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...Jimbaran Bay on Oct. 1, there wasn't the same rush for the exits. Kuta's famous waves are still dotted with surfers. Even the wide-open beachfront restaurants in the high-end Seminyak district north of Kuta are still buzzing, despite a warning last week from the Australian government that the area might be next on the terrorist hit list. At the trendy restaurant Ku De Ta, 20 or so tipsy Australian revelers wearing flower leis and fake horns circulate among the loungers and red umbrellas lining the beach, and couples dance in the sand, terrorism the last thing...
...year-old Malaysian statistician Azahari bin Husin and his former student Nurdin Mohammed Top, 37. They are suspected of playing key roles as planners and bombmakers in the 2002 Bali blasts, the August 2003 bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel, the September 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in the capital and the Oct. 1 bombings. While police don't have a smoking gun linking the two fugitives to the latest attacks, they say that the type of explosives and other materials used point to their involvement. Even Ali Imron, now serving a life sentence in a Jakarta jail...
...Laureates. In awarding the prize today, the Nobel committee commented that the pair had fundamentally altered the scientific view of a disease that affects up to five million people in the U.S. each year. Asked how winning the Nobel Prize would affect his future, Warren replied with a West Australian?s typical laconic self-deprecation: "Yeah, we'll have to come to Sweden...
...exude understated chic and come equipped with luxurious rain showers (perfect for washing off any dust accumulated during your rambles through Angkor Wat). Evenings should be spent dining on the fabulously spicy cuisine at the hotel's restaurant, Meric, aptly named for a locally grown pepper. Don't miss Australian chef Paul Hutt's grilled Battambang snake and green mango salad. Afterwards, take a digestif in the Arts Lounge?La Paix's innovative live music bar-cum-art gallery...
...cricket-obsessed India, where the travails of the country's national team are front-page news, a feud between its coach, Australian Greg Chappell, and its captain, Sourav Ganguly, has become more captivating than any test match. During the team's tour to Zimbabwe last month, an outraged Ganguly told the Indian press that Chappell was demanding he resign as captain; Ganguly threatened to quit the team in protest. Days later, in an e-mail to India's cricket board which was leaked to the media, Chappell described the 32-year-old as "struggling," "fragile" and "nervous" and suggested...