LONDON, England (CNN) — President Bush arrived Sunday in London to discuss the war in Iraq and other issues with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

With just seven months left in office, Bush is on a farewell tour of Europe that has already taken him to Slovenia, Germany, Italy and France.

According to the Observer newspaper, Bush was expected to urge Brown not to announce a timetable for a British pullout from Iraq. According to The Associated Press, the British Broadcasting Corp. has previously reported that Britain could set a date for the withdrawal of its soldiers from Iraq within months. The military has called the report "pure speculation."

Bush has a "good" relationship with Brown, but Brown is obviously "a different personality" than his predecessor Tony Blair, White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters en route to London from Paris.

Other topics for discussion will include Iran, the Middle East, climate change and trade, Hadley said.

On Saturday, Bush said he was confident the United States can reach a long-term security agreement with Iraq, one that will not establish permanent U.S. bases there.

"We’re going to work hard to accommodate their desires," he said. "It’s their country. And at the same time, we believe that a strategic relationship with Iraq is important. It’s important for Iraq, it’s important for the United States, and it’s important for the region.

Whatever we agree to, it will not commit future presidents to troop levels, nor will it establish permanent bases," Bush said.

Anti-war campaigners planned protests during the president’s visit. In 2003, large crowds demonstrated against Bush for three days during his trip.

The president will meet Monday morning with Blair, who was a chief ally of Bush, and supported the Iraq war.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned Sunday his troops would take their battle against Taliban extremists across the border into Pakistan to prevent them launching attacks in his country.

Karzai told reporters in Kabul on Sunday that Afghan soldiers had the right to enter Pakistan because insurgents crossing the border to attack Afghan targets "gives us the right to go back and do the same."

The Afghan president has previously urged Pakistan and its U.S.-led coalition allies to do more to tackle extremists holed up in Pakistan’s remote border regions, but this is the first time he has indicated taking matters into his own hands.

Karzai said his administration’s "patience was running thin." He said the cross-border attacks have destroyed homes and schools.

"This is a two-way road, and Afghans are good in two-way road journeys," he said. "We will complete the journey, we will get them and we will defeat them. And we will avenge all that they have done in Afghanistan for the past so many years."

Pakistan’s prime minister responded that his country would not "allow" Afghan troops in.

"We will neither interfere in the internal affairs of any country, nor will we allow anyone to interfere in our affairs," Yousuf Raza Gilani told Pakistan’s private ARY-OneWorld television.

"Such statements will not help in the normalization of friendly relations between the two countries, and will hurt the sentiments of people on both sides of the border," he said.

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Recent sotia milionarului Columbeanu, cea care s-a asezat confortabil in varful topului celor mai bine platite manechine din Romania a fost "obligata" sa recunoasca faptul ca nu ea este "cea mai cea". "Sora mea este foarte frumoasa si nu are nevoie de pile ca sa puna mana pe contracte.

Ea are toate atuurile sa se impuna in modelling, pentru ca, dupa parerea mea, arata mai bine si decat mine", ne-a declarat Moni. Sotia lui Iri considera ca trupul Ramonei este mai bine proportionat in comparatie cu al ei, iar formele mezinei sunt mult mai incitante.

Singurul amanunt in privinta caruia sotia miliardarului nu a comentat si a dat de inteles ca nu suporta comparatie este chipul. Este posibil ca sinceritatea dezarmanta a Monicai sa coincida cu gandurile ascunse ale afaceristului, in "gradina" caruia traiesc cele doua modele, sotie si cumnata.

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LONDON, England (CNN) — A second set of confidential papers on British terrorism policies were found on a train, The Independent reported on Sunday.

A member of the public found the documents at the Waterloo station in central London and turned them over to the London-based newspaper, Simon Evans, a journalist at The Independent, told CNN.

The paper gave them to the Treasury Cabinet on Friday evening, Evans said.

The documents outline how trade and banking systems "can be manipulated to finance illicit weapons of mass destruction in Iran," The Independent reported.

The papers also describe methods to fund terrorists and address "potential fraud of commercial Web sites and international Internet payment systems."

The documents also include notes and draft speeches prepared for a week-long international financial crime conference in London, The Independent reported.

"There are some serious issues that shouldn’t be left on a train," Evans said.

A spokeswoman from the UK’s Treasury Cabinet, which handled inquiries about the incident, said the department is "extremely concerned about what has happened, and we will be taking steps to ensure that it doesn’t happen in the future."

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ROME, Italy (AP) — Police say a family in southern Italy kept a woman locked in a room in their house for 18 years because they were angry she was pregnant out of wedlock.

Police say they freed the woman, now 47, on Friday in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The ANSA news agency said she was taken to hospital for psychiatric care.

Police said they arrested her brother and sister, and put her 80-year-old mother under house arrest. ANSA says police received an anonymous tip.

Italian TV showed the room with a bed, chair, filthy toilet and sink.

Police said the woman’s child, now 17, was living with relatives and didn’t know about his mother.

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PERICOL. Fumatul îngreunează circulaÅ£ia sângelui către urechi ÅŸi poate afecta auzul, arată un studiu realizat de oamenii de ÅŸtiinţă din cadrul Universităţii Antwerp (Belgia).

