned to live with adversity.

While the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008 horrified the world, the killings were tragically familiar to those living in a city where hundreds have been killed by terrorists over the last 15 years and religious and social tensions simmer beneath the surface.

Yet, despite its very visible problems, Mumbai simply will not be denied. Constantly growing in population and wealth, Mumbai is a world-class city when it comes to culture, commerce and consumption. Mumbaikars are incredibly enterprising and their ability to bounce back from tragedy is testimony to their resourcefulness and resilience.

Danny Boyle, director of award-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire," set and filmed in Mumbai, said of the city, "Despite all that has happened there recently it is a city moving towards happiness.

"You have these incredible extremes but it feels like there's a destiny that binds it all together."

Question: Where do half of its residents live?

Question: Where is consumerism being embraced?

Question: Where do up to half the residents live?

Question: Which city has been the target of terrorist attacks?

Question: What has Mumbai suffered in recent years?

Question: What is Mumbai embracing?

Question: Which city is fearlessly embracing modernity?

Question: How many of Mumbai's residents live in slums?

Answer: in slums,

Answer: Mumbai

Answer: slums,

Answer: Mumbai

Answer: religious and social tensions

Answer: western consumerism.

Answer: Mumbai

Answer: Up to half

Summary:
Mumbai is fearlessly embracing modernity and western consumerism .
Despite the city's growing wealth, up to half of its residents live in slums .
Mumbai has been the target of numerous terrorist attacks in recent years .
Mumbaikers are resilient and the city is "moving towards happiness"


(CNN) -- Muslims around the world woke up Sunday and welcomed the end of a long month of fasting with hearty greetings of "Eid Mubarak," or happy festivities. Egyptian women perform the Eid al-Fitr dawn prayer at a stadium in Mansura, 120 km north of Cairo. The faithful were ushering in Eid al-Fitr -- three days of celebrations that Muslims mark with joyous community prayers, acts of charity, visits from far-flung relatives, gift-giving and elaborate feasts. "Think Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's -- all rolled into one. It's that huge for us," said Sajjad Aziz of Hoboken, New Jersey. Islam follows a lunar calendar, and the timing of Eid al-Fitr varies around the world depending on when the crescent of a new moon is sighted. So, while most countries -- including the United States -- observed Eid on Sunday, some will begin their celebrations on Monday. The night before Eid, entire communities gather on rooftops, scanning the sky with giddy anticipation. "It only needs one sighting of the moon in the whole country, and the whole nation erupts in cheers," said Qazi Arif, 35, of Sirajgong, Bangladesh. "It's a divine feeling, hard to describe." Eid al-Fitr bids goodbye to Ramadan -- a month of dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks and other sensual pleasures. Muslims believe the Quran, the religion's holy book, was revealed to Prophet Muhammad during Ramadan more than 1,400 years ago. The Eid is one of two major holidays in Islam, alongside another called Eid al-Adha. The latter commemorates the prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, Ishmael, for God. On the morning of Eid, Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers that are often held in open fields to accommodate crowds too big to contain in mosques. Those who can afford it donate a small percentage of their possession or its equivalent to the poor and needy so they too can avail themselves for the celebrations. Feasts await at every house. "It's a festival principally about community. We're even asked to take a different route when we walk back from prayers so that we can meet different sets of people to greet and celebrate with," said Wasim Iqbal of Karachi, Pakistan. For Muslims in North America -- and countries where they are the minority -- Eid is a more subdued affair. "If you have family close by, then you can kind of capture the mood that you remember from back home," said Abdallah Gamal, a native of Egypt who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. "But it's not the same." Because the U.S. Census does not ask about religious affiliation, it is difficult to gauge the Muslim population in the United States. The Pew Muslim American study conducted two years ago estimated it at 2.5 million, while the Council on American-Islamic Relations places it as high as 6 million. On Saturday, both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered greetings to American Muslims. "We know there is more than unites peoples of faith than divides us," Clinton said. "So as Ramadan draws to a close, let us hold on to that spirit of community throughout the year to achieve our common goals of peace, prosperity and stability." It is a message that Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, also shared during Eid prayers when he called on the Taliban to join the peace process in his war-weary country. The day wasn't one of universal comity, however. In Yemen, the government and rebels accused each other Saturday of breaking a cease-fire they both asked for to commemorate Eid. And Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei used his Eid sermon to launch another volley at the country's arch-rival Israel and at Western powers. "We're not quite there, I'll will admit," said Mehreen Ali of Boston, Massachusetts. "But have you seen an Eid prayer? Rows and

Question: What event marks the end of Ramadan?

Question: What is Ramadan?

Question: What do Muslins do on the morning of Eid?

Question: What marks end of Ramadan?

Question: What did Barack Obama offer on Saturday?

Question: Timing of Eid varies around world depending on what?

Question: What political figure offered greetings to American Muslims?

Question: What do Muslims do on the morning of Eid?

Question: On Saturday Barack Obama offered greetings to which Muslims?

Question: What marks the end of Ramadan?

Question: What varies around the world?

Question: When do Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers?

Question: What marks end of Ramadan?

Answer: "Eid Mubarak," or happy festivities.

Answer: a month of dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks and other sensual pleasures.

Answer: Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers

Answer: "Eid Mubarak,"

Answer: greetings to American Muslims.

Answer: when the crescent of a new moon is sighted.

Answer: President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Answer: community prayers, acts of charity, visits from far-flung relatives, gift-giving

Answer: American

Answer: "Eid Mubarak," or happy festivities.

Answer: the timing of Eid al-Fitr

Answer: On the morning of Eid,

Answer: one sighting of the moon

Summary:
Eid al-Fitr marks end of Ramadan -- dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks .
Timing of Eid varies around world depending on when crescent of new moon sighted .
On the morning of Eid, Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers .
On Saturday Barack Obama offered greetings to American Muslims .


(CNN) -- Muslims in Switzerland are responding with shock and outrage after a pig carcass and severed swine heads were discovered buried at the site of a proposed mosque.

Police in the town of Grenchen uncovered the pigs Friday after they received an anonymous message claiming that someone had buried the body parts and spilled 120 liters of blood from the animals in an effort to desecrate the ground to halt the construction of the mosque.

Pork and pork byproducts are haram, or forbidden, in Islam.

The unsigned flier, written in German, says "This operation was done (conducted) to protest against the growing expansion of Islam in Switzerland," and says that a similar desecration in Spain earlier halted another mosque construction project.

Thomas Suber, chief of the Solothurn Canton police, told CNN by phone that there were no suspects currently, but that a full investigation is under way.

"We can't say yet it is a hate crime in those words, but it could have been done to stop the mosque," said Suber.

Suber said that whoever is responsible may be brought up on environmental pollution charges.

The police chief says that veterinary health officials have been called in to find if pig's blood has in fact been spilled, and that charges may be filed over illegal dumping of animal parts in addition to other potential criminal charges.

But for Muslims in Switzerland, it's just the latest sign that they are being victimized by some in the far right.

Abdel Azziz Qaasim Illi, spokesman for Switzerland's Central Islamic Council said the deed "crossed a line" that had already been pushed against Muslims since a popular referendum in 2009 banned the construction of new minarets.

"Since the ban on minarets there's been an increase in Islamophobia and Islamophobic events, so it was not really surprising" said Illi. "But it is an escalation in Switzerland because this is a peaceful country where Christians and Muslims have all been living together... and we are a bit afraid this may increase."

There are an estimated 500,000 Muslims in Switzerland, out of a population of more than 7 million says Illi, who admitted that the population is rising but that most Swiss Muslims were immigrants from Albania and elsewhere in the Balkans, where there is a tradition of moderate Islam.

The property had been purchased by the local Muslim community several years ago from a Swiss far right political activist. The man claimed that he had not been informed that it would be used for a mosque and had fought the sale in court, before ultimately losing his civil case recently allowing construction to go forward.

"We can just wait for the next rain or snowfall to cleanse the ground, so we do not fear from this side anything," said Illi.

"But on the other hand it's an emotional thing, it means that there are actually people in this society who deny the right of Muslims when it comes to a mosque in Switzerland and this is something that hurts us."

Question: Who have been living together?

