America's president lobbied America's doctors on Monday, creation his case for a complete overhaul of the nation's costly healthcare system.

He is up against fierce opposition from private insurance corporations - and from politicians who criticize any government involvement in health provision as the road to "socialised medicine".

So he desires the support of America's doctors - his biggest domestic reform is expensive, controversial, and vulnerable to attack on all sides.

Rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch are potential, with a chance of precipitation at 70 percent. Temperatures are expected to arrive at the low 70s, and winds should stay at 7 to 8 mph.

The boarded-up house has become a stark symbol of the economic crisis in Atlanta.
In some neighborhoods, house after house is safe with plywood planks, evoking the ominous atmosphere of a beach town hours before a hurricane.

But there’s a latest kid on the block when it comes to protecting empty and foreclosed property - stainless steel.

A growing number of property owners are throwing metal coverings over windows and doors to avoid thieves, vandals and vagrants from breaking in. The homes become steel fortresses, with virtually impenetrable metal sheaths blocking every possible entry point.

It’s a moderately new option for Atlanta property owners. The nation’s important purveyor of metal door and window covers, Chicago-based Vacant Property Security, entered the Atlanta market in late 2007.

The first new tuberculosis drug in 40 years has been shown to make current treatment 5 times more successful against drug-resistant TB. In combination with a cocktail of other medicines, the experimental drug known as TMC207 helped get rid of tuberculosis bacteria in almost half of 47 participants in a study by its developer, Johnson & Johnson. Participating patients had TB that could not be treated with standard drugs such as rifampin and isoniazid. TMC207 works by cutting off the energy provide in the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. TMC207 is the first of a new class of drugs that could increase treatment options for patients who have drug-resistant tuberculosis, for whom current therapy may be useless or highly toxic. Of the 9 million new TB cases that build up each year, about 490,000 are multiple-drug-resistant TB, according to the World Health Organization.

A new audio tape from Osama bin Laden criticize President Barack Obama for planting seeds of "hatred and vengeance toward Americans" and warns of "new long wars."

The tape, aired on Arabic news network al Jazeera Wednesday, blasts the U.S. president for his position in Pakistan's military operation against Taliban forces in the Swat Valley. The message came as Mr. Obama touched down in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of a Mideast trip to shore up political relations in the region.

U.S. intelligence officials established the authenticity of tape but said "there is no reason at this position to believe that any specific or credible threat is contained”.

Four men were indicted Tuesday in what prosecutors said was a plot to bomb two New York City synagogues and fire outside-to-air missiles at U.S. military planes.

The defendants - James Cromitie, 44, David Williams, 28, Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 - were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the United States, conspiracy to obtain and use anti-aircraft missiles and six other counts. They face a maximum penalty of life in prison. Arraignment is planned for Wednesday.

The plot was exposed in a yearlong investigation involving an FBI informant. It ended with federal agents and New York police used an 18-wheel truck to block a vehicle carrying the suspect after they planted what they believed were explosive devices in cars near the synagogues, said New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Micro-blogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, which is an enlarge from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned in The Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement services show that form increasing 50% to 100% month-over-month. While it is not clear that Twitter will become as large as social networks, My Space and Face book or video-sharing site You Tube, the company could certainly have 50 million viewers by the end of the year.

- Outdoor ads are used approximately everywhere in the world because of their simplicity and the relatively low cost of creating them.

- Twitter will become a huge platform for discuss stocks and other financial instruments and will probably replace message boards like the ones at Yahoo!

- Large media companies are already using Twitter as a way to alert persons to breaking news and new features.

Microsoft Corp. introduced a search engine with better shopping, travel and sorting features, an effort to show that Google Inc. can't do everything.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the services, called Bing, at a technology conference Thursday in Carlsbad, Calif. The program will be available over the next a number of days, accompanied by the company's first broad advertising campaign promoting a search engine.

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, has an eighth of Google's U.S. market share in Internet searches, forcing it to find exact niches to exploit. The company is looking for areas where Google doesn't deliver exactly what users want, said Mike Nichols, Microsoft's general manager for search products.

The new Ford Fiesta has scored another success, named as Best New Car 2009 at today's Fleet World awards. The highest honor in the commercial vehicle awards also went to Ford as Van Manufacturer of the Year 2009. The honors continued with Transit Connect as Best Small Van.

The Fleet World awards are presented annually to manufacturers achieve the highest possible level of excellence in their sector. Chairman of Judges, George Emmerson, said: "The new Ford Fiesta is a valuable winner in a fiercely competitive sector. Many fleet managers are vigorously downsizing vehicles in their choice lists and employees are looking for quality, attractive looks and competitive whole-life costs and the new Fiesta easily meets all these criteria. Mainly notable from fleet perspective is the Fiesta ECOnetic. Its CO2 rating of 98g/km is among the lowest of any family car on sale."