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Bolton Wanderers' plight is 'killing' Owen Coyle ahead of a day of reckoning at Blackburn
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:43:51 GMT
Owen Coyle exudes such positive energy it is a shock to hear him admit the plight of Bolton Wanderers is "killing" him inside.
Luis Suárez put in unbelievable performance against Aston Villa given his 'bad week', says Kenny Dalglish
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:27:43 GMT
Kenny Dalglish felt striker's performance against Villa spoke volumes for the striker who is awaiting FA race row verdict.
Tottenham's Aaron Lennon faces 'weeks' out with torn hamstring while Gareth Bale is injury doubt for Chelsea
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:50:16 GMT
Spurs winger likely to miss entire festive schedule with torn hamstring while Gareth Bale is struggling with ankle injury.
Racing Review of the Year 2011: Hayley Turner reflects on the year in which she claimed two Group One winners
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:00:53 GMT
Hayley Turner reflects on the year she enjoyed two Group One winners.
Brian Moore: referees need to be handed a stern warning over inconsistent decision-making
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:15:25 GMT
Heineken Cup games were beset this weekend by the inconsistencies of referees.
Sports year in review 2011: Racing
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:30:02 GMT
J A McGrath reviews the highs and lows from the racing world in 2011 and what to expect from 2012.
Arsenal year in review 2011: Carling Cup heartache, that game at Old Trafford and Robin van Persie led revival
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:09:40 GMT
Carling Cup woe, that game at Old Trafford and Robin van Persie's goals.
Liverpool year in review 2011: Kenny Dalglish's return, sale of Fernando Torres and Andy Carroll's struggle
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:04:54 GMT
King Kenny returns, Fernando Torres leaves and Andy Carroll toils.
Luis Suárez put in unbelievable performance against Aston Villa given his 'bad week', says Kenny Dalglish
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:27:43 GMT
Kenny Dalglish felt striker's performance against Villa spoke volumes for the striker who is awaiting FA race row verdict.
Road to London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics: Images of the week, Dec 19 2011
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:01:20 GMT
Australia win three sailing golds as US edge Europe in the pool.
Harlequins's victory over Toulouse was 'the heart beating the wallet'
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:02:20 GMT
Conor O'Shea indulges in fantastic 31-24 win over Toulouse in France but tells side to keep working hard.
Barcelona's five trophies in 2011 - best goals and video highlights
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:05:17 GMT
Video: Watch the standout moments from Barcelona's incredible 2011, which climaxed on Sunday with a 4-0 victory over Santos in the final of the Club World Cup.
London 2012 Olympics: drug cheats will be 'embraced' by BOA, says Lord Moynihan
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:13:48 GMT
Drugs cheats will be "fully embraced" by British Olympic Association if bylaw banning them from all future Games is ruled unlawful.
Heineken Cup: top five English club victories on the road
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:49:53 GMT
Following Harlequins' win at Toulouse in the Heineken Cup, Brendan Gallagher looks back over the five best English away wins.
Morris unhappy with Buccaneers’ effort in 8th consecutive loss
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:37:03 EST
TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay’s eighth straight loss left Buccaneers coach Raheem Morris questioning his team’s effort for a third time. The club’s longest skid within the same season since 1987 follows a 4-2 start. It also has the NFL’s youngest coach on the hot seat only a year after Morris appeared to have the Bucs headed in the right direction. Read full article >>
Hooper scores 21, No. 25 Nebraska women break away in second half to beat Vermont 94-41
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:39:29 EST
LINCOLN, Neb. — Jordan Hooper scored 21 points and No. 25 Nebraska broke away in the second half to beat Vermont 94-41 Sunday. The Cornhuskers (10-1) led by 13 points at the break. They opened the second half with a 23-1 run, scoring seven points in the first 49 seconds. The Catamounts (6-4) did not have a second-half basket until Nikki Taylor’s layup with 13:10 remaining. They made just 4 of 33 shots in the period. Read full article >>
Hilditch hounded: Cox
GOOGLE Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT
THE level of "incredibly personal" bile spat at Andrew Hilditch during last year's Ashes debacle was unfair, a former selector said.
Barcelona wins Club World Cup
GOOGLE Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:01:13 GMT
LIONEL Messi scored twice as Barcelona beat Brazil's Santos 4-0 to lift the Club World Cup today.
Barcelona v Santos: Fifa Club World Cup final live
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:10:28 GMT
Minute-by-minute commentary of the Fifa Club World Cup final between Barcelona and Santos in Yokohama.
Barcelona beat Santos in Club World Cup Final: in pictures
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:39:33 GMT
In pics: Lionel Messi scores twice as Barcelona win Club World Cup Final against Santos.
London 2012 Olympics: Ben Maher and Tripple X move closer to after win at World Cup qualifier at Olympia
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:04:29 GMT
Ben Maher's Olympic hopes for Tripple X were boosted by an assured win at Olympia.
Roy Keane claims Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is trying to 'control' his former captain
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:08:35 GMT
Roy Keane gives a candid assessment of his strained relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson.
Paul Scotney, head of the British Horseracing Authority's integrity services, got a much-needed result for the sport
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:37:36 GMT
However, those wanting to outlaw betting exchanges because of latest corruption case are just not living in the 21st century.
Big Buck's lights up 'unglamorous' world of the staying hurdlers at Ascot with 14th consecutive victory
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:38:07 GMT
There will be huge public interest at Cheltenham when the amazing Big Buck's tries for his 15th straight win.
Aaron Lennon faces 'weeks' out for Tottenham with hamstring tear against Sunderland
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:49:11 GMT
Tottenham Hotspur winger Aaron Lennon is likely to miss the entire festive schedule with a torn hamstring.
Darren Bent's omission against Liverpool 'no conspiracy', insists Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:37:26 GMT
Aston Villa manager reacted angrily to suggestions that striker Darren Bent was left out for anything but fitness reasons in the 2-0 defeat to Liverpool.
Bolton Wanderers' plight is "killing" Owen Coyle ahead of a day of reckoning at Blackburn
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:43:51 GMT
Owen Coyle exudes such positive energy it is a shock to hear him admit the plight of Bolton Wanderers is "killing" him inside.
Israel releases second group of prisoners in swap for long-captive soldier
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:23:55 EST
BEITUNIA, West Bank — Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners late Sunday, the second and final phase of a swap with Gaza Hamas militants that brought home an Israeli soldier after five years in captivity. Under the Egypt-brokered deal, Israel agreed to exchange a total of 1,027 prisoners for Sgt. Gilad Schalit, who was captured by Gaza militants in June 2006. Schalit returned home in October when Israel freed the first batch of 477 prisoners. Sunday’s release of 550 prisoners completed the swap, the most lopsided in Israel’s history. Read full article >>
Egypt’s ruling military, revolutionaries compete for public support while battling on streets
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:32:14 EST
CAIRO — Egypt’s ruling military and the revolutionaries who demand they immediately step down battled for a third day in the streets on Sunday — and competed fiercely for the support of a broader public that has grown tired of turmoil since the fall of Hosni Mubarak 10 months ago. The generals appear to be winning the fight for the public, despite a heavy-handed crackdown on protesters around Cairo’s Tahrir Square using a roughness that rivaled even that of Mubarak’s widely hated police force. Read full article >>
Havel, Czech dissident playwright who led 1989 anti-communist ‘Velvet Revolution,’ dies at 75
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:50:57 EST
PRAGUE — The end of Czechoslovakia’s totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for with decades of suffering and struggle. The dissident playwright spent years in jail but never lost his defiance, or his eloquence, and the government’s attempts to crush his will ended up expanding his influence. He became a source of inspiration to Czechs, and to all of Eastern Europe. He went from prisoner to president in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and communism crumbled across the region. Read full article >>
Czechs, world leaders mourn former Czech president and anti-communist hero Vaclav Havel
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:06:15 EST
PRAGUE — Thousands of Czechs paid tribute to Vaclav Havel on Sunday, braving cold and snow at the spot where the leader of the peaceful anti-communist revolution rallied protesters. Mourners, some of them too young to remember 1989’s “Velvet Revolution,” met at downtown Wenceslas Square, where Havel once spoke before hundreds of thousands of people expressing their outrage at the repressive communist regime. Read full article >>
Rescuers searching for 49 Russians in freezing, remote waters after platform capsizes; 4 dead
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:26:08 EST
MOSCOW — Rescue workers are searching for 49 men in freezing, remote waters off Russia’s east coast after their oil rig capsized and sank amid fierce storms on Sunday. By nightfall, four men had been confirmed dead, 14 others had been plucked alive from the churning, icy waters by the ship that had been towing the Kolskaya drilling platform. But the search for the remaining men was hampered by freezing temperatures, a driving blizzard and strong winds. Read full article >>
Flash floods ravage cities in southern Philippines, kill at least 450 people while they sleep
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:39:26 EST
ILIGAN, Philippines — As a storm that killed more than 650 in the southern Philippines raged outside the store where she works, Amor Limbago worriedly called home to check on her parents, but their cellphones just kept ringing and later went dead. Limbago, 21, rushed home as soon as the flash floods receded and confirmed her worst fear: Her parents and seven other relatives were gone, swept away from their hut by the river. They had eagerly planned a small Christmas dinner in that hut just days earlier. Read full article >>
Vaclav Havel, dissident playwright and former Czech president, dies
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:46:00 EST
Václav Havel, a Czech writer who was imprisoned by his country's former communist rulers, only to become a symbol of freedom and his nation's first president in the post-communist era, died Sunday morning at his weekened home in the Czech Republic, the Associated Press reports. He was 75. The death was announced by his assistant, Sabina Tancecova, the Associated Press reports. Read full article >>
Gameday Q&A: Sav Rocca chasing championship dream in second pro career
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:24:00 EST
