Foreign governments call for building new Libya (AP)

BEIJING ? Foreign governments from Britain to China hailed a new day for Libya following Moammar Gadhafi's death and called on the new government to move swiftly to rebuild a shattered economy and restore order amid chaotic celebrations.

Amid the overwhelmingly positive response, there were concerns too about further political violence or a veering off into extremism in the wake of Gadhafi's nearly 42-year regime. Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said the international community needed to work with the governing transitional council to ensure Libya "does not become another Iran."

"The task of nation-building, the task of building Libya's democratic institutions, will be difficult, it will be complex, it will be hard, and there will be setbacks," said Rudd during a visit to Manila, Philippines.

China, which initially refused to support the rebels or to criticize Gadhafi, moved to embrace the new government ? updating its references to Gadhafi in state media from the "strongman" who defied the West to the "madman" whose time ran out.

"A new page has been turned in the history of Libya," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.

"We hope Libya will rapidly embark on an inclusive political process, maintain ethnic solidarity and national unity, swiftly establish social stability, begin economic reconstruction, and allow the people to live in peace and happiness," Jiang said.

Rudd, whose country supported the rebellion from its earliest days, said Gadhafi's death Thursday, two months after he was driven from power and into hiding, was "historic."

Yet he also said that Iran's euphoria at deposing the Shah over 30 years ago morphed into severe repression, and warned Libya's supporters needed to stay attentive and continue to promote openness.

"My point is this: Right now there will be many forces at work within Libyan politics and the responsibility of the international community is to support democratic pluralist forces building a new inclusive Libyan state, a new inclusive Libyan democratic state," Rudd said.

In Europe, leaders sounded an optimistic note.

"Finally the way is free for a political rebirth for peace," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday, pronouncing herself "relieved and very happy" at the news of Gadhafi's death.

Britain and France, the powers that played a leading role in the military campaign that sealed Gadhafi's fate, said they hoped that his death would open a more democratic chapter in Libya's history, while South Africa's government urged an "all-inclusive political process that will culminate in the holding of the first ever democratic elections."

The African Union immediately lifted Libya's suspension after Gadhafi's death and said the interim leadership, the National Transitional Council, could occupy the country's seat, citing Libya's "exceptional circumstance."

The Vatican described the dictator's death as the end to a "long and tragic" fight to crush an oppressive regime. And U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke for many when he said that "this is only the end of the beginning."

"The road ahead for Libya and its people will be difficult and full of challenges," he said. "This a time for healing and rebuilding, for generosity of spirit, not for revenge."

Libyan exiles and some of the many victims Gadhafi accumulated over four decades in power also celebrated, although some too expressed fears over the road ahead.

"I was crying, I was shouting, I was smiling," said Najwa Creui, a 40-year-old teacher who stomped a sheet bearing the fallen leader's image outside the Libyan Embassy in London. "It's the day Libyans have been waiting for as long as I have been alive."

"I'm just going to go out and buy an expensive bottle of champagne to celebrate," said Susan Cohen, whose 20-year-old daughter was killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, an atrocity allegedly carried out at Gadhafi's behest.

But Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an ally and friend of Gadhafi, called his death deplorable.

"They murdered him," Chavez told reporters, adding that "we will remember (Gadhafi) all our lives as a great fighter, as a revolutionary and as a martyr."

In China, sympathy for Gadhafi remained on Internet forums, including the popular Weibo microblogging site where ordinary Chinese feel freer to express personal views.

"Deeply mourn Libya's former leader Gadhafi, friend of the Chinese people. He died a heroic death," read one comment, signed "Yuan Jun."

"Heroic warrior against Western imperialism, slain by the Western bullets wielded by his own people," read another on the Sohu site, signed simply "Shanghai Internet user."

There was also concern about the confusion over how Gadhafi died, with some leaders and human rights groups saying he should have been taken alive and calling for an investigation. Libyan revolutionaries had pledged to bring Gadhafi to court to face atrocity charges, and Arab satellite TV stations have since broadcast a video showing him taken alive by his opponents.

