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BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. said 200,000Syrians have fled the embattled city of Alepposince intense clashes between regime forces andrebels began 10 days ago.

The government forces turned mortars, tankand helicopter gunships against rebel positionsMonday, pressing ahead with a counter-offen-sive to wrest back control of neighborhoodstaken by rebels in Syria's largest city and com-mercial hub.

"I am extremely concerned by the impact ofshelling and use of tanks and other heavyweapons on people in Aleppo," Valerie Amos,the top U.N. official for humanitarian affairs,said in a statement late Sunday. "Many peoplehave sought temporary shelter in schools andother public buildings in safer areas," she added."They urgently need food, mattresses and blan-kets, hygiene supplies and drinking water."

Amos said U.N. agencies and the SyrianRed Crescent are working together on supplyingthose affected by the fighting all over the coun-try with blankets and humanitarian supplies, butmany remain out of their reach because of thecombat.

"It is not known how many people remaintrapped in places where fighting continuestoday," she warned. Aleppo is Syria's largestcity and commercial hub with about 3 millioninhabitants.

Fleeing residents have described to TheAssociated Press incessant shelling, shortagesof food and gasoline and soaring black marketprices for everyday staples. They scurry throughstreets against a backdrop of gunfire andclimbed onto any form of transportation avail-able to escape, including trucks, cars and evenheavily laden motorcycles.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta saidlate Sunday that the use of heavy weapons, par-ticularly helicopters, is just another nail inPresident Bashar Assad's coffin. He spoke dur-ing a stopover in Tunisia as he kicked off aMideast tour expected to focus heavily on theunfolding crisis in Syria.

Syrian state media reported late Sunday thatthe army had "purged" Aleppo's southwesternneighborhood of Salaheddine and inflicted"great losses" upon the rebels in one of the firstdistricts they took control of in their bid to seizethe city.

Activists, however, disputed these claimsand just described another day of fierce shellingof certain areas, backed up by the occasionalforay on the ground.

"They have tanks in nearby Hamdaniya andthere is fighting, and there have been randombombardments of Salaheddine," saidMohammed Saeed, who is based in the embat-tled city.

While giving no indication that the Obamaadministration is contemplating military inter-vention, Panetta said it is increasingly clear thatthe Syrian crisis is deepening and that Assad ishastening his own demise.

"If they continue this kind of tragic attack ontheir own people, ... I think it ultimately will bea nail in Assad's coffin," Panetta told reporterstraveling with him from Washington. "Hisregime is coming to an end."

The Syrian regime has been plagued by astring of defections, including three high-rank-ing diplomats and several military commanders.On Monday, a Turkish official said a Syrianbrigadier general who was deputy chief of

UN SAYS 200,000 HAVEFLED ALEPPO FIGHTING

200,000 Syrians have fled the embattled city ofAleppo since intense clashes between regimeforces and rebels began 10 days ago.

IPHONE APPEAL DIMS ASSAMSUNG SHINES

The pace of iPhone sales has slowed, Applerevealed last week Part of the problem is thatthe competition has found a formula that works

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ROMNEY COMMENTS ATFUNDRAISER OUTRAGE

PALESTINIANS

His comments were racist and out of touch withthe realities of the Middle East. Page 3

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Accident Statistics from Florida Departmentof Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Page 4

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This Weeks Accident Reports from Variouscountys in Florida. Page 5

1970S NY GRAFFITI ARTISTSSTILL HAVE URGE TO TAG

kids who spray-painted their initials all overManhattan in the 1970s are coming of age -middle age, that is. Page 6

IRAN SENTENCES 4 TODEATH IN $2.6B

FRAUD CASEAn Iranian court has sentenced four people todeath and given two more life sentences oncharges linked to a $2.6 billion bank frauddescribed as the biggest financial scam in thecountry's history, Page 7

NASA TO ATHLETIC MARSROVER: 'STICKTHE LANDING'

Scientists and engineers will be waiting anx-iously 154 million miles away as the spacecraftplunges through Mars' thin atmosphere, and ina new twist, attempts to slowly lower the roverto the bottom of a crater with cables Page 8

IPHONE APPEAL DIMS .(continued from page 2)Samsung times its product launches to takemaximum advantage of the lull in iPhone salesthat usually precedes the launch of a newmodel. The S II Page 8

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The latest iPhonelooks much the same as the first iPhone, whichcame out more than five years ago. That hasn'tbeen a problem for Apple - until, now.

The pace of iPhone sales has slowed, Applerevealed last week. Part of the problem is thatthe competition has found a formula that works:thinner phones with big screens that make theiPhone look small and chubby.

