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4B – Daily News – Tuesday, August 24, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING 9 die after fired cop hijacks HK tour bus MANILA, Philippines (AP) — It looked like a hostage rescue in slow motion: Police creeping up on the bus with sledge- hammers and smashing first one window, then another, then trying and failing to rip open the door. When they finally got inside, authorities said, they found nine bodies: eight Hong Kong tourists and the ex-policeman who had seized the bus to demand his job back. The bloody denoue- ment to the 12-hour drama in the heart of the Philippine capital, wit- nessed live on TV, rattled a country already accus- tomed to kidnappings and violence blamed on Mus- lim rebels. It provoked demands from the Hong Kong government for an explanation, and an acknowledgment from Philippine President Benigno Aquino III that his police need more training and equipment. It was 10:15 a.m. Mon- day in Manila when Rolando Mendoza, 55 and married with three children, hitched a ride with the tourists as they visited historic sites in the city. He wore a camou- flage uniform and carried an M16 rifle but didn’t seem unusual in the heav- ily policed capital. Then he announced that he was taking the travelers hostage to win back his job. Afghanistan more than a year away from security WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior U.S. com- mander on Monday wouldn’t predict when Afghanistan might take control of its own security and warned that NATO needs at least another year to recruit and train enough soldiers and police officers. The assessment by Lt. Gen. Bill Caldwell, the head of NATO’s training mission in Afghanistan, further dims U.S. hopes that the planned U.S. withdrawal next year will be significant in size. President Barack Obama has said that troops will begin pulling out in July 2011, the size and pace of withdrawal depending on security conditions. Defense offi- cials, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, have said they believe next summer’s pullout would be modest. In a Pentagon briefing, Caldwell told reporters that Afghan army and police forces won’t reach sufficient numbers until Oct. 31, 2011 — three months after Obama’s deadline to start U.S. withdrawals. NATO has set the goal of creating an Afghan military and police force of 305,600 personnel — 171,600 army and 134,000 police. Trapped miners may face months underground COPIAPO, Chile (AP) — Engineers reinforced a lifeline Monday to 33 miners entombed deep inside a Chilean gold and copper mine, preparing to keep them supplied with food, water, medicine and communications during the four months it may take to carve a tunnel wide enough to pull them out. A team of doctors and psychiatric experts also arrived Monday at the remote mine, implement- ing a plan to maintain the miners’ sanity as well. ‘‘We need to urgently establish what psycholog- ical situation they are in. They need to understand what we know up here at the surface, that it will take many weeks for them to reach the light,’’ Health Minister Jaime Manalich explained. Engineers worked through the night to rein- force the six-inch (15 cm) -wide bore-hole that broke through to the min- ers’ refuge on Sunday, more than 2,257 feet (688 meters) below the surface. 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A federal appeals court had ruled that two doctors who were among those bringing the lawsuit, adult stem cell researchers James Sherley of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute and lawyers. The divorce was grant- ed in Bay County Circuit Court in Panama City, Fla., about 375 miles away from their Isleworth home outside Orlando. The couple had married in October 2004 in Bar- bados and have a 3-year- old daughter, Sam, and a 19-month-old son, Char- lie. Theresa Deisher of AVM Biotechnlogy, had the authority to do so, prompting Lamberth to reverse a decision he made last October. Lamberth said that the injury of increased com- petition that Sherley and Deisher would face because of the guidelines ‘‘is not speculative. It is actual and imminent. Indeed, the guidelines threaten the very liveli- hood of plaintiffs Sherley and Deisher.’’ Jury finds ex- Marine guilty of murder GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A jury on Mon- day convicted a former Marine of first-degree murder in the death of a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape, a charge that stalled the military career he trea- sured. Cesar Laurean, 23, of Las Vegas, was found guilty of killing Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, of Vandalia, Ohio, in December 2007. The two were assigned to the same logistics unit at Camp Lejeune, the base in Jack- sonville that is home to about 50,000 Marines. The former Marine corporal was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The victim’s mother, Mary Lauterbach, read a statement before the judge imposed the sen- tence. She told Laurean to look at his mother and see the pain in her face. ‘‘I feel so sorry for your daughter. 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Nine months after Woods caught in adultery, his marriage ends Tiger Woods and his Swedish-born wife offi- cially divorced Monday, nine months after his middle-of-the night car crash outside their home set off shocking revela- tions that the world’s most famous athlete had been cheating on her through multiple affairs. ‘‘We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future,’’ Woods and Elin Norde- gren said in a joint state- ment released by their The marriage was described in court docu- ments as ‘‘irretrievably broken’’ with no point in trying to reconcile. 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