However, some suggested that, on balance, Gadhafi's death might have worked to greater effect than his capture.

Shashank Joshi, an associate fellow at London's Royal United Services Institute, said that while the revolutionaries may have wanted him alive, "a trial would have been an opportunity for him to grandstand. So in some ways, his death is more cathartic."

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More breast cancer diagnosed in women with diabetes (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Women with recently diagnosed diabetes may be more likely to also get a breast cancer diagnosis than those without diabetes, suggests a new study from Canada.

It's not the first time diabetes has been linked to new cases of breast or other cancers. But the findings also hint that at least part of the reason why doctors find more breast cancer in diabetics is because they're looking harder -- and not necessarily because diabetes itself raises a woman's cancer risk.

"The relationship that we see (between diabetes and cancer), we wondered if it was something about the fact that people with diabetes go to the doctor's office more often," said Jeffrey Johnson, from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, who worked on the study.

"When a new diagnosis of diabetes is made, people undergo a lot of tests and general health exams." That may include breast cancer screening with mammograms, he added.

Previous studies found that people with diabetes have a higher risk of colorectal, liver and pancreatic cancers, along with breast cancer.

Researchers then suggested that certain behaviors might increase the risk of both types of diseases, including smoking, being sedentary and not eating well, and that those would explain the link.

It's also possible that changes in insulin and blood sugar levels that come with diabetes make it easier for breast tumors to grow, Johnson said.

While those explanations could still be partly behind the increase in breast cancer researchers have noticed, extra doctor's visits and tests "certainly seems to contribute to some extent."

Johnson and his colleagues consulted a database including about 170,000 women in British Columbia -- half with a recent type 2 diabetes diagnosis and half without diabetes -- and tracked them for the following four to five years. During that time, about 2,400 women, or 1.4 percent, were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Women in both groups had a similar chance of getting breast cancer. However, when the researchers broke them down by age and focused on the time shortly after the diabetes diagnosis, they found that older, post-menopausal women with diabetes were slightly more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than diabetes-free women.

Among those 55 and older, women with diabetes diagnosed in the last three months were about 30 percent more likely to also get a breast cancer diagnosis than those without diabetes. But even in these women, researchers couldn't tell for sure that the finding wasn't due to chance, according to results published in Diabetes Care.

After a few months -- when the pace of appointments and tests after a diabetes diagnosis would have slowed -- there was no difference in how often breast cancer was diagnosed in women with or without diabetes.

Johnson said the finding doesn't rule out other explanations, such as common risk factors for diabetes and cancer or a hormone-driven increase in tumor growth.

"I think there are so many things going on in the relationship that this is maybe only one part of it," he told Reuters Health. "We're really early on in understanding this relationship."

Dr. Christos Mantzoros, an hormone expert from Harvard Medical School in Boston, said the new findings could mean either that the higher rate of breast cancer diagnosis was due to more follow-up and screening in diabetics, or that the common roots of the diseases may lead both to develop within a short period of time.

"Women with diabetes need to be more vigilant and their doctors need to be screening them for malignancies associated with diabetes including, but not limited to breast cancer," Mantzoros, who was not involved in the new study, told Reuters Health in an email.

Johnson said the main message for women is still to cut out behaviors such as smoking that increase disease risks, and to get breast cancer screening as recommended.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-funded expert panel, calls for mammograms every other year for women between age 50 and 74.

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Gadhafi killed in hometown battle

Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's dictator for 42 years until he was ousted in an uprising-turned-civil war, was killed Thursday as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte and captured the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell.

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The 69-year-old Gadhafi is the first leader to be killed in the Arab Spring wave of popular uprisings that swept the Middle East, demanding the end of autocratic rulers and the establishment of greater democracy.

"We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Moammar Gadhafi has been killed," Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told a news conference in the capital of Tripoli.

There were conflicting accounts about Gadhafi's final hours, with the interim government saying he was captured unharmed and later mortally wounded in the crossfire from both sides. A second account described how he was already wounded in the chest when he was seized and later sustained the other wounds.

