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WASHINGTON
All eyes are focusing in on Las Vegas as the sporting goods industry closes in on its first true industry gathering in years. The much-anticipated Spring Market will make its debut June 11-13 in Las Vegas, and the industry’ s leading sporting goods companies will be on hand to display their latest gear.
The exhibit floor will showcase the latest in: Athletic footwear, fitness-related equipment, accessories for fitness as well as spring team sports products. "In today’s trade show environment, the marketplace demands that we offer more than just the opportunity to promote new products." explained Tom Cove, President of Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association. "We are committed to drive the exchange of cutting-edge knowledge and best practices to complement the action on the floor."
Along with many of the industry’ s most influential brands, a number of groups, associations, and media organizations within the sporting goods industry have decided to use the trade show as a business rendezvous.
SAN FRANCISCO
Apple today introduced Safari 3, the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for Windows PCs and Macs. Safari has always been the fastest browser on the Mac and now it’s the fastest browser on Windows, loading and drawing web pages up to twice as fast as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Mozilla Firefox 2.
Safari 3 features easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information.
Other Safari features now available to Windows users include SnapBack, one-click access to an initial search query; resizable text fields; and private browsing to ensure that information about an individual’s browsing history isn’t stored.
AFGHANISTAN
Floods triggered by heavy rain killed 23 people and destroyed scores of houses in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan, the provincial governor said on Friday. Authorities were searching for missing people after the flooding, which hit on Thursday night in an area of the impoverished and mountainous province near the border with Tajikistan, China and Pakistan. After years of harsh drought, Afghanistan received much more snow and rain this year.
CUBA
Two Cuban soldiers tried to hijack a passenger plane to escape to a foreign country with hostages on Monday but were arrested after killing an unarmed military officer on board, the government said. The soldiers, who had escaped from an army base where they were doing military service, hijacked a bus with passengers, took it to the domestic terminal of Havana airport and seized an empty passenger jet before dawn. They killed one of the hostages, an army lieutenant colonel, when he tried to stop the hijacking, but were then captured by a military unit, the government said in a statement.
CANADA
The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Wednesday--a monster gold coin with a face value of C $ 1 million ($900, 000) that is says is the world’s biggest, purest and highest denomination coin. The Canadian mint introduced the mega-coin, which is the size of an extra-large pizza and weighs in at 100kg, alongside the one-ounce gold bullion coins it is mass-producing at its Ottawa plant. Originally designed to promote the new one-ounce coins, the colossal coin will be issued in a very limited quantity. While they have a C $ 1 million face value, the coins are worth twice that amount given the current gold price of $ 683.30 ounce.

6. What is happening in Las Vegas from June 11 to 13