Carla Bruni 'befriends homeless man' in Paris

It is a heart-warming tale of rags and riches - or first lady and the tramp.
Carla Bruni has reportedly befriended a homeless man who lives near her home in Paris's 16th arrondissement, giving him money and talking about music.
The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy had even offered to put Denis up in a hotel, he told Closer magazine.
He said the two had struck up conversation as the Italian-born model and singer, 41, passed Denis on the daily school run with her son.
"She asks after me, she gives me one or two 50- or 100-euro notes," Denis, 53, was quoted as saying by the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
He added that the two discussed books or music, and the first lady had even given him a signed copy of her latest album.
But Denis turned down Ms Bruni's offer to put him up in a hotel room for a month.
"It's not that I enjoy being in the street but I've got my habits," he was quoted as saying. "People say it's cold. That's true but I'm well covered-up.
"What's more, Carla gave me a military-type duvet, which keeps me warm."
Denis was interviewed by Closer after Ms Bruni mentioned their conversations in an interview with Macadam, a magazine sold by the homeless.
Ms Bruni married twice-divorced French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 after a whirlwind romance.
BBC-London

Obama Defends Senate Health Care Bill, Says It Will Pass

President Obama pushed back against critics, including the former head of the Democratic Party, who have said that the health care bill in the Senate is fatally flawed and should be scrapped altogether.
In an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson, the president said he laid out for Congress specific things he wanted to see in the health care legislation -- including providing insurance for millions of uninsured and not driving up the deficit -- and that the current bill still has those benefits.
"Now, if you can tell me that those things are not worth it, then you and I have a very different opinion about what the task is here," he said.
But Dr. Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman and a medical doctor, charged this week that the Senate bill has been so watered down that it is no longer worth supporting.
There is a bit of irony in that just 10 days after announcing the deployment of 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan, President Obama will accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Thursday in Oslo, Norway.
The award, which the Nobel committee said was for Obama's "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," comes as he presides over wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and faces an American public that is increasingly skeptical about the U.S.-led efforts there.
Obama will walk a delicate line in his acceptance speech, and the White House said he will acknowledge that he accepts the peace prize as a war president.
Aides said he will address Afghanistan and the decision to add troops there and present it in the overall context of the award he is accepting. Senior administration officials said that Obama will discuss what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq mean in the context of peace and his role as president and the role of the United States.
-ABC News-

Pakistan court voids amnesty shielding Zardari allies

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that a decree protecting allies of President Asif Zardari against charges of corruption is illegal.
The controversial law granting senior politicians amnesty was brought in by ex-President Pervez Musharraf.
The court's move opens the way to possible prosecution for Mr Zardari's political allies, although he is still protected by presidential immunity.
Mr Zardari faces several pending court cases against him in Pakistan.
Before taking office, he spent years in jail after being convicted on corruption charges he says were politically motivated.
Pressure
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry read out the ruling of the 17-judge bench, declaring the amnesty "void" and unconstitutional.
In its ruling, the court said the law "seems to be against national interests thus it violates the provisions of the constitution".
The law was introduced by Mr Musharraf in order to allow Mr Zardari's late wife, Benazir Bhutto, to return to the country and stand for office, with the aim of a possible power-sharing deal with Mr Musharraf.
She returned to Pakistan from abroad after the so-called National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was signed into law, but was assassinated soon after.
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool, in Islamabad, says it has only recently been revealed that more than 8,000 politicians and officials benefited from the legislation.
The Supreme Court has called for all these cases to be re-opened, with hundreds of senior politicians and civilian bureaucrats now facing criminal and corruption charges.
Our correspondent says that Mr Zardari and his government will come under pressure to step down on moral grounds, though there are no signs that this is likely to happen.
Pakistan is often ranked among the most corrupt countries in the world by anti-graft campaigners.
According to a listing produced by global watchdog Transparency International, it came 40th out of 180 countries surveyed.

-BBC London-

A lovely message

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage.
They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their
eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.
The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle
fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened to be
a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital,where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband.
When the distraught father came to the ho spital and saw
the dead child, he looked at his
wife and uttered just five words.
QUESTIONS:
1.What were the five words ?
2.What is the implication of this story?

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ANSWER :
The husband just said,"I am with you,Darling"
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life.There is no point in finding fault with the mother.
Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away,
this would not have happened. No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child.. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her. If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective,there would be much fewer problems in the world. " A journey of athousand miles begins with a single step.Take off all your envies,jealousies,unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you Think.

MORAL OF THE STORY
This story is really worth reading. .....
Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with
the people we know. By this way we miss out something.