Informing weekly publication Dag og Tid actually seeing Breivik for two days in Oslo District Court was "useful", Einar Kringlen continued, "it gives a completely different picture to reading the minutes in the paper and the impression I got of the man from the first [psychiatric] report."

The professor, who has never changed his opinion about criminal sanity to such a degree, according to NRK, was in no doubt Synne Sørheim and Torgeir Husby were correct that Breivik was psychotic.

Now, he observes the accused can answer questions logically, flexibly, and in a relaxed fashion. The expert supports Terje Tørrisen's and Agnar Aspaas' conclusions.

"He [Breivik] is not submissive, either, but protests with some annoyance if he thinks the judge's questions are unreasonable, Einar Kringlen told the broadcaster.

"My professional experience suggests he is unlikely to have been able to act in such an adequate fashion if he is psychotic, in particular schizophrenic," he declared, saying it is extremely unlikely Breivik has managed to mislead him in his battle to appear as sane.

The professor concluded, "perhaps one can say he has a paranoid personality, is suspicious, but that's where it ends."

Today's 10th day of the trial will see continued focus on the Oslo bombing, it's victims and the aggrieved.

Near the Oslo courtroom where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial, as many as 40,000 Norwegians filled a square with the lyrics of "Children of the Rainbow," a song that praises multiculturalism and that Breivik described as Marxist propaganda.

Breivik killed 77 people in July 2011 to protest social policies he believes will allow Muslims to take over Europe.

The family of a young girl who was left severely brain damaged from salmonella poisoning after eating a KFC chicken twister has been awarded A$8 million (NZ$10.2m) in damages plus costs by the NSW Supreme Court.

Seven-year-old Monika Samaan became seriously ill after eating the chicken wrap at the Villawood KFC in 2005, suffering brain damage that has left her confined to a wheelchair and unable to speak.

KFC denied it was responsible, challenging the family's claim during a four-week trial.

Justice Stephen Rothman found in favour of the family last Friday, and this afternoon he ordered the fast-food giant to pay the family A$8 million in compensation plus costs.

We might not need as high a salary as previously thought for day-to-day happiness and life satisfaction, according to a new poll. The magic number used to be $75,000, but the tipping point for happiness appears to be 33% lower, at $50,000.

Residents of Las Cruces, New Mexico with outstanding red-light-camera traffic tickets are in danger of having their utilities shut off.

The program, placing cameras at intersections, is just over three years old, and in that time violators have run up $2 million in unpaid fines.

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World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid "a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills", warns a major report from the Royal Society.

Contraception must be offered to all women who want it and consumption cut to reduce inequality, says the study published on Thursday, which was chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston.

The assessment of humanity's prospects in the next 100 years, which has taken 21 months to complete, argues strongly that to achieve long and healthy lives for all 9 billion people expected to be living in 2050, the twin issues of population and consumption must be pushed to the top of political and economic agendas. Both issues have been largely ignored by politicians and played down by environment and development groups for 20 years, the report says.

"The number of people living on the planet has never been higher, their levels of consumption are unprecedented and vast changes are taking place in the environment. We can choose to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption ... or we can choose to do nothing and to drift into a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills leading to a more unequal and inhospitable future", it says.

The international community must bring the 1.3 billion people living on less than $1.25 per day out of absolute poverty, and reduce the inequality that persists in the world today. This will require focused efforts in key policy areas including economic development, education, family planning and health.

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implementing comprehensive wealth measures

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FBI Counter Intelligence Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi was quoted by the paper as saying the Russian spy ring got "closer and closer to higher and higher ranking leadership... she got close enough to disturb us."

Frank Figliuzzi

"The fear that Chapman would compromise a senior US official in a 'honey trap' (where the victim is compromised through sexual relations) was a key reason for the arrest and deportation of the Russian spy ring of 10 people, of which she was a part, in 2010," the Independent writes.

