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Massachusetts man catches fire after applying sunscreen
A Massachusetts man said he suffered second-degree burns from a grill after applying sunscreen lotion on parts of his body.
Brett Sigworth said he applied Banana Boat sunscreen to his body before walking over to his grill, not knowing it would still be flammable after it was on his skin.
"I went into complete panic mode and screamed," Sigworth said. "I've never experienced pain like that in my life."
The result was second-degree burns to his chest, ear and back, the only areas where he applied the sunscreen. Ten days after the incident, Sigworth is still showing the effects of the incident.
The warnings on the bottle of Banana Boat sunscreen read, "Flammable, don't use near heat, flame or while burning." But nothing about once it's applied.
Banana Boat officials said in a statement they were sorry to hear about Sigworth's experience and would begin a prompt investigation. "We are unaware of any prior incidents similar to what Brett has described, but because nothing is more important to us than the safety of our consumers, we are taking this matter very seriously," the statement said.
Dan Dillard, CEO of the Burn Prevention Network, believes the sunscreen might not have fully absorbed into Sigworth's skin and the droplets from the aerosol spray might have still been in the air.
"As he approached the flame, the charcoal simply caught the vapor trail and it follows the vapor trail to where the bulk of the substance is, which is on his body," said Dillard.
"I think if people were told this is flammable for two minutes on your skin, people wouldn't use it," Sigworth said.
He doesn't plan to sue, but it sharing his story and photos with others to make sure no one else ends up in the hospital after applying sunscreen.
"It was so scary," he said, "and I just wouldn't want to see it happen to anybody else."
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20 sea lions found dead, most by gunshot, in US
GEARHART, Ore. â€"  About 20 dead sea lions - most with gunshot wounds - have been found in northern Oregon and southern Washington in just two months, a marine mammal researcher says.
Dalin D'Alessandro tells The Oregonian that the shooting surge since the beginning of April is claiming both California and Steller sea lions. She's a Portland State University research assistant with the Northern Oregon-Southern Washington Marine Mammal Stranding Network.
The dead creatures have been found near the mouth of the Columbia River and a few miles to the north and south.
D'Alessandro thinks the killing is due to fishermen frustrated over competition for their catch. While it's typical to see a slight increase in dead sea lions around the opening of salmon season, recent numbers are about four times the norm for the same time period, she said.
Last month, a federal judge rejected a request to halt the killing of California sea lions that eat protected salmon at Oregon's Bonneville Dam. That program allows Idaho, Oregon and Washington authorities to kill targeted sea lions.
California sea lions are federally protected as marine mammals, but not as endangered or threatened species. The area's Steller sea lions are currently federally protected as a threatened species.
"It is brazen that these people will shoot these animals that are federally protected," said Jim Rice, Oregon Coast coordinator for the Marine Mammal Stranding Network. "It's really alarming."
Rice said he suspects the controversy over the sea lions at the Bonneville Dam may be contributing to the shootings.
"The fact that it is something the state authorities are doing may give people the idea that is OK for them to shoot them, too," said Rice. "It is not OK."
At the dam, authorities keep close track of which sea lions are eating a lot of salmon, and target the worst offenders for capture and lethal injection.
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com
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3 dead after strong storm in southern Missouri
ST. LOUIS â€"  A sudden, violent storm in southeast Missouri has left a man and his two adult sons dead.
Authorities are assessing the damage after high winds, heavy rain and hail ripped through parts of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky late Monday. The worst hit is Diehlstadt, Mo., where winds blew over a mobile home, killing the three men. By Tuesday morning their names had not been released.
There were several reports of damage to homes in and around Diehlstadt, a town of 163 residents in Scott County about 100 miles south of St. Louis. The National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky., reported large hail, heavy rain and wind gusts of more than 50 mph in southern Illinois and Kentucky. No other injuries were immediately reported.
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Crowds cheer queen on last day of Diamond Jubilee
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II departs from the Diamond Jubilee service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral on in London Tuesday June 5, 2012. Crowds cheering "God save the queen!" and pealing church bells greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as she arrived for a service at St. Paul's Cathedral on the last of four days of celebrations of her 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Ian Gavan. Pool)
LONDON â€"  Pealing church bells and crowds cheering "God save the queen!" greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as she arrived for a service at St. Paul's Cathedral on the last of four days of Diamond Jubilee celebrations honoring her 60 years on the throne.