After going through three different punters during the 2010 season, the Washington Redskins found some much-needed stability this year with the acquisition of free agent Sav Rocca. The 38-year-old Australian has recorded 26 punts inside the 20-yard-line and only one touchback this season, which ties him for first in the NFC and second in the NFL. Read full article >>
Watch Jesus visit Tim Tebow on ‘SNL’ (video)
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:35:31 EST
“Saturday Night Live” took aim at the Tim Tebow phenomenon, Tebowing, Tebowmania and, gulp, the religious beliefs of the Denver Broncos’ quarterback this week. As with a lot of “SNL” skits, it could have been funnier and Matt Prater, along with the defense, deserved a bigger role. In this sketch, Jason Sudeikis, who played the devil in a skit about the Penn State scandal a few weeks back, did a 180 and entered the Broncos’ locker room as a wisenheimer version of Jesus Christ, telling Tebow to “take it down a notch.” (He also points out that Tom Brady, quarterback of the team the Broncos play today, might be the “nephew” of God, although Bill Belichick has dark origins.) Read full article >>
Trickmeister returns from layout, wins at Gulfstream Park to remain undefeated in 5 races
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:20:34 EST
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — Trickmeister remained undefeated in five starts, returning from a 16-month layoff to win the $60,000 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Showing no rust or ill effects from a serious of injuries that forced him out of action, the 4-year-old Trickmeister — ridden by Javier Castellano and trained by Rick Dutrow — ran 1 1-16 miles in 1:42.64 and paid $3.40, $2.60 and $2.10 for his 5 1/4-length victory. Read full article >>
Ian Poulter wins Australian Masters, spoiling Geoff Ogilvy’s bid for victory on boyhood course
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:24:39 EST
MELBOURNE, Australia — England’s Ian Poulter won the Australian Masters on Sunday, spoiling Geoff Ogilvy’s bid for a victory on his boyhood course. Poulter, two strokes behind Ogilvy entering the round, closed with a 4-under 67 in windy conditions to finish at 15-under 269 at Victoria Golf Club. “To come down here the week before Christmas and to win this tournament is very special,” Poulter said. “I had a message from (former champion) Justin Rose, who said, ‘Put a nice gold jacket in your wardrobe like I have,’ and it’s nice to do that.” Read full article >>
Ward wins unanimous decision over Froch in AC, and stakes his claim as top super middleweight
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 24:01:57 EST
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Andre Ward had his hands more full on stage than he ever did in the ring against Carl Froch. Ward walked in holding two championship belts, had to clear space for a trophy, and another title belt was buckled around his waist. Undefeated and, now, undisputed — the best super middleweight fighter around. Read full article >>
No. 13 Florida races to early 16-point lead and beats No. 22 Texas A&M 84-64
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:28:36 EST
SUNRISE, Fla. — Billy Donovan leaped along the sideline, arms raised and fingers spread, trying to help his Florida Gators get the ball back. “Ten! Ten!” he shouted, lobbying for a 10-second violation. Donovan’s team led by 20 points at the time. But for the high-scoring Gators, there are always more baskets to be made. Read full article >>
Girls’ basketball: D.C. powers in field at Nike Tournament of Champions
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:44:39 EST
Sixteen of the country’s best girls’ basketball teams will gather this week in the top division at the Nike Tournament of Champions outside Phoenix. The fact that three of those teams are The Post’s top three — No. 1 Riverdale Baptist, No. 2 St. John’s and No. 3 Good Counsel — speaks to how the area’s national girls’ basketball profile continues to grow beyond the East Coast. Read full article >>
Man City beats Arsenal 1-0 to stay ahead of Man United at top of EPL; Juventus No. 1 in Italy
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:40:37 EST
LONDON — Manchester City’s expensively assembled squad showed Sunday that it may have the character as well as the talent necessary to win the Premier League, beating Arsenal 1-0 to stay on top. Manchester United’s 2-0 win at Queens Park Rangers in the day’s early match meant City knew it had to avoid defeat or lose the top spot it had held since mid-October. Read full article >>
Barcelona overpowers Santos 4-0 to win Club World Cup, Messi scores twice
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:22:36 EST
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Lionel Messi scored twice and Barcelona beat Brazil’s Santos 4-0 on Sunday to win its second Club World Cup in three years. Messi, Xavi and Cesc Fabregas scored in the first half as the European champions won its 13th trophy under coach Pep Guardiola, solidifying its stature as the best club team in the world. Read full article >>
Wizards vs. 76ers: In preseason opener, Washington unveils new uniforms but can’t hide struggles
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:30:15 EST
John Wall and Andray Blatche trapped Philadelphia 76ers guard Evan Turner in the corner at one point in the Washington Wizards’ preseason opener Friday night, frantically waving their arms and bouncing around until Wall eventually corralled the ball. Wall took off on a full sprint, split two defenders, then spotted JaVale McGee out ahead. He tossed an underhand pass at an impossible angle that even the ultra-athletic McGee could not catch. McGee slapped at the ball and it hit off the backboard for a turnover. Read full article >>
C.J. Miles scores 18 points, Raja Bell adds 15 in Jazz’s 20-minute scrimmage
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:48:17 EST
SALT LAKE CITY — C.J. Miles scored 18 points, Raja Bell had 15 and Gordon Hayward 10 in the Utah Jazz’s 20-minute scrimmage Sarturday night in front of more than 10,000 fans. Miles was 7 of 9 shots from the field and 3 of 5 from 3-point range. Bell was 5 of 6 shooting and 2 of 2 from behind the arc, and Hayward was 4 of 8 and made his only 3-point attempt. Read full article >>
Capitals could face Semyon Varlamov, their former goalie now with Avalanche, on Saturday
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:46:43 EST
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — There was a time not too long ago that Semyon Varlamov was one of the most prized prospects in the Washington Capitals organization. But over time, as his young career was beset by injuries and he slipped down the depth chart, the netminder was in search of a fresh start. Varlamov received one last July when the Capitals traded the Russian goaltender to the Colorado Avalanche for a first-round selection in the 2012 NHL entry draft, along with their choice of a second-round pick in either 2012 or 2013. Read full article >>
Johnson, McLeod score 1st goals of season, Avs top Capitals 2-1
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 24:34:43 EST
DENVER — Cody McLeod and Erik Johnson broke through for their first goals of the season and gave the Colorado Avalanche all the offense they needed. McLeod scored his first goal in 37 games and Johnson ended a 38-game drought to lead the Avalanche over the Washington Capitals 2-1 on Saturday night. Jean-Sebastian Giguere made their goals stand up with 25 saves in Colorado’s fifth straight home victory. Read full article >>
Beat the clock: Rangers’ Richards tops Coyotes with less than a second left
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 24:38:03 EST
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Brad Richards was just trying to shoot the puck on net before time ran out. Swinging a backhander from the left circle as the final seconds ticked off, Richards’ shot deflected off of Keith Yandle’s right leg and found its way into the Coyotes net with 0.1 seconds remaining to give the Rangers a dramatic 3-2 win over Phoenix. Read full article >>
Missing 4 of top 6 forwards to injury, Wild recall more reinforcements, Ortmeyer, Rau from AHL
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:22:38 EST
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The injury-ravaged Minnesota Wild have recalled two more reinforcements from their AHL affiliate, forwards Jed Ortmeyer and Chad Rau. Minnesota made the moves on Sunday. The 33-year-old Ortmeyer played in four games for the Wild last season and was tied for first on the Houston Aeros with a plus-11 rating in 22 games this season. Rau is a native of Eden Prairie, Minn., who has five goals and nine assists in 29 games for the Aeros. Read full article >>
Washington will have 2 changes at T, Smith replaces Locklear, Polumbus plays for injured Brown
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:09:03 EST
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Washington Redskins made a lineup change for Sunday’s game against the New York Giants, starting Willie Smith at left tackle for Sean Locklear. Smith, who had been splitting snaps in practice this week, will go against Giants right end Jason Pierre-Paul, the NFC defensive player of the week. Read full article >>
Giants TE Ballard hurts right knee, won’t return; WR Thomas carted off with neck injury
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:40 EST
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants tight end Jake Ballard left Sunday’s game with the Washington Redskins with a right knee injury. Ballard was hurt on the first play of New York’s final drive of the opening half, a 15-yard gain. He limped to the sideline, and at halftime the team said Ballard will not return. Read full article >>
Redskins vs. Giants: Washington sweeps New York for first time since 1999
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:10:55 EST
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Pulling off the improbable, the Washington Redskins went up to MetLife Stadium to take on the NFC East-leading New York Giants as seven-point underdogs, but came away with a 23-10 victory Sunday afternoon. It was the Redskins’ fifth win of the season and, in beating the Giants for a second time this season, Washington registered its first sweep of its division rival since 1999. Read full article >>
Colts say Manning will miss rest of season, but is taking snaps, throwing lightly
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:49:10 EST
INDIANAPOLIS — Colts vice chairman Bill Polian says Peyton Manning will not play in the final two games, but the franchise quarterback did take snaps from center Jeff Saturday this week. Polian made a rare postgame podium appearance Sunday after Fox Sports reported Manning had been throwing with running backs and receivers during the week and that the quarterback still hoped to play this year. Read full article >>
Tony Romo throws 3 first-half TD passes, Cowboys beat Buccaneers 31-15
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 24:38:38 EST
TAMPA, Fla. — Tony Romo made it look easy, shredding Tampa Bay’s secondary at will and helping the Dallas Cowboys get back on track in the NFC East. “This was an important game,” Romo said after throwing for three touchdowns and running for a fourth first-half score Saturday night to lead the first-place Cowboys to a 31-15 rout of the struggling Buccaneers. Read full article >>
La’Keisha Sutton scores 21 points as South Carolina women beat No. 18 North Carolina 79-48
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:05:36 EST
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — La’Keisha Sutton scored 21 points, Markeshia Grant added 20 and South Carolina held No. 18 North Carolina to its lowest point total in nearly two years with a 79-48 victory on Sunday. The Gamecocks (9-2) broke out to an 11-0 lead and never let off the gas pedal against the Tar Heels (7-2), who came in as the nation’s highest-scoring team at 87.5 points a game. Read full article >>
Morgan’s 19 points, late 3-pointer lift Yale to 6th straight win, 68-65 over Rhode Island
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:07:51 EST