For a dose of smartphone envy, iPhone own-ers need to look no further than SamsungElectronics Co., the number-one maker ofsmartphones in the world. Its newest flagshipphone, the Galaxy S III, is sleek and wafer-thin.

By comparison, the iPhone "is getting a bitlong in the tooth," says Ramon Llamas, an ana-lyst with research firm IDC.

Apple has become the world's most valuablecompany on the back of the iPhone, whichmakes up nearly half of its revenue. IPhonesales are still growing, but the question of howfast they're growing is of keen interest toinvestors. The iPhone certainly has room togrow: only one in six smartphones sold global-

ly in the second quarter had an Apple logo on itsback.

When Apple reported financial results for itslatest quarter last week, a new phenomenon wasrevealed: Buyers started pulling back on iPhonepurchases just six months after the launch of thelatest iPhone model.

Apple executives blamed the tepid sales on"rumors and speculation" that may have causedsome consumers to wait for the next iPhone,which is due in the fall. But in the past, iPhonesales have stayed strong nine months after thenew model is launched, then dipped as peoplebegan holding off, waiting for the new model.

In the April to June period, Apple sold 26million phones, 28 percent more than it did inthe same quarter last year.

Most other phone makers "would kill" forthose numbers, says Stephen Baker, an analystwith research firm NPD Group.

The exception is Samsung, which has solid-ified its position at the world's largest maker ofsmartphones. Analysts believe it made just over

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In this April 19, 2011 file photo, Samsung Electronics' GalaxyS, left, and Apple's iPhone 4 are displayed at a mobile phoneshop in Seoul, South Korea. Two tech titans are squaring offin federal court Monday in a closely watched trial over controlof the worldwide smart phone and computer tablet markets.Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co.last year alleging the world’s largest technology company’ssmart phones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs.Samsung countered that it’s Apple that is doing the stealingand, besides, some of the technology at issue such as therounded rectangular designs of smart phones have beenindustry standards for years.

the accomplishment of the people here,"Romney said, before citing another book, "TheWealth and Poverty of Nations," by formerHarvard professor David Landes.

This book, Romney said in Jerusalem, con-cludes that "if you could learn anything from theeconomic history of the world it's this: Culturemakes all the difference. Culture makes all thedifference."

The economic disparity between the Israelisand the Palestinians is actually much greaterthan Romney stated. Israel had a per capitagross domestic product of about $31,000 in2011, while the West Bank and Gaza had a percapita GDP of just over $1,500, according to theWorld Bank.

Romney, seated next to billionaire casinoowner Sheldon Adelson at the head of the table,told donors that he had read books and relied onhis own business experience to understand whythe difference is so great.

His comparison of the two economies didnot take into account the stifling effect theIsraeli occupation has had on the Palestinianeconomy in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastJerusalem - areas Israel captured in 1967 wherethe Palestinians hope to establish a state.

In the West Bank, Palestinians have onlylimited self-rule. Israel controls all border cross-ings in and out of the territory, and continues torestrict Palestinian trade and movement. Israelannexed east Jerusalem in 1967, but has invest-ed much less heavily there than in Jewish westJerusalem.

And although Israel withdrew from theGaza Strip in 2005, it continues to controlaccess and has enforced a crippling borderblockade since the Islamic militant Hamasseized the territory in 2007.

It's true that Israel has logged tremendousachievements, said Abraham Diskin, a politicalscience professor at the Inter-DisciplinaryCenter outside of Tel Aviv. But "you can under-stand this remark in several ways," he added."You can say it's anti-Semitic. `Jews andmoney.'"

The World Bank and the InternationalMonetary Fund repeatedly have said that thePalestinian economy can only grow if Israel liftsthose restrictions.

"It's Israeli occupiers and Palestinians underoccupation, and that's why Palestinians cannotrealize their potential," Erekat said.

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R O M N E Y C O M M E N T S A T F U N D R A I S E RO U T R A G E P A L E S T I N I A N S

The breakfast with top donors - includingAdelson, New York Jets owner Woody Johnsonand hedge fund manager Paul Singer - conclud-ed Romney's visit to Israel, the second leg of athree-nation overseas tour designed to bolsterhis foreign policy credentials.

Standing on Israeli soil for the first time asthe GOP's presumptive presidential nominee,Romney on Sunday declared Jerusalem to bethe capital of Israel and said the U.S. has prom-ised never to "look away from our passion andcommitment to Israel."

The status of Jerusalem is a critical issue inpeace talks between the Israelis and thePalestinians.