Question: What has been uncovered by the Police of Grenchen?

Question: Is Police has been able to confirm that was hate crime?

Question: where is an escalation?

Question: What imam says about these fresh confrontations?

Question: What was the act a protest against?

Answer: Christians and Muslims

Answer: the pigs

Answer: "We can't say yet it is a

Answer: Switzerland

Answer: the deed "crossed a line" that had already been pushed against Muslims since a popular referendum in 2009 banned the construction of new minarets.

Answer: growing expansion of Islam in Switzerland,"

Summary:
Police in the town of Grenchen uncovered the pigs Friday .
"We can't say yet it is a hate crime in those words," police chief says .
An unsigned flier said the act was a "protest against the growing expansion of Islam in Switzerland"
"It is an escalation" in Switzerland, "where Christians and Muslims have all been living together," imam says .


(CNN) -- Muzak, the company that put pop, string-filled arrangements of rock songs in your elevator, filed bankruptcy papers Tuesday after it missed a $105 million payment to creditors. The Muzak company is best known for background music piped into places such as elevators. The pipeline of easy listening will continue to flow as Muzak restructures its debt during the Chapter 11 process, the company said. "Muzak is a solid business with an outstanding customer base, but we are burdened with substantial debt obligations established over a decade ago," Muzak CEO Stephen Villa said. Muzak's cash flows doubled in the last three years, Villa said, "demonstrating that our business continues to perform well even in today's challenging environment." Along with its ubiquitous elevator offerings, Muzak and its 14 affiliates -- all privately owned -- produce on-hold messages and install sound systems, digital signs and drive-thru systems for retail businesses. Bankruptcy documents showed Muzak owes its largest creditor -- U.S. Bank, as indentured trustee -- about $370 million, nearly all of it due this year. Muzak spokeswoman Meaghan Repko said the filing was voluntary and in cooperation with the creditors. The weakened global economy was not a factor, she said, noting the company's profits have been rising in recent years. The Chapter 11 protections will allow Muzak time to restructure the debt, which was incurred a decade ago, she said.

Question: what was the name of the musical material

Question: CEO said the company has substantial what?

Question: What sort of musical material does Muzak create?

Question: How much was the missed payment to creditors

Question: how much did they miss

Question: who says cash flow is up?

Question: what did company misses to creditors?

Question: what did the ceo say

Answer: Muzak

Answer: debt obligations

Answer: pop, string-filled arrangements of rock songs in your elevator,

Answer: $105 million

Answer: a $105 million payment

Answer: Muzak CEO Stephen Villa

Answer: missed a $105 million payment

Answer: "Muzak is a solid business with an outstanding customer base, but we are burdened with substantial debt obligations established over a decade ago,"

Summary:
Muzak creates musical material often called "elevator music"
Company missed $105 million payment to creditors .
Cash flow is up, says CEO, but company has "substantial debt obligations"


(CNN) -- My eyes stung, I was coughing, my nose was running. Along with cameraman David Hawley and freelance producer Kareem Khadder, I had just been tear-gassed -- not for the first time last Friday -- during a day-long clash between Palestinian kids and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Na'alin, on the West Bank.

An Israeli soldier confronts Palestinian protesters during a demonstration Friday in the West Bank village of Jayyus.

We had gone there to gauge the Palestinian view of Tuesday's Israeli elections. Na'alin, and many other towns and villages like it in the West Bank, are in the forefront of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Here, it all comes down to the most basic element in the century-old conflict: control of the land.

Na'alin is an old town, with factories and workshops, surrounded by olive groves. But in recent years neighboring Israeli settlements, built since the June 1967 war, have increasingly encroached on Na'alin's farmland, and Israel, on grounds of security, has built its security barrier around the town.

As a result, Na'alin residents say they have lost access to much of their land, their water sources, in short their livelihood. Beginning two years ago, every Friday they hold protests against Israel's settlement expansion and barrier building.

Most Na'alin residents are not ideological hotheads; before the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in September 2000, many worked in Israel. Most are still fluent in Hebrew and do business with Israelis looking for a good deal on car repairs and other services.

For that reason I thought Na'alin would be a good place to see what Palestinians were thinking. What I heard was universal pessimism.

No one I spoke with expressed the slightest hope that any of the leading candidates --Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, Kadima's Tzipi Livni, Israel Beitenu's Avigdor Lieberman and Labour's Ehud Barak -- would do anything to remove the settlements that are slowly closing in on Na'alin.

As we sheltered from the tear gas behind a house, Na'alin resident Hani Khawaja told me, "I don't expect anything to come out of the elections that will please the Palestinians. Just killings, expulsions and land confiscations."

Another man, Ayub Srour, had a slightly different approach. He prefers Israeli leaders to be honest about their intentions, and not raise hopes only to dash them later. He wants Likud leader and long-time hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu to win. "At least he's honest. He says he'll expel us, and he will expel us. He says he's slaughter us, and he will slaughter us."

I've covered almost every Israeli election since 1996. With each election, the Palestinian feeling of despair and hopelessness only deepens.

Since the last election in the spring of 2006, Palestinians have seen Israel and Hezbollah go to war, West Bank settlements continue to expand, Hamas and Fatah fight it out in Gaza with Hamas taking control in June 2007.

They've also seen a series of Israeli incursions into Gaza, culminating recently in the 22-day Israeli offensive that left large parts of the strip in ruins.

Meanwhile many Palestinians say their leadership -- often described as moderate and pro-western -- in Ramallah is incapable of reversing the trend of settlement expansion.

The same leadership has been unable to convince Israel to remove few of the hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints that make travelling around the West Bank a test of patience and endurance.

In short, when Palestinians look back over the last 15 years since the Oslo Accords were signed, they've seen their lot only go from bad to worse.

As a result, more and more Palestinians are convinced the only way to beat the Israelis is to join them, to discard failed attempts at creating a Palestinian state in an ever smaller, ever more economically unviable territory, and go for what is known as the one-state solution.

That would mean Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza relinquishing their dream of an independent Palestinian state, and instead insisting on equal rights in the territory between the Jordan River

Question: When will Israel vote after election campaign?

Question: What do Israelis oppose?

Question: Who votes Tuesday?

Question: where is west bank town?

Question: Where were moods of universal pessimism found?

Answer: Tuesday's

Answer: control of the land.

Answer: Israel

Answer: Na'alin, on the

Answer: Na'alin

Summary:
CNN correspondent finds moods of universal pessimism in West Bank town .
Israel votes Tuesday after election campaign dominated by the country's right .
More and more Palestinians see "one-state solution" as only way forward .
Israelis oppose one-state solution for fear Palestinians would be majority .


