LED Lighting News

.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px}
.cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0}
.captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1}
.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:outline:medium none}
.cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px}
]]>

General Ratko Mladic, center, commander of Serbian forces in Bosnia, arrives at Sarajevo airport on August 10, 1993 to negotiate the withdrawal of his troops from Mount Igman.

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, right, confers with his military chief during a meeting with the press in Pale on August 5, 1993.

Ratko Mladic talks to a Serbian soldier on February 15, 1994 at Lukavica barracks near Sarajevo six days before the NATO ultimatum.

David Scheffer, U.S. Ambassador at large for war crimes points to a wanted poster showing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic in March 2000.

A Muslim woman and her husband are treated in July 1995 for injuries inflicted on them by Serb forces as they fled Srebrenica. The man died shortly after the picture was taken.

Serb nationalists protest against the U.S. and the U.N. war crimes court in Belgrade in December 2006. Their posters show pictures of Karadzic, Mladic and Vojislav Seselj with the Cyrillic writing meaning: “God saves the Serbs” and “Great Serbia.”

Bosnian Muslim women who survived the Srebrenica massacre, Sabra Kolenovic, right, and Sabaheta Fejzic watch the news of Mladic’s arrest in Sarajevo on May 26, 2011.

Mladic supporters protest at a rally organized by the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party near parliament in Belgrade in May 2011.

Mladic appears at his war crimes trial on May 16, 2012. He eluded authorities for nearly 16 years until his capture in May 2011.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

2011: Ratko Mladic captured

Mladic’s trial began after a landmark war crimes ruling last month, when another international tribunal found former Liberian President Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes in neighboring Sierra Leone’s notoriously brutal civil war.

Taylor got a final chance to address his court Wednesday as Mladic’s trial opened, and he said he was “saddened” by a verdict that he portrayed as unfair.

“Both trials are evidence of the growing international trend to hold perpetrators of atrocities to account, no matter how senior their position,” Human Rights Watch said.

Mladic eluded authorities for nearly 16 years until his capture in May 2011, when police burst into the garden of a small house in northern Serbia.

Europe’s highest-ranking war crimes suspect was discovered standing against a wall in a utility room normally used for storing farm equipment, according to a government minister.

Though he was carrying two handguns, he surrendered without a fight. He was extradited for trial in the Netherlands.

But from day one in custody, he has exhibited defiance and appears not to have relinquished his visceral antagonism toward his enemies. Before the trial that started Wednesday, he also drew a finger across his throat in court, a gesture aimed at some of the Srebrenica widows. At other times, he disrupted proceedings by putting on a hat in the courtroom and refusing to enter a plea.

He has sought delays in his trial and said he is in failing health.

In July 1995, Mladic was in command of the Bosnian Serb army and led his soldiers into the town of Srebrenica. In the days that followed, the soldiers systematically slaughtered nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Bosnia peace negotiator Richard Holbrooke once described Mladic as “one of those lethal combinations that history thrusts up occasionally — a charismatic murderer.”

In the three decades leading up to the violent splintering of Yugoslavia, Mladic rose rapidly through the ranks of the Yugoslav army. In 1991, he served as a front-line commander spearheading Serb forces in a yearlong war with Croatia.

By the time he took to Bosnia’s battlefields, he had become a hero to many Serbs, seen as a defender of their dwindling fortunes.

In May 1992, Bosnia’s Serbian political leaders picked him to lead the assault on their Muslim enemies who clamored for independence.

Robertson: Bosnia’s future is tied to justice

Mladic wasted no time galvanizing his heavily armed forces in a siege of Sarajevo, cutting the city off from the outside world. Serb forces pounded the city every day from higher ground positions, trapping Sarajevo’s ill-prepared residents in the valley below. More than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, perished.

Some observers conjured images of Sarajevo in describing Syrian attacks on the besieged city of Homs earlier this year.

As the war ended in the fall of 1995, Mladic went on the run.

Shortly after Mladic was sent to The Hague last year, authorities nabbed former Croatian Serb rebel leader Goran Hadzic. He was the last Yugoslav war crimes suspect at large.

