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Fla. (AP) — A Florida jury has acquitted Casey Anthony of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Anthony began crying when the jury's verdict was read Tuesday after more than 10 hours of deliberations. She hugged her attorney afterward, and a prosecutor shook his head in disbelief. She could have beats turbine headphonesreceived a death sentence if she had been convicted of first-degree murder. She was found guilty of lying to investigators. Judge Belvin Perry will sentence her Thursday. She could receive up to a year in jail for each count. Caylee disappeared in June 2008 and her body was found in woods near her grandparent's home six months later. GTON (AP) — After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his Cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold. Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that now-famous photograph was a career CIA analyst. In the hunt forbeats by dre diddy the world's most-wanted terrorist, there may have been no one more important. His job for nearly a decade was finding the al-Qaida leader. The analyst was the first to put in writing last summer that the CIA might have a legitimate lead on finding bin Laden. He oversaw the collection of clues that led the agency to a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. His was among the most confident voices telling Obama that bin Laden was probably behind those walls. The CIA will not permit him to speak with reporters. But interviews with former and current U.S. intelligence officials reveal a story of quiet persistence and continuity that led to the greatest counterterrorism success in the history of the CIA. Nearly all the officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters or because they did not want their names linked to dre diddy beatsthe bin Laden operation. The Associated Press has agreed to the CIA's request not to publish his full name and withhold certain biographical details so that he would not become a target for retribution. Call him John, his middle name. John was among the hundreds of people who poured into the CIA's Counterterrorism Center after the Sept. 11 attacks, bringing fresh eyes and energy to the fight. He had been a standout in the agency's Russian and Balkan departments. When Vladimir Putin was coming to power in Russia, for instance, John pulled together details overlooked by others and wrote what some colleagues considered the definitive profile of Putin. He challenged some of the agency's conventional wisdom about Putin's KGB background and painted a much fuller portrait of the man who would come to dominate Russian politics. That ability to spot the importance of seemingly insignificant details, to weave disparate strands of information into a meaningful story, gave him a particular knack for hunting terrorists. "He could always give you the broader implications of all these details we were amassing," said John McLaughlin, who as CIA deputymonster beats diddy director was briefed regularly by John in the mornings after the 2001 attacks. From 2003, when he joined the counterterrorism center, through 2005, John was one of the driving forces behind the most successful string of counterterrorism captures in the fight against terrorism: Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi bin Alshib, Hambali and Faraj al-Libi. But there was no greater prize than finding bin Laden. Bin Laden had slipped away from U.S. forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in 2001, and the CIA believed he had taken shelter in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan. In 2006, the agency mounted Operation Cannonball, an effort to establish bases in the tribal regions and find bin Laden. Even with all its money and resources, the CIA could not locate its prime target. By then, the agency was on its third director since Sept. 11, 2001. John had outlasted many of his direct supervisors who retired or went on to other jobs. The CIA doesn't like to keep its people in one spot for too long. They become jaded. They start missing things. John didn't want to leave. He'd always been persistent. In college, he walked on to a Division I basketball team and hustled his way into a rotation full of scholarship players. The CIA offered to promote him and move him somewhere else. John wanted to keep the bin Laden file. He examined and re-examined every aspect of bin Laden's life. How did he live while hiding in Sudan? With whom did he surround himself while living in Kandahar, Afghanistan? What would a bin Laden hideout look like today? The CIA had a list of potential leads, associates and family members who might have access to bin Laden. "Just keep working that list bit by bit," one senior intelligence official recalls John telling his team. "He's there cheap monster beats butterflysomewhere. We'll get there." John rose through the ranks of the counterterrorism center, but because of his nearly unrivaled experience, he always had influence beyond his title. One former boss confessed that he didn't know exactly what John's position was. I knew he was the guy in the room I always listened to," the official said. While he was shepherding the hunt for bin Laden, John also was pushing to expand the Predator program, the agency's use of unmanned airplanes to launch missiles at terrorists. The CIA largely confined those strikes to targets along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. But in late 2007 and early 2008, John said the CIA needed to carry out those attacks deeper inside Pakistan. It was a risky move. Pakistan was an important but shaky ally. John's analysts saw an increase in the number of Westerners training in Pakistani terrorist camps. John worried that those men would soon start showing up on U.S. soil. "We've got to act," John said, a former senior intelligence official recalls. "There's no explaining inaction." John took the analysis to then CIA Director Michael Hayden, who agreed and took the recommendation to President George W. Bush. In the