Poignantly, the queen was without Prince Philip, her husband of 64 years, who was hospitalized on Monday for treatment of a bladder infection.
During the service, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, praised the queen for bringing happiness to the nation. His thoughts were seconded by jubilant crowds that cheered royals major and minor as they made their way to the service of thanksgiving.
"We are marking six decades of living proof that public service is possible and that it is a place where happiness can be found," Williams told the royals and dignitaries filling the vast landmark church designed by Christopher Wren in the 17th century.
"This year has already seen a variety of Jubilee creations and projects. But its most lasting memorial would be the rebirth of an energetic, generous spirit of dedication to the common good and the public service, the rebirth of a recognition that we live less than human lives if we think just of our own individual good," Williams added.
As she left the cathedral, the queen paused near a tablet commemorating the Diamond Jubilee service of Queen Victoria in 1897.
Attired in an outfit of fine silk tulle, embroidered with tiny mint green star-shaped flowers embellished with silver thread, the queen was a small, elegant figure, rarely smiling and often solemn as she followed the service.
The queen will close the Diamond Jubilee celebrations with a rare address to the nation.
The broadcast at 1700 GMT (1 p.m. EDT) in Britain and throughout the Commonwealth follows the service, a lunch in a medieval hall and a carriage procession back to Buckingham Palace where the queen and her family could greet well-wishers from a balcony.
The two-minute address, recorded on Monday, will also be available on the Royal Channel on YouTube, the palace said. Other than the annual Christmas Day broadcasts, the 86-year-old monarch has rarely spoken directly to the nation.
Williams paid tribute to the queen for her service to the nation and Commonwealth. It was not a role she chose, but one thrust upon her when her uncle David, King Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936. The queen's father became king and Elizabeth, the elder daughter, was destined to reign.
Within the constraints of a constitutional monarchy, the queen's life has been one of ceremonial duty, world travel and the pleasures of great wealth. She has also been the mother of family that has produced turbulent marriages and traumatic divorces.
"Dedication to the service of a community certainly involves that biblical sense of an absolute purge of selfish goals, but it is also the opening of a door into shared riches," Williams said.
"I don't think it's at all fanciful to say that, in all her public engagements, our queen has shown a quality of joy in the happiness of others; she has responded with just the generosity St. Paul speaks of in showing honor to countless local communities and individuals of every background and class and race," Williams said.
"She has made her public happy and all the signs are that she is herself happy, fulfilled and at home in these encounters."
Following the service, the queen went to the thousand-year-old Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the Parliament complex, to join 700 guests from the various Livery Companies - the guilds which originated in the Middle Ages.
Prince William sat at the Worshipful Company of Engineers and Arbitrators table, while his wife Kate was placed with the Master Glovers and Pattenmakers. Prince Harry dined with the Fruiterers and Gardeners.
With most of Tuesday's events indoors or under cover, there was less worry about the precarious weather, which has ranged from unseasonably cool to downright foul, as rain poured during Sunday's grand procession of boats down the Thames.
Among the early arrivals at the cathedral were four women from Jedburgh, a Scottish town near the English border, who displayed a large Union Jack flag.
"We've been saving for three years to come here," said Marion Kingswood, 69. "Apart from the royal wedding, there's been nothing like it. Sixty years is such an achievement."
Barry Dandy, 71, and his wife flew in from Sydney, Australia, to join in the celebrations.
"They showed a preview of the River Pageant on Australian television and my wife said, 'I'd love to be there,'" Dandy said. "It's been great to take part in the celebrations."
The Very Rev. David Ison, the dean of St. Paul's, said Philip would be remembered in the prayers.
"We were already going to say prayers for the Duke of Edinburgh and it will have an added poignancy as we hope he will make a swift recovery," Ison said.
A few anti-monarchist demonstrators were outside the cathedral with slogans including "Republic Now!" or, in a shot at the cost of maintaining the monarchy, "9500 Nurses or 1 Queen?"
Royalists in the crowd responded noisily, chanting "God save the queen!"
Along the parade route, 70-year-old Margaret Barker said Philip's absence would put a damper on the queen's day.
