India's capital in water crisis after supplies cut

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1,000 families trapped, pounded in Syria's Homs: NGO

More than 1,000 families were trapped Saturday in the city of Homs and being pounded by regime forces, a watchdog said, as the UN accused both sides in Syria's conflict of willingly escalating the violence.

With world powers at loggerheads over how to stem the bloodletting, Syrian ally Russia meanwhile urged that pressure be increased "on both the regime and the opposition (to) make them cease fighting" and get them talking peace.

Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the families were trapped in the Khalidiyeh, Jourat al-Shiah, Qarabees, old city and Qusour areas of Homs, an opposition stronghold in central Syria.

"They have no food and no medical equipment," Abdel Rahman told AFP.

In a statement, the Observatory sent out an "urgent call" to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "and all those with a sense of humanity to intervene immediately, in order to put a stop to the continuous shelling."

The NGO also called for the "evacuation and protection of dozens of injured."

"More than 100 people are injured, many of them badly, and the lack of medical equipment means some of them will die," Abdel Rahman said, adding there was also a lack of medical staff.

Home to several Free Syrian Army bastions, Homs has been under intermittent attack by regime forces ever since the district of Baba Amr was relentlessly pounded for a month earlier this year, according to the Observatory, and reclaimed by the regime.

An escalation of violence over the past week has engulfed several areas of the country, including Homs, and France's foreign ministry said Friday it was deeply concerned at reports of "an imminent, large-scale operation" by regime forces in the city.

The Observatory reported another 18 people killed on Saturday, 13 of them in Damascus province, adding to a death toll countrywide of at least 138 over the previous two days.

The watchdog said Syrian troops shelled a rebel bastion in the Damascus northern suburb of Douma during the night, killing seven people, while also among the dead was a family of three whose house in Irbin town was hit by a shell, and a regime soldier who died in a blast.

Three other regime troops died in clashes in rebel bastion Rastan, in Homs province, while two rebel leaders were killed near a regime checkpoint in the southern province of Daraa, the Observatory said.

The UN observer mission's chief, Major General Robert Mood, said in Damascus on Friday that the Syrian people were suffering the consequences of the failure to implement UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan.

"There is no other plan on the table, yet it is not being implemented," the veteran Norwegian peacekeeper said. "Instead there is a push towards advancing military positions.

"Violence, over the past 10 days, has been intensifying, again willingly by both the parties, with losses on both sides and significant risks to our observers," Mood told a press conference.

The unarmed observers have been targeted frequently since first deploying in mid-April to monitor a UN-backed truce. Earlier this month Washington's UN envoy Susan Rice likened them to "sitting ducks in a shooting gallery."

The US State Department, meanwhile, announced that US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will discuss differences over Syria at a G20 summit next week.

"Obviously disagreements persist with regard to Syria, but it will be a good opportunity for the presidents to meet and work it through," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an editorial in the online Huffington Post, said Moscow was working with Syrian authorities on an almost daily basis to urge them to implement the Annan plan and "resolutely abandon their delusion that the internal political crisis in Syria will somehow go away."

"We need to bring all the weight to bear on both the regime and the opposition and make them cease fighting and meet at the negotiating table," he said, promoting Moscow's call for an international conference on the crisis.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, whose country along with the United States has been pushing for Assad to quit, said major powers could hold a conference soon on Syria.

"There is a possibility of holding a conference in Geneva on June 30," he told France Inter radio.

Participants would include UN Security Council countries, but the meeting would be held "without the constraints of the Security Council," Fabius added.

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Catholic group seeks change in birth control policy

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Kings' parade, rally celebrates first Stanley Cup

Kings forward Anze Kopitar riled up adoring fans during Thursday's victory celebration.

Victor Decolongon/Getty Images

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dustin Brown stood on a flatbed truck and raised the big silver trophy above his head once again. The air in downtown Los Angeles filled with a blizzard of silver-and-black confetti.

The Los Angeles Kings are Stanley Cup champions for the first time, and a celebration 45 years in the making certainly appeared to be worth the wait.

The Kings rode double-decker buses and flatbed trucks in a parade through the city center, moving slowly up Figueroa Street past thousands of roaring fans. Brown and playoff MVP Jonathan Quick then raised the Cup outside Staples Center, where the Kings completed their 16-4 rampage through the postseason on Monday night by eliminating the New Jersey Devils.

"It was more than you could ever expect," forward Dustin Penner said. "It's one of those moments you want to live over and over again. It's amazing to hear all the support, and to put faces to the cheers we've heard all year."

