Internationalhttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/en-US2008-08-20T17:06:09ZSquarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Roger Huerta Will Never Truly Be Accepted as a Mexican Herohttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/roger-huerta-will-never-truly-be-accepted-as-a-mexican-hero.htmlJohnny Talkback2008-08-19T22:38:59ZMMA, UFC, Roger Huerta, WBA Boxing, Editorial ]]>All races lay claim to hip-hophttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/all-races-lay-claim-to-hip-hop.htmlQuincy Morgan2008-08-19T22:35:44ZMilwaukee’s thriving hip-hop scene gave birth to Arrested Development, the Rusty P’s and Black Elephant.

But there’s also a growing subset of hip-hop artists claiming the genre for themselves. They’re not gangbangers. They’re not decked out in bling and designer clothes, surrounded by scantily clad women and free-flowing champagne. They’re not black.

What was once considered the enclave of African-Americans, borne out of the Bronx’s gritty New York streets in the 1970s, is now mainstream American music. But there’s Algerian hip-hop, Korean MCs and Japanese beat boxers. In Milwaukee, hip-hop is represented by the Hmong and Latino communities.

]]>Brett Lee launches cricket-inspired undie rangehttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/brett-lee-launches-cricket-inspired-undie-range.htmlQuincy Morgan2008-08-19T22:31:08Z ]]>MySpace Australia TV launchedhttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/myspace-australia-tv-launched.htmlJohnny Talkback2008-08-19T22:30:35ZMySpace Australia has launched its online television channel with a global concert by US band Death Cab for Cutie.   

As the online social and music networking website takes on YouTube, MySpace has teamed up with traditional television networks such as the ABC and the BBC to bring their programs to Australian users.   

The website also includes content from pay TV’s Channel V and Fremantle media programs like Neighbours.   

About 600 Sydney fans packed into the Oxford Art Factory to watch Death Cab for Cutie play a set for a potential global audience of 115 million online viewers.   

“Death Cab for Cutie have that rare combination of indie credibility and huge popularity,” said Rebekah Horne, vice president of MySpace Australia.   

“They’re rocking the world, they’re hugely popular on MySpace and we’re trilled to have them perform live at the launch of MySpace TV here in Australia.”   

According to Nielsen Online, Netview, in July 2008 there were 2.6 million Australians visiting MySpace.
]]>Russians stay in Georgia, defy the Westhttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/russians-stay-in-georgia-defy-the-west.htmlSarah Ryan2008-08-19T07:46:53ZTBILISI - Russian troops and tanks were still deployed in several areas of Georgia on Tuesday, apparently defying pressure from the West to withdraw quickly.

Armed Georgian policemen and Russian soldiers guarded separate checkpoints only a few hundred meters apart in the village of Igoeti in central Georgia, about 45 km (28 miles) from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.

]]>Media rights group wants Vietnamese blogger freedhttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/media-rights-group-wants-vietnamese-blogger-freed.htmlSarah Ryan2008-08-19T07:46:21ZHANOI - Reporters Without Borders has called for a blogger arrested by Vietnamese officials on suspicion of tax fraud to be freed, saying he was detained for comments that went against the communist government.

The accusation is an “utterly baseless charge that is just a pretext to prevent him from posting more articles critical of the government,” the media rights group said in a statement Monday, referring to blogger Dieu Cay.

]]>German police seize motorized office chairhttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/german-police-seize-motorized-office-chair.htmlSarah Ryan2008-08-19T07:46:01ZBERLIN - German police have confiscated what may be the world’s fastest office chair.

Police say officers happened on the contraption — the work of two inventive 17-year-olds — in the western town of Gross-Zimmern on Saturday.

The pair had added a lawnmower engine, bicycle brakes and a metal frame to the revolving chair — making into a go-kart-like vehicle.

Police said in a statement Monday the inventors insisted they had only tested it over a few meters, but witnesses reported seeing it on several streets.

They are being investigated over a variety of possible offenses, including defying insurance regulations, driving without a license and violating registration requirements.

Police did not say what top speed the chair could reach. - AP

]]>Lost baby whale bonds with yacht in Australiahttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/lost-baby-whale-bonds-with-yacht-in-australia.htmlSarah Ryan2008-08-19T07:45:19ZSYDNEY, Australia - A lost humpback whale calf that bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother will likely die within days if it doesn’t find another mother to adopt it, a wildlife official said Tuesday.

The 1- to 2-month-old calf was first sighted Sunday in waters off north Sydney, and on Monday tried to suckle from a yacht, which it would not leave. Rescuers towed the yacht out to sea, and the calf finally detached from the boat, but the creature returned to an inlet near Sydney Tuesday morning, New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service spokesman John Dengate said.

The calf can’t survive without mother’s milk for long, Dengate told Australia’s Fairfax Radio Network.

“It’s probably a question of days rather than weeks,” he said. “It’s a very grim prognosis.”

Artificial feeding would be impossible, so the calf’s only chance is to find another female whale to accept it, he said.

“If a lactating female with a calf goes past and this calf approaches that animal it may accept it, but … it’s a very slim chance,” Dengate said. - AP

]]>Pakistan parties to discuss Musharraf's successorhttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/pakistan-parties-to-discuss-musharrafs-successor.htmlSarah Ryan2008-08-19T07:44:40ZISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s law minister said Tuesday that the government had not struck an immunity deal with Pervez Musharraf, who resigned this week as the nation’s president in the face of possible impeachment.

Also Tuesday, ruling coalition leaders were expected to meet to discuss replacing the ousted president and possibly decide on how to deal with restoring dozens of judges he fired last year.

]]>Suicide bombers attack US base in Afghanstanhttp://www.bytcs.com/international2/2008/8/19/suicide-bombers-attack-us-base-in-afghanstan.htmlSarah Ryan2008-08-19T07:44:06ZKABUL, Afghanistan - A team of suicide bombers tried to storm a US military base near the border with Pakistan in a daring insurgent attack on a major American installation, officials said Tuesday. Six suicide bombers exploded their vests after being surrounded outside the base.

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