Odată ce auzul are de suferit, cu greu se mai poate „repara“, susÅ£in cercetătorii citaÅ£i de BBC News. „Pierderea de auz este proporÅ£ională cu numărul de Å£igări fumate ÅŸi cu indexul de masă corporală“, a afirmat medicul Erick Fransen, de la Universitatea din Anwerp. Auzul începe să aibă de suferit, chiar ÅŸi după un an de fumat regulat.

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PREVENÅ¢IE. Cei care se hrănesc cu alimente bogate în Omega 3 îÅŸi protejează vederea, arată BBC News.

Astfel, persoanele care consumă frecvent peÅŸte îÅŸi reduc cu aproape un sfert riscul de a dezvolta degenerescenţă maculară, o afecÅ£iune oftalmologică gravă, care poate duce la orbire. Cercetătorii australieni recomandă, în aceste condiÅ£ii, consumul a cel puÅ£in două porÅ£ii de peÅŸte pe săptămână.

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Duminica, la 50 de zile dupa Pasti se sarbatoreste minunea Pogorarii Duhului Sfant peste Apostolii Domnului, carora le-a dat putere divina, spre convertirea tuturor oamenilor. Pogorarea Sfantului Duh sau Cincizecimea incheie apoteotic ciclul pascal, marcand insasi nasterea Bisericii crestine. In popor, acest mare praznic poarta si denumirea de "Rusalii".

Rusaliile reprezinta o sarbatoare importanta si foarte complexa. Sarbatoarea dureaza trei zile, iar prima dintre ele coincide cu sarbatoarea religioasa numita Pogorarea Duhului Sfant. In calendarul ortodox, la aceasta zi, care poarta si numele de Duminica Mare, dupa cum se arata in cartea Irinei Nicolau "Ghidul sarbatorilor romanesti", se numara celelalte duminici: prima duminica dupa Rusalii, a doua… A doua zi de Rusalii coincide cu sarbatorirea Sfintei Treimi si cu Martea Rusaliilor, sarbatoarea se incheie. In sate, oamenii aduc de la biserica frunze de nuc. Daca nucii lipsesc, oamenii folosesc frunze de tei, la care se recurge peste vara pentru a preintampina grindina. Sunt locuri in care femeile spala de Rusalii picioarele trecatorilor. Se asaza la raspantii cu sapun, stergare si vase mari cu apa in care pun frunze de nuc.

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Curtea de Apel BucureÅŸti a decis, în noaptea de sâmbătă spre duminică, arestarea a 17 persoane implicate în scandalul privind obÅ£inerea frauduloasă de permise auto, majoritatea fiind funcÅ£ionari în cadrul Serviciului Public Comunitar Regim Permise de Conducere ÅŸi Înmatriculări Vehicule ArgeÅŸ.

Potrivit DNA, în perioada martie - iunie 2008, pe raza judeÅ£ului ArgeÅŸ ÅŸi-a desfăşurat activitatea un grup infracÅ£ional organizatcare a acÅ£ionat în scopul obÅ£inerii unor sume de bani pretinse ÅŸi primite de la mai multe persoane, pentru ca în schimbul banilor să le faciliteze obÅ£inerea permiselor de conducere de la SPCRPCIV ArgeÅŸ. Membrii grupului au pretins ÅŸi primit de la fiecare candidat sume cuprinse între 700 de euro ÅŸi 4.500 de euro.

În acest sens, în structura grupului infracÅ£ional au fost cooptate, ca membri, mai multe persoane care au preluat diferite îndatoriri, după cum urmează: racolarea persoanelor din mai multe judeÅ£e care erau interesate să obÅ£ină permisul de conducere prin coruperea unor funcÅ£ionari publici, schimbarea domiciliului viitorilor candidaÅ£i, falsificarea documentelor necesare participării la examen ÅŸi facilitarea promovării, în mod ilegal, a acestui examen.

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Presa italiană de sâmbătă îl laudă pe portarul Gianluigi Buffon, care a menÅ£inut speranÅ£ele Italiei de calificare în sferturile Euro-2008 după meciul cu românii, ÅŸi aÅŸteaptă victoria Olandei la partida cu România, din 17 iunie, în ultima etapă a grupei C la Euro-2008.

"PiÅ£urcă ÅŸi-a dispus echipa într-un catenaccio modern. Jucători de calitate, puternici fizic. Donadoni, fără sclipire", a scris agenÅ£ia Datasport.

Pentru La Stampa, portarul Gianluigi Buffon a fost stelar.

Corriere dello Sport scrie că Italia trebuie să aÅŸtepte un miracol. "Un meci vibrant, solid, plin de dramatism ÅŸi de emoÅ£ii. Meciul nu a înÅŸelat aÅŸteptările. Italia trebuie să aÅŸtepte un miracol pentru ajunge în sferturi. Buffon, grandissimo. Italia e furioasă. E obligată să bată FranÅ£a ÅŸi să spere în victoria Olandei cu România", a notat sursa citată.

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