"We were becoming very concerned," Figliuzzi told the paper. "They were getting close enough to a sitting US cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue." Figliuzzi refused to say who was being targeted by the Russians.

Chapman and 9 other Russians were arrested and charged with working as spies for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service in late June of 2010. They were quickly deported back to Russia in exchange for four American spies in Russian custody. Officials gave little comment on the case.

Reports at the time claimed that one Russian spy named "Cynthia Murphy," who worked as a vice president at Morea Financial Services in lower Manhattan, had targeted venture capitol figure Alan Patricof, a close friend of the Clintons who raised money for Hillary's senate and presidential campaigns.

Blogger Ace of Spades notes that the gender of the cabinet official was not disclosed, leaving open the possibility that Secretary Clinton may have been the Obama cabinet member close to being honey trapped.

Another revelation in the series is the real reason why the FBI swooped on Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010. Top officials feared the glamorous Russian agent wanted to seduce one of US President Barack Obama's inner circle. Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI's head of counterintelligence, reveals how she got "closer and closer to higher and higher ranking leadership... she got close enough to disturb us".

The fear that Chapman would compromise a senior US official in a "honey trap" was a key reason for the arrest and deportation of the Russian spy ring of 10 people, of which she was a part, in 2010. "We were becoming very concerned," he says. "They were getting close enough to a sitting US cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue." Mr Figliuzzi refuses to name the individual who was being targeted.

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HAT TRICK LETTER NEWS FLASH: a German banker contact informs that as a result of a high level meeting in Germany (not in the news), a decision has been made for France to exit the Euro currency first. They are ordered out. Regardless of whether Hollande displaces Sarkozy for the president post, the French have been instructed as to how business will be conducted. No other information, like whether France will revert to the Franc currency and not risk a severe Latin Euro devaluation after Germany and Netherlands depart. My impression is that Germany will launch a new currency very soon. Perhaps they wished for France to take some of the attention and to begin the chaotic process. The contact has consistently stated that France would not be included from the new Nordic Euro, an exlusive core group of Central European nations that qualify by having a current account surplus. French debt is too great, and likely to soon expand much worse. He said France would become a ward of the German state, with dictated policy and direction. Bear in mind that Germany owns of 90% of the French Govt debt. It remains to be seen whether France will assume the lead position among the PIGS, whose nations will all go adrift. Rumors of a Latin Euro Central Bank located in Marseilles were once spun.

"Over the past months, we experienced a worrisome trend towards re-nationalization and 'summitization,'" said Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament and member of the German opposition SPD, to a forum of the European Commission on Wednesday.

"And while Denmark is the first to officially defect, even under a palatable explanation, it surely won't be the last: "The idea of controls at borders within the EU, also defended by Italy and France, was pressed by the far-right Danish People's Party and its head Pia Kjaersgaard, who argued controls would counter illegal immigration and organised crime." One thing we have seen in Europe is that courtesy of the relentless ebb of austerity, the far-right is progressively gaining a foothold in every country. And one can be certain that the populist whiplash against all things European, will not be contained to merely the monetary arena, but will rapidly devolve to restoring borders, following which the EU will exist only in history books."

A judge on Friday upheld a government plan to ban non-Dutch residents from buying marijuana by introducing a "weed pass" available only to residents.

The new regulation reins in one of the country's most cherished symbols of tolerance - its laissez-faire attitude to soft drugs - and reflects the drift away from a long-held view of the Netherlands as a free-wheeling utopia.

For many tourists visiting Amsterdam the image endures - and smoking a joint in a canalside coffee shop ranks high on their to-do lists along with visiting cultural highlights like the Van Gogh Museum.

The city's left-leaning Mayor Eberhard van der Laan is hoping to hammer out a compromise with the national government.

