Trade Policy: The speech by Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department’s former general counsel, offered a window into the thinking of someone who participated in the inner circles of Obama administration national security decision-making until recently. BERLIN — Lawmakers in Cyprus on Tuesday rejected a bailout plan that would have rescued the country’s banks but forced savers to chip in for the cost, throwing down a gauntlet to the rest of Europe over the financial fate of the tiny island nation. Read full article >>In the shadow of Disney World, an endangered species is practicing the secrets of the deep.     A NASA physicist explains why scientists are increasingly concerned about the effect of solar flares on our wired world. Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban will address the world body in New York and call for universal free educationMalala Yousafzi, the Pakistani schoolgirl brought to England after being shot in the head by the Taliban, will address the United Nations today.She will mark her 16th birthday by delivering a speech at the UN headquarters in New York to call on governments to ensure free compulsory education for every child.It will be the teenager's first public speech since she was attacked on a bus in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley after standing up for her right to go to school in her home country.She will tell a delegation of more than 500 young people: "Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons."One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first."The schoolgirl set up the Malala Fund following the assassination attempt by the Taliban in October.She spent hours undergoing surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where surgeons tried to repair the damage caused by a bullet which grazed her brain.A report released to coincide with her address says 57 million children around the world are not going to school.The UNESCO and Save the Children study says the number of children of primary school age who are not getting an education has fallen from 60 million in 2008, but during that period the percentage of young people in conflict-affected countries who are not at primary school rose from 42% to 50%.Save The Children said the report showed that in 2012 there were more than 3,600 documented attacks on education, including violence, torture and intimidation trademiner and teachers resulting in death or grave injuries, as well as the shelling and bombing of schools and the recruitment of school-aged children by armed groups.Since the start of the Syria conflict more than two years ago, 3,900 schools have been destroyed, damaged or are occupied for non-educational purposes, the report says.The report, Children Still Battling to go to School, finds that 95% of the 28.5 million children not getting a primary school education live in low and lower-middle income countries – 44% in sub-Saharan Africa, 19% in south and west Asia and 14% in the Arab states, UNESCO said.Girls make up 55% of the total and were often the victims of rape and other sexual violence that accompanies armed conflicts, UNESCO said."Across many of the world's poorest countries, armed conflict continues to destroy not just school infrastructure, but also the hopes and ambitions of a whole generation of children," UNESCO's director-general, Irina Bokova, said.Malala, who now attends Edgbaston High School for girls in Birmingham, will present a petition of more than 3 million signatures to the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, demanding education for all.The UN has declared 12 July, her birthday, "Malala Day". The event has been organised by the former prime minister Gordon Brown, now the UN special envoy for global education.He said: "Getting every girl and boy into school by 2015 is achievable."It is only impossible if people say it's impossible. Malala says it is possible – and young people all over the world think it is possible."Teenagers Sam Whittingham and Millie Wells will represent the UK at the event after winning a national competition to become young ambassadors for the global campaign for education.Malala YousafzaiUnited NationsTalibanGordon BrownBan Ki-moonUnescoPakistanguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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All members receive a weekly newsletter bursting with student news, blogs and offers.StudentsHigher educationEbooksguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds In the mountainous towns of Oaxaca’s Sierra Norte, basketball courts are like colonial plazas: places to gather, play and experience life’s daily rituals. VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church inaugurated Pope Francis as its first Latin American and Jesuit head Tuesday morning, vesting the Argentine with the trappings of authority at an open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square attended by more than 150,000 people. Read full article >> Chris Crawford scored 15 points and Adonis Thomas added 11 and No. 25 Memphis remained undefeated in Conference USA with a 56-54 victory over UTEP on Tuesday night. The Boston Bruins were in a state of disbelief after giving up two late goals to concede the Stanley Cup to the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday.     BRUSSELS - European governments declared Friday that Moammar Gaddafi can no longer be considered the leader of Libya and must step down immediately, but they stopped short of formally recognizing the Libyan rebel movement or endorsing military action to support its armed struggle. House lawmakers exchanged partisan barbs Tuesday as they looked back on how the current and former administrations have regulated offshore drilling over the past forex-growth-bot couple met at the University of Vermont, from which they received medical degrees.     Arlington parent Sarah Goodell wanted to help her third grade daughter's math progress by looking at a county math test she had just taken. Sorry, the county said, your daughter's answers on that test are confidential, even if you and other taxpayers supplied the money for them. Saul Bellow’s three sons gathered at their first public joint discussion of their father to promote “Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir,” by Gregory Bellow.     