Interim government officials said one of Gadhafi's sons, his former national security adviser Muatassim, also was killed in Sirte, and another, one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam, was wounded and captured.

Gadhafi's death decisively ends a regime that had turned Libya into an international pariah and ran the oil-rich nation by the whim and brutality of its notoriously eccentric leader.

'We want him alive'
Libya stands on the cusp of a new era, but its turmoil may not be over. The former rebels who now rule are disorganized and face rebuilding a country virtually without institutions by Gadhafi's design. They have already shown signs of infighting, with divisions between geographical areas and Islamist and more secular ideologies.

President Barack Obama told the Libyan people: "You have won your revolution."

Although the U.S. briefly led the NATO bombing campaign in Libya that sealed Gadhafi's fate, Washington later took a secondary role to its allies. Britain and France said they hoped that his death would lead to a more democratic Libya.

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Arab broadcasters showed graphic images of the balding, goateed Gadhafi ? wounded, with a bloodied face and shirt ? but alive. Later video showed fighters rolling Gadhafi's lifeless body over on the pavement, stripped to the waist and a pool of blood under his head.

Standing, he was shoved along a Sirte road by fighters who chanted "God is great." Gadhafi appears to struggle against them, stumbling and shouting as the fighters push him onto the hood of a truck.

He was driven around lying on the hood of a truck, according to the video. One fighter is seen holding him down, pressing on his thigh with a pair of shoes in a show of contempt.

"We want him alive. We want him alive," one man shouted before Gadhafi is dragged away, some fighters pulling his hair, toward an ambulance.

Most accounts agreed Gadhafi had been holed up with heavily armed supporters in the last few buildings held by regime loyalists in the Mediterranean coastal town, where revolutionary fighters have been trying prevail for more than a month.

At one point, a convoy tried to flee and was hit by NATO airstrikes, carried out by French warplanes. France's Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said the 80-vehicle convoy was carrying Gadhafi and was trying to escape the city. The strikes stopped the convoy but did not destroy it, and then revolutionary fighters moved in on Gadhafi.

U.S. officials told NBC News Thursday afternoon that a U.S. Predator drone had fired a hellfire missile at the convoy carrying Gadhafi as he tried to leave Sirte. According to the officials, both the Predator and a NATO warplane launched missiles, striking several vehicles while the rest scattered. France's defense minister said a French fighter jet also attacked the convoy.

One fighter who said he was at the battle told AP Television News that the final fight took place at an opulent compound. Adel Busamir said the convoy tried to break out but after being hit, it turned back and re-entered the compound. Several hundred fighters attacked.

"We found him there," Busamir said of Gadhafi. "We saw them beating him (Gadhafi) and someone shot him with a 9mm pistol ... then they took him away."

Military spokesman Col. Ahmed Bani in Tripoli told Al-Jazeera TV that a wounded Gadhafi "tried to resist (revolutionary forces) so they took him down."

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Fathi Bashaga, spokesman for the Misrata military council, whose forces were involved in the battle, said fighters encircled the convoy and exchanged fire. In one vehicle, they found Gadhafi, wounded in the neck, and took him to an ambulance. "What do you want?" Gadhafi asked the approaching revolutionaries, Bashaga said, citing witnesses.

A large convoy of vehicles moved out of the buildings, and revolutionary forces moved to intercept it, said Bashagha. At 8:30 a.m., NATO warplanes struck the convoy, a hit that stopped it from escaping, according to French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet.

Fighters then clashed with loyalists in the convoy for three hours, with rocket-propelled grenades, anti-aircraft weapons and machine guns. Members of the convoy got out of the vehicles, Bashagha said.

Gadhafi and other supporters fled on foot, with fighters in pursuit, he said. A Gadhafi bodyguard captured as they ran away gave a similar account to Arab TV stations.

Gadhafi and several bodyguards took refuge in a drainage pipe under a highway nearby. After clashes ensued, Gadhafi emerged, telling the fighters outside, "What do you want? Don't kill me, my sons," according to Bashagha and Hassan Doua, a fighter who was among those who captured him.