last months of the Bush administration, the CIA began striking deeper inside Pakistan. Obama immediately adopted the same strategy and stepped up the pace. Recent attacks have killed al-Qaida's No. 3 official, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, and Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. All the while, John's team was working the list of bin Laden leads. In 2007, a female colleague whom the AP has also agreed not to identify decided to zero in on a man known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, a nom de guerre. Other terrorists had identified al-Kuwaiti as an important courier for al-Qaida'beats by dre butterflys upper echelon, and she believed that finding him might help lead to bin Laden. "They had their teeth clenched on this and they weren't going to let go," McLaughlin said of John and his team. "This was an obsession." It took three years, but in August 2010, al-Kuwaiti turned up on a National Security Agency wiretap. The female analyst, who had studied journalism at a Big Ten university, tapped out a memo for John, "Closing in on Bin Laden Courier," saying her team believed al-Kuwaiti was somewhere on the outskirts of Islamabad. As the CIA homed in on al-Kuwaiti, John's team continually updated the memo with fresh information. Everyone knew that anything with bin Laden's name on it would shoot right to the director's desk and invite scrutiny, so the early drafts played down hopes that the courier would lead to bin Laden. But John saw the bigger picture. The hunt for al-Kuwaiti was effectively the hunt for bin Laden, and he was not afraid to say so. The revised memo was finished in September 2010. John, by then deputy chief of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Department, emailed it to those who needed to know. The title was "Anatomy of a Lead." As expected, the memo immediately became a hot topic inside CIA headquarters and Director Leon Panetta wanted to know more. John never overpromised, colleagues recall, but he was unafraid to say there was a good chance this might be the break the agency was looking for. The CIA tracked al-Kuwaiti to a walled compound in Abbottabad. If bin Laden was hiding there, in a busy suburb not far from Pakistan's military academy, it challenged much of what the agency had assumed about his hideout. But John said it wasn't that far-fetched. Drawing on what he knew about bin Laden's earlier hideouts, he said it made sense that bin Laden had surrounded himself only with his couriers and family and did not use phones or the Internet. The CIA knew that top al-Qaida operatives had lived in urban areas before. A cautious Panetta took the information to Obama, but there was much more work to be done. The government tried everything to figure out who was in that compound. In a small house nearby, the CIA put people who would fit in and not draw any attention. They watched and waited but turned up nothing definitive. Satellites captured images of a tall man walking the grounds of the compound, but never got a look at his face. Again and again, John and his team asked themselves who else might be living in that compound. They came up with five or six alternatives; bin Laden was always the best explanation. This went on for months. By about February, John told his bosses, including Panetta, that the CIA could keep trying, but the information was unlikely to get any better. He told Panetta this might be their best chance to find bin Laden and it would not last forever. Panetta made that same point to the president Panetta held regular meetings on the hunt, often concluding with an around-the-table poll: How sure are you that this is bin Laden? John was always bullish, rating his confidence as high as 80 percent. Others weren't so sure, especially those who had been in the room for operations that went bad. Not two years earlier, the CIA thought it had an informant who could lead him to bin Laden's deputy. That man blew himself up at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing seven CIA employees and injuring six others. That didn't come up in the meetings with Panetta, a senior intelligence official said. But everyone knew the risk the CIA was taking if it told the president that bin Laden was in Abbottabad and was wrong. "We all knew that if he wasn't there and this was a disaster, certainly there would be consequences," the official recalled. John was among several CIA officials who repeatedly briefed Obama and others at the White House. Current and former officials involved in the discussions said John had a coolness and a reassuring confidence. By April, the president had decided to send the Navy SEALs to assault the compound. Though the plan was in motion, John went back to his team, a senior intelligence official said. "Right up to the last hour," he told them, "if we get any piece of information that suggests it's not him, somebody has to raise their hand before we risk American lives." Nobody did. Inside the Situation Room, the analyst who was barely known outside the close-knit intelligence world took his place alongside the nation's top security officials, the household names and well-known faces of Washington. An agonizing 40 minutes after Navy SEALs stormed the compound, the report came back: Bin Laden was dead. John and his team had guessed correctly, taking an intellectual risk based on incomplete information. It was a gamble that ended a decade of disappointment. Later, Champagne was uncorked back at the CIA, where those in the Counterterrorism Center who had targeted bin Laden for so long celebrated. John's team reveled in the moment. Two days after bin Laden's death, John accompanied Panetta to Capitol Hill. The Senate Intelligence Committee wanted a full briefing on the successful mission. At one point in the private session, Panetta turned to the man whose counterterrorism resume spanned four CIA directors. He began to speak, about the operation beats butterfly headphonesand about the years of intelligence it was based on. And as he spoke about the mission that had become his career, the calm, collected analyst paused, and he choked up.