KINGSTON, R.I. — Austin Morgan scored 19 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 18 seconds remaining, to lift Yale to its sixth consecutive victory, 68-65 over Rhode Island on Sunday. The junior guard got 12 of his points in the second half, including three 3-pointers during an 18-3 run early in the half that gave the Bulldogs (8-2) a 50-43 lead after they trailed 40-32. Read full article >>
Oral Roberts pulls away to 64-42 win over No. 8 Xavier, which missed 3 suspended starters
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:57:32 EST
CINCINNATI — All the three players could do was sit and watch one of the worst moments in Xavier’s recent history. Dominique Morrison scored 19 points Sunday, leading Oral Roberts to a 64-42 victory over previously unbeaten Xavier, which couldn’t do much with three of its starters sitting on the bench because of suspensions. Read full article >>
Police, protesters clash in Bahrain after funeral of man, witnesses say died from tear gas
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:29:10 EST
MANAMA, Bahrain — Police in Bahrain on Sunday fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans after the funeral of an elderly man who witnesses say died from tear gas inhalation. The unrest Sunday is the fourth straight day of clashes between opposition supporters and security forces along a main highway west of the Bahraini capital Manama. At least 40 people have been killed since February, when Bahrain’s Shiite majority started campaigning for more rights from Sunni rulers in the Gulf kingdom that is the home of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. Read full article >>
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, flouting Supreme Court ruling, still try to segregate Israeli buses
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:54:53 EST
JERUSALEM — Israel’s political leaders and chief rabbis on Sunday condemned persistent efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to shunt Israeli women to the back of public buses, a year after the country’s Supreme Court outlawed the practice. The outcry came in reaction to an Israeli woman’s experience of being asked to move to the back of a bus, which was posted on Facebook and became a cause celebre in the Israeli media on Sunday. The case even drew public comment from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who deplored gender segregation. Read full article >>
Even as Iraqis cheer exit of last US troops, sectarian feuds point to worries ahead
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:15:54 EST
BAGHDAD — Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops Sunday, the dangers left behind after nearly nine years of war were on full display. Politicians feuded along the country’s potentially explosive sectarian lines and the drumbeat of deadly violence went on. The last U.S. convoy rumbled out of Iraq across the border into Kuwait around sunrise under a shroud of secrecy to prevent attacks on the departing troops. When news reached a waking Iraqi public, there was joy at the end of a presence that many Iraqis resented as a foreign occupation. Read full article >>
Iran TV shows suspected US spy confessing to alleged mission to infiltrate Iran secret service
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:54:52 EST
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state TV broadcast video of a young man Sunday it claimed was a CIA spy who sought to infiltrate Iran’s secret services. The TV identified the man, apparently in his late 20s, as Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, an American-Iranian who received special training and served at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged intelligence mission. Read full article >>
As last American troops exit Iraq, war that began with ‘shock and awe’ comes to a subdued end
WASHINGTONPOST Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:07:15 EST
AT THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER — Outside it was pitch dark. The six American soldiers couldn’t see much of the desert landscape streaming by outside the small windows of their armored vehicle. They were hushed and exhausted from an all-night drive — part of the last convoy of U.S. troops to leave Iraq during the final moment of a nearly nine-year war. Read full article >>
'Accessible To All': Spain Puts Hope In Holiday Lottery
NPR Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:49:00 GMT
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas in Spain without El Gordo, but "The Fat One" isn't Santa Claus. It's the state lottery, the biggest of the year. Tickets sell for nearly $300, yet more than 95 percent of Spaniards buy them — or at least a share in one.
Spain PM to outline tough reforms
REUTERS Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:55:49 GMT
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's incoming centre-right Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will outline his first economic reforms and cost-cutting measures on Monday as he prepares to take the helm of a country battered by austerity, mass unemployment and the threat of recession.
Wigan Athletic v Chelsea: live
FEEDSPORTAL Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:20:58 GMT
Follow minute-by-minute commentary of the Premier League game between Wigan Athletic and Chelsea at the DW Stadium on Saturday Dec 17 2011.
Report: Ship carrying scores of illegal migrants sinks off Indonesia’s Java island
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:07:56 EST
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A wooden ship believed to be carrying more than 200 migrants, many of them from the Middle East, sank Saturday off Indonesia’s main island of Java, local media reported. So far only 33 people have been rescued. Police blamed the accident on overloading, telling the official news agency Antara that the vessel appeared to have been carrying more than twice its capacity. Read full article >>
Flash floods ravage cities in southern Philippines, kill at least 436 while they slept
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:50:44 EST
MANILA, Philippines — Flash floods devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing more than 400 people while they slept, rousting hundreds of others to their rooftops and turning two coastal cities into muddy, debris-filled waterways that were strewn Saturday with overturned vehicles and toppled trees. Read full article >>
Beating protesters, dragging women in street, Egypt military uses heavy hand to crush protest
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:14:19 EST
CAIRO — Troops pulled women across the pavement by their hair, knocking off their Muslim headscarves. Young activists were kicked in the head until they lay motionless in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Unfazed by TV cameras catching every move, Egypt’s military took a dramatically heavier hand Saturday to crush protests against its rule in nearly 48 hours of continuous fighting in Egypt’s capital that has left more than 300 injured and nine dead, many of them shot to death. Read full article >>
Historic visit to Tripoli by Pentagon chief; Panetta appeals for groups to join ‘one Libya’
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:46:39 EST
TRIPOLI, Libya — Pentagon chief Leon Panetta made history Saturday as the first American defense secretary to set foot on Libyan soil and said he hoped the post-Moammar Gadhafi government could assemble the country’s militias into “one Libya.” Panetta has indicated that the U.S. will give the Libyans some time to gain control of the militias that overthrew Gadhafi during an eight-month civil war before determining how to help the fledgling government. Read full article >>
Iran says it has arrested a suspected American spy trying to infiltrate Iranian intelligence
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:57:54 EST
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States. The ministry said in a statement broadcast on state TV that Iran’s secret services identified the suspect at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Bagram is the main base for American and other international forces outside Kabul. Read full article >>
Arab League gives Syria until Wednesday to accept peace plan, considers turning to UN
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:46:54 EST
BEIRUT — The Arab League has given Syria until Wednesday to allow observers into the country or else it will likely turn to the U.N. Security Council for action to try to end the deadly violence against regime opponents, Qatar’s prime minister said Saturday. Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani said in Qatar that Arab foreign ministers will hold a “decisive and important” meeting in Cairo on Wednesday to decide on next steps. He said there is near unanimity on taking the Arab League’s plan to the Security Council in hopes the world body can bring more pressure to bear on Damascus to accept it. Syria has demanded changes to the proposal, which calls for an end to the government’s crackdown. Read full article >>
U.S. hands over Hezbollah prisoner to Iraq
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:13:00 EST
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military on Friday handed over its last and most controversial prisoner to the Iraqi government ahead of the departure of the remaining few thousand U.S. troops, officials said. The prisoner, Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior member of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, is suspected in the killings of five U.S. soldiers in 2007. He was transferred to Iraqi custody after the Obama administration “sought and received assurances that he will be tried for his crimes,” according to Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council in Washington. Read full article >>
Moussa bids for presidency in a new Egypt
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:02:00 EST
CAIRO — Women leaned over balconies to catch a glimpse of Amr Moussa as he walked the streets of a middle-class Cairo neighborhood one recent afternoon. Little girls giggled and crowds gathered in awe at the celebrity in their midst. But as boys sang “The people want Amr Moussa for president,” the candidate might not have heard the slur being spat by young men down the block. “Felool,” they called him, Arabic for “remnants” — a stark reminder that an effort by the 75-year-old to inherit the mantle of the Egyptian revolution could be derailed by his long associations with the fallen regime. Read full article >>
In a historic visit, Leon Panetta offers support to new Libya
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:45:00 EST
TRIPOLI, Libya — Nine months after American and NATO airpower was deployed to rescue a faltering rebellion against Moammar Gaddafi, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta made a historic visit here Saturday to offer symbolic support for Libya’s post-revolutionary government as it tries to stabilize the North African country. Read full article >>
Egyptian military escalates force against protesters
WASHINGTONPOST Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:25:00 EST
CAIRO — The Egyptian military used brutal force to disperse protesters in central Cairo on Saturday as deadly clashes that have exacerbated tensions in the midst of an electoral season entered a second day. Wielding batons and firing live ammunition, military police officers escalated a crackdown that has left at least nine people dead and more than 300 wounded during more than 36 hours of violence. Read full article >>
Cameroon suspends Eto'o 15 matches
CBC Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:13:38 EST
Cameroon's soccer federation has suspended national team captain Samuel Eto'o for 15 matches as punishment for his part in a players' strike last month.
Swiss Feuz wins World Cup super-G event
CBC Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:26:41 EST
Beat Feuz of Switzerland outskied Bode Miller to win a super-G on Friday in the World Cup circuit's return to Europe. Feuz clocked one minute 21.51 seconds down the twisty and terrain-filled Saslong course in Val Gardena, Italy.