Gadhafi bled to death from his wounds a half-hour later, he said. Fighters said he died in the ambulance en route to Misrata, 120 miles from Sirte.

Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, a doctor who accompanied the body in the ambulance and examined it, said Gadhafi died from two bullet wounds ? to the head and chest.

"You can't imagine my happiness today. I can't describe my happiness," he told The Associated Press. "The tyranny is gone. Now the Libyan people can rest."

The account given by Jibril after a coroner's investigation said Gadhafi was seized unharmed from a drainage pipe but was then shot in the hand and put in a pickup. In ensuing crossfire, Gadhafi was shot in the head, the government account said.

According to an account from Hassan Doua, a commander whose fighters found Gadhafi, the former leader already was wounded in the chest when he was seized near a large drainage pipe, and then was put in the ambulance.

Rights group calls for inquiry
Amnesty International urged the revolutionary fighters to report the full facts of how Gadhafi died, saying all members of the former regime should be treated humanely. The London-based rights group said it was essential to conduct "a full, independent and impartial inquiry to establish the circumstances of Col. Gadhafi's death."

After his death, Gadhafi's body was paraded through the streets of Misrata on top of a vehicle surrounded by a large crowd chanting, "The blood of the martyrs will not go in vain," according to footage aired on Al-Arabiya television. The fighters who killed Gadhafi are believed to have come from Misrata, a city that suffered a brutal weeks-long siege by Gadhafi's forces during the eight-month civil war.

Celebratory gunfire and cries of "God is great" rang out across Tripoli. Motorists honked and people hugged each other. In Sirte, the ecstatic former rebels celebrated the city's fall after weeks of fighting by firing endless rounds into the sky, pumping their guns, knives and even a meat cleaver in the air and singing the national anthem.

"We would have wanted him alive for trial. But personally, I think it is better he died," Bashaga said.

The capture of Sirte, the death of Gadhafi, and the death and capture of his two most powerful sons, gives the transitional leaders confidence to declare the entire country "liberated."

It rules out a scenario some had feared ? that Gadhafi might flee deep into Libya's southern deserts and lead a resistance campaign.

Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam told AP that Muatassim Gadhafi was killed in Sirte. Abdel-Aziz, the doctor who accompanied Gadhafi's body in the ambulance, said Muatassim was shot in the chest.

The justice minister said Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, had been wounded in the leg and was being held in a hospital in the city of Zlitan, northwest of Sirte. Shammam said Seif was captured in Sirte.

Following the fall of Tripoli on Aug. 21, Gadhafi loyalists mounted fierce resistance in several areas, including Sirte, preventing Libya's new leaders from declaring full victory. Earlier this week, revolutionary fighters gained control of one stronghold, Bani Walid.

By Tuesday, fighters said they had squeezed Gadhafi's forces in Sirte into a residential area of about 700 square yards but were still coming under heavy fire from surrounding buildings.

In an illustration of how heavy the fighting has been, it took the anti-Gadhafi fighters two days to capture a single residential building.

Reporters watched as the final assault began around 8 a.m. Thursday and ended about 90 minutes later. Just before the battle, about five carloads of Gadhafi loyalists tried to flee the enclave down the coastal highway that leads out of the city. But they were met by gunfire from the revolutionaries, who killed at least 20 of them.

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Col. Roland Lavoie, spokesman for NATO's operational headquarters in Naples, Italy, said the alliance's aircraft struck two vehicles of pro-Gadhafi forces "which were part of a larger group maneuvering in the vicinity of Sirte."

After the battle, revolutionaries began searching homes and buildings looking for any hiding Gadhafi fighters. At least 16 were captured, along with cases of ammunition and trucks loaded with weapons. Reporters saw revolutionaries beating captured Gadhafi men in the back of trucks and officers intervening to stop them.

The fighters looking like the same ragtag force that started the uprising jumped up and down with joy and flashed V-for-victory signs. Some burned the green Gadhafi flag, then stepped on it with their boots.