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested in 2008. And Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested in 2001 but died before his trial could be completed.

CNN’s Moni Basu contributed to this report.

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/4bCRd6WHriA/index.html

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/r4wcePeElzo/index.html

Greeks set election date amid possibility of bank panic

That view is echoed by former EU Commissioner and one-time UK Trade Secretary Peter Mandelson.

“I think it would be better to discuss this behind closed doors. Otherwise, it would create yet more uncertainty,” he said.

“In theory you might say: ‘Its face doesn’t fit, it’s not performing in the way that others need it to do, its politics are falling apart, its people are miserable … so why not let it go out?’ But the consequences of that would shake Greece for many, many years to come.”

Since Greece went to the polls May 6, as many as six rate-setters from the European Central Bank have openly debated the pros and cons of a common currency minus one troublesome member.

The word “Grexit” has made the front page of tabloids and broadsheets in non-eurozone nations like Britain for two straight days. But bookmaker Paddy Power has cut the odds it is offering on Greece being the first out of the eurozone to 1-in-10 from 1-in-8.

Lex van Dam, co-founder of Hampstead Capital, says it’s a “really tough call.” He says Greece’s chances of keeping the euro are 50-50 and hinge less on political goodwill than financial support from the European Central Bank.

“Saving Greece means throwing good money after bad, but not saving Greece means possible huge and fatal capital outflows from the periphery as well,” he said.

If that’s the case, van Dam said, the losses incurred by the central bank could threaten the very institutions set up to safeguard the euro. Which means keeping Greece inside the eurozone could mean a “no euros zone” for its neighbors further down the line.

So can the tide be turned?

Proctor reckons the dam has burst.

“For many years it used to be taboo, but so many people are talking about it, it’s not a possibility that can be ignored anymore,” he said.

Either way, lawyers, hedge fund managers and chief executives are discussing the euro area’s monetary fate, even if those in charge of its member nations are not.

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/LxpBybRJMHA/index.html

Read Tsipras equate austerity with ‘hell’

“People will conquer fear. They will not succumb; they will not be blackmailed,” he said, accusing the parties that made the international loan agreement of “irresponsible scare-mongering.”

The Centre for Economics Business and Research in London, meanwhile, issued a stark warning Thursday.

“The end of the euro in its current form is certain but will be traumatic,” predicted the CEBR’s Douglas McWilliams.

He estimated that the “immensely painful” breakdown of the currency used by 17 countries would cost a minimum of $300 million.

The European Central Bank said Wednesday it had stopped providing cheap money to some Greek banks after Greeks pulled about 800 million euros ($1 billion) in savings out of the banking system on Monday.

It would not say which banks it had cut off, forcing them to turn to the Greek Central Bank for more expensive loans.

The Hellenic Hotel Federation, meanwhile, said tourism revenue was plummeting.

Hotel reservations have dropped 30% to 50% in different parts of the country, the trade group said.

Greek voters punished the major parties at the polls earlier this month for the harsh budget cuts imposed by the country’s international lenders.

The election left no party able to form a government, creating deep uncertainty about Greece’s ability to continue to meet the terms of its bailout package and therefore its debt obligations.

The political deadlock is leading to concerns that Greece will not have a functioning government in place when it needs to make critical debt payments next month, which could in turn jeopardize its place in the eurozone, the group of 17 European Union countries that use the euro currency.

And a crisis could quickly spread beyond Greece, one analyst warned.

“If Greece exits the euro it won’t be alone. Others will exit,” said Paul Donovan, a global economist with UBS bank.

“There would be bank runs across multiple countries,” he predicted. “Citigroup, for example, may not be exposed to Greece, but it may be exposed to Portugal, Spain, France. … It may be exposed to a company that’s exposed to France or exposed to exports to EU.”

In a worst-case scenario, he said, “you’re talking about widespread defaults in the corporate sector as well as the sovereign sector. It becomes very problematic.”