(CNN) -- My eyes stung, I was coughing, my nose was running. Along with cameraman David Hawley and freelance producer Kareem Khadder, I had just been tear-gassed -- not for the first time last Friday -- during a day-long clash between Palestinian kids and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Na'alin, on the West Bank. An Israeli soldier confronts Palestinian protesters during a demonstration Friday in the West Bank village of Jayyus. We had gone there to gauge the Palestinian view of Tuesday's Israeli elections. Na'alin, and many other towns and villages like it in the West Bank, are in the forefront of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Here, it all comes down to the most basic element in the century-old conflict: control of the land. Na'alin is an old town, with factories and workshops, surrounded by olive groves. But in recent years neighboring Israeli settlements, built since the June 1967 war, have increasingly encroached on Na'alin's farmland, and Israel, on grounds of security, has built its security barrier around the town. As a result, Na'alin residents say they have lost access to much of their land, their water sources, in short their livelihood. Beginning two years ago, every Friday they hold protests against Israel's settlement expansion and barrier building. Most Na'alin residents are not ideological hotheads; before the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in September 2000, many worked in Israel. Most are still fluent in Hebrew and do business with Israelis looking for a good deal on car repairs and other services. For that reason I thought Na'alin would be a good place to see what Palestinians were thinking. What I heard was universal pessimism. No one I spoke with expressed the slightest hope that any of the leading candidates --Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, Kadima's Tzipi Livni, Israel Beitenu's Avigdor Lieberman and Labour's Ehud Barak -- would do anything to remove the settlements that are slowly closing in on Na'alin. As we sheltered from the tear gas behind a house, Na'alin resident Hani Khawaja told me, "I don't expect anything to come out of the elections that will please the Palestinians. Just killings, expulsions and land confiscations." Another man, Ayub Srour, had a slightly different approach. He prefers Israeli leaders to be honest about their intentions, and not raise hopes only to dash them later. He wants Likud leader and long-time hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu to win. "At least he's honest. He says he'll expel us, and he will expel us. He says he's slaughter us, and he will slaughter us." I've covered almost every Israeli election since 1996. With each election, the Palestinian feeling of despair and hopelessness only deepens. Since the last election in the spring of 2006, Palestinians have seen Israel and Hezbollah go to war, West Bank settlements continue to expand, Hamas and Fatah fight it out in Gaza with Hamas taking control in June 2007. They've also seen a series of Israeli incursions into Gaza, culminating recently in the 22-day Israeli offensive that left large parts of the strip in ruins. Meanwhile many Palestinians say their leadership -- often described as moderate and pro-western -- in Ramallah is incapable of reversing the trend of settlement expansion. The same leadership has been unable to convince Israel to remove few of the hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints that make travelling around the West Bank a test of patience and endurance. In short, when Palestinians look back over the last 15 years since the Oslo Accords were signed, they've seen their lot only go from bad to worse. As a result, more and more Palestinians are convinced the only way to beat the Israelis is to join them, to discard failed attempts at creating a Palestinian state in an ever smaller, ever more economically unviable territory, and go for what is known as the one-state solution. That would mean Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza relinquishing their dream of an independent Palestinian state, and instead insisting on equal rights in the territory between the Jordan River

Question:
When did Israel vote?
Who does Israel oppose?
What was the mood in West Bank town?

Answer: Tuesday's

Answer: the Palestinians.

Answer: universal pessimism.


(CNN) -- My favorite part of academic debate has always been the cross-examination period. We got a little piece of that (but not enough) in the Republican presidential debate Tuesday hosted by Bloomberg and the Washington Post. The presidential hopefuls were allowed to ask an opponent one question.

Mitt Romney faced seven opponents, and four of them directed their questions at him because he is seen as the frontrunner. While this can be a good idea in theory to try and trip up the frontrunner, it actually helped Romney. The only two people to get significant air time in the first hour were Romney and Herman Cain. So by asking Romney more questions, the other candidates gave him even more time to present his case to the public.

The strategy of the other candidates might have worked if he was on the ropes or was stumbling in the debate, but Romney had not given his opponents any obvious openings. In his answers to the four questions from his opponents, Romney did well.

His answer to Newt Gingrich's question was one of Romney's strongest moments of the debate when he highlighted how his economic plan would help the middle class. He underscored that the middle class has been hit the hardest by the economic downturn, so any presidential candidate should begin by focusing on helping them.

Herman Cain is pretty clever in these exchanges. You can tell he has a few lines that are well rehearsed. In fact, when it was his turn to ask a question, I actually thought he might try to ask himself the question. That way he could insert 9-9-9 into both a question and an answer (which would be a feat even for him).

Instead he asked Romney if he could list off all 59 points of his plan. This question was designed to showcase the simplicity of Cain's plan in comparison. The question was effective enough, but might have backfired when Romney used it to his advantage to say that simple answers are oftentimes inadequate.

Romney took a unique approach. His question was directed at Michele Bachmann. On its face, it seems like a puzzling approach, but I actually like the strategy. It gave air time to someone Romney does not think will be a factor, thereby taking time away from his main rivals.

Plus, he simply asked Bachmann how she could help the economy by putting people to work, which guided her answer away from attacking Romney in her free time. It was a smart choice.

Three of the candidates used their questions to also make solid points. Ron Paul asked Cain about his time spent chairing a Federal Reserve Bank, which is a negative with Paul. Paul's question made the argument that he was correct all along about not trusting the Federal Reserve. Michele Bachmann used her question to attack Rick Perry and remind everyone that she has always been a conservative while Perry used to be a Democrat working for Al Gore.

Rick Santorum also asked Cain a question that made an argument. As part of his question, he attacked the 9-9-9 plan by asking the audience who wanted to pay a 9% sales tax. Santorum then asked the audience if they believed the federal government would stick to a 9% income tax. He used their silence to question and attack Cain.

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Rick Perry doesn't seem to get any part of these debates right, and that included the section where he was allowed to ask any other candidate a question. Perry asked Romney a question about health care, but he failed to have depth in his question or attack.

Perry failed to make a positive point about his own health care policy and forgot that in answering the question, Romney would get to freely blast away at the lack of health care for children in Perry's home state of Texas. This was a perfect example of the person answering the questions turning it against the questioner. As is becoming a trend in these debates, Perry came out on the wrong end of that exchange.

Presidential candidates should get to ask each other more questions in the future. Such an approach would

Question:
What did Romney handle?
what did Graham say about Cain
what should the candidates do
What did Todd say?

Answer: four questions from his opponents,

Answer: is pretty clever in these exchanges.

Answer: begin by focusing on helping them.

Answer: Rick Perry doesn't seem to get any part of these debates right,

Summary:
Todd Graham: Candidates directed their questions at front-runner Romney .
He says Romney handled the questions deftly .
Graham says Cain seems well prepared while Perry fares poorly .
He says candidates should get to ask each other more questions in the future .


(CNN) -- My taxi driver is telling me about his meal last night. His name is William. He ate whale. Melting world: mountainous icebergs in Greeland's Sermilik Fjord. "Delicious," he says, kissing the tips of his fingers on one hand, making the universal sign for good tasting food. William tells me he went out on a boat with some friends a few days ago and shot the whale. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Welcome to Greenland. On this remote but enormous island subsistence whale hunting is allowed. This was just the memorable start to an extraordinary journey. Cameraman Neil Bennett and I had traveled to the small town of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland to meet up with the Arctic Sunrise, a ship belonging to the environmental group Greenpeace. Read Neil's blog on filming in challenging conditions The 34-year-old icebreaker and its crew are on a three month expedition around Greenland's coast. They say their mission is to help scientists working in the region and to publicize the environmental changes taking place here. We join the Arctic Sunrise as it moves slowly up Sermilik Fjord. This is simply the most beautiful place I've ever seen. It's an inky blue body of water thick with floating, ancient ice. Some of the icebergs are mountainous. They all come from the Greenland ice sheet, a vast mass of frozen fresh water, hundreds of miles across and up to two miles thick.  View the gallery of the stunning landscape » Over the next four days we observe independent scientists working to understand why the ice sheet is melting so rapidly. We fly over and land on Helheim Glacier, a major outlet for the ice sheet which has sped up dramatically in the last decade. We accompany oceanographers in inflatable boats as they collect data on the warming water currents in the fjord. All this research, they say, points to sea levels rising beyond current predictions. There are still those who question humankind's role in the warming of the Earth's climate, but these scientists are not among them. "Things could be very bad," glaciologist Dr Gordon Hamilton tells me. "If we don't start to do something about it now we'll very quickly reach a tipping point from which there'll be no return. And the consequences for society as a whole would be catastrophic." Joining Greenpeace on this expedition was a difficult decision for CNN. Does it compromise our editorial independence on what can still be a highly divisive issue? In my experience it's no different to embedding with soldiers on one side of a military conflict. I've traveled with American soldiers in Iraq and Russian soldiers in Georgia. It enables journalists to access newsworthy locations and people that we couldn't get to otherwise, either practically or safely. And the stories told can still be balanced and fair. Traveling with Greenpeace allowed us to record powerful images of Greenland's accelerating melt. And we met independent scientists who believe the world must act boldly to slow down change that science is struggling to keep pace with.

Question: What does research of warming water in Sermilik Fjord point to?

Question: With whom did CNN travel to Greenland?

Question: Where is the Helheim Glacier?

Question: Where did Greenpeace take CNN?

Question: Who traveled with Greenpeace?

Answer: sea levels rising beyond current predictions.

Answer: Cameraman Neil Bennett

Answer: Greenland

Answer: Greenland's coast.

Answer: Cameraman Neil Bennett

Summary:
CNN traveled with Greenpeace to Greenland on their study of the region .
Flow of Helheim Glacier has sped up dramatically in last decade .
Research of warming water in Sermilik Fjord points to higher sea-level rise .