They chanted "God is great" while one fighter climbed a traffic light pole to unfurl the revolution's flag, which he first kissed. Discarded military uniforms of Gadhafi's fighters littered the streets. One revolutionary fighter waved a silver trophy in the air while another held up a box of firecrackers, then set them off.

"Our forces control the last neighborhood in Sirte," Hassan Draoua, a member of Libya's interim National Transitional Council, told the AP in Tripoli. "The city has been liberated."

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Cell Phones Don't Raise Brain Cancer Risk, Study Says (HealthDay)

THURSDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The 5 billion people worldwide who chat away on cell phones shouldn't worry about an increased risk of brain cancer, new Danish research contends.

One of the largest and longest studies on the subject finds no more brain tumors among people who had cell phones over 17 years than among people who had no cell phones.

Although no one study can rule out harm with absolute certainty, "the risk, if there is one, is extremely low," said Dr. Ezriel E. Kornel, director of the Neuroscience Institute at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.

Previous studies haven't definitively answered the question of whether cell phone use is harmful: While several studies have found no cause for alarm, a handful did show an upped risk of malignant brain tumors.

Based on the totality of existing evidence, the World Health Organization in May classified cell phones as "possibly carcinogenic to humans," and placed them in the same category as the pesticide DDT and gasoline engine exhaust.

Experts have been concerned that radio frequency electromagnetic fields sent out by a cell phone held close to the ear could trigger a malignancy.

This new study, led by researchers from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, was a follow-up to an earlier trial that also had found no increased risk in cell phone users. Their latest report is published in the Oct. 20 issue of BMJ.

Here, the researchers analyzed data on about 360,000 people in Denmark who had cell phone subscriptions.

There was no difference in tumor incidence between the two groups overall or for people who had had cell phones for 13 years or longer.

Nor was there any hint that tumors might be more common in areas of the brain closest to the ear where the cell phone is held.

There was a very slight increased risk of glioma, a type of malignant brain tumor, in men, but the difference virtually disappeared after five years.

"That might potentially mean that people who are genetically predisposed are at a greater risk by using cell phones but, over the years the effect washes out because people who were going to get tumors already got them," said Dr. Michael Schulder, vice chairman of neurosurgery at the Cushing Neuroscience Institute of the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine in Manhasset, N.Y.

One limitation of the new study is that the authors weren't able to look at how long or often people used their cell phones or if, in fact, they used them at all, Kornel noted.

Despite the findings, it's unlikely that the question of a link between brain cancer and cell phone use will be answered to everyone's satisfaction anytime soon.

In the meantime, there are some common-sense measures people can take to reduce any risk there might be.

"Rather than clamp the cell phone to the side of your head, use an earpiece with a wire," advised Schulder.

Dr. Jay Brooks, chairman of hematology/oncology at Ochsner Health System in Baton Rouge, La., said, "If you're going to use a cell phone, I'd try to use it as little as you need to."

He added, though, that he did not believe that "the risks, if any, are very great."

But the biggest danger from cell phones may not be from brain cancer.

"The biggest risk incurred from cell phones is during driving," said Schulder. "If you studied 10 million people for 100 years, the risk from texting while driving, looking at emails, holding the phone with your hand to your head and probably, to some extent, even talking on the phone are all far greater than anything that might ever show up in a study like this."

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Lohan reports to LA morgue for community service (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Lindsay Lohan's arrival at the morgue for community service ? Take Two ? had a better result Friday as the actress was quickly put to work after showing up early.

News helicopters hovered over the coroner's facilities and cameras greeted her black sport utility vehicle when Lohan reported for duty, one day after officials turned her away for being 40 minutes late to an orientation session.

Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Lohan arrived "real early" Friday, completed her orientation and was put to work before 8 a.m. She had been ordered to report at the coroner's facilities at 7 a.m., but Lohan's publicist, Steve Honig, wrote in an email that the actress had been outside for more than an hour before it opened.

