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EU presses China to step up fight against fakes (AFP)
2 Sep 2010 at 10:19pm

A customer is reflected looking through the window of a shop selling fake branded mobile phones and MP3 players in Beijing. The European Union has said it would press China to back up its words with action and do more to stem the flow of Chinese-made counterfeit goods into Europe and around the world.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - The European Union said it would press China on Friday to back up its words with action and do more to stem the flow of Chinese-made counterfeit goods into Europe and around the world.



ICC charges Pakistan trio over betting scam (AFP)
2 Sep 2010 at 9:16pm

The International Cricket Council said Thursday it has provisionally suspended the three Pakistan players, including Salman Butt (right) seen here escorted by a policeman in central London, accused of involvement in a betting scam.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Cricket's world governing body charged three Pakistan stars with anti-corruption offences and provisionally suspended them, as the trio protested their innocence in an alleged betting scam.



Sharapova storms through at US Open (AFP)
2 Sep 2010 at 8:30pm

Maria Sharapova, pictured, has kept alive her hopes of a second US Open crown, four years after her first, with an impressive 6-1, 6-2 win over Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Maria Sharapova has kept alive her hopes of a second US Open crown, four years after her first, with an impressive 6-1, 6-2 win over Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic.



Dirty jokes and papal rosaries mix in Chile mine saga (Reuters)
2 Sep 2010 at 7:39pm
Reuters - Contact between 33 Chilean miners trapped for weeks underground and the outside world took an irreverent twist on Thursday, as the men passed dirty jokes to the surface -- and the Pope sent down blessed rosaries.

Verdict due in high-profile Portuguese abuse case (Reuters)
2 Sep 2010 at 6:00pm
Reuters - A Portuguese court will render its verdict Friday in one of the country's highest profile legal cases, a shocking story of alleged child abuse at a state orphanage that has gripped the nation for over half a decade.

New Russia wildfires kill 2 and consume homes (Reuters)
2 Sep 2010 at 4:13pm
Reuters - A new wave of wildfires swept through villages in southern Russia on Thursday, killing at least two people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials and news reports said.

Ex-US air base in Iceland considered for war games (AP)
2 Sep 2010 at 4:11pm
AP - Iceland's government began considering on Thursday a bid by a private military training company to base a fleet of fighter jets at an ex-U.S. air base for hired war game exercises.

Butt, Asif, Aamer charged by ICC (AFP)
2 Sep 2010 at 3:38pm

The International Cricket Council said Thursday it has provisionally suspended the three Pakistan players, including Salman Butt(R) seen here escorted by a policeman in central London, accused of involvement in a betting scam.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - The International Cricket Council said Thursday it has charged Pakistan's Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif with various offences under its anti-corruption code.



Summary Box: ECB raises eurozone growth forecast (AP)
2 Sep 2010 at 3:01pm
AP - OUTLOOK IMPROVES: The European Central Bank raised its growth projections for the 16-nation eurozone after better-than-expected economic news.

Animal rights group claims mass Greek mink release (AP)
2 Sep 2010 at 2:24pm
AP - An international animal rights activist group has claimed responsibility for releasing more than 50,000 minks from two fur farms in northern Greece.

Iran stoning lawyer reunited with family (AP)
2 Sep 2010 at 1:21pm

An undated photo of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani provided by Amnesty International. The son of Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, pleaded Thursday for Brazil to keep up its campaign to try to save his mother's life.(AFP/Amnesty International)AP - The lawyer who defended a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran was reunited with his family in Norway Thursday.



UN to release Congo 'genocide' report in October (AP)
2 Sep 2010 at 12:02pm
AP - A report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period won't be released until October, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Thursday, after Rwanda angrily protested the findings in a draft version.

Recovering bubbly in Baltic Sea, divers find beer (AP)
2 Sep 2010 at 11:08am
AP - Divers who found what's believed to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.

Paris mosque slams burger chain's Muslim outreach (AP)
2 Sep 2010 at 11:00am

Consumers queue at in fast-food chain restaurant which offer Halal burgers in Fleury Merogis, south of Paris, Wednesday, Sept.1 2010. Starting Wednesday, bacon burgers are a thing of the past in 22 outlets of French fast food chain Quick, where offerings are being tailored to meet the dietary needs of France's large Muslim community. The business decision to target an under-exploited market has unsettled some in France as the country debates what integration means and prepares to ban burqas. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Note to big companies hoping to tap into France's lucrative but long-neglected Muslim consumer market: Pitfalls may await, and not only in the form of complaints from the far-right.



