BOEING 747 belonging to El Al landing at Ben Gurion Airport when the report of the company's website hacked.

Saudi Arabia hackers target Stock exchange, the airline El Al

Tel Aviv: Cyber war against Israel increased after another group of Saudi Arabia hackers attacked the website of Tel Aviv stock exchange and the national airline, El Al cause it closed for a while.

The ruling Hamas movement Gaza Strip, described the attack as a blow to the Jewish state.

"This new field of resistance to the invaders, and we urge the Arab youth in developing their electronic war crimes in the face of Israel," Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, in Gaza.

The website does not contain sensitive news, while the flight is not affected by the attacks but reported harassment occurred in the three banks.

El Al airline closed its website after a previous attack warned the two websites targeted by pro-Palestinian hackers, according to company sources it.

It is said they take precautions to protect the website and harassment is to be expected.

Spokeswoman said the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the website being bombarded electronic application that slows it but still operational. The stock market is not affected. Cyber security experts said the common target of hackers Israel online.
There are no authentic reports of confidential government website hacked.

A few weeks ago, the Israeli spy service's website and other official website closed but the government denied that it acts described hackers and technical problems.

Israel is a world leader in cyber security and domestic security agency, Shin Beth, providing advisory services to businesses such as banks and public utilities.

Online harassment also occurs in three banks of the First National Bank of Israel (FIBI) and two subsidiaries, Bank Massad and Bank Otzar Hahayal. The bank spokeswoman said, their marketing site hacked, but customer service area is not affected. - Agency

Accra - Have you ever wondered to see the coffin in a variety of strange appearance and shape?

Now, it is possible with the emergence of various forms of a coffin like a shark, pineapple, mobile phones and luxury cars work hands carpenter from Ghana.

Paa Joe , 66, an expert make the coffin of western Africa, has attracted the attention of thousands of visitors with strange coffin designs in an art exhibition at Gallery Jack Bell, Britain last year.

Joe is now working in a carpentry shop in Accra Kane Kwei. Founder, Kane Wei first began in the 1950s and was created to create a coffin-like form of the plane for her late grandmother. The business is now growing and increasingly in demand in Britain after the art exhibition was held. Joe is busy preparing the coffin of online forms such as bananas , robots and locomotives.

A Malaysian court acquitted opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy charges Monday, a surprise ruling that could accelerate the political comeback of one of Asia's most celebrated reformers ahead of an expected election this year.

"Justice has been done. I am vindicated," Anwar told thousands of supporters outside Kuala Lumpur's High Court at the end of the two-year trial that captivated the Muslim-majority nation since a former aide made the accusations in 2008. Some shouted "God is Great" and "reformasi" (reform).

The decision, based on the possible contamination of DNA samples, gives the opposition a firebrand leader in time for elections expected this year.

But it could also undermine one of his main arguments against the government of Prime Minister Najib Razak: that the judiciary is corrupt and biased.

"Najib can come out right now and say the government is reforming. He can point to this and say, things are changing. Now you're seeing an independent judiciary," said Shaun Levine, an Asia analyst with political risk consultancy Eurasia Group in Washington.

Judge Zabidin Mohamad Diah found Anwar not guilty due to doubts over whether DNA samples tendered as evidence were contaminated.

"And because it was a sexual offence, the court is reluctant to convict on uncorroborated evidence. Therefore the accused is acquitted and discharged," Zabidin told a packed courtroom in the Malaysian capital.

Sex between males is a criminal offence in the country of 28 million people. It was the second time Anwar, a 64-year-old father of six, was charged under the law.

FORMER POLITICAL STAR

In the 1990s, Anwar was Malaysia's political star, heir-apparent to then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, his goateed, bespectacled face appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1997 next to words "The Future of Asia."

But he was sacked a year later as deputy prime minister and finance minister after campaigning against corruption and nepotism in politics, and then jailed on sodomy and corruption charges that Anwar and rights groups said were trumped up.