In Israel, Romney did not meet with Abbasor visit the West Bank. He met briefly withPalestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

Romney's campaign says the trip, whichbegan in England last week, is aimed at improv-ing the former Massachusetts governor's foreignpolicy experience through a series of meetingswith foreign leaders. The candidate has largelyavoided direct criticism of U.S. PresidentBarack Obama while on foreign soil.

The Jerusalem fundraiser, however, was apolitical event that raised more than $1 millionfor Romney's campaign. It marks at least thesecond finance event during his tour. The first,in London, attracted about 250 people to a$2,500-per-person fundraiser.

Both presidential candidates have aggres-sively courted American donors living abroad, apractice that is legal and has been used fordecades.

Romney's declaration that Jerusalem isIsrael's capital was in keeping with claims madeby Israeli governments for decades, eventhough the United States, like other nations,maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv.

His remarks on the subject during a speechdrew a standing ovation from the audience,which included Adelson, the American busi-nessman who has promised to donate more than$100 million to help defeat Obama.

Adelson was among a several donors whoflew to Israel for a day of sightseeing withRomney in addition to private meetings with topIsraeli officials.

Romney flew to the Middle East fromBritain, where he caused a stir by questioningwhether officials there were fully prepared forthe Olympic Games. A stop in Poland will com-plete his trip.

Four years ago, Obama visited Israel as apresidential candidate, part of a five-nation tripmeant to establish his own foreign policy cre-dentials.

A goal of Romney's overseas trip is todemonstrate his confidence on the world stage,but the stop in Israel also was designed toappeal to evangelical voters at home and cutinto Obama's support among Jewish voters anddonors. A Gallup survey of Jewish votersreleased Friday showed Obama with a 68-25edge over Romney.

Romney and other Republicans have saidObama is insufficiently supportive of Israel.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Mitt Romney toldJewish donors Monday that their culture is partof what has allowed them to be more economi-cally successful than the Palestinians, outragingPalestinian leaders who suggested his com-ments were racist and out of touch with the real-ities of the Middle East. His campaign later saidhis remarks were mischaracterized.

"As you come here and you see the GDP percapita, for instance, in Israel which is about$21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDPper capita just across the areas managed by thePalestinian Authority, which is more like$10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramati-cally stark difference in economic vitality," theRepublican presidential candidate told about 40wealthy donors who ate breakfast at the luxuri-ous King David Hotel.

Romney said some economic histories havetheorized that "culture makes all the difference."

"And as I come here and I look out over thiscity and consider the accomplishments of thepeople of this nation, I recognize the power of atleast culture and a few other things," Romneysaid, citing an innovative business climate, theJewish history of thriving in difficult circum-stances and the "hand of providence." He saidsimilar disparity exists between neighboringcountries, like Mexico and the United States.

Palestinian reaction to Romney was swiftand pointed.

"It is a racist statement and this man doesn'trealize that the Palestinian economy cannotreach its potential because there is an Israelioccupation," said Saeb Erekat, a senior aide toPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

"It seems to me this man lacks information,knowledge, vision and understanding of thisregion and its people," Erekat added. "He alsolacks knowledge about the Israelis themselves. Ihave not heard any Israeli official speak aboutcultural superiority."

As criticism mounted while Romney trav-eled to Poland, campaign spokeswoman AndreaSaul said: "His comments were grossly mis-characterized." The Republican's campaign con-tends Romney's comparison of countries thatare close to each other and have wide incomedisparities - the U.S. and Mexico, Chile andEcuador - shows his comments were broaderthan just the comparison between Israel andPalestine.

While speaking to U.S. audiences, Romneyoften highlights culture as a key to economicsuccess and emphasizes the power of theAmerican entrepreneurial spirit compared to thevalues of other countries. But his decision tohighlight cultural differences in a region wheresuch differences have helped fuel violence forgenerations raises new questions about the for-mer businessman's diplomacy skills.

As he has at home, Romney in Jerusalemcited a book titled, "Guns, Germs and Steel,"that suggests the physical characteristics of theland account for the differences in the successof the people that live there.

"And you look at Israel and you say youhave a hard time suggesting that all of the natu-ral resources on the land could account for all

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Two lanes shut on NB I-95

A crash on northbound Interstate 95 south ofNorthwest 79th Street in Miami-Dade is blocking tworegular lanes.

Crash, Boca Raton

The vehicle crashed into wall that leads into thedevelopment causing major structure damage. Thedemolished wall blocked traffic heading west forseveral hours. He says parts of the damaged vehi-cle were found at the scene like a headlight whichshows the vehicle appears to be a 2011 DodgeDurango.

July 30, 2012

July 28, 2012

Man arrested on hit-and-run charges in fatal

motorcycle crash

July 27, 2012A Lake Mary doctor was arrested on hit-and-runcharges after he hit a motorcyclist in VolusiaCounty and then left the scene, authorities said.