(CNN) -- Myanmar is facing a food shortage largely due to last year's deadly Cyclone Nargis, which destroyed nearly all the rice crops in the fertile Ayeyarwaddy delta, the United Nations said Wednesday. A young farmer ploughs a field in preparation to grow rice in Dalla, about 20 kms south of Yangon on July 9, 2008. Rice production in the cyclone-affected areas of Ayeyarwaddy and Yangon, the largest city and former capital of Myanmar, is expected to be 50 percent of last year's, according to the report issued by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP). Rat infestation in western's Myanmar's Chin State has also contributed to the food shortage, the report says. "Access to food remains the critical challenge for the poorest people and for vulnerable populations in remote areas of Myanmar," Chris Kaye, WFP's representative for Myanmar, said in a written statement. "And for many of those affected by Cyclone Nargis, who are engaged in rebuilding their lives and livelihoods, the limited delta harvest means they will continue to rely on assistance to meet their food needs."  Watch Paul Risley of the WFP discuss the food crisis » Although rice production is expected to be adequate this year because of strong crops in other areas of the country, access to food remains a serious challenge to Myanmar's poor, especially in the delta region, the report said. More than 5 million people fall below the food poverty line and emergency food aid is still needed in cyclone-affected areas, the report said. The cyclone also hurt the cattle and fishing industries, contributing to the food crisis. "Humanitarian assistance has not restored the production capacity of small to medium-sized farms," He Changchui, FAO's Asia-Pacific regional chief, said in a written statement. "Farmers and fishers are unlikely to self-finance their needs this year, thus entering into a spiral of pauperization of the delta."

Question: What country is facing a food shortage?

Question: What section of Myanmar society has least access to food?

Question: What is the name of the Cyclone?

Question: What natural event nearly destroyed all the rice crops?

Question: What food did the Cyclone destroy?

Question: Rice production is expected to be what compared to last years?

Question: Myanmar is facing food shortages for what reason?

Question: What destroyed nearly all the rice crops?

Answer: Myanmar

Answer: Ayeyarwaddy delta,

Answer: Nargis,

Answer: Cyclone Nargis,

Answer: rice crops

Answer: 50 percent of

Answer: last year's deadly Cyclone Nargis,

Answer: Cyclone Nargis,

Summary:
Myanmar is facing a food shortage largely due to last year's deadly Cyclone Nargis .
Cyclone destroyed nearly all the rice crops in the fertile Ayeyarwaddy delta .
Rice production in the cyclone-affected areas expected to be half of last year's .
Despite adequate crops this year, food access remains a problem for the poor .


(CNN) -- Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "ready to cooperate" with the government and is committed to pursuing a dialogue with the ruling junta, according to a statement the United Nations' special envoy to Myanmar read Thursday on her behalf. Activists display a portrait of detained democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in Myanmar. "It is my duty to give constant and serious considerations to the interests and opinions of as broad a range of political organizations and forces as possible," Ibrahim Gambari said, reading the statement from Suu Kyi. On Friday Suu Kyi was able to meet with three executive members of her National League for Democracy and a party spokesman -- the first time they have met in more than three years. Members of her party said Suu Kyi was "very optimistic" about prospects of the process for reconciliation, the Associated Press reported. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has said she will continue to be "guided by the policies and wishes" of the opposition political party she heads -- the National League for Democracy. In the statement, Suu Kyi also welcomed the appointment of Aung Kyi as the minister of relations, a position the junta created last month to be a liaison between government and Suu Kyi, whom the junta has under house arrest in Yangon. She has been confined to her home for the better part of almost two decades. Aung Kyi -- viewed as a moderate -- was appointed as the liaison officer amid international pressure following September's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. As many as 110 people are believed to have been killed in the violence, including 40 Buddhist monks. Video smuggled out of the country showed unarmed protesters being beaten by the military regime's security forces, and one man -- believed to be a Japanese journalist -- was shot and killed at close range. The protests were sparked by a huge fuel price increase imposed by the military government, and quickly escalated. Myanmar's military junta said in mid-October that it had detained more than 2,900 people during the crackdown. Many of them are still believed to be in custody. Suu Kyi described her October 25 meeting with the liaison officer as "constructive," said the statement read by Gambari. "I look forward to further regular discussions." Gambari said he will return this week to New York to brief U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the five-day trip to Myanmar, also called Burma. The situation in the secretive Asian nation is not what it was "a few weeks ago," said a U.N. statement released in conjunction with the end of Gambari's trip. "We now have a process going which would lead to substantive dialogue between the government and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi," the statement said. "The sooner such a dialogue can start, the better for Myanmar." During his trip, Gambari met with Myanmar's prime minister, Gen. Thein Sein, and other government officials, as well as Suu Kyi, the United Nations reported. E-mail to a friend

Question: who does suu kyi meat

Question: Who meets three executive members of her political party?

Question: what was the count of kills

Question: What number died?

Question: Who committed to pursuing a dialogue with the ruling junta?

Question: what did suu kyi do

Question: what was suu kyi's commitment

Question: what happened in the september violence

Question: who is aung san suu kyi

Answer: three executive members of her National League for Democracy and a party spokesman

Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

Answer: 110 people

Answer: 110 people

Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

Answer: meet with three executive members

Answer: pursuing a dialogue with the ruling junta,

Answer: pro-democracy demonstrations.

Answer: pro-democracy leader

Summary:
Aung San Suu Kyi says she's committed to pursuing a dialogue with the ruling junta .
Suu Kyi meets with three executive members of her political party .
Crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators set off international outrage .
As many as 110 people were killed in the September violence .


(CNN) -- Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate and who was the last of the "Jena 6" behind bars, was released from custody Thursday after a juvenile court judge set his bail at $45,000. Supporters surround Mychal Bell on Thursday after his release at the LaSalle Parish courthouse. Bell's release followed an announcement from LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, who said he would not appeal a higher court's decision moving Bell's case to juvenile court. Wearing a blue striped golf shirt and jeans, Bell walked out of the LaSalle Parish courthouse a week after an estimated 15,000-plus demonstrators marched through Jena -- a town of about 3,000 -- to protest local authorities' handling of the teens' case. "We do not condone violence of any kind, but we ask that people be given a fair and even chance at the bar of justice," the Rev. Al Sharpton said outside the courthouse. "Tonight, Mychal can go home, but Mychal is not out of the juvenile process. He goes home because a lot of people left their home and stood up for him," he said. "Let America know -- we are not fighting for the right to fight in school. We're not fighting for the right for kids to beat each other. We're fighting to say that there must be one level of justice for everybody. And you cannot have adult attempted murder for some, and a fine for others, and call that equal protection under the law. Two wrongs don't make one civil right." Demonstrators at last week's march were protesting how authorities handled the cases of Bell and five other teens accused of beating fellow student Justin Barker. Many said they were angry that the students, dubbed the Jena 6, were being treated more harshly than three white students who hung nooses from an oak tree on Jena High School property. The white students were suspended from school but did not face criminal charges. The protesters said they should have been charged with a hate crime. Bell's attorney Lewis Scott said the teen was moved from jail to a juvenile facility earlier Thursday. Walters said his decision not to appeal was based on what he believed was best for the victim in the case. "While I believe that a review would have merit ... I believe it is in the best interest of the victim and his family not to delay this matter any further and move it to its conclusion," Walters told reporters.  Watch the Rev. Al Sharpton discuss the teen's release » He said last week's march, which included Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, did not influence his decision. Bell, now 17, was the only one of the Jena 6 behind bars. His bond previously was set at $90,000. A district judge earlier this month tossed out Bell's conviction for conspiracy to commit second-degree battery, saying the matter should have been handled in juvenile court. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles, Louisiana, did the same with Bell's battery conviction in mid-September. Prosecutors originally charged all six black students accused of being involved in beating Barker with second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy. Walters reduced charges against at least four of them -- Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones and Theo Shaw -- to battery and conspiracy. Bryant Purvis awaits arraignment. Charges against Jesse Ray Beard, who was 14 at the time of the alleged crime, are unavailable because he's a juvenile. Wednesday, Gov. Kathleen Blanco announced that Louisiana State Police officers will protect the families of the Jena 6 and investigate any threats they have received. A white supremacist Web site posted the names and addresses of the six black teens after last week's march, calling on followers to "let them know justice is coming." Thursday, the FBI said it had been made aware of allegations of threats. "Threats are taken seriously, and as these investigations are ongoing we cannot comment further," said Sheila Thorne of the FBI's office in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Question: What happened in the case

Question: What was Bell's bail set at?