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthonystudio headphones was found not guilty Tuesday of killing her 2-year-old daughter three years ago in a case that captivated the nation as it played out on national television from the moment the toddler was reported missing. Anthony wept after the clerk read the verdict, which jurors reached after less than 11 hours of deliberation over two days. The 25-year-old was charged with first-degree murder, which could have brought the death penalty if she had been convicted. Instead, she was convicted of only four counts Beats by dre tourof lying to investigators looking into the June 2008 disappearance of her daughter Caylee. Her body was found in the woods six months later and a medical examiner was never able to determine how she died. Anthony will be sentenced by the judge on Thursday and could receive up to a year in jail for each lying count. Since she has been in jail since August 2008, she could walk free then. After the verdict was read,monster beats tour Casey Anthony hugged her attorney Jose Baez and later mouthed the words "thank you" to him. Prosecutors sat solemnly in their seats, looking stunned. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton shook his head slightly from side to side in apparent disbelief. Across the room, Anthony's father wiped tears from his eyes. Without speaking to Casey, he and his wife left the courtroom escorted by police as the judge thanked the jury. "While we're happy for Casey, there are no winners in this case," Baez said at a news conference afterward. "Caylee has passed on far, far too soon. And what my driving force has been for the last three years has been always to make sure that there has been justice for Caylee and Casey, because Casey did not murder Caylee. It's that simple." He added: "This case has brought on new challenges of all of us. Challenges in the criminal justice system, challenges in the media, and I think we should all take this as an opportunity to learn and beats tour headphonesto realize that you cannot convict someone until they've had their day in court." State Attorney Lamar Lawson thanked the prosecutors from his office who tried the case, and he said the case was never about the defendant. "It has always been about seeking justice for Caylee and speaking on her behalf," he told reporters. Jurors told the court that they didn't want to talk to the media at the courthouse. Anthony's attorneys claimed that the toddler drowned accidentally in the family swimming pool, and that her seemingly carefree mother in fact was hiding emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father. Prosecutors contended that Caylee was suffocated with duct tape by a mother who loved to party, tattooed herself with the Italian words for "beautiful life" in the month her daughter was missing and crafted elaborate lies to mislead everyone from investigators to her own parents. Captivated observers camped outside the courthouse to jockey for coveted seats in the courtroom gallery, which occasionally led to fights among those desperate to watch the drama unfold. Prior to the verdict on Tuesday, the judge said: "To those in the gallery please do not express any signs of approval or monster tourdisapproval upon the reading of the verdict." Anthony did not take the stand during the trial, which started in mid-May. Because the case got so much media attention in Orlando, jurors were brought in from the Tampa Bay area and sequestered for the entire trial. Baez conceded that his client had told elaborate lies and invented imaginary friends and even a fake father for Caylee, but he said that doesn't mean she killed her daughter. "They throw enough against the wall and see what sticks," Baez said of prosecutors during closing arugments. "That is what they're doing ... right down to the cause of death." He tried to convince jurors that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool and that when Anthony panicked, her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a murder by putting duct tape on the girl's mouth and dumping the body in woods about a quarter-mile away. Her father firmly denied both the cover-up and abuse claims. The prosecution called those claims "absurd," saying that no one makes an accident look like a murder. Lead prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick concluded the state's case by showing the jury two side-by-side images. One showed Casey Anthony smiling and partying in a nightclub during the month Caylee was missing. The other was the tattoo she got a day before her family and law enforcement first learned of the child's disappearance. "At the end of this case, all you havevmonster beats turbine to ask yourself is whose life was better without Caylee?" Burdick asked. "This is your answer." Prosecutors hammered on the lies Anthony, then 22, told from June 16, 2008, when her daughter was last seen, and a month later when sheriff's investigators were notified. Those include the single mother telling her parents she couldn't produce Caylee because the girl was with a nanny named Zanny — a woman who doesn't exist; that she and her daughter were spending time in Jacksonville, Fla., with a rich boyfriend who doesn't exist; and that Zanny had been hospitalized after an out-of-town traffic crash and that they were spending time with her. Among the trial spectators was 51-year-old Robin Wilkie, who said she has spent $3,000 on hotels and food since arriving June 10th from Lake Minnetonka, Minn. She tallied more than 100 hours standing in line to wait forbeats bu dre turbine tickets and got into the courtroom 15 times. She said she's fascinated with the case because she is a victim of violent crime. "True crime has become a unique genre of entertainment," Wilkie said. "Her (Casey's) stories are so extreme and fantastic it's hard to believe they're true but that's what engrosses people. This case has sex, lies and video tapes — just like on reality TV." ...

ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - After a televised trial that gripped many Americans, a jury on Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee, whose remains were found in woods beats by drenear her Florida home. The verdict surprised many legal analysts and commentators and spared the 25-year-old from a possible death penalty, which prosecutors planned to seek if Anthony had been found guilty as charged of first-degree murder. Anthony initially told police that Caylee had been kidnapped by a nanny, triggering a nationwide search. Six months later the child's skeletal remains were found with duct tape dangling from her skull. Prosecutors said Anthony smothered dre headphonesher daughter with the tape in June 2008, drove around for several days with the body in her car trunk and then dumped the remains in the woods. In court the defense argued that the child died in an accidental drowning. "Casey did not murder Caylee. It's that simple," monster beatsdefense attorney Jose Baez told reporters after the verdict was announced State Attorney Lawson Lamarcheap monster beats headphones praised prosecutors' efforts and conceded that their circumstantial case was not enough to remove reasonable doubt for jurors. "We're disappointed with the verdict today and surprised because we know the facts," Lamar said. "This was a dry bones case, very, very difficult to prove. The delay in recovering little Caylee's remains worked to our considerable disadvantage." The jury also found Anthony monster beats solonot guilty of aggravated child abuse or aggravated manslaughter of a child. Anthony was found guilty of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer, a misdemeanor charge that carries a maximum of one year in jail per count. She will be sentenced on Thursday. Anthony sobbed after the jury's finding was read, and finally broke into a broad smile after the proceedings ended, hugging the defense team. "I'm ecstatic for (Casey) and I want her to be able to grieve and to grow and somehow get her life back together," defense attorney Baez said outside the court. The jurors deliberated for nearly 11 hours over two days, taking nearly six hours on Monday with no break for the U.S. Independence Day holiday, before reaching the verdict. The trial lasted for seven weeks and caught the attention of much of the nation, with curiosity fed by live coverage of testimony beats by dre soloon cable news.

