Kim Kardashian on Twitter

The 29-year-old reality TV queen was said to have ended her relationship with American football star Bush after stories emerged alleging he cheated on her with a blonde waitress.

While Kim has so far refused to comment on split reports, the curvy star posted a photograph of herself blowing a kiss at the camera and reclining in a white bikini on the social networking site, suggesting she is now a single woman.

 The socialite, who, along with sisters Khloe and Kourtney, stars in U.S. reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, looked happy and relaxed in the personal shots.

Kim and Bush were said to have split after a story emerged suggesting the sportsman had an affair with waitress January Gessert while in a relationship with Kim.

But Bush quickly took to his Twitter page to deny the rumours, insisting: 'January is a long time friend of mine & has been dating my best friend for 6 months. Sorry! Lol!'

He later wrote: 'ALL THE LADIES, STEP RIGHT UP! If you would like to be the next person linked to dating Reggie Bush all you gotta do is stand next to him!!!'

Meanwhile, Kim was also quick to deny she had started seeing Manchester City defender Wayne Bridge after a story emerged earlier this week.

Posting a picture on the front page of the newspaper who wrote the story, Kim tweeted: 'Who the hell is Wayne Bridge? LOL Someone please fill me in because I have no clue!'

But while neither Kim nor Bush are commenting on the claims, Kim's close friend Adrienne Bailon, who formerly dated the star's brother Rob Kardashian, thinks Kim will be fine.

She told Us magazine: 'Kim is going to be fine either way.'

Kim is currently is in Miami with her sisters while they shoot their spin off series Khloe and Kourtney Take Miami.

And the star is clearly enjoying her time in the Florida city. As well as sunbathing and relaxing on yachts, Kim has also been going out with her sisters and friends and making the most of the city's nightlife.

Land of Planet Mars

KOMPAS.com - It looks like a filmmaker's apocalyptic vision of Earth following a devastating natural disaster. But this colossal ice formation is actually a portion of the wall terraces of a huge crater on Mars.
Approximately 37 miles in diameter, a section of the Mojave Crater in the planet's Xanthe Terra region has been digitally mapped by Nasa scientists. The result is this digital terrain model that was generated from a stereo pair of images and offers a synthesized, oblique view of a 2.5-mile portion of the crater's wall terraces.
The sheer depth of the crater - about 1.6 miles - demonstrates that Mojave has experienced little infilling or erosion. The result offers scientists a tantalising glimpse of what a very large complex crater looks like on Mars because it remains so fresh while most others - especially this size - have been affected by erosion, sedimentary infilling and overprinting by other geologic processes.
Such a fresh crater provides an insight into the impact process. This view, in which the vertical dimension is exaggerated three-fold compared with horizontal dimensions, shows the ponding of material backed up behind massive wall-terrace blocks of bedrock.
Hundreds of impact craters on Mars have similarly ponded features with pitted surfaces. These 'pitted ponds' are thought to result when material melted by the crater-causing impacts is captured behind the wall terraces.
The portion of the Mojave Crater's north-western edge shown here spans about 2.5 miles in width halfway between the bottom and top of the image. The view is toward the north.
Mojave is one of the freshest large craters on Mars. A survey of its features indicates very few overprinting craters on them, and an analysis of that infrequency suggests the crater may be as young as about ten million years, very young for a crater of this size.
The fans and channels hint that impacts such as Mojave's may have unleashed water or water-ice from the subsurface to flow across the surface and, perhaps, condense as rain or snow for a brief period of Martian time.
This further suggests that early climate on Mars could have been heavily influenced by the intense bombardment about 3.9billion years ago when impacts creating craters Mojave's size and far larger were more common

News From Boeing Production

NEW YORK, KOMPAS.com – Boeing Co. will speed up production plans for its 777 and 747 models in anticipation of greater demand from commercial airlines.

Both are wide-body planes capable of carrying more than 300 passengers and flying longer routes. Several Asian airlines have ordered the planes, which are also more fuel-efficient than other aircraft models.

Asian and Latin American carriers have led the way for a surprisingly strong recovery, while improvement at U.S. carriers has lagged. The industry's leading trade group, the International Air Transport Association, cut its 2010 loss forecast in half for global airlines to $2.8 billion. The group also lowered its 2009 loss estimate to $9.4 billion from $11 billion because of the year-end rally.