European leaders were united Wednesday in saying they want to help Greece stay in the euro.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she is working to keep Greece in the eurozone

“Europe needs to show solidarity and help, particularly with growth, unemployment and development,” she said.

Merkel, a champion of forcing governments to balance their budgets in order to promote stable economic growth in Europe, said she regrets the suffering of the Greek people in the face of harsh government budget cuts.

“It’s very bitter, obviously,” she said of the austerity measures that have left some Greeks struggling to pay for food or utilities.

But, she said, “Sacrifices had to be made. … I think these are necessary measures that had to be taken.”

The European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund have been pumping money into Greece to keep the country in the euro and able to pay its debts, but they have demanded that the Greek government slash spending to get the funds.

CNN Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance, CNN Business Producer Katy Byron, CNN’s Per Nyberg and journalist Elinda Labropoulou contributed to this report.

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/aOJ8F42Zx4s/index.html

Greeks set election date amid fears

Meanwhile, the idea that Greece might leave the euro, the single currency used by 17 nations, is gaining traction despite the latest vows of support from European leaders, and the Greek people continue to suffer under painful austerity measures.

Woman ‘sacrificed for a future that never came’

Part of the problem is confusion over whether Greece really risks being kicked out of the euro zone if it does not abide by stringent European bailout terms because every politician gives a different answer, he said.

“We hear so many things and we don’t know where the truth lies,” Trompoukis said. “Now we wait for new elections and, for sure, people think that neither PASOK nor New Democracy, the two major parties, can help the country. And we are sure that the measures that Europe asks us to take will not solve the problems for Greece (either).”

Those austerity measures include the tax increases and painful cuts to wages, services and pensions that have angered many voters and sent them flocking to back parties such as the leftist Syriza coalition, rather than the more moderate PASOK and New Democracy.

Business leaders prepare for ‘Grexit’

At the same time, its people ask how much hardship they can be expected to take.

“Here in Greece many people are really poor right now,” said Trompoukis, pointing out that for many workers salaries have dropped by more than a third over the past year, but costs have not.

“They don’t have the money to cover their basic needs, such as to buy food or pay for their utilities or their phones, and every day more and more (people) get in that situation. So if you don’t have money to buy food, you’re not worried about the European future of the country — you are worried about your survival.”

Greek media reports reflect the pain many people are feeling, as well as the sense that they are being unfairly asked to pay for a crisis not of their making.

“The country will once again test its endurance limits, as going back to the polls is unavoidable,” the daily Kathimerini newspaper said Wednesday, as the date for a new election was announced.

I Avgi, a daily left-leaning newspaper published in Athens, suggested the international community is trying to shock the Greek people into electing a government that will stick to the bailout deal despite the painful austerity measures attached.

“The bailout forces and troika create hell for 30 days in order ‘to correct’ the vote of the people,” are the opening words of one its main stories.

Turnout was much lower than usual in the May 6 election, said Marios Efthymiopoulos, president of the Thessaloniki-based think tank Strategy International, likely reflecting people’s disillusionment with the system.

He says his country is in urgent need of a stable, credible government to restore confidence and let investors know that Greece is “open for business.”

Greeks will consider themselves European whether they are in the euro zone or not, said Efthymiopoulos, a former visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

But most people do not want Greece to leave the euro zone, despite the huge debt it must carry to stay in the club. “The problem is, how will you repay that debt? How will you emerge as a winner from that debt? That’s not easy to do,” Efthymiopoulos said.

He also warns that if Greece were to quit the euro and return to a national currency, such as the drachma, the move would result in years of turmoil and cost money the nation does not have.

Efthymiopoulos wants to see more young people in politics, bringing fresh ideas and a more outward-looking perspective. Reform of the country’s laws and electoral system is also needed, he said, if long-term stability is to be achieved.

In the meantime, no one will listen to the interim prime minister sworn in Wednesday, he warns, and Greece will continue to flounder until a government is convincingly elected that can win the trust of its own people and build alliances abroad.