Question: What other number of black teens are accused?

Question: what was the charge

Answer: announcement from LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, who said he would not appeal a higher court's decision moving Bell's

Answer: $45,000.

Answer: five

Answer: second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy.

Summary:
Bell released from custody after juvenile court judge sets bail at $45,000 .
Prosecutor won't appeal ruling in Bell case .
Bell and five other black teens are accused of beating white student Justin Barker .
Beating followed white students hanging nooses from a tree on school grounds .


(CNN) -- NASA and Japan improved our world view this week, or at least our view of the world. This image using ASTER imagery shows the Himalayan glaciers in Bhutan. The American space agency and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have released a new digital topographic map of Earth that accurately portrays more of our planet than ever before. The new map consists of 1.3 million images taken by NASA's Terra satellite that have been pieced together to form a unified picture of the planet. The images were taken by a Japanese imaging instrument called the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER. "This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet made available to the world," said Woody Turner, a program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington. The map covers more than 99 percent of Earth's land mass from north of the Arctic Circle to south of the Antarctic Circle. During February 2000, space shuttle Endeavour mapped about 80 percent of the planet's surface. "The ASTER data fill in many of the voids in the shuttle mission's data, such as in very steep terrains and in some deserts," said Michael Kobrick, a shuttle project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which manages the program. "NASA is working to combine" the new data with that from the shuttle and other sources "to produce an even better global topographic map."

Question: What consists of millions of satellite images?

Question: What is the new type of map?

Question: What were images taken by?

Question: What does the map consist of?

Question: What reveals more of Earth than ever before?

Question: What took the images?

Answer: a new digital topographic map of Earth

Answer: digital topographic

Answer: NASA's Terra satellite

Answer: 1.3 million images

Answer: new digital topographic map

Answer: ASTER imagery

Summary:
New digital topographic map reveals more of Earth than ever before .
Images were taken by Japanese imaging instrument on NASA satellite .
Map consists of millions of satellite images to form unified picture of planet .


(CNN) -- NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station. The discovery was announced by project scientist Anthony Colaprete at a midday news conference. "I'm here today to tell you that indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit; we found a significant amount" -- about a dozen, two-gallon bucketfuls, he said, holding up several white plastic containers. The find is based on preliminary data collected when the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, intentionally crashed October 9 into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus crater near the moon's south pole. After the satellite struck, a rocket flew through the debris cloud, measuring the amount of water and providing a host of other data, Colaprete said. The project team concentrated on data from the satellite's spectrometers, which provide the best information about the presence of water, Colaprete said. A spectrometer helps identify the composition of materials by examining light they emit or absorb. Although the goal of the $79 million mission was to determine whether there is water on the moon, discoveries in other areas are expected as studies progress, Colaprete and other scientists said at the briefing at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field near San Francisco, California. "The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon," the space agency said in a written statement shortly after the briefing began. Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington, said the latest discovery also could unlock the mysteries of the solar system. He listed several options as sources for the water, including solar winds, comets, giant molecular clouds or even the moon itself through some kind of internal activity. The Earth also may have a role, Wargo said. "If the water that was formed or deposited is billions of years old, these polar cold traps could hold a key to the history and evolution of the solar system, much as an ice core sample taken on Earth reveals ancient data," NASA said in its statement. "In addition, water and other compounds represent potential resources that could sustain future lunar exploration."

Question: What did nasa say?

Question: Who is the NASA spokesman?

Question: Where was water found?

Question: What does NASA believe it found on the moon?

Answer: it had discovered water on the moon,

Answer: Michael Wargo,

Answer: on the moon,

Answer: water

Summary:
NASA: Discovery could allow for development of lunar space station .
Information comes from satellite mission to moon last month .
Spokesman: "Indeed, yes, we found water"
Discovery "opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon," agency says .


(CNN) -- NASA scientists say new data provided by twin spacecraft analyzing the sun will help them more accurately predict how so-called solar tsunamis wreak havoc on our planet.

NASA says new data on so-called solar tsunamis will help predict how they will affect our planet.

The tsunamis -- powerful explosions known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs -- produce solar cosmic rays that can interfere with technology, causing power blackouts and disrupting air traffic communications and cell phone networks.

NASA says images captured by its twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft have enabled scientists to map the tsunamis in 3D to examine their structure, velocity, mass and direction.

The solar ejections, its says, can release billions of tons of high-velocity plasma into space, producing a shockwave that generates cosmic rays which then plow into our atmosphere.

These can create the brightly-colored auroras, more commonly known as the Northern or Southern lights, but also have more damaging effects, posing particular threats to spacecraft and astronauts.

Solar physicist Angelos Vourlidas of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington said the new data from the STEREO craft -- launched into orbit in October 2006 -- will revolutionize the study of cosmic weather patterns.

"Before this unique mission, measurements and the subsequent data of a CME observed near the sun had to wait until the ejections arrived at Earth three to seven days later," he said in statement.

"Now we can see a CME from the time it leaves the solar surface until it reaches Earth and we can reconstruct the event in 3D directly from the images."

Question: What will NASA be able to map in 3D

Question: What do solar ejections do to the earth?

Question: According to NASA what will new data enable them to do?

Question: What will this data help with?

Question: What damage can solar ejections cause?.

Question: Who says new data will help with predictions?

Question: what does NASA says about tsunamis?

Question: what would help NASA to predict the effects?

Question: what Solar ejections can wreak havoc on Earth?

Question: where New data could help predict what effects?

Question: what would wreak havoc on power and radio blackouts?

Answer: the tsunamis

Answer: interfere with technology, causing power blackouts and disrupting air traffic communications and cell phone networks.

Answer: accurately predict how so-called solar tsunamis wreak havoc on our planet.

Answer: accurately predict how so-called solar tsunamis wreak havoc on our planet.

Answer: release billions of tons of high-velocity plasma into space, producing a shockwave that generates cosmic rays which then plow into our atmosphere.

Answer: scientists

Answer: wreak havoc on our planet.

Answer: new data provided by twin spacecraft analyzing the sun

Answer: coronal mass

Answer: how so-called solar tsunamis wreak havoc on our planet.

Answer: solar tsunamis

Summary:
NASA says new data will enable scientists to map solar tsunamis in 3D .
Solar ejections can wreak havoc on Earth, causing power and radio blackouts .
New data could help predict what effects the phenomena will have, NASA says .


(CNN) -- NASA will launch Space Shuttle Endeavour on February 7, which will be the first of five launches this year before the shuttle fleet is retired.

Endeavour will blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a 13-day mission to the international space station.

The mission will include three spacewalks, NASA said. The shuttle will also deliver the final U.S. portion of the space station. This portion will provide more room for crew members.

NASA plans to retire its space shuttles Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis later this year.

The space agency has been looking for places, such as museums, to house the shuttles after they are retired.

Space Shuttle Discovery will be transferred to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

The privilege of showing off a shuttle won't be cheap -- about $29 million, NASA said.

Question: When is NASA scheduled to launch Space Shuttle Endeavour?

Question: who is  scheduled to launch Space Shuttle Endeavour on February 7?

Question: How many launches will there be this year?

Question: who will deliver final U.S. portion of the international space station?

Question: What will NASA do with the shuttles once they are retired?

Question: how many launches will be in this year?

Answer: February 7,

Answer: NASA

Answer: five

Answer: Shuttle Endeavour

Answer: looking for places, such as museums, to house the

Answer: five

Summary:
This will be first of five launches this year before the shuttle fleet is retired .
NASA is scheduled to launch Space Shuttle Endeavour on February 7 .
Shuttle will deliver final U.S. portion of the international space station .
NASA has been looking for places to house the shuttles once they are retired .


