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FAMILY and victim groups yesterday slammed disgraced prosecutor Patrick Power's barrister, branding his courtroom theatrics an attempt to "minimise" the horror of child pornography.

Top silk Ian Barker convinced a jury to put Lindy Chamberlain behind bars and protected the late High Court judge Lionel Murphy from the same fate.

His latest cause Mr Power, 54, a child porn addict and former deputy senior Crown prosecutor who Mr Barker this week described as a ``person with integrity''.

In a sentencing hearing before Downing Centre Local Court, Mr Barker described Power as a "good man" - despite the hundreds of sickening child pornography images found on his computer.

"In one sense the community is indebted to him and he's now entitled to call in that debt," Mr Barker told the court. "He is not a paedophile nor anything like it."

Mr Barker's comments were met with anger by the Australian Family Association, which accused him of failing to heed the clear links between child porn and paedophilia.

"It needs to be kept in mind that the people who view this material are feeding off the vicious and cruel exploitation of children," executive director Angela Conway said.

"Describing a person like Power as a man of integrity is just wrong. If a person is ... consuming this type of pornography they are a paedophile.''

Robyn Cotterell-Jones, from the Victims of Crime Association League, said Mr Barker's remarks suggested some paedophiles deserved preference because of their social status.

"What Power's defence counsel is saying is that he is a good bloke apart from this one crime," she said.

"Well, child pornography happens to be an absolutely abhorrent crime and you cannot argue that a person guilty of that has integrity in every other aspect of their life."

Power has pleaded guilty to possessing almost 29,000 pornographic images on his computer - including more than 400 of children as young as five.

Ahead of Power's sentence on May 9, Mr Barker asked the court to consider that his client had "almost entirely withdrawn from society because of the shame, depression and humiliation".

It is not the first time the eminent silk has taken on a controversial case.

As Crown prosecutor in Ms Chamberlain's 1982 murder trial, he said the theory a dingo had abducted baby Azaria was a "transparent lie".

For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."

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The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic terms is relatively nearby at 120 trillion miles (193 trillion kilometers) away. But the star it closely orbits, known as a "red dwarf," is much smaller, dimmer and cooler than our sun.

There is still a lot that is unknown about the new planet, which could be deemed inhospitable to life once more is known about it. And it is worth noting that scientists' requirements for habitability count Mars in that category: a size relatively similar to Earth's with temperatures that would permit liquid water. However, this is the first outside our solar system that meets those standards.

"It's a significant step on the way to finding possible life in the universe," said University of Geneva astronomer Michel Mayor, one of 11 European scientists on the team that found the planet. "It's a nice discovery. We still have a lot of questions."

The results of the discovery have not been published but have been submitted to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Alan Boss, who works at the Carnegie Institution of Washington where a U.S. team of astronomers competed in the hunt for an Earth-like planet, called it "a major milestone in this business."

The planet was discovered by the European Southern Observatory's telescope in La Silla, Chile, which has a special instrument that splits light to find wobbles in different wave lengths. Those wobbles can reveal the existence of other worlds.

What they revealed is a planet circling the red dwarf star, Gliese 581. Red dwarfs are low-energy, tiny stars that give off dim red light and last longer than stars like our sun. Until a few years ago, astronomers didn't consider these stars as possible hosts of planets that might sustain life.

The discovery of the new planet, named 581 c, is sure to fuel studies of planets circling similar dim stars. About 80 percent of the stars near Earth are red dwarfs.

THE BATTLE FOR REGION`S CONTROL

A new “Battle of Kosovo” is fast approaching and the first shots have already been fired.

This stage of the struggle will be between diplomats. But, to quote Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia’s former leader in his famous speech at Gazimestan in Kosovo in June 1989, “They are not armed battles, though such things should not be excluded yet.”

What the public knows is this: the 14-month negotiation process in Vienna about the future status of Kosovo is over. In the next few weeks, Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president charged by the UN with overseeing this will make final adjustments to his plan, which he will then present to Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General. He will then give it to the Security Council.

As is already known, the Ahtisaari plan foresees an independent Kosovo, albeit one subjected to various conditions and with a high level of autonomy granted to the Serbian minority. Serbia has rejected the plan outright while Kosovo’s Albanian leaders have accepted it.

The plan also foresees that the UN mission in Kosovo should be wound up and replaced by a large EU mission dealing with police and justice and a smaller one, headed by a so-called International Civilian Representative, who will have significant powers to intervene in Kosovo's political life. This position is modeled on that of the High Representative in Bosnia.

Everyone agrees that because Kosovo’s international legal status is governed by the UN Security Council resolution that ended the war in Kosovo in 1999, a new resolution is needed to terminate the UN’s mandate there and transfer powers to the Civilian Representative.

It is at this point that there is no agreement on how to proceed.

Until recently, western diplomats had been expecting that Russia would sooner or later give its assent to Kosovo’s independence and thus help usher in a new stage in its history by either supporting, or at least not opposing, a new UN Security Council resolution.

However, far from agreeing to do this, Russian diplomats have been repeating of late that they will not support anything that Serbs and Albanians have not mutually agreed. Since Serbs and Albanians cannot agree on the territory's final status, this amounts to threatening an effective veto.

What is unknown is whether the Russians mean what they say, or whether they are ratcheting up the tension as part of an eventual bargaining process by which they will extract concessions from the US elsewhere.