The Florida Highway Patrol said Dr. Kevin Wynnehit 50-year-old Sabra Vocaturo with his SUV inFebruary on State Road 415 and never stopped tohelp. Vocaturo was thrown from her bike intooncoming traffic.

Authorities said two drivers ran over Vocaturo.They stopped to help but told officers there wasnothing they could do.

Wynne was arrested at his Heathrow home onThursday by the Florida Highway Patrol.

His lawyer contacted FHP the day after the crash,telling them where to find Wynne's Infiniti SUV,which had a part missing.

Wynne is being held on $50,000 bail.

Florida Highway Patrol has released the name ofthe St. Augustine Beach man killed in the single-car crash near Interstate 95 in Volusia County thisafternoon.

Investigators say, Hallman, 41, was on BevilleRoad merging onto the I-95 entrance ramp atabout 3:45 p.m. when he lost control of his 2003Ford pickup truck. The truck flipped over severaltimes and Hallman, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle.

Hallman died on scene. There was one other pas-senger in the truck at the time of the crash. RobertThornton, 43, was wearing a seat belt. He survivedthe crash and was taken to Halifax Medical Centerwith serious injuries.

Crash blocks 5 lanesnorthbound I-95

July 26, 2012

St. Augustine Beach mandies in crash near I-95 in

Volusia County

The northbound lanes of Interstate 95 were experi-encing heavy delays through Fort LauderdaleTuesday afternoon.A crash near Oakland Park Boulevard that wasreported shortly after 12:30 p.m. was intially block-ing five northbound travel lanes. The multi-vehiclecrash was reported shortly after 12:30 p.m.By 1:30 p.m. most of the travel lanes were reopen-ing but considerable delays remained in place.

July 26, 2012

Debris on I-95, OaklandPark

South Florida commuters are finding dry roads forthe peak of the morning rush on Monday.

Among the incidents and crashes being reportedthrough the region by the Florida Highway Patroland Florida Department of Transportation:8:19 a.m., hit-and-run crash on southbound I-95near the entrance ramp to Commercial Boulevard inOakland Park;Tire debris reported in the left land of I-95 afterCommercial Boulevard in Oakland Park;8:02 a.m., crash on the northbound State Road 7ramp to I-95 inFort Lauderdale;

July 28, 2012

truck crashes into passen-ger bus on I-75 0ne man

dead, one injured

One person was left in critical condition after acrash on Interstate 75 in Sumter County involving abus carrying 27 people and a truck.

The Florida Highway Patrol said it happenedaround 7:30 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-75near mile marker 333.

Troopers said the passenger bus was heading forMexico from Lake Wales when it slowed down forcongested traffic.

That’s when officials say the bus was hit frombehind by a truck.That truck went down an embankment, spunaround and hit some small trees before finally stop-ping, according to FHP.

A passenger in the truck was taken to OrlandoRegional Medical Center with critical injuries.The two other drivers and the 27 passengers onthe bus were not injured.

July 28, 2012

Southbound lanes ofInterstate 95 in West Palm

Interstate 95 in West PalmBeach blocked after crash

Four lanes of southbound Interstate 95 are blockedin West Palm Beach because of a crash.At least three vehicles were involved just south ofPalm Beach Lakes Boulevard about 10:30 a.m.

WPBF 25 News has learned at least one personhad to be extricated.

Traffic is backed up past the Palm Beach LakesBoulevard exit as a resultRead more: http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-flori-da/Palm-Beach-County-News/Southbound-lanes-of-Interstate-95-in-West-Palm-Beach-blocked-after-crash/-/8815578/15117892/-/l9u09j/-/index.html#ixzz1y59jZZO8

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Four lanes of southbound Interstate 95 are blockedin West Palm Beach because of a crash.At least three vehicles were involved just south ofPalm Beach Lakes Boulevard about 10:30 a.m.WPBF 25 News has learned at least one personhad to be extricated.Traffic is backed up past the Palm Beach LakesBoulevard exit as a result.

Man thrown from SUV,killed in Brevard crash

A Cocoa man was killed Saturday evening when hewas thrown from an SUV in a single-vehicle crash.

Dalton Cook, 26, was a passenger in a 2000Toyota SUV driven by 28-year-old James Walker,also of Cocoa.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Walkerwas driving south on Grissom Parkway at about 6p.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve. He over-corrected, sending the vehicle into the northboundlane. The SUV overturned as Walker tried to returnto the southbound lane.

July 28, 2012

Investigators said a man was killed when a car ranoff the Florida's Turnpike in Pompano Beach andflipped into a ditch next to a landfill.

