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The question may have been lost in translation, but a visibly angry Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bluntly told a town-hall meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, "I will you tell you my opinion, I'm not going to channel my husband."
Hillary Clinton became visibly angry after a translator asked what Bill Clinton would think regarding an issue.
The unscripted moment happened as Clinton spoke to students at a Congolese university in Kinshasa, the Congo capital.
A male student rose to ask a question about Chinese financial contracts with Congo.
The student asked Clinton what President Obama would think of the deal, but pool reporters in the room said the translator made a mistake, posing the question as what would Bill Clinton think.
Clinton looked surprised when she first heard the translation in the headset, and then sharply replied, "You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state, I am. You ask my opinion. I will tell you my opinion; I'm not going to channel my husband." source: cnn.com

At least 10 suspected militants have been killed in a strike by a US drone in north-west Pakistan, local intelligence officials say.
The attack targeted an insurgents' camp in South Waziristan near the Afghan border, the officials said.
The area is the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, whose death in an earlier strike has not yet been confirmed.
There have been dozens of such drone strikes in the past year.
Hundreds of militants and civilians have been killed.
Most of the strikes have taken place in the tribal regions of North and South Waziristan.
source: bbc.com

With book deals, TV appearances and thousands of readers, moms who detail every moment of their domestic lives online produce some of the Web's most well-read blogs.
'Mommy bloggers' want to stem what they fear is a backlash against their profession.
Many of these "mommy bloggers" even draw the attention of companies that send them free product samples -- everything from toys to baby strollers to video game consoles -- in the hopes of getting positive coverage.
But to some, these freebies aren't necessarily a good thing. Readers have complained they can no longer trust their favorite blogger's advice. Veteran women bloggers grumble that newcomers sully the genre's reputation by demanding free products and trips. Newsweek.com published an article last month headlined, "Trusted Mom or Sellout?"
"There has been a turn of goodwill [against mommy bloggers]," said Liz Gumbinner, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Cool Mom Picks. "A year ago, bloggers were rising stars. Six months later, really big marketers like Wal-Mart got into the game and started backing bloggers.
"That created a new paradigm: An A-list blogger was not the one who wrote the best and had the most influence, but had the most marketing attention and free products," she added. "It created a new generation of bloggers who blogged to get free stuff."
So Gumbinner and other women bloggers are taking steps to become more transparent and stem what they fear is a backlash against their profession.

The couple responsible for the death of 17-month-old Baby Peter have been named after a court anonymity order expired.
He died in Haringey, north London, in the care of his mother Tracey Connelly, 28, and her partner Steven Barker, 33.
A third defendant in the case named as Jason Owen, 37, is now identified as Barker's brother. Baby Peter's surname, Connelly, has also been released.
In May, Connelly and Barker were given minimum terms of five and 12 years for causing or allowing the death of Peter.
In a separate court case, Barker was also given a life sentence for raping a two-year-old girl.
Peter had more than 50 injuries, including fractured ribs and a broken back, when he was found dead in a property in Penshurst Road, Tottenham, in August 2007.
It emerged Owen had changed his name to avoid being connected to the killing of Peter.
Jason Owen changed his surname to avoid being linked to the killing
Owen, 37, who was jailed for three years, was staying at the home in Tottenham, which is within the borough of Haringey, with his 15-year-old girlfriend.
Speaking to the BBC, Connelly's grandmother Mary O'Connor said she still had contact with her, but did not know "what to believe".
"She lied. She lied to the police, she lied to me and to social services."
It has also been revealed that the brothers were charged with assaulting their own grandmother, Hilda Barker, who lived in Whitstable, Kent, in 1995, in an attempt to make her change her will.
That case was dropped when Mrs Barker, 82, died before giving evidence, but she told police she had been locked in a wardrobe by the pair.
It can also be reported that Baby Peter had four siblings.
A judge had ordered none of the defendants could be named because the other children were still being placed with alternative carers. Barker's trial for rape also contributed to the delay in naming the defendants. source: bbc.com

A Jewish Holocaust survivor who later lived on the streets of New York City has left half of her $300,000 estate to Hebrew University, the school said Monday.

"It moved us very much," university spokesman Yefet Ozery said in a telephone interview from Jerusalem, where the school is based.