Dionne: Speed, rink sizes affect concussion numbers
CBC Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:16:22 EST
Count Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Dionne among those alarmed at the severity of concussions in the NHL, especially after it was revealed that tough guy Chris Pronger would be shut down with more than half the season remaining.
Arturo Gatti widow wins legal battle over fortune
CBC Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:54:07 EST
A Quebec superior court judge has sided against the family of Arturo Gatti, allowing his widow to access the late boxer's fortune.
Europa League draw: Manchester City face holders Porto, United to take on Ajax and Stoke paired with Valencia
FEEDSPORTAL Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:38:08 GMT
Man City drawn against holders Porto in last 32, United will face Ajax and Stoke have tough tie against Valencia.
Arsene Wenger: 'Arsenal can beat Manchester City'
FEEDSPORTAL Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:04:41 GMT
The Arsenal manager believes his side can repeat the performance they put in away at Chelsea that sparked their return to form in the Premier League.
Manchester City v Arsenal: match preview
FEEDSPORTAL Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:00:34 GMT
Preview of the Premier League game between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday Dec 18 2011, kick-off 16:10 GMT.
Champions League draw: Arsenal face AC Milan, Chelsea take on Napoli in last 16
FEEDSPORTAL Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:55:00 GMT
Arsene Wenger's side to face seven-time winners AC Milan in Champions League last 16, as Chelsea draw Napoli.
London Irish's Mike Catt reads squad the riot act to stamp out foul play ahead of Racing Metro clash
FEEDSPORTAL Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:32:50 GMT
London Irish coach Mike Catt clamps down on ill-discipline ahead of Racing Metro clash.
Photos of victims of ‘death flights’ turned over to Argentina by human rights commission
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:52:49 EST
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A human rights commission has provided an Argentine judge with photographs showing the bodies of dissidents believed to have been tossed out of airplanes during the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights gave the judge 130 photographs showing the tortured bodies of about 20 people found on the coast of Uruguay at the time. Read full article >>
Dominican Republic arrests 2 Europeans, 15 police officers in seizure of cocaine at airport
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:04:25 EST
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have arrested two Europeans and 15 local police officers for alleged involvement in a cocaine shipment seized at an airport. The Caribbean country’s National Drug Control Directorate says Thursday’s arrests are tied to a one-ton cargo of cocaine to shipped on a flight to Antwerp, Belgium. Read full article >>
Peru judge grants paroled US activist Lori Berenson NY visit for holidays
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:57:06 EST
LIMA, Peru — A Peruvian court has ruled that paroled U.S. activist Lori Berenson and her toddler son can travel to New York for the holidays, she and her father confirmed on Friday. A three-judge appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court judge’s ruling denying Berenson permission to travel, said Guillermo Gonzalez, spokesman for Peru’s judicial system. He said she could leave the country from Dec. 16 to Jan. 11. Read full article >>
Uruguay bans ports to British ships from Falklands; UK seeks explanation
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:00:21 EST
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s government has barred its ports to ships using flags from the disputed Falklands Islands and the British government says it is seeking an explanation The government of President Jose Mujica announced the ban on Thursday. It says it responds to neighboring Argentina’s claims to the Atlantic islands governed by Britain. Only Falklands-flagged vessels are affected. Read full article >>
France, Britain engage in cross-Channel sniping amid tense politics, sour economic climate
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:22:48 EST
PARIS — France and Britain escalated an unusual bout of sniping Friday, as Prime Minister David Cameron took a swipe at religious freedoms in France while the French finance minister criticized the U.K. economy. The latest cross-Channel squabbling — triggered in part over a tense European Union summit last week — bared efforts to win political points at home at a time when the financial crisis has pinched both governments. Read full article >>
Congo’s supreme court confirms President Joseph Kabila’s election victory
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:40:49 EST
KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s supreme court confirms President Joseph Kabila’s election victory. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Read full article >>
Syrian army defectors kill 27 troops in one of deadliest clashes, Canada tells citizens to go
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:07:08 EST
BEIRUT — Army defectors killed 27 government forces Thursday in apparently coordinated attacks that were among the deadliest by rebel troops since the uprising began nine months ago. The escalating unrest prompted Canada to advise thousands of its citizens in Syria to leave. The fighting began around daybreak in the southern province of Daraa, where the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s authoritarian regime began in March. Read full article >>
Egypt’s military and protesters clash, 2 dead, in resurgence of violence amid elections
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:29:05 EST
CAIRO — Soldiers stormed an anti-military protest camp outside Egypt’s Cabinet building Friday, beating women with sticks and hurling chunks of concrete and glass onto protesters from the roof of the parliament in a resurgence of turmoil only a day after millions voted in parliamentary elections. At least three protesters were shot to death in the clashes, including a prominent Muslim cleric, activists said. The heavy-handed assault was apparently an attempt to clear out protesters who have been camped out in front of the building for three weeks demanding the ruling military leave power. Read full article >>
Occupy Cabinet: Egyptian security clash with food-poisoned protesters
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:48:00 EST
Egyptian security forces stormed a sit-in outside the Cabinet building in Cairo early Friday, using water cannons and then rocks against demonstrators, The Post’s Leila Fadel reports. Nearly 100 people were injured. The sit-in, in its third week, called for an end to military rule, just as votes are being counted in the second round of Egypt's parliamentary elections. The protest grew Friday after photos and video of a man severely beaten and allegedly tortured by police spread widely online, galvanizing protesters. The man’s face appears swollen and bruised, his nose bleeding, and his head wrapped in gauze. A photo also spread of a female protester beaten in the clashes by military police. Read full article >>
Chicken feet in China, and other animal-part delicacies we eat around the world
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:46:00 EST
For years, the U.S. failed to see the value in chicken feet, a plump, hearty part of the bird that mostly ended up ground into pet food. But about a decade ago, the U.S. chicken industry realized the Chinese felt differently. “Those same feet are a popular crunchy snack, typically cooked and marinated, and often washed down with a beer,” The Post’s Beijing correspondent Keith Richburg reports. In the subsequent 10 years, the trade of chicken feet from the U.S. to China went from virtually nothing to some 377,005 metric tons worth $278 million in 2009. Read full article >>
China’s Twitter, Weibo, ordered to require users’ real names
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:16:44 EST
Beijing authorities Friday ordered Internet microblogs like Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, to require users to register with their real names, the AP reports. Microblog companies have three months to comply. The move might be aimed at controlling the conversation on social networks in the country, which are growing by the day. At the end of June, China had more than 485 million Internet users, more than any country in the world. Weibo alone is used by more than 250 million people. Read full article >>
U.S., North Korea resume talks on food aid
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:23:38 EST
U.S. officials have resumed talking to North Korea about providing food aid to the impoverished country, proposing that it accept nutrition-rich items — such as Plumpy Nut peanut paste — that are considered less likely to be diverted to the North Korean elite. In lieu of foods like rice and beans that in the past have ended up in the bowls of North Korea’s military, U.S. officials say they want to send vitamin supplements, high-protein biscuits and Plumpy Nut, a high-energy paste that has been widely given to malnourished children in Africa. Read full article >>
Japan declares Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant stable
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:19:00 EST
TOKYO — The Japanese government on Friday declared that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had reached a stable state known as “cold shutdown,” a benchmark for progress in the fraught four-decade effort to decommission its reactors. But the formal status change at the plant, experts cautioned, means only that its problems have become less dire; they have not disappeared. Read full article >>
U.S., China embroiled in trade spat over chicken feet
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:30:00 EST
BEIJING — The United States produces billions of broiler chickens each year, specially bred to be big and juicy, with plump, sturdy feet to hold them up. And for years, all those feet were considered excess parts, and mostly ground into pet food. But here in China, those same feet are a popular crunchy snack, typically cooked and marinated, and often washed down with a beer. And so, a few years ago, a kind of trade synergy began, with the United States shipping to China all those otherwise worthless chicken feet. The trade grew rapidly, from virtually nothing a decade ago to 377,805 metric tons worth $278 million in 2009. Read full article >>
Wizards owner Ted Leonsis: ‘We’re here to win’
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:37:00 EST
Washington Wizards majority owner Ted Leonsis addressed the media on Thursday afternoon, covering many topics during his roughly half-hour news conference, including elevated expectations for this season, the process of constructing a winner and peering ahead rather than dwelling on past missteps. Read full article >>
Megastar wins by a nose at Hollywood Park
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:00:39 EST
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Megastar edged favored Uncle Sam by a nose to win the $52,000 feature Thursday at Hollywood Park. Ridden by Joe Talamo, Megastar covered 1 1/16 miles on Cushion Track in 1:43.33 and paid $20.20, $6.20 and $3.20. Uncle Sam returned $2.60 and $2.20, while Dynamic Host was third and paid $2.40. Read full article >>
Mike McQueary: I saw Sandusky molesting boy
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:45:20 EST
Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary took the stand Friday to testify against school administrators in the ongoing child sexual abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky. In his testimony at the preliminary hearing for Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, McQueary said he believes he saw Sandusky sexually molesting a boy in the shower but was not 100 percent sure it was intercourse. Read full article >>
Russian customs seize radioactive metal from Iranian’s luggage bound for Tehran
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:57:15 EST
MOSCOW — Russia’s customs agency announced Friday it has seized pieces of radioactive metal from the luggage of an Iranian passenger bound for Tehran from one of Moscow’s main airports. It was not immediately clear if the substance could be any use to Iran’s controversial nuclear program. Federal Customs Service agents found 18 pieces of metal, packed in pencil cases, at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after a radiation alert went off, the agency said in a statement. It said the gauges showed that radiation levels were 20 times higher than normal. Read full article >>
Iran warns it will down other US drones if American spy planes continue to fly over its skies
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:01:22 EST
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will hunt down more American spy drones if the U.S. continues to violate its air space, a senior Iranian military official warned Friday, the latest in triumphant rhetoric from Tehran over the capture of the unmanned aircraft two weeks ago. Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s former defense minister, said Iran won’t remain inactive to future incursions by foreign surveillance drones. Read full article >>
Clashes in Cairo leave 100 injured
WASHINGTONPOST Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:00:00 EST
CAIRO — Military police attempted to break up a protesters’ camp in central Cairo on Friday, setting off violent clashes that injured nearly 100 people and overshadowed the tallying of votes cast in the second phase of parliamentary elections. The violence outside the cabinet building marked the worst unrest in the capital since a five-day-long crackdown on demonstrators demanding an end to military rule last month left at least 42 people dead. Observers worried that the latest move against protesters could undercut voting in the final round of the lower house elections, the first since president Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in February. Read full article >>
Barcelona makes Club World Cup final, Villa breaks leg
CBC Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:55:41 EST
Barcelona set up a showdown with Santos in the Club World Cup final, beating Al-Sadd 4-0 in Thursday's semifinal but losing striker David Villa with a broken left leg in the process.