Many airlines across the globe reported losses in 2009 as travel demand slumped. Boeing, the world's second-largest aircraft maker behind Airbus, said Friday that it sees the airline industry recovering this year, followed by a return to profitability in 2011. That should lead to demand for new aircraft in 2012 and beyond, the company said.

The company also said the speedup was necessary because of a "conservatively managed approach to production."

Boeing, based in Chicago, will increase production of its 777 in mid-2011 to seven airplanes per month from five. The ramp-up was originally planned for early 2012. The 777 seats more than 300 people.

The 747-8, the newest version of Boeing's iconic jumbo jet, has been plagued by production problems. It took its first flight last month after being delayed for more than a year.

The passenger version, which carries more than 400 people, is scheduled to be delivered in the second quarter of 2011. Production will increase to two airplanes per month from 1.5 in mid-2012. The ramp-up had been scheduled for mid-2013.

Boeing lists 76 orders for the 747-8 freighter and 32 for the passenger version, with the vast majority from international customers.

Boeing said it doesn't think the new production schedule will have a material impact on earnings this year. It expects to offer an update to its earnings forecast when it releases first-quarter results next month.

Boeing surprised investors in January with a bigger-than-expected fourth-quarter profit, and said testing of its two newest planes is on track.

Boeing also had said it won't scale back aircraft production, which some had feared. Its guidance for 2010 profits was less than analysts had expected.

Shares slipped 15 cents to close at $70.72 Friday after rising earlier in the session to a 52-week high of $73.30.

Obama Will Visit Indonesia

KOMPAS.com - Indonesian police and the military launched a series of anti-terror exercises on Saturday, a week ahead of a visit to the country by US President Barack Obama. The exercises were expected to be held in several places, including the capital’s main international airport, the stock market building, upmarket hotels, and an area of sea north of Jakarta.
“We hope that these exercises can make both the military and police more professional in handling cases related to terrorism,” Indonesian military spokesman Sagom Tamboen told AFP. Tamboen said the timing of the exercises, about a week before Obama’s visit to the world’s most populous Muslim majority country, was a “coincidence”. Obama, who was invited by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, lived in Jakarta as a boy between 1967 and 1971.
He is scheduled to leave the US on March 21 for the trip, which also includes stops in Guam and Australia. In late February, Indonesian police began a series of raids on militant suspects in remote Aceh province. In the latest raids on Friday, two terror suspects were shot dead and eight arrested.
A senior leader of the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, Dulmatin, was gunned down by police on the outskirts of Jakarta on Tuesday.
Dulmatin, who was accused of masterminding the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, was buried Friday morning.

Visit our Best Indonesia

KOMPAS.com - The number of foreign tourists arrivals in Indonesia increased 4.20 percent to 493 thousand in January 2010 from 473.2 thousand in the same period a year earlier, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS).  However, if it is compared with their arrivals in December 2009, the number of arrivals in January dropped by 21.17 percent, because January is not a peak season for foreign tourists to come to Indonesia.

BPS chief Rusman Heriawan said that in January the hotel room occupancy rate in the country’s star-rated hotels in 14 provinces was recorded at the average of 46.11 percent,  a decline of 6.45 percent compared with that in December 2009 which stood at 52.56 percent. The average length of stay of foreign tourists at star-rated hotels in 14 provinces in January 2010 was 2.08 days, an increase of 0.11 percent compared with that in December 2009, he said.

Java Jazz Festival News
KOMPAS.com - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here on Saturday night enjoyed the Java Jazz music scene following  last week’s  tense political atmosphere over the Bank Century bailout case.  The president who was among others accompanied by First Lady Ani Yudhoyono and their youngest son, Edhhie Baskoro, watched the Java Jazz music concert featuring songs by Diane Warren in Hall D2, Jakarta Fair arena in Kemayoran.Yudhoyono and Ani who wore blue dress, when entering the Hall D2 at 08:45 pm, were greeted enthusiastically by hundreds of spectators. The audience which  previously sat facing the stage, directly turned to see the head of state’s arrival.
The presidential seat which was near the seats of Minister/ State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik, was located on a small stage in the rear room. Before the concert  began, the presenter asked the audience to sing the national anthem "Indonesia Raya" together.
    