The Kings gathered inside the arena for a packed rally, with fans waving towels and giving repeated standing ovations to every speaker. Coach Darryl Sutter even pumped up the fans with a series of joyously out-of-character fist pumps, and forward Anze Kopitar riled them up even more.

"It's too much fun not to win it again, so let's go get it," Kopitar said.

Quick, the Conn Smythe Trophy winner, then cracked up the crowd with profane praise of his teammates in a ceremony running live on local television. But even amid the pomp and profanity of a major party, the Kings' affection for each other broke through.

"Just to see the looks on their faces after they won it is something I'll remember for the rest of my life," said Sutter, the midseason replacement who revitalized the Kings' season. "It's just awesome, awesome, awesome."

The Kings will have all summer to absorb what they accomplished this spring, but the superlatives are remarkable.

Los Angeles is the first No. 8 seed to win the Stanley Cup, and only one modern NHL team did it in fewer games. The Kings took a 3-0 lead in all four of their playoff series - also an NHL first. Los Angeles never played an elimination game, only getting stretched even to Game 6 once, and only trailed for about 184 minutes in the entire postseason.

The Kings finished third in the Pacific Division, albeit only two points behind winner Phoenix, and didn't clinch a playoff berth until right before their 81st game. They were the NHL's lowest-scoring team for most of the regular season before getting it together in late February around the time Jeff Carter arrived in a trade with Columbus.

"I don't think we really had the season we expected of ourselves, and I don't think we were an eight seed," said defenseman Rob Scuderi, still sporting black stitches in his nose and upper lip after New Jersey's Steve Bernier slammed him headfirst into the boards in Game 6, resulting in a five-minute power play in which the Kings scored three goals and essentially wrapped up the Cup.

The Stanley Cup has already made an extensive tour of Los Angeles, starting at a Hermosa Beach pub just a few hours after the Kings claimed it. The Cup was in Brown's backyard Tuesday morning, where his two oldest sons drank chocolate milk out of the bowl while wearing their Spider-Man pajamas.

After appearances on "The Tonight Show" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Tuesday, the Cup made its way on Wednesday to Dodger Stadium, where the Dodgers and Angels posed with the Kings for a remarkable photo before every hockey player threw out a first pitch. On Wednesday night, the Cup ended up at a popular stage show in Hollywood's historic Roosevelt Hotel, where David Beckham and Chuck Liddell joined in the celebration.

"It feels great," said Kopitar, the playoffs' scoring co-leader with linemate Brown. "You want to have parades every year. It's going to be tough, but we think we have the team to do it."

The Kings are uniformly excited they've got a strong chance of defending their title next season with much the same roster. General manager Dean Lombardi, who lost his voice in the post-Cup celebrations and couldn't speak to the rally crowd, already has signed most of Los Angeles' key contributors for at least one more year, with only forwards Penner, Jarret Stoll and Colin Fraser headed for unrestricted free agency.

"I'd say it's pretty good," Penner said of his chances of returning to Los Angeles. "I want to be back. ... I'm pretty sure Dean is good at math."

Penner rebounded from a dismal regular season for a strong playoff run with linemates Mike Richards and Carter, scoring the overtime goal in the victory that clinched the Kings' second Western Conference championship. The power forward is now a two-time NHL champion after winning the Cup with Anaheim in 2007, and his experience after that title has affected how he views his impending free agency.

Penner signed a five-year, $21.25 million offer sheet with Edmonton in the ensuing offseason, and the furious Ducks didn't match it. Penner got his money, but missed his teammates while struggling through dismal seasons with the Oilers, who traded him to Los Angeles last season.

"I ended up leaving (Anaheim), and you want to be a part of that - coming into a building as the champs," Penner said. "We've got a good thing going here, and I love it."

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Apple?s iAd Diaspora: Former Senior Mgr Mike Owen Now CRO At AdColony

Another former executive from Apple's iAd business has made a move to another mobile ad venture: Mike Owen, who had been a senior manager overseeing iAd's New York office, is joining mobile video ad network?AdColony as its chief revenue officer. The news comes amid two other executive appointments for AdColony ?-- Ty Heath as CTO, and Abe Pralle as VP of technology, both joining from gaming company?Plasmaworks. The most high profile departures at iAd have been ex-head Andy Miller, who left last year to join Highland Capital; and Lars Albright, who helped had helped found Quattro Wireless and then establish iAd after Apple bought Quattro.

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