(e) establish new uniform rules and strengthen existing procedures for access to military installations by educational institutions. These new rules should ensure, at a minimum, that only those institutions that enter into a memorandum of agreement pursuant to section 3(a) of this order are permitted entry onto a Federal military installation for the purposes of recruitment. The Department of Defense shall include specific steps for instructing installation commanders on commercial solicitation rules and the requirement of the Principles outlined in section 2(c) of this order; and

With the Federal Communications Commission set to vote Friday on whether to require broadcasters to post political ad data online, the industry has been scrambling to water down the proposed rule.

The data is currently available only on paper at TV stations. We've been tracking the flurry of lobbying against the rule by big media companies, including the owners of many of the nation's largest news outlets. In the latest development, Communications Daily reported earlier this week that the FCC has become more receptive to the industry's attempts to soften the proposed rule.

The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 Friday morning to require broadcasters to post political ad data on the Web, making it easier for the public to see how as much as $3.2 billion will be spent on TV advertising in this election.

The files, which detail the times ads aired, how much they cost and whether stations rejected ad buy requests from campaigns, among other things, are currently available only on paper at each station.

The FCC rejected an industry push to water down the measure. But the adopted rule also has serious limits. For example, the data will not be searchable or uploaded in a common format.

Pioneers of racial tolerance in sports, the Boston Bruins in 1958 became the first National Hockey League team to sign an African-American player, making Willie O'Ree the Jackie Robinson of hockey.

Yet they found themselves Thursday addressing hateful racist commentary circulated by Bruins fans and others on social media after Joel Ward, a black forward for the Washington Capitals, scored the winning goal in overtime of Game 7 in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs Wednesday at TD Garden.

D.C. lawyer Timothy Broas, who has funneled more money to the political campaigns of President Obama than nearly anyone else, last week was recommended by Mr. Obama as the next U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.

As a campaign "bundler," Mr. Broas collected more than a half-million dollars for Mr. Obama's 2012 campaign, raising money from family members, colleagues and other wealthy associates; four years ago, he assisted Mr. Obama's successful bid for the presidency by raising between $200,000 and $500,000.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Mr. Broas becomes the latest of dozens of Obama "bundlers" who are already serving as ambassadors.

The fundraiser's selection was first reported by the Center for Public Integrity.

Mark Mobius is one of the most respected emerging markets fund managers in the industry. Mr Mobius, 76, launched the first ever emerging markets equity fund available to American investors with Templeton in 1987, and remains with the group to this day.

He now runs 14 global emerging market funds -- including an investment trust that has returned 2,000pc since launch in 1989.

Next month sees the launch of his latest venture -- the Templeton Africa fund, a region that Mr Mobius has been investing in through his other funds since 1990.

Why Africa and why now?

It is all about growth. With emerging markets we are constantly chasing a growth story. If you look at the 10 fastest growing countries in the world over the past 10 years, apart from China, all the remaining nine were frontier markets, and six were African nations.

The economic growth story is very much alive in Africa and that's the reason why we are specifically targeting that part of the world.

Almost 5% of Africa's agricultural land has been bought or leased by investors since 2000, according to an international coalition of researchers and NGOs that has released the world's largest public database of international land deals.

The database, launched on Thursday, lifts the lid on a decade of secretive deals struck by governments, investors and speculators seeking large tracts of fertile land in developing countries around the world.

The past five years have seen a flood of reports of investors snapping up land at rock-bottom prices in some of the world's poorest countries. But, despite growing concern about the local impacts of so-called "land grabs", the lack of reliable data has made it difficult to pin down the real extent and nature of the global rush for land.

AFP - China has agreed to loan South Sudan eight billion dollars for infrastructure development, Juba government spokesman Barnaba Mariel Benjamin said on Saturday.

"It will fund roads, bridges, hydropower, agriculture and telecommunications projects... within the next two years", he said, giving details of a visit this week to China by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir.

"Details (of the projects) will be defined by the ministers of the two countries and by the Chinese firms in charge of the work," the spokesman said.

China is the largest purchaser of oil from South Sudan and is also a longstanding business partner of Sudan from which it also buys oil.

Beijing, however, has made sure to develop good relations with South Sudan since Juba proclaimed independence last July.

