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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Even the most banal question is met with an amusing and thought-provoking response from Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, the two quipsters behind \"Flight of the Conchords.\"",
"Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie are a struggling musical duo in \"Flight of the Conchords.\"",
"\"What's your favorite color?\"",
"went an innocuous query.",
"\"Transparent,\" replied Clement.",
"\"Umm ... bluish-red,\" said McKenzie.",
"Wait, isn't that ... purple?",
"No matter. Absurd comedy comes as easily to the duo as useless advice flows from Murray, their always-dressed-in-brown band manager (played by Rhys Darby) on their hit HBO program.",
"Five minutes in an elevator, a hallway, or an interview room with Clement and McKenzie, and a scene worthy of inclusion on the show effortlessly unfolds.",
"Watch the group talk about the price of fame » .",
"Of course the native New Zealanders possess more smarts than their on-screen personas, two scrappy, clueless musicians trying -- and failing miserably -- to break into the music business in New York City.",
"But the resemblance is as clear as the giant, idolizing blue eyes of their lone fan, Mel (Kristen Schaal).",
"\"Most of the stories are based on things that happened to us,\" says McKenzie.",
"\"We take one element, and then we kind of exaggerate it or twist it.\"",
"Consider the series' second episode of the new season (which started earlier this month), where Bret and Jemaine squabbled over Bret's \"extravagant\" purchase of a new coffee mug (it cost $2.79).",
"Could a similar scenario have played out when the pair lived together as university students in their homeland more than 10 years ago?",
"\"We were very poor,\" recalls Clement.",
"\"Sometimes in our flat we would have so little money that we were trying to think of schemes, like how can we make some money today so that we can have some dinner.\"",
"With the economy taking a turn for the worst in recent months, \"Flight of the Conchords\" now seems more relevant.",
"\"We basically never set out to have the show be a credit crunch show,\" says co-executive producer and co-creator James Bobin.",
"\"But it seems the world has caught up with us.\"",
"And CNN caught up with Clement and McKenzie (Bobin, too) to talk about writing silly songs, the sweet tooth of success and to find out why Aussies -- such as CNN's interviewer -- are always in the cross hairs.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN: The show is a big hit around the world.",
"Do you consider yourselves worthy cultural ambassadors for New Zealand?",
"Jemaine Clement: I think in some ways our characters are typical of New Zealanders.",
"New Zealand has a reputation as being one of the most boring peoples of the world.",
"You don't know of that? CNN: I wouldn't agree with that. Bret McKenzie: Friendly.",
"I think they're famous for being friendly.",
"Clement: Well, I've heard boring.",
"CNN: As an Australian, I would like to know why you make fun of Australians so much.",
"McKenzie: Because we find them funny.",
"Clement: We've toured in Australia and ... it always struck me when we went out to lunch with people how many times we would be made fun of because of our accents.",
"So we stored up all that resentment and we waited years ... McKenzie: And unleashed it.",
"Clement: We're giving it back to the Australians who made fun of us.",
"CNN: James, what is it like to work with these two?",
"James Bobin: It's a pleasure, obviously.",
"We've been friends for years now. ...",
"The show's incredibly hard work because obviously we do music and comedy at the same time and that's quite a challenge.",
"But they're both very hardworking so it makes it easy.",
"CNN: What's it like on set?",
"I imagine when the cameras start rolling that a lot of what happens is improvised.",
"Bobin: To a certain degree, yeah.",
"We have a script that we like ... so we obviously try to nail that first.",
"And from that position we just play with it a little bit and see where we go.",
"Especially with Rhys, because Rhys is such a brilliant improviser and these guys and Rhys do so well together in those scenes in the band meetings.",
"Often they go way off script.",
"Clement: Yeah, we try and write the script with parts that we know we can improvise off.",
"So we leave some things open-ended.",
"McKenzie: It's between 17 and 18 percent improvised.",
"Clement: But this interview is a hundred percent.",
"CNN: A lot of the musical numbers from the first season you had in stock before you even made the TV show ... Clement: The songs in the second season are not worse than the songs in the first season.",
"CNN: That wasn't going to be my question!",
"How challenging was it to come up with a whole new set of songs?",
"Clement: Well, I think that was the fun part of the show because playing music is fun.",
"Bobin: Also, we had some stories in mind so this time round we could write songs to fit with the stories -- which was kind of nice because last year it was a bit harder to squeeze the songs into a storyline.",
"It just made for very strange situations.",
"Clement: Yeah, and having the songs in the beginning sometimes leads to boring storylines because all the songs are about girls.",
"So when we have a whole lot of storylines about girls our episodes have to be about girls.",
"So we could go off that a bit this time.",
"CNN: How confident are you both in your abilities as musicians?",
"McKenzie: 24 to 27 percent.",
"Clement: I'm 24.",
"He's 27. McKenzie: Combined we're mediocre.",
"CNN: How are you enjoying the fame that's come from the success?",
"McKenzie: Oh it's lovely.",
"You get free desserts.",
"CNN: Just free desserts?",
"McKenzie: Free drinks.",
"Sometimes some free shoes.",
"Clement: Sometimes people invade your privacy.",
"McKenzie: Strangers talk to you.",
"Clement: But balanced against the free desserts, it evens out.",
"CNN: Have you encountered any Mel-like fans?",
"McKenzie: A lot of fans like to come up and say they're the real Mel.",
"Or \"you've actually got two fans.\"",
"CNN: Did you know someone who was like Murray?",
"Is he based on a friend or a stereotype?",
"Clement: In some ways, our real manager in New Zealand.",
"McKenzie: She's very maternal.",
"I think Murray's quite a maternal figure.",
"Clement: She gives us lists that are overly detailed.",
"And when we were going to a new country she'd be very worried for our safety.",
"Not that long ago Tenacious D [Jack Black's band] came to New Zealand and we were asked to open for them, and she didn't know who they were, even though they're the biggest musical comedy act ever.",
"And that carries through to Murray.",
"CNN: How surprised were you by the success of the show?",
"McKenzie: I'm surprised by the diversity of the fans.",
"Like there are people who are our age, which makes sense, and then there are people in their 70s who love the show.",
"And then there are children who love the show.",
"There's a scene in the show where I watch television in a box.",
"I get a box sent over from New Zealand.",
"And my friend's son, he watches TV sitting in a box.",
"And he's 9. It's great. HBO, like CNN, is a unit of Time Warner."
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"(CNN) -- Penn State has hired a new permanent coach to head its embattled football program, with the team's quarterback saying that he and other players are \"excited\" for a \"fresh start.\"",
"Matt McGinn told CNN affiliate WBRE that he hopes the selection of New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien will help \"erase some of the things that have happened in the past year.\"",
"\"It should be exciting for everyone,\" said McGinn, acknowledging that some Penn State alumni have voiced dissatisfaction with the move since O'Brien didn't attend the State College school.",
"\"The most important thing is that the players are happy.\"",
"O'Brien replaces interim coach Tom Bradley and, more significantly, iconic former coach Joe Paterno.",
"Paterno was fired by school trustees last fall, days after his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was arrested and accused of sexually abusing young boys over a 14-year period.",
"That includes a 2002 incident.",
"Former Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary has testified that he saw Sandusky possibly sodomizing a boy, saying that what he saw was \"extremely sexual in nature.\"",
"He told Paterno, who told then-athletic director Tim Curley, according to a grand jury report.",
"Law enforcement authorities, however, didn't become aware of that allegation until years later.",
"According to his biography on Patriots.com, the NFL team's official website, the Nittany Lions' new football coach grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended Brown University.",
"He began his coaching career at that Ivy League school, before going on to take jobs at Georgia Tech, Maryland and Duke.",
"He joined the Patriots in 2007 as a coaching assistant, rapidly rising up the ranks in the subsequent years.",
"\"The Penn State football program has a great legacy and has contributed enormously to our university community,\" said university President Rodney A. Erickson.",
"\"A program of this caliber requires a special kind of leader -- a leader who will embrace that legacy and maintain the university's commitment to excellence on the field and in the classroom.",
"We have that leader in Coach O'Brien, and I look forward to working with him in his new role.\""
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"Bill O'Brien is hired at Penn State's next football coach .",
"The team's quarterback says \"players are happy\" and the hire is \"exciting\"\nLast fall, Penn State trustees fired legendary coach Joe Paterno .",
"This followed ex-coach Jerry Sandusky's being charged with sexually abusing boys ."
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"(EW.com) -- Brad Pitt is set to join the cast of the West Coast premiere reading of 8, the play penned by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) that follows the legal fight to overturn Proposition 8, the California law that outlawed gay marriage.",
"Pitt will play United States District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who found Prop 8 unconstitutional after presiding over the 12-day public trial.",
"He joins a cast that includes George Clooney and Martin Sheen (as the plaintiff's lead co-counsel), Christine Lahti and Jamie Lee Curtis (as a lesbian couple), Matthew Morrison and Matt Bomer (as a gay couple), as well as Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Campbell Brown, Chris Colfer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cleve Jones, Rory O'Malley, George Takei, Yeardley Smith, Vanessa Garcia, Jansen Panatierre, James Pickens, Jr., and Bridger Zadina.",
"The American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact also announced that the performance will be streamed live on YouTube at 7:45 p.m. PT on Saturday, March 3, with a pre-show airing at 7:30.",
"Director Rob Reiner recorded a video explaining the play and inviting people to watch the live stream, which can be viewed here.",
"\"At long last each and every American will be able to see for themselves what happens when prejudice and fear are put on trial in a court of law,\" said AFER board president Chad Griffin in a statement.",
"\"For over two years, the anti-marriage proponents of Proposition 8 have fought tooth and nail to hide their discriminatory arguments from the American people.",
"But on Saturday night, thanks to YouTube and our incredible cast, people across the nation, from Los Angeles to Little Rock to Baltimore, will get to watch as our Constitution's promise of liberty and equality for all is protected.\"",
"The show first premiered on Broadway in September (with cast members like Morgan Freeman, John Lithgow and Ellen Barkin) and is set to tour nationally throughout 2012, although the A-list stars attached to the West Coast reading are not expected to remain with the play.",
"See the full article at EW.com."
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"London (CNN) -- Voice mails left by Paul McCartney for his then-girlfriend Heather Mills were illegally accessed and heard by a former employee of a major British newspaper group, Mills told an independent investigation into press ethics Thursday.",
"The former Beatle left about 25 messages for her one night in 2001, including one where he sang to her, as he tried to make up with her after a quarrel, she said.",
"\"One of them said, 'Please forgive me,' and he sang a little ditty of one of his songs onto the voice mail,\" said Mills.",
"The former Trinity Mirror group employee later phoned her and said he had heard her voice mail.",
"She responded angrily, she testified before the Leveson Inquiry, saying there was no way he could have heard the message unless he had obtained it illegally.",
"Mills said the man laughed, and she said she told him: \"I promise you, if you report this story, even if it's true, you have obtained the information illegally, and I will do something about it.\"",
"\"And he never reported the story,\" she added.",
"The inquiry is not releasing the name of the person who heard the message because he is under police investigation, said Robert Jay, the chief counsel to the Inquiry.",
"But it was not a Daily Mirror journalist or anyone working under the supervision of its then-editor, Piers Morgan, Jay said.",
"Morgan now hosts a CNN talk show, \"Piers Morgan Tonight.\"",
"The voice mail in question was a critical point when Morgan testified in December before the Leveson Inquiry.",
"The probe was set up in response to widespread anger in Britain at the revelation that a murdered 13-year-old girl's phone was hacked by journalists in search of stories -- and that many other crime and terror victims, politicians and celebrities had also been targeted.",
"Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid has been the focus of much of the anger, and Murdoch's son James ordered it shut down over the scandal.",
"But accusations have been leveled against other newspapers as well, including the Daily Mirror.",
"Testifying in December, Morgan said he did not believe phone hacking had taken place when he was editor of the tabloid, prompting Jay to follow up: \"You don't believe so or you are sure?\"",
"\"I don't believe so,\" Morgan responded by video link.",
"Jay pressed Morgan particularly hard about his having written in 2006 that he had heard a message McCartney left for Mills, trying to make up after a quarrel and singing to her.",
"Morgan refused to say who played the message for him or where, but he admitted under sustained questioning that he believed it was a voice mail.",
"\"Did you know that was unethical?\"",
"Jay demanded.",
"\"Not unethical, no. It doesn't necessarily follow that it was unethical,\" Morgan said, insisting he would not \"go down a trail that will lead to the identification of a source.\"",
"On Thursday, Mills said she had never authorized Morgan to access her voice mail or to listen to a recording of it.",
"\"Never, ever,\" she said.",
"She said she had never made a recording of any of the messages.",
"\"No, no. They were deleted pretty much straight away,\" she said.",
"Brian Leveson, the judge leading the inquiry, intervened to ask if she had ever authorized anyone to listen to her voice mail.",
"\"No,\" she said. Mills and McCartney divorced in 2008.",
"Morgan has said in the past that he has never hacked a voice mail and vigorously denied ever ordering phone hacking.",
"Morgan said Thursday, \"I have nothing further to add to the evidence I gave to the Leveson Inquiry.\"",
"The publisher of the defunct News of the World paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds Wednesday to settle lawsuits over phone hacking from celebrities and politicians, including former Tony Blair spokesman Alastair Campbell.",
"Piers Morgan is a former editor the News of the World, but left in 1995 -- about seven years before the Milly Dowler hacking -- and went to the Mirror, which he edited until 2004.",
"With Wednesday's settlements, News Group Newspapers has settled 59 of the 60 lawsuits against it.",
"But former child singing star Charlotte Church, who has testified publicly about the damage phone hacking did to her personal life, has refused to settle.",
"Her case is expected to go to court as soon as this month.",
"In addition to the Leveson Inquiry, police are carrying out three separate investigations into elements of the scandal: phone hacking, e-mail hacking, and police bribery.",
"Two parliamentary committees are also investigating the scandal.",
"Both James and Rupert Murdoch, as well as senior executives at News International, have testified before British lawmakers examining allegations of wrongdoing.",
"There have been 13 arrests in connection with Operation Elveden, the Metropolitan Police investigation into bribery of police officers by journalists.",
"There have been 17 arrests in relation to Operation Weeting, the phone-hacking inquiry.",
"Three people have been arrested in connection with both investigations.",
"No one has been charged.",
"CNN's Laura Smith-Spark and Jonathan Wald contributed to this story."
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"Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- A grassroots activist, a head of state and a symbol of the Arab Spring.",
"Three women -- two who struggled in an African nation plagued by bloody civil war and a third who stood up to absolute dictatorship -- were bestowed with the Nobel Peace Prize Saturday.",
"That the three of them shared the coveted prize was unusual.",
"That all three are women was unprecedented.",
"As was the conversation that followed with CNN.",
"Punctured with the gravity of the unspeakable cruelty women have endured in Liberia and Yemen and with the humor that can come only from women who have led the battle to end it, the conversation reflected the indomitable spirit for which the Nobel was awarded.",
"\"Beyond fighting for our individual countries, we are fighting for the emancipation of women and girls,\" said Leymah Gbowee.",
"This was no token prize.",
"\"We worked very, very hard for this.",
"It's been a long time coming,\" Gbowee said.",
"Women's rights take center stage at ceremony .",
"This was no prize given out of sympathy, either, added Tawakkul Karman, the first Arab woman to win the honor.",
"\"We deserve it,\" she said to thundering applause in the same room where hours before she accepted her medal and diploma.",
"\"It's recognition that women can do a lot.\"",
"And Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first female head of state, said it was still harder for women to achieve what men can.",
"That has not changed. \"Let's face it, in a way, women are stronger than men,\" she said to laughter.",
"The women have much in common, they agreed.",
"But each has their own tale set against a backdrop of injustice and violence.",
"For most of the 1990s, Liberia meant bloodshed, a maelstrom of violence that bled across its borders and where, child soldiers became killers and warlords became presidents.",
"Charles Taylor bludgeoned his way into power in 1997 and many, sadly, predicted perpetual conflict in the West African nation.",
"No one figured that it would be Liberia's women who would be the ones to stand up to Taylor.",
"Gbowee, a trauma counselor, led them by the thousands.",
"They dressed in stark white T-shirts and demanded an end to the violence against them.",
"\"When you find yourself at a place where there seems to be no hope, you find yourself at a place you are destitute, you find yourself at a place where you are angry -- you have two options,\" Gbowee said.",
"You either pick up a gun or you try to do something different, she said.",
"She chose the latter.",
"The women threatened curses on Liberia's men, organized sex strikes and sit-ins to shame them.",
"Gbowee even threatened to shed her clothes as a gesture to show how her dignity had been stripped.",
"\"It was the women in white looking Charles Taylor in the eye,\" she said.",
"Gbowee supposes that many others are deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize for their roles in securing peace in Liberia.",
"But they were mostly people in positions of authority; people who had the power to implement change, she said.",
"But the women she led were ordinary citizens who had nothing in hand.",
"\"The story of the Liberian women is a typical Cinderella story,\" she said.",
"The women braved death to pray for peace.",
"Their movement found a powerful ally in Johnson-Sirleaf, a former finance minister and champion for women's rights who also wanted to an end to the war and its perpetrators punished.",
"When she became president, her challenge was daunting: to bring Liberia back from the abyss.",
"But she brought with her something new for her people: Hope, where there had only been despair.",
"Days before the Nobel presentation, Johnson-Sirleaf was re-elected to office after a runoff vote.",
"She will serve another six-year term.",
"Would she consider herself a success if after her six years, there is peace in Liberia even if little else has been accomplished?",
"\"Definitely. I am already a success,\" she said of the economic strides Liberia has taken.",
"But there will be more than peace, she hopes.",
"She promises progress.",
"There will be lights where streets were dark, running water where there were only buckets.",
"Education, health and all the things that make a nation great.",
"\"We will make Liberia a post-conflict success story,\" she said.",
"\"I am certain of it.\" On another continent, on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, Karman, also dreamed big.",
"As President of Women Journalists Without Chains, a group campaigning for press freedom, she was a voice of protest long before the Arab Spring took root in Yemen.",
"This year, she came to be known as Yemen's mother of the revolution.",
"By late January, the 32-year-old mother of three children was out on the streets of Sanaa, rallying protesters to call for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.",
"She was threatened repeatedly and detained.",
"But that didn't stop her. Yemeni women, inspired by her courage, followed Karman's lead and called openly for change, a daring act of defiance in the conservative Islamic country.",
"Saturday, she was asked if Yemen was perhaps the worst place on earth for women.",
"She replied: \"It's the worst place to be human.",
"We believe our freedom will come through freedom for all of society.\"",
"Saleh has stepped down but not relinquished power, she said.",
"And he will never leave Yemen on his own accord.",
"She took the Nobel interview opportunity to ask the world to step up pressure on Saleh as they had done on Moammar Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad.",
"She did not want the killings and injuries of 28,000 Yemenis to be in vain.",
"Saleh, is a liar, she said.",
"\"And he will continue lying.\"",
"She said she wouldn't mind running for president herself.",
"Will there be a free and fair election in Yemen?",
"\"Do we have this opportunity? Please ask this to the American administration?\"",
"she said. But one thing she was sure of.",
"\"If I will run, I will win,\" she said.",
"\"And I will take more than 90 (percent of the vote).\"",
"It was that confidence, that courage that had brought her and her two fellow laureates to the Oslo's celebratory stage.",
"For them, the Nobel was hardly a finality, but another beginning.",
"CNN's Jonathan Mann reported from Oslo, Norway, and Moni Basu from Atlanta.",
"CNN's David McKenzie and Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Captain Michael Clarke insisted team success was more important than individual landmarks after his record-breaking 329 not out helped Australia strengthen their grip on the second Test against India on Thursday.",
"Clarke's career-best knock was the highest in the Sydney Cricket Ground's history, with the hosts eventually declaring on 659 for the loss of four wickets.",
"He was five runs short of the second-highest total by an Australian, held by Don Bradman and Mark Taylor, and in sight of Brian Lara's world record of 400.",
"\"I'm stoked that I've managed to make 300-odd runs but the most important thing for me is that we win the Test,\" the 30-year-old told Cricket Australia's official website at the end of day three.",
"\"That was a big part of the reason for my declaration ...",
"I didn't think about it (the records) at all.",
"It was about getting the team to a number, a total.",
"\"I didn't expect to score 300 runs in one innings.",
"All the other records ... well, I'm happy where I sit.\"",
"Clarke is the sixth Australian to hit a triple century, with Matthew Hayden's 380 the leading score.",
"The middle-order batsman was ably assisted by veteran Michael Hussey as the 36-year-old reached 150 not out on a day when Australia lost no wickets.",
"\"Once 'Huss' got 150 we had a 450-run lead, I thought it's a good time to pull up stumps and try to get a couple of wickets tonight,\" said Clarke.",
"India reached 114-2 at the start of their second innings, ending the day 354 runs behind Australia's huge total with two days to play.",
"\"There's nothing to lose, in the sense that we're so far behind now,\" India batsman Rahul Dravid conceded.",
"\"Everyone's got to go out and play and not even think about drawing the game or anything like that.",
"\"Just go out there and look to play, just bat as long as you can and who knows.",
"I think the key obviously for us is to keep them on the field for long periods of time.\"",
"The tourists lost Virender Sehwag for four runs when he was caught by David Warner off the fast bowling of Ben Hilfenhaus.",
"Dravid, the second highest run scorer in Tests behind teammate Sachin Tendulkar, was also dismissed by Hilfenhaus for 29.",
"Opener Gautam Gambhir remained at the crease on 68, with Tendulkar on eight as he continued his quest for a 100th century in international cricket.",
"Australia lead the four-match series 1-0, after victory in the opening Test in Melbourne.",
"Meanwhile, South Africa took 12 wickets as they continued to dominate on day three of the decisive third Test against Sri Lanka in Cape Town.",
"Sri Lanka started the day 431 runs behind South Africa, but added just 90 for their last eight first-innings wickets.",
"Fast-bowling duo Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander ripped into Sri Lanka's batting line-up, with South Africa able to enforce the follow -on after the tourists could only make 239 in response to the hosts 580.",
"South Africa kept up the pressure at the start of the second innings, with Mark Boucher catching opener Tillakaratne Dilshan off the bowling of Philander to leave Sri Lanka struggling on 12-1.",
"Sri Lanka then lost Lahiru Thirimanne for 30 and wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara for 34, before first-innings hero Jacques Kallis caught Mahela Jayawardene to hand Morkel the final wicket of the day's play.",
"Sri Lanka were 138-4 at the close of play, leaving South Africa with a healthy lead of 203 and two days to take the six wickets they need to wrap up a 2-1 series win."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A 15-year-old girl allegedly tortured by her in-laws in Afghanistan after she refused to be forced into prostitution is not doing well in hospital, aid workers say.",
"Sahar Gul was rescued by police last month in the country's northern Baghlan province after she was locked in the basement of her in-laws' house, starved and her nails pulled out.",
"She is safe, but signs of the abuse she's suffered remain all too clear, said Wazhma Frogh of the Afghan Women's Network.",
"Sahar is too weak to move her body, which has black bruise marks all over from being beaten, and the nurses gave her diapers because she can't get to the toilet, Frogh said.",
"The girl's eyes are bruised and she can't speak.",
"Her hair was also cut short by her in-laws as a punishment after she refused to sleep with other men.",
"A photograph provided by the Afghan Women's Network shows her asleep in a hospital bed, the bruising on her face obvious and her head bandaged.",
"The mental trauma she suffered is also affecting her, and is under medication to help her deal with it, Frogh said.",
"\"We've also provided her with a trauma counselor because she is very traumatized and even when I wanted to take her hand, she resisted,\" despite being unconscious, Frogh said.",
"Because the teenager was beaten and assaulted, she added, \"now she doesn't want anyone to even touch her.\"",
"Last month, authorities in Baghlan said they rescued the girl after hearing reports that she was tortured after she refused to be forced into prostitution.",
"But, they said, they were waiting for her to fully recover to talk to her and learn more.",
"Sahar was married off to a 30-year-old man about seven months ago.",
"After her parents reported not seeing her for months, police launched their investigation, Baghlan police official Jawid Basharat said at the time.",
"Meanwhile, Sahar's father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law have been arrested but her husband -- who Frogh said is thought to be a soldier serving in Helmand province -- has not been caught.",
"The Women's Network is determined to do its best to ensure she gets the care she needs -- but Frogh warned that her recovery won't be easy.",
"\"She needs proper food, proper care that our government's hospitals don't have, therefore we have been collecting donations to provide to the hospital to buy her good food, clothing and other basic needs,\" she said.",
"\"We also have to think of her shelter once she is back into normal life, which is going to take some months.\"",
"At the same time, the Women's Network has found a lawyer for Sahar and has persuaded the Afghan authorities to move the investigation to Kabul, where there will be less influence from the local community, Frogh said.",
"It has also contacted the attorney general to appeal for a faster investigation before the girl's in-laws are released from custody.",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for the abuse to be \"seriously investigated,\" his office said in a statement Sunday.",
"CNN's Masoud Popalzai contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Europe regained the Solheim Cup with a 15-13 victory over the United States at Killeen Castle in Ireland Sunday.",
"With the scores tied 8-8 going into the concluding 12 singles matches, a close finish always looked likely and the outcome boiled down to the last three matches on course.",
"Norway's Suzann Pettersen led the European fight back as she came down from one down with three to play to beat Michelle Wie by one hole.",
"At the culmination of a superb match, Pettersen holed an eight-foot birdie putt on the final green to tip the match in Europe's favor.",
"In the second last singles, Caroline Hedwall, two down with two to play against Ryann O'Toole, won the last two holes for a vital half point, which effectively sealed the European triumph, their players running onto the 18th green to celebrate.",
"With Azahara Munoz one up with one to play against Angela Stanford, it meant Europe had an unassailable one-point lead.",
"After the green cleared, Stanford played a superb approach to within a few feet, but both putts were conceded to hand Munoz a 1up victory.",
"The United States, who had won the last three editions of the biennial team competition, suffered an early blow when Cristie Kerr was forced to withdraw from her final singles match against Karen Stupples with an injured wrist.",
"Kerr was left in tears at the concession of a point which was to prove crucial.",
"Catriona Matthew gave Europe early impetus with a 6 and 5 victory over Paula Creamer in the top singles and Sophie Gustafson added a second point for the home side with a final green win over Stacy Lewis.",
"Brittany Lang and Morgan Pressel, with her fourth win in four, put the United States back on to the front foot and the match between veterans Juli Inkster and Laura Davies ended all square.",
"Christina Kim of the United States beat fellow rookie Maria Hjorth, while American Vicky Hurst beat Melissa Reid by two holes and Europe's Christel Boeljon overcame Brittany Lincicome by the same margin to set up the exciting finale with the scores then tied 12 1/2 - 12 1/2.",
"Europe captain Alison Nicholas was leading her team to the fourth victory in 12 contests and they will defend the trophy at Colorado Golf Club in 2013.",
"\"My team played with such heart and passion.",
"The rookies were fantastic and the experienced players have done so well.",
"They are all champions,\" Nicholas told Sky Sports."
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"Match tips Europe's way in last three singles matches with Suzann Pettersen leading way .",
"Swede beats Michelle Wie on final hole after trailing with three holes remaining .",
"Cristie Kerr of United States has to concede match against Karen Stupples through injury ."
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"(CNN) -- Diego Forlan grabbed two goals as Uruguay thrashed Paraguay 3-0 in Buenos Aires to secure a record 15th Copa America title.",
"The striker, who plays for Spanish club Atletico Madrid, struck in each half to become Uruguay's joint highest scorer in history after Liverpool forward Luis Suarez had broken the deadlock after only 11 minutes.",
"It marked Uruguay's first Copa America triumph since 1995 and they can now boast one more title than hosts Argentina, who they beat in the quarterfinal.",
"In a one-sided final at the Estadio Monumental, Uruguay almost took the lead in the third minute when Diego Lugano's header was blocked on the line by Paraguay keeper Justo Villar.",
"But just eight minutes later Suarez found the net and notched his fourth goal of the tournament.",
"Collecting a ball inside the area Suarez brought it down and cut inside on his left to fire a shot into the bottom corner, via a slight deflection off defender Dario Veron.",
"Suarez put Forlan through on goal just after the half hour mark but Villar made a crucial save to keep the deficit at just one goal.",
"But he could do nothing four minutes before halftime as Egidio Arevalo Rios robbed Nestor Ortigoza of possession and teed up Forlan who made no mistake with a powerful drive.",
"Paraguay tried to force the pace in the second half and hit the crossbar after Nelson Valdez's shot was tipped onto the woodwork by Uruguay goalkeeper Nestor Muslera.",
"But Paraguay's threat faded after that and they were thankful to another fine save from Villar to prevent Sebastian Eguren putting the game beyond doubt.",
"That feat was left to Forlan who finished a fine breakaway move in the dying seconds as he finished smartly following Suarez's precise header and pulled level with Hector Scarone as Uruguay's all time leading goalscorer on 31."
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"Uruguay seal the Copa America title after crushing Paraguay 3-0 .",
"Diego Forlan grabs two goals and Luis Suarez one as Uruguay record a comfortable win .",
"Uruguay now have a record 15 Copa America titles, one more than Argentina .",
"It is their first Copa America victory since 1995 ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- July 14, 2011 .",
"Download a PDF map related to today's show: .",
"• Atlanta, Georgia .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: That airplane means it's time for a new summer edition of CNN Student News!",
"Hi, everyone.",
"I'm Tomeka Jones.",
"And this week, we're focusing on connections; specifically, Career Connections!",
"Career Connections: Recruiter .",
"JONES: That's the name of a segment we debuted this past school year.",
"The goal of Career Connections is to give you guys a look at some of the different jobs around CNN.",
"But first, we want to look at jobs in general.",
"You definitely want to take notes for this!",
"Candice McLemore is here to give us some career advice from a recruiter's perspective.",
"Hi, Candice, thank you so much for joining us!",
"CANDICE MCLEMORE, PROFESSIONAL RECRUITER, TURNER BROADCASTING, INC.: Thanks for having me.",
"JONES: First question: What exactly does a recruiter do?",
"MCLEMORE: A recruiter basically has the role of finding qualified and talented employees for a company.",
"JONES: Can you share with our audience, which is a middle and high school audience, a few dos and some don'ts on how to put together a resume?",
"MCLEMORE: Sure.",
"I would say in terms of dos, first of all, pick a very simple format.",
"You don't have to get elaborate; you don't want to use a lot of different fonts or colors or fancy items on your resume.",
"You want somebody to be able to view it very quickly and to understand what your skills and your qualifications are.",
"And secondly, in terms of the content, I would say really think about what are the qualities and qualifications that you have.",
"Certainly you can list job duties that you've had at previous companies, but you also want to think outside the box in terms of accomplishments as well.",
"Did you solve a particular problem?",
"Did you win an award? Were you on a particular dean's list or things like that?",
"Try to think about other accomplishments that you can encompass, and then also other involvement that you've had outside of the work world as well.",
"So, think about volunteer organizations that you've been a part of.",
"And then also, certainly, any technical systems or software, things like that, that you may know how to use, even if you've used it in your personal space and not professionally.",
"If it's a skill that you have, you should include that on your resume.",
"JONES: OK, my last question: speaking to that middle or high school student, what tips and tricks maybe you can provide for them to get ahead of the competition?",
"MCLEMORE: I would say for them to get ahead of the competition, to really get involved either in their school, in organizations or on their campuses when they go off to college.",
"One of the things that our company looks for for our interns is people who are really passionate about what we do, but have also put that in to practice in any way that they can.",
"So, if they want to be a publicist, they're on the PR committee for their student organization, or their sorority or whatever it may be.",
"They're not just going to classes.",
"They're doing more and taking more time to get exposure in any way that they can, even in their extracurricular activities.",
"Career Connections Advice .",
"JONES: Don't put away that pen and paper yet!",
"A few CNN professionals also have some great advice to share.",
"They talked about their jobs in Career Connections segments last school year.",
"If you missed those reports, go to CNNStudentNews.com to check them out.",
"In the meantime, here's what those employees had to say about how to get a jump start on your career.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) SUMMER SULEIMAN, CNN VIDEO JOURNALIST: It's definitely OK not knowing exactly what you want to do and saying \"this is what I want to be in ten years.\"",
"The best part is the journey there allows you to experience and try different things until you find what really works for you.",
"MONIQUE SMITH, CNN PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: The advice that I would give is if your school has a broadcasting program, make sure you are in that program.",
"Find out what your passion is, because whenever you find out something that you really feel strongly about and you have a good background in it, whatever you decide to do it won't feel like work.",
"It will just feel like something that you're doing for fun because you're interested in it.",
"JAMES CURRY, CNN INTERNATIONAL PRODUCER: One of the best pieces of advice I was given is treat every job like you're running for political office.",
"That doesn't mean go shake hands and kiss babies and all that kind of stuff.",
"It just means get your name out there, let people know you're interested and pursue it, and don't stop.",
"STEPHANIE TODD, CNN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Being proactive, I think, in any field is the way to go, and having ideas and not being afraid to speak out and being confident in yourself.",
"You shouldn't get discouraged by if someone gives you some sort of criticism or critique or feedback.",
"You just have to know that you believe in yourself and you've done your best.",
"JOE CARTER, HLN ANCHOR/REPORTER: You have to have passion in everything you do.",
"Doesn't matter if it's at work or at home or at school, you have to have passion.",
"You have to come with energy and excitement.",
"Persistence, because there is another person willing to take it from you if you don't keep pushing forward.",
"Patience, which is it doesn't all come at the beginning.",
"It takes time, actually, to get where you want to be.",
"It doesn't happen overnight.",
"And positioning, so every day you wake up you've got to think about how you can better yourself for tomorrow.",
"AMBER LYON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A lesson to everybody, whether you're a journalist or any other type of career, is be willing to take risks.",
"Because if you're truly passionate about it, follow your passion and success will follow.",
"It will pay off in the end. (END VIDEO) Blog Report .",
"JONES: So, are you connecting with any specific career yet?",
"We asked you guys that question on our blog last year.",
"Some of you may have changed your minds, and that's okay.",
"But here's what a few of you had to say then. Caitlin said she wants to be a second grade teacher.",
"She says it's easy for her to learn about this career.",
"All she has to do is observe her current teachers.",
"Coleton dreams of becoming an archeologist so he can make important discoveries.",
"On the other hand, Tyler said he wants to be a kid a little longer and do the stuff as a kid he won't do as an adult.",
"He said sometimes you have to slow down.",
"Kassandra and Olivia have something in common: they both want to be veterinarians when they get older.",
"And Gavin believes that no matter how young you are, it is never a bad idea to give some thought to your possible profession.",
"He says in these economic times, good jobs are hard to find.",
"Blog Promo .",
"JONES: Some of you might be spending your summer working.",
"Well, whether you're interning with a company or just plain old having fun, we want you to tell us about it!",
"There are two ways you can do it: write on our blog or send in a video.",
"You have to at least be 13 to do that. You can do both at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Goodbye . JONES: We've finished the job for now, but we're already working on our next summer show.",
"Be sure to recruit your friends to tune in next week.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Tomeka Jones."