Wheldon suffered 'non-survivable' injury, says IndyCar inquiry
CBC Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:37:04 EST
Dan Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.
Hawks' Bolland distances himself from 'Sedin sisters' remark
CBC Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:16:45 EST
Dave Bolland is looking to put an end to the war of words with the Vancouver Canucks. The Chicago Blackhawks forward attempted to distance himself from his quip about the Sedin "sisters" following a 4-3 shootout victory in Minnesota on Wednesday night.
Episode 13: Chan, Habs search for identity, plus good sports reads
CBC Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:13:38 EST
The penultimate podcast for 2011 deals with Patrick Chan and the Montreal Canadiens grappling with questions of identity. Also, Chris and Signa recommend some good sports reads.
Peter Reid kisses Diego Maradona's 'Hand of God' in televised reunion of 1986 World Cup foes
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:45:01 GMT
Peter Reid has risked the wrath of England fans after he was filmed kissing the infamous hand of Diego Maradona with which the Argentine scored what proved to be the winning goal in the two side's match at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
Niko Kranjcar says leaving Tottenham Hotspur and 'unbelievable' squad under coach Harry Redknapp
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:08:44 GMT
Croatian midfielder says he will not be demanding to leave Tottenham when the transfer window opens next month.
Niko Kranjcar won't leave Tottenham Hotspur and 'unbelievable' squad under coach Harry Redknapp
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:08:44 GMT
Croatian midfielder says he will not be demanding to leave Tottenham when the transfer window opens next month.
Carlos Tevez told to 'chose prestige over money' by AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:26:52 GMT
AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi insists club would provide Carlos Tévez perfect environment to relaunch career.
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp praises Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez - but won't sign Argentine
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:46:54 GMT
Tottenham coach has praised Carlos Tevez as 'special' talent but won't sign Argentine in January transfer window.
Andre Villas Boas: Fernando Torres is not for sale
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:39:51 GMT
Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas dismisses reports that his £50m striker, Fernando Torres, will be sold in a cut price Christmas deal.
Indian great Rahul Dravid wants protection for Tests and cut to 'meaningless' one-day matches
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:45:22 GMT
Rahul Dravid urges administrators to cut "meaningless" one-day matches and work to get fans back to Tests.
Carl Froch saying I'm a dirty fighter is plain wrong, says Andre Ward, as Atlantic City bout looms
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:57:08 GMT
Andre Ward has played down suggestions that he is a dirty fighter, saying: "I don't have a malicious bone in my body."
Fernando Torres is not for sale 'at any price' says Chelsea manager André Villa-Boas
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:30:08 GMT
Chelsea manager André Villa-Boas has rejected reports that Fernando Torres will be sold in the January transfer window.
David Villa breaks shinbone during Barcelona's Club World Cup semi-final against Al Sadd
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:24:38 GMT
Barcelona striker has suffered a fracture to the tibia in the Fifa Club World Cup semi-final against Al Sadd.
Barcelona reach Club World Cup final but win overshadowed by serious injury to David Villa
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:32:56 GMT
Barcelona reach Club World Cup final but win is marred by serious injury to David Villa.
Fifa consider Brazil's plans to hand out free 2014 World Cup tickets in return for guns
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:46:00 GMT
Fifa consider giving 2014 World Cup tickets in return for surrendering guns.
David Villa out for six months after breaking shinbone during Barcelona's Club World Cup semi-final
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:24:04 GMT
Barcelona striker, linked with English clubs in January transfer window, suffers fracture to tibia at Fifa Club World Cup.
Rangers in talks to sign Dundee United midfielder Scott Allan, confirms Ally McCoist
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:51:09 GMT
Rangers manager Ally McCoist has confirmed discussions have begun with Dundee United over a move for Scott Allan.
Lionel Messi v Neymar: how Barcelona and Santos stars compare ahead of Fifa Club World Cup final
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:36:40 GMT
Graphic: how do Lionel Messi and Neymar, who will go head-to-head in the Club World Cup final compare?
Barcelona and Santos win Club World Cup semi-finals: in pictures
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:39:16 GMT
In pics: Barcelona beat Al-Sadd to set up Club World Cup final showdown with Santos.
Report: Colombia’s coca crop, eradication, level old-growth forest
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:59:24 EST
BOGOTA, Colombia — A new study says more than 3,000 square miles (800,000 hectares) of Colombia’s woodlands have been cleared since 1981 in the planting and destruction of drug crops. The study released Wednesday by Colombia’s government and the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime was authored by economist Ricardo Rocha. He says deforestation has been devastating, as old-growth forests are felled for coca growing, contaminated by chemicals used in processing then further ravaged by defoliants used in coca eradication. Read full article >>
Woman accuses Guyana national police chief of rape; he says: ‘Let God be the judge’
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:45:12 EST
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A woman is accusing the chief of Guyana’s National Police of rape and says several officers refused to take her complaint. The 34-year-old woman tells reporters in the South American country that Chief Henry Greene took her to a hotel and raped her. She alleges the incident occurred in late November. Read full article >>
Panetta leads ceremony marking formal end of America’s deadly, divisive war in Iraq
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:14:29 EST
BAGHDAD — After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead and 100,000 Iraqi dead, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq — a conflict that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the American sacrifice because it set Iraq on a path to democracy. Panetta stepped off his military plane in Baghdad Thursday as the leader of America’s war in Iraq, but departed as one of many U.S. and global officials who hope to work with the struggling nation as it tries to find its new place in the Middle East and the broader world. Read full article >>
Russia scrambles to save some 100 beluga whales trapped in Bering Sea
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:30:38 EST
MOSCOW — Russian agencies are scrambling to some 100 beluga whales — an endangered species — that are trapped among large chunks of polar ice floating in the frigid Bering Sea. Russia’s nature protection watchdog says there is a chance that the whales might perish. Authorities say the ice is 10-15 centimeters (4-6 inches) thick and is preventing the whales from reaching the open sea where they can swim freely. Read full article >>
Bahraini police use tear gas, stun grenades to disperse protesters on highway outside capital
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:37:00 EST
MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahraini security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to try to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters attempting to protest alongside a highway leading to the island kingdom’s capital Thursday. The clashes follow 10 months of unrest between Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy and an opposition movement led by the country’s majority Shiites. They came during a visit by the U.S. State Department’s top human rights envoy, who expressed concern about the government’s use of tear gas and other tough tactics against protesters. Read full article >>
A fashionable Mary and department store gifts: The nativity gets updated for the modern age.