"She's got the rest of her family around her but when you think of all the planning there's been for this and how long they've been together, it seems very sad that he can't be with her today," Barker said.
Tourist Cassandra Past, 20, from New York, said she expected the queen to keep her chin up despite worries about her 90-year-old husband. "She is the queen, and she sort of has to put on a good face for her country and her people," Past said.
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Can Concrete Be Quiet?
Making cars quiet is a pretty straightforward, if pricey, process these days. A little sound insulation here, some double-glazed glass there and you're good to go.
Even the noise, or lack thereof, coming out of the exhaust pipes has been reduced to such low levels that some gas and even diesel-powered cars might as well be running on electricity, or not running at all.
In fact, when cruising down the highway the loudest sound created by a car is usually the tires rubbing on the road, something that can be more annoying for passersby than passengers.
To address this issue, the Wall Street Journal reports that a number of pilot programs are underway across the country build roads covered in so-called “quiet pavement,†with mixed results.
Far more involved than just laying down a fresh coat of concrete or asphalt, the trick is to find the right balance between the texture of the surface, its stiffness and porosity. For concrete, it's the width and depth of the striations in the material that can be used to muffle the sound, while asphalt requires divots or some sort of negative texture, according to the Wall Street Journal.
One hurdle is that if these indentations become filled with debris they no longer have the same sound deadening effect and can actually make matters worse. In Europe, where these types of road surfaces are more common, giant vacuums are used to clean the streets.
However, when it's successful, quiet pavement can reduce the sound of traffic by as much as 10 decibels, which is a significant improvement over the typical 65 to 75 decibel level of roadside noise.
Unfortunately, while the initial results are promising, tests in Washington state have found that the surfaces tend to deteriorate quickly and often become louder than standard surfacing, but officials tell the Journal they are undaunted in their quest and are currently experimenting with five different types of quiet concrete in different environments.
In the meantime, people who live near the highway might want to invest in a little sound insulation and some double-glazed windows…for their homes.
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Mosquito Vs. Rain Drop
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A mosquito collides with a raindrop in midair.Georgia Institute of Technology/Tim Nowack
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Surprisingly, their tiny size only adds to their overall resilience, researchers found.Georgia Institute of Technology/Tim Nowack
A team of Georgia Tech researchers have uncovered the secret to how mosquitoes manage to survive rainstorms despite their tiny size.
A universal pest notorious for its potential to spread disease, mosquitoes often live in humid conditions -- but until now, no one has ever understood how they survive these conditions. How does a mosquito deal when splattered by a raindrop twice its size?
'We were hoping to see the bugs get splattered, like on your car windshield. The surprising thing is that they all survived.'
- Researcher David L. Hu
“We think of these things as pests,†David L. Hu, one of the team's researchers, told FoxNews.com. “So we were hoping to see the bugs get splattered, like on your car windshield. We thought the drops would just smash them in midair.â€
Instead, the insects proved remarkably resilient. “The surprising thing is that they all survived,†Hu said.
Since studying them in the wild proved a near impossible endeavor given their size, Hu and his colleagues used high-speed cameras to film Anopheles mosquitoes flying in an acrylic cage exposed to a water jet that simulated rainfall.
“They're the model organism,†Hu conceded.
As it turns out, their size doesn't make them more vulnerable; it actually enhances their ability to deal with rain. When a raindrop hits a mosquito, it loses only 10 percent of its speed since the insect is so lightweight, versus 90 percent for dragonflies, meaning they absorb much more force.
“It's like having a boxing match with a balloon,†Hu told FoxNews.com. “You just can't pop it no matter how hard you hit it.â€
Beyond its size, Hu and his team noted other genetic traits that increased the insect's aerial robustness. Thanks to a matte of hair that covers the whole of the insect's body, mosquitoes are naturally hydrophobic, meaning they repel water, further reducing the amount of impact.
Hu hope their research could eventually help those in malaria infested regions of the world, as well as helping to improve the design of insect-sized flying robots.
