Terbukti Sudah, Luna Maya Tidur Bersama "NOVEL"

BANDUNG --Luna Maya. Ehm.. siapa sih yang tak mengenalnya? Muda dan ayu. Ssst, mau tahu siapa yang biasa meninabobokan dia? Buku. Tepatnya, novel. "Aku punya kebiasaan harus baca buku empat sampai lima halaman sebelum tidur," tutur artis yang pernah bermain film horor Bangsal 13, usai peresmian sebuah gedung perusahaan telekomunikasi di Bandung, Selasa.

Kebiasaan membaca buku sebelum tidur sudah berlangsung sejak ia masih kecil, nun di kampung halamannya, Bali.
Semenjak menjadi seorang selebritis, kesibukan Luna Maya di dunia hiburan pun sangat padat dan tidak mengenal waktu. Akibat kesibukan tersebut membuat kebiasaan membaca buku sebelum tidur tak dilakukannya.

"Kegiatan ku sekarang benar-benar padat, makanya kadang-kadang pas sampai rumah langsung tidur, nggak sempat baca buku dulu," ujar lajang kelahiran Pulau Dewata, Bali, 26 Agustus 1983.

Sebagai ganti tak bisa membaca buku di rumah, ia memindahkan kebiasaan membaca ke lokasi syuting. membaca, biasanya dilakukan Luna saat jeda pengambilan gambar."Daripada bengong pas di lokasi syuting mending baca buku, tapi terkadang aku suka kebablasan tidur di lokasi syuting karena baca buku tadi," katanya tersenyum. Ggggrrhhhh.... ant/kp

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Pilot hailed for 'Hudson miracle'

The pilot of an airliner that ditched in New York's Hudson River has been hailed a hero after all 155 passengers and crew were rescued.

The US Airways Airbus A320 made the crash-landing minutes out of LaGuardia airport, both its engines apparently disabled by a flock of birds.

Passengers were rescued from the wings or helped from the icy water by divers.

Captain Chesley Sullenberger was praised by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his "masterful" landing.

The state governor spoke of a "miracle on the Hudson".

The BBC's Greg Wood reports from New York that it was a true delivery from disaster, a commercial airliner forced to ditch in the river just next to the skyscrapers of mid-town Manhattan but with no fatalities.

One person suffered two broken legs and paramedics treated 78 patients, most for minor injuries but, through a combination of luck, the skill of the pilot and a rapid emergency response, 155 people have had a very narrow escape, our correspondent says.

Air accident investigators are in New York to probe the cause of the incident.

'Everyone counted out'

Flight 1549 departed LaGuardia en route to Charlotte, North Carolina, at 1526 local time (2026 GMT), after delays, said Laura Brown of the Federal Aviation Administration.

"We believe it was airborne for three minutes after take-off when it crashed into the Hudson River," she said.

The pilot reported a "double bird strike" less than a minute after take-off and asked to return to the ground, before ditching in the Hudson, an air controllers union spokesman said.

Ferryboats arrived within minutes of the crash to begin the rescue as passengers emerged in life jackets.

The temperature was almost -7C and the current in the Hudson was running rapidly.

The plane moved rapidly down river, threatening to submerge at one point, until guided to a halt by tug boats against a pier.

"It would appear that the pilot did a masterful job of landing the plane in the river, and then making sure that everybody got out," Mr Bloomberg said on Thursday evening.

"I had a long conversation with the pilot. He walked the plane twice after everybody else was off and tried to verify that there was nobody else onboard. And assures us there were not."

The mayor also commended emergency services, saying: "They train for these kinds of emergencies, and you saw it in action."

New York Governor David Paterson said: "I think that in simplicity, this is really a potential tragedy that may have become one of the most spectacular days in the history of New York City's agencies."

Bracing for impact

Stephanie Nachman, who works in a high-rise building in Times Square, said she had seen the plane crash.

"It wasn't wild or erratic but if as it was landing on a runway," she said.