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:37:10 EST
LONDON — There’s a beautifully groomed Mary in a blue party dress, a fashionable Joseph gazing adoringly at the baby, and wise men carrying a Faberge egg, a crystal bottle of perfume and a decorated skull. With only twelve days to go until Christmas, a church group unveiled a poster Thursday to remind people of the religious aspect of the holiday — while making a statement about modern-day extravagance. Read full article >>
Canada tells Canadians to leave Syria now, says Assad’s regime “has lost all legitimacy”
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:49:36 EST
TORONTO — Canada on Thursday urged its citizens to leave Syria immediately, saying President Bashar Assad’s authoritarian regime “has lost all legitimacy, and its abhorrent behavior will not be tolerated.” The United Nations sharply raised its death toll this week for the nine-month uprising against the regime, saying more than 5,000 people have been killed. Read full article >>
Bootleg liquor containing toxic methanol kills 143 people in east India; 7 suspects arrested
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:54:38 EST
SANGRAMPUR, India — Bootleg liquor containing toxic methanol killed 143 people and sickened dozens more who drank the cheap, illicit brew bought at small shops in eastern India, officials said Thursday. Police arrested 10 suspected bootleggers. Emergency medical teams rushed to the village outside Kolkata, and thousands of relatives, many of them wailing in grief, gathered outside the packed hospital. Inside, dead bodies lay on the floor covered in quilts, while the ill waited on staircases to be treated. Groups of men sat in the halls with saline drips running into their arms. Read full article >>
Jerusalem mosque torched, scrawled with anti-Muslim graffiti
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:15:49 EST
Arsonists have torched a Jerusalem mosque and scrawled anti-Muslim graffiti on its walls, Israeli police said Wednesday. It was the latest in a string of attacks on Israeli military bases and Muslim mosques, believed to be carried out by Jewish extremists upset over government polices they believe are biased in favor of Palestinians. Read full article >>
Iraq war ends today
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:13:50 EST
It’s over. Eight years, eight months and 25 days after the war in Iraq began, American troops will be home just before the holidays. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta in a quiet ceremony in Baghdad Thursday paid tribute to an “independent, free and sovereign Iraq” and declared the official end to the war. Read full article >>
U.S., North Korea weigh resumption of food aid
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:20:26 EST
U.S. officials have arrived in Beijing to meet with North Korean leaders about whether and how to resume food aid to the isolated and impoverished country, according to State Department officials. Robert King, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, and the deputy assistant administrator of USAID, Jon Brause, are expected to hold talks Thursday with Ri Gun, North Korea’s director general of American affairs. Read full article >>
Dempsey: Leaving Iraq with concerns, and pride
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:58:36 EST
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — The once massive flow of American troops and equipment out of Iraq and into the desert bases on the border here has slowed to a trickle over the past several days. Senior American military officials said there is simply not much American gear left to pull out of the country. On Wednesday, the impending end of America’s long Iraq war put Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a reflective state of mind about the U.S. military’s and his own 20-year involvement with Iraq. Dempsey spoke of the war on the same day that he visited the dusty bases that are the first stop for American soldiers as they leave Iraq. Read full article >>
Between McCain and Putin, there’s no love lost
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:59:56 EST
If Vladi­mir Putin has some words for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, he has some for Sen. John McCain, too. McCain, the Arizona Republican and longtime critic of the Russian prime minister, has not been shy about his enthusiasm for the protests that have erupted in Russian cities since elections marred by allegations of ballot-stuffing and other irregularities. Read full article >>
Putin says protesters were paid by rivals
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:26:00 EST
MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hinted at small liberalizations to his country’s political system Thursday, but he gave little ground to the protesters who have rocked the country in recent weeks, mocking them and claiming they had been paid to show up. Putin took questions in a marathon televised session that has become an annual ritual during his 12-year-rule, and came 11 days after a parliamentary election in which his United Russia party was dealt a major blow, even amid allegations that ballot-stuffing offset even greater losses. Read full article >>
French court convicts ex-President Chirac guilty of corruption in party financing trial
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:49:50 EST
PARIS — A French court found former President Jacques Chirac guilty of embezzling public funds to illegally finance the conservative party he long led, in a historic verdict Thursday with repercussions for his legacy and France’s political elite. Chirac, a savvy world diplomat and icon of France’s ruling establishment for decades, will not go behind bars but was handed a two-year suspended sentence that goes on his criminal record. Anti-corruption crusaders, long frustrated by dirty dealings in the French political machine, rejoiced at the conviction. Read full article >>
China’s boom ends as investment, exports, manufacturing fall
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:41:12 EST
BEIJING – A top Chinese government economist confirmed Thursday what a slew of recent economic data had already shown — that China’s long-booming economy has slowed dramatically, and the era of double-digit growth is now officially a thing of the past. “We believe China is nearing the end of the period of high economic growth,” said Yu Bin, director general of macroeconomic research for the ruling State Council’s research center. “What we need is moderate and reasonable economic growth.” Read full article >>
Iraq war draws to a quiet close
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:36:00 EST
BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta paid solemn tribute on Thursday to an “independent, free and sovereign Iraq” and declared the official end to the Iraq war, formally wrapping up the U.S. military’s mission in the country after almost nine years. “After a lot of blood spilled by Iraqis and Americans, the mission of an Iraq that could govern and secure itself has become real,” Panetta said at a ceremony held under tight security at Baghdad’s international airport. “To be sure, the cost was high — in blood and treasure for the United States, and for the Iraqi people. Those lives were not lost in vain.” Read full article >>
Despite stats, Redskins anticipating Giants’ RBs
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:45:00 EST
The New York Giants enter this Sunday’s game against the Redskins in a fairly unusual position. They’re ranked last in the NFL in rushing yards per game (85.8) and last in rushing yards per attempt (3.3). “That’s deceiving,” said linebacker Brian Orakpo. The Redskins know better than most teams just how good a rushing team the Giants can be. Since 2007, Brandon Jacobs has three 100-yard games against Washington. Ahmad Bradshaw ran for 97 yards in a game last December. Combined, the two running backs have 10 career touchdowns against the Redskins. Read full article >>
As Nationals search for a center fielder, the Rays appear unlikely to trade B.J. Upton
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:35:02 EST
After engaging in occasional trade discussions involving B.J. Upton for about a year, the Nationals and Rays have seemingly reached a point where talks have stagnated. Barring a blow-them-away offer from the Nationals, the Rays appear content to begin the 2012 season with Upton in their outfield. “There’s not a whole lot of motivation at this point to try to move him,” one person familiar with the Rays said. “They proved that they could win this year when nobody thought they could. Why not try it again?” Read full article >>
Quick hits: LaRon Landry, Jammal Brown uncertain for Sunday
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:49:00 EST
Safety LaRon Landry (groin/Achilles) and right tackle Jammal Brown (groin) both missed practice Wednesday and their status for Sunday’s game is uncertain. Landry has missed the past two games, and Shanahan said he didn’t know when the strong safety might be able to play. “There’s still hope,” he said. Read full article >>
Redskins injury report: Jammal Brown, three others sidelined
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:47 EST
Washington Redskins right tackle Jammal Brown still is holding out hope that he can recover from a strained groin in time to play Sunday against the Giants, but Brown was unable to practice Wednesday, according to the team’s injury report. Also sidelined with an injury for the Redskins were safety LaRon Landry (groin, Achilles’ tendon), fullback Mike Sellers (elbow) and receiver Donte Stallworth (illness/ankle). Read full article >>
Lindsey Vonn: “I am NOT dating Tim Tebow”
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:35:00 EST
Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, who is in the process of divorcing her husband of four years, would like to set the record straight: Although she has been photographed Tebowing, she is not Tebowing. Vonn did indeed sit in the Tebow family’s box during the Denver Broncos’ latest miracle comeback victory Sunday in Denver, but there was no significant meaning. She spends a lot of time in Colorado because she’s a skier. Read full article >>
Michael Jordan: ‘I’m not anti-player’
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:01:00 EST
Michael Jordan has been the primary owner of the Charlotte Bobcats for almost two years, and his franchise has been unable to gain a solid foothold locally and struggled financially since becoming an expansion franchise in 2004. He explained his stance as a supposed hard-line owner during the NBA lockout, telling reporters in Charlotte on Wednesday that his objective was to get a favorable collective bargaining agreement for small market teams. Read full article >>
More than a year after report, USOC finalizing manual to help sports prevent abuse
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:16:07 EST
Nearly 15 months after the U.S. Olympic Committee issued a report to help Olympic sports standardize policies to prevent sex abuse in their ranks, a manual outlining the policy is close to being completed. At the USOC’s quarterly board meeting in Redwood City, Calif., on Wednesday, CEO Scott Blackmun said finishing the manual has become even more important given “recent events,” including child sex abuse allegations at Penn State and Syracuse. Read full article >>
4 jockeys, 2 owners given bans of up to 14 years after probe into fixing in British racing
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:50:42 EST
LONDON — Four jockeys and two owners were given bans of up to 14 years Wednesday after being convicted of race-fixing in the British Horseracing Authority’s biggest corruption inquiry. Jimmy Quinn, Kirsty Milczarek, Greg Fairley and Paul Doe were found to be in breach of various rules following an investigation into 10 races in 2009 in which large bets were placed on horses to lose. Read full article >>
Capital Plan wins feature at Hollywood Park, beating Star Presence by 3 3/4 lengths
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:24:29 EST
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Capital Plan beat Star Presence by 3 3/4 lengths Wednesday in the $52,000 feature race at Hollywood Park Ridden by Joel Rosario, Capital Plan ran 1 1/16 miles on the Cushion Track in 1:43.48 and paid $4, $2.60 and $2.40. Star Presence returned $3.40 and $2.80, and So Belle paid $2.60 to show. Read full article >>
Boys’ basketball: Short-handed Gar-Field edges Potomac (Va.), 72-59, to give Coach Andy Gray his 300th win
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:07:28 EST
Gar-Field seniors Marcus Knight and Ryan Mason and their teammates traipsed into the Potomac (Va.) gym Tuesday night without two of the team’s top three scorers, playing in perhaps the toughest road gym in Prince William County and with Coach Andy Gray teetering on his 300th career victory. Any of those factors could have doomed the short-handed Indians. Instead, they rallied for a 72-59 win that not only enabled their coach to reach a career milestone but also gave unbeaten Gar-Field early command of the Virginia AAA Cardinal District race. Read full article >>