Diane Warren who created the world hits like "I do not want to miss a thing" appeared only briefly in the early stage. After that several singers, namely Eric Benet, Due Voci, Griffith Frank, and Sandy Sondoro alternately sang songs by Diane Warren. Among them was "Unbreak My Heart" which was popularized by Toni Braxton, "Can’t fight the moonlight," which was popularized by Lee An Rimes, and "Because you love me" which was sung by Celine Dion.
    
Before the show, Diane Warren who has written more than 1,000 songs met with President Yudhoyno for 30 minutes.

News From Chile

The toll of dead rose to 723, with 19 others missing, the National Emergency Office announced, in a magnitude-8.8 quake that President Michelle Bachelet called "an emergency without parallel in Chile's history."
Some coastal towns were almost obliterated — first shaken by the quake, then slammed by a tsunami that carried whole houses inland and crushed others into piles of sticks. Shocked survivors were left without power, water or food.
In Concepcion, the biggest city near the epicenter, rescuers heard the knock of trapped victims inside a toppled 70-unit apartment building and began to drill through thick walls to reach them, said fire department Commander Juan Carlos Subercaseux.
Only the chop of military helicopters flying overhead broke the silence demanded by rescuers straining to hear signs of life inside the building. Firefighters had already pulled 25 survivors and eight bodies from the structure.
Mayor Jacqueline van Rysselberghe told Radio Cooperativa that some food aid was arriving in the city of 200,000 Monday for distribution to the hungry. Electricity was still out, however, and water was scarce.
Concepcion police chief Eliecer Soler said officers arrested 55 people for violating a curfew imposed after looters sacked nearly every market in town. Troops ordered into the city by Bachelet patrolled to enforce security. A few looters re-emerged to rob a market on Monday.
Spanish professor Eduardo Aundez watched with disgust as a soldier patiently waited for looters to rummage through a downtown store, then lobbed two tear gas canisters into the rubble to get them out.
"I feel abandoned" by authorities, he said. "We believe the government didn't take the necessary measures in time, and now supplies of food and water are going to be much more complicated."
The U.N. said Monday that it would rush aid deliveries to Chile after Bachelet appealed for international aid. U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said Chile was seeking temporary bridges, field hospitals, satellite phones, electric generators, damage assessment teams, water purification systems, field kitchens and dialysis centers.
"We are prepared to provide assistance," Byrs told The Associated Press in Geneva. "It could be quite fast, given that our experts are on standby and were alerted in the region."
The World Health Organization said it expected the death toll to rise in the coming days as communications improve. For survivors, it said access to health services will be a major challenge and noted that indigenous people living in adobe homes were most at risk from heavily damaged infrastructure.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also offered to provide disaster aid. Traveling in Uruguay, Clinton said she would bring some communications equipment when she visits Chile on Tuesday.
Argentina said it was sending six aircraft loaded with a field hospital, 55 doctors and water treatment plants. Bachelet ordered troops to help deliver food, water and blankets and clear rubble from roads, and she urged power companies to restore service first to hospitals, health clinics and shelters. Field hospitals were planned for hard-hit Concepcion, Talca and Curico.
Bachelet also ordered authorities to quickly identify the dead and return them to their families to ensure "the dignified burials that they deserve."
Defense Minister Francisco Vidal acknowledged the navy made a mistake by not immediately activating a tsunami warning after the quake hit before dawn Saturday. Port captains in several coastal towns did, saving what Vidal called hundreds of lives.
Thirty minutes passed between the quake and a wave that inundated coastal towns, leaving behind sticks, scraps of metal and masonry houses ripped in two. A beachside carnival in the village of Lloca was swamped in the tsunami. A carousel was twisted on its side and a Ferris wheel rose above the muddy wreckage.
Officials said at least eight people died and eight were missing on Robinson Crusoe Island, where it the tsunami drove the sea almost 2 miles (3 kilometers) into the town of San Juan Bautista.
Efforts to determine the full scope of destruction were undermined by an endless string of terrifying aftershocks that turned more buildings into rubble — and forced thousands to set up tents in parks and grassy highway medians.
"If you're inside your house, the furniture moves," said Monica Aviles, pulling a shawl around her shoulders to ward off the cold as she sat next to a fire across the street from her apartment building.
As if to punctuate her fear, an aftershock set off shuddering and groaning sounds for blocks around. "That's why we're here," she said.