State troopers said an employee at Monarch HillLandfill discovered the grisly scene at about 8:30a.m. and called 911.

Man Killed In PompanoBeach Car Crash

July 29, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) -- In torn jeans and sad-dled with a black backpack, Andrew Wittenglances up and down the street for police. The51-year-old then whips out a black markerscribbles "Zephyr" on a wall covered withmovie posters. He admires his work for a fewseconds before his tattooed arms reach for hisdaughter, holding her hand as he briskly walksaway.

Witten and a generation of urban latchkeykids who spray-painted their initials all overManhattan in the 1970s and `80s and landed inthe city's street art scene are coming of age -middle age, that is.

And like Witten, a 51-year-old single father,some street artists considered now to be graffitielders are having trouble putting away theirspray paint cans. As Witten says, "I'm ready. Icould go tonight."

"I'm chronologically old to be out theredoing it," Witten admits with a playful smile."I'm sure I can't run quite as fast."

Witten built a reputation as a master atspray-painting extravagant graffiti pieces onfreight and subway trains, called train-bombing,in the neighborhoods where he now teaches his6-year-old daughter, Lulu, to skateboard. Forhim, spray-painting other people's property withhis nickname, or tag, is almost an addiction, anddanger is part of the drug. Crawling underbarbed wire, ducking from police officers, evenbeing shot at is all part of the experience.

But with an artist's heart, Witten describespainting graffiti in more poetic terms. He calls ita freeing experience, in which the silence ofnight gives way to the hiss and mist of the sprayrising into the moonlight.

Angel Ortiz recently served 41 days of a 50-day sentence in the Rikers Island jail systemafter being busted for spraying his tag, LA Roc,on a billboard in March of last year. Fordecades, Ortiz, 45, has been known onManhattan's Lower East Side as LA II. A trau-matic loss of a girlfriend brought him out of a14-year hiatus from graffiti writing. He hassince been caught three times spraying his tagon property, each time while walking a friend'sdog.

"Everywhere that dog stopped to pee Iwould write my name," Ortiz says. "The streets

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were like my canvases. I just started writing myname everywhere."

When a pair of police officers smelled thefresh paint and nabbed Ortiz, they asked if hesaw himself as too old to be doing graffiti. Buteven now, Ortiz keeps a spray can or marker inhis pocket to satisfy that incessant itch to tagmailboxes, signs and fire hydrants.

Ortiz often recalls those golden days in the`80s, when graffiti became the focal point of thecounterculture art world and he partied withMadonna and Andy Warhol. He still lives in theneighborhood where a young art school dropoutnamed Keith Haring showed up at his doorstepin cutoff jeans and glasses asking about his tag-ging style.

Graffiti documentarian and photographerHenry Chalfant looks back at Ortiz's heyday asa revolutionary time period in street art.

"The culture is gone really," Chalfant says."The culture that was alive in the `70s and `80sdoesn't exist anymore."

Artists gleaned the raw style off street kids,while tunnel-hopping graffiti writers honed inon their artistic abilities to be commercially suc-cessful. It was a time when graffiti taggingexploded into battles over the artists who couldproduce the most visually edgy, elaboratemurals in the most dangerous, inaccessibleplaces without getting caught.

Chalfant says change came when theMetropolitan Transportation Authority tookover the New York regional train system andmanufacturers started to build paint-resistant

trains. Police also aggressively cracked downon graffiti in the `80s and `90s.

"The whole scene has evolved to somethingbeyond just writing your name," Chalfant pointsout. "Artists are making comments about cul-ture, about society. It's a personal vision of anartist."

Ortiz now spends his days painting, ped-dling his art to galleries and buyers. He neverquite rose to the level of fame as some of hisgraffiti counterparts, and the appetite for graffi-ti art has diminished in the U.S. art world.

Long past Haring's death, Ortiz claims herarely gets credit for the collaborations he andHaring did together, although his LA Roc tagsare displayed on numerous Haring pieces.

Witten's brush with fame now often comeswith his freelance art writing and his sporadicvisits to his daughter's school, where he teachesher classmates how to draw. Lulu knows herfather draws "crazy art," a term she picked upfrom seeing graffiti on trains.

From time to time, the thought of spendinga few hours in a deserted freight yard still cross-es Witten's mind. Taking into consideration hisdaughter, he won't admit if he still train-bombs.But he won't say he doesn't, either.

"I'll decide when I'm too old," he says."Fortunately, there's no forced retirement ingraffiti."

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police in the Latakia region had defected.