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"Get some tips from CNN professionals on jump starting your career ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The United Nations has established more than a thousand health clinics across Pakistan in the wake of widespread flooding, a U.N. official said.",
"\"Almost 1,200 mobile health clinics are operating across Pakistan,\" said Maurizio Giuliano with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.",
"\"For many people, this is the only way to receive health care.\"",
"Water-borne illnesses from contaminated flood waters have erupted nationwide.",
"At least 1 million Pakistanis have crippling diarrhea or respiratory infections.",
"About 65,000 cases of malaria have been reported.",
"\"More than 2 million people have received health care through this system, especially for diarrhea diseases, acute respiratory infections, skin and eye disease,\" he said.",
"\"These clinics reach even the remotest areas with teams sometimes walking for six hours and carrying 20 kilograms [44 pounds] of medical supplies on their backs.\"",
"The death toll in the country has climbed to 1,738, the Pakistan Disaster Authority said over the weekend.",
"Officials said last week that 17 million have been affected nationwide.",
"The death toll is expected to rise significantly as flood waters continue to recede and more bodies surface.",
"Pakistani flood victims face perilous journey home .",
"On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a presidential order authorizing emergency funds to Pakistan's flood victims, the White House said.",
"The president said the use of the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund was in the United States' interest.",
"Up to $33 million can go toward the country's crisis.",
"The United Nations warned that a crisis is building in the eastern province of Balochistan, where nearly 2 million people are affected.",
"There is a \"humanitarian tragedy\" with immediate threats of water-borne diseases and food shortages, said Mengeshe Kebede, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' representative to Pakistan.",
"\"We need to scale up our activities in the province, or else I think we are heading for a major humanitarian disaster there,\" Kebede said.",
"\"I have worked in humanitarian situations globally, and worked in refugee camps in Africa during emergencies, but to be honest I had never seen a situation as devastating as I saw in Balochistan,\" he said.",
"CNN's Samson Desta contributed to this story."
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"At least 17 million people have been affected by the flooding .",
"At least 1 million Pakistanis have crippling diarrhea or respiratory infections ."
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"(CNN) -- Pakistan are through to the semifinals of the Cricket World Cup after crushing West Indies by 10 wickets in a one-sided last eight clash in Dhaka, Bangladesh.",
"Captain and leg-spinner Shahid Afridi inspired his Pakistan side to a superb fielding display, after the West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.",
"Afridi recorded figures of four wickets for 30 runs as the Windies crashed to just 112 all out in 44 overs -- their third-lowest score in World Cup history.",
"Off-spinners Mohammad Hafeez and Saeed Ajmal also took two wickets apiece with only veteran batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul managing to hold firm against the Pakistan spin demons, making 44 not out from 106 deliveries.",
"In reply, Hameez (61) and Kamran Akmal (47) cruised to the target with more than 29 overs to spare -- guiding Pakistan to their first World Cup semifinal since 1999.",
"At one stage, West Indies were in danger of making their lowest-ever World Cup total, when struggling on 71-8.",
"However, a 40-run partnership between Kemar Roach and Chanderpaul helped them better their worse score of 93 against Kenya in 1996.",
"Meanwhile, Australian captain Ricky Ponting has denied media reports that he is set to quit international cricket.",
"The International Cricket Council (ICC) official website reported Ponting as saying: \"I have never ever thought about retirement or where the finish line might be.",
"\"I've been trying to prepare myself as best I can as a player and lead the team as well as possible.",
"For some reason, these retirement things keep popping up all the time.",
"\"We've got a big game coming up against India that I'm looking forward to, and more importantly I'm looking forward to getting out there and performing well as a player.\"",
"Australia will face India in an explosive-looking quarterfinal showdown in Ahmedabad on Thursday."
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"Pakistan cruise through to the semfinals of the Cricket World Cup in Dhaka .",
"They win by 10 wickets after bowling West Indies out for a dismal score of 112 .",
"It is the third-lowest World Cup score in West Indies cricket history .",
"Australian captain Ricky Ponting denies media reports that he is quitting internationals ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- Pakistan's prime minister, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, arrived in India Wednesday to watch a Cricket World Cup match between the two archrival teams as the nuclear neighbors try to repair ties wounded by the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai.",
"\"We all must enjoy cricket,\" Gilani told reporters after landing at Chandigarh, near Punjab's Mohali city, which is hosting the semifinal between India and Pakistan.",
"The Pakistani leader was watching the high-pitched match with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh, who had invited him last week to Wednesday's game.",
"The South Asian rivals, which have fought three wars since the blood-soaked partition of the Asian subcontinent in 1947, have in the past too used cricket as a platform to ease relations.",
"When cricket means more than just a match .",
"In 2005, Singh and then-Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf saw a cricket match at a New Delhi stadium.",
"In 1987, Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq attended a similar game in Jaipur.",
"Gilani's visit came a day after his country agreed in principle to allow a tour by an Indian commission in connection with the investigations into the Mumbai assault blamed on Pakistani militant groups.",
"In their talks Tuesday in New Delhi, Indian and Pakistani home secretaries also pledged to set up a \"hotline\" on terror threats.",
"\"Both sides agreed to set up a hotline between (the) home secretary of India and (the) interior secretary of Pakistan to facilitate real-time information-sharing with respect to terrorist threats,\" said a joint statement issued at the end of their talks.",
"More than 160 people were killed in the November 2008 siege of Mumbai that derailed a fragile peace process between the two nations.",
"According to the joint statement, India also promised to host a Pakistani judicial panel to study the trial proceedings related to the case.",
"\"Dates for the visit of the judicial commission from Pakistan in connection with (the) Mumbai attack trial will be conveyed by India within four (to) six weeks,\" the statement read.",
"A Mumbai court has imposed a death sentence on Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving Pakistani gunman from the three-day terror siege of the city.",
"Kasab's lawyers say their client plans to challenge the sentence in India's supreme court in New Delhi.",
"In their discussions, Indian home secretary Pillai briefed the Pakistani side on his country's investigations into a deadly bombing of a Pakistan-bound train, about 80 kilometers from New Delhi, four years ago.",
"Some Hindu nationalists are now the key suspects in the 2007 firebombing on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express train that left 68 passengers dead.",
"The attack was initially believed to be the work of Islamist militants.",
"\"Both sides reiterated their commitment to fight terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and reaffirmed the need to bring those responsible for such crimes to justice,\" the statement said."
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"Several times in the past cricket has been used to ease tensions between the two nations .",
"The relationship between the two nation was frayed by the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai .",
"More than 160 people were killed in the siege of Mumbai which is blamed on Pakistani militants ."
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"(CNN) -- Two big piles of cash, one at a grave site and another at a home, have been recovered by Pittsburgh police and are believed to be part of the $2 million an armored truck driver allegedly stole after killing his partner.",
"Kenneth Konias Jr. remains on the run after he allegedly shot Michael Haines in the head last month, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation who declined to be named.",
"About $24,000 was found at Konias' grandmother's grave site on Wednesday, the source said.",
"More than $200,000 was found at his home Tuesday.",
"Konias is believed to be in possession of at least three handguns and is thought to be within the United States, said Pittsburgh Police Commander Thomas Stangrecki.",
"An FBI task force is participating in the hunt, employing social media to tap into a wider audience and gather information.",
"According to the criminal complaint, a witness heard a gunshot coming from an armored truck carrying deposits around 1 p.m.",
"ET on February 28.",
"Surveillance video shows the vehicle in the parking lot where the shot was overheard.",
"The truck was later discovered under a Pittsburgh bridge by the company's employees and two police detectives.",
"Haines was found dead inside, authorities said.",
"Authorities say Konias called a friend and his mother in the minutes after the shooting.",
"\"I f***ed up,\" Konias told his friend, according to the criminal complaint.",
"\"My life is over.\" Pressed to explain, Konias admitted he had killed someone, according to the complaint.",
"CNN can not independently verify the account.",
"His mother, Renee Konias, told police that she had received a \"strange call\" from her son, less than an hour after the shooting, asking to speak to his father, but she informed him that he would have to call the house to reach him.",
"Police said that when his mother attempted to call him back, Konias answered once and hung up abruptly and then did not answer at all.",
"His cell phone was later recovered by police.",
"According to the complaint, Konias' father said he saw his son drop off a blood-spattered work jacket at his home.",
"Konias is accused of criminal homicide, theft of the victim's gun and robbery of the cash inside the armored vehicle.",
"The armored truck company, Garda Cash Logistics, is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of Konias.",
"He was last seen driving a champagne-colored 2006 Ford Explorer with Pennsylvania license plate GZW-4572.",
"Police say the man should be considered armed and dangerous and are asking anyone with information to call the Pittsburgh Homicide Office at 412-323-7161 or to call 911.",
"CNN's Mary Snow contributed to this report ."
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"Kenneth Konias Jr. remains on the run, suspected in slaying .",
"About $24,000 was found at Konias' grandmother's grave site .",
"More than $200,000 was found at his home Tuesday .",
"Konias, who drove an armored truck, is accused of shooting his partner ."
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"(CNN) -- The turboprop plane that crashed in New York state, killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground, was one of the safest and most sophisticated aircraft of its type, according to an aviation industry expert.",
"Scandinavian Airlines grounded its fleet of Dash 8 Q400 planes after three crash landings in 2007.",
"The Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 was less than one year old and had flown for only about 1,500 hours, said Kieran Daly, of the online aviation news service Air Transport Intelligence.",
"The Continental Connection Flight 3407 was operated by Colgan Air between Newark Liberty International Airport and Buffalo.",
"Daly said propeller-driven aircraft such as the Canadian-built Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 and its European rival, the ATR series, had sold well to airlines in the last three years because they were almost as fast as jets, cruising at about 480 kilometers/hour (300 mph), but used much less fuel.",
"Listen to audio of plane's last moments » .",
"However, despite an excellent safety record, some passengers were still wary of traveling on propeller planes, he said.",
"Daly said that for most of the time turboprops were as safe as similar-sized, 50-seater jets, but in icy conditions turboprops were at a disadvantage.",
"Stressing that the cause of Thursday's crash in near Buffalo was still unclear and could be caused by mechanical failure for example, he said the potential for ice was there because it was short and the plane would have been flying at a relatively low level.",
"Watch what iReporter captured on film .",
"Daly said the pilot appeared not to have reported problems with icing, but this was not unusual because planes were designed to cope with these conditions.",
"\"All aircraft have de-icing system: a big jet like a 747 can cope with ice almost indefinitely, but smaller planes, especially propeller planes can experience problems,\" he said.",
"\"Pilots cope by increasing altitude -- icing mainly occurs at lower levels -- but because propeller-driven planes are slower, they take longer to reach high altitude and spend longer in the icy conditions.\"",
"According to the National Weather Service weather observation for Buffalo, there was light snow, fog and mist shortly before 10 p.m. Watch more on the plane crash » .",
"CNN has listened to a tape of communications between air traffic control and the flight crew.",
"The first officer had no sign of stress in her voice initially.",
"The plane was cleared for approach.",
"About two minutes later, the air traffic controller came back, with stress in his voice.",
"Radar contact was lost.",
"Watch report from witness: \"All I saw was flames\" » .",
"The question went out: Can other planes see anything?",
"No one responds.",
"The controller says they might have a plane down.",
"The pilot's last comment was \"Colgan Flight 3407.\"",
"There were no sounds of distress.",
"Watch video from CNN affiliate WGRZ » .",
"Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) permanently grounded its fleet of Dash 8s after three crash landings during a two-month period in 2007 that were blamed on the aircraft's landing gear.",
"\"Confidence in the Q400 has diminished considerably and our customers are becoming increasingly doubtful about flying in this type of aircraft,\" Mats Jansson, president and CEO of SAS, said at the time.",
"\"I have decided to immediately remove Dash 8 Q400 aircraft from service.\"",
"Air expert Daly said though that in Thursday's crash the landing gear of the Continental plane was unlikely to be down because it was far from the airport.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board said early Friday it was preparing to send a team to Buffalo to investigate the crash.",
"Thursday's plane crash is the deadliest on U.S. soil since August 2006 when Comair Flight 5191 crashed when it attempted to take off from the wrong runway."
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"Air expert: Turboprop plane that crashed in New York one of safest of its type Officials say all 49 aboard the plane died; one confirmed death on ground .",
"Canadian-built Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 under year old, had flown 1,500 hours ."
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"(CNN) -- It's an oval-shaped, bitter tasting leaf that makes you chatty after chewing it, while inducing a feeling of euphoria and alertness.",
"The East African plant khat, a mild narcotic, has been chewed for centuries by people in the Horn of Africa and parts of the Middle East for its stimulating effects.",
"The green leaf is central to cultural and social activities for many communities across the area and key to the economic survival of thousands of khat farmers who grow it legally.",
"In recent years, high demand for the herbal stimulant by the Somali diaspora -- despite it being illegal in several western countries, including the U.S. -- has helped open up a booming industry in fertile parts of Kenya, such as the Meru county.",
"But now the livelihood of these farmers is under threat after the Netherlands, which has a vibrant Somali community and is a key khat hub to other European countries, announced a ban on all imports of the plant in January.",
"Until now, the Netherlands and Britain were the only major European countries allowing the trade and consumption of the flowering shrub.",
"\"If the ban is accepted or if it is enforced, the whole Meru county, the economy of the Meru county will be crippled,\" says Kenyan khat farmer Edward Mutuura, who exports the majority of his crops to the Nertherlands.",
"\"The economy of the population here where khat is grown will be totally crippled and people will have no source of income,\" he adds.",
"Read also: Agriculture's 'critical role' in Africa's future .",
"The Dutch government cited health concerns as well as social and economic reasons for the prohibition of khat.",
"According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, khat can induce manic behaviors, hyperactivity and hallucinations while chronic abuse can result in symptoms such as physical exhaustion, violence and suicidal depression.",
"However, some observers believe that the ban, which is expected to start later this year, has been imposed after suggestions of purported links between the international khat trade and the funding of terrorist groups like Al Shabaab -- a claim Dutch officials deny.",
"\"There are legitimate businesses whose end product may end up in the hands of Al Shabaab, yet if governments resort to banning these businesses then it hurts the ultimate owners of these businesses,\" says analyst Emmanuel Kisiangani of the Institute of Security Studies.",
"\"I think it is a tricky situation, it is a precarious balancing act -- governments need to think of mechanisms that ensure that these legitimate businesses don't end up benefiting these terrorist organizations.\"",
"Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controls much of southern Somalia and is active around the capital Mogadishu, has been battling the country's weak transitional government for years.",
"Read also: Somali women defy danger to write basketball history .",
"A recent U.N. report said the terrorist group, which has connections to al Qaeda, gets funds by taxing the khat exported to Somalia.",
"Analysts believe that the khat trade in Europe may be following a similar pattern.",
"They say some of the businessmen in Europe who act as middlemen to khat exporters and farmers could be sending the money back to Al Shabaab.",
"\"So, ultimately, the contributors are doing this in good faith but the end result is that you have people with wrong motives along and in between who take these resources, this money, and channel it to terror organizations,\" says Kisiangani.",
"Somalia analysts Jessica Lincoln and Frans Barnard say the use of international khat trade to fund militant activities has long been suspected by intelligence agencies but evidence is difficult to prove and remains circumstantial.",
"They note that the Dutch ban has been driven by health, socio-economic and local political factors, along with a tougher stance on \"softer\" drugs, but add that this needs to be balanced against the security context of Somalia and the increasing prominence of Al Shabaab in recent years.",
"\"This is of course a huge concern for the international community in their anti-terrorist operations so any suggested links to the funding of terrorist activities will demand movement for cessation of such activities or pressure to regulate,\" says Lincoln of Rubicon Resolution.",
"Olle Schmidt, a Swedish member of the European parliament who's been raising the issue of the drug's detrimental social and health effects for many years, says that several security services have admitted that there might be a link between Al Shabaab and illegal khat trade but it is very difficult to track the cash generated by the trade and ultimately know who the end receivers are.",
"\"They can follow the money to Dubai and then further into Somalia but then they really don't know,\" he says.",
"In the UK, anti-khat campaigner Abukar Awale says that Al Shabaab targets vulnerable young addicts in the British-Somali community for recruitment.",
"He says that parts of the multimillion dollar khat trade is being controlled by people \"who are very sympathetic to Al Shabaab\" and calls on the UK government to follow the Netherlands' example and ban the drug.",
"\"In my opinion, by allowing khat to be legal, Britain is providing tools, manpower and resources to Al Shabaab,\" he says.",
"Read also: Somali militants target addicts in UK's 'khat cafes' But back in Meru county, the khat farmers who are separated from the end user and any regulation further down the chain say that banning khat could kill off the region's economic future.",
"\"Khat farming is the heart of the economy of this place,\" says Mutuura.",
"\"We cannot educate our children without khat -- if we don't have khat to sell, this means our economy is grounded.\"",
"With the Kenyan government having entered talks with the Dutch government to reverse the ban on khat, the farmers hope the talks will bear fruit or their livelihood will be plucked away.",
"\"This is only what we know in our life, nothing more,\" says Mutuura."
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"Khat is plant that once chewed gives a mellow high to its consumer .",
"It's been consumed for centuries by people in the Horn of Africa and parts of the Middle East .",
"Farmers in Kenya have been hit by a Dutch ban on imports of khat .",
"Some analysts say there are purported links between the khat trade and terrorist funding ."
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"(CNN) -- Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as president of soccer's world governing body and immediately vowed to put \"FIFA's ship back on the right course in clear, transparent waters.\"",
"At FIFA's Congress in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday, Blatter received 186 votes from football's 208 member football associations, to serve his fourth term as president despite the race becoming engulfed by corruption allegations within the organization.",
"Blatter's only rival for the presidency, Mohamed Bin Hammam, pulled out of the race after he was suspended by FIFA's Ethics Committee on Sunday in relation to bribery charges surrounding Qatar's successful bid for the 2022 World Cup.",
"PR guru Max Clifford: How to rescue FIFA .",
"After Blatter's re-election was confirmed he told Congress: \"I thank you for your trust and confidence.",
"Our pyramid is intact, the base, the foundation is strong and together we have four years to continue on our path and do our job.",
"\"We will put FIFA's ship back on the right course in clear, transparent waters.",
"We need some time to do it, but we shall do it.",
"\"Today something marvelous happened and I'd simply like to tell you I'm deeply moved and honored.",
"It's a challenge, a new one for me, and I accept it.",
"Together we shall do it.\"",
"Was Blatter right to be defiant?",
"Earlier in the day, 172 of the 208 delegates voted not to delay the presidential ballot despite Blatter being the only candidate.",
"Both the football associations of England and Scotland urged FIFA not to proceed following the suspension of Bin Hammam.",
"After the result was confirmed, FIFA voted through changes proposed by Blatter to alter the process they use to decide the host nations for future World Cups.",
"\"I want to give more power to the national associations,\" he said.",
"\"In the future the World Cup will be decided by the FIFA Congress.",
"The executive committee will create a shortlist -- but will make no recommendations only a list -- and the congress will decide on the venue.\"",
"Russia and Qatar were chosen for the 2018 and 2022 events -- ahead of Spain and Portugal and the United States respectively -- in a controversial vote held in December last year which saw two executive committee members suspended for breaching \"ethical codes.\"",
"England missed out on the 2018 World Cup and had called for the ballot to be delayed.",
"\"This has been a very damaging time for the reputation of FIFA and therefore the whole of football,\" said David Bernstein, chairman of the English Football Association.",
"The Scottish Football Association echoed the call.",
"\"The events of the last two days, in particular, have made any election unworkable,\" SFA head Stewart Reagan said in a statement.",
"Never mind Saint Sepp, the system is to blame .",
"Despite Blatter's re-election, the fallout from the corruption scandal persists.",
"He admitted that the suspension of Bin Hammam, as well as FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, had hurt his organization.",
"\"I am the captain weathering the storm, this is a difficult period for FIFA and I admit that readily.",
"Not only is the pyramid shaking but our ship has drawn some water.",
"\"We must do something because I do not want ever again that we face this undignified situation.\"",
"On Wednesday, the head of the German Football Federation said FIFA's awarding of the World Cup to Qatar should be re-examined in the wake of the ethics scandal.",
"\"Especially regarding the awarding of the World Cup 2022 to Qatar, there has been repeated speculation and corruption allegations,\" Theo Zwanziger said in an interview posted on the league's web site Wednesday.",
"\"From what I am reading, I have to believe that there are substantial allegations that we cannot ignore or shove aside.",
"And therefore I must believe that the awarding of this world cup must be re examined.",
"\"How this is to happen is something I would only like to talk about when I know more about the facts.",
"I am coming from the outside and was not a member of the executive back then,\" he added.",
"Zwanziger joins a growing chorus of voices critical of FIFA as the election loomed.",
"But Zwanziger said the soccer body should not postpone Wednesday's election, a view that was shared by other powerful football organizations.",
"Podcast: Is FIFA relevant to U.S. soccer fans?",
"Sponsors of international soccer including Visa, Coca-Cola and Adidas have warned that the ethics scandal is hurting the sport.",
"\"The current situation is clearly not good for the game,\" a Visa spokesman told CNN Tuesday, echoing comments from other companies that pay to have their logos at the World Cup and other major soccer events.",
"The Visa spokesman declined to be named.",
"\"The negative tenor of the public debate around FIFA at the moment is neither good for football nor for FIFA,\" Adidas chief communications officer Jan Runau said.",
"Sponsor Emirates airlines said it was \"disappointed\" by the \"issues around the administration\" of FIFA, and Coca-Cola said Monday that the ethics allegations were \"distressing and bad for the sport.\"",
"The concerns came as Blatter shrugged off corruption allegations within FIFA and said he would press ahead with his bid to be re-elected.",
"Blatter said Monday night that the organization was not in crisis after the FIFA ethics committee suspended top officials Jack Warner and Mohamed Bin Hammam.",
"The latter was the only contender against Blatter for the presidency.",
"Bin Hammam was a major influence in Qatar's surprising victory in winning the right to host the 2022 World Cup finals.",
"He and Warner have been accused of offering cash gifts to national associations in return for pro-Bin Hammam votes in the presidential election.",
"Warner and Bin Hammam both deny wrongdoing.",
"FIFA is the body that decides where soccer's quadrennial World Cup will be held, among other responsibilities.",
"CNN's David Wilkinson, Ben Wyatt, James Montague, Frederik Pleitgen and Aaron Akin contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Sepp Blatter re-elected as president of FIFA for a fourth term .",
"Blatter, the only candidate, receives 186 votes from FIFA's 208 delegates .",
"The Swiss vows to put the FIFA ship back into 'clear and transparent waters'\nFIFA vote to change the process used to decide World Cup host nations ."
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"(CNN) -- Keegan Bradley beat fellow American Jason Dufner in a three-hole playoff to win the U.S. PGA Championship in Atlanta Sunday.",
"The 25-year-old from Vermont finished one-under-par over the 16th, 17th and 18th holes at the Atlanta Athletic Club to hold off Dufner by a shot and claim his first major title.",
"He is the seventh first-time major winner in a row, a record, and the first player from the United States since Phil Mickelson at the Masters in 2010 to lay claim to one of golf's majors.",
"Bradley, a rookie in his first season on the PGA Tour, found his victory hard to take in, particularly as he was playing in a major for the first time, his place sealed by claiming the Byron Nelson Championship back in May.",
"\"I can't believe it,\" he said.",
"\"I feel so proud.\"",
"When Bradley, who is the nephew of LPGA legend Pat Bradley, triple-bogeyed the 15th in regular play, his chances looked over.",
"He trailed Dufner, who was 11-under, by five shots with just four holes to play.",
"But as Dufner proceeded to card three careless bogeys in a row, Bradley birdied the 16th and 17th and parred the treacherous 18th to set the clubhouse target on eight-under 272 after a 68.",
"Dufner bravely holed out for a par on the 18th for a 69 to force the playoff but was immediately behind, as Bradley birdied the 16th.",
"When Dufner bogeyed the 17th to fall two shots behind his challenge looked over, but he rattled home a birdie putt on the last to force Bradley to two-putt for par and a remarkable victory.",
"Dane Anders Hansen powered through the field on the last day for a 66 to finish third on seven-under-par.",
"Fellow Scandinavian Robert Karlsson of Sweden looked a possible winner as he got to eight-under, but a run of three bogeys dropped him into a tie for fourth with 2001 PGA winner David Toms and another American, Scott Verplank, on five under.",
"English pair Luke Donald and Lee Westwood, respectively No.",
"1 and No. 2 in the world, both threatened on the final day, but mistakes cost them dear on the back nine, as they shared eighth on three-under, a shot behind last week's WGC Bridgestone winner Adam Scott of Australia.",
"Brendan Steele, who started the day as joint overnight leader with Dufner, fell away with a 77 and ended in a large group on level par, which included Mickelson."
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"Keegan Bradley beats Jason Dufner in playoff to win U.S. PGA Championship .",
"Bradley and Dufner finish eight-under-par in regulation play in Atlanta .",
"Bradley is seventh first-time major winner in a row .",
"Anders Hansen of Denmark finishes third a shot behind ."
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"(CNN) -- Roger Federer finally clinched his first Paris Masters crown Sunday after a straight-sets victory over Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.",
"The world number four took just one hour and 26 minutes to record a 6-1 7-6 win and collect his 18th Masters Series trophy.",
"Federer has 16 grand slam titles to his name, including the French Open in 2009, but had never previously made the final of the hard-court tournament in Paris.",
"And the 30-year-old made light work of the opening set, saving two early break points before racing into a 5-0 lead, eventually wrapping it up in just half an hour.",
"But the second set was a far closer affair as Tsonga forced his way back into the match and took it to a tie break.",
"But Federer snuffed out any hope of a deciding set with an emphatic 7-3 win to move into second place on the all-time Masters Series titles list with 18, one behind Rafael Nadal.",
"\"I'm just really ecstatic to have played so well this week from start to finish,\" Federer told the ATP Tour's official website.",
"\"Basically from first ball struck against (Adrian) Mannarino all the way until the very end here.",
"I couldn't be more happy. \"I have had many attempts trying to win Paris Bercy, and for some reason, I wasn't able to win it earlier.",
"But this one obviously feels great and it's a special victory.\"",
"It was Federer's 69th career title from 99 finals and he will now take a 12-match winning streak into the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London later this month following his victory in his home event in Basel.",
"\"I have played well for a few months now.",
"Maybe I didn't win the U.S. Open, but we all know I was one point away from making the finals and then who knows?\"",
"he said after becoming the first man to compete in the finals of all nine Masters Series events.",
"\"But Novak was able to come back in that great match against me at the Open.",
"And before that I think I had some really good moments, where I actually did play very well, such as Wimbledon and the French Open where I think more was possible, too.",
"\"I have had some really tough losses this year, but I kept believing that still the year wasn't over, I can still finish this year on a high, which that proves to be the case.",
"Now I still have a massive highlight coming up in a week's time.\"",
"Tsonga will move to a career-high sixth in the world rankings on Monday but he rued not being able to take advantage of the two break points he had during the opening game of the final.",
"\"If I had played better at the start it would have changed things.",
"The key of the match was there,\" said the 26-year-old, who beat Federer in the Wimbledon quarterfinals this year and then at the Montreal Masters before losing to the Swiss at Flushing Meadows.",
"\"Every time we play each other it's similar.",
"If I am able to fight back at the start, then I play well.",
"But if I lose the first set like I did today, then it becomes more difficult for me.\""
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"Roger Federer defeats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to clinch his first Paris Masters title .",
"World number four beats Frenchman Tsonga 6-1 7-6 to seal 69th career victory .",
"Federer has now won 18 Masters Series titles, one less than world No.",
"2 Rafael Nadal ."
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"(CNN) -- Spanish football giants Barcelona have confirmed they have signed a huge new shirt sponsorship deal with the non-profit Qatar Foundation -- the first time they have received money to display a logo on their jerseys in the club's history.",
"Revealing the news on their official website, the Primera Liga champions could be in line to receive up to 170 million euros ($225m) for the five-and-a-half year deal, which incorporates commercial and image rights as well as various bonuses relating to success on the field.",
"Children's charity UNICEF has appeared on the club's shirts in recent seasons and their logo will continue to feature prominently.",
"However, kit manufacturer Nike will now redesign the jerseys to accomodate the name of the Qatar Foundation -- an organization set up in 1995 to improve education and community development in Qatar and the surrounding region.",
"Following the news, UNICEF released a statement, saying: \"The groundbreaking partnership between UNICEF and FC Barcelona advanced the global message on the importance of children's issues in a unique way.",
"\"UNICEF is looking forward to the next stage of the collaboration and is exploring various options.\"",
"Barcelona also released a breakdown of how the funds will be received, with the club getting 15m euros ($20m) for the second half of the season and 30m euros ($40m) for each of the following five seasons -- with up to 5m euros ($7m) in bonuses for any titles won.",
"The funds will provide a welcome boost for Barcelona, who have struggled financially, despite all their successes on the pitch.",
"The Catalan club made a loss of 80m euros ($105m) last season and are reported to have debts in the region of 440m euros.",
"The announcement also continues Qatar's increasing influence in world football following their recent winning bid to host the 2022 World Cup finals."
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"Barcelona sign a huge new shirt sponsorship deal with the non-profit Qatar Foundation .",
"The Spanish champions could receive 170 million euros over five-and-a-half years .",
"Children's charity UNICEF has sponsored the club's shirts in recent seasons ."
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"(CNN) -- John Isner says his 11-hour match at Wimbledon against Nicolas Mahut was \"absolutely crazy\" and at one point he thought it might never end.",
"The world number 23 from the United States has gone down in the record books as the winner of the longest match in tennis history.",
"His epic battle with Frenchman Mahut on Court 18 at the All England Club stretched over three days and 183 games before he claimed the first round clash, 6-4 3-6 6-7 7-6 70-68.",
"Isner told CNN that the first day of action on Tuesday June 22 was a \"pretty standard four-set match suspended by darkness which happens at Wimbledon.\"",
"But nothing could have prepared the man from North Carolina for the incredible events that were to unfurl in the fifth set the following day.",
"The pair battled for over seven hours and by the time it was called off all the record books had already been re-written.",
"\"That one set just didn't want to end, we played 118 games with no decider and we had to come back next day to finish it off,\" Isner explained to CNN.",
"\"I think once we got to 30 (games) all I really didn't think it was going to end.",
"\"Both of us were serving fantastic and it got to the point when we didn't want to make a mistake on our service game.",
"\"We were still able to hit an inordinate amount of aces and every time someone got in a jam we were able to claw our way out of it.",
"The marathon eventually ended on the Thursday afternoon as Isner finally made a breakthrough on Mahut's service at match point, but not before another 20 games had been completed.",
"An exhausted Isner lost his second round match the next day in straight sets, but his incredible feat of endurance against Mahut will always be remembered.",
"The 25-year-old said he had prepared for Wimbledon by training near his home in Tampa, Florida, hitting ball after ball in the blazing heat and humidity.",
"So fit was Isner that his coach Craig Boynton had made a prophetic prediction ahead of the third grand slam of the year.",
"\"My coach jokingly said I would be able to play for 10 hours because of the extreme conditions I was practicing in and sure enough he was right.\"",
"But the reality was both had played to the point of exhaustion and the giant Isner was suffering from agonizing blood blisters on both feet.",
"\"It was pretty brutal, it was ugly,\" he said.",
"After taking a well-earned break, Isner will resume play on the ATP Tour later this month as he builds up to the third grand slam of the season at the U.S. Open."
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"John Isner tells CNN his match against Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon was 'absolutely crazy'\nAmerican started to think that his 11-hour marathon would never finish .",
"Isner eventually closed it out after 183 games which smashed all previous records .",
"He lost his second round match in straight sets and is now resting back in U.S."
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"(CNN) -- England clinched rugby's Six Nations title for the first time since 2003 on Saturday despite crashing to a 24-8 defeat to Ireland in the final round in Dublin.",
"Martin Johnson's team could have been denied the crown along with the Grand Slam achievement of winning all five games, but closest rivals Wales lost 28-9 to France in the tournament's concluding match.",
"Johnson was captain of the England team that won the European competition for the 25th time eight years ago and then went on to lift the World Cup in Australia, and he will be hoping history repeats ahead of this year's premier event in New Zealand.",
"\"This is a scar and we'll have to wear that scar.",
"I told the players we'll take this on the chin.",
"We were beaten by a good team, an experienced team,\" the coach said in quotes reported by the UK Press Association.",
"\"The boys are very disappointed because they wanted to win a Test match, and we know what was at the end of it.",
"We had a horrible first half.",
"We were always chasing the game.",
"\"It summed up our day up when two of our players ended up passing straight back to them.",
"When you're in a fight you want to feel like you've landed a few blows, but we didn't.",
"They kept on taking shots at us.\"",
"Recalled fly-half Jonathan Sexton kicked 14 points in a man-of-the-match performance, with his four penalties and a try from winger Tommy Bowe giving Ireland a 17-3 halftime lead.",
"Seven minutes after the restart, captain Brian O'Driscoll became the record tryscorer in Six Nations history with his 25th crossing -- and Sexton converted to make it 24-3.",
"England's only try was a runaway intercept effort from hooker Steve Thompson, which fellow replacement Jonny Wilkinson could not convert.",
"Wales went into the match in Paris needing to win by 27 points to finish ahead of England on countback, but the team's preparation was marred by the absence of assistant coach Shaun Edwards due to a reported incident with a fellow member of the backroom staff last weekend.",
"Coach Warren Gatland refused to comment on the incident in his pre-game interview, saying that it was \"an internal matter.\"",
"Defending champions France finished second following two tries to forward Lionel Nallet and another to winger Vincent Clerc, while Morgan Parra kicked 13 points.",
"Wales' only reply was three penalties to flyhalf James Hook, who was sinbinned for a dangerous tackle, as Gatland's team finished fourth behind Ireland after three teams ended with six points each.",
"In the day's opening game, Scotland avoided the wooden spoon by beating Italy 21-8 in Edinburgh to condemn the visitors to bottom place.",
"The tournament has been known as the Six Nations since the addition of Italy in 2000, and started out in 1883 with four teams.",
"France joined the competition for the first time in 1910, rejoining 37 years later."
