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NEW YORK – The most Earth-shattering event in Brazil this weekend took place in New York, where singer Ivete Sangalo played a sold out show at Madison Square Garden. Too bad, few Americans even noticed.

A superstar in her native Brazil, where she can pack a 70,000-capacity soccer stadium and commands crowds of millions during Carnaval, Sangalo kept the almost-entirely-Brazilian audience on its feet over the course of three hours and five costume changes.

Dancing frenetically, the crowd of 14,500 sang along with every word of her samba-inflected dance pop songs like "Festa" (Party) and "Acelere" (Accelerate).

"I just want you to be proud of me, and I want you to be proud zumba of the show I brought here," Sangalo said from the top of a massive, thrusting stage pulsing with lights and video — designed by the man responsible for this year's Super Bowl halftime show, Bruce Rodgers.

In Brazil, Sangalo's show was touted as her first step toward Dell Inspiron 1721 battery conquering the U.S., placing her in a pantheon with the likes of Madonna, the Rolling Stones, Beyonce and U2.

But a 100-foot-high banner that hung outside the Garden for medium dvd weeks advertising the show still required the helpful caption explaining Sangalo is "A Brazilian Star."

At a pre-concert news conference, the statuesque brunette said the relative anonymity didn't faze her.

"When I started in Brazil, I was also unknown, and Brazil is a gigantic place with 42T4593 Battery lots of talent," the husky-voiced singer explained. "I haven't come here with the pretension of being well known, but what I've come do to here, I've come to do right."

As a Portuguese speaker, Sangalo may have had her two and a half men dvd work cut out for her, but promoters say selling out the Garden is a real accomplishment.

Shows by non-English-speaking acts there tend to top out at around 3,000 Dell Inspiron 500m battery to 4,000 people, unless they sing in Spanish, which is spoken by a large and growing percentage of the U.S. population.

The only other Brazilian to headline a show at the Garden, singer Roberto Carlos, did so by reaching out to Latin audiences and singing in Spanish.

The closest comparison might be the Korean pop singer Rain, who 42T4680 Battery sold out two nights at the smaller Madison Square Garden theater, which seats 4,000, in 2006.

Concert promoter John Scher said people have been calling him to ask who Sangalo is.

"I don't think there's been anything quite like this. There are Latin (Spanish speaking) artists who can sell Dell Inspiron 510m battery out the Garden, but this is a pretty unique situation really," Scher said. "There's a lot of interest in the music industry, if not with the public."

Sangalo, 38, got her start singing as a teenager from the top of the IBM Lenovo IdeaPad S9 S10 S12 battery sound trucks that ply their way through the packed streets of Salvador da Bahia during Carnaval time.

When she left the Carnaval group Banda Eva to go solo in 1999 she was already one of the country's biggest stars.

But her brand of Carnaval-inspired dance-pop, known friends dvd as axe (pronounced ah-SHAY', isn't what U.S. listeners usually think of as Brazilian music, and her audience tends to be concentrated among teenagers and twenty-somethings looking for a chance to hook up.

Her lyrics express the irrepressible optimism of youth, and her sound is a world away from the Dell Inspiron 600m battery cool, cerebral bossa nova of Joao Gilberto or the smooth sounds of Caetano Veloso and Marisa Monte, all of whom are better known in the United States, even if Sangalo outsells them all at home.

As many as 5,000 fans had been the golden girls dvd expected to fly in from Brazil for the show, organizers say.

So despite all the conquering America swagger, Sangalo's intent is actually something entirely different: The 42T4684 Battery Garden show was mainly intended to serve as a backdrop for her new DVD and a TV special to be broadcast in Brazil in December.

"They want a packed house and want to say 'we've sold out Madison Square Garden' and they've probably achieved that through various other means than from straight ahead ticket sales,'" says Gene de Souza, development director of the nonprofit Rhythm Foundation, who promoted Sangalo's Miami show.

In Miami, with a larger Brazilian population, Sangalo sold only 6,500 of Dell Inspiron 6000 battery the 7,000 seats put up for sale, de Souza said, in an arena where Britney Spears was able to pack in 18,500 fans.