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Canadian \'body parts\' suspect to face judge in Berlin
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This image provided by Interpol shows an undated photo of Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29 years-old, who is accused of videotaping a gruesome murder before posting it to the internet will be charged with threatening Canada's prime minister after mailing a severed foot to his Conservative party headquarters, police said.AP/Interpol
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June 4, 2012: People enter the internet cafe where Luka Rocco Magnottahe was recognize in the district of Neukoelln in Berlin, Germany.AP
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This surveillance image provided by Interpol shows who authorities believe is Luka Rocco Magnotta at a security checkpoint area. A state prosecutor says police are investigating two claimed French capital sightings of the Canadian porn actor wanted in connection with a gruesome murder in Montreal.AP
BERLIN â€"  The Canadian porn actor suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student in Canada before fleeing to Europe is to be brought before a judge in Berlin on Tuesday, a day after his arrest, as authorities kick off the process of seeking his extradition.
Luka Magnotta, 29, was arrested on Monday at an Internet cafe in a working-class district of the German capital, where he had been reading media coverage of himself. A cafe employee recognized Magnotta from a newspaper photo and flagged down a police car.
Magnotta was being held at a police detention facility in Berlin and was to be brought later Tuesday before a judge for a decision on a formal detention order, which would keep him in custody while proceedings continue. Such hearings must be held by the end of the day following a suspect's arrest in Germany, and always take place behind closed doors.
Once a detention order is issued, German authorities can contact their Canadian counterparts regarding extradition proceedings, police spokesman Klaus Schubert said.
Magnotta is wanted by Canadian authorities on suspicion of killing Jun Lin, a 33-year-old man he dated, and mailing his body parts to two of Canada's top political parties before fleeing to Europe.
They say Magnotta filmed the murder of the Chinese student in his Montreal studio apartment and posted it online. The video shows a man with an ice pick stabbing another naked, bound male. He also dismembers the corpse and performs sexual acts with it in what police called a horrifying video.
In Germany, surveillance camera footage of the Internet cafe, obtained by The Associated Press, showed Magnotta casually walking in to the shop at noon local time, wearing jeans, a green hoodie sweater and sunglasses.
He briefly spoke to the Internet cafe's desk person, then walked off to his assigned computer with the number 25 where he would later be spotted reading the news about his case.
About two hours later, seven German police officers are seen walking into the shop, without any haste.
On the camera footage, three police officers are seen accompanying the handcuffed Magnotta a couple of minutes after they first entered the cafe. Magnotta calmly walks alongside them.
Police say he at first tried giving fake names but then conceded: "You got me."
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Carell: Getting Dumped Is Good
Comedian Steve Carell told Princeton grads that young people were worse off because they missed out on face-to-face romantic rejection because of the growth of technology.
The "Office" star gave a keynote address Monday to thousands of honors students at the prestigious college as part of a pre-commencement ceremony, The Star-Ledger newspaper reported.
He said young people could now be dumped via email, Facebook and text message, missing out on a key part of their growth as a person.
Face-to-face rejection provided "the humiliation and self-loathing a young man needs for his growth," he said.
He added, "My point is, I suffered and you should have to suffer, too. You are young. And because of that, you are wrong."
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Treatment may be more dangerous than spider bite
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May 30, 2012: A man displays a spider suspected to be a new species of tarantula in Tinsukia, Assam state, India. The hairy spiders were first noticed about a month ago across Tinsukia district's grassy plains and dense jungle forests north of the Brahmaputra River. Colonies of giant, biting spiders are attacking villagers and causing painful swelling that frightened victims are dangerously draining themselves with razor blades in remote northeast India, officials said Tuesday.AP Photo
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May 30, 2012: A spider suspected to be a new species of tarantula in Tinsukia, Assam state, India, is shown. The hairy spiders were first noticed about a month ago across Tinsukia district's grassy plains and dense jungle forests north of the Brahmaputra River. Colonies of giant, biting spiders are attacking villagers and causing painful swelling that frightened victims are dangerously draining themselves with razor blades in remote northeast India, officials said Tuesday, June 5, 2012.AP Photo
GAUHATI, India â€"  Large biting spiders have sparked panic in remote northeast India, but health authorities fear primitive treatment of the bites' painful swelling may be more dangerous than the spiders themselves.
Two people died in Tinsukia district after witch doctors used razor blades to drain the wounds. It's not known if the victims died from spider poison or from the attempted treatment. Local magistrate Kishore Thakuria said the victims were cremated before autopsies could be done.