He spent six years in prison until his sodomy conviction was overturned in 2004, and then swiftly returned to politics as the head of a revitalized, multi-ethnic opposition whose strong showing in 2008's elections deprived the ruling National Front of its traditional two-thirds majority in parliament.

Within weeks of that victory, and with his three-party Pakatan coalition close to a parliamentary majority, a former aide, Saiful Bukhari Azlan, filed a criminal complaint accusing Anwar of sodomizing him.

Anwar called the charges a "vile and despicable attempt at character assassination" by the ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition ahead of elections due in 2013 but likely to be held this year. A large majority of Malaysians surveyed in opinion polls also doubted the merit of the charges.

"The (verdict) will be more wind in the sails of the opposition Pakatan's camp than in Barisan Nasional's camp," said Ooi Kee Beng, a deputy director at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies of Singapore.

"Najib can of course say that the judiciary is not as corrupt as Pakatan says but so what? If the judiciary is not very corrupt, it doesn't mean that the government is good."

Najib, the son of a former prime minister, has slowly introduced social and political reforms while struggling to reverse a decline in opinion polls as leader of the United Malays National Organization, the Muslim ethnic-Malay dominated party that has ruled since independence from Britain in 1957.

His approval ratings have fallen over the year due to a growing religious divide that has alienated minority non-Muslims and fanned middle-class anger over the slow pace of promised political reforms.

"Malaysia has an independent judiciary and this verdict proves that the government does not hold sway over judges' decisions," his government said in a statement that also praised Najib's "bold democratic reforms."

But Najib is wary of moving too aggressively and provoking a backlash by conservatives in his Muslim ethnic-Malay dominated government. The election will be a test of whether he can assert a reformist agenda within his own party, Malaysia's biggest.

A conviction would have meant a jail term of up to 20 years, effectively ending Anwar's leadership of the opposition.

Anwar has promoted a rival vision for Malaysia that would abolish or scale back its most authoritarian laws and scrap a system of ethnic preferences for Malays that ethnic-Chinese and ethnic-Indian Malaysians say is unfair and has been cited by even some prominent Malays for holding Malaysia back.

Three explosions were heard in the parking area outside the courthouse around the time of the verdict, causing minor injuries to five people and damaging half a dozen cars and motorbikes. A police spokesman said three home-made explosives were detonated but it was unclear who was responsible.

(Additional reporting by Emily Kaiser, Writing by Liau Y-Sing and Jason Szep, Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)

-- Reuters

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Los Angeles: For all its considerable delights, Southern California always seems faintly on the cusp of an apocalypse. There are palm trees, year-round gardens and splendid weather - it was 81 degrees and sunny on Sunday - but there are also mudslides, gang shootings, wildfires and earthquakes.

On this holiday weekend, Los Angeles was dealing with a new plague, this time an arsonist (or arsonists) who in the course of three days firebombed at least 39 cars in the Los Angeles area, many of them parked in carports, engulfing vehicles and apartments in gasoline-fueled towers of flame.

For three unsettling nights, police officers and firefighters have raced around the city, always one step behind the person, or persons, who has sent people in Los Angeles to their windows repeatedly throughout the night in response to the slightest sound or change in light.

"It's pretty scary," said Rebecca Asch, 29, who lives in West Hollywood. "I have a gated garage and it's underneath my building, and if someone were to come in and light one of our cars on fire, it would probably set the whole building on fire.

"Who would do that? Who is driving around setting cars on fire?"

That sense of confusion was heightened by the arrest early last week of two suspects in a run of arson fires in Hollywood, including a car fire. But the police do not believe there was any connection between those fires and the series of blazes that began early Friday morning.

There have been no serious injuries. Still, Los Angeles is enduring its worst fires since the riots of 1992.

Much of the city this weekend - particularly the lush green streets of West Hollywood and Hollywood - has felt something like a war zone.

On New Year's Eve, the swell of sirens began as darkness fell and continued nearly nonstop through the night, followed by the thwacks of police helicopters flying low in search of the arsonist. Patrol cars roared through residential streets, lights off, presumably chasing the latest potential spotting of the suspect.