Slovaks observe day of mourning after mass killing (AP)
2 Sep 2010 at 10:14am

A covered body lies on the ground on the street in the Devinska Nova Ves district of the capital Bratislava August 30, 2010. A gunman killed six members of a single family and then shot himself when cornered by policemen in the Slovak capital Bratislava on Monday, the country's police chief said. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner (Slovakia - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)AP - Slovakia is observing a national day of mourning after a deadly shooting rampage left eight people dead and wounded 15 others.
Report: Aide to U.K. PM linked to royal phone taps
2 Sep 2010 at 6:03am
Britain's government came under pressure Thursday amid allegations that a top prime ministerial aide was involved with a newspaper investigation into the royal family that involved illegally tapping cell phones. Email this Article Add to Newsvine Mobile phone - Newspaper - Government - Science and Technology - Cell Phones

Scotland announces minimum price for alcohol
2 Sep 2010 at 7:56am

A customer poses for the camera with a pint of beer in a public house in Leeds, northern England October 13, 2008. REUTERS/Nigel RoddisLONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scotland's government announced on Thursday that its planned minimum price for alcohol would be set at 45 pence per unit, meaning a bottle of wine would cost at least 4.23 pounds ($6.52) and a bottle of whisky 12.60 pounds.

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Dutch release Yemeni men held in terror probe
1 Sep 2010 at 6:50pm

A man is led away from a plane at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam Monday in this image taken from TV.  U.S. officials told NBC News that the two men arrested Monday are likely to go free.Two Yemeni men arrested on suspicion they may have been involved in an airline terrorism plot are released without charge when no evidence was found, Dutch prosecutors say.

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Dutch mother held, suspected of killing three babies
2 Sep 2010 at 2:18am
Dutch authorities have found two babies' bodies in the garden of a women arrested last week for killing another child, the prosecution service said on Thursday. Email this Article Add to Newsvine Dutch people - Netherlands - Business - Business Services - People

French debate: First it was burqas, now burgers
1 Sep 2010 at 1:40pm

Consumers queue at in fast-food chain restaurant which offer Halal burgers in Fleury Merogis, south of Paris, Wednesday, Sept.1 2010. Starting Wednesday, bacon burgers are a thing of the past in 22 outlets of French fast food chain Quick, where offerings are being tailored to meet the dietary needs of France's large Muslim community. The business decision to target an under-exploited market has unsettled some in France as the country debates what integration means and prepares to ban burqas. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)The bacon is gone from the bacon burgers, replaced by smoked turkey. At a fast food restaurant outside Paris, a new certificate on the wall proclaims that its beef comes from cows slaughtered in line with Islamic law.

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World Blog: Tony Blair's kiss-and-tell memoir a smacker
1 Sep 2010 at 11:00am
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Blair memoir: ‘I can’t regret’ going to war
1 Sep 2010 at 6:37am

Tony Blair stepped down in June 2007 after a decade that included a historic peace accord in Northern Ireland, the deeply unpopular war in Iraq and the continuing conflict in Afghanistan.The former British prime minister reveals in his new book that he started to drink more while in office,  his relationship with the Royals in the aftermath of Princess Diana's death and his emotion over the most divisive decision of his career — supporting the invasion of Iraq.

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'European bookies not involved in Lord's Test spot-fixing scam'
2 Sep 2010 at 8:10am
The body that monitors betting patterns in Europe has said that none of the bookmakers that it regulates were involved in the Lord's Test 'spot-fixing' scandal.

Pak, Holland to play charity hockey match for flood victims
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
The Netherlands will host a charity hockey match on September 14 to raise funds for Pakistan flood victims. This match will be played between Pakistan and Holland. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has extended its full support to the event.

Hindus tell Europe to find another "scapegoat" instead of Roma
2 Sep 2010 at 5:20am
Hindus have asked Europe to select another scapegoat in place of Roma (Gypsies) to blame for their ills and instead work on ending apartheid faced by them for longtime.

Carlos' 1997 'greatest ever free kick' was not a fluke, say physicists
2 Sep 2010 at 3:40am
Physicists have revealed that Brazilian Roberto Carlos's 1997 free kick-dubbed the greatest free kick-against France was not a fluke.

Book on 'secret lovers' of Carla Bruni set to release in France
2 Sep 2010 at 2:10am
A controversial new book which will give insight on "secret life and lovers" of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is all set to be published in France this month.

Netherlands releases American Yemeni terror suspects
2 Sep 2010 at 1:10am
Prosecuting authorities in The Netherlands have released the two American Yemenis, who were arrested on suspicion of being involved in a terrorist plot, as an investigation failed to find any evidence against them.

Germans transfixed by 'racist' banker
2 Sep 2010 at 8:16pm
Sarrazin at the launch of his book 'Germany is abolishing itself'. (AP) Germany's central bank called on Thursday on the country's president to fire one of its board members after he called immigran...

British PM backs minister over 'malicious' rumours
2 Sep 2010 at 8:16pm
William Hague and his wife Ffion on their wedding day in 1997. (Getty) British Prime Minister David Cameron backed his foreign secretary William Hague after an aide resigned over "malicious&quo...

Hushovd takes sprint victory
2 Sep 2010 at 8:16pm
Norwegian Thor Hushovd of the Cervelo Test team celebrates as he crosses the finish line first. (Getty Images) MURCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Norwegian sprinter Thor Hushovd hung on during a tough climb ...