(CNN) -- NASA's Kepler space telescope has already made a discovery, and its science operations aren't even officially under way yet. The planet used in the test is a giant gas planet about the size of Jupiter that orbits a star called HAT P-7. NASA scientists who put the telescope through a 10-day test after its March 6 launch said this week that Kepler is working well. Its ability to detect minute changes in light has enabled scientists to determine that a planet orbiting a distant star has an atmosphere, shows only one side to its sun and is so hot it glows. Kepler's ability to take measurements that precise at such a great distance "proves we can find Earth-size planets," William Borucki, Kepler's principal science investigator told reporters at a recent briefing. The powerful scope is looking at thousands of stars in its vision field in the Milky Way on a 3½-year mission to find planets the size of Earth and to determine how common these planets are. The planet used in the test, a giant gas planet about the size of Jupiter, orbits a star called HAT P-7 in just 2.2 days and is 26 times closer than Earth is to the sun, according to NASA. It is called an exoplanet because it orbits a star outside the solar system. Kepler detected the planet's atmosphere, demonstrating the telescope's capabilities and giving astronomers what NASA says is "only a taste of things to come." "It learned that this planet is like 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That is so hot. And it's 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit just on one side only. The other side would be closer to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, " said Sara Seager, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Kepler science team member. "This particular planet showed an unusual change in brightness," she said. "As the planet is orbiting the star, it goes through phases just as the moon goes through phases as seen from Earth." "Kepler learned something new about an old planet," she said. "The new discovery was that planet is extremely hot, very, very hot. And it's very, very hot on one side, compared to the other." Borucki compared it to "an element in your toaster or stove."

Question: What has the mission found so far?

Question: What is Kepler's mission?

Question: What has Kepler learnt about an old planet?

Question: what has it learned

Question: Who said that Kepler learned something new?

Question: what is kepler orbiting

Question: Who said "Kepler learned something new about an old planet"?

Question: What did Kepler learn?

Question: What was the mission to find?

Question: What did Kepler learn something new about?

Question: What is Kepler's mission about?

Question: How many sides of a star does a planted orbiting a distant star show?

Question: What number of sides does an orbiting planet show to the star it is orbiting.

Question: What was orbiting a star?

Answer: "It learned that this planet is like 4,000 degrees

Answer: find planets the size of Earth and to determine how common these planets are.

Answer: is like 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That is so hot. And it's 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit just on one side only. The other side would be closer to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit,

Answer: this planet is like 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Answer: Sara Seager,

Answer: a star called HAT P-7.

Answer: Sara Seager,

Answer: planet is extremely hot, very, very hot. And it's very, very hot on one side, compared to the other."

Answer: planets the size of Earth and

Answer: discovery was that planet is extremely hot, very, very hot. And it's very, very hot on one side, compared to the other."

Answer: to find planets the size of Earth and to determine how common these planets are.

Answer: only one

Answer: one

Answer: giant gas planet

Summary:
Kepler orbiting observatory beginning mission to find planets the size of Earth .
It has found that a planet orbiting a distant star shows only one side to the star .
"Kepler learned something new about an old planet," says team member .


(CNN) -- NATO and Russia have agreed to restart their military relationship, nearly a year after it had been frozen over the war in Georgia, the top NATO official said on Saturday. Russia's conflict with Georgia in August 2008 strained relations between NATO and Russia. "The NATO-Russia Council is up and running again also at the political level," said NATO Secretary- General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, speaking at a meeting of ministers in Corfu, Greece. Russia is not a member of NATO but is a member of the NATO-Russia Council, formed in 2002. It consults, coordinates, reaches joint decisions on and carries out joint action with NATO on areas such as terrorism, cooperation on Afghanistan and military exercises. Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Differences over that conflict and Russia's subsequent recognition of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia strained relations between NATO and Russia. While there are differences of opinions regarding Georgia, Scheffer said member states "share common security interests," including stability in Afghanistan, arms control, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and concerns over drug trafficking, piracy and terrorism. Scheffer said officials "are in the process of examining the current institutional structure of the NATO-Russia Council and have agreed to make it a more efficient and valuable instrument for our political dialogue and practical cooperation." Scheffer, who is completing his term as NATO head, said it is the latest time he will chair the NATO-Russia Council as well. He said he is "confident" that the council "will continue to be an important channel for dialogue and cooperation among its members in the future."

Question: what countries were involved in the war for the recognition of breakaway regions that strained relations?

Question: What did Scheffer say about member states?

Question: What strained relations?

Answer: Russia and Georgia

Answer: "share common security interests,"

Answer: Russia's conflict with Georgia

Summary:
Secretary-general: NATO-Russia Council "up and running again"
Member states "share common security interests," Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says .
Council gives NATO and Russia opportunity to consult and coordinate activities .
Russia's war with Georgia and recognition of breakaway regions strained relations .


(CNN) -- NATO will begin to scale back operations in Libya following Moammar Gadhafi's death, with the preliminary end date of October 31, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.

A formal decision on a definitive end date will be made early next week.

"We did what we said we would do and now is the time for the Libyan people to take their destiny into their own hands," Rasmussen said after meeting with officials in Brussels to determine what should happen next.

NATO forces will be on standby until the end of the month to continue to provide assistance to civilians if needed, he said, adding that, if requested by the new Libyan leadership, the international body could also help in the transition with regards to reforms to the country's defense and security sectors.

Although Gadhafi was eventually captured by Libyan fighters and apparently killed by crossfire, the seven-month-long western intervention through NATO was a key factor in his downfall.

One question is sure to come up: Has the Libya operation presented a model for future NATO missions or has it revealed the organization's limitations in terms of resources and political will?

New day for Libya, but one fraught with challenges

Within days of the U.N. Security Council's authorization of Resolution 1973, with the mandate of protecting Libya's civilian population, NATO forces were engaged in action by air and sea.

The operation relied on three main prongs -- implementing a no-fly zone, enforcing an arms embargo and taking action to protect civilians and civilian areas under threat of attack.

Since March 31, some 9,634 strike sorties, where targets are identified or hit, are among 26,000 sorties to have been conducted, NATO said Friday.

Among the targets were Gadhafi's military command centers, armored vehicles, munitions dumps and underground bunkers.

NATO confirmed on Friday that 11 pro-Gadhafi military vehicles were hit by NATO aircraft outside his stronghold of Sirte Thursday morning, after they were seen leaving the city at high speed carrying large amounts of arms and ammunition.

NATO did not know at the time of the strike that Gadhafi was in the convoy, which was targeted only because of the threat it posed to civilians, the NATO statement said -- but it later learned that Gadhafi "was in the convoy and the strike likely contributed to his capture."

Gadhafi died soon after he was seized by Libyan fighters.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that Gadhafi's death is proof of the success of the NATO alliance and the mission in Libya.

"This was not an easy effort, it involved a great deal of cooperation, a great deal of partnership. But the fact was that working together, they accomplished this mission that Gadhafi is no longer. And finally Libya belongs to the Libyan people," Panetta said while flying to Asia for a series of meetings with U.S. allies in the region.

Rasmussen similarly hailed the alliance's Libya mission as a "remarkable success," saying the operation "prevented a massacre and saved countless lives."

Gadhafi killed in crossfire after capture, Libya PM says

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told CNN's "State of the Union" program, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, that the operation had shown that the United States did not have to carry the weight of international military interventions alone.

The point, he said, "is that the NATO alliance worked like it was designed to do, burden-sharing. In total, it cost us $2 billion, no American lives lost."

And unlike other NATO operations, such as Afghanistan, where the United States has carried "the primary burden," Biden said, "this was really burden-sharing."

Pentagon spokesman George Little put the price tag for U.S. Defense Department operations in Libya as of September 30 at $1.1 billion. This included daily military operations, munitions, the drawdown of supplies and humanitarian assistance.

Britain and France also committed significant resources to the operation, as did some smaller nations, such as Norway, which provided six Norwegian F-16s in the early months of the mission

Question:
When will a decision be made?
What length has the mission been?
What did the NATO chief say?
who confirms a strike?
what NATO chief said?

Answer: early next week.

