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Sunday, January 8, 2012

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Saturday, January 7, 2012

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Hot air balloon bursts into flames in NZ; 11 dead

This aerial photo shows the area where a hot air balloon crashed after it caught on fire in Carterton, north of the capital, Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. The hot air balloon crashed and killed all 11 people aboard near the rural New Zealand town some 94 miles (150 kilometers) north of the capital, Wellington, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Wairarapa Times, Lynda Feringa) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Police cordon off the area after a hot air balloon caught fire and the ten passengers and pilot were killed, in Carterton, New Zealand, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. A hot air balloon crashed and killed all 11 people aboard near the rural town of Carterton, some 94 miles (150 kilometers) north of the capital, Wellington, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/SNPA/Ross Setford) NEW ZEALAND OUT

A fire department ladder truck takes police over the area where a hot air balloon crash occurred in Carterton, some 94 miles (150 kilometers) north of the capital, Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. The hot air balloon crashed and killed all 11 people aboard near a rural New Zealand town, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/SNPA, Ross Setford) NEW ZEALAD OUT

Bevan Lambess, an eyewitness to a hot air balloon tragedy, speaks in Carterton, north of the capital, Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. The hot air balloon crashed and killed all 11 people aboard near the rural New Zealand town some 94 miles (150 kilometers) north of the capital, Wellington, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Ross Setford, SNPA) NEW ZEALAND OUT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ? A hot air balloon carrying 11 people turned into a horrifying tower of "sheer flame" Saturday after hitting power lines near a rural New Zealand town, police and witnesses said. All aboard were killed in the deadliest air crash in New Zealand in nearly 50 years.

Two of those killed jumped out of the basket in desperation before the fiery balloon plummeted to farmland with a loud bang as it hit the ground. The balloon crashed near the township of Carterton, in a region well known for its hot air ballooning, in clear, bright early morning conditions with minimal wind.

The pilot and five couples from the Wellington area, about 95 miles (150 kilometers) south of the crash site, were killed. Some of the bodies were badly burned, said Superintendent Mike Rusbatch, a police district commander in Wellington, the capital.

"It's a tragedy as bad as tragedies get," local police commander Brent Register said.

Rusbatch said it appeared the balloon's basket struck power lines that set a fire on board. Witnesses told local media of seeing 32-foot (10-meter) high flames rising from the basket of the dark blue and maroon striped balloon before it plummeted to the farmland below.

Bevan Lambeth said the basket was on fire "and the power lines were holding the basket down, but it was still about 50 meters (165 feet) in the air. Then the whole basket started to go up in flames," as the balloon broke clear of the electric lines.

"I saw ... (it) then go straight up in the air and the flames just engulfed the whole balloon and it crashed to the ground. When it came down it came down really quickly," he told TVOne News.

An aerial photo of the crash site shows two circles of black ash in a green field, close to a white house.

The burning balloon was just above the trees when David McKinlay saw it as he watered his garden.

"It looked like he (the pilot) tried to raise it a bit higher ... all of a sudden there was just 10 meters of flames," he said.

The balloon rose to 500 feet (150 meters) before dropping quickly, and turned to "just a sheer flame as it hit the ground" with a big bang, McKinlay said.

Rusbatch, the police commander, said two people jumped from the basket before it hit the ground, but did not survive.

"We believe we know who the victims were," he told the news Web site Stuff. "... A tragedy for those involved and their families."

The only victim publicly identified so far is the pilot and balloon owner, Lance Hopping. He was safety officer for the Balloons over Wairarapa annual event, and was considered an experienced and safety-conscious pilot.

New Zealand Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee expressed condolences to the bereaved families on behalf of the government.

"We are deeply sorry to learn of this tragic accident and our hearts go out to those who are now mourning the loss of life," Brownlee said.

New Zealand's Transport Accident Investigation Commission opened an immediate inquiry. Investigating officer Peter Williams said investigators had looked at the crash site but had yet to begin witness interviews. The investigation could take up to a year, he said.

The crash was the deadliest air disaster in New Zealand since 1963, when a DC-3 airliner crashed in the Kaimai Range, killing all 23 passengers and crew aboard, according to the History Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

In 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 airliner on a scenic flight slammed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board.

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Friday, January 6, 2012

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5 days from next contest, rivals race for money

Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum reaches to greet children during a campaign stop in Brentwood, N.H., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accompanied by his wife Callista, displays socks given to him during an event at Belknap Mills, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, in Laconia, N.H. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in Peterborough, N.H., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? As they try to derail Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, his challengers face an urgent task: raising enough cash to compete.

The campaign for the GOP nomination is moving into states that are more dependent on TV advertising, and nobody has yet been able to match the former Massachusetts governor's financial operation.

Rick Santorum, riding a wave of momentum, nearly won Iowa's caucuses on a shoestring but has no national fundraising network. Newt Gingrich vows to go after Romney in New Hampshire, but if history is any guide, he lacks the cash to do it. And Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a prolific fundraiser, still might be a threat ? but the Iowa results showed his support has waned.