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"England crowned Six Nations champions despite closing defeat by Ireland .",
"Dublin defeat ends England's hopes of achieving a Grand Slam of five victories .",
"Defending champions France finish second after beating Wales 28-9 in Paris .",
"Wales needed to win by 27 points to prevent England from taking the title ."
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"(~CNN) -- World Cup winners India appointed Duncan Fletcher as their new national coach Wednesday on a two-year deal.",
"Fletcher succeeds South African Gary Kirsten, who stepped down from the role after guiding the co-hosts to their global triumph earlier this month, beating Sri Lanka in the final.",
"He will take the reins after India's tour of the West Indies where bowling coach Eric Simmons has been managing team affairs.",
"The 62-year-old Fletcher coached England from 1999 to 2007, reviving their fortunes in Test cricket.",
"It culminated in their historic 2-1 Ashes series win over Australia in 2005, but they were thrashed 5-0 by the Aussies on their home soil just 18 months later.",
"An early exit followed in the 2007 World Cup and Fletcher resigned shortly afterwards.",
"Former England captain Michael Vaughan, who was in charge for the Ashes triumph in 2005, has no doubts Fletcher will be a success with India.",
"\"Great coach who will work well with India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and all the talent,\" he told his Twitter blog.",
"But Vaughan sounded a warning about the taciturn Fletcher's relationship with journalists.",
"\"His biggest challenge will come from the media.",
"He has never really understood how it works!,\" he added.",
"Fletcher was a former captain of the Zimbabwe one-day international side before turning to coaching."
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"Duncan Fletcher to take the reins as the new India cricket coach .",
"He succeeds Gary Kirsten who stood down after India won World Cup .",
"Fletcher coached England for eight years, guiding them to 2005 Ashes triumph ."
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"(CNN) -- Roger Federer fended off an audacious comeback by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win the ATP World Tour Finals for a record sixth time in London Sunday.",
"A pumped up Federer wrapped up a 6-3 7-6 6-3 victory over Tsonga in his 100th career final to end 2011 on a conspicuous high note.",
"Consecutive titles in Basel, Paris, where he also beat Tsonga in the final, and at the season-ending championships have seen the Swiss maestro reclaim the No.3 spot in the world from Britain's Andy Murray.",
"But he had to withstand a mid-match onslaught from his French opponent, who broke Federer as he served for the match at a set and 5-4 to the good.",
"Tsonga also saved a match point in the second set tiebreaker before leveling at one set all.",
"But as in the first set, Federer broke Tsonga again in the eighth game of the decider and made no mistake when he served for the championship for the second time.",
"\"I couldn't be more happy my season ends this way.",
"I'm exhausted, Jo sapped every last energy out of me today,\" Federer said.",
"His triumph lifted the Swiss maestro out of a tie with Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras for titles at the ATP's end-of-season finale.",
"It was his 70th career crown.",
"It will also compensate for failing to add to his 16 grand slam crowns this season as Novak Djokovic, who failed to make it out of the round robin group stages in London, dominated with three.",
"Rafael Nadal, who beat Federer in the final to win the French Open title, was also eliminated at that stage as he lost to Tsonga in a deciding match.",
"Earlier, third seeds Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor beat the Polish pair Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 7-5 6-3 to win the ATP World Tour Finals doubles title."
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"Federer beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in his 100th career final .",
"Record sixth win in season-ending finals for the Swiss star .",
"Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor win doubles title ."
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"Madrid (CNN) -- Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets of the Spanish capital Sunday, protesting unemployment a week before voters elect a new government.",
"The march past the world-famous Prado museum and Madrid's city hall ended at the Puerta del Sol plaza, where economic protests began last May.",
"As riot police passed the demonstrators, protesters shouted \"Less police, more education,\" a criticism of cutbacks in education during Spain's deep economic crisis.",
"The demonstration was smaller than one held October 15, when at least 10,000 people marched in Madrid on a day when Occupy Wall Street-style protests spread to Europe, Asia and Australia.",
"The Spanish newspaper El Pais said tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Barcelona that day.",
"Similar protests over the economy turned violent in Italy, with at least 70 people injured and a government building set on fire, but the Spanish demonstrations remained peaceful.",
"Protester Esteban Guerrero, 25, who's been to a dozen protests since last May, said he was not discouraged by the smaller crowd on Sunday.",
"\"Each demonstration is not just one more,\" Guerrero said.",
"\"Many young people and workers take part.",
"Some are bigger than others but what's important is that thousands turn out each time.\"",
"A journalism student in his final year of university, he said his job prospects after graduation are bleak, with the country's youth unemployment rate about 45%, twice the national average.",
"\"It's a very precarious situation for young people in Spain, and getting worse, like it is for youth in Greece and Portugal.",
"There's a big deterioration,\" Guerrero said.",
"Next Sunday's election, which the opposition conservatives are expected to win, will not be enough to change things, he added.",
"\"I think it's necessary to vote, but that's not enough.",
"People feel the elections won't change the situation.",
"They won't stop the cutbacks,\" he said.",
"That's why people keep coming out onto the streets, he said."
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"Protesters are angry about Spain's high unemployment .",
"Voters go to polls next week, but one protester says that won't do enough .",
"Opposition conservatives are expected to win November 20 elections ."
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"(CNN) -- Second seed Roger Federer stayed on course for a first French Open title after coming from two sets to one down to defeat Argentine Juan Martin del Potro in another five-set epic, securing a place in Sunday's final at Roland Garros.",
"Roger Federer screams in joy after beating Juan Martin del Potro to reach the French Open final.",
"The Swiss world number two, bidding to complete his haul of grand slam titles, recovered from a slow start to claim a 3-6 7-6 2-6 6-1 6-4 victory in three hours and 28 minutes -- and will now meet Robin Soderling in Sunday's final.",
"Swede Soderling, who earlier this week caused a sensation by knocking out defending champion and world number one Rafael Nadal, defeated Fernando Gonzalez 6-3 7-5 5-7 4-6 6-4 in another thrilling five-setter to continue his remarkable run in Paris.",
"It was Federer's second five-set win this tournament -- he was also taken the distance by Tommy Haas in the fourth round -- and he has squeezed through to his fourth straight Paris final without hitting top form.",
"Federer, installed as title favorite after Nadal's defeat, had won all his previous five meetings with Del Potro, not even dropping a set.",
"But he was broken in the fifth and ninth games to lose the first set as Del Potro dictated the rallies, feasting off Federer's weak and short backhands.",
"Fifth seed Del Potro played a poor second-set tie-break, sending four shots into the net to gift the Swiss the leveller, but he still held the whip hand and sped through a 36-minute third set during which he broke Federer's serve twice more.",
"However, as the South American tired, Federer found an extra gear -- as he has done so often this past fortnight -- and suddenly began to dominate Del Potro's serve.",
"Two breaks were sufficient to win the fourth set convincingly and he broke early in the fifth too.",
"Del Potro grabbed one himself as the light started to fade on Philippe Chatrier court, but he double-faulted in game seven to put Federer back in front.",
"This time, the Swiss did not falter and served out to win.",
"Federer is now just one win away from becoming the sixth player to complete a sweep of the Majors.",
"The title here would also move him level with Pete Sampras on a record 14 grand-slam crowns.",
"\"That's one more step and I am so happy to have comeback like that,\" a delighted Federer told reporters.",
"\"For a moment there Juan Martin was playing so well, but I had some luck on my side and I fought hard.",
"\"Soderling played a great match against Gonzalez to be in the final.",
"He deserves to be there because he also beat Nadal and he was the man to beat in this tournament.\""
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"Roger Federer through to Sunday's final of the French Open at Roland Garros .",
"The second seed defeats Argentine Juan Martin del Potro in five-set semifinal .",
"The Swiss faces Robin Soderling as he aims to win tournament for first time ."
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"(CNN) -- Bayern Munich clinched the Bundesliga title for a record 22nd time thanks to a 3-1 away win over relegated Hertha Berlin on the final day of the German season.",
"Victory for the Bavarian giants -- who led the top division by three points from rivals Schalke going into the game -- came thanks to a 20th-minute opener from Ivica Olic and a second-half brace from star performer Arjen Robben.",
"The Dutchman's double, scored at 74 and 87 minutes, took the 26-year-old to a tally of 16 goals for the season and put Louis Van Gaal's men into an unassailable lead, after Gustavo Ramos had leveled for the home side with thirty minutes left of the game.",
"The defeat of bottom-placed Hertha also continues Bayern's pursuit of an unprecedented treble for a German side.",
"Can Van Gaal triumph over Mourinho?",
"The newly crowned Bundesliga champions will face Werder Bremen in the final of the domestic cup on May 15 before a showdown with Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan, in the final of the European Champions League, on May 22.",
"\"It is important that we won here,\" Bayern coach Louis van Gaal told reporters after being drenched in beer by his celebrating players.",
"\"We have the best defence, the best attack and deserved to be crowned Bundesliga champions.",
"It is good that we were victorious to keep the winning rhythm.",
"Tonight, we will celebrate in style,\" the 58-year-old added.",
"Bayern finished the campaign on 70 points, five ahead of rivals Schalke, whose title ambitions were cut short with a 0-0 away draw to Mainz thanks to a missed penalty from Miroslav Karhan.",
"Werder Bremen claimed a Champions League spot and a third-place finish with a 1-1 home draw against Hamburg, Ruud van Nistlerooy's 82nd-minute equalizer canceling-out the opener from Claudio Pizarro.",
"Elsewhere, Bayer Leverkusen -- who drew with Borussia Mochengladbach 1-1, Borussia Dortmund -- who lost 3-1 to SC Freiburg -- and Stuttgart -- who drew 1-1 with Hoffenheim -- claimed Europa League places finishing fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.",
"Former champions Wolfsburg ended a miserable season by finishing in eighth place, but did manage to end on a win, thanks to a 3-1 victory over Frankfurt.",
"Bochum's 3-0 home defeat to Hannover left the Rhineland-side consigned to relegation, and sealed a dramatic last-day escape for a Hannover side reeling from the loss of captain Robert Enke, Germany's number one goalkeeper who committed suicide earlier in the season.",
"Meanwhile, Nuremberg now face a play-off with the third-placed team in the second division to try and avoid the drop after beating Cologne 1-0."
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"Bayern Munich clinch the Bundesliga title for a record 22nd time .",
"Crowned champions thanks to a 3-1 win over relegated Hertha Berlin .",
"Arjen Robben scores a brace to cap a great season with the club .",
"Club chasing unprecedented treble of league, domestic cup and European Cup titles ."
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"London (CNN) -- Woody Allen famously said in \"Annie Hall\" that the only cultural advantage to Los Angeles was that you can turn right on a red light, but in truth the \"City of Angels\" is bursting with culture.",
"World-class museums including the Getty Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art are must-see destinations for art-lovers, whose touring exhibitions easily rival those in London and New York.",
"The LA Opera, directed by world-renowned tenor Placido Domingo, art fair Art Los Angeles Contemporary and LA Fashion Week are all helping cement the city's identity as one of the US's major cultural hubs -- and that's before mentioning its number one industry, Hollywood.",
"Though difficult to navigate on foot, the city is a wonder of small communities, intriguing local landmarks and remnants of Hollywood's golden age.",
"CNN World's Treasures selects some of the best spots to experience the cultural side of Los Angeles, from galleries to historic landmarks.",
"SEE: Commercial galleries have sprung up all over the city in the last decade, boasting impressive exhibitions of local and international contemporary art.",
"Artists such as Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Chris Burden and the late Dennis Hopper have put the city firmly on the map but it was established as an important hub in the 1960s, when the Ferus Gallery famously showed Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.",
"Today, galleries are concentrated on La Cienega, Wilshire and Washington Boulevards and spaces to visit include Blum and Poe, credited with bringing the work of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami to the US, and David Kordansky.",
"Also on any art-lover's itinerary is Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills -- in January the gallery is showing work by UK artist Damien Hirst.",
"Meanwhile, take a tour of the city's major museums; head to the Museum of Contemporary Art and enjoy its current exhibition of work by photographer and fashion designer Hedi Slimane.",
"Or take your time and wander through Chris Burden's installation \"Urban Light\" at the Los Angeles County Museum, and peruse the permanent collections at the Getty Center and the Hammer Museum at UCLA.",
"Currently the Getty and Hammer are staging exhibitions celebrating the city's artistic innovations since World War II, among a number of other institutions.",
"VISIT: If you are feeling foot-sore from your travels around the city's art institutions, rent a car and drive to the Watts Towers, a weird and wonderful labor of love built by Italian immigrant Simon Rodia between the 1920s the 1950s.",
"These strange spiral towers, made of scrap, steel and cement and decorated with bits of bottle and seashells, have been an inspiration to artists ever since they were built.",
"The site is now managed by the Watts Towers Art Center, which also stages an annual jazz festival.",
"Los Angeles's other architectural highlights include Pierre Koenig's Case Study House No.",
"22, which overlooks the city; LA-based starchitect Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA; Anderton Court Shops, a small shopping mall near Rodeo Drive designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; and the Eames House in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.",
"TOUR: No trip to LA would be complete without a tour of Hollywood's key hot-spots: Grauman's Chinese Theater, the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Beverly Hills.",
"Alternatively, take a spin around famous movie locations such as Mulholland Drive, Sunset Boulevard and Chinatown on your own tour.",
"Los Angeles also has a rich literary history, and the city features as a sometimes glittering, often shady, backdrop to classic noir fictions by Raymond Chandler and John Fante.",
"Even F. Scott Fitzgerald penned his own eulogy to the city in the unfinished \"The Last Tycoon,\" which he wrote while working as a script-writer there in the 1930s.",
"For those looking for something a little more highbrow than the usual Hollywood tour, look no further than Esotouric's literary tours of the city, which cover the neighborhoods and landmarks featured in the novels of Chandler, Fante and Charles Bukowski, allowing you to walk in the footsteps of Philip Marlowe or Arturo Bandini.",
"STAY: A perennial favorite among celebrities and visitors to the city is the Chateau Marmont, which featured as the real set for Sofia Coppola's recent film \"Somewhere.\"",
"Modeled on a castle in France's Loire Valley, the Chateau Marmont has for years been a hideaway for celebrities behaving badly and a haven for Europhiles, and its popularity continues to grow.",
"Even if you're not staying, you can sip a languid cocktail in the beautifully-designed Bar Marmont."
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"Though often disparaged, LA is bursting with culture, from galleries to museums to historic landmarks .",
"The city's museums and galleries are world-class, boasting contemporary, modern and classical art .",
"Literary tours of the city are becoming popular, allowing visitors to walk in the footsteps of famous noir fiction characters .",
"No trip to LA is complete without a visit to the legendary Chateau and Bar Marmont ."
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"(CNN) -- Bayern Munich produced a spirited fight back to knock 10-man Manchester United out of Europe's Champions League and set up a semifinal against Lyon.",
"Trailing 2-1 from the first leg, United raced into a 3-0 lead, but goals from Ivica Olic and Arjen Robben saw Bayern progress on the away goals rule as the tie finished 4-4 on aggregate.",
"English Premier League champions United were in control until the sending-off of Rafael Da Silva early in the second half handed Bayern the initiative and Robben's stunning volley was worthy of winning any match.",
"United manager Alex Ferguson sprung a surprise before kick-off by naming Wayne Rooney in his starting line-up just eight days after the England striker twisted his ankle during the first leg.",
"Rooney landed awkwardly on the same ankle after 20 minutes and seemed to struggle for mobility before he was replaced after 55 minutes.",
"It was one of Ferguson's other surprise inclusions who opened the scoring.",
"Darron Gibson, selected ahead of Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, picked up Rooney's pass and fired a shot past the unsighted Bayern goalkeeper Hans-Jorg Butt.",
"Four minutes later, United were 2-0 ahead as Antonio Valencia crossed for Nani to score with a sublime backheel.",
"The German Bundesliga leaders almost leveled the aggregate score when Olic's shot was smothered by United goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar.",
"Moments later, United went 3-0 up as Valencia's low cross was smashed into the roof of the net by Nani.",
"Bayern were given a lifeline before half-time when Croatian striker Olic shrugged off Michael Carrick and fired past Van der Sar from a narrow angle.",
"United were reduced to 10 men early in the second half when Rafael received a second yellow card for a foul on Franck Ribery.",
"Nani and Darren Fletcher both went close for United before Van der Sar produced a fine reflex save to keep out Ribery's effort.",
"United seemed content to soak up Bayern pressure but their resistance was broken by a moment of individual brilliance from Robben.",
"Ribery's corner picked out the former Chelsea winger on the edge of the area and his volley arrowed past Van Der Sar and into the bottom corner.",
"Ferguson threw on Dimitar Berbatov and Ryan Giggs in pursuit of a winner but Bayern kept possession with ease to see out a victory that went some way to avenging their defeat to United in the 1999 final.",
"The defeat capped a miserable few days for United, who lost 2-1 to Chelsea on Saturday to fall two points behind the Londoners in the race for the Premier League title.",
"\"The key thing was losing a goal just before half time and the young boy getting sent off,\" Ferguson told ITV1.",
"\"It took an exceptional goal to win the tie - it was a fine strike by Robben.\"",
"Lyon went into their all-French quarterfinal with Bordeaux carrying a 3-1 lead from the first leg.",
"But striker Marouane Chamakh gave Laurent Blanc's side hope when he bundled home on the stroke of half-time.",
"Bordeaux pressed for a goal that would have taken them through, and Lyon were grateful to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who produced a one-handed save to keep out Wendel's header.",
"The home side held on for a 1-0 defeat that saw them progress 3-2 on aggregate."
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"Bayern Munich knock Manchester United out of the Champions League.",
"The Germans fight back from 3-0 down to lose 3-2 but progress on away goals rule.",
"Lyon lose 1-0 to Bordeaux but advance 3-2 on aggregate."
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"(CNN) -- Argentina's unseeded Gisela Dulko caused an upset on Centre Court with a battling win over former champion Maria Sharapova.",
"Gisela Dulko of Argentina celebrates beating Maria Sharapova of Russia at Wimbledon.",
"The 24-year-old fought through the nerves to complete a 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 victory to seal her place in the third round and dump one of the biggest names in women's tennis out of the championships.",
"Though the Russian Sharapova, who won the grass-based grand slam in 2004, was seeded 24 for Wimbledon due to her season blighted by a shoulder injury, the result was still an upset.",
"The 24-year-old South American, who has reached the third round on three previous occasions at Wimbledon, now faces another Russian in her next match in the form of tenth seed Nadia Petrova who beat Dulko's doubles partner Shahar Peer of Israel 6-3, 6-2 to go through.",
"\"It is the most important tournament in the world for me,\" she said in a court side interview after the match.",
"\"It's been a great day and I feel really happy - I didn't play very good in one game and with players like Maria, you know she will take her chances.",
"\"But in the third set I just kept on fighting - I was really nervous at the end and just wanted to finish the match as the winner - and now I'm so happy.\"",
"The crowd at the British venue warmed to the plucky Argentinean as the game wore on, a factor that Dulko said helped her to victory: \"The crowd were fantastic with me and I'm really grateful.\"",
"Elsewhere, Serena Williams powered to victory brushing aside Australia's Jarmila Groth in a 6-2, 6-1 win.",
"The second seed American will meet either Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia or Italy's Roberta Vinci in the third round.",
"Progression was also ensured for Japan's Ai Sugiyama with a 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 victory over Spanish qualifier Arantxa Parra Santonja.",
"The 33-year-old Sugiyama, who is ranked 38 in the world, recorded her previous best at the event in a quarter final appearance in 2004 and will now face Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova who beat China's Zheng Jie.",
"Zheng failed to match her previous Wimbledon high of reaching the semifinals in 2008 falling to a 6-3, 7-5 defeat.",
"Meanwhile, in the other results from Day Three, eight seed Victoria Azarenka of Bulgaria thrashed Romania's Ioana Raluca Olaru 6-0, 6-0.",
"America's Jill Craybas lost 6-3,6-0 to Frances Virginie Razzano, while Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova triumphed 6-2, 6-4 over Urzula Radwanska of Poland.",
"India's Saania Mirza went down 6-4, 6-4 to Sorana Cirstea of Romania while the all-Russian battle of Elena Vesnina and Vera Dushevina, saw the former win 6-3, 6-4."
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"Unseeded Gisela Dulko beats former champion Maria Sharapova 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 .",
"The Argentinean will now meet Nadia Petrova in the third round .",
"The 24-year-old has reached the third round three times previously ."
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"(CNN) -- Christine Lagarde is set to take over as the head of the International Monetary Fund Tuesday, the first woman to to run the influential financial institution.",
"Lagarde, who was the finance minister of France, takes over at a crucial time for the IMF as the organization is working closely with the European Union and the European Central Bank to provide financial support for troubled European economies.",
"Lagarde will serve a five-year term as the global financial institution's managing director and chairman, the IMF said.",
"\"I am deeply honored by the trust placed in me by the Executive Board,\" Lagarde said in a statement last week.",
"She succeeds Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was arrested earlier this year in New York on sexual assault charges.",
"The only other contender for the job was Mexican Central Bank chief Agustin Carstens, who was supported by Australia, Canada and Mexico.",
"The IMF said it selected Lagarde, last week, by a consensus vote.",
"Lagarde was also backed by the United Kingdom, Germany and most European powers, as well as some Asian and African nations.",
"The IMF, which is made up of 187 member countries, has traditionally been led by a Western European official.",
"Some developing nations had pushed to break that tradition, arguing that the IMF should consider candidates from rising economic powers in Asia and South America.",
"Lagarde, 55, had been French President Nicolas Sarkozy's finance minister since June 2007.",
"She also served as the country's to foreign trade official.",
"A lawyer by training, Lagarde was a partner at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie before going into politics.",
"According to her official biography, Lagarde was born in Paris to school teachers and has two children of her own.",
"She was a member of the French national synchronized swimming team and was inducted into the nation's Legion of Honor in 2000."
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"The top job was left open by Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation .",
"Christine Lagarde served as the finance minister of France .",
"Lagarde beat out Mexican Central Bank chief Agustin Carstens for the job ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Dinara Safina's wait for her first grand slam title continues, after she was beaten in straight sets by compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final of the French Open at Roland Garros.",
"Kuznetsova kisses the French Open trophy after her comprehensive victory over Dinara Safina.",
"Safina, who has reached the top of the world rankings despite not having a major title to her name, looked completely out-of-sorts against her fellow-Russian, who secured a comfortable 6-4 6-2 victory in just over an hour.",
"The defeat was a crushing blow to Safina, who has long had to contend with the accusations that she is not a worthy world number one, and this third grand slam final defeat will do nothing to silence the doubters.",
"It was the second straight year she has lost in the final here, after going down in straight sets to Ana Ivanovic of Serbia last year.",
"It was also her second successive grand slam final defeat having lost to Serena Williams in the Australian Open in Melbourne earlier this year.",
"Seventh seed Kuznetsova, 23, was collecting her second grand slam title following her victory over another Russian, Elena Dementieva, in the final of the 2004 U.S Open.",
"The victory also atoned for Kuznetsova's 2006 final defeat to Justine Henin.",
"\"It was so many years since I won a grand slam and I thought it would never happen again,\" Kuznetsova said in a court-side interview after her victory.",
"\"Today when I was coming onto the court I knew everything was going to be fine.",
"It was the same as when I won the U.S. Open,\" she added.",
"In cold, damp and overcast conditons, Safina started strongly, breaking her opponent to win the opening game.",
"However, she quickly relinquished that advantage by dropping her first service game, that included a double fault and two unforced errors.",
"Both players had trouble holding their serves in an edgy opening set and at 4-5 down, Safina dropped the set when hitting a forehand into the net.",
"Kuznetsova held serve to open the second set and games went with serve until the sixth game when a sixth double fault gave Kuznetsova the edge.",
"She broke for the fourth time in the match shortly after when Safina blasted a forehand wide and long.",
"Kuznetsova held serve to make it 5-2 and then her pressure on the Safina serve paid dividends again with a seventh double fault on match point.",
"Despite the result, Kuznetsova said she believed Safina was a worthy world number one.",
"\"She's done so well, and she's number one so she's a better player than me at the moment,\" Kuznetsova said on Eurosport.",
"\"Today she was tired and had so much pressure on her but I want to wish her the best of luck for the future.\""
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"Svetlana Kuznetsova beats Dinara Safina in final of the French Open in Paris .",
"Kuznetsova defeats fellow-Russian 6-4 6-2 in the Roland Garros showpiece .",
"The loss means world No.1 Safina continues to wait for a first grand slam title ."
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"(CNN) -- The chief executive of JPMorgan says he can understand some of the grievances of the Occupy movement, describing some of Wall Street's actions as \"a total disgrace.\"",
"Speaking with CNN's Richard Quest at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon was asked if he was worried about growing antagonism towards the rich.",
"\"It's becoming an entrenched view, but here's the parts I agree with,\" he said.",
"\"People are angry because a lot of people in Wall Street made a lot of money as companies went down the tubes, and I agree with them.",
"That's a total disgrace.\"",
"He stressed his firm had acted responsibly.",
"\"We never had special severance packages and stuff like that...",
"So a lot of new rules being promulgated, we were always doing them.\"",
"Dimon said he was concerned about the gap between rich and poor.",
"\"I do think we're all better off if society gets increasingly equitable.",
"The question we've got to deal with is, how do you do that?\"",
"He advocated progressive taxation, and a focus on \"giving people better opportunities.\"",
"\"In the United States, half the kids in inner city schools don't graduate -- that's the biggest sin we make in our country right there.\""
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"JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon says some of Wall Street's actions have been a \"disgrace\"\nHe says we will all benefit from a more equitable society .",
"Progressive taxation and a focus on \"giving people better opportunities\" will help ."
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"Monterrey, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities have arrested a former soccer star whom they accuse of using his social status to help a kidnapping gang track down information about potential victims, officials said.",
"Omar Ortiz, known as \"The Cat,\" played for the Rayados de Monterrey before the Mexican Football League suspended him in April 2010 after he allegedly tested positive for steroid use.",
"A security spokesman in Nuevo Leon state said Saturday that the former goalkeeper had been working with a kidnapping gang for more than a year.",
"The gang was responsible for at least 20 kidnappings, spokesman Jorge Domene told reporters, including the abduction and release of pop singer Gloria Trevi's husband.",
"Trevi has not spoken publicly about the alleged kidnapping, which was widely reported in Mexican media.",
"In addition to Ortiz, authorities presented three other alleged members of the gang to the media Saturday, but said seven other suspects remained at large.",
"The gang allegedly worked in the area south of the industrial city of Monterrey, kidnapping merchants and charging ransoms of around 1 million pesos ($72,600) to free them.",
"Authorities said the gang was connected with Mexico's Gulf Cartel.",
"Journalists Javier Estrada and Victor Badillo, and CNN's Joseph Netto and Michael Roa contributed to this report."
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"Goalkeeper Omar Ortiz is accused of working with a kidnapping gang for over a year .",
"Ortiz, known as \"The Cat,\" helped the gang find details about victims, authorities say .",
"The gang was responsible for at least 20 kidnappings, a spokesman says ."
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"(CNN) -- Roger Federer claimed his third title of the season with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Germany's Florian Mayer in the final of the Stockholm Open on Sunday.",
"It was the world number two's 64th career ATP title, joining Pete Sampras in fourth on the all-time career list.",
"American legend Jimmy Connors with 109 tournament wins heads the list, with Ivan Lendl (94) in second and John McEnroe (77) third.",
"The 16-time grand slam winner was always in command as he bounced back from his defeat to Andy Murray in last week's Shanghai Masters final.",
"His last visit to Sweden had been a decade ago when he was beaten in the second round, but this time around he made no mistake.",
"\"Ten years ago I came here with no expectations and now I'm back as the favourite,' Federer told AFP.",
"\"Anything but a win would be disappointing.",
"I played a great event, it was a tough final.",
"Florian played well a terrific final.",
"I'm very happy to win.\" Federer's other two titles in 2010 have come in the Australian Open and Cincinnati Masters prior to the U.S. Open.",
"Meanwhile, unseeded Serbian Viktor Troicki fought back from a set down to claim his maiden ATP title in the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, beating fourth seed Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 3-6 6-4 6-3.",
"Troicki gained the decisive break of service in the decider to claim a 4-1 lead and he served out to win the match as he converted his first match point with a crisp volley.",
"Earlier, second seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus won the WTA tournament being held at the same arena, beating home home hope Maria Kirilenko 6-3 6-4 in the final.",
"Unseeded Roberta Vinci of Italy won the WTA tournament in Luxembourg with a 6-3 6-4 victory over eighth seed Julia Gorges of Germany in the final."
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"Roger Federer wins Stockholm Open title for the first time .",
"Swiss maestro beats Germany's Florian Mayer 6-4 6-3 in the final .",
"Federer draws level with Pete Sampras with 64 ATP Tour titles .",
"Viktor Troicki claims maiden ATP crown at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow ."
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"(CNN) -- Mexico dealt a body blow to the World Cup chances of former champions France with 2-0 win over Les Bleus in their Group A clash in Polakwane on Thursday.",
"Second half goals from Javier Hernandez and veteran Cuauhtemoc Blanco gave them a deserved victory against Raymond Domenech's men, who again disappointed.",
"The result also means that Mexico and Uruguay are both assured of qualification if they draw their final group match in Rustenburg on June 22 whatever the outcome of France's game against hosts South Africa.",
"Hosts held as World Cup begins .",
"Hernandez made the breakthrough in the 64th minute as he rounded Hugo Lloris in the French goal to score after being put through by his captain Rafael Marquez.",
"The clinching goal in the 78th minute came through a penalty by Blanco, awarded after his fellow substitute Pablo Barrera had burst into the penalty area past Patrice Evra to be brought down by Eric Abidal.",
"The 37-year-old Blanco took a long run-up and beat Lloris with ease.",
"Catch CNN's World Cup twitter.buzz .",
"The Mexicans, who drew their opening match against the hosts, were always the more lively side with Arsenal's Carlos Vela and Carlos Salcido both having half chances with Lloris the busier goalkeeper.",
"France looked to improve after the interval and Chelsea's Florent Malouda had their best opportunity as his powerful shot was pushed over, but it was just about all they had to show in an attacking sense and the omens do no look good for the 2006 runners-up.",
"Domenech said it was now a question of salvaging pride after winning a solitary point from their two games following a tepid goalless draw against Uruguay.",
"\"We need a miracle now,\" he told AFP.",
"\"We have to be strong and at least play for our honor.",
"At least we must show something in the last match.",
"When we are forced to rely on others, there's nothing to say,\" added Domenech who will stand down as France coach after the finals."
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"Mexico beat France 2-0 in their Group A clash in Polakwane .",
"Goals from Javier Hernandez and Cuauhtemoc Blanco in second half sink French .",
"Uruguay and Mexico will both qualify from group if they draw their final match ."
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"(CNN) -- Pharmaceutical company Novartis on Sunday voluntarily recalled a number of over-the-counter drugs -- including certain bottles of Excedrin and Bufferin -- because of complaints about mislabeled and broken pills.",
"The Switzerland-based company said on its website that \"there have been no related adverse (health) events\" related to the problems.",
"At the same time, it urged U.S. consumers to \"either destroy or return unused\" products that are part of the recall.",
"The items involved in the voluntary recall include Excedrin and NoDoz products with expiration dates of December 20, 2014, or earlier, as well as Bufferin and Gas-X Prevention products with December 20, 2013, or earlier expiration dates.",
"\"(Novartis) is taking this action as a precautionary measure, because the products may contain stray tablets, capsules or caplets from other Novartis products, or contain broken or chipped pills,\" the company said.",
"The moves follows Novartis' decision to suspend operations at, and shipments from, its Lincoln, Nebraska, facility.",
"The company said this was done \"to accelerate maintenance\" and make other improvements, adding that it currently \"is not possible\" to determine when the plant will reopen.",
"Agencies: No need for baby formula recall .",
"While Novartis announced Sunday's recall, it said that it did so \"with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.\"",
"This came about after an internal review and assessment of complaints identifying \"issues such as broken gelcaps, chipped tablets and inconsistent bottle packaging.\"",
"In its news release, Novartis said that the recall and processing upgrades would cost an estimated $120 million, which will be assessed in the fourth quarter of 2011.",
"The number of pills affected by the recall was not released.",
"More information will be announced Monday, Novartis said.",
"For a list of products associated with the recall, please go to: http://www.novartis-otc.com/otc/index.html ."
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"Excedrin and Bufferin products are part of the voluntary recall .",
"Novartis says \"stray\" pills \"from other Novartis products\" put in the wrong package .",
"An internal probe also found evidence of \"broken gelcaps (and) chipped tablets\"\nThe recall and processing upgrades will cost $120 million, Novartis estimates ."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona clinched a third successive Spanish league title with two matches to spare despite being held 1-1 at Levante on Wednesday.",
"Pep Guardiola's team went into the match needing a just a point after second-placed arch-rivals Real Madrid kept the race alive with a 4-0 win against Getafe on Tuesday.",
"With head-to-head records taken into account, Barca cannot be caught after beating Real 5-0 in November and drawing the second Clasico clash 1-1 last month.",
"\"Winning the title is always difficult and this one was tough just like the others were before.",
"Now we can enjoy this win,\" coach Guardiola said in quotes reported by AFP.",
"Ronaldo hat-trick keeps faint Real Madrid hopes alive .",
"\"We were fantastic for the first three quarters of the league and in the final quarter the goals dried up.",
"If we have dropped our standards at the end of the season it is simply because the team has barely stopped for the past two seasons.",
"\"It was difficult coming off the back of the World Cup.",
"Nine Barcelona players won the World Cup (with Spain) and I didn't know how they were going to react.",
"The attitude of all the players has been fantastic and the title is for them.\"",
"The Champions League finalists looked to be cruising to a 30th victory in 36 La Liga outings when Seydou Keita headed Barca in front after 28 minutes.",
"The Ivory Coast midfielder stole in unmarked to nod home a lofted through-ball from influential midfielder Xavi to score his sixth goal this season.",
"But Felipe Caicedo pounced on a defensive error to equalize four minutes before halftime, slotting into the empty net after Gerard Pique missed his attempted clearance to leave goalkeeper Victor Valdes stranded.",
"Lionel Messi almost netted his 32nd league goal this season in the 58th minute after a trademark solo run saw him squeeze past four players, but the two-time world player of the year's low shot rebounded to safety off the inside of the post.",
"\"It's always a nice feeling to win the title and the fans really deserve this,\" Xavi said.",
"\"I imagine we're going to celebrate this title win with them tonight in the streets of Barcelona.\"",
"The draw was enough to seal Barcelona's 21st Spanish title, 10 behind Real's all-time record, but it means the club cannot reach 100 points this season -- having 92 now.",
"The Catalan side's achievement was founded on a superb first half of the season, with 17 wins and a draw despite a shock second-round defeat by promoted Hercules.",
"Barca went 31 games undefeated, one short of Real Sociedad's record, with 16 successive victories from round seven.",
"While Messi has grabbed the headlines with 52 goals in all competitions, Barca's all-attacking style has seen 22 players hit the net in a total of 92 scored -- with only 20 conceded.",
"Valencia failed to clinch third place and an automatic Champions League spot after drawing 2-2 at Espanyol, but have a five-point lead over Villarreal.",
"Villarreal will also be in Europe's top club competition next season but may have to play in the final qualifying round, having sealed fourth place with a 0-0 draw at relegated Almeria.",
"Sevilla had the chance to move up to fifth and into the leading Europa League position by winning at Osasuna in the late match, but crashed to a 3-2 defeat and stayed two points behind Athletic Bilbao.",
"Striker Alvaro Negredo headed two goals in three first-half minutes for Sevilla before Kike Sola equalized with a double of his own, the second coming in the 87th minute.",
"Substitute Dejan Lekic then scored the winner two minutes later to lift Osasuna five points clear of the danger zone, while Sevilla had midfielder Gary Medel sent off for a second booking.",
"Second-bottom Hercules will return to the Segunda Division after a 1-1 draw with Mallorca, who came from two goals down to move four points clear of Zaragoza in the final relegation place.",
"Real Zaragoza lost 2-1 at Real Sociedad, whose captain Mikel Aranburu scored an 88th-minute winner to lift his club into 12th place."