Lohan must complete 16 hours of custodial work at the morgue before a Nov. 2 court hearing. She will be expected to mop floors, clean and stock bathrooms, and wash dirty sheets, coroner's officials have said.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked Lohan's probation during a contentious court hearing Wednesday after the judge learned the "Mean Girls" star had been fired from doing community service at a women's shelter.

Sautner ordered Lohan to complete 360 hours at the center and 120 hours at the morgue in April as punishment for taking a $2,500 necklace without permission.

Lohan later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge related to the necklace and served 35 days on house arrest.

It is Lohan's second time doing service at the morgue ? she initially completed a program there after a pair of drunken driving arrests in 2007. She has consistently struggled with completing the terms of her sentence.

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Clinton: Opportunity for new start in Libya

(AP) ? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is offering cautious optimism about the future of Libya now that interim leaders say former dictator Moammar Gadhafi is dead.

Clinton did not confirm reports of Gadhafi's death when asked about them during a trip to Pakistan on Thursday.

Meeting with a large delegation of U.S. and Pakistani national security leaders, Clinton would only say that if true the reports offer a "new opportunity for Libya to move forward to the future."

President Barack Obama is expected to comment about Gadhafi's death during a Rose Garden appearance Thursday afternoon.

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Samsung and Google unveil Galaxy Nexus smartphone

Google's top mobile executive Andy Rubin, left and J.K. Shin, president and head of mobile communications business from Samsung, hold the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone during the news conference in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd on Wednesday unveiled its Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first to use the latest version of Google's Android operating system. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Google's top mobile executive Andy Rubin, left and J.K. Shin, president and head of mobile communications business from Samsung, hold the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone during the news conference in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd on Wednesday unveiled its Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first to use the latest version of Google's Android operating system. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Google's top mobile executive Andy Rubin, left and J.K. Shin, president and head of mobile communications business from Samsung, hold the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone during the news conference in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd on Wednesday unveiled its Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first to use the latest version of Google's Android operating system. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Google's top mobile executive Andy Rubin, left, and J.K. Shin, president and head of mobile communications business from Samsung, hold the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone during the news conference in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd on Wednesday unveiled its Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first to use the latest version of Google's Android operating system. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Google's top mobile executive Andy Rubin, left, and J.K. Shin, president and head of mobile communications business from Samsung, hold the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone during the news conference in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd on Wednesday unveiled its Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first to use the latest version of Google's Android operating system. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

(AP) ? Samsung Electronics unveiled its newest Galaxy Nexus smartphone Wednesday, the first to use the latest version of Google's Android operating system.

The new phone is seen as the Samsung-Google partnership's answer to Apple's iPhone 4S, which in less than a week on the market has already sold more than 4 million units.

At a glitzy unveiling in Hong Kong, Google executive Andy Rubin said Android's latest "Ice Cream Sandwich" operating system demonstrates innovation "that works on phones and tablets and everything in between."

Rubin said features like Android Beam and Face Unlock showcased Ice Cream Sandwich's capabilities.

Android Beam allows transfer of data between two smartphones by holding them together, while Face Unlock uses facial recognition technology to activate smartphones, rather than conventional passwords.

However, during a demonstration at the Hong Kong unveiling, the Face Unlock feature failed to activate the Galaxy Nexus.

Executives of South Korea's Samsung said the Galaxy Nexus will go on sale in November in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including China and Japan. They did not reveal the new smartphone's price or its sales volume targets.

Samsung and Taiwan's HTC Corp. are the biggest users of the Android platform, which is engaged in a furious competition with Apple's own operating system for market share in the rapidly expanding smartphone sector.

The U.S. International Trade Commission issued an initial ruling Tuesday that Apple's iPhone does not violate four patents owned by HTC, a blow to the Taiwanese company.

On Monday, Samsung asked Japanese and Australian courts to block sales of Apple's new iPhone 4S in those countries over alleged patent violations. The actions are part of an intensifying patent battle between the smartphone giants.

Samsung is also appealing an Australian court's decision last week to temporarily ban sales of Samsung's new Galaxy tablet computer. Apple accused Samsung of copying the iPad and iPhone and violating Apple's patents.

Associated Press

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