Kiir had to cut short his visit to China due to the current conflict between his country and Sudan.

As a result of independence the south took with it about 75 percent of the formerly united Sudan's oil production worth billions of dollars.

Disagreements over the issue was one of the main reasons for the latest round of hostilities.

MEMO FOR THE RECORD Apr. 29, 2011, 10:35 a.m.

Received phone call from Tom Donilon who stated that the President made a decision with regard to AC1 [Abbottabad Compound 1]. The decision is to proceed with the assault. The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands. The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration. The direction is to go in and get bin Laden and if he is not there, to get out. Those instructions were conveyed to Admiral McRaven at approximately 10:45 am.

Leon Panetta, DCIA

A federal judge has refused to order Barack Obama's administration to release pictures and video of the US military operation that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan almost a year ago.

The government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, had requested that the defence department and Central Intelligence Agency release any pictures or video footage of the operation on 1 May 2011 that killed Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The defence department said it had no pictures or videos sought by the group and the CIA said it had 52 such records, but refused to release them. It cited exemptions to the US freedom of information act for classified materials and other reasons.

The United States has begun launching drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under new authority approved by President Obama that allows the CIA and the military to fire even when the identity of those who could be killed is not known, U.S. officials said.

U.S. officials said that Obama approved the use of ÒsignatureÓ strikes this month and that the killing of an al-Qaeda operative near the border of YemenÕs Marib province this week was among the first attacks carried out under the new authority.

The decision to give the CIA and the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) greater leeway is almost certain to escalate a drone campaign that has accelerated significantly this year, with at least nine strikes in under four months. The number is about equal to the sum of airstrikes all last year.

The expanded authority will allow the CIA and JSOC to fire on targets based solely on their intelligence ÒsignaturesÓ Ñ patterns of behavior that are detected through signals intercepts, human sources and aerial surveillance, and that indicate the presence of an important operative or a plot against U.S. interests.

NBCUniversal and top television host, broadcaster and Emmy-winning producer Ryan Seacrest have forged a groundbreaking multi-platform agreement that includes on-air, broadcasting and producing duties across the company's NBC and E! networks. The new two-year deal extends Seacrest's current on-air presence with E! onto NBC, spanning news, entertainment and sports programming.

"Ryan is an extraordinary talent who has been an important part of the Comcast family for a long time," said Steve Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal. "We look forward to his continued role on E! and to having him appear on many new places across NBCUniversal, including the TODAY show and at the Olympics. This is a great example of how NBCUniversal is able to provide the perfect home for some of the best people in the business."

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Near the Oslo courtroom where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial, as many as 40,000 Norwegians filled a square with the lyrics of "Children of the Rainbow," a song that praises multiculturalism and that Breivik described as Marxist propaganda.

Breivik killed 77 people in July 2011 to protest social policies he believes will allow Muslims to take over Europe.

A federal judge has refused to order Barack Obama's administration to release pictures and video of the US military operation that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan almost a year ago.

The government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, had requested that the defence department and Central Intelligence Agency release any pictures or video footage of the operation on 1 May 2011 that killed Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The defence department said it had no pictures or videos sought by the group and the CIA said it had 52 such records, but refused to release them. It cited exemptions to the US freedom of information act for classified materials and other reasons.

Residents of Las Cruces, New Mexico with outstanding red-light-camera traffic tickets are in danger of having their utilities shut off.

The program, placing cameras at intersections, is just over three years old, and in that time violators have run up $2 million in unpaid fines.

The international community must bring the 1.3 billion people living on less than $1.25 per day out of absolute poverty, and reduce the inequality that persists in the world today. This will require focused efforts in key policy areas including economic development, education, family planning and health.

Reccommendations

the potential for urbanisation to reduce material consumption

removing barriers to achieve high-quality primary and secondary education for all

undertaking more research into the interactions between consumption, demographic change and environmental impact

implementing comprehensive wealth measures

developing new socio-economic systems.