Within minutes, she added, people got out, doors popped out and rafts unfurled.

Jeff Kolodjay, a passenger on the plane, described the moments before the landing:

"About three or four minutes into the flight... the left engine just blew... flames coming out of it and I was looking right at it cos I was sitting right there.

"And it just started smelling a lot like gasoline and a couple of minutes after that the pilot said 'you guys gotta brace for a hard impact'.

"And that's when everyone started, to be honest, saying prayers and we looked over the water and we thought we had a chance because, you know, there's some water."

Moments after impact, the situation inside the plane was "just controlled chaos", said passenger Dave Sanderson, of Charlotte.

"People started running up the aisle, people were getting shoved out of the way," he said.

Another passenger, Alberto Panero, said that a couple of people then "just kind of took charge and calmed everyone".

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bbc .co.uk

Israel Briefly Halts Gaza Attacks

Israel has halted military operations in Gaza for three hours in the first of what it says will be a daily ceasefire.

An Israeli spokesman said it would allow Gazans to "get medical attention, get supplies... whatever they need".

Correspondents say it is unclear if the suspension covers all of Gaza. Fighting resumed shortly after 1400GMT, eyewitnesses said.

Israel's move came as pressure built on it and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal.

The plan, backed by the UN and the US and proposed by Egypt and France, calls for an immediate ceasefire.

Israel's security cabinet is meeting to consider the deal, but ministers are also expected to discuss expanding operations in Gaza.

In a statement released on Wednesday, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy said he welcomed what he described as "the acceptance by Israel and the Palestinian Authority" of the French-Egyptian ceasefire plan.

The statement did not mention Hamas. A senior Hamas official told the BBC that there were "positive signs but no agreement yet".

Israel said it "welcomes" the initiative but that talks were continuing on the details of the proposal.

An official told the BBC: "We are still having a dialogue. We have agreement on the principles. The challenge now is to get the details to match the principles."

Israel was not sure how long the diplomatic process would take and would need a working arms embargo on Hamas, the official said.

Blockade

Israel's military said the three-hour pause in operations to create "humanitarian corridors" for supplies and fuel would happen every day.

A Hamas spokesman told Al Arabiya television that the group would not launch any missiles at Israeli targets during the lull.

Israel has been criticised by aid agencies who have warned of a mounting humanitarian crisis for the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, who are unable to escape from the conflict because of Israel's blockade.

However Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for the UN relief agency Unwra, said the move did not go far enough.

"When you are trying to feed 750,000 people a day in Gaza as we are, you need a permanent ceasefire. You can't do that in a three-hour window," he said.

The World Bank also warned on Wednesday of a looming public health crisis in Gaza because of damage to its sewage system and a shortage of clean drinking water.

It urged Israel to allow the entry of parts, fuel and staff to the sewage complex in order to prevent the system breaching its walls and drowning up to 10,000 people.

Israel's decision to facilitate "humanitarian corridors" follows one of the deadliest days since the offensive began last month, with more than 130 people killed on Tuesday.

Overnight, Israeli forces launched 40 fresh air strikes in Gaza, while Israeli media reports say nine rockets were fired into southern Israel from Gaza early on Wednesday.

Little official detail has been given about the French-Egyptian ceasefire proposal, but diplomats say it centres around measures to halt weapons smuggling from Egypt into Gaza, coupled with moves to ease the blockade.

A Palestinian official said Gaza's Hamas rulers, who want an end to Israel's blockade of the enclave, were debating the proposal, the Reuters news agency reported.

Israel wants to stop rocket attacks on southern Israel and to stop Hamas smuggling weapons into Gaza via Egypt, while Hamas says any ceasefire deal must include an end to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

More than 600 Palestinians are now believed to have been killed since Israel began its offensive on 27 December.

Palestinian health ministry officials say at least 195 children were among those killed.

An Israeli attack on Tuesday on a UN-run school building, being used to shelter people who had fled their homes, killed 40 people, UN officials say.

