BBC news 2008-07-07 加文本

The annual summit of the world’s leading industrialized countries, the G8, is opening in Japan. The Japanese had originally hoped the talks would focus on climate change. But as the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Bridge Candle reports from Hokkaido, concerns about rising oil and food prices are likely to dominate discussions.

The concern that has already eclipsed climate change here in Hokkaido though is the impact of rocketing oil and food prices and other shocks on the global economy. No one is suggesting a quick fix solution. The US and Japan are pushing new cleaner technology as one tool to reduce reliance on oil. On food, this talk of a task force to stop future crisis, easing trade barriers, and boosting agricultural production is also being seen as a way both to bring down food prices and help the world's poorest nations.

The head of the United Nations Development Program in Somalia, Osman Ali Ahmed, has been killed by gunmen in the capital Mogadishu. He was shot in the head as he left evening prayers at a mosque. It's the latest in a series of assaults on humanitarian workers and peace activists in Somalia. Last month, a UN official was abducted in Somali capital. Mogadishu has been riven by violence since Ethiopian troops moved into Somalia to support the transitional government last year, ousting Islamist groups.

Police in Pakistan say at least 15 people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a group of police officers in the capital Islamabad. Witnesses spoke of dead and injured people lying in the streets strewn with glass blood and body parts. Many of the dead were thought to be police officers who were controlling a large rally of Islamists who'd gathered at the city's Red Mosque. The Islamists were marking the anniversary of the storming of the mosque last year, when security forces killed more than 100 people during a confrontation with militants. The Pakistani Interior Secretary Kamal Shah declined to say who he thought was behind the attack.

“It’s premature to blame anyone. Investigation takes a little time, and we are not in the position to either blame or hold anyone responsible at this point of time.”

The former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, has called on the FARC rebel movement in Columbia to release all its remaining hostages, following the rescue of the politician, Ingrid Betancourt, on Wednesday. Warren Bull of our America’s editor reports.

In an article published in the Cuban state-controlled media, Mr. Castro said he had energetically criticized, what he describes, as the cruel methods of kidnapping and holding prisoners in the jungle. At the same time, the man who headed the Cuban revolution said the FARC should not lay down its weapons. He said that during the past 50 years, those rebel groups which had disarmed did not, as he put it, survive to see the peace.

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A district governor in eastern Afghanistan says air attacks by Western forces have hit a wedding party, killing more than 20 civilians, most of them women and children. A witness said a group of up to 80 people was mistakenly attacked. US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan said they had carried out precision strikes on militants, killing several of them. On Saturday, President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation into reports that 22 civilians were killed in coalition air strikes in the eastern province of Nuristan.

At least 21 miners have been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in a coal mine in northern China. The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said four miners were rescued while seven escaped on their own from the Wujiu Coal Mine in Shanxi Province. China has one of the worst records for mining accidents in the world with almost 3,800 miners killed last year.(Www.hxen.net)

Tennis, and Rafael Nadal of Spain has beaten the world's number one Roger Federer of Switzerland to win his first Wimbledon men’s singles title. Nadal stopped Federer's five-year Wimbledon reign by winning nine-games-to-seven in the 5th set. Jonathan Overran reports.

After almost five hours of spellbinding sporting drama in near darkness and with both players hanging on to the Wimbledon dream as though their lives depended on it, Nadal crashed to his back in disbelief, as Federer on the fourth match point netted with a forehand. The previous match points had all been saved magnificently by a resolute defending champion who himself was only two points from a record six title at 5-4 in the final set. Nadal's four-week triple crown of Roland Garros, Queens and Wimbledon has never been won before in the same year.

Automotive racing, and the McLaren driver, Lewis Hamilton, has won a rain-soaked British Grand Prix, finishing more than a minute ahead of the rest of the field. The result means as now a three-way tie atop the Formula 1 drivers championship between Hamilton,  Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen.

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match point: the final point needed to win a match (especially in tennis) 一场中的决胜分

forehand:正手

net: to hit or kick the ball into the net in sport 击球没过网