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"Barcelona's 1-1 draw at Levante clinches the club's 21st La Liga title .",
"Pep Guardiola wins his third successive crown as coach with two games to play .",
"Second-placed Real Madrid trail by six points but have inferior head-to-head record .",
"Valencia fail to clinch third place and automatic Champions League spot after draw ."
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"(CNN) -- Novak Djokovic ended Roger Federer's hopes of a second successive Australian Open title with a thrilling victory in their semifinal on Thursday night.",
"The Serbian third seed won 7-6 (7-3) 7-5 6-4 in Melbourne to set up a final against either British fifth seed Andy Murray or Spain's No.",
"7 David Ferrer, who play on Friday.",
"Djokovic beat Federer in straight sets at the same stage on his way to winning the 2008 title in Melbourne, which was his first and only grand slam success so far.",
"\"He puts a lot of pressure on you, so I tried to stay to the last moment and really it was one of the best matches I've played in a while,\" the 23-year-old told the crowd after the match.",
"\"I had to take my chances.",
"In the second set I was a break up and in 20 minutes I was 5-2 down, so if I had lost that set God knows which direction the match would go.\"",
"Tennis will miss the elegance of Henin .",
"Second seed Federer had been hoping to extend his record 16 major crowns following main rival Rafael Nadal's quarterfinal defeat to compatriot Ferrer on Wednesday.",
"\"Novak was the better player tonight, I've got to accept that and move on,\" Federer said.",
"\"It's not the end, anyway.",
"I wish I could have won here for the fifth time, but it was impossible tonight.\"",
"He and Nadal have won 21 of the past 23 grand slams between them, a run broken only by Djokovic and Argentina's Juan Martin Del Potro at the 2009 U.S. Open.",
"The 2008 Melbourne final was the last grand slam not to feature either Nadal or Federer.",
"The Swiss player struggled to stem Djokovic's aggressive assault on Thursday, and uncharacteristically struggled with his serve.",
"He saved three match-points in the final game, but his resistance ended with a tame return into the net to finish a match lasting three hours.",
"\"I can move on from this with a good mindset, to be honest,\" Federer told reporters.",
"\"That's what's important right now, that I don't feel like I have physical issues or I'm not playing the right way and whatever.",
"So I'm really positive about what's ahead of me.\""
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"2 Roger Federer in Australian Open semifinals .",
"Third seed triumphs 7-6 (7-3) 7-5 6-4 to end Swiss superstar's title reign .",
"Serbian will play either fifth seed Andy Murray or David Ferrer in Sunday's final .",
"He is seeking to win the tournament for the second time to follow up 2008 success ."
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"Rome (CNN) -- A crooked Somali cop may have been the one who made the kidnapping of two foreign aid workers in October possible, the safety adviser for their employer told CNN.",
"U.S. military forces rescued Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Thisted, 60, on Wednesday after they spent three months in captivity.",
"Now in Sicily, the aid workers are to be reunited with their spouses.",
"Buchanan and Thisted were traveling in Somalia as workers for the Danish Refugee Council at the time of their kidnapping.",
"Fredrik Palsson, the group's global safety adviser, revealed new details about how the pair were captured.",
"Nongovernmental organizations such as Danish Refugee Council are required to have security while traveling in certain parts of Somalia.",
"The Somali government provides protection, not private security companies, Palsson said.",
"Known as special protection units, these guards operate only in specific areas, and so aid workers must change vehicles and switch guards when they cross from one region to the next, he said.",
"\"What happened was that one of the guards, he was sold out, and he had as a mission: to capture expatriates,\" Palsson said.",
"The kidnappers paid off one officer, who replaced the regular guards with others who were in on the corruption, he said.",
"\"And as they came close to the changeover position, then they were stopped, and then they were moved into other vehicles and they were driven away,\" he said.",
"Meanwhile, the U.S. military said that the two rescued aid workers need time out of the media spotlight to recover.",
"The workers' health and welfare are the top priority, the military statement said, appealing to journalists to respect the privacy of the freed hostages and their families.",
"\"It is extremely important that they have the chance to decompress from this event without the pressure of instant overwhelming public notoriety,\" it said.",
"In a joint statement issued through the Danish Refugee Council, Buchanan's and Thisted's families expressed relief the two were rescued unharmed.",
"\"We are grateful for all the efforts that have been put into getting them safely back to us and for the fact that a very difficult chapter in our lives is over,\" it said.",
"\"We need to look ahead now, and it is going to take time for us all to adjust and to return to normal life.",
"We would like to thank all media for having respected our needs for privacy, and we request for everyone to continue to show us this respect and to give us time and privacy, which is all we need now.\"",
"The reintegration process allows the Defense Department to gather critical information while taking care of the freed captives, the military said.",
"\"The process ensures returnees have the best chance to return to their previous lives following this significant event,\" it said.",
"The two hostages were freed in a dramatic overnight rescue operation.",
"U.S. special operations forces parachuted into Somalia from airplanes early Wednesday, advanced on foot to a compound where the two kidnapped workers were being held and then freed them, U.S. officials said.",
"The nine gunmen holding the hostages were killed, officials said.",
"The kidnappers seized Buchanan and Thisted on October 25 in the central Somali town of Galkayo after they visited humanitarian projects there, the Danish Refugee Council said.",
"Neither was harmed, the aid group said.",
"Buchanan's father, John, was to go to Sicily to see her, CNN learned.",
"She will be returned to the United States when she wants, probably in a U.S. military aircraft.",
"Somalia's transitional government welcomed the U.S. military operation.",
"The rescue \"is a great joy to the Somali government and to all Somalis as well as to all right thinking people everywhere,\" the government said in a statement.",
"\"Hitting them hard is the only language kidnappers of innocent people, pirates and terrorists understand, and every opportunity should be taken to wipe out this scourge from our country.\"",
"The new U.N. envoy to Somalia -- the first permanent U.N. representative there in 17 years -- also expressed understanding about the military operation.",
"\"If negotiations fail, all means must be applied, including rescue operations,\" Augustine Mahiga said Thursday, even as he urged that lives be protected \"on both sides.\"",
"Thisted's sister and brother-in-law wept for joy when they heard he had been rescued, the brother-in-law, Svend Rask, told Denmark's TV2.",
"\"She was overjoyed when she told us what happened,\" Rask said, speaking of the daughter who gave them the news.",
"The Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden last year in Pakistan participated in the rescue mission, a U.S. official said, without specifying whether any of the same individuals were on both assaults.",
"The SEALs are part of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, formerly known as SEAL Team Six.",
"The area where the hostages were seized is known as a hub for pirates, rather than an area of Islamic militant activity.",
"Somalia Report, a website that tracks piracy statistics, said more than $150 million was paid out in ransoms in 2011.",
"Successful pirate attacks on merchant vessels began to drop off in 2011 in face of improved shipping security -- including on board armed security detachments -- and stronger action from the foreign navies patrolling the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.",
"The International Maritime Bureau, which tracks piracy, said the number of attacks had risen but the success rate had plummeted to 12% in the first nine months of 2011.",
"The aid workers were part of the Danish Refugee Council's de-mining unit, which aims to make civilians safe from land mines and unexploded ordnance.",
"Buchanan has been employed as a regional education adviser with the mine clearance unit since May; Thisted, a community safety manager with the de-mining unit, has been working in Somaliland and Somalia since June 2009.",
"CNN's Brian Todd, Dugald McConnell and Livia Borghese contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Dozens more people were reported killed by government troops and police in Syria on Tuesday, a day after what opposition activists said was the single deadliest known day of anti-government protests.",
"The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition umbrella group, said 78 people died across four Syrian provinces.",
"Most of them were in Idlib, where the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 60 to 70 Syrian army defectors were gunned down Monday as they tried to flee their posts.",
"The Syrian Observatory's Rami Abdul Rahman said another 40 civilians were killed the same day \"across Syria during house-to-house raids, arrests, and clashes between army defectors and the Syrian army.\"",
"\"Monday may have been a day with the highest death toll in Syria, between 100 and 110 killed in total,\" he said.",
"The Syrian government maintains that it is cracking down on armed terrorists who attack security forces and civilians.",
"The activists say the government's brutal crackdown against peaceful protests has led to the deaths.",
"CNN could not independently verify the allegations because Syria restricts the activity of journalists in the country, and the Syrian government did not immediately respond to the claim.",
"Tuesday, the LCC said 59 people were killed in Idlib, with another 14 in Homs, three in Hama and two in Daraa.",
"All had been shot to death by government forces, the group said.",
"The uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime has claimed an estimated 5,000 lives since March, the United Nations says.",
"As violence raged on Tuesday, state television announced that the government will execute anyone who participates in terrorist acts or distributes weapons.",
"A new law published Tuesday specifies that anyone who distributes weapons for the purpose of committing terrorist acts will get the death penalty, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.",
"It also mandates a life sentence of hard labor for weapons smugglers who intend to traffic them for terrorist acts.",
"Monday's deaths came the same day that Syria signed an Arab League proposal aimed at ending the violence.",
"The Arab League expelled Syria over its crackdown.",
"The signing came just days after the Cairo-based group of Arab nations warned it could ask the U.N. Security Council to intervene in the restive country.",
"Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem announced Monday that Damascus had signed the deal, insisting: \"We want a political solution.",
"I do not want the killings to go on.\"",
"On Tuesday, permanent members of the Arab League met in Cairo, saying they welcomed the signing of the proposal.",
"Members also stressed \"the emphasis and the paramount importance of the commitment of the Syrian government to fully implement\" the accord.",
"Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun was not impressed by the signing of the agreement.",
"\"The Syrian regime is playing games and wants to buy time.",
"We are quite surprised that the Arab League is allowing this to take place,\" the head of the Syrian National Council said Monday in comments on Orient TV from Tunisia.",
"Separately, Ghalioun urged the international community to enforce a buffer zone to protect civilians.",
"Council members meeting in Tunisia declined to say whether they would support the use of foreign military force to enforce such a zone, but stressed their belief that international intervention is necessary.",
"\"This regime has proven time and time again that it is a regime built on lies and force,\" Ghalioun told CNN.",
"\"We need a safety zone to protect and prevent efforts by the regime to transform the crisis into a civil conflict.\"",
"Five Arab League ministers drafted a resolution Saturday calling for the end of violence and approving an observer mission in Syria.",
"World powers have denounced the Syrian government's activity, saying they are looking for ways to rein in violence and urgently contain the threat of civil war that is reflected in the emergence of the armed defector force.",
"CNN's Rima Maktabi and Journalists Taylor Luck and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"Monday's toll may be worst of the uprising to date .",
"The threat to execute terrorists is a major escalation against protesters .",
"The United Nations estimates that about 5,000 have died in Syrian violence this year ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Former U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon said he is set to meet with Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday in an attempt to persuade Libya's embattled ruler to step down.",
"Weldon will also meet with Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Khaim, the Republican from Pennsylvania said in an interview with CNN affiliate WPIX-TV.",
"Weldon said that in addition to Gadhafi's resignation, he is proposing a cease-fire on both sides; a withdrawal of government forces from key cities; no further advances by rebel forces; a joint interim government run by Libya's current prime minister and the an opposition leader; unfettered humanitarian access; and the establishment of a parliamentary commission that would include American, Middle Eastern, European and African politicians helping to establish a new parliament in Libya.",
"As far as the Gadhafi family, Weldon's proposals also suggest a possible title for Gadhafi as honorary chairman of the African Union and allowing his second-oldest son, Saif, to stand in elections.",
"Saif al-Islam Gadhafi was once thought of as a leading reformer in the Libyan government, but the 38-year-old has become one of his father's most outspoken defenders since the start of the unrest.",
"In an opinion piece written for The New York Times, Weldon said, \"I've met (Moammar Gadhafi) enough times to know that it will be very hard to simply bomb him into submission.\"",
"He said he was in Libya at the invitation of Gadhafi and that U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is aware of the trip.",
"CNN did not immediately get a response late Tuesday night from the U.S. State Department or the White House about Weldon's trip.",
"In 2004, Weldon led a congressional delegation to Tripoli and met privately with Gadhafi after the Libyan leader renounced terrorism in an effort to establish warmer ties with the West.",
"Weldon said in his opinion piece Wednesday that he traveled in 2004 to support Gadhafi's decision to give up Libya's nuclear weapons program, though neither he nor the White House wanted to support Gadhafi himself.",
"Weldon told CNN in 2004 that he had 14 meetings with \"everyone in the administration\" and toured a nuclear complex.",
"Libya remains in a deadly stalemate as pro-Gadhafi forces battle rebel fighters demanding an end to Gadhafi's nearly 42-year-rule.",
"Weldon's proposal also suggests free elections within 12 months overseen by the United Nations, according to reporter Larry Mendte of WPIX-TV who traveled with Weldon to Libya.",
"CNN's Nic Robertson in Tripoli contributed to this report ."
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"BASLE, Switzerland (CNN) -- Russia joined Germany and Turkey in the semifinals of Euro 2008 with a 3-1 upset win over the Netherlands after extra time in Basle on Saturday night.",
"Roman Pavlyuchenko scored the Russian opener in Basle.",
"Goals in the second half of added time from substitute Dmitri Torbinski and the magical Andrei Arshavin capped a triumphant night for the Russians.",
"Roman Pavlyuchenko put Guus Hiddink's men ahead in the the 56th minute and they looked to be going through in normal time until Ruud van Nistelrooy stole an 86th minute equalizer for the Dutch.",
"Hiddink's men will face either Italy or Spain in the last four after confounding the form book to put out the Dutch.",
"Marco van Basten's team had gone into the quarterfinal match off the back of three convincing victories, but failed to reproduce their captivating football of the group stages and could have no complaints about the outcome.",
"Dutchman Hiddink had said he would be considered a trator if he masterminded their downfall but paid compliments to his team who have been transformed since a 4-1 defeat to Spain in their opening match.",
"\"I don't know how far we have come since our preparation for the first match but usually the Dutch are a team who one cannot outdo tactically, technically or physically, but we did on all three counts,\" Hiddink told ITV Sport.",
"\"Of course we realised we couldn't give away too many freekicks to them but as you get tired you tend to commit more fouls.",
"\"However, my players responded really well and instead of relying on the counterattack they pressed for the winning goal.\"",
"Russia were the more enterprising side from the start at the St. Jakob Park Stadium and striker Pavlyuchenko headed over when unmarked from an Igor Semshov cross.",
"The Dutch may not have been producing the free flowing football of their qualifying group but offered a threat at set pieces with Rafael van der Vaart producing a curling effort from the right which van Nistelrooy should have converted.",
"Both sides were relying on the counter attack in a cagey tactical affair and just after the half hour mark a classic Russian break saw Arshavin bear down on the Dutch goal to send in a low curler which Edwin van der Sar tipped around the post.",
"Manchester United keeper van der Sar had to use all his near two meter height to tip over a thunderous effort from defender Denis Kolodin from the ensuing corner.",
"Moments later Kolodin sent in another long range effort from fully 40 meters which nearly dipped under the crossbar.",
"Van Nistelrooy was generally kept quiet in the first half but his sharp turn and shot from the right had to be neatly saved by Igor Akinfeev while Kolodin nearly handed the Dutch the opener near half-time as his sloppy pass found van der Vaart who shot straight at the Russian keeper.",
"The second half was 11 minutes old when Arshavin found Sergei Semak whose cross from the right was neatly turned in by Pavlyuchenko.",
"The Dutch keeper then had to be alert to keep out Pavlyuchenko for a second goal and Russia looked to be holding on for victory until van Nistelrooy struck in typical style with five minutes remaining.",
"His tireless Real Madrid teammate Wesley Sneijder swung in a free kick from the left which the striker converted from close range at the far post.",
"Extra time again saw the Russians pressing with the most menace and in the first period Pavlyuchenko hit the crossbar with a snap shot.",
"The Russians kept pouring forward against a tiring Dutch side and Arshavin escaped down the left to send over a teasing cross which Torbinski turned in at the far post.",
"Arshavin fittingly sealed victory as he received the ball from a throw-in and somehow beat van der Sar at the near post.",
"\"We didn't play football, and never got into the game,\" van Basten admitted after the final whistle.",
"\"Normally we should have been in better shape than the Russians.",
"We didn't see that,\" he told the Associated Press."
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"New York (CNN) -- The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted the U.S. to take sensible security measures and launch a justified counterattack against al Qaeda, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.",
"But he says they also led to an overreaction that continues today.",
"Zakaria argues the organization behind the attacks, al Qaeda, has been greatly diminished by the U.S. response to 9/11 and by growing opposition to the group in the Muslim world: .",
"\"All these trends have worked to further diminish the threat al Qaeda poses to us.",
"We're in a strange situation where the right doesn't want to acknowledge it because it would suggest we don't need to be in quite this much of a war footing and ... the left seems reluctant to accept some of this because it suggests that, God forbid, George W. Bush might have done something right.",
"\"As a result of our political dysfunction, we have lost the ability to have a rational conversation about 9/11,\" Zakaria said.",
"The author and host of CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS\" spoke to CNN on Wednesday.",
"Here is an edited transcript: .",
"CNN: Is the U.S. safer today than before 9/11?",
"Fareed Zakaria: There's no question we're safer.",
"Look, 9/11 changed the way in which we viewed the problem of terrorism and Islamic radicalism, and we've gotten attentive to both.",
"First of all, there have been huge measures taken -- a series of very simple, sensible measures that decrease the likelihood of anything like 9/11 happening.",
"Sealing the cockpit door, by itself, means that a plane can never be used as a missile and things like that ... the security measures have made it much more difficult for high-value targets to be vulnerable in quite the way they were.",
"The second part is that we have gone after these al Qaeda and associated groups quite vigorously, chasing them around the mountains of Afghanistan of course but also tracking their money.",
"And those things collectively have made a big difference, and there's no question in my mind, we're safer.",
"Now we can begin to ask ourselves whether we have overdone the countermeasures, whether the tens of billions of dollars that have been added year after year to the intelligence budget, to the Homeland Security budget have been all necessary or are we on a kind of autopilot where no request for homeland security can ever be denied, and it has become part of the gargantuan pork barrel projects in Washington.",
"CNN: You've written that we've overreacted to 9/11 and al Qaeda.",
"In what way do you think that's the case?",
"Zakaria: I mean it in two senses.",
"We didn't spend a lot of time in the year after 9/11 -- once we had taken it on, once we had started chasing these people around the world, measures which I strongly supported then and still strongly support -- whether that had been effective and whether we had broken up the organization and made it far more difficult for them to operate.",
"And therefore, what was the real nature of the threat going forward?",
"I think it's clear that al Qaeda is a much-diminished force.",
"It has the power to inspire a series of local organizations around the world, but it has very little power to direct these high-profile terrorist attacks itself.",
"The reaction to my point that al Qaeda is weaker than we think has surprised me only because I've made this point since 2004, and I've made it repeatedly.",
"CNN: Why do you think many people have not agreed with that point?",
"Zakaria: I do think we have a tendency in the United States to underestimate the evil intentions of our enemies, but overestimate their capacity, their capabilities.",
"What we now know, based on all the declassified documents we have available is that in the 1970s and '80s, the U.S. was massively overestimating the military capacity of the Soviet Union.",
"CNN: In what way? Zakaria: If you look at every measure, from bombers to missiles, on almost every count, we massively overestimated their capacity to modernize, their capacity to build up, and as a result we had created a much, much larger military-industrial complex than would have been necessary to combat the actual Soviet threat rather than the one we perceived.",
"Similarly with Saddam Hussein, the intelligence agencies were absolutely convinced that what we faced was a very powerful state that was acquiring nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, which proved to be largely untrue.",
"When we look at al Qaeda, we have to ask ourselves: What is their actual capacity to inflict harm?",
"The second sense in which I mean it is I do think there is a tendency within the American appropriations system for projects to become eternal and eternally expanding and this has clearly become true of homeland security.",
"Nobody wants to deny the request for more security, more measures, more procedures, all of which come with more budgets, more bureaucrats ... CNN: So what should be done now?",
"Zakaria: This would be the right time for us to take a look and ask ourselves, in order to combat the actual threat that al Qaeda poses, which is real but which is limited in some senses -- what kind of intelligence apparatus do we need, what kind of homeland security apparatus do we need and how much can we do in terms in reallocating, reorganizing and reinventing these national security agencies rather than constantly piling up layer upon layer.",
"We now have 15 different intelligence agencies, we have 15 different organizations tracking the money that terrorists are moving around.",
"It's almost as though we took the entire Cold War bureaucracy and rather than scaling it down and reconfiguring it to meet this new set of unconventional threats, we just layered on top of the mountains of Cold War bureaucracy another set of mountains of terrorism bureaucracy, never mind that the Cold War is over ...",
"This is not a way to run a serious national security policy.",
"And the greatest danger here of course is that unlike the Cold War, unlike World War II, this is not a war that has a clean ending, so you cannot set a point at which we would demobilize and therefore get rid of some of this apparatus.",
"This is a kind of existential reality that the United States has to deal with, the possibility of terrorism, the possibility of radical groups being able to inflict harm on an open society, so we've got to ask ourselves is this the normal national security state we want to live with.",
"CNN: Was the concept of a \"war on terror\" mistaken?",
"Zakaria: I don't know if I would quibble with it that much. ...",
"The problem of course is that terrorism is a tactic, you can't declare war against a tactic.",
"But in general it conveyed the idea that we needed to go on the offense and we needed to chase these guys around the world, we needed to track their money.",
"I have no problem with any of that ... the problem is you can fight a war but you also need to actively gauge the strength of your opponent, and if you think he's 25 feet tall vs. five feet tall, that's important.",
"That's a huge misdiagnosis of the problem ... CNN: Why do you think people have missed the change in al Qaeda's capabilities?",
"Zakaria: We're not looking at trends within the Islamic world where al Qaeda has been politically discredited, trends that are taking place within the jihadi community, where prominent jihadis have broken with al Qaeda.",
"The reality is that al Qaeda has been unable to organize a single attack [against a major target in recent years], the reality is that when smaller local groups plan terrorist attacks all they can attack are local targets like cafes or train stations and thus kill locals, further alienating the local population and discrediting and delegitimizing al Qaeda and its associated groups.",
"CNN: Nine years after 9/11, why is the debate about Islam and terrorism fiercer than it's ever been?",
"Zakaria: What's more strange is that it feels as though it's a debate that's taking place without the intervening nine years.",
"Sometimes the debate seems as though it could have been taking place in 2002, without noticing all these trends that I've been describing.",
"9/11 was a wake-up call for America, but it also was a wake-up call for a lot of people in the Muslim world.",
"In the early months after 9/11, and I wrote about this at the time, there was a sense in the Muslim world that while they might not have approved of the attacks, they understood the anti-Americanism that lay behind it.",
"That kind of totally irresponsible and pernicious implicit support for Islamic radicalism has worn very thin in the last nine years.",
"CNN: Why has radicalism lost support?",
"Zakaria: People who felt that way in Indonesia, in Jordan, even in Palestine have realized that these guys [al Qaeda] are as opposed to the secular regimes of Indonesia, Jordan and in the Palestinian Authority as they are to the United States and when they attack Indonesia and Jordan, they kill innocent Indonesians and Jordanians, innocent Muslims by the way.",
"That reality has also produced a kind of rethinking about Islamic extremism that has been very important.",
"I should emphasize that it is not enough and there needs to be more persistent condemnation of radicalism and violence but there's no question, and the polling data make this clear, the number of fatwas issued against al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden make this clear -- there has been a huge shift in the Muslim world over the last nine years.",
"CNN: Finally, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is reaffirming his plans to proceed with Cordoba House, the controversial Islamic center near ground zero.",
"What do you think of that? Zakaria: This is to be a community center that will have a swimming pool, meeting rooms, athletic facilities, modeled after the 92nd Street Y.",
"It will have Jews and Christians and Muslims on its board, it will have prayer rooms for Jews and Christians as well as Muslims.",
"It will have both physical spaces and programs to encourage interfaith dialogue.",
"Now to me that sounds like precisely the American answer to Muslim radicalism, to affirm a Muslim-led process of interfaith dialogue, of tolerance for other religions ... the plan here is to build a center that is really trying to bring people together, this is such an American response to intolerance, extremism and violence.",
"It is about inclusion, dialogue and respect for other faiths."
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"He says in the years after attacks, U.S. has overestimated threat from al Qaeda .",
"He says group is on the run and widely discredited in the Muslim world .",
"Zakaria: U.S. needs to scale its security policies and bureaucracy to the actual threat ."
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"(CNN) -- World Cup holders Italy came back from a goal behind to secure an unconvincing 1-1 draw with Paraguay in their opening Group F match.",
"The South Americans took a deserved lead after 39 minutes through Antolin Alcaraz's header but an error from goalkeeper Justo Villar gifted Daniele De Rossi the equalizer in the second half.",
"Italy improved as the game wore on but failed to force a winning goal amid driving rain at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town.",
"They will have to raise their performance level if they are to match Brazil's tally of five World Cups in South Africa.",
"\"I just regret that we did not get the points we deserved, but sometimes that's what happens, you get less than you deserve,\" Italy coach Marcelo Lippi told AFP.",
"\"The important thing is this was not a decisive game.",
"What is important is that people now realise we are here and have got our act together.\"",
"As has become characteristic in this tournament, the opening exchanges were extremely cautious with both sides limited to shots from distance.",
"Paraguay opened Italy up with a sharp counter-attack after 21 minutes, the ball breaking to Aureliano Torres on the edge of the area, but he dragged his shot wastefully wide.",
"Perhaps unsurprisingly the opening goal came from a set piece, with Alcaraz jumping above Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro and De Rossi to meet Torres's free-kick with a firm header into the corner.",
"Italy appeared relieved when the half-time whistle arrived having struggled to cope with Paraguay's pressing game and spent much of the time bickering with each other or the referee.",
"The defending champions were forced into a change at the break with goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon replaced by Federico Marchetti.",
"Italy raised the tempo of the game in the second half and Simone Pepe almost converted a fine cross from Gianluca Zambrotta.",
"But the South Americans remained a danger on the break and Enrique Vera should have done better with a shot which found the side netting.",
"With the game seemingly drifting away, Italy coach Marcelo Lippi made a crucial change, bringing on Mauro Camoranesi and reverting from a 4-3-3 to a 4-4-2 system.",
"The rethink energized Italy and their equalizer arrived just after the hour mark.",
"A corner kick from the left flew over the outstretched fist of Villar, leaving de Rossi with a simple tap-in on the volley.",
"Villar was a busy man for the rest of the game, pulling off saves from Pepe and Riccardo Montolivo as Italy pressed for a winner but Paraguay held on for a creditable draw.",
"\"We played this game equally against the current world champions,\" Paraguay coach Gerardo Martini told AFP.",
"\"To play against such a rival with such skills is a very good sign for us.",
"It gives is a lot of confidence going ahead in this tournament.\"",
"New Zealand takes on Slovakia in the other Group F game on Tuesday."
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"Defending champions Italy labor to 1-1 draw with Paraguay in Cape Town .",
"Paraguay take lead through Antolin Alcaraz's header in first half .",
"Daniele de Rossi eqequalizes for the Italians after an error from goalkeeper Justo Villar ."
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"(CNN) -- Congolese side TP Mazembe Englebert became the first African team to clinch a place in FIFA's Club World Cup final after a stunning victory over Brazilian giants Internacional.",
"Goals from Mulota Kubangu and Dioko Kaluyituka secured a 2-0 win for Mazembe in Abu Dhabi and handed them a shot at being crowned world champions in Saturday's final.",
"They become the first team from outside Europe or South America to reach the showpiece final and will face the winners of Wednesday's clash between Italian and European champions Inter Milan and Asian Champions League holders Seongnam Ilhwa FC, from Korea.",
"Mazembe's coach, Lamine N'Diaye, told FIFA's website: \"It's something special for us.",
"We are here to represent Africa, and all of Africa will be proud of our work.",
"\"We believed in ourselves, we were confident and you could see that when we started attacking, especially at the start of the second half.",
"We were lucky too, and don't forget that our goalkeeper was excellent -- he was like a magician!",
"\"We have succeeded and shown that our players are of a high standard.",
"We have achieved a great victory.",
"It's very good for this team and for the Congolese people, and every African should be proud of this team.\"",
"There was no hint of the shock to come in the opening stages of the game at the Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium as Internacional passed their way round their opponents and created a host of chances.",
"But the Brazilian side, who were crowned world champions after beating Spanish giants Barcelona back in 2006, couldn't find a way past Mazembe goalkeeper Muteba Kidiaba.",
"Kidiaba made superb saves from Rafael Sobis and Indio before Tinga wasted the best chance for Internacional, heading over from seven yards.",
"But the Congolese outfit were a different proposition in the second half and took just eight minutes to find the net.",
"Collecting Amia Ekanga's pass, Kubangu smashed a perfect volley into the far corner, sparking wild scenes of celebration.",
"Kidiaba was again called upon to deny Sobis just before the hour mark, following it with another brilliant stop as Giuliano bore down on goal.",
"But as Internacional pressed for an equalizer late in the game, Mazembe caught them on the break as Kaluyituka's 20-yard effort crept inside the post.",
"Internacional's coach, Celso Roth, said: \"It was time for Africa to reach the final and unfortunately it has been at our expense.",
"There's no dishonor in that -- African football is improving all the time and I don't see anything shameful in losing to an African team.",
"We never underestimated them -- they really deserved to be at this stage, they defended very well and took their chances.",
"We had lots of great opportunities but unfortunately their goalkeeper was excellent.\""
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"Congolese side TP Mazembe beat Internacional 2-0 in FIFA Club World Cup semifinal .",
"It is the first time an African side has ever reached the prestigious final .",
"Goals from Mulota Kubangu and Dioko Kaluyituka secured victory .",
"Mazembe will face Inter Milan or Korean side Seongnam Ilhwa FC in Saturday's final ."
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"(CNN) -- AC Milan clinched their first Serie A title since 2004 on Saturday night as they drew 0-0 with Roma at the Stadio Olimpico.",
"The draw means that Milan now have an unassailable nine-point lead at the top of the table.",
"Even if Inter managed to finish level on points, Milan's superior head-to-head record against them this season means they cannot be beaten.",
"The league title -- the club's 18th in total -- brings to an end a period of dominance by their city rivals who have won the last five league titles in Italy.",
"\"We gave a lot all year long to get here and we deserve to win.",
"I'm lucky because the president (Silvio Berlusconi) gave us the opportunity (with new signings) to get important results,\" Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said, AFP reported.",
"Winning the title has also proved the doubters wrong who said his team was too old, Allegri said.",
"\"We won 23 out of 36 games and proved that we deserved it,\" Allegri said, AFP reported.",
"Milan's vice-captain Gennaro Gattuso was full of praise for his coach.",
"\"Allegri deserves a 10 out of 10, he was the architect of this success, he managed to keep the group compact,\" Gatusso said, AFP reported.",
"Only needing a draw to ensure the title, Milan, understandably, played conservatively throughout the 90 minutes, doing what was necessary to see them over the finishing line.",
"Few clear-cut chances fell to either team in the first half, but Roma's Yugoslav striker Mirko Vucinic went close with a volley in the 14th minute which forced Christian Abbiati into a smothering save.",
"Robinho went close for Milan early in the second half with a curling shot which hit the post and Kevin Prince Boateng shot narrowly wide on the hour mark.",
"Roma became more adventurous as the game wore on but offered little to really trouble the new champions and at the final whistle, Milan were comfortably in control -- much like they have been all season."
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"AC Milan are Italian league champions for the 18th time in their history .",
"Draw with Roma seals first league title since 2004 .",
"Ends five-year league dominance of arch rivals Inter ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Justin DiPietro, the father of missing Maine toddler Ayla Reynolds, has taken a polygraph, the spokesman for the Maine State Police said.",
"\"He was told the results,\" Stephen McCausland added.",
"McCausland would not say when the test was given, nor did he say whether Ayla's father passed, failed, or if the results were inconclusive.",
"He also would not elaborate on what questions DiPietro was asked.",
"However, DiPietro told the Morning Sentinel newspaper in Waterville, Maine, that he took the test early on in the investigation.",
"\"I know I went in there and smoked it,\" he said.",
"\"I told the truth, and that's it.\"",
"The newspaper reported Ayla's father would not reveal the results, and would say only, \"They can tell me whatever they want.",
"Again, I didn't physically see the results.\"",
"Polygraph results cannot be used as evidence in court.",
"It's been four weeks since Ayla disappeared.",
"Alya, now 21 months old, was reported missing by her father the morning of December 17.",
"Police said DiPietro told them he put Ayla to bed at 8 p.m. the night before.",
"Police said Friday that three children -- not two, as they previously said -- were at home the night Ayla went missing.",
"Ayla's grandmother, Phoebe DiPietro, has told CNN that Ayla was in her bedroom she shared with her cousin, who is three months younger.",
"DiPietro now confirms to the Morning Sentinel that his sister Elisha -- the mother of Ayla's cousin -- was there along with DiPietro's girlfriend, Courtney Roberts, and her young son.",
"The family's one-story home is owned by DiPietro's mother.",
"She told police she was not there that night.",
"It appears DiPietro has a room in the basement.",
"DiPietro has not spoken publicly about what happened the night his daughter vanished other than to say, through his mother, that he put her to bed.",
"Investigators said they have told DiPietro family members they're free to discuss what transpired that night despite any previous possible misunderstanding.",
"When Ayla first disappeared, police told them not to disclose details because of sensitivities of the case.",
"DiPietro told the newspaper he's deferring to police on that subject.",
"\"I would rather let them be the ones to come out and talk about that night, if they feel it's necessary,\" DiPietro told the Morning Sentinel.",
"\"I don't really feel that's up to us.",
"If there are certain details they want to share, they should be the ones to come out and share those details,\" he told the paper.",
"A missing children's center in Houston, Laura's Recovery Center, said it has advised DiPietro to talk about Ayla as much as possible to keep the case in the public eye."