“We have no allies whatsoever,” he said. “We are not credible and nobody trusts us — and that is unfortunate because some of us are trustworthy, and now we need to prove that.”

Melina Grigoriadou, whose job with an export firm means she often travels outside Greece, said she is frustrated by the unflattering views of her country she hears elsewhere.

“We are not a nation of lazy people or thieves or crooks,” she said. “As in all the countries around the world, there are people who work hard (for low wages), or people who beg for a job to feed their family, or people that fear about the unknown future.”

The fault lies with the corrupt system presided over by PASOK and New Democracy for decades, Grigoriadou said, not the ordinary people who are suffering as a result of politicians’ self-interest.

“Greeks didn’t vote thinking of their EU future, but it was a vote of anger against our political system, our politicians who behaved to us all these years like we are their ‘clients,’” she said.

Looking ahead to the elections on June 17, the mother of two says Greeks need to keep their country set on a European course.

“I can’t say that I am optimistic for what is going to happen, but I know that to the extent that I can, I will try to influence those of my friends who voted angrily the previous time now to give (it) a second thought,” she said.

“I am a European; I want to continue being in the EU. I want the euro currency, and I will vote now in new elections.”

Tsompanidis, studying medicine at the University of Athens, says many people struggle to know what to make of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s comments on Greece, or the speeches of their own politicians.

But, he said, “two things are certain: Nobody wants Greece to exit the euro, and everyone can see that the financial situation in Greece has deteriorated rapidly with no light at the end of the tunnel.”

Tsompanidis said he has taken part in some of the many anti-austerity protests that have filled the capital’s streets in recent years.

Many people’s anger is fueled by the fact that the country’s huge debt is a result of government overspending and corruption rather than private debt, he said. Meanwhile, those who do pay taxes, in a country where tax evasion is a big problem, have to shoulder even more of the burden.

Like many students of his generation, Tsompanidis anticipates that after graduation he will have to leave Greece — where more than half of those under age 25 were unemployed as of January, according to European Commission figures — to seek work elsewhere.

Journalist Trompoukis, 32, said four of his friends have left Greece to find work in recent months.

“If you asked me two years ago, I would never believe that so many young people would leave Greece and go to London or Germany or other European countries,” he said. “It’s very sad.”

Tsompanidis believes that while the tough austerity measures imposed on his country may have kept the banks and lenders afloat, it has not help restore investor confidence in Greece, “instead plunging the country in internal bankruptcy and misery.”

And he is also upset by the increasingly negative view of Greece that many overseas seem to hold.

“I am very distraught that the world believes Greeks are lazy and useless. I am very disappointed to watch everyone lose faith in Greece and mistake our inadequate political establishment with everyone else in this country,” he said.

“We want our European ‘partners’ to help us restore growth and the prospects of the economy, but nobody is willing anymore, and that is a disheartening realization.”

CNN’s Michael Saba contributed to this report.

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1Cg7tBv6ec4/index.html

Despite several serious rounds of violence this week, including the assassination of a top peace negotiator, the United States will continue to try to negotiate with the Taliban, experts say. Afghanistan has been violent for a long time, they argue. This week just brought more of the same.

“[The United States] has been fighting for nearly 11 years, and we’ve already said we’re not leaving until 2014,” said C. Christine Fair, a Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies professor who has worked in and studied the region for years.

“Talking is not only our best option, it’s our only option,” she said. “We should expect that it will be accompanied by violence.”

The peace process has come in fits and bursts over the past year. When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced last June that the U.S. was in preliminary talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the idea was controversial. Many observers were skeptical that the Taliban would ever deal.

Since then, the concept of negotiations has become more and more the norm. President Barack Obama touted it in his recent surprise visit to Afghanistan on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Yet months into the talks, it’s murky as to who is involved and what, exactly, each party wants.

In March, the Taliban said it would not be setting up a diplomatic office in Qatar to negotiate with Americans, blaming their decision on the United States’ “alternating and ever-changing position” on Afghanistan. At the time, preliminary talks with what the Taliban called “the occupying enemy” had already begun over the exchange of prisoners, the group said.