Boys’ basketball: West leads Spingarn past No. 11 Coolidge, 75-66
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:07:43 EST
It’s almost as if Jerome West was Spingarn’s secret weapon-in-waiting. The talented sophomore was at C.H. Flowers last year but didn’t play because of grades. And in the offseason, he decided to move in with family in the District so he could attend Spingarn. So few have seen West perform on the high school stage like this. And on Tuesday night in Northeast Washington, West made his introduction to No. 11 Coolidge. The 6-foot-1 guard scored a game-high 29 points to power the Green Wave past the Colts, 75-66, in a nonleague matchup of teams considered early favorites in each division. Read full article >>
St. John’s girls’ basketball pulls away from Georgetown Visitation
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:39:15 EST
St. John’s junior guard Lindsay Allen started to chuckle when the subject came up of opponents trying to muster all their forces to defeat her team. The reigning City Title champions are even greater prey than they were last season, when they were chasing their first Washington Catholic Athletic Conference crown since 2004. Read full article >>
Barcelona beats Qatari club Al-Sadd 4-0 to reach Club World Cup final, will next face Santos
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:50:41 EST
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Barcelona is back in the Club World Cup final, setting up a match against South American champion Santos by beating Qatari club Al-Sadd 4-0 Thursday. Adriano scored two first-half goals, while Seydou Keita and Maxwell added the others for the Champions League champions. Adriano put Barcelona in the lead in the 25th minute after a blunder by Al-Sadd goalkeeper Mohamed Saqr. A cross from Pedro on the left went to Nadir Belhadj, who tried to direct the ball to his goalkeeper. But Saqr failed to pick up the ball before attempting to clear it with his feet and Adriano charged in to tap in from close range. Read full article >>
Red Sox sign Mark Melancon, Nick Punto in effort to rally from ‘11 playoff collapse
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:47:19 EST
BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox tried to bolster their bullpen and their bench when they signed Nick Punto and traded for Mark Melancon. And if they add some guys who can pull together their fractured clubhouse, that’s OK, too. The Red Sox traded for Melancon, the former Astros reliever, and then signed Punto as a free agent. General manager Ben Cherington said on Thursday that Punto, the former St. Louis Cardinals, “understands his role on a winning team.” Read full article >>
Movie to tell story of ADHD struggles for new Mets center fielder Andres Torres
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 24:48:53 EST
NEW YORK — New Mets center fielder Andres Torres knows about struggles. An injury-plagued 2011 season was difficult. But he’s dealt with greater adversity. A new documentary is coming out on how he managed his Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to become a World Series winner with the San Francisco Giants in 2010. Read full article >>
Free agent center Kwame Brown signs one-year, $7 million deal with Warriors
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:49:13 EST
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Golden State Warriors have signed free-agent center Kwame Brown to a $7 million, one-year deal. The well-traveled Brown, who spent last season with Charlotte and joins his sixth NBA team, will give new coach Mark Jackson depth at the center spot alongside Andris Biedrins. The 29-year-old Brown, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2001 draft by the Washington Wizards, averaged 7.9 points and 6.8 rebounds in 66 games with 50 starts last season while shooting 51.7 percent from the floor. Read full article >>
Hornets send point guard Chris Paul to Clippers for Gordon, Kaman, Aminu and draft pick
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:12:03 EST
NEW ORLEANS — Chris Paul is headed to Los Angeles for real this time — to the Clippers, not the Lakers. The Hornets traded Paul to the Clippers for guard Eric Gordon, forward Al-Farouq Aminu, center Chris Kaman and a first-round draft choice. The deal required the approval of NBA Commissioner David Stern because the Hornets are owned by the league. Read full article >>
Clippers land Chris Paul in landmark trade; Gordon, Kaman, Aminu and draft pick to Hornets
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:07:24 EST
LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul will supply the Los Angeles Clippers with so much more than alley-oop passes to Blake Griffin when he arrives in Hollywood on Thursday night. A bold trade for New Orleans’ superstar point guard on Wednesday just might alter the entire sports world’s perception of the Clippers. After managing just six winning seasons in their first 41 years of existence, the bumbling Clippers suddenly look slick and scintillating after swinging arguably the biggest trade in franchise history, giving them two of the NBA’s elite players and a capable supporting cast. Read full article >>
Head injuries to Crosby, Giroux highlight NHL concern for concussions, head-injury awareness
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:11:08 EST
PHILADELPHIA — Sidney Crosby and Claude Giroux should have been intertwined this season as two of the NHL’s brightest stars, competing for state supremacy, an MVP trophy and a Stanley Cup. Yet, Crosby and Giroux were linked in back-to-back days this week for all the wrong reasons: Head injuries that have put their careers on hold. Read full article >>
Capitals vs. Flyers: Washington fails its latest test with 5-1 loss to Philadelphia at Verizon Center
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:14:00 EST
If the Washington Capitals’ meeting with the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night truly represented a measuring stick of their progress under Coach Dale Hunter, as players billed it in the hours leading up to the game, then they came up far short. Washington fell, 5-1, at Verizon Center in a game in which the offense became dormant for stretches, the defensive zone coverage eroded and the goaltenders allowed soft goals. Read full article >>
Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow keeps the faith, mixing the Gospel and the gridiron
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:39:07 EST
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Gospel and the gridiron are inextricably intertwined in Tim Tebow’s world. The scrambling quarterback and devout Christian draws as much scrutiny for mixing faith with football as he does for his unconventional winning ways. With all eyes on the quirky QB who has led the Denver Broncos’ remarkable resurgence, Tebow isn’t shy about publicly professing his religious beliefs, often ending interviews with a hardy “God Bless!” Read full article >>
Browns wide receiver Josh Cribbs plays Santa, gives TVs to teammates for help at event
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:50:47 EST
BEREA, Ohio — Just call him Santa Cribbs. Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Cribbs bought and gave TVs to 20 teammates as early Christmas gifts for helping him at a charity event this week. Cribbs had the 32-inch sets delivered to the Browns locker room where they were waiting for the players when they came off the practice field on Wednesday. Wide receiver Carlton Mitchell had Cribbs pose for a picture in front of his gift. Read full article >>
In Tebow-style, Redskins rookie RB Roy Helu keeps the faith _ and doesn’t mind expressing it
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:21:16 EST
ASHBURN, Va. — Like Tim Tebow, Roy Helu has become the most exciting offensive player on his team. And like Tebow, the Washington Redskins running back isn’t shy about sharing his Christian faith, interspersing his answers to reporters’ questions with phrases like: “I’ve been praying to be a better steward and a better representation of Jesus on the field.” Read full article >>
Chris Paul trade makes Blake Griffin, Clippers a worthy rival for Kobe Bryant, Lakers
WASHINGTONPOST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:51:57 EST
From La-la Land to Lob City ... On Wednesday night, Chris Paul really, truly was traded — to the Los Angeles Clippers, not the Lakers — in a deal that meets the exacting specifications of persnickety Commissioner David Stern and sets up a doozy of a West Coast rivalry. Paul was traded by the New Orleans Hornets for guard Eric Gordon, forward Al-Farouq Aminu, center Chris Kaman and a first-round draft choice (from Minnesota, so it’s like to be a lottery pick). Stern, whose permission was required because the Hornets are owned by the league, signed off on this one. Read full article >>
Reports: 1991 Kentucky Derby winner Strike the Gold dies at 23 in Turkey
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:36:37 EST
Kentucky Derby winner Strike the Gold has been euthanized after injuring his left front leg while in his paddock at a stud farm in Turkey. The Turkish Jockey Club confirmed the death Wednesday to the Daily Racing Form and Bloodhorse websites. The 1991 Derby winner trained by Hall of Famer Nick Zito had battled laminitis lately but was in good health before injuring his pastern, a part of the leg between the fetlock and the top of the hoof. Strike the Gold was 23. Read full article >>
NFL completes TV deal with Fox, CBS and NBC totaling about $3 billion per year
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:52:45 EST
The NFL further solidified its status as the nation’s most prosperous sport by completing a lucrative set of extensions of its national television contracts with Fox, CBS and NBC. The nine-year extensions run through the 2022 season, the league announced Wednesday. Industry sources said the new deals will be worth an average of about $1 billion apiece to the NFL over the length of the contracts. That total of approximately $3 billion annually for the three deals is up from about $1.9 billion per year currently for the contracts with the three networks. Read full article >>
Prince Fielder is on the market; Cubs, Rangers, Mariners are interested
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:54:06 EST
Now that Albert Pujols has found his new home on the West Coast, Prince Fielder is the most coveted slugger remaining in this year’s free agent class. And for all the general managers out there looking for a power-hitting first baseman to anchor the middle of their batting order, super-agent Scott Boras has just the guy for you. Read full article >>
Yu Darvish posting deadline passes, wait begins
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:33:57 EST
As the deadline for teams to submit posting bids on Japanese right-handed pitcher Yu Darvish passed Wednesday night at 5 p.m., the baseball world waited to learn which team submitted the winner and if the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, Darvish’s Japanese team, would accept. Because at least one team bid, Major League Baseball notified the Japanese commissioner’s office of the amount of the highest bid, but not the team that placed it. The Fighters now have four days to decide if they accept the high bid, but an MLB official expected their decision – and the disclosure of the winning team – to come Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Read full article >>
Thomas scores 23, Sullinger returns with double-double in No. 2 OSU’s 82-58 win over Upstate
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:42:28 EST
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Everyone was pleased with how All-America forward Jared Sullinger played in his first game back after missing two because of back spasms. Everybody but Sullinger, that is. Deshaun Thomas scored 23 points and No. 2 Ohio State welcomed back Sullinger in an 82-58 victory over South Carolina Upstate on Wednesday night. Read full article >>
Hornets send guard Chris Paul to Clippers for Gordon, Kaman, Aminu, draft pick
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:59:31 EST
NEW ORLEANS — NBA Commissioner David Stern says his only consideration during trade talks concerning Chris Paul was getting the best deal for the New Orleans Hornets. Stern says he believes he’s succeeded with Wednesday night’s deal in which the Hornets traded Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Clippers for guard Eric Gordon, forward Al-Farouq Aminu, center Chris Kaman and a first-round draft choice. Read full article >>
Spain police accused of racial profiling
INDEPENDENT Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:55:43 GMT
Amnesty International today accused Spanish authorities of using racial and ethnic profiling, with police singling out people who are not white in order to meet quotas.
Spain: Police Target People Who Don't 'Look Spanish'
IBTIMES Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:31:31 EST
People who do not “look Spanish” can be stopped by police as often as four times a day, according to report by Amnesty International.