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"A police spokesman would not say what the results of the polygraph were .",
"21-month-old Ayla Reynolds has been missing for four weeks .",
"Report: \"I told the truth, and that's it,\" Ayla's father said .",
"Police now say three -- not two -- children were in the house ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United clinched a record 19th English league title on Saturday, while local rivals City ended a 35-year wait to win a football trophy.",
"United came from behind to draw 1-1 at Blackburn, as Wayne Rooney equalized with a controversial penalty, to move past arch-rivals Liverpool in the all-time standings.",
"And just two hours later, City capped a big day for the northern metropolis by beating Stoke City 1-0 in the FA Cup final at London's Wembley Stadium.",
"Alex Ferguson's United team went into the penultimate match of the Premier League campaign needing just a point to end second-placed Chelsea's title reign.",
"Blackburn, battling to avoid relegation, took the lead in the 20th minute through Australia international Brett Emerton and should have gone further ahead in the 65th minute when Martin Olsson headed against the post.",
"Five minutes later United striker Javier Hernandez went down as he tried to round Paul Robinson, with the goalkeeper making enough contact to send the Mexican tumbling.",
"Referee Phil Dowd went to consult his linesman, sparking ugly scenes as the United players surrounded the officials demanding a penalty.",
"Once order was restored, Dowd pointed to the spot -- to the anger of the Blackburn contingent -- and Rooney smashed his shot into the net for his 11th league goal this season.",
"The draw put United seven points clear of Chelsea, who host Newcastle on Sunday.",
"It was particularly satisfying for the England striker, who began his career at Liverpool's city rivals Everton.",
"\"I was terrified, the ref took a long time to give it.",
"I had to compose myself, I'd been practicing all week,\" Rooney told reporters.",
"\"After the year I've had, with the ups and downs, this is for the fans and the team.",
"For me personally, being an Everton fan, to win a 19th title is special.\"",
"Ferguson has now won 12 championships since taking charge in 1986, when Liverpool reigned supreme with 16, and will seek to win his third European crown against Barcelona at Wembley on May 28.",
"\"It wasn't an easy game. We went 1-0 down having given them a bad goal, but we kept on and we don't give in,\" the 69-year-old Scot said.",
"\"It looked like it was not going to be our day, we've always had it difficult here.",
"It is a local derby and they are fighting for their lives, looking for that point, but we kept going and that's a good quality.\"",
"Manchester City capped a memorable week by winning England's prestigious knockout competition for the first time since 1969 and fourth in the club's 131-year history.",
"City's last silverware came in the 1976 League Cup final, but the massive investment of owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed since the Abu Dhabi billionaire's 2008 takeover is now paying off.",
"Manager Roberto Mancini guided City into Europe's premier club competition, the Champions League, for the first time with a 1-0 victory over Tottenham on Tuesday.",
"Due to that achievement, Stoke will also be playing in Europe next season in the second-tier Europa League.",
"\"I can say only that I'm very happy for all the supporters,\" Mancini said.",
"\"After many years they deserve to win this trophy.",
"I didn't feel we dominated this game.",
"\"We need to improve but we are very happy.",
"We made a small piece of history for Manchester City.",
"We start now.\" City's last appearance in the FA Cup final ended in a replay defeat by Tottenham, widely considered one of the best matches in the tournament's 140-year history, but a goal from semifinal hero Yaya Toure was enough to deny Stoke a fairytale finish in the club's first such outing.",
"The Ivory Coast midfielder, who ended United's treble hopes with the only goal of the semi, lashed home a shot in the 74th minute as Stoke scrambled to clear a slew of City attempts.",
"\"The dream is now. It's fantastic to win.",
"It's fantastic for the history of the club,\" Toure said.",
"\"We wanted to win something and get through to the Champions League.",
"It's amazing.\" One of the key figures in the build-up to the goal was Italy striker Mario Balotelli, who had earlier produced a superb save from Stoke goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen.",
"In Saturday's other Premier League matches, Blackpool remained in the relegation zone despite a thrilling 4-3 victory at home to ninth-placed Bolton.",
"Bolton led in the sixth minute through striker Kevin Davies but the home side took a 3-2 halftime lead through a double by D.J.",
"Campbell either side of Jason Puncheon's 19th-minute goal.",
"In-form loan striker Daniel Sturridge leveled the score eight minutes after the break, but captain Charlie Adam earned a vital win 10 minutes later to leave Blackpool behind Birmingham on goal difference, with both clubs on 39 points.",
"Wolverhampton joined Blackburn on 40 points with a 3-1 win at 13th-placed Sunderland, who guaranteed another season in the top flight last weekend.",
"Second-half goals from striker Steven Fletcher and George Elokobi clinched a memorable win for Wolves manager Mick McCarthy at his old club -- where he failed to win a home Premier League game in 19 attempts.",
"West Brom moved up to 10th place with a 1-0 win at home to Everton, who will seek to retain seventh in the final round.",
"Youssouf Mulumbu scored the only goal in the 10th minute, while Everton had Russian substitute Diniyar Bilyaletdinov sent off for a late tackle in the 77th.",
"On Sunday, third-placed Arsenal host Aston Villa, while Tottenham visit Liverpool in a match that should determine fifth and a place in the Europa League next year.",
"Birmingham travel to mid-table Fulham, and Wigan host West Ham in a battle of the bottom two teams."
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"Wayne Rooney scores the goal that gives Manchester United a record 19th English title .",
"United come from behind to draw 1-1 draw at Blackburn to end Chelsea's reign .",
"Local rivals Manchester City beat Stoke City 1-0 in FA Cup final later Saturday .",
"Victory ends City's 35-year trophy drought, with Yaya Toure scoring the only goal ."
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"(CNN) -- Wolfsburg sparked wild celebrations when they clinched their first German Bundesliga crown after thrashing beaten UEFA Cup finalists Werder Bremen 5-1 on Saturday.",
"Wolfsburg spark the club's first championship celebrations with a final-day thrashing of Werder Bremen.",
"The game was effectively settled after 26 minutes when Sebastian Proedl's own goal put the hosts 3-0 up after strikes from Zvejezdan Misimovic after six minutes and Grafite on 15.",
"Diego pulled one back after 31 minutes for Bremen who looked weary from their extra-time defeat to Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday night.",
"Grafite's second of the game 11 minutes into the second half and a fifth from highly-rated Edin Dzeko after 74 capped a memorable occasion for Wolfsburg.",
"Winning the 'salad bowl' is a fitting send-off for coach Felix Magath, who was overseeing his final game in charge before joining Schalke next season.",
"\"I think that VfL will be in the running for the title in the future too,\" said an emotional Magath.",
"\"We have put together a young and hungry team with fantastic prospects.",
"\"It's a dream, I never believed we had the chance to win the title, but the boys deserve it.",
"And leaving now will be very difficult.\"",
"Bosnia's Dzeko and Brazil's Grafite have scored 54 goals between them this season to break the previous record set by Bayern Munich's Gerd Muller and Uli Hoeness in the 1970s.",
"\"It's completely mad to have won the championship and got the record,\" said Dzeko.",
"\"It's a great feeling - we will celebrate all night long.\"",
"Bayern Munich made certain of the runners-up spot -- and a place in the Champions League group stage next season -- with a 2-1 home win over Stuttgart who could have overtaken the deposed champions.",
"An own goal from Khalid Boulahrouz on 16 gave Bayern the lead and Mark van Bommel made it 2-0 on the hour.",
"Mario Gomez pulled one back three minutes later, but Bayern held on.",
"Arminia Bielefeld and Karlsruhe were relegated while Energie Cottbus' 3-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen means they face a two-legged play-off against the team which finishes third in the second tier for a top flight slot next season."
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"Wolfsburg spark celebrations when they clinch first German Bundesliga crown .",
"Triumph comes after thrashing beaten UEFA Cup finalists Werder Bremen 5-1 .",
"Bayern Munich made certain of the runners-up spot by beating Stuttgart 2-1 ."
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"Tomioka, Japan (CNN) -- As we travel down the road toward the 20-kilometer (12-mile) exclusion zone, the entryway is blocked by half a dozen police officers and a large sign flashing red lights.",
"The sign reads: \"Keep out.",
"Don't enter.\" This is Japan's exclusion zone.",
"No one lives here, a place where 78,000 people once lived.",
"Nearly a year after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, the exclusion zone remains off-limits due to high levels of radioactive contamination.",
"My goal today is to see the town of Tomioka, a farming and factory community which sits in the southern section of the exclusion zone.",
"It's a town that was once home to 52,000 people.",
"It's hard to imagine that many people once lived here, as we drive into the center of town.",
"That's what strikes you first about the exclusion zone -- what you can't see, the people.",
"Even though I know the residents have been evacuated, it is still eerie to be in a town where it seems the people have simply evaporated.",
"Bicycles near a bus stop lie tipped over, as if owners forgot to retrieve them.",
"Cars sit in a shopping center, seemingly waiting to have groceries loaded into them.",
"A 7-Eleven convenient store sits in disarray, the items shaken from the shelves from the March 11 earthquake.",
"These communities are complete ghost towns, frozen in time.",
"The signs of life can oddly be found among livestock roaming the region.",
"We come up to cows grazing on the hill right off the main road.",
"They stare at us, the visitors, and then return to grazing, as we drive off.",
"We're surrounded by what appears to be farmland, overrun by brown weeds.",
"I'm carrying two radiation meters with me, one to measure surface radiation and one to track how much my body accumulates.",
"The surface reader begins to climb, as soon as we drive past the entryway, even though I haven't placed it next to a contaminated surface, which residents hope will be decontaminated within a few years.",
"The release of radiation from the plant primarily covered the communities to the north of the plant.",
"Tomioka, in the southern end of the exclusion zone, has a lower level of contamination than towns to the north and northwest of the plant.",
"But a lower level doesn't mean it's safe to be here long.",
"We stop in a neighborhood to check the radiation.",
"On the pavement, the surface reads a radiation level of 0.042 millisieverts per hour, which is 10 times what you're exposed to in a dental x-ray.",
"Not a significant problem since we're in the exclusion zone for a short visit and wearing protective suits.",
"But living on this street carries possible long-term health risks, especially for children.",
"At a nearby park, contaminated soil sits under blue tarps.",
"It's the first hopeful sign of progress we've seen, contained in this small park.",
"But the rest of Tomioka sits empty, of people, of progress and an apparent future."
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"Tomioka was once home to 52,000 people .",
"It sits in the southern section of the exclusion zone .",
"Except for the livestock roaming the region, there are no people .",
"Surface radiation meter climbs near entryway to exclusion zone ."
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"(EW.com) -- Guess we'll likely never find out what the Badlands were all about.",
"Fox has cancelled prehistoric dino drama \"Terra Nova\" after one season, ending months of will-they-or-won't-they speculation.",
"Studio 20th Century Fox TV, however, says they fight \"Terra Nova's\" extinction event by shopping the series to other networks.",
"The decision was handed down despite a few factors that were in the show's favor: A creatively strong two-hour finale, which won over many of the show's grumbling detractors; Fox cancelling Monday night veteran \"House\"; and another Monday sci-fi drama, \"Alcatraz,\" under-performing in recent weeks.",
"From what we hear, Fox higher-ups weren't too fond of the show.",
"\"Terra Nova\" will likely end up the highest-rated cancelled show of the season.",
"It averaged 10.1 million viewers and a 3.6 adult demo rating once you add in a week of DVR playback.",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Fox has cancelled prehistoric dino drama \"Terra Nova\" after one season .",
"Studio 20th Century Fox TV will be shopping the series to other networks .",
"From what we hear, Fox higher-ups weren't too fond of the show ."
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"(CNN) -- After a long lockout, the National Basketball Association will open its doors Thursday for teams to hold voluntary workouts.",
"The move comes after last week's announcement that the players and owners had reached a tentative deal to end the league's months-long lockout.",
"The season, that was scheduled to have begun November 1, will now start Christmas Day.",
"Team owners locked out players in early July as the two sides tried to hammer out a new agreement.",
"The sometimes bitter battle lasted 149 days.",
"One of the main sticking points was a split in revenues that owners said was unfair.",
"They sought to change the old revenue-sharing arrangement that gave players 57% of the revenue.",
"The new deal offers a virtual 50-50 split.",
"Training camps will open December 9, and the season will be 66 games instead of the usual 82.",
"A previous lockout in the NBA lasted 204 days -- from July 1998 to January 1999 -- before a new collective bargaining agreement was reached by both sides.",
"CNN's Dan Moriarty contributed to this report."
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"This move comes after players and owners said they reached a deal .",
"The season will be 66 games instead of the usual 82 .",
"The deal gives players and owners a virtual 50-50 split of revenue, NBA.com says ."
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"(CNN) -- This November, the Obama administration is expected to move forward with long overdue safeguards that would finally protect our families from mercury pollution.",
"As the mother of four children, I can only say it's about time.",
"The EPA was first charged with limiting toxic air pollutants such as mercury during the Bush administration -- the first Bush administration.",
"I don't know how many children have been exposed to dangerous levels of this neurotoxin during the subsequent 20-plus years of foot-dragging, but I do know that my eldest daughter was one of them.",
"When Sophie was 4 years old, we discovered that her mercury levels were elevated.",
"We were already concerned because her learning had leveled off and in some notable ways even backslid.",
"But it was only by chance that we realized she was being poisoned.",
"Because we lived in an old house with lead paint, we had been following our pediatrician's advice to have our children tested regularly for lead and other heavy metals.",
"Only because of this were we lucky enough to learn about our daughter's elevated mercury levels before it was too late.",
"How does a healthy, well-nourished child get mercury poisoning in her own home?",
"By far the most common exposure to mercury comes from eating contaminated fish.",
"Sophie adored tuna fish sandwiches and ate one or two a week.",
"That was a small amount but enough to cause her harm.",
"When, on a doctor's advice, we took fish out of her diet, her mercury levels declined.",
"We're thankful that our daughter suffered no permanent damage, but thousands of other parents are not so fortunate.",
"Exposure to mercury in utero can contribute to birth defects, including neurological and developmental disorders, learning disabilities, delayed onset of walking and talking, and cerebral palsy.",
"The EPA estimates that as many as one in 12 American women of child-bearing age have enough mercury in their bodies to put a baby at risk.",
"That means that every year more than 300,000 babies could be born at risk of serious disabilities caused by mercury poisoning.",
"Mercury is one of the most potent of the many toxic heavy metals that come from the emissions of coal-fired power plants.",
"If just one-seventieth of a teaspoon enters a lake every year, it is enough to raise mercury levels in the fish.",
"And yet the EPA reported in 2005 that coal-fired power plants, the largest domestic source of unregulated mercury emissions in the United States, pumped 48 tons of this toxin into the atmosphere each year.",
"The technology to filter mercury and other toxic heavy metals from power-plant smokestacks is widely available and, in fact, some plants already have it in place.",
"Under the EPA's proposed new protections, all plants would have to upgrade, and mercury emissions would be reduced by more than 90% (along with cancer-causing metals such as arsenic, chromium and nickel).",
"It would prevent hundreds of thousands of illnesses and up to 17,000 premature deaths each year.",
"Why has it taken more than 20 years to do something?",
"Because corporate polluters don't want to pay up to clean up, even though thousands of Americans pay dearly every year as a consequence.",
"Worse, their economic arguments are baseless.",
"By cleaning up the coal plants, the new EPA protections will actually result in a net gain for the U.S. economy.",
"Heart disease, learning disabilities and premature deaths are expensive, too.",
"No parent should have to discover, as I did, that she is feeding her child poison in the sandwiches she packs in her lunchbox.",
"After more than two decades, it's time to stop dumping poison into the atmosphere and pretending there are no consequences.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Ayelet Waldman."
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"Ayelet Waldman: EPA was supposed to limit toxic pollutants like mercury 20 years ago .",
"Waldman's daughter had high levels of mercury, a neurotoxin, in her blood .",
"Waldman: Mercury contributes to birth defects, nerve disorders, learning disablilites .",
"It's time to seriously limit mercury emissions that poison environment, she writes ."
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"(CNN) -- An error from Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes saw Real Madrid win 1-0 at Tottenham on Wednesday to reach the semifinals of the Champions League 5-0 on aggregate.",
"Gomes allowed a second-half shot from Cristiano Ronaldo to slip through his fingers and crawl over the goalline to ensure the Spanish side secured a mouth- watering last four showdown with bitter rivals Barcelona.",
"Jose Mourinho's side held a comfortable lead from the first leg at the Bernabeu but, despite that advantage, the Real Madrid coach still decided to play his strongest side at White Hart Lane.",
"Messi sets record as Barca reach semifinals .",
"And the visitors had to hold on in the first 45 minutes as Tottenham had two good penalty appeals turned down, while Gareth Bale had the ball in the Madrid net, but his goal was ruled out for offside.",
"However, just five minutes into the second half, the tie ended when Ronaldo attempted a strike from 25 yards out that Gomes should have dealt with comfortably, only for the keeper to fumble the shot into the net.",
"Ramon Pavlyuchenko nearly levelled for Spurs from Rafael Van der Vaart's cross and defender William Gallas hit the post from close range, but Real were never in danger of losing their advantage.",
"The result means that Barcelona and Real Madrid will now clash four times in just 18 days in what will be a monumental series of 'El Clasico' encounters.",
"First the teams meet this weekend at the Bernabeu in La Liga, before they face each other four days later in the Spanish Cup final in Valencia prior to their two Champions League showdowns.",
"Mourinho -- who is the first coach to ever lead four different teams to the Champions League semifinals -- told ITV Sport: \"Anything can happen in a semifinal, but we have two other matches to come against Barcelona before then and must concentrate on those games first.\""
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"Real Madrid win 1-0 at Tottenham to reach semifinals of the Champions League .",
"An error from Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes enough to give Real victory .",
"Brazilian allows a Cristiano Ronaldo shot to trickle through his fingers .",
"Real will now face Barcelona in a mouth-watering semifinal showdown ."
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"(CNN) -- German champions Bayern Munich have confirmed the appointment of Dutchman Louis van Gaal as their new head coach.",
"Van Gaal will take over from Jurgen Klinsmann at Bayern Munich after leading AZ Alkmaar to the Dutch title.",
"Van Gaal, who led AZ Alkmaar to the Dutch title this season, has been released from his contract with the Eredivisie club and will officially take up the reins as Jurgen Klinsmann's successor on July 1.",
"The 57-year-old has agreed a two-year deal with the Bundesliga outfit.",
"Bayern Munich are currently being managed by caretaker coach Jupp Heynckes, who has steered the club to within goal difference of Bundesliga leaders Wolfsburg, with just two matches remaining this season.",
"\"We are happy to have signed an experienced and successful coach such as Louis van Gaal,\" said Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in a club statement.",
"Van Gaal has a wealth of European experience, leading Ajax to three consecutive Dutch titles in the mid-1990's, before guiding Barcelona to the Primera Liga title in 1998 and 1999.",
"Following a disappointing spell as Dutch national coach, Van Gaal has restored his reputation at Alkmaar, guiding the club to only the second Dutch title in their history, going on an unbeaten 28-match league run in the process."
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"Bayern Munich appoint Louis van Gaal as their new coach on a two-year deal .",
"The Dutchman will take control on July 1 in succession to Jurgen Klinsmann .",
"Van Gaal has led AZ Alkmaar to Dutch Eredivisie championship this season ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Liverpool Football Club, one of England's most prestigious teams, announced Wednesday that its board has agreed to sell the team to New England Sports Ventures, the company that owns baseball's Boston Red Sox.",
"The sale is conditional on approval from the Premier League, to which Liverpool belongs; resolution of a dispute about board membership; and other matters, Liverpool said.",
"The offer from NESV was one of two the club said Tuesday it had received to repay its long-term debt.",
"It had called a board meeting Tuesday to review the bids and approve a sale.",
"The amount of the sale wasn't immediately disclosed, but the size of the debt is reported to be between 250 million and 280 million pounds ($397 million and $445 million).",
"What does the sale mean for Liverpool?",
"Liverpool, which has a huge fan base around the world, is currently owned by two Americans, Tom Hicks and George Gillett.",
"They took out loans in the club's name to buy it in February 2007.",
"But as Liverpool's position in the English Premier League has slipped, the owners have become targets for angry fans.",
"Liverpool failed to qualify for this season's lucrative European Champions' League and the team is currently 18th out of 20 in the English league after seven matches -- the worst start to a season for decades.",
"Liverpool Chairman Martin Broughton said the board had met with NESV representatives over the past several weeks in Boston, London and Liverpool.",
"He praised the company's vision for the English team.",
"What do you think of the sale?",
"Sound off with CNN iReport .",
"\"NESV's philosophy is all about winning and they have fully demonstrated that at Red Sox,\" Broughton said.",
"He revealed problems the board has had with Hicks and Gillett, saying the pair tried \"everything\" to prevent the sale.",
"Blog: Jumping from frying pan to fire?",
"\"By removing the burden of acquisition debt, this offer allows us to focus on investment in the team.",
"I am only disappointed that the owners have tried everything to prevent the deal from happening and that we need to go through legal proceedings in order to complete the sale,\" Broughton said.",
"History of Liverpool in images .",
"Before Tuesday's meeting, the two owners sought to remove two board members and replace them with Mack Hicks -- reported by the Liverpool Echo to be Tom Hicks' son -- and Lori Kay McCutcheon, whom the newspaper said is vice president and financial controller of Hicks Holdings.",
"The second bidder was from Asia but is not linked to Kenny Huang, who led a Chinese consortium interested in investing in Liverpool this summer, the Echo reported.",
"CNN's Nicky Robertson in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"A dispute about board membership must also be resolved first .",
"The amount of the sale wasn't immediately disclosed ."
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"(CNN) -- The Wimbledon tennis championships provide two weeks of pure sporting theatre permeated with tears, tantrums, comebacks, upsets, joy, despair, strawberries and cream.",
"So, perhaps the only surprise attached to the appointment of an ace poet to cover the tournament is that it wasn't served up sooner in its rich 133-year history.",
"Matt Harvey has been chosen as top seed -- a baseline bard who will pen a poem for every day of the two-week grand slam, chronicling the sights and sounds of south west London into a series of soulful sonnets.",
"A regular contributor to BBC radio and a self-confessed Wimbledon obsessive, Harvey is already salivating at the prospect of trawling the sprawling site in SW19.",
"He told CNN: \"It's just fantastic to be given such access to the place and the people.",
"I've already spent time there before the lines have been painted and in the museum, and it has been fascinating.",
"I even got to sit in the umpire's chair on Centre Court and had to pinch myself.",
"\"When it starts I imagine I'll be wandering about in the background.",
"I'll have to respond to the things people will be talking about, like if a pigeon is shredded by Roger Federer's racket -- not that I wish ill of any pigeons, or Federer's racket for that matter.",
"\"I will also have to touch upon the traditions like strawberries and cream and Cliff Richard, and also the new addition of the roof -- welcoming people to the Wimbledome.",
"\"The attention I've had since it was announced just makes me realize how much everybody loves it.",
"I'm not the icing on the cake for Wimbledon, but hopefully I can be one of the many hundreds of thousands on the icing that's on the cake.\"",
"Poetry has a permanent presence at Wimbledon, the immortal lines \"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same,\" from Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If' adorning the players' entrance to Centre Court.",
"Harvey's task is to follow in those feted footsteps and compose an original work for each one of the 14 days of Wimbledon.",
"So where will he draw his inspiration from?",
"He explained: \"I'll be getting there early and experiencing Wimbledon before people get in and the change when they do arrive -- and I'll probably go and recite some poems to people in the queue too.",
"\"Wimbledon has such a rich history to draw on too.",
"I can write about the fact that in the olden days women had to wear corsets and the like, which meant their clothes weighed three times more than the men.",
"\"Or about the 1905 champion, May Sutton, who caused a stir by rolling her sleeves up above the elbow and wearing a dress that showed her ankles.",
"\"There are also a bunch of racket stringers who sit in a little hut at Wimbledon where the players take their rackets to be tuned to their specifications.",
"\"Plus, the Queen is going to be there for the first time since the silver jubilee in 1977, when Virginia Wade won the women's title, so there is enough to write about without even mentioning the on-court action.\"",
"Harvey's poems will be available on the official Wimbledon and Poetry Trust Web sites, and he'll be blogging throughout the tournament.",
"He'll also have his very own Twitter page, meaning punters can embrace their poetic side by Tweeting suggestions during the tournament.",
"He explained: \"I do a bit in my live show where members of the audience write a line of poetry on a scrap of paper and they always fit together better than people think, so I'll be inviting people to Tweet me some pithy lines and hopefully we can do the same thing.",
"\"Twitter is limited to 140 characters but you may just be able to fit a couplet in there.\"",
"• To follow Matt Harvey's poems during the tournament visit the Wimbledon or Poetry Trust Web sites."
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"Matt Harvey has been appointed Wimbledon's first official poet .",
"Harvey will write a poem every day of the two-week grand slam .",
"The public can Tweet him lines of poetry during the tournament .",
"Harvey will be reciting poems to those in the long queue for tickets ."
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"(CNN) -- Earlier this week it was reported that former NBA slam-dunk champion, Anthony \"Spud\" Webb was planning to become head coach of Rick Cabaret's New York Stripper team.",
"From the moment I read it I cracked up laughing, knowing full well that my longtime friend and golf buddy, who also happens to be president of basketball operations for the Texas Legends (an NBA D-League team) would never do such a thing, and the press release was a joke.",
"I even left him a voicemail Wednesday saying it was funny and ridiculous at the same time, and the next day his publicist released a statement calling it an \"ill-fated attempt at humor.\"",
"No harm, no foul Spud, and anyone taking it seriously needs to really learn to laugh.",
"So when I began to see tweets Friday about the maniacal real estate mogul Donald Trump moderating a Republican presidential debate in Iowa on December 27, I had the same reaction as the Spud-strip team press release: this is a bad joke.",
"But according to the conservative website Newsmax.com, they really have asked Trump to be the moderator of a real GOP presidential debate, hoping the men and women who desire to be commander-in-chief will show up to be quizzed by a reality TV show star.",
"If this \"debate\" is real, it will represent one of the stupidest ideas in the history of presidential politics, and if the Republican National Committee has any decency, they would quickly denounce this madness and say none of its candidates will bother even responding to this stunt.",
"As I've written before, Donald Trump is a political chump who should not be taken seriously.",
"To watch all of these GOP candidates make a pilgrimage to meet with him is ridiculous.",
"It's not like he's disgraced former President Richard Nixon, who often hosted candidates wanting to discuss foreign policy, especially as it related to China.",
"The only thing the late Nixon and Trump have in common is both are disgraceful.",
"It's time that real Republicans and conservatives put an end to this silly infatuation with Donald Trump.",
"A question has been raised about whether he's actually a billionaire, and he's gone to court over the issue.",
"His ideas about politics are about as useful as Flavor Flav's marital advice.",
"And discussing the issue of character and the presidency would make Trump a laughingstock to the world.",
"But let's just call this what it is: a publicity stunt by Newsmax.com to gain more subscribers to its growing media empire and a chance for Trump to bask in the glow of being taken seriously by the candidates who want to occupy the White House.",
"If we have reduced the presidency of the United States to a reality show, we deserve to get our butts kicked economically by China, and we might as well let Russia become the world's biggest superpower.",
"Any candidate that would even consider showing up to take questions from Trump should have his or her head examined and summarily booted out of the race.",
"In fact, let's go ahead and let Trump moderate a debate.",
"This will allow us to quickly narrow the field of candidates, \"Survivor\"-style.",
"For every candidate that shows up to get quizzed by Trump, we would immediately vote them off the GOP presidential island.",
"There is no way anyone could take them seriously.",
"Sorry, folks.",
"Let's not even start with the idea of Trump moderating a Newsmax.com debate.",
"I'd rather tune into strippers playing basketball than seeing the GOP presidential candidates stripped of their dignity.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin."
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"Conservative website Newsmax.com wants Trump to moderate a GOP debate .",
"Roland Martin calls this \"one of the stupidest ideas in the history of presidential politics\"\nMartin says the Republican National Committee should denounce this proposal ."
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"(CNN) -- Controversial Italian striker Mario Balotelli was sent off as English club Manchester City crashed out of the Europa League at the hands of Dynamo Kiev.",
"The Premier League side trailed 2-0 from last week's first leg in Ukraine and though they won the game 1-0 with a goal from Aleksandar Kolarov, they couldn't overturn the deficit to make the quarterfinals.",
"Their task was made much harder by the dismissal of Balotelli, who caught Kiev defender Goran Popov with his studs after a high challenge.",
"It is the second time the 20-year-old striker has been sent off since he joined City from reigning European champions Inter Milan for a reported fee of $36 million in August last year.",
"Kolarov's shot from 20 yards gave City's ten men a lifeline but though they went close through Argentina striker Carlos Tevez and Spain international David Silva, they couldn't force the tie into extra time.",
"After the match City manager Roberto Mancini told reporters he thought his side would have won if Balotelli had stayed on the pitch.",
"He said: \"The problem for Mario is that he thinks he could be a fantastic player.",
"But when he does something stupid like that, it is difficult for me, difficult for him and difficult for the team.''",
"Liverpool made it a dismal night for English clubs when they crashed out to Portuguese side Braga.",
"Despite missing a clutch of opportunities a 0-0 draw at Anfield meant Kenny Dalglish's side lost 1-0 on aggregate.",
"Braga's fellow countrymen Porto beat CSKA Moscow 2-1 thanks to goals from Hulk and Fredy Guarin, to progress 3-1 on aggregate.",
"Santi Cazorla and Giuseppe Rossi were on target for Spanish side Villarreal as they disposed of Bayer Leverkusen 5-3 on aggregate.",
"Portuguese side Benfica advanced to the last eight after they held Paris St Germain to a 1-1 draw in France to go through 3-2 on aggregate.",
"Nicolas Gaitan's away goal was canceled out by Mathieu Bodmer's strike eight minutes later but PSG couldn't break down a determined defence.",
"Spartak Moscow thrashed Dutch side Ajax 3-0 to progress 4-0 on aggregate.",
"The Russians ran out comfortable winners thanks to goals from Dmitri Kombarov, Welliton and Alex.",
"Dutch champions FC Twente fared better as they restricted Zenit St Petersburg to a 2-0 victory in Russia, to ensure a 3-2 aggregate victory.",
"Goals from Roman Shirokov and Alexander Kerzhakov weren't enough to see the 2008 UEFA Cup champions through.",
"Scottish champions Rangers were knocked out by Jeremain Lens' goal as Sporting Lisbon won at Ibrox."
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"Mario Balotelli is sent off as Manchester City go out of the Europa League .",
"Ukrainian side Dynamo Kiev make last eight after beating City 2-1 on aggregate .",
"Liverpool go out after Braga hold them to a 0-0 draw at Anfield .",
"Benfica hold on to beat PSG while Spartak Moscow beat Ajax ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- One of England's most famous soccer clubs has been sold to the American owners of baseball's Boston Red Sox following a protracted Trans-Atlantic legal battle.",
"John W. Henry, the head of New England Sports Ventures (NESV), confirmed in London Friday that the company's $480 million deal to buy Liverpool Football Club had finally been completed.",
"Liverpool's previous owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who are also American, earlier withdrew their temporary restraining order blocking the sale, having twice gone to a court in Texas to prevent the transaction.",
"\"I can't tell you how happy I am that we finally got to this stage,\" Henry told a throng of reporters.",
"\"We're going to do a lot of listening.",
"We have a lot to learn, but our actions will hopefully speak louder than words.\"",
"Liverpool takeover saga explained .",
"The deal eliminates the English Premier League club's debt obligation -- believed to be around $377 million -- to the club's main creditor, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).",
"Crucially, this will prevent the club's holding company, Kop Football Holdings, from going into administration, the British equivalent of bankruptcy.",
"This carries a nine-point penalty for Premier League clubs, and could have led to relegation from the top flight given the club's poor start to the season.",
"Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton, whom Hicks and Gillett hired to find a buyer, said in a statement: \"I am delighted that we have been able to successfully conclude the sale process which has been thorough and extensive.",
"\"The Board decided to accept NESV's offer on the basis that it best met the criteria we set out originally for a new owner.",
"NESV is buying Liverpool in order to put it on an excellent financial footing and continue to develop it internationally.",
"\"This is a good deal which comprehensively resolves the pressing issue of the Club's debt and should give staff, players and fans great confidence regarding the future of Liverpool F.C.\"",
"From the frying pan into the fire for Liverpool?",
"Meanwhile, Hicks and Gillett are now planning a $1.6 billion damages action, claiming the sale is \"illegal.\"",
"A statement on behalf of the pair read: \"It's an extraordinary swindle and it will result in exactly the wrong thing for the club and the fans.\"",
"RBS, which had set a Friday deadline for Hicks and Gillett to repay the loan used to finance their 2007 purchase of Liverpool, said any legal action by the pair \"will be vigorously opposed.\"",
"\"RBS is pleased the sale to NESV has been completed and is confident this will provide the foundation for the club and its fans to enjoy renewed success on and off the pitch,\" the bank said in a statement.",
"\"RBS is aware of reports that Mr. Hicks and Mr. Gillett may intend to pursue further litigation in relation to the sale of Liverpool F.C..",
"The English courts have described claims made to date as \"not realistic and abusive.\"",
"Any further claims against RBS will be vigorously opposed.\"",
"History of Liverpool in images .",
"Earlier Friday, Hicks was believed to be trying to offload his shares in the club to a U.S. hedge fund which already controls Gillett's 50 percent ownership, Britain's Press Association said.",
"However, the Premier League, which oversees the game in England, rejected Mill's requests to undergo a fit and proper person test, saying it could only negotiate with the Liverpool board, the BBC reported.",
"The board, headed by Broughton, approved the deal with NESV last week without the consent of Hicks and Gillett as a way to rescue the club from its financial problems.",
"But the pair said through their lawyers that superior offers had been \"on the table and were not chosen.\"",
"A subsequent bid to veto the sale was rejected by a London court, before Hicks and Gillett obtained the restraining order in a Texas court on Wednesday in an effort to delay the deal.",
"On Thursday the case was taken to a London court for a second time, but English judge Mr. Justice Floyd said the move by Hicks and Gillett amounted to \"unconscionable conduct,\" and granted anti-suit injunctions to nullify decisions taken in Texas.",
"The American duo were given until 1500 GMT (1100 EST) on Friday to comply with the ruling.",
"Henry, meanwhile, had pledged to fight Hicks' \"last desperate attempt\" to hang on to Liverpool.",
"\"We have a binding contract,\" he wrote on his Twitter account late Thursday.",
"\"Will fight Mill Hicks Gillett attempt to keep club today.",
"Their last desperate attempt to entrench their regime.\"",
"NESV promised that if its offer was successful, it would keep all acquisition debts away from Liverpool's football operations and stabilize the club in order to return it to its glory days.",
"One win in seven games has left the team 18th in the 20-team Premier League table in the early stages of the season, and at risk of possible relegation in May unless results improve.",
"The club faces one of its biggest matches of the season this Sunday against city rivals Everton.",
"The club has earned a joint record of 18 English titles -- but none since 1990.",
"It is also England's most successful club in European football, winning five European Cups, most recently in 2005."