Assassinated on the way to work

Observers remind that the peace process is still relatively new considering the protracted war, and all new and difficult enterprises have bumps in the road. In Afghanistan, that cliche is relative.

There “weren’t great hopes right now for peace talks at the moment in any case,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution who specializes in defense and foreign policy.

On Sunday, Taliban interlocutor Moulavi Arsala Rahmani was killed when a gunman drove up to his car while Rahmani was stuck in traffic on his way to work in Kabul.

He was a member of the High Peace Council, which was created by President Hamid Karzai and heartily endorsed by the Pentagon. The HPC is tasked with reaching out to insurgents and ex-Taliban who live in Kabul under government protection. Rahmani was considered a moderate Taliban, someone who could bring other Taliban members to the negotiating table.

The Taliban announced recently that peace council members would be targets of its spring offensive, but a Taliban spokesman said Sunday that the group did not kill Rahmani.

Regardless, his death marked the second such high-level negotiator to be killed since last fall when HPC Chairman Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president, was killed in a suicide bombing.

The biggest danger Rahmani’s assassination might have, O’Hanlon said, would be to scare future Taliban defectors from talking with the West and allies, he said.

Riaz Mohammad Khan, the former foreign secretary of Pakistan, agrees.

“These things are unfortunate but can be expected,” he said.

“On the more positive side, I don’t think recent violence suggests a strength in the Taliban forces. I think we’ll come understand what is happening in Afghanistan as reflective of their weakness. It gives the Afghan people a chance also to show that they won’t be beaten down. It gives them a chance to stick with peace talks.”

More “green on blue” killings

Violence this week went beyond Rahmani’s death. A blast at a crowded market in northern Afghanistan killed nine civilians on Monday.

Two more NATO troops were also killed over the weekend, bringing the total NATO death toll to eight in just a few days time. The two troops killed Sunday are believed to be victims of so-called “green on blue” attacks in which Afghan security forces turn on their fellow soldiers.

Distrust between allied soldiers and Afghan soldiers appears to be at an all-time high. This year’s string of scandals — the Quran burnings at Bagram Air Base, photos of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of alleged insurgents and crimes such as the Kandahar massacre — has seriously frayed relations among the soldiers who must work side-by-side.

An experienced Pakistani ambassador to China, the European Union, Belgium and other countries, Khan suspects the recent violence could actually help rally the Afghan army.

“If the U.S. chooses to hold back and continue giving control to Afghan soldiers, as it appears to be doing, I see this [positively]. If they pull back and act on suspicion and fear, then it won’t turn out well for anyone,” he said.

At least 23 individuals wearing an Afghan army or police uniform have shot and killed a NATO-affiliated soldier this year, according to the Department of Defense.

It’s unclear whether some who have attacked NATO soldiers are actually Afghan soldiers or just in disguise.

Handing over more territory

Meanwhile, the Taliban has demonstrated that it has plenty of fight. The earlier allied surge in the country, especially southern Afghanistan, appeared to force the Taliban to adopt new tactics such as relying on roadside bombs and suicide attacks. In the past year, insurgent attacks overall have decreased some 22%, and in some parts of southern Afghanistan by much more, according to coalition figures. Civilian casualties rose to their highest level last year since 2001, CNN reported.

By the middle of this week, officials announced that another large swathe of Afghanistan territory would be handed over to local authorities, giving them control of about 75% of the country.

Among the most striking areas that would fall under Afghan control is the city of Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold, and several mountainous areas of Afghanistan, which make for excellent hiding places for insurgents.

2014 is an election year for Afghanistan. Results could drastically change the atmosphere for peace talks, Fair said.

On Sunday, Obama and other world leaders gather at the NATO summit in Chicago, where the future of Afghanistan will be the No. 1 topic. The meeting will include Karzai, NATO allies and International Security Assistance Force contributors, among others.

The Afghan constitution prohibits Karzai from running another term. There haven’t been any candidates who’ve emerged as viable to take his place so far, much less any that have appeared to align their platforms with Western goals.