On Saturday night Sangalo appeared well aware of her target audience, addressing 42T4685 Battery the crowd as "Brazil" and dedicating the show to Brazilians living abroad.

Her only nods to local audiences were covers of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" and grey's anatomy dvd Lionel Richie's "Easy" and a duet with Nelly Furtado, in which her English sounded good with only a slight accent.

She also reached out to the Spanish-speaking audiences, performing duets with Colombian Dell Inspiron 6400 battery superstar Juanes and Argentina's Diego Torres, but the warmest applause was reserved for Brazilian guests like Seu Jorge and fellow axe star Netinho, who appeared, briefly transforming the 25-minute-long encore into a mini-version of Carnaval.

"I didn't come with the objective to transforming anything or parting the waters for Brazilian music or anything like that," Sangalo said before the show. "I am a popular singer for the masses, and I will continue to be one, and this is my greatest pleasure."

NEWARK, N.J. – Hurricane Earl played havoc with travelers' Labor Day 42T4686 Battery weekend plans even as it weakened Friday on its path up the East Coast toward New England.

Train service was suspended in the Northeast, flights were delayed or canceled up and down angel dvd the Eastern seaboard and coastal roads washed out. Even Interstate 95, the most heavily traveled highway in the East and a gateway to the beaches of Cape Cod and Maine, was expected to flood in Rhode Island.

Amtrak suspended service between New York and Boston until Saturday morning after a tree Dell Inspiron 640m battery fell across electrical lines in New London, Conn., at about 12:30 p.m. The rail carrier already had planned to stop service by 4:30 p.m. due to the storm.

Continental Airlines had canceled about 60 flights by Friday afternoon, and some regional carriers had done the same, though other major carriers reported few or no cancellations.

Southwest Airlines said it canceled flights Friday at three East Coast airports — Islip, N.Y., Providence, R.I., and Boston's Logan Airport — as the hurricane approached. The airline expected to resume service at all three by Saturday morning.

Southwest expected to resume flights Friday afternoon in Norfolk, Va., where flights were canceled starting Thursday night.

Arriving flights at New York's LaGuardia airports were delayed about half an hour Friday because of weather, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

KABUL (Reuters) – The number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year has reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009, according to an independent monitoring site Monday and a tally compiled by Reuters.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said an ISAF service member was killed in an insurgent attack in the east Sunday. No other details were immediately available.

There has been a sharp increase in foreign military deaths, many of them American, as foreign troops launch more operations to counter a growing Taliban-led insurgency that has spread out of traditional strongholds in the south and east.

At least five ISAF troops have been killed since Friday, including the first Georgian killed in the conflict.

Violence across Afghanistan has hit its worst since the Taliban were ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001. Military and civilian casualties are at record levels, with U.S. and NATO commanders warning of more tough fighting ahead.

The spiraling death tolls come despite the presence of almost 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan and will be another worrying statistic when U.S. President Barack Obama conducts a strategy review of the war in December.

Public support for the war is flagging, with a recent opinion poll by NBC television and the Wall Street Journal showing as many as seven in 10 Americans saying they did not believe the war would end successfully.

The traditional summer fighting period has taken a heavy toll on foreign troops this year. A total of 102 were killed in June, the deadliest month of the war, followed by 88 in July and another 80 in August, according to independent monitor

The latest casualties take to 2,068 the number killed since 2001, almost smallville dvd half of them in 2009 and 2010. Roughly 60 percent of those killed were Americans.

Despite the heavy military toll, ordinary Afghans continue to bear the brunt of the war.

A United Nations report released last month showed that civilian casualties had risen by 31 percent in the first six months of 2010, compared with the same period last year, with more than three-quarters of the casualties caused by insurgents.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a 6Y270 strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said.