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"New England Sports Ventures completes $480 million deal to buy Liverpool .",
"Previous owners remove legal barrier to what they called \"illegal\" sale .",
"Tom Hicks and George Gillett now planning a $1.6 billion damages action .",
"NESV removes debt obligation to main creditors the Royal Bank Of Scotland ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United ended 10-man Chelsea's hopes of winning a trophy this season with a 2-1 home victory that put Alex Ferguson's side into the semifinals of the Champions League for the fourth time in five seasons.",
"A goal in each half from Javier Hernandez and Park Ji-Sung ensured a 3-1 aggregate win for the English Premier League leaders, who beat Chelsea in the 2008 final on penalties in Moscow.",
"United will next face either defending European champions Inter Milan or Schalke, who hold a 5-2 lead ahead of Wednesday's second leg in Germany.",
"The future of Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti is now in considerable doubt after a disappointing season which has seen the London side's domestic title reign realistically over with seven games to play.",
"Ancelotti in troubled waters at the Bridge .",
"The Italian raised eyebrows when he chose to start misfiring $80 million signing Fernando Torres up front with Nicolas Anelka and Florent Malouda flanking him, leaving former spearhead Didier Drogba on the bench.",
"The Ivory Coast striker made an immediate impact after replacing Torres at halftime, and got Chelsea back into the match soon after Ramires' 70th-minute sending-off -- only for poor defending to allow United to regain a two-goal overall lead straight away.",
"\"A lot of people thought Drogba would play,\" Ferguson told reporters.",
"\"I thought having signed Torres for the money they did they had to play him.",
"I wasn't 100% sure but I couldn't see how they could leave Torres out.\"",
"Ancelotti admitted he might have made a mistake in starting the Spain striker, who has not scored since leaving Liverpool at the end of January.",
"\"Maybe. Could be. I told you a lot of times this season I wanted to start with Fernando for this kind of game, these type of tactics,\" the former AC Milan coach said.",
"\"Didier played well in the second half.",
"I wanted to put more pressure up front because we needed to score.",
"Didier was fresh and he could use his power up front.",
"This was the reason I took out Fernando.\"",
"The home side, having survived some early scares, thought they had scored in the 27th minute when Hernandez stole in at the near post to head home Wayne Rooney's cross, but the Mexico international strayed marginally offside.",
"The breakthrough came two minutes before halftime as veteran Ryan Giggs combined well with John O'Shea to burst into the right side of the penalty area and slide a pinpoint low cross with his favored left foot to an unmarked Hernandez at the far post.",
"Messi record as Barcelona go through .",
"Ancelotti replaced Anelka, the club's top scorer in Europe this season, with Salomon Kalou after an hour but United could have gone further ahead as goalkeeper Petr Cech did well to keep out a low shot from Nani and then Giggs aimed a weak header after more good work by Rooney.",
"Ramires, who was denied a penalty in injury-time in the first leg at Stamford Bridge last week, received his second yellow card after a tackle from behind on Nani.",
"The first, also for a foul on the Portugal midfielder in the opening half, had already meant the Brazil midfielder would have been suspended for the first leg of the semifinal if Chelsea had progressed.",
"With Nani replaced by Antonio Valencia in the 75th minute, Chelsea took advantage to level on the night as Michael Essien picked out Drogba with a lofted through pass and the 33-year-old chested the ball down and fired a low shot past Edwin van der Sar.",
"Rooney gives Manchester United the edge .",
"But Chelsea's excitement lasted less than 30 seconds as United surged forward, with Rooney and Giggs combining to set up hard-working South Korean midfielder Park -- who slotted in a low left-foot shot.",
"It was the 37-year-old Giggs' third assist of the quarterfinal, having also set up Rooney's first-leg winner.",
"The win kept United, the European runners-up in 2009, on course for a treble this season ahead of Saturday's FA Cup semifinal against local rivals Manchester City."
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"Manchester United win all-English semifinal 3-1 on aggregate after home victory .",
"Javier Hernandez and Park Ji-Sung score either side of Didier Drogba's equalizer .",
"Veteran Ryan Giggs sets up both United goals to add to his first-leg assist .",
"Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti faces the sack as last chance of silverware ends ."
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"(CNN) -- Cesc Fabregas scored his first goal for Barcelona as the European champions defeated Europa League winners Porto 2-0 in Monaco to win the Super Cup on Friday.",
"Spanish international midfielder Fabregas rejoined Barcelona from Arsenal for a fee in the region of $55 million earlier this month.",
"And although he was not named in the starting side by Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, Fabregas showed his class after coming on as a substitute, bursting into the penalty area two minutes from the end to superbly chest down Lionel Messi's inch-perfect lobbed pass, before volleying home.",
"What now for Arsenal and Fabregas?",
"Messi, who on Thursday was handed UEFA's inaugural Best Player in Europe Award, celebrated that honor by opening the scoring in the 39th minute.",
"A defensive mix-up left Messi through on goal, and the Argentine maestro dummied Porto goalkeeper Helton before expertly sliding the ball home.",
"The Portuguese side, who won their domestic league without losing a game last season, had two free-kick opportunities in the opening 45 minutes, but Brazilian striker Hulk missed on both occasions.",
"There was nothing to choose between the sides after the break, but Barca showed their squad depth by bringing on new signings Fabregas and Chilean winger Alexis Sanchex, and they started to take control of the match.",
"With four minutes to go, Porto had Rolando sent off for hacking down Messi, and the 10 men then fell behind to Fabregas' effort.",
"And Porto's misery was complete in the final minute when Fredy Gurain was also shown a straight red card for a late challenge on Javier Mascherano.",
"The result gave Barcelona the trophy for the fourth time in their history and second in three years."
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"Barcelona defeat Porto 2-0 to claim victory in the Super Cup in Monaco .",
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"Lional Messi celebrates UEFA award by opening the scoring in the first half ."
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"(CNN) -- Centuries from Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli helped India defeat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the fourth one-day international in Kolkata to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.",
"Upul Tharanga had hit a superb 118 and Kumar Sangakkara made a fine 60 as the visitors reached an imposing 315 for six after choosing to bat first.",
"However, Gambhir struck an undefeated 150 and Kohli made 107 -- his maiden century -- the two adding 224 for the third wicket as India easily overhauled the target, the highest one-day run chase at the famous Eden Gardens ground.",
"After the tourists opted to bat, India began well with the ball, conceding a measly nine from five immaculate overs sent down by new-ball bowlers Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra.",
"But Tillakaratne Dilshan broke the shackles by driving Nehra through the covers in the sixth over for the first boundary and from then on India gradually lost control.",
"Nehra, who had dropped Tharanga on seven when he failed to hold on to a fairly straightforward return catch, went some way to atoning for that error by snaring Dilshan early and Sanath Jayasuriya, batting at three, also departed cheaply.",
"But then Sangakkara, who was handed a reprieve before he was even off the mark when Harbhajan Singh squandered a simple chance at third man, and Tharanga built a solid base.",
"Tharanga, who increased the tempo by hitting Ishant Sharma for five boundaries in the paceman's first over, continued to bat steadily alongside his captain.",
"The pair scored easily off the spinners and struck timely boundaries as they added 126 for the third wicket, Tharanga reaching his seventh one-day century in the process.",
"The partnership was ended when the Sri Lanka captain was smartly stumped by Dinesh Karthik as he was too far out and across while attempting to help a Harbhajan delivery down to fine leg.",
"Tharanga followed Sangakkara back to the pavilion quickly after, but Sri Lanka's middle-order kicked on.",
"Perera chipped in with a 14-ball 31, while cameos from Mahela Jayawardene (33) and Thilina Kandamby (23 not out from 15) helped Sri Lanka to a strong total.",
"India's response to Sri Lanka's total began badly, the home side losing both openers with a mere 23 runs on the board.",
"Suranga Lakmal, who shared the new ball with debutant Thissara Perera, claimed stand-in-captain Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar in successive overs.",
"Those early blows brought Gambhir and Kohli together, the two steadying the ship with a calm and sensible approach.",
"Kohli injected momentum by hammering Lasith Malinga for four consecutive blows in the paceman's first over and in a period when boundaries were easily available.",
"The duo then easily negotiated the spinners, rotating the strike nicely and although the run rate dropped considerably, India were well in control.",
"Kohli was first to his century and Gambhir followed a delivery later, reaching his seventh one-day century in 101 deliveries.",
"Kohli then attempted to step up the pace and succeeded by hitting the first six of the innings -- in the 39th over -- but perished soon after while attempting another off Suraj Randiv.",
"Their 224-run stand was only 13 short of a record highest third-wicket partnership.",
"India still needed a further 69 from little more than 10 overs at that stage, but Gambhir narrowed the gap by hitting Perera and then Lakmal for successive boundaries.",
"Gambhir, with Karthik for company, got India across the line, finishing off the chase with boundary off the first ball of the penultimate over."
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"India defeat Sri Lanka by seven wickets to win the fourth one-day international in Kolkata .",
"The hosts make 317-3 to complete the highest-ever one-day run chase at the famous Eden Gardens ground .",
"Gautam Gambhir scores 150 not out as India claims a 3-1 series win with one match to play ."
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"(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo was crowned FIFA's world player of the year in Zurich on Monday as Manchester United's star winger completed a stunning trophy collection.",
"Portuguese winger Ronaldo completed a stunning trophy collection when named World Player of the Year.",
"Portugal international Ronaldo helped United win the Premier League, Champions League and world club championship titles in 2008.",
"Ronaldo also collected the European Player of the Year accolade and was voted number one by FIFPro, the worldwide players' union.",
"Now Ronaldo has seen off 2007 winner Kaka, of AC Milan, Spain Euro 2008 top scorer Fernando Torres of Liverpool and Barcelona stars Xavi and Lionel Messi.",
"\"It's another overwhelming moment in my career,\" said 23-year-old Ronaldo who received the award from Brazilian legend Pele.",
"\"It's a tremendously emotional moment and a dream come true.",
"I'd like to dedicate this to my family.\"",
"Ronaldo also paid tribute to club manager Alex Ferguson who fought a very public battle with Real Madrid last summer when the Primera Liga giants attempted to lure the player to Spain.",
"\"It's also true that the manager always has an important role to play.",
"It was a great season for me and for my club, and the coach was important for me because I learned a lot for him,\" he said.",
"\"His experience over so many years is of paramount importance -- it's a privilege to have such a great club manager.",
"\"This is the climax of a fantastic era for me.",
"I'm happy and proud about what has been done by my team and what we have won.",
"\"I am lucky to to be part of the history of a club like Manchester United.\"",
"Messi led Argentina to the Olympic gold medal in August and Nou Camp teammate Xavi was named UEFA's player of the tournament when Spain won Euro 2008 in June.",
"Ronaldo's 31 league goals in the 2007-08 season, and 42 in total, won him the European Golden Shoe as the continent's top scorer.",
"He is the first Premier League-based start to win FIFA's top individual award while David Beckham and Thierry Henry, both twice, and Frank Lampard finished runners-up.",
"The awards are voted for by the head coaches and captains of all countries.",
"Olympic silver medalist Marta of Brazil was named the FIFA women's player of the year for the third successive campaign."
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"Cristiano Ronaldo is crowned FIFA's World Player of the Year in Zurich .",
"Ronaldo also collected the 2008 European Player of the Year accolade .",
"Portuguese star helps Man Utd win domestic, european and world titles ."
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"SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNET) -- Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out.",
"Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.",
"Popular video games like the \"Grand Theft Auto\" series may soon be available on a new system.",
"It's too early to tell how much danger, of course, but a start-up called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system Monday night that, if it works as planned, could change the games game forever.",
"OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system -- seven years in the works -- that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels.",
"The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand games at the highest quality onto any Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer.",
"The system will also stream games directly to a TV via a small plug-in device, and players can use a custom wireless controller as well as VoIP headsets in conjunction with it.",
"Based here in San Francisco, OnLive timed its formal unveiling to this week's Game Developers Conference, where it will be showcasing the technology and 16 initial games it will launch with.",
"The service is currently in a closed beta, but is expected to go into a public beta this summer, and to launch this winter.",
"According to Perlman, OnLive's technology will make it possible to stream the games in such a manner--high quality, no matter what kind of system the user has--by virtue of a series of patented and patent-pending compression technologies.",
"And instead of requiring users to download the games, OnLive will host them all and stream them from a series of the highest-end servers.",
"Users will have only to download a 1MB plug-in to get the service up and running.",
"OnLive is hoping to capture a significant portion of the video game market share.",
"In February, the industry posted one of its strongest months ever, with total sales of $1.47 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago.",
"And in February, the Xbox, PS3 and Wii accounted for total sales of 1.42 million units.",
"An intended benefit of this infrastructure, Perlman and McGarvey explained, is that users will be able to play streamed games via OnLive with no lag, so long as their Internet connections meet minimum thresholds.",
"For standard-definition play, that would mean a minimum 1.5 Mbps connection, and for high-def, 5 Mbps.",
"That's obviously an essential feature, as it's hard to imagine anyone paying for a service like OnLive, no matter what games are on offer, if the user experience is inadequate.",
"But the company promises that as long as users have the requisite minimum hardware, operating systems, and Internet connections, they should be able to have seamless play.",
"The upshot of this infrastructure model, Perlman said, is that OnLive is somewhat future-proof, meaning that players won't have to upgrade anything to keep on playing games on the system years into the future.",
"Instead, the upgrades will happen on the back-end, with the company regularly boosting the power of the servers it uses to host and stream the games.",
"And while demos always have to be taken with a grain of salt, CNET News did see a real-time presentation of OnLive on at least two different computers and on a HD TV.",
"Game play was as smooth and lag-free as advertised .",
"So far, OnLive has yet to make its business model public, but what seems likely is some form of subscription service, where players will pay a monthly access fee and then pay additional costs, depending on whether they want to play games once, or buy them for permanent play.",
"The company also said that it will probably offer free trials of some or all of the games it offers, allowing consumers to decide whether they want to buy.",
"OnLive recognizes that some players may use those trials as a way of deciding whether to buy such games from traditional retail stores, but Perlman and McGarvey suggested that as long as people are interacting with the OnLive system, they'll be happy.",
"It's clear that OnLive is modeling its system at least somewhat after Microsoft's hit Xbox Live service.",
"So fans of multiplayer games won't be on their own.",
"Rather, they'll have full access to multiplayer features of games built for them.",
"And another interesting social feature is one that will allow users to digitally watch others play games in real time.",
"The company thinks that users will find it exciting to watch the best players in action, even if they themselves are only kibitzing.",
"Perlman said that the concept of spectating in online game systems is, in and of itself, not new, but that OnLive presents the first time players will be able to look in on what others are playing without owning the games themselves.",
"Another social feature in the Xbox Live mold is what are called \"brag clips.\"",
"These are essentially 15-second replays of game action that players can share with friends if they want to show off their prowess.",
"This is possible, Perlman said, because OnLive is continually recording the last 15 seconds of action.",
"All told, McGarvey said, OnLive offers a full suite of standard social features including friends, clans, rankings, leader boards, tournaments and more.",
"From the outset, OnLive isn't partnering with any of the first-party publishers--Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, meaning that franchises like \"Halo\" or \"Zelda\" won't be available.",
"And that makes sense, since those companies are hardly likely to want to sign up with a company whose very technology may obviate their longstanding business models.",
"That means, Perlman and McGarvey acknowledged, that many players who sign up for OnLive's service will still maintain their consoles, and continue to buy games for them.",
"At least for the rest of the current generation of machines, they said.",
"But come the next generation, all bets are off, they said.",
"And for the nine--to date--third-party publishers who have committed to being involved, McGarvey said, OnLive presents a much more efficient and profitable distribution model than the standard retail structure.",
"That's because the system is all digital, cutting down on physical distribution costs, and because it is designed to eradicate piracy and second-hand sales, both of which are banes of the publishers' existence.",
"Indeed, McGarvey said that OnLive has gotten strong commitments of titles from the nine publishers.",
"That means, added Perlman, that the planned launch this winter could be accompanied by the most titles of any new gaming system launch in history.",
"In addition, McGarvey said publishers are eager for the kind of raw data that OnLive can provide about players' usage of the games, including whether they like or dislike games, how much they play, how they play and so on.",
"That data is hard for publishers to collect with traditional consoles, he argued.",
"Clearly, OnLive has set an ambitious goal: dethroning the console makers as the game industry's kings.",
"And as is always the case with brand-new and publicly unavailable technology, it is far too early to know whether the company or the service can live up to that goal.",
"But if its demo is any indication, OnLive is definitely onto something, and given that the company has been in stealth mode for so many years, it's possible that the console makers will be caught off guard.",
"© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission."
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"A start-up called OnLive announced a new video game distribution system .",
"System will digitally distribute first-run games from major publishers like EA .",
"Games will be streamed to TVs at the same time they hit stores .",
"Service expected to go into a public beta this summer, and to launch this winter ."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona star Lionel Messi was named FIFA World Player of the Year in Zurich on Monday, capping a remarkable 2009 for the Argentina star.",
"Messi helped his club side Barcelona win a historic treble of Champions League, Spanish League and Spanish Cup and at the weekend scored the winner as the Catalan giants claimed the Club World Cup trophy.",
"Messi, who claimed the top European honor, the Ballon d'Or, earlier this month, beat off the challenge of last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka of Real Madrid and fellow Barca stars Andres Iniesta and Xavi in the annual poll.",
"The 22-year-old paid compliment to his teammates as he collected the award from FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini and said it was a \"great honor.\"",
"Messi added: \"A magnificent year for Barcelona has ended in the best possible way for the club and for myself.\"",
"The goalscoring winger struck in extra time as Barcelona beat Estudiantes of Argentina 2-1 on Saturday to win the Club World Cup final, the European champions' sixth trophy of the year.",
"He also scored the clinching second in Barca's 2-0 win over title holders Manchester United to win the Champions League in May.",
"Messi will be heading to next year's World Cup with Argentina after Diego Maradona's men scraped into the finals after struggling to qualify from South America.",
"He had helped his country win the Olympic football gold in Beijing in 2008 and will be hoping for a revival in their fortunes in South Africa where he will look to showcase his formidable talents.",
"Messi joined Barcelona from Newell's Old Boys which is based in Rosario, Argentina in 2000.",
"In September he signed a two-year contract extension which will keep him at the club until 2016.",
"Brazil's Marta was named women's World Player of the Year, at the glittering awards night in Switzerland, which was co-hosted by CNN World Sport's Pedro Pinto.",
"Consolation for Ronaldo, who is now at Real Madrid, came as he picked up the FIFA Puskas award for the best goal of the 2008/09 season - his long-range effort for Manchester United against Porto in the Champions League in April."
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"Barcelona's Lionel Messi named FIFA World Player of Year .",
"Argentina star has helped his club side win six trophies in 2009 .",
"Messi beats off challenge of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Xavi and Andres Iniesta in annual poll .",
"Brazil's Marta wins women's World Player of Year award ."
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"ZURICH, Switzerland -- Martina Hingis has stunned the world of sport by revealing that she tested positive for cocaine at Wimbledon.",
"Hingis won five grand slam titles and spent 209 weeks as world number one.",
"Hingis, 27, announced her retirement from tennis for the second time but denied that she had ever taken performance-enhancing drugs.",
"\"I've never taken drugs and I am 100 percent innocent,\" said the former world number one who added that she was \"shocked and appalled\" by the results of test taken after she crashed out in the third round at the All England Club to Laura Granville 6-4 6-2.",
"In a statement an emotional Hingis said: \"I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press.",
"\"My weapon on the tennis court is and always was one single thing: the game, the ingenuity on court.",
"And for this style of tennis, there is only one performance enhancer -- the love of the game.\"",
"Hingis said that she had hired an attorney to help her clear her name, but had decided to retire because she did not want to become entangled in a lengthy legal process.",
"\"A case like this one can sometimes take years to resolve, especially if both sides repeatedly appeal the case and take it to the next level.",
"\"And this is the reason for my announcement.",
"I have no desire to spend the next several years of my life reduced to fighting against the doping officials.\"",
"Hingis ended her season last month because of hip problems and said she would take as long as necessary to become fully fit again.",
"Her second round loss to Peng Shuai of China in Beijing on September 19 proved to be her final match and it was rumored ahead of Thursday's press conference in Zurich that she would be calling it a day.",
"The popular Swiss player After returning to the game she won three titles and ended last year at number seven in the world rankings.",
"She is still rated 19th on the WTA rankings.",
"During her career Hingis won five grand slam titles and spent 209 weeks as the world's number one.",
"WTA Tour chief executive Larry Scott said the tour had not received any official information about a positive test and \"as a result we are not in a position to comment on the matter.\"",
"\"However, it is important to remember that in the area of anti-doping, all players are presumed innocent until proven otherwise,\" Scott said.",
"Referring to her retirement, he said, \"Martina Hingis is a tremendous champion and a fan favorite the world over.",
"In her most recent comeback, she proved again that she can perform at the very highest levels of the game.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Martina Hingis says she tested positive for cocaine at Wimbledon .",
"The former world number one says she has never taken drugs .",
"Hingis says she is quitting top class tennis for the second time ."
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"(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal became the second man to win four successive French Open titles on Sunday after crushing world No.",
"1 Roger Federer in straight sets in the final in Paris.",
"The Spaniard triumphed 6-1 6-3 6-0 to hand Federer a third straight defeat in the final at Roland Garros, with the Swiss top seed still seeking to win the only Grand Slam crown missing from his collection.",
"And the manner of his comprehensive victory left little doubt that Federer, who has won 12 other Grand Slam titles, may struggle for many years to come in his bid to defeat his nemesis.",
"Second seed Nadal, who did not drop a set all tournament and has never lost at the clay-court event, matched the feat of Bjorn Borg's four successive wins from 1978-81.",
"He moved to a 28-0 winning record at the tournament, having won 84 of 92 sets played.",
"Nadal broke Federer in the opening game of the match, and needed only 32 minutes to wrap up the first set.",
"Federer fought back in the second, but still succumbed within 50 minutes, and then saw Nadal race through the third set in less than half an hour to clinch a historic victory.",
"Federer paid for his errors, having made 13 unforced mistakes to two by Nadal by the end of the second set.",
"By that stage Federer -- who has struggled to reach his usual imperious high standards this year following a debilitating illness -- was kicking the dirt in frustration.",
"He conceded the match with another long shot, which encapsulated his day, and must now turn his attentions to his beloved Wimbledon next month as he seeks to put behind him the disappointments of the year's two opening Grand Slams.",
"It was the first time Federer had been whitewashed in a set since 1999 on grass at Queen's in England.",
"Nadal has now won 11 of their 17 encounters, and 10 of 11 on clay, and will be seeking to continue his rivalry with Federer on his less-favored grass surface at the British event.",
"He was presented the French Open trophy by six-time winner Borg.",
"\"Sorry for Roger, but to win here is incredible and especially to win this tournament four times,\" Nadal said.",
"The 26-year-old Federer had been seeking to become the sixth man to win all four major events.",
"\"I would like to have won more than four games but Rafa has played an incredible tournament and he fully deserves to win,\" Federer said.",
"\"But I'll be back to try again next year and I am looking forward to the rest of this year.\""
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"Rafael Nadal becomes second man to win four successive French Open titles .",
"Second seed crushes world No.",
"1 Roger Federer 6-1 6-3 6-0 in Paris final .",
"Nadal has beaten Federer in three successive finals at Roland Garros .",
"Spaniard matches Bjorn Borg's effort of successive titles from 1978-81 ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A New York judge has denied a request to reduce the bail of a woman accused of running a multimillion-dollar escort service for high-powered clientele, according to court documents.",
"The bail for Anna Gristina, a New York mother of four, is currently set at $2 million bond or $1 million cash.",
"The reduction request was denied Tuesday.",
"Gristina, 44, was arrested on February 22 and has been charged with promoting prostitution in the third degree.",
"She is suspected of running a brothel out of an apartment in Manhattan's Upper East Side.",
"Prosecutor Charles Linehan said his office had requested the large bail because Gristina is considered \"an extremely high flight risk.\"",
"On Tuesday, a Morgan Stanley broker was placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation into Gristina, according to company spokesman Mark Lake.",
"Prosecutors say Gristina was with the broker in his Manhattan office shortly before her arrest, saying the pair were there to discuss the creation of a website that arranges illicit encounters.",
"The broker, who CNN is not naming because he has not been charged with a crime, said they were in talks to create a website for a legitimate dating service.",
"Gristina's next court date is scheduled for May 3.",
"Her attorney was not immediately available for comment."
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"Bail for Anna Gristina is set at $2 million bond or $1 million cash .",
"The reduction request was denied Tuesday .",
"Gristina, 44, has been charged with promoting prostitution .",
"She is suspected of running a brothel out of a Manhattan apartment ."
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"(CNN) -- Argentina booked their place in the second round of the World Cup after a 2-0 win over Greece and were joined by South Korea, who secured their berth with a thrilling 2-2 draw against Nigeria.",
"Late goals from Martin Demichelis and Martin Palermo maintained Argentina's 100% record as they booked a last 16 knockout match with fellow Latin American side Mexico.",
"Nigeria and South Korea battled it out for second spot in the group in a game that swung one way and then the other in Durban.",
"Nigeria took an early lead through Kalu Uche but Lee Jung-Soo equalized.",
"Park Chu-Young then put South Korea ahead before Yakubu leveled from the penalty spot.",
"Nigeria poured forward in search of the goal that would have put them through at the expense of their opponents but they couldn't find a winner.",
"South Korea will now play Uruguay in the second round.",
"Argentina 2-0 Greece .",
"Argentina coach Diego Maradona rested strikers Gonzalo Higuain and Carlos Tevez as Diego Milito and Sergio Aguero came into the starting line-up.",
"Greece adopted their familiar defensive approach but they struggled to contain a potent Argentina side in the opening half.",
"Maradona's side came close to opening the scoring when Sergio Aguero powered into the area, but the Atletico Madrid striker's effort was parried by Greece 'keeper Alexandros Tzorvas.",
"Seconds later Juan Sebastian Veron stang the goalkeeper's palms with a fierce drive from distance.",
"Tzorvas was grateful to defender Vasilis Torosidis in the 32nd minute as he blocked a goal bound Aguero shot after the 'keeper had spilled Diego Milito's cross.",
"The goalkeeper was busy again soon after with a double save -- first from Maxi Rodriguez's shot, then from Lionel Messi's curling effort.",
"Greece's first chance of the game came just after the break when Georgios Samaras worked his way into the area before firing wide of the target.",
"But despite needing more than a point to go through due to the score in the Nigeria versus South Korea game, Greece continued to sit back.",
"They paid the price in the 77th minute when defender Martín Demichelis smashed home a loose ball in the penalty area.",
"Messi nearly made it two in the closing stages as he jinked into the area before rifling a shot against the post.",
"Veteran striker Martin Palermo, on as a substitute, then made the game safe when he slotted home a rebound after Messi's shot had been saved.",
"Nigeria 1-0 South Korea .",
"Nigeria and South Korea met in Durban knowing that a win for either side would more than likely secure their passage into the next round.",
"In the 17th minute Nigeria took the lead as Chidi Odiah's right wing cross was turned home by Kalu Uche.",
"Midfielder Chinedu Ogbuke very nearly doubled Nigeria's advantage with a powerful shot from distance but the ball flew the wrong side of the upright.",
"Kalu Uche went close soon after when his thunderous 30-yard drive cannoned back off the post with the 'keeper beaten.",
"But in the 38th minute South Korea equalized when Lee Jung-Soo met Ki Sung-Yuen's free-kick at the back post, to volley into the net.",
"The whole complexion of the group changed in the 49th minute when Park Chu-Young's curling free-kick wrong footed 'keeper Vincent Enyeama and nestled just inside the post.",
"Yakubu then spurned a glorious chance to draw Nigeria level, missing the target from just six yards out.",
"But moments later he redeemed himself, scoring from the penalty spot after Kim Nam-Il fouled Ogbuke.",
"Argentina's late strikes meant Nigeria just needed a goal to qualify at South Korea's expense and they went in desperate search of it.",
"Substitute Obafemi Martins nearly grabbed it when he went clean through but his chip past the 'keeper dropped agonizingly wide of the post."
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"Argentina beat Greece 2-0 to finish top of World Cup Group B .",
"South Korea qualify as runners-up after drawing 2-2 with Nigeria .",
"Argentina will now face Mexico in the last 16 .",
"South Korea will play Uruguay ."
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"(Mashable) -- If event registration site Eventbrite's experience is any indication, social media marketers looking for monetary returns on their efforts might get more value from Facebook than Twitter.",
"The company announced Wednesday that an average tweet about an event drove 80 cents in ticket sales during the past six months, whereas an average Facebook Like drove $1.34.",
"The study, which used in-house social analytics tools to track ticket sales on the site, was a continuation of a similar analysis the company released in October after analyzing data from a 12-week period.",
"That study also indicated Facebook drove more sales for Eventbrite than Twitter, although the difference between the two networks' sales per post was greater at that point than throughout the entire six-month period (the \"value\" of tweets increased).",
"In addition to each individual Facebook Like driving more sales than an individual tweet, the study also revealed cumulative activity on Facebook was greater than activity on Twitter for Eventbrite.",
"People shared Eventbrite events on Facebook almost four times as often as they did on Twitter.",
"The company attributes this disparity to Facebook's wider reach and greater emphasis on real-world ties.",
"It's important to note that only a very small percentage of site visitors shared event pages on either network.",
"Just 1% of people who landed on an event page shared it with their friends; 10% of people who had purchased a ticket did the same.",
"Obviously people are more likely to share events if they are attending.",
"Their friends, according to Eventbrite's data, are also more likely to buy tickets to an event shared on Facebook by a ticket holder than one shared by an uncommitted friend.",
"But whether these trends, or any of Eventbrite's findings, are relevant to other types of purchases is still a matter of speculation.",
"But Eventbrite is betting they are.",
"\"We carefully track sharing behavior in an effort to help event organizers tap into a new world of distribution for their event promotion,\" wrote Tamara Mendelsohn, Eventbrite's director of marketing and former senior analyst at Forrester Research, in a blog post about the study.",
"\"But the findings apply broadly to all e-commerce businesses, because the foundations of e-commerce are shifting as the social graph becomes a meaningful influence in driving transactions.\"",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Study: Marketers looking for monetary returns might get more value from Facebook .",
"Average tweet drove 80 cents in ticket sales, average Facebook Like drove $1.34 .",
"People shared events on Facebook almost four times as often as they did on Twitter ."
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"(CNN) -- Inter Milan survived an early sending-off and a Barcelona onslaught to reach the final of Europe's Champions League, where they will meet Bayern Munich.",
"The Italian champions were reduced to 10 men when Thiago Motta was dismissed after 28 minutes, but defended resolutely and clung on for a 1-0 defeat in the Nou Camp which gave them a 3-2 victory on aggregate.",
"Defending champions Barca dominated possession throughout the match but did not break through until the 84th minute when Gerard Pique's goal gave them a lifeline.",
"But Inter, who have not won Europe's premier club competition since 1965, held on to set up a meeting with German side Bayern at Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium on May 22.",
"Can Mourinho beat Van Gaal to become king of Europe?",
"The victory was a personal triumph for Inter coach Jose Mourinho, who once worked as a translator at Barca and taunted the Spanish side in the build-up to the game over their \"obsession\" with winning the Champions League at the home of their arch-rivals.",
"Mourinho greeted the final whistle by sprinting across the pitch with one arm raised.",
"He shrugged off an attempt by Barca keeper Victor Valdes to restrain him and celebrated in front of the Inter fans.",
"Mourinho made a late change to his line-up shortly before kick-off with defender Christian Chivu replacing injured striker Goran Pandev.",
"Barca were on the attack from the start but did not create a clear opening until midway through the half, when Dani Alves crossed for Pedro, whose low shot fizzed narrowly wide.",
"Five minutes later, Inter were reduced to 10 men when Motta was shown a red card for pushing his hand into Sergio Busquets's face.",
"Barca went close again when Inter goalkeeper Julio Cesar pulled off a spectacular one-handed diving save to keep out a curling shot from Lionel Messi.",
"The second half began with Barca camped in the Inter half and the Italians getting all 10 players behind the ball.",
"Roared on by their 91,000 crowd, Barca were almost permanently in possession of the ball but did not create a clear opportunity until the 82nd minute when Messi lifted a cross into the path of Bojan Krkic, who glanced his header wide from just six yards.",
"Two minutes later, Xavi slipped a pass through to center-half Pique, who - pushed up front as an emergency striker - turned and slotted the ball home.",
"Barca pressed hard for the second goal that would have won them the game and thought they had it in stoppage-time when Bojan slammed into the net, but the effort was ruled out for a handball by Yaya Toure earlier in the move.",
"That proved to be the last chance of the game as Inter were left to celebrate their first appearance in the European Cup final since 1972.",
"\"We defended very well with 10 men for so long,\" Inter midfielder Wesley Sneijder told ITV television.",
"\"We fought for every meter and we gave everything.",
"We made it and we will go to Madrid.\"",
"Meanwhile, Bayern will appeal against a three-match ban imposed on Franck Ribery, which rules him out of the final.",
"The French winger was shown a red card in the first leg of the semifinal victory over Lyon and was suspended for the second leg on Tuesday."
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"Inter Milan reach Champions League final with 3-2 aggregate victory over Barcelona .",
"Italy's Inter reduced to 10 men after 28 minutes by the sending-off of Thiago Motta .",
"Holders Barcelona score late goal but cannot find a winner at their Nou Camp stadium .",
"Inter will play Bayern Munich in the final on May 22 in Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium ."
