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AFP - World number one Tiger Woods was chosen by Corey Pavin as one of the four captain’s picks for the US Ryder Cup team on Tuesday.
Woods was named as a wildcard pick along with Zach …

AFP – European powerhouse Germany received a blow Tuesday as orders for its industrial goods unexpectedly dropped significantly in July, following a strong rise the month before, official data showed.
Industrial orders fell by 2.2 percent …

AFP – Charley Hoffman fired a nine-under 62 to win the Deutsche Bank Championship by five strokes Monday as Tiger Woods held onto his world number one ranking.
American Hoffman rolled in 11 birdies, including four …

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 …

AFP – A top Belgian politician warned the country’s citizens on Sunday to “get ready for the break-up of Belgium,” as King Albert II seeks to relaunch knife-edge coalition talks.
Leading francophone Socialist Laurette Onkelinx, considered …

AFP – The 33 men trapped deep below ground in a Chilean mine face a grim milestone Sunday — a month since the cave-in that stranded them — as officials warn it could take …

AFP – French Open runner-up Robin Soderling moved closer to a possible US Open quarter-final showdown with Roger Federer by reaching the fourth round with a straight-set victory on Saturday.
The Swedish fifth seed, who ended …

AFP – Anti-terror police were on high alert in Pakistan on Saturday ahead of mass burials for the victims of a suicide bomber who killed at least 57 people at a Shiite Muslim rally.
The bomber …

AFP – Philippine President Benigno Aquino’s taking responsibility for a hostage crisis which left eight Hong Kong tourists dead will not absolve other officials if they are found culpable, a spokesman said Saturday.
Aquino said Friday …

AFP – Italy survived a scare as they came back from a goal down to escape from Tallinn with a 2-1 victory over Estonia in Euro 2012 qualifying Group C on Friday.
Sergei Zenjov had given …

AFP – British police were expected on Friday to quiz the three banned Pakistan cricketers embroiled in an alleged betting scam as the sport’s world governing body was to explain their charges against them.
Test captain …

As the war of words over expulsions of Roma from France escalates, the leader of France’s Socialist Party (PS) has been accused of hypocrisy for herself demanding the dismantling of a gypsy camp at Lille …

AFP – An Afghan official said Thursday that 10 election campaigners had been killed in an airstrike by international forces in the relatively peaceful north of the country.
Two other people, including a candidate in the …

AFP - US ninth seed Andy Roddick made a shocking second-round exit from the US Open on Wednesday with Serbia’s 44th-ranked Janko Tipsarevic firing 66 winners in a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) victory.
Roddick, whose lone …

AFP – Police on Wednesday searched the home of France’s richest woman in the latest twist in an ongoing scandal rocking President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government, a source close to the enquiry said.
   
The search was …

 
From September 1st, the Rio de Janeiro-based daily Jornal do Brasil – one of the oldest and most eminent newspapers in South America – will only exist on the Internet. The newspaper printed its last …