About 40 people were wounded in the attack in Lakki Marwat, which sits on the main road and rail link between Punjab Province, Pakistan's largest and most prosperous, and the North and South Waziristan tribal regions. A Pakistani army offensive pushed many militants out of South Waziristan in October. The militants still control much house m.d. dvd of North Waziristan, where U.S. drone aircraft have been conducting a campaign of targeted killings.

Rescue workers and police officials were digging through rubble at the station in the town of 312-0998 Battery Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police official Ghulam Mohammad Khan said. Nine police officers, four adult civilians and four children going to school were slain in the attack.

Police official Liaquat Ali said 45 police were in the building when the bomber struck.

Local TV footage showed emergency workers using heavy machinery Dell Vostro 3400 battery to move the rubble of the mostly destroyed police station. Books and a schoolbag could be seen in the wreckage and the twisted frames of a motorcycle and a car sat nearby. A neighborhood shop and mosque also were partly destroyed.

The police chief of Lakki Marwat district was killed in a suicide bombing several months ago and militants have carried out a string of attacks in the area since then.

In recent days, militants have launched attacks across the nation aimed at destabilizing the country and weakening turbo fire a civilian government already struggling with a massive flooding that has displaced millions and caused widespread destruction.

The deadliest have targeted minority Shiite Muslims. A suicide bombing killed at Y5XF9 Battery least 43 Shiite Muslims at a procession in the southwestern city of Quetta on Friday. Two days earlier, a triple suicide attack killed 35 people at a Shiite ceremony in the eastern city of Lahore.

Both were claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, whose commander Qari Hussain GD761 Mehsud threatened Friday that his group would wage imminent attacks in the U.S. and Europe.

On the same day, Pakistani intelligence officials said two suspected U.S. missile strikes had killed at least seven people in North Waziristan, which is largely 04GN0G Battery controlled by the Haqqani network, one of the main groups battling Americans in neighboring Afghanistan.

CUMBRE DE ALASKA, Guatemala (Reuters) – A massive landslide buried a crowd trying to dig out a bus from deep mud on Sunday, killing turbo fire at least 22 people, with dozens more feared dead, as torrential rains battered Guatemala.

Emergency workers recovered 22 bodies from the landslide on a major highway in Cumbre de Alaska northwest GK479 of the capital, and they warned it could take two days to dig out all the victims.

"A wall of earth fell on a bus and 0TXWRR Battery Dell Latitude D500 battery Dell Latitude D520 battery around 100 local people organized themselves to dig out the victims," said fire department spokesman Sergio Vasquez. "Then another landslide came along and buried them."

Rescue workers used shovels and pickaxes to dig bodies from the lost dvd deep mud and local residents wrapped victims in blankets and carried them away.

Recovery efforts were abandoned when heavy rain struck the GW240 region again, sending people fleeing from the rain-saturated hillsides.

Another landslide later on Sunday on a different highway slammed into a small bus, killing at least one person and injuring several others.

On Saturday, 12 people were killed when another bus was buried in a landslide. Six more people were killed CYDWV Battery in other incidents on Saturday, raising the weekend death toll to at least 41.

"It's a national tragedy," President Alvaro Colom told a news conference, adding PC764 Dell Latitude D600 battery Dell Latitude D620 battery that nearly 12,000 people had been evacuated to emergency shelters. "It's painful that poor people are paying the price of natural disasters."

Photographs of the bus that wrecked on Saturday in Cumbre de Alaska showed its heroes dvd roof crushed by a huge pile of earth and rock that almost completely covered the vehicle.

More than 30 separate landslides cut the Inter-American Highway, one of Guatemala's main roads, within a single 30-mile (50-km) stretch, local media reported.

Emergency services officials warned further rain was expected on Sunday and Monday.

Colom appealed to people to stay off the nation's highways due 24 dvd to the threat of further landslides and said rescue efforts would be suspended if more rain fell in the affected areas.

More than 150 people died in Guatemala in May when Tropical Storm Agatha drenched Central America, triggering landslides.

Record amounts of rain have fallen in parts of Guatemala and southeastern Mexico this year. Thousands of people in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico state of Tabasco have been forced from their homes by flooding.