What turned out to be a minor fire in a dryer at an assisted living home for the elderly in West Hollywood - wholly unrelated to the arsons - drew a veritable battalion of firefighters and 10 fire engines.

Shortly after midnight Thursday, when the attacks began in earnest, people in Hollywood, roused by sirens and helicopters, walked into the street, many in nightclothes, to see a car on the corner of Curson and Hawthorn Avenues (heretofore infamous as the site of the arrest of Hugh Grant on charges of soliciting a prostitute) in flames, sending billows of white smoke into the sky.

Firefighters doused the car with water before carting the remains away. The next morning, all that was left was some shattered glass and a shovelful of blackened cinders.

The random nature of the attacks has caught everyone - including the police - off guard, and people are taking precautions. Yard lights are being kept on. People are parking their cars on the street, and away from their homes, in a kind of car-versus-house triage.

Some conventional wisdom is being established by residents who have become particularly attuned in recent days to the patterns of police patrols. The sound of helicopters alone is not cause for alarm, since it is probably routine surveillance. But the sound of racing helicopters and sirens almost surely means another car has been firebombed.

Inevitably, there have been expressions of mordant, or perhaps opportunistic, humor: of leaving cars on the street in the hope that they would be the subject of the next attack, allowing their owners to claim insurance money. But mostly there was anxiety.

"I've been more vigilant the last few days," said Jon D'Amico, 46, a building manager in West Hollywood. "I've been looking around. I'm an apartment manager, so I kind of worry because there are a bunch of cars out front. I do pop my head out more and look around."

"Who is doing this?" Mr. D'Amico said, his voice tinged with anger and frustration. "Is it gang members? Is it kids out of school? They haven't given us much information, so I don't think they know much."

Cmdr. Andrew J. Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department said that investigators had yet to determine if there were one or more arsonists involved. He said investigators had a number of descriptions of potential suspects and the cars that might have been used in the arsons. The police released a surveillance video Sunday with one suspect, an older white man with a receding hairline and shoulder-length ponytail.

"I can tell you this, we have dozens of detectives - from robbery to the homicide detectives - working every night to see if we can catch these guys," Commander Smith said. "Every time he hits, we have a crime scene. They interrogate everyone around."

Erik Scott, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, said officials did not have a precise count on how many buildings had been seriously damaged and how many people had been displaced. "Most of these were automobile fires, many of them underneath apartments or resident which were also subsequently damaged," he said.

After years of declining crime rates, the Police Department is well regarded here, and many people said they were confident that it would soon solve the case.

"I think they have a pretty good reputation to catch arsonists pretty quickly," said Darla Brunner, 53, who lives in North Hollywood. "I don't think people can keep doing this and get away with it. I do expect them to find the culprit pretty quickly."

Others, though, were concerned that the case would prove difficult to solve. "I think it's got to be hard to find the person who's doing this," Ms. Asch said. "It's like a phantom just running around setting cars on fire.

"It's got to be tough to find them. I know they're trying. There were a ton of cops out last night."

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Cheetah the Chimp, who appeared in classic Tarzan movies in the early 1930s, has died of kidney failure at the age of 80, WTSP TV reports reports.

The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Fla., says the community "has lost a dear friend and family member" with the death of Cheetah on Dec. 24.

Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb tells The Tampa Tribune that the chimp was outgoing, loved finger-painting and liked to see people laugh.

Cobb says Cheetah came to the sanctuary from the estate of Johnny Weissmuller, former American Olympic gold medal swimmer who played Tarzan in the 1930s.

Cheetan played Tarzan's comic sidekick from 1932 to 1934, the sanctuary tells WTSP.

Ron Priest, a sanctuary volunteer for seven years, tells the newspaper that Cheetah stood out with his ability to stand up and walk like a human, with shoulders tall, and back straight.

Cobb says the average chimp survives 25 to 35 years in the wild and 35 to 45 years in zoos.

