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The Northern Ireland-based band also won best live act, most downloaded song and best Irish album for Eyes Open.
They are nominated in three categories for this month's Brit awards, including best British group and British album.
Other winners at the Ireland Music Awards included Justin Timberlake, Lily Allen and Westlife, who were named best pop act for the seventh year running.
Timberlake and Allen won best international male and female respectively. Scissor Sisters were the best international group.
Luan Parle and Damien Dempsey won the prizes for best Irish male and female, while Clannad took home the lifetime achievement award.
Performers at the ceremony in Dublin included Pussycat Dolls, Kaiser Chiefs, Amy Winehouse and Ronan Keating, who sang with Westlife.
In a BBC interview, Palaniappan Chidambaram attributed this to the fast pace of India's economic growth.
"People will have homes, work, food, clothing, access to education and medical care," Mr Chidambaram said.
But he also said that some 25% of all Indians - or more than 250 million people - were still living in "abject poverty", earning less than $1 a day.
Mr Palaniappan told the BBC World Service Newshour programme that poverty "will continue to decline" in India.
"The faster we grow and the more inclusive that growth is, the decline in poverty will be rapid.
"I'm confident we can wipe out poverty by 2040."
Mr Palaniappan admitted that the rapid economic growth in India in recent years could have widened the gap between the richest and the poorest in the country.
But he said that "at the same time those at the bottom of the pyramid have seen improvement in their lives".
The minister also said more should be done to combat relatively low life expectancy rates and high mortality rates.
India has become a world economic power, with growth over the past three years averaging 8% - a rate approaching that of its booming neighbour, China.
Based on purchasing power parity, it is now the world's fourth largest economy.
However, income per head in India today is just $720 (£365) a year.
India's low costs and huge, English-speaking, workforce have made it popular with multinationals for work including manufacturing and call centres.Rage Against The Machine podem realizar digressão
Tom Morello disse em entrevista que a possibilidade dos Rage Against The Machine darem concertos além do festival de Coachella não está posta de parte.
In Diario Digital,02FEV2007
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- YouTube is being blocked by Brazil's second largest fixed-line telephone operator in response to a judicial order banning a steamy video of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli, the telephone company said Monday.
Brasil Telecom SA prohibited access to YouTube across a wide swath of Latin America's most populous country late Friday after receiving the order, said a company spokesman who declined to give his name because of departmental policy.
The widely viewed video shows Cicarelli and Brazilian banker Renato Malzoni in intimate scenes along a beach near the Spanish city of Cadiz. It became even more popular over the weekend after the Brazil ban made headlines worldwide and users posted it to a slew of other Web sites.
A judge last Friday ordered YouTube to prevent the video from being seen by Brazilians. The judge also said fixed-line operators that provide the gateway to Internet providers must take part in the ban until YouTube can prove that the clip cannot be accessed in Brazil on its site.
YouTube did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
On Monday, YouTube was unavailable in areas served by Brasil Telecom SA from the capital of Brasilia to the Amazon, though it still worked in heavily populated Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where Internet use is heaviest.
Sao Paulo and Rio are served by No. 1 fixed-line operator Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicacoes SA, which did not respond to messages seeking comment on whether it was among the companies receiving orders from the judge.
Sao Paulo state Supreme Court Justice Enio Santarelli Zuliani did not disclose the names of the telecommunications companies because many case details are sealed, his press office said.
Zuliani's order is temporary and will automatically be reviewed by a three-member judicial panel, but the Brasil Telecom spokesman said he did not know how long the YouTube ban would last.
While judge's press office insisted that YouTube and the telephone companies have only been ordered to filter out the video itself, the Brasil Telecom spokesman said his company received an order to block the site.
But the spokesman also said it would be technically impossible to filter out the video without blocking the entire site, the spokesman said.
YouTube last week said it had removed the video, but the lawyer for Cicarelli's boyfriend insisted the clip keeps popping up when people file it using different names.
Cicarelli and Malzoni sued YouTube in September and won an injunction for the removal of the video, but Zuliani expanded his order and included the telecommunications companies last week after the clip continued to appear periodically, the court's press office said.
Cicarelli, one of the country's best-known models, hosts a show on Brazilian MTV and was previously engaged to soccer great Ronaldo, who plays for Spain's famous Real Madrid team. Two Brazilian sites that ran the video complied with the original order, but Malzoni went back to court after it kept appearing on YouTube, which is owned by Google Inc.
Last September, Google appealed a Brazilian judge's order to turn over information on users of the company's Orkut social-networking service.
Google insisted it already had complied with court requests to identify individuals accused of using Orkut to spread child pornography and engage in hate speech against blacks, Jews and homosexuals.
The company has said it is open to data requests from foreign governments as long as they comply with U.S. laws and are issued within the country in which the information is stored.