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"(CNN) -- Jenson Button snatched a sensational victory at a rain-affected Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday as world champion Sebastian Vettel made a mistake on the final lap in Montreal.",
"The German had been poised to claim his sixth victory in seven Formula One races this season after avoiding the earlier chaos behind him, but locked his wheels at a corner to let 2009 world champion Button to complete remarkable fightback.",
"The English driver had an early collision with Lewis Hamilton that ended his McLaren teammate's race, and received a drive-through penalty for speeding while the safety car was out.",
"Then, following a delay of more than two hours due to a downpour, Button suffered a punctured tire after a collision with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso that resulted in Spain's two-time world champion crashing into a wall -- and the incident will be investigated by race stewards.",
"F1 championship standings .",
"\"Even if I hadn't won I would have enjoyed this race immensely, but it's a win, definitely my best,\" Button told reporters.",
"\"I'm definitely going to be celebrating.",
"I'll have a good night and enjoy what I achieved.",
"A big thank you to the team for what they've done.\"",
"Vettel, who has not finished outside the top two this season, admitted he was disappointed not to win in the circumstances after starting the race in pole position.",
"\"I was probably too conservative at the last safety car and I did not open up enough of a gap.",
"Then when it came down to the fight at the end the mistake was down to me, I locked up the rear,\" he said.",
"\"It is still a good day as many mistakes were made and cars did not finish, yet we've picked up good points.\"",
"Vettel claims pole ahead of Ferrari pair in Montreal .",
"Button moved up to second place in the drivers' standings, 60 points behind Vettel, whose Red Bull teammate Mark Webber denied seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher his first podium finish since returning from retirement last year.",
"Hamilton, who dropped to fourth overall, was also involved in an early incident with Webber in the fifth lap soon after the safety car departed.",
"The race started behind the guide vehicle due to the poor visibility, and it made lengthy returns due to the wet weather and subsequent accidents.",
"The stewards will also be investigating a clash between Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and Force India's Adrian Sutil.",
"With the drivers behind him switching tires as the conditions changed, Vettel was able to wait until the 54th lap before changing to slicks and managed to come out still in front.",
"A frantic battle was going on for podium placings as Schumacher took advantage of a tussle between Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi to claim second.",
"The German survived one attack from Webber, who had to give back the advantage after illegally cutting across a corner to go through, but Button managed to get past both of them to earn a crack at Vettel.",
"The 31-year-old reduced Vettel's lead to just 0.9 seconds going into the final lap as he continued to set the fastest times in a race in which he made six pit-stops.",
"His 23-year-old rival buckled under the pressure, giving Button the chance to surge past and claim the 10th win of his career and his first since China in April 2010.",
"Vitaly Petrov finished fifth for Lotus Renault while Massa edged Kobayashi for sixth place, Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari were eighth and 10th, while Williams' veteran Brazilian Rubens Barrichello was ninth."
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"Former world champion Jenson Button claims victory on final lap in Montreal .",
"Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel had led for every lap after starting in pole position .",
"Race was delayed for more than two hours by rain, with several drivers crashing .",
"Vettel's teammate Mark Webber claims third place ahead of Michael Schumacher ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- Search teams retrieved a body from the wreckage of the Air France airbus that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, the French Interior Ministry said.",
"The body was still attached to a seat and \"appeared degraded,\" the ministry added in a written statement.",
"\"The attempts to bring up the bodies were made in particularly complex conditions.",
"Considerable uncertainties still remain regarding the technical feasibility of recovering the bodies,\" the French Ministry statement said.",
"DNA samples from the remains -- recovered from a depth of 3900 meters (12,700 feet) - will be sent to a laboratory for analysis, the statement added.",
"Thursday's announcement came days after the flight recorders were located.",
"All 228 people aboard the Airbus A330 Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris were killed on June 1, 2009.",
"Until now, 50 bodies had been recovered on the surface after the crash.",
"However, some relatives of those who died have expressed reservations about remains being brought to the surface.",
"Last month Robert Soulas, head of a support group for families of flight victims, said: \"For me, personally I would like to leave the bodies of my children, my two children, on the seabed.\"",
"Other relatives have called for the bodies to be recovered.",
"The Airbus A330's pilots lost contact with air traffic controllers while flying across an area of the Atlantic Ocean known for constant bands of severe turbulence, officials said.",
"But exactly what caused the plane to plunge into the sea has remains a mystery.",
"France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) said on Thursday that the external casings of both the flight recorders -- which record data and cockpit voices -- were in good condition and that they had started a \"drying\" process.",
"It would take a couple of days for the units to dry and then approximately a week or two before they could determine if both were still working, the BEA said.",
"Martine Del Bono, a spokeswoman for the Paris-based BEA said that even if there was some internal damage to the recorders, some data might still be recoverable.",
"\"We must be very very careful... we are confident but it will take time for us to know whether we can retrieve all the data.\"",
"Phil Seymour, chief operating officer of the International Bureau of Aviation, a British aviation consultancy, said: \"I remain skeptical about how useful this device (memory unit) will be.",
"If you were to throw a computer into the ocean, imagine how all the parts would eventually split up.",
"You also have the corrosive effects of seawater and the immense depths involved.\""
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"Search teams retrieved a body from the wreckage of the Air France airbus .",
"Flight recorders recovered and are being \"dried\"\nAir France flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009, killing 228 people .",
"It took nearly two years to locate the bulk of the wreckage ."
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"(CNN) -- The NBA rewarded patient fans Sunday with an exciting game that kick-started a season delayed five months by a lockout.",
"The comeback New York Knicks, behind Carmelo Anthony's 37 points, edged the Boston Celtics 106-104.",
"The much-anticipated rematch of last season's NBA Finals, between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat, turned out to be a bust.",
"The Heat beat the champions 105-94, but the Mavs trailed by more than 30 points at times.",
"Get ready to crown King James .",
"Other matches include the Chicago Bulls vs. the Los Angeles Lakers; the Orlando Magic vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder; and the Los Angeles Clippers vs. the Golden State Warriors.",
"In November, NBA players and owners reached a tentative deal to end the league's months-long lockout.",
"At the center of the dispute behind the lockout was the debate over how much of the league's revenue share should go to players, including for pensions and medical benefits -- something their union funded in the past.",
"Owners had sought to change the old revenue-sharing arrangement that gave players 57% of the revenue.",
"The new deal offers a virtual 50-50 split.",
"Full roundup of NBA action at Sports Illustrated ."
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"New York Knicks beat Boston Celtics in season opener .",
"Sunday's games also included a disappointing rematch of last season's NBA Finals .",
"The season was delayed because of a months-long lockout .",
"NBA players and owners reached a tentative deal in November ."
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"(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser insisted Sunday that Obama's economic plan would be big enough to handle the country's financial challenges, but he declined to speculate about how large the plan would need to be.",
"Senior adviser David Axelrod says it will take the \"best people we can find\" to carry out Obama's economic plan.",
"During the presidential campaign, Obama proposed a $175 billion stimulus package over a two-year period, but some of his economic advisers have said recently that the package would need to be much larger.",
"Asked if Obama would scale up the package, given the economic conditions, Obama's incoming senior adviser, David Axelrod, said he thinks Obama is \"going to do what's necessary.\"",
"\"I'm not going to throw a figure out here.",
"What he said is, he wants a plan big enough to deal with the large challenges we face.",
"And I think there's a growing consensus across the spectrum among economists that we're going to have to do something big,\" Axelrod said Sunday on ABC's \"This Week.\"",
"Obama on Saturday offered an outline of his economic recovery plan to create 2.5 million jobs by 2011, saying American workers will rebuild the nation's roads and bridges, modernize its schools and create more sources of alternative energy.",
"Details of the plan are still being worked out by his economic team, Obama said, but he hopes to sign the two-year, nationwide plan shortly after taking office January 20.",
"Obama noted he will need support from both Democrats and Republicans to pass such a plan, and said he welcomes suggestions from both sides of the aisle.",
"\"But what is not negotiable is the need for immediate action,\" he said Saturday.",
"Axelrod said it will take \"the best people we can find, the best minds in our country\" to carry out Obama's economic plan.",
"In an interview on \"Fox News Sunday,\" he said New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers are among the those people.",
"Summers, who lost out to Geithner for the Treasury post, is expected to be the top economic adviser in the Obama White House, two sources close to the transition said Saturday.",
"Summers, who was Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, will be named chief of the National Economic Council by Obama at an event in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday, the sources said.",
"Geithner's nomination to be Treasury secretary, the top economic post in the Cabinet, will also be officially announced at Monday's event, the sources said.",
"Axelrod, on ABC, referred to Geithner's \"pending appointment.\"",
"Watch panelists weigh in on possible Cabinet choices » .",
"In another Cabinet decision, two Democrats close to the transition told CNN that New Mexico Gov.",
"Bill Richardson is expected to be nominated as secretary of commerce, pending the final vetting process.",
"Richardson, one of the leading Hispanics in the Democratic Party, had been seeking the secretary of state post but lost out to Sen. Hillary Clinton.",
"Obama aides have told CNN that Obama is \"on track\" to nominate Clinton as his secretary of state after Thanksgiving.",
"The precise timing of the announcement of Richardson's appointment is unclear.",
"Two Richardson advisers said privately that Richardson had been hoping the State Department leadership post would be his prize after facing political heat for picking Obama over Clinton, but the governor is willing to accept another post in hopes that he will move up in the Cabinet later in the administration.",
"Richardson was energy secretary and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in Bill Clinton's administration.",
"Obama's pick will now mean that at least three former rivals from the Democratic presidential primaries will be in senior posts in the Obama administration: Richardson, Clinton and Vice President-elect Joe Biden.",
"The Obama transition team on Saturday also announced several key appointments to his communications team.",
"Ellen Moran, the executive director of EMILY's List, will be Obama's communications director.",
"Moran worked for the AFL-CIO, coordinating \"Wal-Mart corporate accountability activities,\" before returning to EMILY's, an organization dedicated to helping Democratic women get elected to office.",
"Robert Gibbs, an Obama campaign spokesman who also has been spokesman for the transition, will become Obama's press secretary -- one of the most highly visible roles in the administration.",
"Gibbs -- an Auburn, Alabama, native who has worked for Sen. Fritz Hollings, the Democratic Senatorial Committee and Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign -- was communications director, then a senior strategist, for the Obama campaign.",
"Dan Pfeiffer, current communications director with the transition team, will be Obama's deputy communications director.",
"He began work with the Obama campaign in January 2007 as traveling press secretary before returning to Chicago to work as communications director.",
"\"These individuals will fill essential roles, and bring a breadth and depth of experience that can help our administration advance prosperity and security for the American people,\" Obama said in a written statement.",
"\"This dedicated and impressive group of public servants includes longtime advisors and a talented new addition to our team, and together we will work to serve our country and meet the challenges of this defining moment in history.\"",
"CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry contributed to this report."
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"Growing consensus: \"We're going to have to do something big,\" Axelrod says .",
"Sources: Larry Summers to be named top Obama economic adviser .",
"Obama announces plans to create 2.5 million jobs by 2011 ."
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"New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Last week, the Obama administration announced that the deep waters of the Gulf are again open for drilling.",
"That the BP oil disaster is continuing and will have lasting effects is unacknowledged.",
"The BP disaster was the largest oil catastrophe the country has ever seen, and the Gulf of Mexico and our communities have a long road to recovery.",
"Our friends in the fishing industry are still out of work, the effects of the spill on wildlife have not been fully assessed, the safety of our seafood is still in question and entire cultures are barely hanging on.",
"The administration says new rules and regulations will make deepwater oil drilling safer.",
"Although we welcome the new rules, we believe that they do not go far enough.",
"There is little assurance that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, charged with enforcement, has the resources to hold the industry accountable.",
"Gulf Restoration Network believes further steps must be taken immediately to ensure the safety of oil drilling in deep off-shore waters.",
"The government and the public need to stay focused on the disaster and environmental impacts that are just beginning to play out, continue to hold BP accountable and act to make sure this never happens again.",
"We hope the Obama administration approaches continued cleanup, regulatory reform and damage mitigation, none of which is even close to being accomplished, with the same urgency it has shown in efforts to reopen the Gulf to deepwater drilling.",
"BP's spill is only the latest and most visible evidence of the oil and gas industry's ongoing environmental destruction in the Gulf.",
"Louisiana loses the equivalent of a football field worth of wetlands every hour, and 40 to 60 percent of that loss is attributed to oil and gas activity, including exploration and dredging of pipeline canals.",
"The oil and gas industry must pay its fair share for coastal restoration, and a large portion of the fines levied against BP should be dedicated to ongoing restoration efforts.",
"Despite what the rest of the oil industry claims, BP is not a rogue player when it comes to taking big risks at the expense of the Gulf.",
"Other oil and gas companies have violated safety and environmental regulations.",
"Regulatory reforms and policy changes are urgently needed to prevent drilling disasters, ensure oil-rig safety in the Gulf and elsewhere and guarantee rapid response and cleanup when accidents happen.",
"Industry in the Gulf still lacks the necessary assets to effectively respond to a catastrophic blowout.",
"In light of the abysmal response, containment and cleanup we have observed and continue to observe in the aftermath of the BP disaster, it's clear that we need new rules that require real, credible blowout response plans before any new deepwater drilling is permitted.",
"There is only one way to make sure the federal agencies and the oil and gas industry remain vigilant and operate as safely as possible -- local communities must have a voice in decisions regarding oil and gas development.",
"Because we are the ones who pay the price for the industry's bad decisions, we deserve a seat at the table.",
"An opposing view on reopening the Gulf to deepwater drilling .",
"A Gulf of Mexico Regional Citizens' Advisory Council is essential to formalizing the public's role in overseeing what the industry does in our Gulf.",
"It worked in Alaska after the Exxon Valdez spill, and it will work in the Gulf.",
"Congress should pass legislation to create and require the oil industry to fund a Gulf of Mexico Regional Citizens' Advisory Council.",
"Congress must also do its part to aid restoration of the Gulf.",
"The White House's \"America's Gulf Coast: A Plan for Long-Term Recovery in the Aftermath of the BP Oil Spill,\" assembled by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, lays out a vision for community recovery, improving public health, coastal restoration and marine resiliency that can begin to restore the Gulf.",
"We strongly urge Congress to support the plan and ensure BP fines go toward restoring the Gulf.",
"Early this month, 46 community, local, regional, national and international environmental, social justice and fishermen's groups met in Weeks Bay, Alabama.",
"We drafted a set of goals and principles that we believe must guide the recovery and restoration of the Gulf of Mexico, our coast and our communities in the wake of the BP drilling disaster.",
"It's called The Weeks Bay Principles for Gulf Recovery.",
"Together, we want the nation to know that the oil is still here, and so are we.",
"The Gulf's people and places need lasting and continued support to get back on their feet.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Cynthia Sarthou."
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"Cynthia Sarthou: Gulf waters open for drilling before BP spill even assessed or cleaned .",
"New rules don't go far enough, she says; federal agency lacks resources to enforce .",
"Sarthou: Gulf fishing industry and people just hanging on; seafood safety in question .",
"Local communities must have voice in oil, gas development decisions, Sarthou writes ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United took a big step towards reaching the Champions League final for the third time in four years as the English team ended Schalke's 100% home record this season in Europe's top club competition on Tuesday.",
"Second-half goals from Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney gave United a 2-0 victory in Germany ahead of next Wednesday's second leg of the semifinal at Old Trafford.",
"It could have been a much greater margin as goalkeeper Manuel Neuer performed heroics to keep the match scoreless for more than an hour, while United's defense has yet to concede away from home in the tournament this season.",
"But Rooney set Giggs clear with a clever pass and the 37-year-old slipped the ball past Neuer with his favored left foot in the 67th minute to make up for several earlier misses by the Welshman.",
"Neville: Arsenal trip is United's toughest test .",
"Giggs became the oldest player to score in the tournament, surpassing Javier Zanetti's October effort against Tottenham by nearly three months.",
"England striker Rooney doubled the lead three minutes later after Javier Hernandez nipped in front of the static Schalke defense and slid the ball into his path.",
"\"We're delighted but a bit disappointed in terms of not scoring more,\" Rooney told reporters.",
"\"We have done very well. We have to be professional for the second leg as Schalke can't be taken lightly.",
"They went to Inter and won 5-2 (in the quarterfinals).\"",
"Neuer, who has announced that he will not extend his contract at Schalke and will reportedly make a post-season move to Bayern Munich, had earlier shown why so many clubs -- including United -- have been linked with the 25-year-old.",
"The Germany international denied Giggs twice in the first half and also saved from Hernandez, and then kept out Michael Carrick's header straight after the break.",
"Giggs shot embarrassingly wide with his weaker right foot after a clever turn outwitted two defenders, then Hernandez was ruled offside before putting the ball past Neuer in the 51st minute.",
"'Envious' Ferguson wants to match Real Madrid .",
"After United finally went comfortably ahead, manager Alex Ferguson was able to rest Hernandez, Park Ji-Sung and Rooney ahead of Sunday's trip to English Premier League rivals Arsenal.",
"It was the 69-year-old Scot's 100th away game in Europe as a manager, as he seeks to add to Champions League titles in 1999 and 2008 to give United a fourth European crown overall.",
"United have every incentive to reach the final, which will be played on home soil at London's Wembley Stadium on May 28.",
"However, the 18-time English champions have never beaten a German team in four two-legged ties so far in the competition, losing to Bayern in last season's quarterfinals.",
"\"We have to recognize that we were dominated by a team playing in a different dimension,\" Schalke defender Christoph Metzelder said.",
"\"We still have hope, anything is possible.",
"We'll try to do everything to win at Old Trafford.\"",
"The winning team will progress for a title match against Spanish giants Barcelona or Real Madrid, who clash in the first leg of their semifinal at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday.",
"United lost 2-0 to Barcelona in the 2009 final in Rome.",
"Meanwhile, Stoke City moved up to ninth place with a 3-0 win over relegation-threatened Wolverhampton in Tuesday's only Premier League fixture.",
"Striker Kenwyne Jones opened the scoring with a header after 16 minutes, while defender Ryan Shawcross made it 2-0 from close range on halftime before winger Jermaine Pennant made it safe with a deflected effort soon after the interval.",
"However, Stoke winger Matthew Etherington could miss the FA Cup final against Manchester City on May 14 after being stretchered off in the first half with a hamstring injury.",
"The defeat left Wolves second from bottom with four matches to play."
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"Second-half goals from Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney give United semifinal edge .",
"Schalke beaten at home for first time in this season's Champions League .",
"United have never beaten a German team in a two-leg tie in the tournament .",
"Alex Ferguson seeking to take United to a third final in four years ."
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"(CNN) -- Novak Djokovic swept past Spain's David Ferrer in straight sets to win the Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament Saturday and demonstrate he is in fine fettle for the start of the 2012 season.",
"Djokovic ended the regular 2011 campaign nursing an injury and by losing to Ferrer at the end of season ATP World Tour Finals, but there was to be no repeat as the Serbian won 6-2 6-1.",
"After victories over Gail Monfils and Roger Federer, it was ideal preparation for the World No.1 in the build-up to his defense of the Australian Open title next month.",
"It also earned him the $250,000 check in the winner-takes-all six-man invitation event.",
"Djokovic never looked back after sweeping into a 3-0 lead and was rarely troubled by his outclassed opponent.",
"Earlier, Rafael Nadal beat old rival Roger Federer to claim third place with a 6-1 7-5 victory.",
"But the Swiss maestro was unperturbed by his defeats ahead of the official season start next week.",
"\"It's about getting ready and feeling fine out there and enjoying a great atmosphere here and having the chance to play world class players,\" Federer told gathered reporters.",
"\"Trying a few things, see where you are at and see where the other guys are at.\"",
"It was a welcome win for Nadal, who lost to Ferrer Friday, and has been troubled by a shoulder injury ahead of the first grand slam of the season."
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"Novak Djokovic wins Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament .",
"World No.1 thrashes David Ferrer 6-2 6-1 in final .",
"Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer for third place .",
"Nadal sees off Swiss rival 6-1 7-5 ."
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"(CNN) -- Oil company BP shouldered some responsibility for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster Wednesday after an internal investigation of the spill, but assigned much of the blame to contractors Halliburton and Transocean.",
"Faulty cementing, a misread pressure test and an improperly maintained blowout preventer all contributed to the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon drill rig and led to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, BP's nearly 200-page report on the disaster concluded.",
"\"The team did not identify any single action or inaction that caused this accident,\" BP's report states.",
"\"Rather, a complex and interlinked series of mechanical failures, human judgments, engineering design, operational implementation and team interfaces came together to allow the initiation and escalation of the accident.",
"Multiple companies, work teams and circumstances were involved over time.\"",
"Both Halliburton and Transocean sharply disputed the findings, with Transocean calling them \"self-serving\" and Halliburton insisting that the problem lay with BP's well design.",
"In a corporate statement, Halliburton said the report contained \"a number of substantial omissions and inaccuracies.\"",
"\"Halliburton remains confident that all the work it performed with respect to the Macondo well was completed in accordance with BP's specifications for its well construction plan and instructions, and that it is fully indemnified under its contract for any of the allegations contained in the report,\" the company said.",
"A Halliburton engineer also criticized BP's well design during an August hearing by the Coast Guard-Interior Department board investigating the disaster.",
"But in a statement accompanying the report, outgoing BP chief Tony Hayward said the well design was not the issue.",
"\"Based on the report, it would appear unlikely that the well design contributed to the incident, as the investigation found that the hydrocarbons flowed up the production casing through the bottom of the well,\" he said.",
"In July, Hayward said the disaster \"was the result of multiple equipment errors and human error involving many companies.\"",
"Bob Dudley, who is replacing Hayward, said Wednesday's report \"makes that conclusion even clearer.\"",
"BP's report also found \"potential weaknesses\" in Transocean's maintenance of the rig's blowout preventer, the massive fail-safe device that failed to shut down the well after the explosion.",
"BP said its team aboard the doomed platform \"incorrectly accepted\" results of a negative pressure test on the rig before the blast and mistakenly rejected equipment that cement contractor Halliburton requested to complete the well's casing.",
"Rep. Ed Markey, the head of a congressional subcommittee also investigating the spill, said the report was no \"mea culpa\" on BP's part.",
"\"Of their own eight key findings, they only explicitly take responsibility for half of one,\" said Markey, D-Massachusetts.",
"\"BP is happy to slice up blame, as long as they get the smallest piece.\"",
"Several other investigations are still going on, including probes by Congress and the Justice Department.",
"Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man for the disaster, said the BP report was \"not the be-all and end-all\" on the matter.",
"\"I would just say the more we know about this event in general, the better off we are,\" Allen told reporters Wednesday.",
"\"It'll add to a larger body of evidence that, or body of work, that might be, won't be completed until we finish the joint investigation by the Department of Interior and Homeland Security, and the other various investigations that are going on.\"",
"And Aaron Viles, a spokesman for the Louisiana-based Gulf Restoration Network, largely dismissed the report.",
"\"While any investigation headed up by BP has as much credibility as my 3-year-old daughter's nightly assertions that it's not bedtime yet, BP cops to much, but not all here,\" Viles said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon.",
"\"Ultimately, the report is going to be used to bolster BP's case against the other potentially responsible parties, such as Transocean and Halliburton.\"",
"Viles said that while tracking the cause of the explosion is important, \"fighting the last war won't necessarily prepare us for the next, inevitable mess.\"",
"As the well owner, BP is responsible for the cleanup and has set aside a $20 billion escrow fund to pay for damages.",
"But BP, Halliburton and Transocean have repeatedly pointed fingers at one another over the cause of the explosion, which resulted in an estimated 4.9 million barrels (205 million gallons) of oil spilling into the Gulf over 87 days.",
"In Wednesday's report, BP said its team aboard the rig misread a critical pressure test in the hours before the explosion.",
"\"In retrospect, pressure readings and volume bled at the time of the negative-pressure test were indications of flow-path communication with the reservoir, signifying that the integrity of these barriers had not been achieved,\" the report states.",
"\"The Transocean rig crew and BP well site leaders reached the incorrect view that the test was successful and that well integrity had been established.\"",
"Neither of BP's well site leaders, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, has appeared before the investigative board.",
"Kaluza has invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, while Vidrine was excused for medical reasons.",
"BP's investigation found that Halliburton used a \"likely unstable\" cement mix that was not fully tested before it was used.",
"Mark Bly, BP's head of safety and operations, said in a video accompanying the report that Halliburton \"did not conduct comprehensive lab tests that could've identified potential problems with the cement.\"",
"But he added, \"We believe that BP and Halliburton working together should have better identified and addressed the issues underlying the cement job.\"",
"But Halliburton engineer Jesse Gagliano testified in August that he warned BP that its well design was inadequate.",
"Appearing before the investigative board, Gagliano said he told BP that the well design did not have enough centralizers -- devices used to position the cement casing around the well bore.",
"The design called for six centralizers, but Gagliano recommended 21 because of the \"severe gas flow problem\" in the well.",
"BP engineer Brian Morel replied by e-mail that \"It was too late and we had to deal with what we had on the rig,\" Gagliano testified.",
"In addition, e-mails from BP engineers, released by a congressional committee in June, suggest that the oil company had its own concerns about the well.",
"Drilling engineer Brian Morel called it a \"nightmare well which has everyone all over the place,\" while Mark Hafle called it \"a crazy well.\"",
"Both Hafle and Morel invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination during the most recent round of hearings by the investigative board.",
"Eventually, 15 more centralizers were shipped to the rig.",
"BP's well team \"erroneously believed that they had received the wrong centralizers\" and decided not to use them, according to Wednesday's report -- but the decision not to use them \"likely did not contribute to the cement's failure to isolate the main hydrocarbon zones or to the failure of the shoe track cement.\"",
"BP's report also faults Transocean's crew for failing \"to recognize and act on the influx of hydrocarbons into the well until the hydrocarbons were in the riser and rapidly flowing to the surface.\"",
"\"Indications of influx with an increase in drill pipe pressure are discernible in real-time data from approximately 40 minutes before the rig crew took action to control the well,\" the report states.",
"\"The rig crew's first apparent well control actions occurred after hydrocarbons were rapidly flowing to the surface.\"",
"In its response, Transocean said BP made decisions that increased the chances that flammable gas would come flowing out of the well.",
"It also failed to run a common test on the integrity of the cement or to employ a \"lockdown sleeve\" that would have helped contain the eventual blowout, it said."
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"BP says its own team \"incorrectly accepted\" test results .",
"Previous testimony pointed fingers at BP well design ."
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"(CNN) -- European champions Spain beat Honduras 2-0 in Group H to get their World Cup campaign back on track.",
"Striker David Villa scored twice and missed a penalty in Johannesburg as the Spanish bounced back from their shock defeat to Switzerland in their opening game.",
"Earlier, Chile beat the 10-man Swiss 1-0 in Port Elizabeth, a victory which puts the South Americans top of the group.",
"Mark Gonzalez headed the only goal of the game shortly after the Swiss had set a new World Cup record for time without conceding a goal, surpassing Italy's mark of 549 minutes midway through the second half.",
"Spain 2-0 Honduras .",
"Spain came into their Group H clash with Honduras knowing that only a win would suffice after their surprise 1-0 loss to the Swiss.",
"Villa had already rattled the crossbar from long range when he gave the Europeans the lead with one of the goals of the tournament so far.",
"Picking the ball up on the left flank, the Barcelona-bound front man cut between two Hondurans, went round another and smashed a shot into the top corner.",
"Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, recalled to the starting line-up following knee surgery, missed a string of straightforward chances and looked frustrated when he was taken off in the second half.",
"Villa's second goal arrived six minutes after half-time when his left-footed shot from outside the area deflected off a Honduran defender and looped over goalkeeper Noel Valladares.",
"Villa was handed a golden opportunity to score his hat-trick when Emilio Izaguirre brought down Jesus Navas in the box.",
"But the former Valencia frontman rolled his penalty wide of the post.",
"Spain continued to dominate, with substitute Cesc Fabregas and Villa coming close in the final stages.",
"But Vicente Del Bosque's side may live to regret their failure to add to the score-line should the final placings in Group H come down to goal difference.",
"Chile 1-0 Switzerland .",
"Chile had to work hard for their victory over 10-man Switzerland in Port Elizabeth which means the five South American teams are still to be beaten at this World Cup.",
"The Chileans made the brighter start and Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio had to be at his best to keep out powerful efforts from Arturo Vidal and Carlos Carmona.",
"In a fiery first half, Switzerland were reduced to 10 men after half an hour when West Ham's Valon Behrami was shown a red card for an elbow on Vidal.",
"Chile had welcomed Humberto Suazo, the top scorer in South American qualifying, back to their starting line-up following a hamstring injury, but he looked short of full fitness, and was replaced at half-time after heading his best chance over the bar.",
"The second half was a Chilean onslaught and the South Americans looked to have taken the lead from a set-piece early in the second half when Alexis Sanchez's deflected shot flew into the net, but the goal was ruled out because two Chilean players were offside.",
"Switzerland, who pulled off one of the biggest shocks of the tournament by beating Spain 1-0, looked on course for another impressive result before their defense was finally breached with just over 15 minutes to go.",
"A precise pass sent substitute Esteban Paredes clear down the right flank and his center found the unmarked Gonzalez, whose header bounced and struck the underside of the bar before going into the net.",
"Paredes wasted two clear chances to extend the Chilean lead and Marcelo Bielsa's side were almost made to pay the ultimate price in the last minute.",
"A brisk Swiss counter-attack found its way to Eren Derdiyok, whose side-footed shot went narrowly wide.",
"Chile meet Spain and Switzerland face Honduras in the final round of group games on June 25."
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"(MNN.com) -- I've watched my brother-in-law lavish ribs, potato salad and even nachos on his beloved pooch with reckless abandon.",
"Give my dog Lulu a banana, and she returns it in a far less pleasant form.",
"That's why I spend the holidays policing relatives as they walk their near-empty Thanksgiving plates to the kitchen.",
"They mean well, they really do.",
"But depositing scraps of ham, uneaten bits of mac and cheese and other yummies into my dog's bowl can do more holiday harm than good.",
"While I appreciate the generosity, I don't relish the tummy troubles or the gassy nights that typically follow.",
"\"Pets get used to absorbing a certain amount of fat, carbohydrates and protein; [their diet] can be thrown out of balance during the holidays,\" says pet nutritionist Dr. Martin Glinsky, who began manufacturing holistic pet food in the 1980s.",
"\"The most common symptom is some form of loose stool or diarrhea and -- with my dog -- bouts of nausea.",
"She's just not used to the rich food we feed ourselves.\"",
"Unfortunately, overly generous relatives aren't the only threat to a pet's digestive system.",
"Dogs and cats have a knack for finding and consuming things they should avoid, particularly when their people are preoccupied.",
"The ASPCA's poison control hotline (1-888-426-4435) handled 167,000 cases last year, says medical director Dr. Tina Wismer.",
"Chocolate, a holiday staple, remains the No.",
"1 culprit. Pet insurance company VPI also notes a spike in claims related to chocolate poisoning during the holidays.",
"The company's infamous \"Hambone Award\" even pays tribute to pets and the quirky things they consume, such as the Labrador that ate a Thanksgiving turkey carcass or a golden retriever that consumed an artificial Christmas wreath.",
"Perhaps my brother-in-law's table scraps aren't so bad in comparison.",
"MNN: How to protect your pet from poisonous plants .",
"But there are ways to help pets participate in holiday festivities without the risk of accidental injury or illness.",
"Start by brushing up on basic obedience skills so that your pet will have tools to avoid temptation, says ASPCA trainer Kristen Collins.",
"\"Training your dog to 'leave it' on cue can be really useful when you have lots of people and tempting foods around,\" she says.",
"\"With lots of visitors, it's also a great opportunity to teach your dog to greet people politely.\"",
"Here are some tips to help dogs behave on a leash around houseguests.",
"Collins suggests pet-friendly zones, complete with soft bedding, toys and chews.",
"MNN: Downing Street defends \"mouser-in-chief\" \"Pets become overwhelmed by people and sounds and smells during holidays,\" Collins says.",
"\"It's best to fix up a comfy confinement space for your pet.\"",
"Of course, you also can be firm with guests who try to be a little too generous with the table scraps.",
"\"Most guests are conscious of your relationship with your dog and will say, 'Want me to save this?'\"",
"Glinsky says.",
"\"I have no problem saying, 'Please don't feed the dog.",
"She's on her own diet, and we don't feed her table scraps.'",
"Your dog needs you for her well-being and she looks to you for that.",
"You've got to do what's necessary to provide her with that safety.\"",
"Follow Morieka on Twitter @soulpup.",
"© Copyright 2011 Mother Nature Network ."
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"Letting dogs eat Thanksgiving leftovers can do more harm than good .",
"The holidays are a perfect time to teach your dog to greet people politely and avoid tempting food .",
"As an owner look out for your dogs well-being and make sure your guests don't feed him or her ."
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"(CNN) -- As usual, Professor Paul Krugman's piece in the Monday morning New York Times is causing a great deal of chatter among the political types.",
"Krugman points out just how inept the Republican field is.",
"In some cases he takes a scalpel (and in others a machete) to surely the weakest field of presidential aspirants any party has offered in modern American history (see my earlier CNN column comparing this field to 1980).",
"I believe I can explain why this field is so inept.",
"In order to proffer this explanation I am going to utilize Professor Krugman's field of economics.",
"Hold on: I confess I've never taken an economics course and if you ask me the relationship between interest rates and bond prices I would have a Herman Cain Libya moment.",
"I could probably get the right answer but it would take me a while.",
"There are some laws of economics that I believe all economists (be they salt, fresh, or brackish water) would agree on.",
"One of these is: The more valuable a thing, the more people will be interested in purchasing that thing.",
"And as Professor Krugman points out in his piece, the 2012 Republican nomination was clearly considered by most observers to be a thing of value.",
"Even the most partisan Democrat -- me for example -- would concede that three months ago the Republicans had an excellent chance to win the presidency.",
"So ask yourself: Why does this thing that appears to have so much value have so many low bidders?",
"Why did people like Govs.",
"Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, Jeb Bush and Sen. John Thune, all look at this and decide not to raise their paddles?",
"So here we wind up with the political equivalent of the Hope Diamond going for $99.99.",
"I think that these guys were smart enough to see a big flaw in the process and it is this: The majority of the people in the Republican Party who were going to pick their nominee had been so overwhelmed by misinformation, unworkable simplistic solutions -- e.g., electrifying border fences -- and anti-science, right-wing pandering, that the potential candidates decided they just could not go through with it.",
"We have watched GOP debates where audience members booed gay soldiers and cheered the prospect of someone dying without health insurance.",
"We've seen a candidate who wasn't penalized in the least for not knowing that China has had nuclear weapons since 1964 but had to drop out because of a consensual sexual relationship.",
"We have seen a member of the House Intelligence Committee who apparently didn't realize that we haven't had an embassy in Iran for the last 30 years, candidates who don't believe in evolution, and a candidate that didn't even know the voting age in the United States.",
"Maybe Bush, Daniels, Christie, Barbour and Thune figured out ahead of time what Fairleigh Dickinson University uncovered just recently: that people who watch Fox News are actually more ignorant than people who watch no news at all.",
"Could you imagine what they would have found had they studied people listening to talk radio?",
"Perhaps the Republicans are getting exactly the kind of candidates that best match the intellectual composition of the majority of the people in their party -- just a thought, but it's my only explanation of our low bidders.",
"Looks like their chance at the presidency is going, going, gone.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of James Carville."
