Li Na makes history with French Open triumph

CNN) -- China's Li Na became the first Asian tennis player to win a grand slam singles title as she defeated defending champion Francesca Schiavone in the final of the French Open on Saturday.
The 29-year-old triumphed 6-4 7-6 (7-0) against the Italian, having been the first player from her country to reach the final of the clay-court tournament.
The victory will push her up to a career-high fourth in the world rankings, equaling the best by an Asian player set by Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm back in 1995.
"I was nervous but I didn't want to show my opponent. I think everyone in China will be so excited," she told reporters. "I got a text message from my friend saying they were crying in China because they saw the national flag coming up.
"Today is a dream come true. When I was a young player I always wanted to be a Grand Slam champion. Here someone said I was getting old -- it's not easy for the old woman's dream to come true! Not many players can win a grand slam.""
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Li had lost in her only other grand slam final appearance, when she also made history by reaching the title match at January's Australian Open, but this time she showed none of the nerves on display in that defeat by Kim Clijsters.
She wrapped up the first set in only 39 minutes, hitting 15 winners to three by Schiavone as her aggressive tactics from the back of the court paid off -- mirrored by her 10 unforced errors to five.
Li led 4-2 in the second set and appeared poised for an easy victory, but she faltered in the seventh game as the guileful Schiavone found her way back into the match.
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The 30-year-old had two chances to level the match against Li's serve, at 5-4 and 6-5, but both times her Chinese opponent fought back as the two played out some stunning rallies.
Schiavone had big support in the crowd at Roland Garros after beating home hope Marion Bartoli in the semifinals, but Li -- who earlier eliminated favorites Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka -- powered through the tie-break without conceding a point.
"She played well. I couldn't push her from the baseline," Schiavone said. "Then we were closer. One has to lose, one has to win. She deserved to win."
Schiavone beat Li in the third round in Paris last year, but was impressed by her opponent's improvement since then.
"She runs much more. Now she can hit one or two shots more. That is a big advantage on the clay," Schiavone said.
"I can imagine many people in China were watching this and will watch more now. I think it's also important for them to know clay courts over there -- I think they just have hard courts. This can be a good start for them."
It was China's first triumph at a grand slam since 2006, when Yan Zi and Zheng Jie won the women's doubles titles at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
Meanwhile, Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Canada's Daniel Nestor won the French Open men's doubles title on Saturday.
The second seeds, who have won 10 grand slam crowns between them with other doubles partners, triumphed 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 6-4 win over Colombia's Juan Sebastian Cabal and Eduardo Schwank of Argentina.

COMMENT: Li na from China won the tourment of france name Roland Garros and she beat Shiavonne from Italy and is the first chinese to won Roland Garros so good for Na li . She is the number 6 in the WTA .

Nadal: Titles mean more than being No. 1

(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal insists he is more motivated by winning titles than retaining the No. 1 ranking as the tennis season makes its quick switch from clay to grass this week.
The Spaniard has swapped Paris for London after clinching a record-equaling sixth French Open title on Sunday as he begins preparations to defend his Wimbledon crown.
The 24-year-old would have lost his top ranking if Roger Federer had not ended Novak Djokovic's 41-match unbeaten run this season in the semifinals at Roland Garros.
"I think he will have a big chance to be number one at Wimbledon," Nadal told CNN's Kate Giles of his Serbian rival. "I think he deserves to be number one because what he did was fantastic at the beginning of the season.
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"I'm very happy with what I did too. For me the most important thing is not the No. 1, the important thing is I have another title, another Roland Garros.
"And for me the most important thing is to be competitive every time when I go on court. I've been number one two times, I was happy for that but more important for me is the titles than that number one."
Having matched the legendary Bjorn Borg in winning six French Open titles, Nadal is now looking to extend his tally of 10 grand slam crowns with a third triumph at Wimbledon on a surface he has grown to love as his career has developed.
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His only warm-up event before Wimbledon starts on June 20 is this week's AEGON Championships at Queen's Club, which also features the man he beat in the Paris semis, Andy Murray.
However, Djokovic has pulled out due to knee problems, while Federer has withdrawn from the German event in Halle to rest his groin injury.
The Swiss star, a record 16-time grand slam champion, had been hoping to win one of his favorite events for the sixth time before trying to match Pete Sampras' mark of seven Wimbledon titles.
"The grass is always a special feeling and it's good fun to play on grass," Nadal said.
"I like the surface, I love to play there. You can do different things -- you can attack, you can go to the net -- so it's fun to try to adapt my game as fast as possible to the grass because I only have two weeks."
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Nadal had a disappointing start to this season when he suffered a hamstring injury during his quarterfinal defeat at the Australian Open, ending his bid to hold all four grand slam titles.
His dominance was further threatened when Djokovic beat him in four successive Masters Series finals, including two on his beloved clay in Madrid and Rome.
"The beginning of the season wasn't easy because I had an injury in Australia and I got sick in Doha, but after that I was healthy and I was able to play very well the rest of the season," Nadal said.
"Today was the seventh straight final of the year after coming back from the injury in Australia, so that's fantastic for me and I'm unbelievably happy with everything. To win another Roland Garros against Roger was really special, very emotional."