The Israeli military said its soldiers had come under mortar fire from Hamas militants inside the school.

However, Unwra's Christopher Gunness said the agency was "99.9% certain" that there were no militants or militant activity in the school compound, and called for an independent investigation into the incident.

A spokesman for Hamas denied there had been any hostile fire coming from the school.

Since the start of its military operation in Gaza, Israel has lost seven soldiers on the ground. Four people within Israel have been killed by rockets.

At least five hit southern Israel on Tuesday, one of them injuring a baby.

Support for truce

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice welcomed the French-Egyptian plan, saying the US was "pleased by and wish[es] to commend... that initiative".

Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev, did not say whether Israel would accept the proposal but said it would take it "very, very seriously".

The contours of a possible diplomatic agreement are in place, the BBC's Laura Trevelyan reports from the UN.

However, if Israel continues to control the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza and can choose to stop it at any time this seems unlikely to command the support of Hamas, our correspondent notes.

Casualty claims in Gaza cannot be independently verified. Israel is refusing to let international journalists into Gaza, despite a supreme court ruling to allow a limited number of reporters to enter the territory.

Rockets Hit Israel from Lebanon

At least three rockets have been fired into northern Israel from Lebanon, raising fears the Israeli offensive against militants in Gaza may spread.

Israel replied with artillery, but called the attack an "isolated event".

The incident followed Israel's heaviest bombardment so far on Gaza, with 60 air strikes targeting Hamas facilities.

Efforts have continued to broker a ceasefire, as a senior Israeli official travelled to Cairo to hear details of a plan put forward by Egypt and France.

A Hamas delegation is expected in the Egyptian capital at some stage for parallel "technical" talks, Egyptian diplomats said.

Correspondents say this is a dangerous moment in the current conflict.

The rocket attacks from Lebanon have raised concerns about a wider war in the region, says the BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen.

But the Lebanese government was swift to condemn the attack, and speculation that militant group Hezbollah was behind the attacks was played down in Israel.

Schools closed

At least three Katyusha rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into the northern Israeli area of Nahariya early on Thursday.

One of the rockets hit a nursing home were some 25 elderly residents were eating breakfast in a nearby dining hall, the Jerusalem Post reports.

At least two people were slightly wounded and a number of others were suffering from shock, Israeli officials said.

Israel immediately responded with five artillery shells into Lebanon, calling it a "pinpoint response at the source of fire".

Shortly afterwards, reports came in of a further rocket attack from Lebanon, although the army later called this a false alarm.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora condemned the attack and called for the army and the UN to investigate.

Information Minister Tarek Mitri told the AFP news agency he had been "assured" by Hezbollah they were not involved in the rocket attacks.

Israeli cabinet minister Raif Eitan said he believed Palestinians in Lebanon, not Hezbollah, were behind the attack.

On Wednesday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke openly about the possibility of a renewed conflict with Israel, saying its fighters were on high alert along the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Northern Israel came under attack from rockets fired by Hezbollah during the brief war with Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

Air attacks

In Gaza, Israel continued its offensive overnight with 60 airstrikes targeting police sites, 10 Hamas tunnels, weapons storage facilities, launching pads "and a number of armed gunmen", the Israeli army said.

Naval and artillery units "continued to support the ground forces" with one soldier lightly wounded, the army added.

The bombardment followed a three-hour pause in fighting on Wednesday to allow vital humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Aid agencies report that Gazans rushed into the streets to buy essential supplies and visit relatives in hospital during the lull.

UN aid workers welcomed Israel's promise of brief daily ceasefires but said only a total end to fighting would allow them to distribute aid to those who need it.

About 700 Palestinian and 11 Israeli lives are said to have been lost since the offensive began 12 days ago.

Casualty claims in Gaza cannot be independently verified.

While the BBC has had Palestinian producers reporting from Gaza, Israel only allowed Western TV crews to enter on Wednesday, embedded with its army.

-BBC-