'It looks like a new species. We haven't been able to identify it.'
- Ecologist L.R. Saikia
Another seven bite victims have been treated with antibiotics against infection after they also tried themselves to drain their wounds, said Dr. Anil Phapowali at the local Sadiya town hospital.
The hairy spiders were noticed about a month ago across Tinsukia district's grassy plains and dense jungle forests north of the Brahmaputra River.
Ecologist L.R. Saikia at Assam's Dibrugarh University said it may be a previously unknown species of tarantula. The spiders are roughly the size of a person's thumb.
"It looks like a new species. We haven't been able to identify it," he said Tuesday. Officials cannot use anti-venom in treating bite victims until the species is identified.
Meanwhile, villagers are keeping lamps on at night and standing guard against spiders entering their mud-and-thatch huts. There are about 100,000 villagers, mostly poor rice farmers, living in the area cut off from roads by the river.
Officials say the spiders are now also showing up south of the Brahmaputra.
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Carell: Getting Dumped Is Good
Comedian Steve Carell told Princeton grads that young people were worse off because they missed out on face-to-face romantic rejection because of the growth of technology.
The "Office" star gave a keynote address Monday to thousands of honors students at the prestigious college as part of a pre-commencement ceremony, The Star-Ledger newspaper reported.
He said young people could now be dumped via email, Facebook and text message, missing out on a key part of their growth as a person.
Face-to-face rejection provided "the humiliation and self-loathing a young man needs for his growth," he said.
He added, "My point is, I suffered and you should have to suffer, too. You are young. And because of that, you are wrong."
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Treatment may be more dangerous than spider bite
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May 30, 2012: A man displays a spider suspected to be a new species of tarantula in Tinsukia, Assam state, India. The hairy spiders were first noticed about a month ago across Tinsukia district's grassy plains and dense jungle forests north of the Brahmaputra River. Colonies of giant, biting spiders are attacking villagers and causing painful swelling that frightened victims are dangerously draining themselves with razor blades in remote northeast India, officials said Tuesday.AP Photo
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May 30, 2012: A spider suspected to be a new species of tarantula in Tinsukia, Assam state, India, is shown. The hairy spiders were first noticed about a month ago across Tinsukia district's grassy plains and dense jungle forests north of the Brahmaputra River. Colonies of giant, biting spiders are attacking villagers and causing painful swelling that frightened victims are dangerously draining themselves with razor blades in remote northeast India, officials said Tuesday, June 5, 2012.AP Photo
GAUHATI, India â€"  Large biting spiders have sparked panic in remote northeast India, but health authorities fear primitive treatment of the bites' painful swelling may be more dangerous than the spiders themselves.
Two people died in Tinsukia district after witch doctors used razor blades to drain the wounds. It's not known if the victims died from spider poison or from the attempted treatment. Local magistrate Kishore Thakuria said the victims were cremated before autopsies could be done.
'It looks like a new species. We haven't been able to identify it.'
- Ecologist L.R. Saikia
Another seven bite victims have been treated with antibiotics against infection after they also tried themselves to drain their wounds, said Dr. Anil Phapowali at the local Sadiya town hospital.
The hairy spiders were noticed about a month ago across Tinsukia district's grassy plains and dense jungle forests north of the Brahmaputra River.
Ecologist L.R. Saikia at Assam's Dibrugarh University said it may be a previously unknown species of tarantula. The spiders are roughly the size of a person's thumb.
"It looks like a new species. We haven't been able to identify it," he said Tuesday. Officials cannot use anti-venom in treating bite victims until the species is identified.
Meanwhile, villagers are keeping lamps on at night and standing guard against spiders entering their mud-and-thatch huts. There are about 100,000 villagers, mostly poor rice farmers, living in the area cut off from roads by the river.
Officials say the spiders are now also showing up south of the Brahmaputra.
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URGENT: Syria is expelling US and European diplomats, foreign ministry says
DAMASCUS â€"  Syria barred a string of U.S. and European diplomats Tuesday, saying they were "no longer welcome" as the country plunged into its most profound international isolation in decades.
Last week, Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move over the Houla massacre, in which more than 100 people were slaughtered over one weekend in a cluster of small villages.