He was among a group of 12 Syrian officerswho crossed into Turkey late Sunday, the offi-cial said, speaking on condition of anonymitybecause he was not authorized to speak toreporters. His defection raised to 28 the numberof generals who have left for Turkey since thestart of the 17-month-old uprising.

But Syria's army remains mostly intact andstill vastly outguns the rebel forces, who arearmed for the most part with assault rifles andmachine guns and don't have the heavy weaponsnecessary to effectively oppose tanks and heli-copter gunships.

The government reinforced its troops out-side Aleppo and began an assault over the week-end to retake the city, bombarding rebel neigh-borhoods and leaving streets littered with rubbleand empty apartment blocks with gapingsmashed windows, according to videos of thecity posted online in recent days.

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The official IRNA news agency gave nonames at all for most of the other defen-dants in the Revolutionary Court, whichdeals with cases involving security andorganized crime. The report did not saywhen the verdicts were issued.

The report quoted state prosecutorGholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei as sayinga total of 39 defendants received sen-tences, including four death sentences, twolife terms and the rest of up to 25 years inprison. He said officials including deputyministers in the government were amongthose sentenced, but did not identify any ofthem.

The main defendant, referred to by anickname "Amir Mansour Aria," was amongthose charged with a potential capitaloffense. In February, state TV said he wasaccused of being "corrupt on earth," anIranian legal term that means that thedefendant is an enemy of God, and whichin practice is a catch-all term for a variety ofoffenses. The charge carries the deathpenalty.

Aria pleaded not guilty, but acknowl-edged that he has violated some laws, theIranian media said.

The indictment described Aria as headof the Aria Investment Development Co. Itsaid the owners used "incorrect connec-tions with executive and political elements"to accrue wealth.

"Dozens of instances of bribe paymentsto staff and managers of banks have takenplace under various titles," it said.

Ejehei said the sentences are appeal-able. By law the convicted have 20 days toappeal.

Meanwhile, President MahmoudAhmadinejad and his hardline rivals tradedblows in their political power struggle. Acourt stripped one presidential ally of his jobwhile officials in Ahmadinejad's governmentbrought charges against the brother of oneof his prominent critics, the speaker of par-liament.

Ahmadinejad has faced more than ayear of withering political attacks after chal-lenging Supreme Leader Ayatollah AliKhamenei over the selection of the intelli-

gence minister. Dozens of Ahmadinejad'sallies have been arrested or driven frompower by backers of Khamenei, andAhmadinejad has been left severely weak-ened with less than a year left in his secondand final term.

Ahmadinejad was once the favored sonof Iran's theocracy, but his defiance ofKhamenei was considered to be a rebellionagainst the supremacy of the clergy and thepresident's conservative allies turned onhim. He still retains a following amongIran's working classes and rural poor whosee the ruling clerics as aloof and out oftouch.

In the latest twist, a court stripped one ofAhmadinejad's top appointees of his jobafter claims he was linked to the deaths ofanti-government protesters, the IRNA newsagency said.

The ruling against Saeed Mortazavi,head of Iran's social security organization,followed a suit filed by a group of anti-Ahmadinejad lawmakers.

In 2010, a parliamentary probe foundMortazavi - then chief Tehran prosecutor -responsible for the deaths by torture of atleast three anti-government protesters whowere in custody. Angry lawmakers in Aprilthreatened to impeach the country's laborminister, who appointed Mortazavi, over thecase.

In a separate report, IRNA said JavadLarijani - the brother of both the country'sparliament speaker and its powerful judici-ary chief - came under investigation overallegations he illegally took control of pro-tected land.

Tehran's chief prosecutor Alireza Avaeiwas quoted as saying that a court is study-ing the allegations. The claims were filed bythe government agency in charge of naturalresources.

The Larijani family are prominent criticsof Ahmadinejad.

Larijani's brother Sadegh heads thejudiciary and another brother, Ali, is parlia-ment speaker. Javad leads the judiciary'shuman rights council. No date has been setfor a hearing.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian courthas sentenced four people to death andgiven two more life sentences on chargeslinked to a $2.6 billion bank fraud describedas the biggest financial scam in the coun-try's history, an official said Monday.

The trial, which began in February,involved some of the country's largestfinancial institutions and raised uncomfort-able questions about corruption at seniorlevels in Iran's tightly controlled economy.

But few specific details have beenreleased, possibly to avoid exposing toomuch internal scandal while Iran's leadersseek to assure the country it can ride outtightening sanctions over Tehran's nuclearprogram.

Prosecutors have only referred to thelinchpin defendant by a nickname and haveprovided just general information about hispurported business empire. The maincharges included using forged documentsto get credit at one of Iran's top bank to pur-chase assets, including major state-ownedcompanies.