Answer: seven-month-long

Answer: will begin to scale back operations in Libya following Moammar Gadhafi's death,

Answer: NATO

Answer: will begin to scale back operations in Libya following Moammar Gadhafi's death,

Summary:
"We did what we said we would do," NATO chief says .
A decision on a definitive end date will be made next week .
NATO confirms a strike by its aircraft likely contributed to Gadhafi's capture .
Officials: Coalition forces' seven-month mission is drawing to an end .


(CNN) -- NBA players and owners did not reach a deal early Thursday on the bitter labor struggle that has postponed the basketball season, but the two sides agreed to meet again later in the day to continue with the negotiations.

NBA commissioner David Stern had said that players had until 5 p.m. Wednesday to accept the terms of a labor offer that would give players between 49% and 51% of basketball revenues. If it didn't accept the deal, the NBA would offer another proposal that would offer players 47% of basketball revenues.

Stern said he had frozen that deadline to allow negotiations to continue.

"Every day that we lose another game it causes both sides to recognize the damage," Stern told reporters.

Both sides met for about 12 hours Wednesday and early Thursday morning.

"We spent a lot of time covering all of the issues that we still have remaining, but we can't say there was significant progress made today," Fisher said.

The NBA season has been canceled through at least November 30, and the two sides are hoping they can reach a resolution before more games are called off.

Stern has said the 2010-2011 season was not profitable for most of the league's 30 owners, who want cost-cutting help from players. The league lost as much as $300 million last season, according to Stern.

One of the battles has focused on the owners' rejection of calls by the players' union for an average $7 million player salary in the sixth year of a new labor deal. The current average salary is about $5 million. Other big issues include a fight over a move by owners to gain the bigger share of revenues and whether the NBA will strengthen its salary cap.

The league's owners began a lockout of players in early July.

Question: What did Derek Fisher say?

Question: When do both sides agree to meet?

Question: Who said no significant progress had been made?

Question: who began a lockout

Question: what does dereck fisher say

Question: When did both sides agree to meet?

Question: who agre to meet thursday

Question: Who began a lockout of players in early July?

Question: When did the league's owners begin to lockout players?

Answer: "We spent a lot of time covering all of the issues that we still have remaining, but we can't

Answer: later in the day

Answer: Fisher

Answer: The league's owners

Answer: "We spent a lot of time covering all of the issues that we still have remaining, but we can't

Answer: later in the day

Answer: players and owners

Answer: league's owners

Answer: early July.

Summary:
Both sides agree to meet Thursday .
"We can't say there was significant progress made today," Derek Fisher says .
The league's owners began a lockout of players in early July .


(CNN) -- NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, accused of sexually assaulting a woman last summer, said Thursday that he is innocent. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger says there is no merit to the accusation. "Saturday was the first that I learned of her accusations," the Pittsburgh Steeler said, calling the accusation reckless, false and an attack on his family. The woman filed a civil complaint against Roethlisberger last week. "I would never, ever force myself on a woman," he said. The complaint, filed Friday in the 2nd Judicial District Court in Washoe County, Nevada, alleges that Roethlisberger sexually assaulted the woman -- an executive casino host at Harrah's Lake Tahoe -- while he was staying at the resort for a celebrity golf tournament in July 2008. Teresa Duffy of the Douglas County, Nevada, Sheriff's Department, said the department does not intend to open an investigation unless the alleged victim comes forward and tells authorities she wants them to. Roethlisberger said that he would not discuss the "civil case in the media," but that he would fight to protect his family and his reputation. Roethlisberger and eight Harrah's employees are named in the suit, which seeks at least $390,000, plus unspecified punitive damages, from the defendants. Harrah's itself is not named as a defendant. The woman said that the employees contributed to her emotional distress and that some defamed her and tried to cover up the incident. According to the complaint, on July 11, 2008, the woman was working on the 17th floor -- the same floor as Roethlisberger's room -- when Roethlisberger told her that his television and sound system were not working. He asked her to try to fix it, the complaint said. When she entered his room and deemed that the television was working, she tried to leave, but Roethlisberger blocked her way, the complaint states. He then, against her will, kissed her, groped her and sexually assaulted her, the complaint states. The woman says that in the months following the incident, she incurred emotional distress that resulted in hospitalizations that included treatment for anxiety and depression, the complaint said. Calvin Dunlap, the woman's attorney, said earlier this week that his client did not pursue criminal charges after the alleged assault because she felt discouraged when the resort's chief of security did not investigate the matter. According to the complaint, the chief told her she was "overreacting." Dunlap said the chief has "close ties to law enforcement." Of the eight employees, all but two are still employed by Harrah's, according to a spokeswoman for Harrah's Entertainment. Marybel Batjer of Harrah's declined to comment on the suit, other than to say that the alleged victim still works at Harrah's Lake Tahoe as an executive casino host. Another Harrah's Entertainment spokesman, Gary Thompson, said the company was "confident that a much different story will emerge and that the Harrah's employees will be dismissed from the lawsuit." Roethlisberger's attorney, David Cornwell, released a statement saying the charges were false. "The timing of a lawsuit and the absence of a criminal complaint and a criminal investigation are the most compelling evidence of the absence of any criminal conduct," he said. CNN's Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report.

Question: what does he do for a living?

Question: What did woman do?

Question: What did sheriff's department say?

Question: What does Roethlisberger say?

Question: What is the information given by the sheriff?

Answer: NFL

Answer: filed a civil complaint against Roethlisberger

Answer: does not intend to open an investigation unless the alleged victim comes forward and tells authorities she wants

Answer: there is no merit to the accusation.

Answer: the department does not intend to open an investigation unless the alleged victim comes forward and tells authorities she wants

Summary:
"I would never, ever force myself on a woman," Ben Roethlisberger says .
Woman filed complaint saying quarterback raped her in Lake Tahoe last summer .
Roethlisberger, 8 Harrah's employees named in $390,000 lawsuit .
Sheriff's department says it won't investigate unless alleged victim calls for it .


(CNN) -- Nadya Suleman, the Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January, has fired a nonprofit group of nurses charged with helping care for her children, CNN affiliate KTLA has reported. Nadya Suleman, mother of octuplets and six other children, fired a free nursing team, says a CNN affiliate. Suleman accused the nurses, from a group called Angels in Waiting, of spying on her to report her to child-welfare authorities, the affiliate reported Monday. The group was working for free, the affiliate said. Suleman instead will rely on nurses whom she is paying, Suleman's attorney said. She now has four of the octuplets at home, along with her six other children. The other octuplets remain in a hospital, which is discharging them two at a time to ease the adjustment. Suleman -- already a single mother with six young children -- gave birth to the octuplets through in-vitro fertilization, fueling controversy. News of her collecting public assistance for some of her children also outraged many taxpayers. She has not identified the father of the children, but spoke about him in a new video released on RadarOnline.com.  Watch Suleman describe donor » He is a foreign-born man who lives in California and is the father of all 14 of her children, Suleman said. The man was angry when she told him that she was having eight more children, she said. "He was angry at the doctor, like everyone else," Suleman said. "He is a good friend -- a platonic friend. We would not be very compatible. As far as I am concerned, I would never disclose who he is." At one point in the video, a child's voice can be heard asking Suleman the man's name. She did not answer.

Question: Nadya Suleman has 4 of the babies home along with how many other children?

Question: Who will Suleman rely on?

Question: Who did Nadya Suleman say was spying on her?

Question: What kind of nurses will Suleman rely on instead?

Question: What authorities does Suleman believe the nurses are reporting her to?

Question: What is the term for the number of babies Nadya Suleman had at one time?

Question: Who is paying for the nurses?

Question: Suleman already had how many children?

Question: What did Suleman say about the nurses?

Answer: six

Answer: nurses whom she is paying,

Answer: nurses, from a group called Angels in Waiting,

Answer: whom she is paying,

Answer: child-welfare

Answer: octuplets

Answer: Suleman

Answer: six other

Answer: spying on her to report her to child-welfare authorities,

Summary:
Nadya Suleman: Nurses spying on her to report her to child-welfare authorities .
She now has four of the octuplets at home, along with her six other children .
Suleman instead will rely on nurses whom she is paying .