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/3GWoZU-6gCY/index.html

(CNN) — North Korea has resumed work on the construction of a reactor that could help it push forward its nuclear weapons program, according to an academic group’s analysis of a recent satellite image.

The blog 38 North, run by the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said Thursday that a commercial satellite image from April 30 shows the secretive regime “is now close to completion of the reactor containment building.”

The building is intended to house an experimental light water reactor, according to 38 North, which is managed by Joel Wit, a former U.S. State Department official.

Work on the reactor site in Yongbyon appeared to have halted in late December, 38 North said, perhaps because of the death of the longtime North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that month, or more likely as a result of the onset of winter weather.

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/aS23rycPrzw/index.html

New Delhi (CNN) — A 14-year-old Indian actress, Taruni Sachdev, was among the passengers who died in Monday’s plane crash in Nepal, officials said.

Jaikumar Thakur, a doctor at the Indian embassy in Kathmandu, told CNN that Sachdev was traveling with her mother, who also lost her life in the crash.

The two were among 21 people on board a small plane that crashed after it was unable to land in a mountainous area of Nepal, killing 15.

The plane was about a mile from the airport at Jomsom, a popular tourist town in central Nepal, when it went down, said Purusottam Shakya, deputy director of air traffic service operations in Kathmandu. It was operated by Agni Air, a Nepalese carrier.

Taruni shot to national fame for her role as a schoolgirl alongside India’s superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek in “Paa” (Father), a movie with disability as its theme.

Amitabh, who played Abhishek’s son in the film, portrayed a child with a genetic condition that leads to premature ageing.

“Just reading that Tarini (Taruni) Sachdev the girl child artist in Paa, has perished in Nepal plane crash… please God may this not be true,” Bachchan senior tweeted after the crash.

Abhishek Bachchan also mourned the loss.

“SHOCKED and very saddened to hear about the Nepal plane crash. Lost 1 of my cutest co-stars. Little Taruni Sachdev from PAA. Speechless…..,” he said in a tweet.

Taruni also starred in dozens of TV commercials.

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/tIctovc8wpY/index.html

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ETSWg0nu6lk/index.html

.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px}
.cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0}
.captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1}
.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:outline:medium none}
.cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px}
]]>

On a day of high drama and emotion, the blue half of Manchester was left to celebrate as Manchester City pipped their city rivals to the title. Click on for the highlights …

20 mins: Manchester United, relying on City to slip up against QPR, score first through Wayne Rooney in their must-win match at Sunderland. Advantage United!

39 mins: Back in Manchester, Pablo Zabaleta puts City back in the driving seat as Paddy Kenny fails to keep his shot out.

48 minutes: A terrible mistake from Joleon Lescott allows Djibril Cisse (center) to race through and equalize for QPR. Advantage well and truly with United!

54 minutes: With City looking shell-shocked, QPR captain Joey Barton is sent off after a clash with Carlos Tevez.

66 mins: Unbelievable! Jamie Mackie (3rd from left) puts 10-man QPR 2-1 ahead after a rare counter attack. Classic smash and grab — the City players can’t believe it.

92 minutes: With time added on City grab a lifeline through substitute Edin Dzeko (right). But City need to win. United have beaten Sunderland 1-0!

95 minutes: City have done it! Argentina striker Sergio Aguero is mobbed by teammates after scoring the winner with seconds to go in injury time.

City manager Roberto Mancini (center) runs to greet his jubilant players after their breathtaking victory.

Victorious captain Vincent Kompany holds aloft the Premiership trophy …

… while United players look dejected as the result from Manchester filters through.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

“Games going down to the last game of the season will certainly increase interest and may in turn show the league as more valuable because of the unresolved title, Champions League and relegation issues,” said lawyer Daniel Geey of Field Fisher Waterhouse.

Sunday’s 10 games also ensured this was the most prolific Premier League season ever with 1,066 goals, beating last season’s record total of 1,063.

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/MPqjXZ7bWXU/index.html