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Laurel, Maryland (CNN) -- At the end of a row of neatly arranged banquet chairs, Sandra Ashford sat reverently, still in awe of what she says is her mother's miraculous recovery from cervical spinal stenosis.

"If it wasn't my mother," Ashford said, "I wouldn't believe it." She explained how after a "laying of hands," her 74-year-old mother, Delsie McDougall, no longer experiences the symptoms from what was becoming a debilitating condition.

When she arrived in early December from her native Jamaica in search of treatment options, McDougall said, she couldn't "walk straight." When her neurologist prescribed surgery, she sought an alternative, one more in keeping with her faith.

On the recommendation of a friend, mother and daughter experienced their first charismatic healing service in the rented ballroom of a Holiday Inn in Laurel, Md.

On a Sunday evening a few weeks before Christmas, the two spent several hours in the temporary location of the Everlasting Life Christian Center.

"To tell you the truth, I was very skeptical," McDougall said as she stood and swayed to the live music from the gospel singers. She showed no signs of physical discomfort.

They are among a fast-growing number within the diverse Christian landscape to join the charismatic movement.

According to a recent Pew Research Center report on Global Christianity, 305 million Christians worldwide follow the charismatic movement.

"One of the reasons the charismatic movement is expanding ... apart from salvation, we experience healing, miracles. The blind see, the lame get up and walk, and the deaf can hear. That attracts a lot of people," said Samuel Fatoki, who leads the roughly 200-member church with his wife, Marcia, who serves as his co-pastor.

Ashford recounted how on the third application of Fatoki's hands on her mother, McDougall fell to the ground and began speaking in tongues. Ashford said her mother writhed on the floor, contorting in ways she couldn't stretch before.

Both said she's been walking upright since.

The Pew report categorizes charismatic Christians as a subset among non-Pentecostal denominations and includes Christians from each of the major branches: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. The movement shares similar beliefs to Pentecostal denominations and similar practices like "divine healing, prophecy and speaking in tongues," according to the report.

Dale Stoffer, professor of historical theology and academic dean at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio, said the charismatic movement has been present in the United States since the 1960s. The religious experience in the movement is more experiential, rather than based in intellectual expression.

"There's a high degree of emphasis on the Holy Spirit working in supernatural ways," Stoffer added.

While the movement is growing here in the United States, there's been an "explosion in Christianity," Stoffer said, in Africa, Latin America and Asia: regions of the world that have seen increased numbers of charismatic Christians.

A Pew Forum survey from 2006 found that 34 percent of Brazil's population identified themselves as charasmatics.

"These are cultures that have not been impacted by the Western Enlightenment," explained Stoffer.

A basic tenet in this healing ministry is complete belief, invoking one's blind faith.

"And the signs shall follow them that believe, they will heal the sick, lay hands, cast out demons in my name," Marcia Fatoki recited from the Gospel of Mark. She said she also shares her husband's ability to prophesy.

Both asserted that they are not the purveyors of the miracles. "We're not the ones healing," Samuel Fatoki said. They are just the vehicles through which the Holy Spirit is working.

But it's not a gift that can be called upon on command, like magic, as a skeptic may expect to see in order to be convinced.

"People's faith level increases with more examples from others," Marcia Fatoki said.

At a time when individual tribulations seem to have grown with increasingly difficult economic times, it's no wonder that the ballroom was filled with at least 200 people from as far as New York, New Jersey and Virginia, many with testimonies of being cured of ailments from chronic sinus issues and financial woes, to smoking cessation and the disappearance of tumors.

So, what happens when neither of the Fatokis is able to heal someone? Samuel Fatoki said that that too is out of his hands, and it is the will of God.

But for Sandra Ashford and her mother, what they have seen is enough to inspire a deepening of their faith.

"To witness a family member go through this speaks volumes," Ashford said, still giddy that more than three weeks later, her mother is still pain-free and walking with ease.

"It is the will of God that everyone be healed," Samuel Fatoki said.

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