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"James Carville says the GOP field for president is very weak and he thinks he knows why .",
"He says economics says that if a thing has value, people want it, but few want this job .",
"He says good candidates shied away because they couldn't take low level of discourse .",
"Carville: GOP getting candidates that match intellectual composition of many in the party ."
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"(CNN) -- Three-time major winner Maria Sharapova has been forced to withdraw from January's Brisbane International event because of an ankle injury.",
"The 24-year-old Russian suffered the injury in September's Pan Pacific Open, and she has failed to shake off the problem.",
"Sharapova released a statement saying: \"I was really looking forward to starting my 2012 season at the Brisbane International, which has a fantastic reputation as a great and welcoming event.",
"Venus may miss Australian Open .",
"\"Unfortunately my ankle is not 100% and I won't be able to make it this year.\"",
"However, Sharapova still believes she will be fit for the Australian Open, which gets underway in Melbourne on January 16.",
"\"I do expect to be ready for the year's first grand slam and I am really looking forward to competing on court,\" added Sharapova, who won the Australian Open in 2008.",
"Despite Sharapova's absence, the Brisbane tournament -- which begins on New Year's Day -- still has a strong entry list with Serena Williams, Samantha Stosur and Kim Clijsters all confirmed starters."
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"Maria Sharapova has pulled out of January's Brisbane International tournament .",
"Three-time major winner Sharapova is suffering from an ankle injury .",
"The Russian expects to be fit for the Australian Open which she won in 2008 ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Argentine dictator Gen. Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for crimes against humanity at a clandestine detention center during his rule.",
"He was already serving a 25-year sentence from a previous trial.",
"He ruled Argentina from June 1982 until the nation's return to democracy in December 1983.",
"Argentina's 2nd Oral Federal Court handed down the ruling.",
"The punishment stems from an investigation into a clandestine detention facility hidden inside a hospital during the country's military dictatorship.",
"Under his command, at least 22 people were kidnapped and taken to the center, known as the \"Chalet at the Posadas Hospital,\" according to evidence in the case.",
"Five of those were tortured during their detention, according to Argentina's judicial information center.",
"Bignone, was previously sentenced in April 2010 to 25 years in prison for kidnapping and torturing 56 people.",
"Up to 30,000 students, labor leaders, intellectuals and leftists who ran afoul of the dictatorship because of their political views disappeared or were held in secret jails and torture centers during the nation's eight-year \"dirty war.\""
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"Gen. Reynaldo Bignone ruled Argentina from 1982-1983 .",
"He was sentenced to 15 years for torture in a secret jail .",
"He had previously been sentenced to 25 years for other crimes ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan reshuffled his Cabinet on Friday in an effort to advance his unpopular plan to raise the country's sales tax and solidify his political power in parliament.",
"Noda appointed Katsuya Okada, a former secretary general of the governing Democratic Party of Japan, as deputy prime minister.",
"Okada is expected to take the lead in the politically challenging task of pushing the legislation to double the sales tax through parliament.",
"Noda named Naoki Tanaka as defense minister and Jin Matsubara as consumer affairs minister.",
"The new appointments are in response to pressure from the opposition party, which controls the parliament's upper house.",
"The upper house last month censured both of the previous ministers.",
"The prime minister also named Toshio Ogawa as the justice minister and Hirofumi Hirano as education minister.",
"The new Cabinet was set to be formally inaugurated at the Imperial Palace on Friday afternoon.",
"The cabinet reshuffle takes place only four months into Noda's premiership.",
"The prime minister is already facing sagging approval numbers.",
"The latest poll by the local agency Kyodo News shows that more than 50% of those surveyed disapproved of Noda's performance.",
"Only 35.7 approved of Noda as prime minister, according to the same poll."
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"Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda appoints Katsuya Okada, a former party leader, as his deputy .",
"Okada is expected to lead efforts to push through an unpopular increase in the sales tax .",
"Noda also names new defense and consumer affairs ministers after opposition pressure .",
"The prime minister is already facing sagging approval numbers four months into his tenure ."
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"(InStyle.com) -- Stars like Katy Perry and Jennifer Lawrence changed up their hair color and length in 2011 and achieved dramatic results.",
"See the most memorable hair transformations of the year.",
"Blake Lively .",
"The \"Gossip Girl\" star went auburn in late April for her role in the upcoming film \"Hick.\"",
"In June, Lively lightened her strands back to blond.",
"\"I love it,\" she told InStyle.com on her ever-changing 'do.",
"\"When I play a character I love to completely transform, and changing up my hair color is a way I feel like I can disappear behind them.\"",
"Katy Perry .",
"Katy Perry went back to her blond roots in July, then revealed a new lavender hue at the VMAs in August.",
"\"It was such an exciting challenge to custom-create Katy's color for the VMAs,\" her colorist Rita Hazan said.",
"\"She is always willing to take risks to achieve a groundbreaking look.\"",
"InStyle.com: See all the hottest celebrity hair makeovers of 2011 .",
"Dianna Agron .",
"The \"Glee\" actress cut her blond waves into an edgy shag in August.",
"\"It feels more like me than ever,\" she told InStyle.com exclusively.",
"\"I love it! I don't miss blow-drying my hair, I don't miss the maintenance, and it's just fun to switch things up.\"",
"Evan Rachel Wood .",
"In June, Wood debuted her new pixie crop at the \"True Blood\" season four premiere party in Los Angeles.",
"Jennifer Aniston .",
"Aniston chopped her long layers into a one-length bob while promoting her film \"Just Go With It\" in February.",
"The cut, courtesy of Aniston's longtime hairstylist and friend Chris McMillan, is the first time she has had above-the-shoulders strands since her famous Rachel shag in the '90s.",
"InStyle.com: Jennifer Aniston's Transformation .",
"Carrie Underwood .",
"Carrie Underwood debuted pitch-perfect bangs that hit just below the brow in late September.",
"Drew Barrymore .",
"In April, Barrymore traded her two-tone ombre for blazing red.",
"\"We had been talking about going red for a few months, and since Drew has been auburn before, we knew it would look good,\" her colorist Tracey Cunningham told InStyle.com exclusively.",
"\"It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision.",
"When Drew changes her hair color, she really commits to it.\"",
"History repeated itself in early November, when Barrymore went back to her ombre roots and snipped her strands into a long bob.",
"Jennifer Lawrence .",
"For her role as Katniss Everdeen in \"The Hunger Games\" Lawrence switched her sunny blond for a deep brown in May.",
"Click here to see all of the most dramatic hair makeovers of 2011 at InStyle.com!",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Glee\" actress Dianna Agron cut her blond waves into an edgy shag in August .",
"Jennifer Aniston chopped her long layers into a one-length bob .",
"In April, Drew Barrymore traded her two-tone ombre for blazing red ."
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"(CNN) -- Wildlife researchers using hidden cameras have captured rare images of snow leopards in a remote mountainous region of Tajikistan -- including shots of a cub stealing one of the cameras.",
"A research team sponsored by the conservation groups Fauna and Flora International (FFI) and Panthera set up 11 camera stations in the rugged Wakhan valley near the Afghan border and left them for three months to record what passed by.",
"The cameras are placed in pairs so that they can photograph both sides of the animals, which can be identified by their unique spot patterns, said Sarah Rakowski, communications officer for FFI.",
"When researchers went to the sites in the Zorkul nature reserve to retrieve their cameras, which have motion detectors on them to trigger the shutter, they found images showing at least five of the rare cats, including a family with two cubs, FFI said in a statement last week.",
"But one of the cameras was missing.",
"The remaining camera of the pair solved the mystery when its photos showed one of the cubs sniffing, gnawing on and finally ripping the other device from its mounting and running away with it.",
"Rakowski speculated that the cub might have been drawn to the slight sounds made by the cameras.",
"\"The leopards are a bit shy, so whatever drew them, we are really happy with it in the end,\" she said.",
"The snow leopard is an endangered cat with spotted smoky gray fur that keeps it warm and camouflages it in the remote mountainous regions of central Asia where it lives.",
"They can jump as far as 50 feet and take down prey three times their size, according to the National Geographic website.",
"Hunting and habitat loss have sharply reduced the numbers of the large feline in recent decades, experts say, with an estimated 4,500 and 7,500 snow leopards left in the wild, scattered across Central Asia.",
"Their populations have declined by as much as 20% over the past 16 years, the Wildlife Conservation Society says.",
"The animal also faces threats from poachers and others who capture the cats for illegal trade.",
"Their warm pelts bring high prices and their organs are used in traditional Chinese medicine, the National Geographic website said.",
"Researchers say even though the Zorkul project revealed new populations of snow leopard, more must be done to ensure their survival.",
"\"Snow leopards have low population densities, which means that large areas need to be protected in order to conserve this species effectively,\" said Dr. Alex Diment of the FFI.",
"\"This survey has revealed an unusually high number of snow leopards in the Wakhan Mountains, which indicates that this could be a key region for snow leopard conservation.\""
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"There are an estimated 4,500 to 7,500 snow leopards remaining in the wild .",
"The cub may have been drawn to the noises the camera made, Rakowski says .",
"The large cat's organs are used in traditional Chinese medicine ."
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"(CNN) -- Joint host nation Gabon opened their Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a comfortable 2-0 Group C victory over Niger at the newly-built L'Amitie stadium in Libreville.",
"Gabon were always in control against a Niger side making their finals debut -- and they deservedly took the lead after half an hour.",
"Stephane Nguema produced a superb cross from the right and Saint-Etienne striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang headed home from a tight angle.",
"And they doubled that advantage on the stroke of half-time when Nguema nodded in from close range after Aubameyang's own header was only parried by the goalkeeper.",
"Gabon's German coach Gernot Rohr told reporters: \"We won and we played well, but more difficult teams than Niger lie ahead for us.",
"\"I hope we can continue on this path.",
"I'm pleased as we didn't concede a goal, didn't pick up any injuries, and only got one booking,\" he added.",
"The 40,000 capacity stadium also hosted the second group C encounter, with Tunisia beating north African neighbors Morocco 2-1.",
"Tunisia defeated their rivals in the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations final -- and they once again had bragging rights thanks to goals in either half from Khaled Korbi and Youssef Msakni.",
"Tunisia nearly took the lead on the half hour mark when Zouhaier Dhaouadi's long-range effort smacked the post.",
"However, just four minutes later, Morocco were finally undone when Korbi's dipping free-kick evaded the defensive wall and went in off the upright.",
"And Tunisia doubled their lead 15 minutes from time when substitute Msakni evaded two challenges to score his first goal for his country.",
"Houssine Kharja pulled a late goal back when he converted Ahmed Kantari's cross -- although Kantari appeared off-side when receiving the ball.",
"And Morocco nearly snatched an unlikely equalizer when Fiorentina midfielder Kharja's effort shaved the crossbar."
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"Joint hosts nation Gabon defeat Niger 2-0 in Africa Cup of Nations Group C .",
"Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Stephane Nguema score the goals for Gabon .",
"Tunisia defeat north African rivals Morocco 2-1 in Monday's other group match ."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- After months of rumors, it's finally official: Max Weinberg won't be going with Conan O'Brien to Conan's new show on TBS.",
"Guitarist Jimmy Vivino will be leading the house musicians, as he often did when Weinberg took breaks from the show to tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.",
"James Wormworth, Weinberg's long-time on-air substitute, will be the group's new full-time drummer.",
"Vivino broke the news in an interview with the St. Louis Riverfront Times.",
"\"Max has his big band out there that has been his dream all his life,\" Vivino said.",
"\"And there's a kid in Jersey that works with him occasionally.\"",
"E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt tells Rolling Stone that he's not sure what caused the split.",
"\"I don't know why Max and Conan aren't together anymore,\" he says.",
"\"But whatever, they had some good years, and Conan gave Max credit for keeping the show on the air for the first two years.",
"That was nice. He was a big fan of the band and he didn't want to mess around with that too much.",
"He was quite good to us over the years.\"",
"Weinberg was Conan's bandleader from the very beginning of \"Late Night With Conan O'Brien\" in 1993, though he would take frequent breaks after Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band in 1999.",
"Weinberg continued the role during Conan's ill-fated stint as the host of \"The Tonight Show,\" but was the only member of the band to not go on the \"Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television\" tour earlier this year.",
"Instead, he formed the Max Weinberg Big Band and went on his own tour.",
"When Rolling Stone asked about his future with Conan in June, he played coy.",
"\"I literally have not thought about it,\" he said.",
"\"There have been no discussions. It's kind of an open question.\"",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"Max Weinberg won't be going with Conan O'Brien to Conan's new show on TBS .",
"Guitarist Jimmy Vivino will be leading the house musicians .",
"Weinberg was with Conan from the beginning of \"Late Night With Conan O'Brien\" in 1993 ."
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"(CNN) -- Syrian officials and opposition activists blamed each other for an attack on a gas pipeline near the restive city of Homs on Tuesday, while opposition groups said more than 30 people had died in new clashes.",
"The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three civilians were killed by government troops in Homs, while deserting government troops killed 18 members of the security forces in the city of Jasem.",
"Syrian officials did not respond to CNN requests for comment on the incident, and state media did not mention it.",
"And the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition umbrella group, said police and troops still loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's government killed 11 people in and around Damascus, Hama and Homs, where the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency blamed the pipeline explosion on a \"terrorist group.\"",
"CNN cannot independently confirm events inside Syria because the government restricts the activity of journalists.",
"But activists in Homs said the government blew up the pipeline itself to distract Arab League monitors, who are in the country to try to protect civilians from violence at the hands of government security forces.",
"\"The regime did that intentionally.",
"They don't care about Homs; what difference does it make to them to have no power?",
"We don't have any of the necessities: medication, heating fuel, food.",
"And garbage is everywhere,\" said one activist.",
"Another activist in the city of Hama said the Arab League monitors there were surrounded by Syrian officials and security forces, making it difficult for locals to speak to the observers freely.",
"The activist said the city still has many checkpoints and security forces with heavy machine guns, and that tanks have not been withdrawn from the city -- just hidden where monitors cannot see them.",
"The activists spoke to CNN by Skype from Syria.",
"CNN is not naming them to protect their safety.",
"Top U.S. and French officials also expressed doubts about whether Syria was abiding by its November agreement with the Arab League, which calls for the release of protesters jailed by the months-long crackdown on anti-government demonstrations and the withdrawal of Syrian troops from cities.",
"White House spokesman Jay Carney said Damascus was clearly breaking its deal with its fellow Arab states.",
"\"Across the country, the Syrian people continue to suffer at the hand of the Assad regime, as indiscriminate killing of scores of civilians continues,\" Carney said.",
"He said it was \"past time\" for the U.N. Security Council to take action, and said Washington was working with its allies \"to increase the pressure on the Assad regime.\"",
"And U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that while some prisoners have been freed, the releases are \"nothing like what the Syrian government promised to the Arab League.\"",
"\"Our concern is that the Arab League monitors, although they are providing some ability for some demonstrators to express their views in some places, they have not led to the full implementation of the commitments that the Assad regime took on,\" Nuland told reporters in Washington.",
"Meanwhile, she urged Syrian opposition forces to avoid attacks that would play into the government's hands.",
"\"That's exactly what the regime wants, is to make Syria more violent and have an excuse to retaliate itself,\" Nuland said.",
"In Paris, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told France's I-Tele on Tuesday that he was \"a little skeptical\" about whether the monitors are getting free access to the facts.",
"\"We await their report that will be carried out in the coming days,\" Juppe said.",
"But he added, \"I do not consider the battle already lost.\"",
"\"The secretary-general of the Arab League has expressed the will to get to the bottom of this investigation,\" he said.",
"\"The truth must be established, and the regime cannot poison the observers who are on the ground.\"",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad must relinquish power, saying the \"massacres\" by his forces \"evoke disgust and revolt in the Arab world, in France, in Europe and everywhere in the world.\"",
"Sarkozy said nations must continue \"unrelentingly denouncing a barbaric repression and ensuring that the observers from the Arab league have the means and the freedom to carry out their work correctly.\"",
"Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Araby is scheduled to discuss the monitoring team's preliminary report on Saturday, an official with the organization told CNN on condition of anonymity.",
"El-Araby is scheduled to meet with the head of the Arab Human Rights Council on Wednesday, said the official, who is not authorized to speak to the press and asked not to be named.",
"El-Araby said Monday that the killing was still going on despite the presence of his observers.",
"\"There is still gunfire, there are still snipers, and we hope that all that will disappear,\" he said in Cairo, adding: \"There is gunfire from various directions, which makes it hard to tell who is shooting.",
"There is no doubt that killing is ongoing, but I can't pinpoint the numbers.\"",
"Arab League observers entered Syria last week after the United Nations estimated that 5,000 people had been killed since March in an uprising against the government.",
"Al-Assad's government says it is cracking down on armed terrorists.",
"The Arab League aims \"to provide protection to Syrian civilians,\" el-Araby said Monday, adding that it was asking for a cease-fire and for the names of detainees in Syrian prisons.",
"Nearly 3,500 prisoners have been freed, he said.",
"The Arab League has placed more than 70 monitors in six cities, and the number of observers soon will exceed 100, el-Araby said.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed, Hamdi Alkhshali, Arwa Damon, Saskya Vandoorne and Alexander Felton contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Syria is breaking its deal with the Arab League, Washington says .",
"The Arab League will consider its monitors' report on Saturday, an official says .",
"France's Juppe says he's \"a little skeptical\" about the monitors' access ."
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"(EW.com) -- A dolphin named Winter loses its tail to a crab trap in \"Dolphin Tale\" -- a (sometimes sickly) sweet family film based on a true story.",
"It's no spoiler to say that there is a happy ending, partly because this is the kind of constantly uplifting heart-warmer in which even the villains are congenial, but also because the injured animal is played by its real-life counterpart.",
"Morgan Freeman also plays a version of himself as a kindly wise man whose expertise in prosthetics helps save Winter.",
"While the plot occasionally feels like \"Free Willy\" without the drama, it's a cute story if you don't mind temporarily trading in your cynicism for a bag of popcorn.",
"EW.com rating: B- .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"The injured animal is played by its real-life counterpart .",
"Morgan Freeman also plays a version of himself ."
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"(EW.com) -- \"Margaret,\" the long-awaited second film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me), has an offscreen history so fraught with drama it trumps anything in the movie.",
"The tale of a ferociously precocious and high-strung Upper West Side Jewish girl, Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin), who witnesses a tragic bus accident, the film was shot at the end of 2005.",
"But Lonergan, contractually obligated to deliver a two-hour movie, fell in love with his three-hour version (so did Martin Scorsese, who is said to have called it a ''masterpiece''), and he refused to cut it.",
"'The Chew' series premiere: It made me hungry, but will it make you watch?",
"Six years and several lawsuits later, Fox Searchlight is releasing a two-and-a-half-hour version of Lonergan's film, which has been on the shelf so long that Paquin still looks like a teenager, Matt Damon (as her geometry teacher) is still skinny, and at one point someone imitates Bobcat Goldthwait.",
"'Pan Am' premiere review: Lighter than air, but not bubble-headed?",
"So was \"Margaret\" worth the wait?",
"Lonergan's dialogue can sweep you up in a whoosh of personality and ideas, but it's hard to see what, apart from ego, convinced him that this story was so epic.",
"Lisa fixates on the accident because she was flirting with the driver (Mark Ruffalo) when he ran a red light and killed a pedestrian.",
"First she lies about what happened, then she changes her story in a fit of guilt and rage.",
"She makes the accident about her, which is why she must learn that it wasn't.",
"The trouble is, it's a lesson we grasp all too early on.",
"\"Margaret\" may be the longest film ever made about the moral education of a selfish, annoying princess.",
"B- . See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Margaret\" is the long-awaited second film by Lonergan -- shot in 2005 .",
"Six years and several lawsuits later, Fox Searchlight is releasing a two-and-a-half-hour version of the film .",
"\"Margaret\" may be the longest film ever made about the moral education of a selfish princess ."
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"(CNN) -- The Environmental Protection Agency will set a limit on the amount of the chemical perchlorate, as well as other \"toxic contaminants,\" in drinking water, it announced Wednesday.",
"The national regulation on perchlorate will reverse a 2008 decision made by President George W. Bush's administration, the agency said in a statement.",
"It comes after EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson ordered agency scientists to review \"the emerging science of perchlorate.\"",
"\"There's going to be a lot of scrutiny of the standard because, again, we are looking at but one of several precursors that can affect iodine uptake in the thyroid,\" Jackson told CNN's Chief Medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.",
"\"It's the first time we've ever regulated a chemical not because of what it does directly to you, but because it has an impact on iodine uptake that might affect your child down the road.\"",
"Toxic America: Chemicals in our environment .",
"Perchlorate is both a naturally occurring and man-made chemical, according to the EPA.",
"It is used in fireworks, road flares, rocket fuel and may be present in bleach and some fertilizers, the agency said.",
"Research has indicated that it can impact the thyroid and disrupt the proper development of fetuses and infants.",
"Some states have already established limits on perchlorate in drinking water, but there has been no national standard.",
"However, monitoring data shows more than 4% of public water systems have detected perchlorate and between 5 and 17 million people may be served drinking water containing it, the EPA said.",
"The decision was made after considering input from nearly 39,000 public comments, the agency said.",
"Once the EPA proposes a formal rule, it will be subject to the public comment process.",
"In addition, the EPA is also establishing a drinking water standard on \"a group of up to 16 other toxic chemicals that may cause cancer and pose serious risks to human health,\" the statement said.",
"The chemicals are a group of volatile organic compounds, such as industrial solvents, and include trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene, along with other regulated and some unregulated substances \"discharged from industrial operations.\"",
"The move is part of a Drinking Water Strategy laid out by Jackson last year, the agency said.",
"The strategy included addressing contaminants as a group so that their presence in drinking water could be addressed \"cost-effectively.\"",
"\"Today's action delivers on the promise to strengthen public health protection from contaminants in drinking water,\" according to the EPA.",
"\"The aim is to find solutions that meet the health and economic needs of communities across the country more effectively than the current approach.\"",
"Jackson said in the statement she believes the decision will spark new innovations.",
"\"As improved standards are developed and put in place, America's world-leading clean water technology innovators have an opportunity to create cutting edge solutions that will strengthen health protections and spark economic growth.\""
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"An estimated 4% of water systems contain the chemical .",
"The EPA will also set regulations on a group of other chemicals ."
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"(EW.com) -- When Jacob (Anton Yelchin) meets Anna (Felicity Jones) in the exquisite, happy/sad young-love story \"Like Crazy,\" it's only after Anna makes the first move.",
"She's a spunky British visiting student at a Los Angeles university and an aspiring writer; he's a quiet American classmate and an aspiring furniture designer.",
"Anna's instincts are good: The two quickly fall rapturously, totally head-over-heels in love.",
"And the magic of this glowing little award-winner by director/co-writer Drake Doremus (\"Douchebag\") is that we believe every skip and flutter of their beating hearts, even as those beats are challenged by forces beyond their control: When Anna returns to her family in London after graduation, visa problems keep her there.",
"Doremus has said he developed \"Like Crazy\" based on his own experience with a long-term, long-distance relationship; he's attentive to the million little frustrations that can nibble away at even the most passionate commitment, moments pinpointed by the production's handheld camera work.",
"Favorite returning TV shows in trouble .",
"Equal storytelling credit goes to fast-rising stars Yelchin (\"Star Trek\") and Jones (\"Brideshead Revisited\"), who immersed themselves in deep improvisatory work with their director to arrive at such a palpably real, universally identifiable manifestation of young love in all its ecstasy and agony.",
"(The movie had no set script.)",
"There's no accounting for chemistry, of course, not only in the success of love affairs and movie-star pairings but also in the way audiences respond to onscreen romance.",
"One viewer's delight in \"(500) Days of Summer\" is another one's antsiness with its structural tricks.",
"(That's me.) 'Survivor' recap: Ultimate Sacrifice or Stupidity?",
"With no such narrative artifice, no Love Story-ish terminal illness or other tragedy to stimulate audience tear ducts, and none of the mood miseries or big-name lures of \"Blue Valentine,\" \"Like Crazy\" tells the truth, simply: Love is thrilling.",
"And -- just because of the way life happens -- sometimes love hurts.",
"A- . See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Like Crazy\" is an exquisite, happy/sad young-love story .",
"With no Love Story-ish terminal illness to stimulate audience tear ducts, \"Like Crazy\" tells the truth .",
"Storytelling credit goes to fast-rising stars Yelchin and Jones as the movie had no set script ."
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"(CNN) -- This latest film from master filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will be both familiar to his fans and viewed as a departure.",
"While it boasts a couple of his regular cast of performers (including Antonio Banderas for the first time in 21 years) it is not an original story (as most of his work is) and is instead adapted by the director and his frequent collaborator, brother Augustin, and based on a novel \"Mygale\" (\"Tarantula\" in the UK) by Thierry Jonquet.",
"It's also significantly darker in tone, more subtle, wholly unsentimental and rather more brutal than we're used to getting from Almodóvar.",
"World famous plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Banderas) lives in an isolated compound called El Cigarral, a magnificent mansion shut off from the world by trees, a wall and gates.",
"In the compound's laboratory Robert is experimenting on a new kind of skin, one developed through the gene therapy called transgenesis, an ethically-challenged procedure that has been banned by Robert's superiors.",
"Using pig cells, Robert has developed a new kind of human skin that can resist disease, fire and puncture but still transmits other sensations, like human touch.",
"He's achieved this by experimenting on humans, in strict violation of every ethical standard and contrary to the instructions of his medical superiors.",
"One of these human subjects, a young and beautiful woman named Vera (Elena Anaya, \"Talk To Her\"), is his captive in the mansion and is Robert's latest guinea pig.",
"Vera lives in a sealed room.",
"Her meals and other materials are delivered via dumbwaiter and her only contact with another person is when Robert is transplanting skin on to her or when he enters her room at night to give her some opium to smoke.",
"Robert lives with a caretaker, Marilia (Marisa Paredes, \"All About My Mother,\" \"Talk To Her\"), who is his willing accomplice in this macabre medical experiment and acts as a mother figure to him.",
"She makes meals for Vera and is the only other person with whom she has any contact.",
"Marilia also dotes on Robert, whose tireless albeit creepy work was triggered by the death of his wife some years before, the victim of a horrible car crash and subsequent burning, hence the flam-resistant pigskin.",
"She didn't die from her burns, however.",
"In the process of being nursed back to health, she caught sight of her horribly disfigured form in a window reflection and immediately leapt from a window.",
"As a result, Robert is intent on perfecting a method for healing burn victims.",
"It all seems altruistic, but there's something definitely....off about Robert and not just the beautiful young woman he keeps captive in his house.",
"Almodóvar is one of the most skillful and consistently magnificent directors of the last 30+ years and while \"The Skin I Live In\" may be a bit of a departure from what his fans are used to, it is no less of a skillful and intriguing film.",
"It is rife with the maestro's deft touches of the bizarre rubbing up against the commonplace and the erotic is present where perhaps it is not expected.",
"At the Toronto International Film Festival, I took to referring to \"Skin\" as more \"Almodó-nenberg\" or \"Cronen-dóvar,\" referring to David Cronenberg, whose own offering at this year's Toronto fest is also somewhat atypical of the most famous of his works.",
"It is significantly darker than much of Almodóvar's recent work and contains more than a couple of eye opening \"Wait.",
"He did what?\" moments. Alas, many of these moments come so deep into the film, that to allude to them could constitute spoilers.",
"While it's possible that some of you may see what's coming, I did not and I will not deprive you of the singular joy that is a movie-provided \"Holy crap!\"",
"Banderas is nothing short of spectacular in what should prove to be a career resurgence for him.",
"His Robert is all simmering emotion, everything below the surface.",
"His is the quiet and determined countenance of the researcher, plying his trade tirelessly for the betterment of humanity....or not.",
"Part of the irony given the subject matter of the film may be that he doesn't look any older than he did 20 years ago.",
"At the Toronto Film Festival where I screened the film, the common reaction of my fellow film goers when asked their thoughts on the film was something along the line of \"I'm not sure, yet.\"",
"It takes some time to digest, and I think it may perhaps be a film that with time does reveal its secrets and becomes that masterpiece.",
"\"The Skin I Live In\" is rated R and contains graphic violence, sexual situations, rape and some rather unsettling ideas surrounding revenge and psychopathy.",
"It is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and opens on October 14th."
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"\"The Skin I Live In\" is significantly darker in tone .",
"It contains more than a couple of eye opening moments .",
"Antonio Banderas is nothing short of spectacular ."
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"HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Hundreds of workers from one of Hong Kong's largest telecommunications companies stormed out of work Tuesday, chanting protests about possible job cuts.",
"A worker cleans a PCCW telephone booth in January in Hong Kong, China.",
"An estimated 350 contract workers at PCCW walked off the job for a half-day and staged a protest outside the company headquarters, chanting slogans such as: \"We are against pay cuts.",
"We are against layoffs.\" Organizers told CNN that PCCW hired about 2,000 to 3,000 workers from other companies and those workers have now been told they face at least a 10 percent salary cut and might lose their jobs.",
"The company said in a written statement, \"No decision has been taken to date about cutting contract rates with subcontractors.",
"The company reviews its commercial arrangements with contractors annually and looks to achieve productivity gains and reduced rates where possible.",
"... We commenced discussions with subcontractors last week and questioned whether a 10 percent reduction in contract rates might be possible.\"",
"Unions are trying to negotiate a settlement, strike organizers said.",
"It was inappropriate to make any assumptions about staff pay cuts or layoffs, because discussions are ongoing, the company said."
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"An estimated 350 contract workers at PCCW walk off the job for a half-day .",
"Organizers say PCCW has warned of salary cuts and job losses .",
"The company says no decision has been made .",
"PCCW also says they have begun talks about a possible cut in contract rates ."
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"Editor's note: CNN.com has a business partnership with CareerBuilder.com, which serves as the exclusive provider of job listings and services to CNN.com.",
"(CareerBuilder.com) -- Work can't get much worse than when it stinks -- literally.",
"For Stephen Viscusi, work stinks everyday.",
"\"I work near an executive (woman) that does work out at lunchtime,\" Viscusi says.",
"\"She returns smelling like body odor and Chanel No.5.",
"It doesn't cut it.\" Rather than let his co-worker continue smelling up the office, Viscusi, author of \"On the Job: How to Make It in the Real World of Work,\" took the high road and told his colleague she had a small problem.",
"He says the sheer embarrassment motivated her to not only shower, but not to take it personally or hold a grudge.",
"\"Never be afraid to confront annoying co-workers head on,\" Viscusi says.",
"\"Remember they are peers, not the boss.\"",
"There's (at least) one annoying co-worker in every office.",
"Whether it's the chatty-Cathy, smelly-Steven, tag-along-Tammy, or just \"that guy,\" difficult co-workers (unfortunately) are the standard in the workplace -- not the exception.",
"Most difficult co-workers are oblivious to their nightmare behavior.",
"Avoiding them is out of the question.",
"If you do make a comment, they stare at you like you're from the moon.",
"Your feelings have been building up for months -- maybe even years -- and it's time to do something about it.",
"You can either pull your hair out over their obnoxious behaviors -- or, you can deal with them accordingly.",
"Define the Problem (aka \"Co-worker\") In \"The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work\" (Chronicle Books), Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht describe four possible types of co-workers.",
"The Talker... just won't shut up; engages in long-winded, one-sided conversations on relatively trivial subjects; and always has something to say about something (or someone).",
"The Kiss-Up... craves approval mostly from the boss, but will also seek approval from you.",
"The TMI (Too Much Information)... has no boundaries and no shame.",
"He/she will share every piece of unpleasant and personal information with you, without sparing a detail.",
"The Gossip... much like the TMI, will share any and every story -- as long as it's not theirs.",
"Carly Drum, a workplace etiquette expert with New York-based executive search firm Drum Associates, offers these tips if a co-worker is annoying you: .",
"Tip No. 1: Take a break.",
"When you are spending more than 40 hours per week indoors with the same people, something is bound to bother you, Drum says.",
"\"Everyone is going to have some sort of mannerism that bothers you, whether they crack their gum too loud or just hold their pen wrong.\"",
"Drum says. Step outside for a breath of fresh air or run out to get a cup of coffee, she suggests.",
"\"It's human nature to get bothered by the little things, so just accept it and take a break!\"",
"Tip No. 2: Be mentally tough.",
"Don't let another colleague's bad habits hurt your concentration and productivity at work.",
"Drum suggests ignoring him or her as best you can and limiting your daily interactions with them.",
"\"If career advancement is important to you, then always try to act professionally in the workplace regardless of what an annoying co-worker might do,\" Drum offers.",
"Tip No. 3: Discuss the problem with your co-worker.",
"(... In a non-judgmental, non-confrontational way of course...) Drum agrees with Viscusi that you shouldn't be afraid to say something to your co-worker.",
"Depending on what the behavior is that's bothering you, it never hurts to approach your co-worker for a friendly little chat, Drum says.",
"\"Co-workers sometimes don't notice they are doing something really annoying because it's just by habit,\" Drum contends.",
"\"By saying, 'I don't know if you noticed but... (insert issue here)' -- a reasonable co-worker will usually be receptive to your feelings.\"",
"Tip No. 4: Talk with your supervisor.",
"If the friendly and polite one-on-one doesn't work (or turn out to be so friendly), another option is to bring up the issue with your supervisor.",
"\"From a managerial perspective, a difficult employee who is insensitive to other co-workers can poison a workplace environment and severely impact inner-office morale,\" Drum says.",
"\"Effective supervisors know how imperative it is to nip problems like this in the bud as soon as they arise.\"",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"Copyright CareerBuilder.com 2009.",
"All rights reserved.",
"The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority .",
"Rachel Zupek is a writer and blogger for CareerBuilder.com.",
"She researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues."
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"The Talker just won't shut up; engages in long, one-sided conversations .",
"The Kiss-Up craves approval mostly from the boss .",
"The TMI has no boundaries and no shame The Gossip will share any and every story -- as long as it's not theirs ."
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