COMMENT: That Rafael Nadal from Spain beat Roger Federer from Switzerland so nadal won the tourmen of france named Roland Garros for 6 times and nadal is the number one in the atp and with this 6 titles he reach the record of Bjorn Borg from Swedence

Parts of southern Chile remained on red alert and schools in some areas of neighboring Argentina were closed Monday after a volcanic eruption coated the countryside with ashes, authorities said.

Smoke and ash shot more than six miles into the the sky when the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano complex in southern Chile first erupted Saturday afternoon. Authorities evacuated about 3,500 people from the area, the state emergency office said.

"I ask all the population (in designated areas) to evacuate as soon as possible, because ... human life could be at risk," said Juan Andres Varas, regional governor of Los Rios, Chile.

In a statement posted on the Los Rios government's website Monday, he said volcanic material and potentially toxic gases were slowly advancing toward the nearby Nilahue Valley.

"Fortunately, the valley doesn't drop abruptly, so we have time to evacuate," he said.

Schools in some cities and rural areas in neighboring Argentina were closed Monday, even as the volcanic activity appeared to have diminished, the state-run Telam news agency said.

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Eastward wind gusts have left a layer of ashes up to 30 centimeters (12 inches) on an Argentinian highway, Telam reported. Ashes had reached the country's Atlantic coast by early Sunday.

By Monday, several centimeters of ashes were beginning to accumulate in areas further north, and authorities told Telam the volcano's impact was difficult to predict.

"We still don't know, because it depends on the wind how it will continue. ... The recommendation to the population is that they stay inside," said Eduardo Munos, municipal civil defense director in Junin de los Andes, Argentina.

Chile is located on the so-called "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Coment:

Well this situation looks like the one of the one of island the past year, because the both are volcanos and the both are throwing ashes all over them just that the one in island the las year was very bad because it stops a lot of flights all over europe, and this is only stoping chile, but chile has sufer a lot of natural cassualities because last year was an earthquake and this year the volcano, so i wish luck for chile people and that god bless them 

monday

(CNN) -- More than 100 people were killed Monday in and around the northern Syrian city of Jisr Al-Shugur in the third consecutive day of violence there, according to reports from the government and opposition groups.

State television cited 120 security forces killed, including 82 in Jisr Al-Shugur. In addition, it said, dozens of civilians were wounded.

State television said the security forces were killed in several attacks including an ambush by "armed gangs" in the city, when government buildings were set afire, and in clashes at a security center.

"The armed attacks targeted public and private buildings in various regions and lately there were similar attacks in Jisr Al-Shugur," Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Chaar said in a short statement on state television. "The state will deal with sternness and force within the law and we will not remain silent when it comes to any armed attack."

State television further reported that the "armed gangs" had stolen five tons of dynamite from a storage area near the Al Abyad Valley Dam.

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Al Arabiya reported that the "Syria opposition is pleading for the military not to shell their city with their tanks."

In a statement read on state TV, Minister of Information Adnan Mahmoud said the people of Idlib District "were horrified" by the attacks, and accused the "armed gangs" of using medium-range weapons and bombs and using civilians as human shields.

But tweets and social media websites said the clashes took place when soldiers defected, refusing to follow orders to storm Jisr Al-Shugur.

State-run Syrian Arab News Agency said armed groups had barricaded themselves in some areas and were using machine guns and hand grenades.

The state security forces were facing hundreds of armed men in Jisr Al-Shugur and were trying to lift the siege of a neighborhood that had been taken over by the "gangs," state TV reported.

It said the state was sending reinforcements.

A resident of Jisr al-Shugur said earlier that the city was calm Monday, and that the clashes happened at nearby Khan Shaykhun, where 20 residents and an unknown number of security forces were killed.

He said residents were using hunting rifles.

The Syrian Revolution Facebook page said 10 helicopters were firing at civilians. The page predicted a major military incursion Monday night and appealed to residents to evacuate as soon as possible to Turkey.

Turkish officials in the border region said late Monday they had seen an increase in refugees and wounded Syrians in recent days.