Germany (Reuters) - Bailouts of Europe's debt-stricken countries face a legal challenge on Tuesday as Germany's top court begins hearing a lawsuit against German contributions to the rescues of Greece,beats solo hd headphonesIreland and Portugal. The Karlsruhe-based Constitutional Court is not likely to block the German government's participation in bailouts altogether, or force the government to withdraw its commitments to current rescue plans, legal experts say. But most experts, including government sources, say they expect the court to impose conditions making it harder for the government to provide fresh aid. For example, parliament's lower house may be given a bigger say in approving future bailouts. "For the first time in economic history, a currency is going on trial," Joachim Starbatty, one of the plaintiffs and an academic who has strongly criticized the introduction of the euro, said in Monday's Berliner Morgenpost newspaper. The court will hear cases brought by six euroskeptic plaintiffs including Peter Gauweiler, a lawmaker from the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives. They argue that the bailouts violate property rights and other protections in the German and European constitutions, and break the European Union's 'no-bailout clause', which says neither the EU nor member beats solo hd headphonesstates should take on governments' liabilities. Together with the International Monetary Fund, the EU has since last year approved bailout packages for Greece, Ireland and Portugal totaling 273 billion euros ($395 billion). A second bailout of Greece is under discussion after the first turned out to be insufficient. In a sign of how seriously the German government is taking the lawsuit, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is to attend Tuesday's court session, which starts at 0800 GMT (4 a.m. EDT). The first hearing will be closely watched asbeats solo headphones experts have in the past been able to gauge the outcome of cases from the kinds of questions the judges asked early on. It is not known how long the court will take to reach a verdict. TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Stock Exchange has proposed a tender offer for Osaka Securities Exchange Co <8697.OS>, Japan's Asahi newspaper reported on Tuesday, as the two bourses proceed in merger talks aimed at surviving a wave of industry consolidation. The plan by the Tokyo exchange, the world's fourth largest bourse in terms of trading volume, includes buying all OSE shares to make it a wholly owned subsidiary, the paper said. The Jasdaq-listed OSE is set to reject the scheme, however, the report also said, suggesting a rocky road ahead for the ongoing merger talks between the country's biggest and second largest exchanges. A TSE spokeswoman said that nothing had been decided on the issue, while an OSE spokesman said he was not aware of what had been reported by the Asahi. They both declined to confirm merger talks. A source told Reuters in March that the TSEbeats solo headphones would begin talks with its smaller domestic rival on a possible tie-up amid a flurry of mergers and alliances among global exchanges. But media reports have said that the merger talks are facing difficulties as both exchanges want to take the lead in negotiations. The president of the OSE told Reuters last month that merger talks with the TSE beyond June would be difficult if the Tokyo bourse insisted on listing its shares before agreeing to combine operations. Shares of OSE climbed 8 percent to 390,000 yen, giving it a market value of about 100 billion yen ($1.23 billion). The Jasdaq index <.JSD> was unchanged. ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will stave off default not only for its own sake but because its survival is vital for the euro zone and the global economy, Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told Reuters on Monday. With help from its EU partners and fresh determination, the debt-ridden euro zone member will regain its fiscal sovereignty as soon as possible monster beats lamborghiniand aims to return to markets in the middle of 2014, as expected, the minister said. "We will make it, because this is vital not only for Greece but for the stability of the whole euro zone and the global economy, because in Greece the stamina of the financial system is being tested," he told Reuters in the second part of an interview. Appointed in a June 17 reshuffle and speaking after euro zone finance ministers approved on Saturday a critical, fifth tranche of a bailout loan to avert default, Venizelos said he was grateful to EU partners and vowed to fulfill his obligations. He said he would redouble efforts to raise 1.7 billion euros ($2.5 billion) in privatizations by September, as agreed with the EU and the IMF who pulled Greece back from the brink of bankruptcy with a 110 billion-euro bailout a year ago. Greece must deliver 50 billion euros in proceeds from a massive and complicated state selloff by 2015, including 5 billion this year. So far, in 18 months in office, the socialists have yet to launch any privatizations. Amid the worst recession in nearly 40 years, good news for the economy comes from the tourism sector, which makes up about 15 percent of GDP. Revenues are seen rising by about 10 percent this year after a 25 percent slump in 2009-2010, Venizelos said. "The data we have so far from the Tourism Ministry monster beats lamborghiniand the Bank of Greece are encouraging that it will be a good year. Revenues will rise by about 10 percent," he said. A tough political veteran who has held several portfolios and prepared the 2004 Olympics, Venizelos took in his stride comments by Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker that Greece's sovereignty must be severely limited during the bailout program. "Mr. Juncker is a great Philhellene (friend of Greece)," Venizelos said. "He doubtless wants to always help Greece and the euro zone overcome its problems and, primarily, to avoid systemic dangers. "There is no doubt we have very tough fiscal limitations and we must restore our fiscal sovereignty as soon as possible through the successful implementation of our program," he added. FOREIGN INSPECTORS Venizelos denied suggestions foreign inspectors would be placed in ministries to check progress. "There will be no inspectors," he said. "We can all resort to the knowhow and expertise of the EU and other member states. monster beats red soxThis does not mean inspectors will be posted or that responsibilities will be removed from the Greek parliament, the Greek government or the Greek public administration." Venizelos said selloffs and the reform of the tax system were among his top priorities and that he would lay out a detailed plan to fight chronic tax evasion and improve tax collection, which has fallen behind target, next week. Greece has 20 days from Saturday to set up a privatization body and Venizelos said he would unveil its board to fellow Eurogroup ministers on July 11. "I will announce this after I complete discussions with the opposition on the 2-3 key people, because we need the widest possible consensus," he said. The conservative opposition has opposed the bailout, drawing criticism from EU officials, but says it agrees with some parts of the privatization plan, raising hope some political consensus can be reached. International lenders are working on a plan to provide Greece with an additional 110 billion euros to avoid default which could hitmonster beats red sox European banks and other lenders. Asked about a warning by the S&P rating agency that banks' plans to roll over Greek debt could be seen as default, which drove down the euro on Monday, Venizelos said it was crucial that any model included the strictly voluntary participation of private lenders. "As markets are strict and merciless, we want the format thatbeats studio kobe bryantresults from the next program to have a shape that is accepted by markets and they react positively," he said.