Complicating this election has been the explosion of outside political action committees, known as super PACs, which have spent millions in support of their favored candidates. They must legally remain independent from campaigns but are still making their mark : The Romney-supportive Restore Our Future PAC deflated the brief surge of Gingrich by running ads critical of the former House speaker.

Romney's campaign has spent more than $17 million since January 2011, while Gingrich and Santorum have each spent less than one-sixth of that. Meanwhile, one super PAC ? the Santorum-leaning Red, White and Blue Fund ? spent about half a million dollars in Iowa media markets, raising questions of whether or not an underdog needs to raise money himself if his supporters will do it for him.

Support for Santorum ? who finished just eight votes behind Romney in Tuesday's caucuses ? has already begun to shift, with aides saying he raised $1 million Wednesday alone.

At the same time, Foster Friess, a prominent businessman from Wyoming who supports conservative causes, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that he's reaching out to supporters to back the former Pennsylvania senator.

"His energy level and his willingness to go face-to-face to people is truly impressive," Friess said of Santorum, calling him the best candidate to beat President Barack Obama. "If you go to any of those town halls, there's this great electricity ? because they believe in him as a person. And that's the magic of his campaign."

Yet with just five days until the New Hampshire primary, it's unclear how Santorum, Gingrich and Perry can compete financially with Romney beyond New England.

An Associated Press review of federal campaign-finance data reveals a stark contrast between Romney and most of the GOP's remaining candidates. Romney has a national donor network that raised more than $32 million during the first nine months of 2011, the most recent data available.

Other candidates are more limited. Santorum received many of his contributions from Pennsylvania and Florida. Much of Perry's money ? including from outside groups ? came from Texas. Ron Paul, with $12 million, has been financially competitive, but his libertarian views limit his appeal to GOP primary voters.

Romney had little trouble raising cash from across the nation during that same period ? garnering donations from liberal-leaning districts as well as GOP strongholds in the South.

Among the disparities so far:

?Individual donors: To date, Romney has drawn more than $32 million in individual contributions. Gingrich took in just under $3 million since early 2011, Santorum just over $1 million.

?Super PACs: These outside groups spent at least $5 million on ads leading up to the Iowa caucuses, notably from Restore Our Future. While Santorum's campaign spent an anemic $4,200 on ads in the state, the Red, White and Blue fund is expected to spend more in other primaries. And Perry-leaning Make Us Great Again said Thursday it would remain active in Perry's candidacy with media buys planned in the coming weeks.

"By spending millions and millions of dollars without any form of accountability, super PACs are now capable of completely changing the dynamic of our elections, shifting even more power to a wealthy elite and away from the voting public," said John Bonifaz, director of the advocacy group Free Speech For People.

?Defunct campaigns: Candidates often seek to recruit the fundraisers of their rivals who withdraw from the race. But following Tuesday's results, only one candidate ? Rep. Michele Bachmann ? has dropped out. Since January, the Minnesota congresswoman has raised about $5 million but reported about $1 million cash-on-hand this fall, putting her near the middle of the GOP fundraising heap.

As Santorum and the others rush to expand their operations, Romney is wasting no time. Since Wednesday morning, his campaign released two campaign videos, including one titled "American Optimism" that makes a nod toward New Hampshire.

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Follow Jack Gillum on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jackgillum

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

India opt to bat against Australia at SCG

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and opted to bat first against Australia in the second Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) here Tuesday.

Both India and Australia are fielding unchanged teams for the 100th Test at the SCG.

Australia: David Warner, Ed Cowan, Shaun Marsh, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke (captain), Michael Hussey, Brad Haddin (wicketkeeper), Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon, Ben Hilfenhaus

India: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, V.V.S. Laxman, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, (captain/wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav.

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GOP candidates reveal last-minute strategies