Forty-one Syrians crossed Saturday into Turkey, local officials in the Yayladagi border town said.

Among them were injured Syrians who were taken to a hospital, witnesses said. The rest were taken to a tent camp set up by the Turkish Red Crescent in the Yayladagi town of Hatay province.

About 200 Syrian refugees have been living in the camp, which was erected on the grounds of an old tobacco factory, since late April/early May. They are not allowed to leave the compound and journalists are not allowed to meet with them.

A doctor from the regional hospital where some of the injured were taken said last weekend's arrivals -- about 30 in all -- had suffered mostly gunshot and shrapnel wounds amd were from Idlib, in Syria's northwest.

An opposition member who lives outside Syria but has sources inside the country who have proved reliable in the past said the clashes over the past three days in Jisr Al-Shugur, Khan Shaykhun and surrounding villages were between members and supporters of the Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood and the Syrian security forces.

He said that 90 security members and 23 opposition members were killed Monday. In addition, nine tanks were destroyed and two helicopters were downed, he said.

He said the weapons had been taken into the country from Turkey, whose border is about 20 kilometers away. The wounded, he added, were being taken to Turkey for treatment.

The man, who has asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal, said Muslim Brotherhood supporters have long opposed the Syrian regime and were taking advantage of the uprising to settle their score. He further expressed concern that the brotherhood could hijack the peaceful secular uprising.

The Arabic Facebook group called the Local Coordination Committees of Syria reported that 42 people died Sunday in Jisr al-Shugur and its suburbs as the Syrian army and security forces sought to enter the city, where many of the stores have been closed in a general strike.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put Sunday's death toll at 47 -- 37 civilians and 10 security forces.

CNN was not able to confirm the reports. The Syrian government has restricted access to the country by members of the international news media and reliable information has been hard to get.

For example, two videos posted over the weekend on YouTube showed what Syrian opposition activists said was the slaughter of civilians in the besieged city of Daraa in the south of Syria. One video shows what appears to be a group of Syrian security forces standing over dead bodies, making jokes and discussing planting weapons on them.

The images included the bloody, mangled bodies of five men in civilian clothes. Men dressed in military uniforms walked around them, talking. "Show me those weapons," one said, "put them here."

Someone dropped what appeared to be weaponry onto the torso of one of the bodies.

"These are the weapons the committee will come film," a voice said.

Throughout the uprising in Syria, the Syrian government has described protesters as "armed criminals" and "terrorists," at times saying photos prove that the "criminals" were armed when security forces shot them.

The videos -- in which the bodies are bleeding from different areas -- are labeled online as having been shot April 30.

CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the videos.

The number of people killed in the government's crackdown on demonstrators, which began in mid-March, has exceeded 1,000, according to the United Nations.

Despite international calls to halt its aggression and sanctions by the United States, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has shown no sign of backing down.

it is very bad because they are killing people only because they did not want to change his primer minister or president but in this case is his didactor and he is making a lot of damage to huis country beside to improve it that it has to be hes is wounding not only his country he is wounding alla the world wth his stupid comportation.

Trial set for Ohio man accused of killing, dismembering 11 women

The case against Anthony Sowell is grounded in his Cleveland backyard. There, in October 2009, investigators unearthed remains of five of the 11 women -- ages 25 to 52 -- found on Sowell's property.
On Monday, jury selection for Sowell's trial begins in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Sowell faces 85 counts related to his alleged rape, murder and dismembering of the women between 2007 and 2009 -- charges to which he's pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Since the bodies were discovered, other women have come forward alleging that Sowell also attacked them. In April 2010, prosecutors handed down an 10-count indictment against Sowell in connection with the alleged rape of a 34-year-old woman in his Cleveland home.
Sowell's lawyers have declined previous requests by CNN to explain their case, and the suspect has not been interviewed. But in January 2010, attorney John Parker told The Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland that he felt police violated Sowell's Miranda rights as he was being interrogated.