N A S A T O A T H L E T I C M A R S R O V E R :

' S T I C K T H E L A N D I N G 'PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- It's NASA's most ambi-

tious and expensive Mars mission yet - and it begins withthe red planet arrival late Sunday of the smartest interplan-etary rover ever built. Also the most athletic.

Like an Olympic gymnast, it needs to "stick the land-ing."

It won't be easy. The complicated touchdown NASAdesigned for the Curiosity rover is so risky it's beendescribed as "seven minutes of terror" - the time it takes togo from 13,000 mph to a complete stop.

Scientists and engineers will be waiting anxiously 154million miles away as the spacecraft plunges through Mars'thin atmosphere, and in a new twist, attempts to slowlylower the rover to the bottom of a crater with cables.

By the time Earthlings receive first word of its fate, itwill have planted six wheels on the ground - or tumbleditself into a metal graveyard.

If it succeeds, a video camera aboard the rover willhave captured the most dramatic minutes for the first film-ing of a landing on another planet.

"It would be a major technological step forward if itworks. It's a big gamble," said American University spacepolicy analyst Howard McCurdy.

The future direction of Mars exploration is hanging onthe outcome of this $2.5 billion science project to determinewhether the environment was once suitable for microbes tolive. Previous missions have found ice and signs that wateronce flowed. Curiosity will drill into rocks and soil insearch of carbon and other elements.

Named for the Roman god of war, Mars is unforgivingwith a hostile history of swallowing man-made spacecraft.It's tough to fly there and even tougher to touch down. Morethan half of humanity's attempts to land on Mars haveended in disaster. Only the U.S. has tasted success, butthere's no guarantee this time.

"You've done everything that you can think of toensure mission success, but Mars can still throw you acurve," said former NASA Mars czar Scott Hubbard whonow teaches at Stanford University.

The Mini Cooper-sized spacecraft traveled 8 1/2months to reach Mars. In a sort of celestial acrobatics,Curiosity will twist, turn and perform other maneuversthroughout the seven-minute thrill ride to the surface.

Why is NASA attempting such a daredevil move? Ithad little choice. Earlier spacecraft dropped to the Martiansurface like a rock, swaddled in airbags, and bounced to astop. Such was the case with the much smaller and lighterrovers Spirit and Opportunity in 2004.

At nearly 2,000 pounds, Curiosity is too heavy, soengineers had to come up with a new way to land. Friction

from the thin atmosphere isn't enough to slow down thespacecraft without some help.

During its fiery plunge, Curiosity brakes by executinga series of S-curves - similar to how the space shuttle re-entered Earth's atmosphere. At 900 mph, it unfurls its hugeparachute. It then sheds the heat shield that took the bruntof the atmospheric friction and switches on its ground-sens-ing radar.

A mile from the surface, Curiosity jettisons the para-chute and fires up its rocket-powered backpack to slow itdown until it hovers. Cables unspool from the backpackand slowly lower the rover - at less than 2 mph. The cableskeep the rocket engines from getting too close and kickingup dust.

Once the rover senses touchdown, the cords are cut.Even if the intricate choreography goes according to

script, a freak dust storm, sudden gust of wind or otherproblem can mar the landing.

"The degree of difficulty is above a 10," said AdamSteltzner, an engineer at NASA's Jet PropulsionLaboratory, which manages the mission.

It takes 14 minutes for radio signals on Mars to travelto Earth. The lag means Curiosity will already be alive ordead by the time mission control finds out.

The rover's landing target is Gale Crater near theMartian equator. It's an ancient depression about the size ofConnecticut and Rhode Island combined with a 3-mile-highmountain rising from the center of the crater floor.

Scientists know Gale was once waterlogged. Imagesfrom space reveal mineral signatures of clays and sulfatesalts, which form in the presence of water, in older layers

near the bottom of the mountain.During its two-year explo-

ration, the plutonium-poweredCuriosity will climb the lowermountain flanks to probe thedeposits. As sophisticated as therover is, it cannot search for life.Instead, it carries a toolbox includ-ing a power drill, rock-zappinglaser and mobile chemistry lab tosniff for organic compounds, con-sidered the chemical buildingblocks of life. It also has camerasto take panoramic photos.

Humans have been mesmer-ized by the fourth rock from thesun since the 19th century whenAmerican astronomer PercivalLowell, peering through a tele-scope, theorized that intelligentbeings carved what looked like

irrigation canals. Scientists now think that if life existed onMars - a big if - it would be in the form of microbes.

Curiosity will explore whether the crater ever had theright environment for microorganisms to take hold.