The U.N. says pro-regime gunmen were believed to be responsible for at least some of the killings. President Bashar Assad has insisted his forces had nothing to do with the massacre.
The countries targeted by the expulsion order have already pulled their ambassadors from Damascus, but the move was symbolic of how far diplomatic ties have disintegrated over the course of the uprising that began last year in March.
"Some countries have informed our diplomatic missions and our embassies' staff that they are unwelcome," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdessi said in a statement.
He said Damascus has decided to take a "reciprocal measure" against ambassadors from the U.S., Britain, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Italy and Spain. A number of French, German, Canadian, Bulgarian and Belgian diplomats also are affected, Makdessi said.
Syria is struggling to crush an increasingly deadly uprising against Assad's rule, but the regime's deadly crackdown on dissent has brought widespread condemnation.
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URGENT: Syria is expelling US and European diplomats, foreign ministry says
DAMASCUS â€"  Syria barred a string of U.S. and European diplomats Tuesday, saying they were "no longer welcome" as the country plunged into its most profound international isolation in decades.
Last week, Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move over the Houla massacre, in which more than 100 people were slaughtered over one weekend in a cluster of small villages.
The U.N. says pro-regime gunmen were believed to be responsible for at least some of the killings. President Bashar Assad has insisted his forces had nothing to do with the massacre.
The countries targeted by the expulsion order have already pulled their ambassadors from Damascus, but the move was symbolic of how far diplomatic ties have disintegrated over the course of the uprising that began last year in March.
"Some countries have informed our diplomatic missions and our embassies' staff that they are unwelcome," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdessi said in a statement.
He said Damascus has decided to take a "reciprocal measure" against ambassadors from the U.S., Britain, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Italy and Spain. A number of French, German, Canadian, Bulgarian and Belgian diplomats also are affected, Makdessi said.
Syria is struggling to crush an increasingly deadly uprising against Assad's rule, but the regime's deadly crackdown on dissent has brought widespread condemnation.
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Sandusky Trial to KickOff With Jury Selection
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This April 5, 2012 file photo shows former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arriving at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa.AP2012
BELLEFONTE, Pa. â€"  Despite his repeated efforts to delay it, Jerry Sandusky's child molestation trial was set to begin with the start of jury selection, as prosecutors and his defense lawyers choose 12 people from the area around Penn State to decide his guilt or innocence.
Sandusky's lawyer said the 68-year-old, who gained fame as defensive coordinator for the university's vaunted football team, where he won two national championships, would be in the courtroom Tuesday for the start of a trial that is expected to last several weeks.
Opening statements are likely to be made Monday, but first the jurors have to be chosen, a process that could pose a monumental challenge in a region thick with Penn State alumni, employees and football fans.
Sandusky is charged with 52 criminal counts for alleged abuse of 10 boys over 15 years, allegations he has repeatedly denied.
Among the expected witnesses are several young men who contend they were abused by Sandusky. Prosecutors have claimed that Sandusky groomed boys he met through a charity he founded for at-risk youth, then attacked them, in some cases in his own home or inside university athletic facilities.
Among the challenges for jury selection are the extraordinarily heavy news coverage of the scandal and the wide reach of The Second Mile, the youth charity Sandusky founded in 1977.
"It's going to be a very, very difficult chore to pick a jury in that community," said Brian McMonagle, a Philadelphia defense attorney unconnected to the case.
Whether those Penn State ties work to the advantage of the defense or the prosecution remains to be seen.
Prosecutors, though, were so concerned that they asked Judge John Cleland to bring in prospective jurors from another county.
"The life of the university and Centre County are inextricably intertwined, both philosophically and economically," prosecutor Joseph McGettigan wrote. "To ask members of that community to ... insulate themselves from the institution which informs so many aspects of their lives is asking too much."
Cleland rejected the request but said he would reconsider if a jury isn't selected in a reasonable amount of time.
The proceedings will begin with a pool of 200 prospective jurors out of a county of 154,000 people. They will be questioned about their feelings about Sandusky and the case, and about any personal ties to the opposing lawyers or to the defendant, who for more than 30 years ran The Second Mile, which will play a prominent role in the prosecution's case.
The defense opposed bringing in an out-of-town jury.
