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REUTERS - Two late goals helped France bounce back from a woeful start to Euro 2012 qualifying with a 2-0 win in Bosnia on Friday.
Les Bleus, on the receiving end of a shock 1-0 home defeat …

AFP – It was only this week that Colombia’s pint-sized Edward Nino was on top of the world, named the Guinness Book’s smallest man on the planet. Now a tiny Nepalese teen is about to …

AFP – US President Barack Obama unveils plans Monday to spend at least 50 billion dollars to expand and renew US roads, railways and airports, in a fresh bid to fire up sluggish economic growth.
Obama, …

AFP – Interactive graphic on Basque separatist group ETA as the Spanish government rejects a ceasefire as totally inadequate.

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AFP – US President Barack Obama unveils plans Monday to spend at least 50 billion dollars to expand and renew US roads, railways and airports, in a fresh bid to fire up sluggish economic growth.
Obama, …

AFP – The senior Commonwealth Games Federation official in New Delhi has warned that essential safety certificates have still not been handed over for the athletes’ village and some sports venues.
The Games open in the …

REUTERS – The man for all occasions, Roger Federer provided a masterful demonstration of skill and precision in gale-force winds to breeze into the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Saturday.
 
On a day when …

Fashion trends may come and go, in jewelry as in clothing and hairstyles, but just as in those arenas, there are some elements that never seem to go out of style. In fact, they get …

AFP – Captain Ricky Ponting said Saturday he was concerned Australia’s revamped domestic one day format would hamper the World Cup preparations of players on the fringe of the national team.
Ponting said he would also …

AFP – British oil giant BP has spent eight billion dollars to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed.
Robotic submarines recorded the delicate …

President Nicolas Sarkozy was elected on a campaign promise to clean up politics and put an end to the murky dealings that had tarnished the image of the French state under his predecessors, François Mitterrand …

AFP – Liverpool forward Fernando Torres scored a brace as world champions Spain began their European title defence with a convincing 4-0 win over Liechtenstein on Friday in their opening Group I qualifier for the …

AFP – A car packed with explosives rammed into a police station in northern Tajikistan on Friday, triggering a powerful blast that injured at least 25 people, interior ministry officials said.
“A passenger car packed with …

AFP – Yemeni authorities have arrested nine people, including a suspected local Al-Qaeda leader implicated in armed attacks in the south of the country, the defence ministry news website said on Friday.
Salah Ali Abdullah al-Damani, …

AFP – Mohammed Zaidi works with a jumble of cables in one of the apartments built at breakneck speed for athletes who will compete at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in one month’s time.
“We’re …

AFP – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference on Thursday appealed to Muslims everywhere to direct their zakat tithes to relief for flood-wracked Pakistan.
The Jeddah-based pan-Islamic organisation, together with the OIC-sponsored International Islamic Fiqh Academy, …