Japan Airlines Boeing 787 new fuel leak reports

                                           Japan Airlines Boeing 787 new fuel leak reports

Japan Airlines said on Sunday that a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet monitored in Tokyo after a fuel leak in Boston Airport last week had leaked during previous tests on the same day, Reuters reports.

Narita International Airport outside Tokyo says Japan Airlines reported a 100-gallon fuel leak in a 787 during an inspection Sunday. The aircraft was reported to be the same as that of a fuel leak in Boston had last week.

A spokeswoman said a leak from a nozzle on the left used for removing fuel was caused by an open valve on the plane. The jet, which is approximately 40 liters of fuel spilled on the airport taxiway in Boston in a separate valve problem, is out of service.

The leak occurred when the aircraft was taxiing for takeoff on a flight to Tokyo on 8 January. It made the flight about four hours later.

According to the spokeswoman JAL, the causes of these incidents are not known. It is not known when the plan is expected to fly again.

"We are aware of the event and work together with our customers," Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said of the leak in Tokyo, according to Reuters.

The U.S. government said Friday the 787 is safe to fly, though it launched a probe last week into the cause of various problems.

The 787 is the newest and most high-tech aircraft from Boeing. Japanese airlines are among the top 787 customers.

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After robbers at Los Angeles store Police arrested them

                                  After robbers at Los Angeles store Police arrested them

Police have arrested three men suspected of storming into a Southern California warehouse with 14 employees hostage and attacking two of the prisoners.

Sgt. Dennis Beacham tells The Associated Press on Sunday that arrests. But he refused to elaborate, saying an official announcement would be made ​​Monday.

People familiar with the investigation told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/W16z1f) one of the suspects was taken into custody Friday and another on Saturday.

The Times says that the researchers had strong evidence that the men in brutal robbery on Thursday. Prosecutors will decide this week whether to press charges.

The men were not identified and the police did not release details of the arrests.

An employee was stabbed and another was assaulted for the three-hour ordeal ended early Friday on the Nordstorm Rack store in LA.

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Hugo Chavez's condition improving

                                          Hugo Chavez's condition improving

CARACAS cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lung infection is controlled and his medical condition is improving more than a month after his last surgery in Cuba, the government said on Sunday.

"Despite his delicate state ... in recent days the general medical evolution has been favorable," said the latest official update health, relatively positive compared to others, but still reflected the seriousness of the situation of Chavez .

"The respiratory infection is under control, although the commander-president still requires specific measures to resolve breathing insufficiency ... he is conscious."

The communique, which no longer gave details about his condition, came as the three most powerful government figures after Chávez met in Havana to check on him and Cuban allies to meet.

Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, the Congress chief Diosdado Cabello, and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez are shuttling to and from Cuba since the fourth and most serious of the 58-year-old socialist president cancer surgery a month ago.

Chavez, who missed his inauguration for a further six years last week, has not been seen or heard in public since the surgery. Many Venezuelans are accepting his momentous 14-year reign of the South American OPEC country could be nearing an end.

"We are all Chavez!" and "Chavez will return!" were chanted slogans and called numerous solidarity rallies, meetings and concerts in Venezuela over the weekend, which attracted thousands of passionate supporters and anxious.

'Fighting for Life'

Venezuelan state television Sunday even split the screen into four events around the nation to see.

"The situation is complex and delicate," Elias Jaua, a former vice president and ally of Chavez, told a rally.

"He continues to fight for his life."

Villegas said Maduro, who Chavez has appointed his successor, informed his boss of the outpouring home.

State media said Maduro, Cabello, Ramirez - who is also the head of the powerful state oil company PDVSA - and Attorney General Cilia Flores all met Cuban President Raul Castro at the weekend. But there were no details of the talks.

OPPOSITION NATIONAL complains 'paralysis'

That would lead to the appointment of a caretaker president, and an election within a month. But Venezuela's Supreme Court has confirmed that President Chavez continues with Maduro in costs, such as No. 2 to Chavez's health situation is clarified.

"It's been a year-and-a-half of contradictions and announcements are fully cured, followed by relapse," Borges added, saying problems like inflation, housing shortages and power cuts were neglected during a political impasse.

Because the disease was discovered in the mid-2011, Chavez has wrongly declared himself twice heal at an extraordinary and disturbing saga of Venezuela's 29 million people.

The stakes are high for the rest of the region as well. Cuba and a handful of other leftist-ruled countries for years dependent on the help of Chavez to vulnerable economies.

Should Chavez die or become incapacitated, then the most likely next step an election pitting Maduro, 50, against Henrique Capriles, 40, the main opposition leader, who lost to Chavez in October 1st presidential election.

In an opinion column on Sunday, Capriles railed against the "national paralysis", but said that the opposition would not be drawn into confrontation or street protests. That tactic backfired spectacularly for them a decade ago, when Chavez was briefly overthrown, but came back stronger than before.

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Columbia Records' 125th birthday

                                                       Columbia Records' 125th birthday

Columbia Records, the oldest record label in the world is celebrating 125 years in the business.

Sean Wilentz, professor of American history at Princeton University and author of the forthcoming 360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story, told Today presenter Evan Davis how Columbia started: "It began in 1887 selling these new machines… then they were able to prerecord music."

Adrienne Connors, music editor at The Sunday Times culture section, explained that the label went on to promote some of the 20th century's greatest African American musical artists.

"Music was a way that people could contribute to the culture without being that threatening."

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American music 'inspires the globe'

                                             American music 'inspires the globe'

The Rolling Stones were part of a habit in the 1960s of adapting to American vowels, as they were influenced by some much American music.

Fifty years on, many of today's artists sing with American accents.

Matilda Egere Cooper, editor of The Cultural Expose website, told the Today programme: "When people are learning how to sing, I don't know if they're consciously saying 'I want to sing like an American'. Sometimes it comes down to what's easier to sing or how to sound in a particular way."

"With the American accent, we do have a tendency to pronounce our words quite obviously. So when it comes to singing I think people just tend to sing in a way whereby they're clearly understood."

Pat Kane, from pop duo Hue and Cry, said: "Rock and pop is predominantly an American art form. The American dream, and American pop music is something that inspires the globe."

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