Edward Schwartz, a jury consultant in Lexington, Mass., said he suspects the defense will try to shape the case in such a way that the jury will take out its frustration about the firing of longtime head coach Joe Paterno in the aftermath of Sandusky's arrest.
There's risk in such a strategy, however. The jury could instead blame Sandusky for "single-handedly bringing down the reputation of an institution they love and they feel an attachment to," Schwartz said.
Paterno was dismissed in November for not acting more decisively in 2001 after a member of his coaching staff reported seeing Sandusky in the locker room showers with a boy. Paterno died of lung cancer in January at age 85.
Stephen Capone, a veteran Pittsburgh-based lawyer, said the judge will probably not automatically disqualify anyone with a Penn State connection. Instead, he said, he suspects Cleland will ask prospective jurors if their ties to the university would prevent them from rendering a fair decision, and those who answer yes will be dismissed.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys will also have a certain number of so-called peremptory challenges, which allow them to remove a potential juror without having to give a reason.
Ultimately, it may be impossible to find a jury that has no connection to Penn State or has never heard of Sandusky. The goal, McMonagle said, will be to find jurors who say they can give Sandusky a fair trial and render their verdict based on the evidence and testimony, not on what they have heard or read.
The nightmare scenario for either side, outside lawyers say, is that a prospective juror will hide his or her true feelings to get on the jury.
"The scariest thing in the world is the reality that some jurors have already formed an opinion and simply won't man up to it," said McMonagle, who has tried many high-profile cases. "They're sitting there like time bombs. That's the fear you always have to endure in a high-publicity case, particularly in a case like this."
On Monday, the judge ruled that Sandusky's alleged victims will have to testify using their real names, and that tweets or other electronic communications by reporters will not be permitted during the trial. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, meanwhile, dashed Sandusky's hopes for a last-minute delay of the trial.
Lawyers for several of the accusers had asked that their clients be allowed to testify under fake names, a rarity in criminal cases.
"Arguably any victim of any crime would prefer not to appear in court, not to be subjected to cross-examination, not to have his or her credibility evaluated by a jury - not to put his name and reputation at stake," the judge said. "But we ask citizens to do that every day in courts across the nation."
News organizations, including The Associated Press, typically do not identify alleged victims of sex crimes.
Penn State said on a website Monday that the scandal had cost the university $9.6 million as of March 31. That does not include the hiring of two new public relations firms in April for about $2.5 million to help with the fallout from the crisis.
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AP writer Michael Rubinkam in Allentown, Pa., contributed to this report.
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FILE: Two sketches of the suspect in murder of Morgan Harrington have been released by the FBI.FBI
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va â€"  Two years after the body of a Virginia college student was found in a Virginia field, the FBI is releasing a new photo of her suspected killer in hopes of breathing new life back into the case.
The Charlottesville Newsplex reports the sketch is an updated version of one previously used in the search for the killer of 20-year-old Morgan Harrington. The original sketch was created in 2005 following a sexual assault, and authorities say the man depicted has been linked genetically to both that assault and Harrington's murder.
In the new sketch, the suspect has a fuller face and his beard and mustache are both gone. Authorities say it is likely the suspect has attempted to change his appearance since the original sketch was released.
Harrington's mother Gil Harrington says she is hoping the new sketch will lead someone to recognize the suspect.
"To me, the most frightening thing about it is that it doesn't look like the face of evil," she told The Charlottesville Newsplex."It looks like a regular person walking around and that's why this composite is important because there is someone who looks regular, walking around hiding in plain sight, probably in this town."
Virginia State Police tells The Charlottesville Newsplex the sketch is part of a new multimedia marketing campaign they are launching in hopes of bringing Morgan Harrington's killer to justice.
Morgan Harrington, a student at Virginia Tech, disappeared in October 2009 after going to a Metallica concert in Charlottesville. Her body was discovered three months later in a field.
Gil Harrington says she hopes the suspect in her daughter's murder is caught before he commits another crime.
"If you are one of those who has had some suspicions or concerns, and the hair on your neck has gone up a couple of times, don't filter," she told The Charlottesville Newsplex. "Call police and let them be the ones to look into it. That's what we're trying to do, shake loose a killer who is walking amongst us."
Click for more from The Charlottesville Newsplex.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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