BAGAN, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi visited an ancient city of temples and met with her youngest son during her first trip into the countryside since her release from house arrest in beats pro headphonesYangon in November. The 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate planned to spend four days on a private trip to Bagan — also known as Pagan — where her son Kim Aris also was visiting from Britain. She last went there in 1989 for a political appearance that drew thousands of residents. Suu Kyi plans further trips to meet supporters outside Yangon, the country's largest city, although the state-controlled media warned her last week against political trips, saying they could cause chaos and riots. Her last political trip to the countryside in 2003 drew huge crowds but also the wrath of the then-ruling military junta, whose supporters ambushed her entourage. She eventually was detained and placed under house arrest. Suu Kyi arrived in Bagan by plane on Monday and was met at the airport by her son, her pet dog and a host of plainclothes security police and reporters. Suu Kyi's security aides said she will relax and unwind in Bagan. "One of her pastimes in Bagan will be drawing. One of her close aides has bought canvas and painting paraphernalia," said one, who asked not to bebeats pro headphones named because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. Suu Kyi often faced problems in the past when she traveled outside Yangon, with the government stopping her motorcades. A trip to Mandalay by train in 1996 was aborted when authorities said her carriage had mechanical problems. During her second attempt to travel there by train in 2001, the government stopped her at the station and placed under house arrest for 18 months TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican rescuers scoured the Gulf of California for seven missing U.S. tourists whose boat capsized two days ago, saying they were extending the search because the castaways could still be alive in the warm, calm waters. One American has been confirmed dead in the accident, which came after a flash storm upended the boat before dawn Sunday, spilling dozens of tourists and crew members into the water. The identity of the dead man was not released. By early Monday, 19 of the tourists and all 16 crew members had been picked up by the navy or other fishing boats after clinging to coolers, rescue rings and life vests for more than 16 hours. Mexican Navy, army and state officials met late Monday to discuss the search and there were reports they would call off rescue efforts. But instead they announced the search would continue over an extended area. Mexican navy Capt. Benjamin Pinedabeats pro headphones Gomez said that with the warm weather and water temperature in the Gulf of California, it's still possible that the missing tourists are alive. "A person who casts away can survive many days. That sea is calm," he said. The U.S. Coast Guard offered Mexico help in the search and rescue operation and said it will continue its operations. The 115-foot (35-meter) vessel, the Erik, sank about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of the port of San Felipe around 2:30 a.m. PDT (5:30 a.m. EDT; 0930 GMT) Sunday, the second day of a weeklong vacation fishing trip the group had organized for several years each Independence Day holiday. The boat capsized less than two miles (three kilometers) from shore, but the navy extended its search 60 miles (100 kilometers) deeper into the gulf later Monday after searching the area by helicopter and airplane and finding nothing, Pineda said. Most of the 27 men on the fishing excursion are from Northern California and had made the trip before. "I'm beyond concerned," said Kristina Bronstein, monster beats jameswho is engaged to missing tourist Mark Dorland of Twain Harte, California. She heard about the accident Monday morning from a trip organizer's wife, who told her Dorland, 62, was one of the first people to fall into the water. He wasn't wearing a life vest. The couple are to be married next month. Charles Gibson, a police officer with the Contra Costa Community College District, said people on the boat were awoken by other passengers and the crew as it began to sink. Most "were in the water for over 16 hours," said Gibson, who had gone on the fishing trip twice before. "We hope that the information is getting to our families that we are here and that we survived." Another survivor, Lee Ikegami, called his wife in San Martin, California, and told her he survived by clambering into a life raft when the boat overturned. "There was an angel sitting on his shoulder," his wife, Murphy Ikegami, said. Murphy Ikegami said the fishermen made the trip every year but would only make day trips out tosea to fish and stayed in hotels along the coast at night. This