Even before landing, it got busy taking radiation read-ings in space during its 352-million-mile cruise - informa-tion that should help its handlers back home determine theradiation risk to astronauts who eventually travel to the redplanet.

Curiosity's journey has been fraught with bumps.Since NASA had never built such a complicated machinebefore, work took longer than expected and costs soared.Curiosity was supposed to launch in 2009 and land in 2010,but the mission - already $1 billion over budget - waspushed back two years.

The delay created a cascade. Burdened with budgetwoes, NASA reneged on a partnership with the EuropeanSpace Agency to land a drill-toting spacecraft in 2018. Thespace agency is in the midst of revamping its Mars explo-ration program that will hinge heavily on whether Curiositysucceeds.

The extra time allowed engineers to test and re-test therover and all its parts, taking a spacecraft stunt double to theMojave Desert as if it were Mars. For the past severalmonths, engineers held dress rehearsals at the sprawlingJPL campus 10 miles northeast of downtown Los Angelesin anticipation of landing day when they will carry on adecades-old tradition of passing out "good luck" peanuts.

Practice is over. It's show time. To Mars or bust

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I P H O N E A P P E A L D I M S ly twice as large as the iPhone's. Yet the Galaxyis thinner and lighter than an iPhone.

Samsung has also achieved surprising suc-cess with an even bigger phone, the SamsungGalaxy Note. Its 5.3-inch screen makes it some-what awkward to hold to the ear, but customersdon't seem to mind, or perhaps they value thelarge screen and included stylus more.

Aside from design, Apple is inflexible inanother way: by releasing a new phone only oneper year, it lets the competition create newphones with features the iPhone doesn't haveand lets them go unchallenged, at least until thenew iPhone comes out.

"Apple's schedule leaves the other ten ornine months of the year wide open for every-body else," says Llamas.

For instance, the newest Samsung phonescan use the latest high-speed data networks inthe U.S., and talk to payment terminals instores, so they can act as smart "credit cards."

Samsung times its product launches to takemaximum advantage of the lull in iPhone salesthat usually precedes the launch of a new model.The S III went on sale in Europe in May and inthe U.S. in June.

The rest of the competition is in disarray,and hasn't been able to capitalize in the sameway on Apple's rigid release schedule and con-

This artists rendering provided by NASA shows the Mars Rover, Curiosity. After traveling 81/2 months and 352 million miles, Curiosity will attempt a landing on Mars the night of Aug.5, 2012. (AP Photo/NASA)

50 million smartphones in the second quarter, ornearly twice as many as Apple. (The companydoesn't release specific figures.) Its smartphonesales have nearly tripled in a year.

Most of Samsung's sales comprise cheapersmartphones that don't compete directly withthe iPhone. Its flagship phones, though, haveemerged as the iPhone's chief rivals.

Samsung and Apple have a complicatedrelationship. They're rivals in the smartphoneand tablet-computer markets, and are set tosquare off in a high-profile trial over mobilepatents in San Francisco this week. Samsung isone of Apple's largest suppliers of chips and dis-plays, and Apple is one of Samsung's largestclients.

Though Apple is known as a relentless inno-vator, the iPhone's screen has been the same size- 3.5 inches on the diagonal - since the firstiPhone came out. It was a big screen for thetime, but among the competition, screen sizeshave crept up.

Samsung has increased the screen size of itsGalaxy series with every model since it debutedin 2010. The Galaxy S had a screen that meas-ured 4 inches diagonally, and was followed bythe S II, at 4.3 inches. The S III, the latestmodel, measures 4.8 inches. The screen is near-

servative design. Nokia Corp., until recently theworld's largest phone maker, is in sharp retreatand is conducting a complete revamp of itssmartphones. Research In Motion Ltd. is stuckwith outdated software for its BlackBerrys atleast until it launches a new operating systemnext year. HTC Corp. of Taiwan is sufferingfrom marketing missteps in the last few years.LG Electronics, another Korean company, has-n't been able to keep up with Samsung when itcomes to high-end phones, or with cheapermanufacturers on the low end.

Together, Samsung and Apple make half ofthe world's smartphones, and since competitorsare losing money or breaking even, account fornearly all of the profits in the industry.

"Samsung is the only company that didn'treally buckle under the weight of the iPhone 4S.Good, solid devices and good, solid marketingbehind them," Llamas says.

Analysts now expect the new iPhone toarrive in September or October, probably with aslightly bigger screen. Sticking to one screensize has served Apple well, Baker says, but hesees the company moving with the times, as it'sdone many times before.

"When they have the reputation and thebrand loyalty that they have, you don't have tobe the first to market" with new features, Bakersays. "You don't have to take that risk."

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