"Hebrew University has many, many donors and benefactors and supporters and many people remember us in their will, but I haven't come across such a person that lived actually as a poor woman who would give half of her bequest to Hebrew University," Ozery said.
The woman, who died two years ago in her 90s, has not been identified publicly at the request of her estate's executor, he said.
"He didn't want her name to be remembered as a homeless" person, Ozery said.
The woman, who had no known relatives, survived a concentration camp and was living on the streets of New York's Upper West Side several years ago when a Jewish accountant befriended her, Ozery said.
"He and his wife adopted her pretty much to their home and supplied her with basic needs," which included finding her public housing, he said.
In return, the woman moved the couple's car from one side of the street to the other so that it would not be ticketed, he said.
At the time, they had no clue to her net worth, Ozery said.
"When the woman told him and his wife that she would be leaving a will, they thought to themselves that there would be nothing there because they knew her as owning nothing," he said.
It was only when the woman died that the couple learned of her wealth, which she had kept in a bank.
"They were very surprised to find out that she left this amount and that half of it went to Hebrew University," Ozery said.
How she accumulated the money, the balance of which went to other causes and to her friends, is not known, he said.
Her executor -- the accountant who befriended her -- told school officials of the gift three months ago, but they did not learn the circumstances behind it until last week, Ozery said. There was no obvious connection between her and the school.
A friend of the accountant took the first check to the school last week and told administrators the story behind it.
"Everybody was moved and excited," Ozery said. "This was a special story and a special gift."
In keeping with the woman's wishes, the money is to be spent on medical research and scholarships for researchers, he said. source: cnn.com

ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Pirates released an Italian ship four months after they seized it, Italy's foreign minister announced Sunday.
Franco Frattini expressed his "joy at the positive outcome ... relating to the kidnapping of the merchant vessel Buccaneer and for the release" of the crew.
Somali pirates freed the vessel after months of negotiations, the ministry said.
The ministry strongly denied a ransom had been paid, but released no other details about the talks with the pirates.
The Buccaneer has a crew of 16: 10 Italians, 5 Romanians and a Croat, the ministry said. They are expected home in about two days.
The tug was seized in the Gulf of Aden on April 11, Cyrus Mody of the International Maritime Bureau told CNN. source: cnn.com

Younger leaders have gained powerful posts in Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, early results from its first poll in 20 years show.
Mr Abbas remains the head, but several veterans apparently lost seats on the powerful central committee.
Popular jailed leader Marwan Barghouti, and influential Mohammad Dahlan, who is disliked by supporters of rival faction Hamas, were both set to gain seats.
Young members wanted to depose an "old guard" seen as divided and corrupt.
The party, which lost elections to Hamas in 2006, has been trying to restore its image as ineffective and dominated by cronyism.
Preliminary results from the vote during the congress in the West Bank town of Bethlehem showed new officials had gained 14 out of 18 seats on the powerful central committee.
Heather Sharp, BBC News, Jerusalem
Finally, the vote was held, after a long week, dogged by rows and factions' fears that their rivals had stacked the conference with sympathisers.
Palestinians may be heartened that Fatah got this far, and the sway of ageing exiles who do not share their daily struggles has been reduced.
But the so-called "new blood" are all established players in Palestinian politics, and still have a lot to prove if they are to convince voters they have left behind the days of corruption and infighting under Arafat.
While they broadly agree on a two-state solution, there are differences over Hamas. Mr Barghouti's supporters want to push harder for unity - and he remains in jail in any case - while Mr Dahlan is at the forefront of the feud.
Elections slated for 2010 will not happen without some kind of deal with Hamas. So for most Palestinians, a unified leadership with a popular mandate to fight their cause on the international stage remains as far off as ever.
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Less than half of the 10 members of the so-called "old guard", who were seeking re-election, managed to hold onto their seats on the central committee, the results showed.
The Fatah veteran Ahmed Qurei, who was the first Palestinian prime minister, was on course to lose his seat.
Saeb Erekat, a key negotiator with Israel, and Jibril Rajoub, who like Mr Dahlan has led one of the party's security forces, also gained posts on the committee, the partial results showed. source: bbc.com