year, she said, they decided they wanted to sleep on themonster beats james boat. Those rescued were in good condition with a few scrapes after bobbing in the intense sun and Gulf waters that were about 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degres Celsius), according to the Mexican navy weather analysis. Photos released by the Mexican navy showed several sunburned fishermen in T-shirts and Bermuda shorts waiting to get on a bus. The Erik has been on the Gulf of California, known in Mexico as the Sea of Cortez, since 1989, according to the website of the company Baja Sportfishing Inc. It was built in Holland and was equipped with stabilizers to handle the turbulent North Sea. The California Secretary of State website says Baja Sportfishing's business license has been suspended. It doesn't state a reason or give a date. "We have been working with Mexican Navy authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard in the search and rescue," Baja Sportfishing Inc.beats solo hd headphones said in a brief statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. "Right now our main concern is making sure that everyone is accounted for." The company didn't respond to an interview request. It said in an announcement posted on its website Monday afternoon that all trips have been canceled.

Moody's warns China banks credit outlook may turn negative * Moody's says Beijing may ask banks to manage problem loans BEIJING (Reuters) - China's local government debt burden may be 3.5 trillion yuan ($540 billion) larger than auditors estimated, putting banks on the hook for deeper losses that could threaten their credit ratings, Moody's said on Tuesday. Addressing the estimate by China's state auditor that its local governments have chalked up 10.7 trillion yuan of debt, Moodymonster beats pro's said it found more potential loans after accounting for discrepencies in figures given by various Chinese authorities. "The potential scale of the problem loans at Chinese banks may be closer to its stress case than its base case," Moody's said in a statement. In view of that, the non-performing loan ratio for Chinese banks could be as high as 8-12 percent, compared with 5-8 percent in the base case and 10-18 percent in the stress case. Unless China comes up with a "clear master plan" to clean up its pile of local government debt, the credit outlook for Chinese monster beats probanks could turn negative, the ratings agency said. In a bid to assuage investor worries about the potential souring of its massive local government debt, different Chinese authorities including the state auditor, the bank regulator and the central bank have tried to assess the situation. But all three agencies have used different monster beats prodefinitions and accounting methods to review the debt, resulting in a hodgepodge of official forecasts. Moody's said it derived the additional 3.5 trillion yuan of debt after comparing the estimates of China's state auditor with that of the bank regulator's. The ratings agency said the Chinese state auditor likely omitted the 3.5 trillion yuan of debt from its assessment because they were not considered as real claims on local governments. "This indicates that these loans are most likely poorly documented and may pose the greatest risk of delinquency," said Yvonne Zhang, a Moody's analyst. Moody's said it expects Beijing to "implement gradual discipline" over the stock of government debt, and that would involve the Chinese government leaving banks to manage a part of the problem loans on their own. ($1 = 6.463 Chinese yuan) (Reporting by Koh Gui Qing; Additional reporting by Kim Coghill in SINGAPORE; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) ...DALVAY BY-THE-SEA, Prince Edward Island (AP) — Prince William enjoyed showing off his military helicopter training with his first-ever water landing Monday to the delight of anxious crowds in Canada, where he and his wife, Kate, have been on their first official overseas trip since their wedding. The Duke of Cambridge climbed into the cockpit of a Sea King helicopter for the military training exercise at Dalvay by-the-Sea, a scenic resort along Prince Edward Island's north shore. Prince William, a Royal Air Force rescue helicopter pilot, requested the simulated emergency landing procedure. Dressed in an olive flight suit and helmet, the prince — who is second in line to the throne — settled the large helicopter on the water several times over the course of an hour.monster beats pro From the water, William piloted several takeoffs and hovered in the air before executing dual- and single-engine landings before taxiing around as Kate watched from the ground. "He was looking for his wife on the shoreline at one point," said Col. Sam Michaud, 42, who trained William. "She was waving back about 100 feet away." Michaud said William is now