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But those likely to decide Sowell's future have already had their first opportunity to take a measure of the man.
About 200 prospective jurors were introduced to the accused serial killer Friday morning at the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland, county court administrator Greg Popovich said. They also met Judge Dick Ambrose, the presiding judge in the case, as well as the defense and prosecution teams.
Dressed in a polo shirt and khaki pants, and unencumbered by handcuffs or shackles (even though he was escorted by six deputies), Sowell addressed the jurors simply by saying, "Hello."
Popovich described the event as "unusual" but necessary to "ensure the integrity of the process in the interest of justice" -- though he didn't elaborate on how it did. Following the meeting, the potential jurors went through an hour-long orientation and then were asked to fill out a 32-page questionnaire.
Should they be tapped for the jury, they will sit through what Popovich estimates will be a six-to-eight week trial documenting the gruesome case against Sowell.
Sowell grew up in East Cleveland, joined the Marines at age 18 and traveled to California, North Carolina and Japan, authorities said. People who interacted with him after his 2005 release from prison, where he had served 15 years for attempted rape, said he appeared to be "a normal guy," known locally for selling scrap metal.
His inconspicuous two-story home sits in a dilapidated neighborhood known as Mount Pleasant, where one in five homes were in foreclosure and at least a third of residents got food stamps, according to a 2010 study by Case Western Reserve University's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development.
Neighbors and even a city councilman had failed to realize that the stench wafting in the area around Sowell's home was human flesh, not a byproduct of a nearby sausage factory.
Moreover, the disappearance of the 11 women -- many of whom lived nearby -- went largely unnoticed for almost two years, with only four of them even being reported missing. Many of his alleged victims struggled with drug addiction at some point in their lives, with court records showing that many resorted to stealing and prostitution to support their habits.
In late 2008, Gladys Wade told police that a man in a gray hoodie offered her beer, and when she declined, punched her in the face several times. Wade said that he then tried to rape her, dragging her toward his home, adding that she got out only after "gouging his face."
Police investigated Wade's complaint, with one police report noting blood droplets on Sowell's walls and steps. But officers told CNN affiliate WKYC that the case was dropped after Wade declined to press charges.
After Wade's complaint, six more women would disappear.
Then, on September 23, 2009, a 36-year-old Cleveland woman told police a story eerily similar to those of Wade and the woman whose 1989 account led to Sowell's first conviction for attempted rape. She said he'd invited her into his home for beer, punched her in the face, then began performing oral sex on her -- releasing her only after she promised to return the next day.
Sowell was then arrested. More than a month later, police entered his house and found two bodies rotting in his attic. These were the first of the 11 bodies they'd eventually discover, in various states of decay, on his property.
Most of the women whose remains were found in and around Sowell's home were strangled by ligature -- which can include a string, cord or wire -- and at least one was strangled by hand, officials said. Seven still had ligatures wrapped around their necks. A skull is all that remains of one victim. It was found wrapped in a paper bag and stuffed in a bucket in the home's basement.
While the prosecution will press its case against Sowell in the coming weeks, this may not be the end of his story -- even if he is eventually given a death sentence.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason has said that his cold case unit is reviewing unsolved murders that occurred during the time Sowell lived in Cleveland and East Cleveland to see if there are any connections. Mason said the group is working its way through 75 cases.

COMMENT: I think this man is really crazy and dont have live a good life, also it could be that he was very alone and dont have anything to do. But the most important thing is that is great the police catch him because he is a dangerous man.

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghans protesting the reported deaths of civilians in a NATO airstrike clashed with police in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, leaving at least 12 dead and 83 wounded, local authorities said.

The demonstrations took place near the offices of a German provincial reconstruction team in Takhar province, north of Kabul. Provincial government spokesman Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi blamed armed protesters for starting the bloodshed, saying some of the demonstrators "turned to violence for their own goals."

"They opened fire on protesters and security forces, and they threw grenades among the protesters and on the PRT," Tawhidi said. Some of the victims died in an exchange of fire between the protesters and security forces, he said.

About 4,000 people attended the demonstration, Takhar Gov. Abdul Jabar Taqwa said earlier. Two German soldiers and four Afghan guards were injured during the clashes, according to the German military.

The protest was sparked by a Tuesday night attack that NATO said killed four insurgents, including two armed females.

According to NATO, a joint Afghan-allied operation Tuesday night targeted "the facilitator" of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, an operative "heavily involved in the movement and procurement of weapons for imminent attacks."

But a deputy governor said the victims of the attack included a man, his wife and a guest not linked to any insurgent group.

The protesters "were ordinary and innocent residents of the village," said Farid Zaki, the deputy governor. "These night raids are creating mistrust between the people, the Afghan government and international forces."

Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement condemning the NATO attacks and demanding a detailed explanation from NATO commanders. He said the Afghan government would investigate the incident.

there have been more kills the last few months in afghan I think that the people who kill dont have a reasonable mind they only think in bad thinks so they become bad people even if there is one reason to kill they dont have the right to kill another person but thats what I think.

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled iCloud, a free wireless storage and syncing service, at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday.

Jobs took a break from his medical leave of absence to deliver the event's keynote address in San Francisco. It was his second public appearance since he temporarily turned over day-to-day operations to Apple's COO Tim Cook.