Several storylines emerged Monday on the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. Front-runner Mitt Romney is trying to tamp down an upstart threat from Rick Santorum. Santorum was trying to shoulder past Ron Paul, who has been running a close second to Romney but now has Santorum nipping at his heels. Paul is calling his rivals' attempts to discredit his foreign policy and other views as desperation and demagoguery. Rick Perry is to trying to keep Santorum from pulling away from a three-way tie with him and Newt Gingrich by questioning Santorum's voting record on earmarks in the Senate. Gingrich is questioning his strategy of trying to stay positive against a withering onslaught of negative ads and attacks by rivals. And Michele Bachmann, running at the back of the pack, is predicting a "miracle" finish in the state that launched her campaign over the summer. No Republican contest has had the volatility of this one with candidates moving from the top to the bottom of polls. Iowa Rep. Steve King, whose endorsement is a coveted one, characterized the race as a game of "king of the hill." "If you're at the top of the hill, everybody has to try to pull you down and your negatives get illuminated and a lot of scrutiny goes on," King told CNN's Soledad O'Brien on "Starting Point." "If you have five or six people trying to pull you off the hill, eventually they do that, someone else takes the top of the hill." King said Romney has hung around the top of the hill. "He hasn't actually claimed the top of the hill and decide he was about to own it until about now." Romney, who for the most part has focused his attacks on President Barack Obama and left attacks on Republican rivals to surrogates and political action committees that support him, took shots at the other candidates in the GOP field and contrasted his record with that of Santorum at an event in Atlantic on Sunday, attention that proves Santorum's surge in polls is getting the front-runner's attention. Insiders survey: 2 out of 3 think Romney will win "Like Speaker Gingrich, Senator Santorum has spent his career in government, in Washington," Romney told reporters. "Nothing wrong with that, but it is a very different background than I have." Romney also reminded voters and members of the media that Santorum backed his first White House bid during the last presidential election. The former Massachusetts governor has a series of rallies across the state on Monday. Santorum addressed the endorsement Sunday during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," saying he backed the former Massachusetts governor in 2008 to prevent Sen. John McCain from securing the GOP nomination. In another example of the changing climate, Santorum took aim Sunday at Paul's foreign policy positions. "Like the president said when he was campaigning and I predict, that if the president has four years where he's not looking for reelection, his foreign policy will not be any different than Ron Paul's foreign policy," Santorum said in Sioux City. Santorum will hold "meet and greets" with voters at five locations across the state on Monday. With Paul's rise to the top tier, rivals have attacked his noninterventionist views on foreign policy and less aggressive stance on Iran's nuclear program. They've also resurrected newsletters published under Paul's name in the 1990s that included racist comments. Paul has said he was unaware of the content of the newsletters at the time and rejected the content. In an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union," Paul drew contrasts between what he called his consistent positions and those of his rivals, and said opponents are desperate to find ways to attack him. "They've been all over the place. They've been flip-flopping and they can't defend themselves," he said. "They're having a little trouble finding any flip-flops on me, so they have to go and dig up and distort and demagogue issues." As to assertions that he would be unelectable in the general election, Paul countered, "I've been electable. I was elected 12 times once people got to know me in my own congressional district. So I think that might be more propaganda than anything else." Paul took the weekend off to return to Texas to be with his wife but is back on the trail Monday, when he'll appear with his son Sen. Rand Paul, a tea party favorite, at four whistle stop locations across the state and Rand Paul will attend a fifth. Gingrich appears to be taking off the gloves in the final hours leading up to the caucuses, obviously smarting from the battering he's taken over the past month. Gingrich's rise in the polls, fueled by strong debate performances and a conservative wing of the party that still has reservations about Romney, was met with a barrage of negative ads from political action committees that support Romney. "For a state this size, to spend that number of dollars in negative ads aimed at one candidate is pretty amazing," Gingrich said. And he said that if he had the opportunity to do anything differently, "I would have pulled the plug on Romney's PAC." Asked if he felt he had been "swift-boated," a reference to the attacks on John Kerry's military record during the 2004 presidential campaign, Gingrich replied, "No, I feel Romney-boated." The former House speaker sounded as if he might ready to take off the gloves after his pledge to stay positive, what he called an "interesting experiment," if not on Monday then certainly in New Hampshire, which votes a week after Iowa. "New Hampshire's the perfect state to have a debate over Romney-care," he said, referring to the health care reform law passed in Massachusetts when Romney was governor, which contains an individual mandate that conservatives despise and say was the model for President Barack Obama's federal health care reform law. Gingrich's campaign bus will be on the road on Monday and he'll hold two town hall meetings and another tele-town hall meeting. Perry sought to downplay expectations of how he'll finish in Iowa, saying in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" that he got into the race late while "some of these folks have been running for years." Other candidates "may do OK in Iowa, but when it comes to running a national political campaign, they're going to falter." Perry is enlisting his most prominent supporters for a major rally on the eve of the caucuses. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, both of whom endorsed Perry early in the race, will join the Texas governor during his last event of the day. Joining them on stage will be former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, the chief proponent of Perry's flat-tax proposal, and Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a longtime Perry ally in Austin. South Carolina Rep. Mick Mulvaney, one of the most popular conservatives in the early southern primary state, will also appear. Bachmann has heightened her rhetoric and optimism amid Hawkeye State poll figures that list her near the bottom of the pack in the state. During an interview Sunday with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Bachmann reiterated her expectations that Iowans "are going to see a miracle" when the caucuses are over. She also said she is the only candidate with the resolve to perpetuate former President Ronald Regan's legacy and become "America's iron lady," a reference to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Despite a consistent decline since winning the Ames straw poll in August, Bachmann has suggested the Iowa caucuses are unpredictable. "We don't know who will come to the caucuses [or] who won't," Bachmann said on CNN. "You can take poll tests, but everything that matters is who shows up and who do they support." Bachmann, one of the most frequent of Iowa visitors in the race to the White House, is a strong social conservative and often touts her history as a foster parent as well as her Iowa roots during campaign stops. She will once again hit the campaign trail Monday with two stops in the state: a restaurant stop in West Des Moines and an event at her campaign headquarters in Urbandale. Former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, the other major Republican candidate in the race, isn't competing in Iowa but instead focusing his efforts on New Hampshire, which votes a week after Iowa. On Sunday, Huntsman sent a letter to supporters offering to match dollar-for-dollar contributions to his campaign. Huntsman's poll numbers have edged upward in New Hampshire in recent weeks but he has failed to break into the top tier. Romney has consistently held a large lead in polls there.

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