In cnn.com 9Jan2007
O avião, um Falcon, fez o trajecto Telavive/Beirute, a 21 de Novembro - o mesmo dia em que o ministro libanês da Indústria, Pierre Gemayel, pereceu vítima de um atentado.
Para além do ministro português dos Negócios Estrangeiros, viajavam naquele avião diplomatas, dois jornalistas da agência Lusa e outros dois da RTP.
As suspeitas do Hezbollah foram noticiadas em árabe pela cadeia de televisão Al-Manar, televisão oficial daquele movimento radical.
O ministro português visitara antes Israel, onde se encontrara com o primeiro-ministro Ehud Olmert, e desclocara-se a Ramallah, na Cisjordânia, onde se reuniu com um elemento da Autoridade Palestiniana e depositara uma coroa de flores no mausoléu de Yasser Arafat.
Um mês depois, as notícias da Al-Manar levaram a imprensa a questionar a identidade dos passageiros do avião português.
Contudo, fontes do MNE contactadas pelo Expresso «negaram o transporte de ilegais».
A questão pode levantar interrogações sobre a segurança dos 141 militares portugueses no Líbano, embora o responsável pelo contingente português, Firme Gaspar, tenha dito que, até ao momento, «não houve qualquer alerta, nem por parte das autoridades portuguesas, nem por parte do comando italiano da UNIFIL».
A agência Lusa tentou contactar diversas entidades para obter comentários à notícia do Expresso mas, devido ao adiantado da hora, tal não foi possível.
In Diário Digital / LusaBill Gates em entrevista
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the U.S. higher education system is the envy of the world but primary and secondary schools are failing to adequately prepare students for college.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Gates said the experience of being a parent of three kids -- ages 10, 7 and 4 -- has led him to spend more time thinking about schools.
Specifically, he said the U.S. education system needs higher standards, clear accountability, flexible personnel practices and innovation.
Gates, whose children are in private schools, said every state should require students to take three or four years of math and science to graduate from high school -- 25 states currently have such requirements. He wants states to have the power to intervene at low-performing schools.
"Real accountability means more than having goals; it also means having clear consequences for not meeting the goals," he said in a speech earlier Monday to Washington state educators who came to hear the results of an education task force.
Gates said schools should also be able to pay the best teachers better and offer incentives to attract people with rare abilities.
"It's astonishing to me to have a system that doesn't allow us to pay more for someone with scarce abilities, that doesn't allow us to pay more to reward strong performance," he said. "That is tantamount to saying teacher talent and performance don't matter and that's basically saying students don't matter."
He also spoke of some creative school programs -- particularly charter schools run by private companies -- that should be a model for innovation in the nation's schools.
"This nation has to do something very challenging, which is to provide a strong education to almost every student," he said.
Gates will start working full-time in mid-2008 at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which seeks cures for the world's diseases and to improve American education. He said his role at the foundation isn't going to change that much, because he won't be running it.
He said the foundation, which received a $1.5 billion donation from fellow multibillionaire Warren Buffet in June, was discussing ways it could accept donations but that it was not actively seeking them.
In CNN.COM 15Nov2006
«O que os grandes amadores de chocolate nos mostraram é que a substância química contida nos grãos de cacau (chamada flavonóide) tem um efeito bioquímico semelhante ao da aspirina ao reduzir a aglutinação das plaquetas sanguíneas», afirmou Diane Becker, professora da Escola de Medicina da Universidade John Hopkins e principal autora do estudo.
Este trabalho, apresentado no congresso anual da Associação Americana do Coração, que decorre em Chicago, não deverá no entanto ser entendido como um incitamento ao consumo excessivo de chocolate, por conter em geral açúcar e manteiga, que contribuem para o aumento do peso - sublinhou a investigadora.
Mas os médicos poderiam recomendar duas colheres de café de chocolate preto por dia na sua forma mais pura, constituído por extractos secos do cacau, afirmou.
Os cientistas sabem há duas décadas que o chocolate preto, rico em flavonóides, faz baixar a tensão arterial e tem outros efeitos benéficos na circulação sanguínea.
Os resultados do estudo mostram, ao contrário de investigações anteriores, que doses reduzidas de chocolate preto são suficientes para ter efeitos anticoagulantes e que não é preciso consumir grandes quantidades para obter esses efeitos, referiu Diane Becker.
«Comer um pequeno pedaço de chocolate ou beber um chocolate quente no quadro de um regime alimentar diário é provavelmente bom para a saúde, desde que não se exagere e sobretudo não se coma chocolate misturado com manteiga e açúcar», recomenda a médica.
A investigadora chegou a estas conclusões acidentalmente, quando estudava em 1.200 voluntários os efeitos da aspirina, que além de analgésico é também anticoagulante.
Diário Digital / Lusa 15Nov2006Salário Mínimo - Sócrates fala em subida “ambiciosa”-Aumento dá para o café