For this reason, several things are now happening, some in public and some in private. Behind the scenes, Ahtisaari and other western diplomats have been arguing that Kosovo is about to pose a major test for the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, CFSP, which was badly damaged earlier by Iraq. Hence unity is seen as essential.

Their argument runs that the EU is preparing to make a huge political and diplomatic investment in Kosovo but that without unity within the EU and across the Atlantic, Russia will drive a wedge through the CFSP and chaos could result.

For this reason, EU “stragglers” on Kosovo are now being rounded up and herded into line. Countries that have voiced scepticism on Kosovo’s independence, or which see it posing unwelcome ramifications for their own countries, are being cajoled into line by countries like Britain that actively support the Ahtisaari plan.

Spain, for example, which has separatist problems of its own, has now been encouraged to see EU unity as more important than its own doubts about Kosovo’s independence. Slovakia and Romania are similarly likely to fall into line.

Diplomats say the chances of securing a UN resolution in favour of the Ahtisaari plan are far greater if the EU and the US confront Russia together over the issue.

The first salvoes in this tussle have been fired. On March 13, Richard Holbrooke, the US diplomat who secured the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian war in 1995, published an opinion piece about Kosovo in the Washington Post.

Holbrooke is now a private citizen but is also known to be close to the US State Department, so his words carry great weight.

He argues that a Russian attempt to veto, water down or delay the Ahtisaari plan would mean that “the fragile peace in Kosovo will evaporate within days, and a new wave of violence - possibly even a new war – will erupt”.

He added, “If Russia blocks the Ahtisaari plan, the chaos that follows will be Moscow’s responsibility and will affect other aspects of Russia's relationship with the West.”

SERBIA SAYS THAT KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE PLAN HAS FAILED,BUT WASHINGTON GOES AHEAD

The major Western powers, including the European Union and NATO, agree with Ahtisaari that independence is the only viable option and there is no point in further talks. Washington, Paris and Vienna have all said so clearly in the past month.

'We are leaving Ahtisaari's abortive proposal behind us,' Tanjug quoted Kostunica as saying.

He added the Russian initiative to send a Security Council mission would begin a re-assessment of Kosovo's progress on meeting democratic standards, and thus 'becomes a realistic basis for a new negotiation process'.

The mission will visit the territory on April 25-28. There is no certainty that it will end up opposing the Ahtisaari plan, as Kostunica asserted. Western diplomats say they are confident a majority of the 15 Security Council members will back the plan, already endorsed by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Serbia says the Kosovo Albanians have failed to meet benchmarks set by the United Nations. But in any case it rules out independence, offering substantial autonomy under Serbian sovereignty.

Tanjug quoted Kostunica as saying Serbia was shifting the focus to 'the issue of the massive and urgent return of 200,000 expelled Serbs' who fled Kosovo to escape revenge attacks after June 1999, when NATO bombing drove Serb forces out.

Russian billionaire buys Jennifer Lopez for 3m dollars

Latin singer Jennifer Lopez has been paid a staggering $3 million to perform at the birthday party of a Russian billionaire's wife.

Banker Andrei Melnichenko, 35, paid for Lopez to fly from Los Angeles to his Berkshire, England estate to sing at the 30th birthday of his spouse Aleksandra.

	Russian billionaire buys Jennifer Lopez for 3m dollars

Mr Melnichenko, 35, who became one of the world's youngest billionaires by founding Moscow's MDM bank, flew the American star by helicopter to his 27-acre estate in Ascot to perform a 40-minute set

The 60 guests, including Russian and Serbian tycoons, were entertained by cabaret acts and circus performers as they dined in a specially-constructed nightclub under a marquee before Miss Lopez performed a selection of her hits, including If You Had My Love and Jenny From The Block.

Aleksandra, who married Mr Melnichenko two years ago, once had a pop career of her own: at 17 she became a founder member of an all-girl Yugoslavian pop group called Models.

Aleksandra, who bears something of a resemblance to Miss Lopez and speaks five languages, has been modelling since she was 15, Daily Mail reports.

A source says, "J.Lo was booked because both Andrei and Aleksandra are fans of her"

When Andrei married Aleksandra two years ago, Christina Aguilera provided the wedding entertainment.

Barclays CEO says RBS consortium's bid would break up ABN Amro

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ABN49.86, +2.48, +5.2% ) would result in "the deconstruction into heaven knows how many parts of one of the biggest banks in Europe."

A consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland earlier Wednesday made a EUR72 billion offer for Netherlands-based ABN Amro that surpassed the EUR67 billion offer Barclays made Monday.

Varley said he wasn't surprised by the RBS consortium's bid, but believes the choice between the two offers is clear. The Barclays bid, he said, would create "one of the great banking powerhouses in the world," while RBS' offer would break one of Europe's biggest banks into pieces.

The consortium, which also includes Fortis NV (FORSY) and Santander Central Hispano SA (STD), said its offer is 13% higher than that of Barclays and would be made 70% in cash and 30% in RBS shares.

In a joint statement released before the SEC filing, the consortium said it believes "the potential transaction will create stronger businesses with enhanced market positions and growth prospects in each of ABN Amro's main markets."

Shares of ABN Amro closed Wednesday at $49.86, up $2.46