Capello looks to fresh start
2 Sep 2010 at 8:16pm
England coach Fabio Capello. (AAP) WATFORD, England (Reuters) - England coach Fabio Capello hardly looked Thursday like someone supposedly hanging on by the thread of two Euro 2012 qualifiers.

feud that's got France flummoxed
2 Sep 2010 at 8:02pm
The French actress Juliette Binoche, known for her sweetness on and off screen, has gently savaged the actor Gérard Depardieu for publicly questioning her talent. In an interview with an Austrian...

Two dead as new fires destroy homes in Russia
2 Sep 2010 at 7:56pm
Russia have left at least two people dead and injured more than a dozen others as some 500 buildings went up in flames near Volgograd and Saratov.President

Fears Grow Over Global Food Supply After Russia Moves
2 Sep 2010 at 7:53pm
Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban on Thursday, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent o...

New Zealand beats France 82-70 at worlds
2 Sep 2010 at 7:40pm
IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Kirk Penney scored 25 points to help New Zealand surge into the knockout round of the basketball world championship with an 82-70 win over France on Thursday.

Germany supports Ireland's crisis measures
2 Sep 2010 at 7:39pm
DEREK SCALLY and HARRY McGEETHE GERMAN foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, expressed the confidence of Germany in the measures taken by the Irish Government to address the economic crisis.He also cal...
John Brewin previews an under pressure Fabio Capello's first test...
2 Sep 2010 at 10:37pm
Fabio Capello insists he is not nursing a sense of grievance that Chelsea duo John Terry and Frank Lampard have both pulled out of England's crucial Euro 2012 opener against Bulgaria tomorrow.

We pick out the First XI mid-season signings from days gone by after a dull d...
2 Sep 2010 at 10:33pm
Transfer deadline day left Soccernet hankering for the halcyon days when clubs could do deals right through until March.

Teddy bears ward off - evil eye' in Albania
2 Sep 2010 at 10:28pm
A weather-beaten teddy bear hangs from the front of Izet Sina's home. But this tattered old toy is no abandoned plaything.

France and Italy take Euro road to redemption
2 Sep 2010 at 10:24pm
LONDON: France and Italy, still raw from their World Cup embarrassments, start afresh on Friday when with new coaches they begin qualifying for the 2012 European championship against Belarus and Estonia respectively.

Phony Princess Di hawks undies
2 Sep 2010 at 10:19pm
A Chinese lingerie company used a Princess Diana lookalike to launch an undergarment line on the anniversary of her death, prompting criticism from Britons.

Germany's central bank decides to sack board member
2 Sep 2010 at 10:17pm
Bundesbank to ask German president to dismiss Thilo Sarrazin over comments on country's Muslim population Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin.

Laurent Fignon Obituary
2 Sep 2010 at 10:16pm
The DP pays tribute to the two time winner of the Tour de France who passed away Tuesday 31st August aged 50.

German foreign minister on Malta visit
2 Sep 2010 at 10:12pm
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Darren Fletcher to silence his critics
2 Sep 2010 at 10:08pm
FOR years Darren Fletcher had to listen to Manchester United fans ask why he strutted his stuff with Scotland but could not turn it on at Old Trafford.

Naismith named in Scotland side
2 Sep 2010 at 10:07pm
Steven Naismith will start for Scotland in their opening Euro 2012 opener against Lithuania as Craig Levein left James McFadden out of his first competitive line-up. Lee McCulloch was also handed a start ahead of Paul Hartley in midfield while Alan Hutton has overcome fitness doubts to take his place at right-back. Davie Weir will partner Stephen ...

Colonel Gaddafi may be paid by EU to stop immigration
2 Sep 2010 at 10:07pm
... accused of 'extortion' earlier this week after calling for 4.1billion a year from the EU to stop immigration 'turning Europe black'. But astonishingly, EU officials confirmed yesterday his proposal is being taken seriously. Matthew Newman, EU ...

Andrew Sheridan swaps strum for scrum
2 Sep 2010 at 10:02pm
ANDREW SHERIDAN is not your average rugby player. True, he is big and strong as the stereotype demands, and when the mood takes him he can deliver a snarling line in bone-cracking aggression.

The Osprey's defend title
2 Sep 2010 at 10:02pm
... the Ospreys' previous success in 2007. Leinster and Munster have been the powerhouses of Celtic rugby, especially in Europe, but the overdue rise of the Scots for club and country and the addition of two well-funded Italian sides bring a welcome ...

Thursday Update - Derby Defend Hulse Sale...
2 Sep 2010 at 10:02pm
Or of course, feel free to simply read the various QPR and football-only discussions.

German Central Bank wants board member removed over race comments
2 Sep 2010 at 8:58pm
Germany's Central Bank has initiated proceedings to remove one of its board members, Thilo Sarrazin, for controversial remarks he made on race and immigration.
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