Chinese engineering academy reveals failed attempt to persuade "low-tar" cigarette researcher to give up his title The fieldset and legend elements are notorious for being tricky to style, especially if you want the same result across browsers. Other than the line wrapping issue I wrote about in How to line wrap text in legend elements, even in IE, you may run into problems and differences related to padding, backgrounds and positioning of the legend element. Despite acid burns to his eyes and face, reportedly caused by a rival, Sergei Filin says he is not intimidated at returning to his jobThe Bolshoi ballet's artistic director badly burned in an acid attack said on Friday he is "full of strength and faith" that he will eventually see well enough to return to work. Sergei Filin, swathed in a large black scarf and knitted hat to cover his burns, spoke at Aachen hospital in Germany, where doctors said one of his badly damaged eyes had shown some improvement and that they remained hopeful he would recover useful vision."I am full of strength and faith that I will recover what has been unjustly taken from me," Filin said as he thanked hospital staff for their help in treating his eyes and burned skin. He said he was not afraid of returning to work at the Bolshoi despite reports of rivalries that might have been the motivation for the attack.He said he was in daily contact with his deputy at the theatre by telephone and had no fear about going back to work. "As soon as I can see ... I will go back and do the same work. I am not afraid."Dressed head to toe in black and wearing large dark glasses, Filin walked into the auditorium at the Aachen University Clinic with an interpreter close at his side, and sat quietly as doctors natural vitiligo treatment treatment. He was led out by hospital staff afterward.Dr Martin Hermel, an eye specialist, said that Filin suffered damage to the surface and inner parts of both eyes and had undergone several operations. He cautioned that Filin faces "complex and long-term treatment" that could take months rather than weeks.Hermel said that he held out hope that Filin would "recover useable vision" to allow him to return to his professional duties. His left eye had shown some improvement, Hermel said. As for the right, which suffered more severe damage, "we cannot at this point make a statement about the prognosis for vision in this eye".Filin was attacked in January by a masked man who splashed sulphuric acid on to his face. Pavel Dmitrichenko, a Bolshoi dancer who has been arrested on suspicion of organising the attack, told a Moscow court that he gave his blessing for attack but never expected the perpetrator to use acid and cause such harm to Filin.Anatoly Iksanov, the Bolshoi theatre's general director, has accused the veteran principal dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze of inciting tensions in the theatre that led to the attack. Tsiskaridze, a fierce critic of Iksanov who is reported to aspire to the director's job, has rejected Iksanov's allegation.RussiaBolshoiDanceBalletGermanyEuropeguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Natural hybrid grass cuts water run-off by 50%, can feed livestock and resist extreme weatherA new grass that cuts the water running off from fields by half could help stem the rising floods that global warming is bringing to the UK. The roots of the grass, a natural hybrid of rye and fescue grasses, produce more pores in the soil than traditional types, meaning more water can be stored."The enormous savings that will be possible by mitigating flooding through planting [these] grasses dwarf any possible cost of producing them," said Professor Douglas Kell, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, which funded the research, published in the journal Scientific Reports. The new grass has been tested for two years in the field and a related hybrid will be available to farmers this year.Extreme rainfall has already risen in the UK and 2012 was England's wettest year on record. But despite the government's own scientists highlighting flooding as climate change's tinnitus miracle download to the UK, the funding for flood defences remains significantly below 2010 levels, with hundreds of schemes unbuilt as a result.As well as inundated households, agriculture suffered from the sodden weather in 2012 with more than £600m of food lost, the worst apple crop in 15 years and a 75% drop in honey production.The new grass will help complement engineered defences with better land management. The hybrid was selected from hundreds of natural cross-breeds and tested in Devon.Kit Macleod, a hydrologist at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, and colleagues found that it reduced the run off from clay-rich test plots by about 50% compared to its parents. The rye grass used is commonly sown in fields grazed by cattle, whereas the fescue grass was known to grow deep roots."The changes in run-off were due to changes in the soil structure due to the growth and then die-off of the deeper roots of the hybrid," said Macleod. The pores left in the soil by the initial deeper roots enabled more water to be stored, he said, while the grass continued to grow successfully from shallower roots.With 69% of the world's agricultural land being grassland, Macleod said the new hybrid had significant potential as a plant that could simultaneously provide good forage for livestock, be resilient to increasingly extreme weather and provide flood protection.He suggested that with changes in European agricultural subsidies under consideration, farmers could be offered incentives to grow crops that help reduce flooding. The cost of flooding to the UK could rise to £10bn a year, according to the government's climate change risk assessment.FloodingNatural disasters and extreme weatherAgricultureFarmingClimate changeDamian Carringtonguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds     A push by Britain and France to end a weapons embargo ran into heavy resistance from other European countries worried that such a step will only escalate the Syrian conflict. Gayle Fuguitt, a longtime research executive at General Mills, is to be introduced to the Advertising Research Foundation’s members on Monday. Tensions are high in Venezuela as opposition leader Henrique Capriles pressures the National Electoral Council to permit a complete audit of the April 14 presidential election.     The Gagosian Gallery has settled a suit filed by a collector who said it sold her Roy Lichtenstein painting without

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