ICloud automatically stores content to Apple's servers (also known as "the cloud") and wirelessly pushes information to all of a users' Macintosh computers or iOS devices, like the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The new service will launch this fall, Apple said on its website.

The splashiest part of iCloud is its iTunes integration. When a user purchases a song in iTunes, it will automatically push to all other devices that run iTunes for free.

Additionally, for $25 a year, users will be able to access up to 20,000 songs from their entire iTunes libraries -- including those songs not purchased on iTunes -- on all of their devices with a new service called iTunes Match.

To do this, Apple scans a user's library, and within a matter of minutes matches it to the more than 18 million songs that the company acquired licensing rights for. For songs that don't match, users can upload those online.

"It has all the same benefits of music purchased in iTunes, but it takes minutes, not weeks," said Jobs, taking a dig at competing services offered by Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500), which force users to painstakingly upload all of their music to the cloud.

Amazon would charge $200 for 20,000 songs to be uploaded, and Google has yet to announce pricing for its service, which is still in beta testing.

The iTunes Match service is made possible by Apple's new server farm located in North Carolina, Jobs said. The scan and match technology was developed by a company called Lala, which Apple purchased and subsequently shuttered last year.

Besides music, the new iCloud service is also integrated with applications. So, for instance, a user could update an iPhone contact, and that contact is automatically updated across all other Apple devices.

ICloud also allows users to backup books, settings, documents, photos and music. That means a user could lose a device, sign in, and retrieve all of the lost device's data automatically.

Jobs also said iCloud will allow Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents to be stored in the cloud, so a user could start a document on a Mac and automatically pick it up and finish it on an iPad.

Photos will work the same way, syncing across devices.

ICloud is a free service that will replace Apple's previous cloud offering called MobileMe. That service was available for an annual $99 subscription, and it never really caught on with customers. It has been plagued by bugs, and Fortune reported that Jobs lambasted the development group for its failure. Only the iTunes Match portion of iCloud will require users to pay a fee.

"You might be asking, 'Why should I believe them? They're the ones that brought me MobileMe,'" Jobs said Monday. "ICloud just works."

Mac OS X Lion

The CEO, looking frail, received a standing ovation from the thousands of developers in attendance. He started the conference by introducing new software for Apple's devices. Calling software the "soul" of Apple's products, he handed off the first demonstration, the new Macintosh operating system called Lion, to Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing head.

Schiller said Lion has 250 improvements, and will go on sale next month in the Mac App Store for $29.

Lion will enable multi-touch gestures to control Mac applications and does away with scrollbars: Gestures will be able to control in-app scrolling, navigation between apps and will allow users to take apps into full-screen mode. The new OS also carries several backup improvements, including a feature called "resume," which takes you back to where you were when you last shut down the system, right down to what text you had selected.

In March, Jobs declared the beginning of the "post-PC era," yet Schiller said Macintosh still remains relevant. There are 54 million Mac users worldwide, and Mac sales have outpaced the PC industry as a whole each quarter for the past five years.

IOS 5

Yet so-called "iOS" devices, including the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, have replaced Mac as Apple's most lucrative product group. The company says it has sold 200 million iOS devices, capturing 44% of the mobile device market. That would make it the largest mobile OS in the world in terms of device sales.

Apple impressed further with the numbers: The company said its App Store currently offers 425,000 apps, including 90,000 specifically designed for the 25 million iPads it has sold so far.

In the latest version, iOS 5, Apple said notifications will no longer interrupt your tasks, Twitter will be integrated throughout the operating system, browsers can be tabbed, and things you want to read can be synced across multiple iOS devices. It will also feature location-sensitive reminders, the ability to take photos from the lock screen, a game center and a BlackBerry Messaging-like application called iMessage.

Again, mentioning the "post-PC world," Apple said iOS devices no longer need to be synced with a PC to be activated or receive updates. The new iOS 5 will be sent to users this fall.

Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) typically keeps the content of its keynotes a secret, but this year the company offered up a press release a week in advance saying Jobs would show off iCloud as well as its new operating systems for Macs, iPods, iPhones and iPads.

This year's WWDC will be the first since the iPhone debuted in 2007 in which Jobs won't unveil a new iPhone. The company already had some iPhone news this year when it launched the iPhone 4 on Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500). Apple is rumored to have switched its next iPhone event to the fall.

Comment: I really don´t understand very well the iCloud (Is like Amazon (Amazon is a pay service that you have a lot of music) and other app of Google) other thing in this conference is the new BlackBerry chat the name of this app is gonna by IMessage this new have more interesnats things but I already write my 3 lines