fully trained. He said William remarked that the "boys back at his squadron would be absolutely jealous." Canada is the only country that trains its Sea King helicopter pilots to do a controlled landing on water if there's an emergency. The exercise William performed Monday is known as waterbirding, and if the number of times he tried it was any indication, the prince was enjoying the technique. The Sea King, which William flies back in the U.K, has the ability to land on water because of its amphibious hull. Maj. Pat MacNamara called him a star pilot. "I would suggest he was having quite a bit of fun," MacNamara said. "He said it was one of the highlights of his trip." Prince Edward Island resident Linda Patton, 60, said she was nervous watching the prince fly. "It was thrilling to watch and a little nerve-racking I must admit, especially the ones he was hovering and came straight down" Patton said. The duke will take the landing technique back home with him to use in his job, said royal press secretary Miguel Head. "The Duke of Cambridge is, first and foremost, a search-and-rescue pilot — that's his job and it's a job he's very proud to do," said Head. "When (William) took the decision to come to Canada, one of the things he actually beats pro headphonesasked to do was to do this." The royal pair then got to flex their muscles by paddling in two dragon boats to race against each other. Kate, dressed in black sportswear, got to demonstrate her athletic prowess while on the water by taking the stern of her boat. She trained as part of a dragon boat crew in 2007, and the rivalry with William appeared to be genuine. William gripped his paddle to execute a strong stroke, while Kate moved from the stern to paddle in her boat. The prince's boat won the short race by a hair and William exited the boat to give Kate a warm consolation hug. Kate playfully gave William a shove, as if to push him in the water. "There's no chivalry in sport," William jokingly told Kate as he was presented with a bottle of champagne for winning the race. "Sadly, we lost," she said, laughing, to Christine Dapart, one of the spectators in the crowd as the royal couple made their way to a pavilion where regional performers were on hand to demonstrate Celtic and Acadian dance and song. Later, the royal couple met an actress who plays the fictional star of "Anne of Green Gables," the classic Canadian novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery for which Prince Edward Island is famed. Actress Tess Benger, 23, who performs as Anne in a play, gave Kate a copy of the book. Kate, a fan of the novel and its sequels, beats pro headphonestold her she would read it again. In a tent, the couple sampled the island's food. William put his hands on his stomach and joked about eating too much on the trip. He passed on the oyster tasting, saying to Kate "this is where you take over." They tasted Island beef with sweet onion marmalade, lobster and potato chowder, pork and beef belly and strawberry shortcake. The couple later observed a search and rescue operation. The Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, as they are officially known, were on the fifth of a nine-day trip to Canada, part of their first official overseas trip since their April 29 wedding. They were welcomed to their third Canadian province Monday with cheering, waving crowds excited to catch a glimpse of royalty at Province House. The site is the home of Prince Edward Island's legislature and of a historic meeting 146 years ago that paved the way for Canada's eventual unification and independence. On Monday morning, Kate sported a cream dress by Sarah Burton for the British fashion house of Alexander McQueen, who designed her royal wedding gown. William wore his traditional dark suit and red tie. Kate later wore dark skinny jeans and a navy-belted trenchcoat with a bright red scarf from Burton's wardrobe at Dalvay by-the-Sea. For the third time during the trip, beats pro headphonesWilliam spoke in French and English to address the crowds. "We have both so looked forward to this day, and discovering more about your beautiful island," he said. The royal pair delighted the several thousand people gathered at the site by walking over to shake hands and stop for a quick chat, while some handed them flowers, including the east coast Canadian flower, Lupins, and hand-held Canadian flags, while snapping photos. The smiling couple hopped into a landau led by Canadian Mounties to take them to Confederation Landing for another walkabout before heading to the resort at Dalvay by-the-Sea. The royal pair left Canada's smallest province late Monday afternoon. They ended the day by flying to Yellowknife, the capital of the sparsely-populated Northwest Territories, where several hundred people greeted them. They leave Canada for a three-day trip to California on July 8.