(CNN) -- Nanci Griffith wanted to look on the bright side. Nanci Griffith, who says she's "fed up with negativity," was revitalized by the election of Barack Obama. And who could blame her? In the past decade, Griffith -- perhaps best known for her Grammy-winning 1993 album, "Other Voices, Other Rooms" -- had faced a political climate she didn't agree with, as well as recovery from thyroid and breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with in the late '90s. Songwriting had become a struggle for the singer with the gentle, crystalline voice. "It was ... horrific," she said simply. However, with her latest album, "The Loving Kind" (Rounder), Griffith is as focused and passionate as she has been in years. Sparked by the changes in her life and American politics, she said, music has been vital to her personal resurgence. "It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me," she said. Describing herself as someone who was "fed up with negativity," Griffith was equally inspired by her fellow countrymen. "[The] American people will not let this country collapse," she said. The idea motivated her to look at her country's dark path of injustice not so long ago, stories that worked their way into her songwriting. "In some ways, I'm just a journalist. I [want] my audience to hear these stories," she said. CNN spoke with Griffith from her home in Nashville, Tennessee. CNN: Being a folk singer and your views being what they are, was it tougher or maybe easier to write songs from 2000 to 2008? Nanci Griffith: It was very difficult for me. I was hurt by the direction my country was going in. And then, after [the 2008 election], everything came spilling out. Things came along like the Mildred and Richard Loving case ("The Loving Kind"), where Mildred died, and I read her obituary. [The Lovings were a couple whose interracial marriage was against the law in Virginia at the time.] That was such an inspiration. ... Just wondering why I never knew about this and how important that case is currently with equality in marriage. Little things. Bit by bit, my heart started to open up again, and I could write! CNN: Had you ever gone through that before? Griffith: No, never in my life. I've always been a very prolific writer. CNN: Now, what about writing in the age of Obama? Griffith: (laughs) It feels great! People may be down on their luck, financially. But I see so much optimism about the direction of the country and [general] openness. CNN: Now, in addition to "The Loving Kind," there are other songs based on actual events on this record. Tell me about "Not Innocent Enough." Griffith: That's based on Philip Workman's case in Memphis [Tennessee]. He was robbing a Wendy's -- was a heroin addict -- and police came in, and an officer was killed. Now, Workman didn't kill him; it was friendly fire. Workman was convicted anyway and executed. I'm a total abolitionist when it comes to the death penalty, but this case really stunned me, because I feel like this country has evolved enough to where we shouldn't have to live with the death penalty. CNN: Is it hard as a writer/musician to inhabit those songs, knowing that they are actual events? Griffith: Not really. I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist. I don't express my opinion [in the songs], necessarily. But it's important to me that my audience hear these stories. I want as many people to know about Loving v. Virginia as possible. CNN: Do you feel like it's a more palatable way to become aware of

Question: What is the album called?

Question: In what way is Nanci's voice described as being

Question: What award has Nanci Griffith won?

Question: What has got Naci into an upbeat mood

Question: What has contributed to her better mood?

Question: What is the name of Nanci Griffith's new album?

Answer: "The Loving Kind"

Answer: gentle, crystalline

Answer: Grammy-winning

Answer: the election of Barack Obama.

Answer: music

Answer: "The Loving Kind"

Summary:
Nanci Griffith's new album is "The Loving Kind"
Grammy-winning singer with crystalline voice had long dry stretch in '00s .
Election of Obama, better health has her in upbeat mood .


(CNN) -- Nancy Reagan, wife of the late President Ronald Reagan, is hospitalized in California after suffering a broken pelvis, according to spokeswoman Joanne Drake. Former first lady Nancy Reagan is shown at an event in the nation's capital in September. Reagan, 87, is in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Drake said in a written statement Wednesday. The former first lady fell last week at her home, Drake said, but admitted herself to the hospital only after experiencing "persistent pain." Tests revealed a fractured pelvis and sacrum -- the triangular bone within the pelvis. Reagan will remain hospitalized for a few days until "doctors are satisfied with her progress," Drake said. Reagan's anticipated recovery time is six to eight weeks, including physical therapy and a modified schedule. "Mrs. Reagan is in good spirits, especially comforted to be receiving care from talented doctors in a world-class hospital named in honor of her late husband," the statement said. She previously was hospitalized for two days in February following a fall at her home in suburban Los Angeles. President Reagan died in June 2004 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Since his death, Nancy Reagan has remained involved with the national Alzheimer's Association and its affiliate, the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois. However, she has appeared in public only rarely in recent years.

Question: Who fell at her California home?

Question: From her hospital bed, How is Nancy Regan reportedly feeling?

Question: what was the fracture

Question: Where is nancy reagan being treated?

Answer: Reagan,

Answer: Reagan is in good spirits, especially comforted to be receiving care

Answer: fractured pelvis and sacrum

Answer: Ronald

Summary:
NEW: Nancy Reagan reported "in good spirits" at hospital .
Former first lady, 87, falls at her California home, breaks pelvis .
Nancy Reagan being treated at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center .


(CNN) -- Napoli stunned Manchester City 2-1 Tuesday to leave the English Premier League leaders struggling to qualify from Group A of the European Champions League.

Edinson Cavani put Napoli ahead in the first half before Mario Balotelli equalized for Roberto Mancini's men, who have failed to repeat their sublime domestic form in European competition.

Cavani scored the eventual winner just after the break to leave Napoli second in the group behind Bayern Munich, who beat Villarreal 3-1 to clinch their passage to the last 16 knockout stage.

It was a pulsating encounter in Napoli's San Paolo stadium, with the most intense drama reserved after Uruguay's Cavani, a reported transfer target for big-spending City, had beaten Joe Hart with a low shot to put his side 2-1 ahead.

City pushed forward in desperate hope of an equalizer but a mistake by Aleksandar Kolarov let in Marek Hamsik.

His shot beat Hart, it thumped the post and bounced clear.

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Yaya Toure played in the ever dangerous Balotelli but Morgan De Sanctis did superbly to block the shot, while at the other end Hart denied Christian Maggio, who was clean through.

Finally, a brilliant move between David Silva and substitute Samir Nasri gave Balotelli a further opportunity, but he headed over.

City, who were beaten 2-0 by Bayern Munich in the infamous match in which Carlos Tevez allegedly refused to come on as a substitute, must now beat the German giants in their final group match at the Etihad Stadium to have any chance of going through.

But a Napoli victory over Villarreal in their last fixture would see the Italian club advance with Bayern regardless of that result.

Bayern made no mistake in their Allianz Arena as Franck Ribery and Mario Gomez put them 2-0 up inside 24 minutes. Jonathan De Guzman pulled one back for the visitors before Ribery, with his second, wrapped up the win.

City's illustrious city neighbors Manchester United are also making heavy weather of qualifying from Group C as they were held 2-2 at home by Benfica.

They fell behind to a Phil Jones own goal at Old Trafford before a neat header from Dimitar Berbatov, playing in place of the injured Wayne Rooney, saw the home side level.

When Darren Fletcher put Alex Ferguson's men ahead in the second half after a spell of intense pressure they looked set to wrap up the victory to take command of the group.

But a casual clearance from United goalkeeper David de Gea led to Benfica's equalizer as Bruno Cesar's cross slammed into Rio Ferdinand and fell to Argentina veteran Pablo Aimar, who gratefully accepted the chance.

Benfica and United are level on nine points, but the Portuguese side will go through as the group winners if they beat Romanian minnows Otelul Galati in their final group game in Lisbon next month.

They have a better head-to-head record with United, who must gain at least a point at Swiss side FC Basel to qualify for the last 16.

Basel, who beat Otelul Galati 3-2 on Tuesday, will go through with a win over United.

Question: What city beat manchester in the league group a

Question: what person scored twice to sink the english leaders

Question: what person sealed the passage to last

Question: Who was the winner of the game?

Question: What was the final outcome of the game?

Answer: Napoli

Answer: Edinson Cavani

Answer: Bayern Munich,

Answer: Napoli

Answer: 2-1

Summary:
Napoli beat Manchester City 2-1 in Champions League Group A .
Edinson Cavani scores twice to sink English Premier League leaders .
Bayern Munich seal passage to last 16 with 3-1 win over Villarreal .
Manchester United held 2-2 at home by Benfica in Group C .