Belgium police find woman’s body at home of Liege gunman who killed 4 people and injured 123
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:23:45 EST
LIEGE, Belgium — The body of a woman has been found in the garage of the man who lobbed hand grenades and fired weapons into crowds in the Belgian city of Liege, killing four people and wounding 123, officials said Wednesday. Liege Prosecutor Daniele Reynders said the body of a woman in her forties was discovered during a search of Nordine Amrani’s property, and that she was killed before Tuesday’s murderous spree at Liege’s main square. Read full article >>
Germany’s shoppers are still spending
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:53:06 EST
BERLIN — Amid crushing unemployment, slashed benefits and deep pessimism about Europe’s future stands one beacon of cheer this holiday season: Germany, where shoppers are spending more than they have in years. The country whose leaders have the most power to address the euro crisis is also the one that has been most insulated from its effects, resulting in an unhurried pace to address the continent’s problems as others gnash their teeth. While Germany preaches the virtues of governments not spending more than they have, its own means have proved expansive, with unemployment the lowest in decades and government benefits largely untouched. Read full article >>
Pakistan’s Zardari to leave Dubai hospital, rest at home
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:22:00 EST
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will be discharged from a Dubai hospital Thursday but will continue to rest at home, his office said Wednesday, without specifying whether he would return to Pakistan. Zardari’s sudden departure for the United Arab Emirates last week, at a time when he was under intense political pressure, sparked rumors he was fleeing the country or being forced out by Pakistan’s powerful military. Read full article >>
Arc of Iraq war told in images
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:04:00 EST
The American war in Iraq is over. The last U.S. soldier will be home by Christmas, and for the first time in a decade, no American service member is preparing for deployment in Mesopotamia. As America leaves the Iraq war, what has the war left America? There are the images. Where Vietnam gave us the Huey helicopter landing among rotor-washed palms, Iraq’s icon is the Humvee rumbling through a dun-colored landscape of desert. The arc of the American experience in Iraq can be told through the collage from hope to barbarity, from swaggering invasion to quiet departure. Read full article >>
FedEx Field ‘Candyman’ throws candy at fans
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:57:11 EST
Reader Tim writes: I don’t know if it was the chance to see unimaginative pre- or halftime shows or a hankering for Johnny Rockets, but the guys I share tickets with decided to scalp tickets for Sundays game and sat in section 435. When we arrived, we noticed everyone paying homage to this old dude in the front row of the section. We made jokes how he was the godfather (and other not so Bog friendly ones), and didn’t really pay attention much afterwards. Anyway, after Redskins scored their first touchdown of the game, I realized why this old man was revered. Read full article >>
Wizards’ Roger Mason Jr. feels ‘horrible’ for Chris Paul
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:14:55 EST
The NBA, which owns the New Orleans Hornets, has rejected three offers in the past five days that would’ve sent all-star point guard Chris Paul to Los Angeles. NBA Commissioner David Stern shot down the Lakers’ first attempt last Thursday, nixing a three-team deal that would brought Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Lamar Odom to New Orleans and Pau Gasol to Houston. Stern then shot down another deal that added subtle changes to the package. When those talks collapsed, the Lakers backed out and sent Odom, disgruntled and hurt after being put on the trading block, to Dallas for a trade exception and a pick. Read full article >>
Wizards’ John Wall more in command
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST
John Wall caught a pass at halfcourt from Andray Blatche and was ready to take off on a fastbreak. But as he approached the three-point line, center JaVale McGee slowed up. A frustrated Wall implored McGee to keep going toward the basket, but McGee slowly trotted to a halt. Wall whirled around, avoiding a steal attempt from Chris Singleton, and eventually picked up his dribble. He flippantly tossed the ball to McGee, who made a lazy underhanded pass back to Wall. Shelvin Mack intercepted it, then took off for a dunk before Wall angrily chased him down and slapped the ball against the rim. As he grabbed the rebound, Wall shouted, “Just run ‘Vale. Run!” Read full article >>
Atogwe, Torain and teammates hosting toy drive tonight
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:02:00 EST
Octagon Football clients and Washington Redskins players Oshiomogho Atogwe and Ryan Torain, with the help of some of their teammates, will host a toy drive at the Dulles Town Center’s upper level Nordstrom wing from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight. Atogwe and Torain are collecting toys and financial donations to benefit the Children’s National Medical Center. They will be aided by Redskins London Fletcher, Ryan Kerrigan, Lorenzo Alexander, Erik Cook, Graham Gano, Nick Sundberg and Logan Paulsen and former Redskins Ladell Betts, Darryl Grant and Chris Samuels. Read full article >>
Marshawn Lynch has Seahawks running in “Beast Mode”
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:13:57 EST
You know the play. Sixty-seven yards. Nine broken tackles. One of the most impressive individual efforts you’ll ever see on the football field. Marshawn Lynch’s jaw-dropping, earthquake-inducing touchdown run against the Saints in last year’s playoffs was more than enough to validate the Seattle Seahawks sneaking into the field with a 7-9 record. Read full article >>
Post Sports Live: Redskins-Giants, Rex Grossman and Tim Tebow
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:48:00 EST
LaVar Arrington, Dan Steinberg and Barry Svrluga joined Jonathan Forsythe on this week’s webcast to discuss the Redskins’ loss to New England, preview their upcoming game at New York and weigh-in on Tebowmania. Post Sports Live streams live on washingtonpost.com every Tuesday at noon; archives can be found at washingtonpost.com/postsportslive . Read full article >>
Andray Blatche: The reason the Wizards will be 50 percent better
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:50:22 EST
Thank God the NBA lockout has ended. What would we have done without Andray Blatche for an entire season? The Washington Redskins provide us with controversy, despair, suspensions, speculation, elation (in small doses) and many different ways to miss field goals — but not a whole lot of laughs. Not that it’s easy to laugh during a 4-9 season, and you don’t want a locker room full of Chris Rocks, but one would be nice. Read full article >>
London Fletcher believes in Redskins, who should re-sign him before he reconsiders
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:16:00 EST
The good news for the Washington Redskins is that inside linebacker London Fletcher obviously doesn’t get it. Even after five seasons surrounded by dysfunction, Fletcher chooses optimism. For some reason, he still believes he can help restore the Redskins. Given that Fletcher’s commitment to them hasn’t wavered despite another miserable season, management had better get to him quickly. As soon as possible, the Redskins should re-sign their ageless, productive leader, who could become a free agent after the season. Read full article >>
Tim Tebow has Robert Kraft, Tom Brady on his side; John Elway is coming around
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:06:37 EST
Tom Brady likes Tim Tebow. Robert Kraft likes Tim Tebow. Somebody upstairs appears to like Tim Tebow. (Although we prefer to think of football is a strictly terrestrial, not celestial, pursuit.) Does anybody not like Tim Tebow — even folks whose team does not play Tebow and the Denver Broncos on Sunday? Let’s do a little scorekeeping. Read full article >>
Colt McCoy’s coach, Pat Shurmur, defends putting concussed QB back in game after James Harrison hit
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:45:01 EST
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison was handed a one-game suspension for last Thursday’s helmet-to-helmet hit on Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy on Tuesday. But now the microscope is on the Browns as the NFL investigates the team’s decision to put their concussed quarterback back into the game only two players later. Read full article >>
The 4 major champions talk about the signature shot, and their most meaningful shot
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:34:33 EST
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Golf seasons are defined by the majors, and this year was no exception. There was a finish like no other by Charl Schwartzel in the Masters, the redemption of 22-year-old Rory McIlroy in a record-setting performance at the U.S. Open, the popularity of Darren Clarke at the British Open. And how fitting that the longest American drought in the majors was ended by rookie Keegan Bradley at the PGA Championship. Read full article >>
Tiger Woods was leading money winner in Europe, without membership or having to travel much
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:34:13 EST
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Luke Donald is the first player to win the money title on the PGA Tour and the European Tour in the same season. He is not the first player to win the most money on both tours in the same year. The European Tour media guide lists Tiger Woods as the “leading money winner in Europe” six times — 1999, 2000, 2002 and three straight seasons starting in 2005. The Order of Merit was won those years by Colin Montgomerie (’99, ‘05), Lee Westwood (’00), Retief Goosen (’01), Padraig Harrington (’06) and Justin Rose (’07). Read full article >>
CONI anti-doping prosecutor seeks 4-year ban for Androni cycling team manager Giovanni Savio
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:59:31 EST
ROME — The Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping prosecutor has recommended a four-year ban for the Androni Giocattoli cycling team manager. Giovanni Savio was accused of sponsoring doping activities by one of his former riders, Luca De Angeli, in a court case in the Tuscan town of Massa. De Angeli was banned for two years and fired by Savio’s team after testing positive for EPO in 2005. Read full article >>
California State Athletic Commission changes Bernard Hopkins’ loss to Dawson to a no-contest
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:48:32 EST
LOS ANGELES — The California State Athletic Commission has overturned Bernard Hopkins’ second-round TKO loss to Chad Dawson in October, declaring the bout to be a no-decision. The commission’s move Tuesday means the 46-year-old Hopkins still has never lost a fight by stoppage in his 23-year career. Referee Pat Russell initially ruled Dawson hadn’t fouled Hopkins when he crouched and rose up underneath the leaning champion and shrugged him to the canvas at Staples Center. Hopkins said he couldn’t continue after separating his shoulder in the fall. Read full article >>
Leadership, Tim Tebow-style
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:06:36 EST
This week I watched a piece about Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. While he has been described using religious terminology time and time again, the piece suggested there is a different reason for his success. In the piece, Cal-Berkeley Professor Dacher Keltner makes this point: “What this new science of altruism and cooperation is finding is that, highly cooperative, other oriented, compassionate and empathetic individuals, their teams perform better, their organizations are healthier.” Clips of Tebow deflecting attention away from himself and encouraging his teammates were used to back up Keltner’s statement. Read full article >>
Colombia fires coach Leonel Alvarez after 3 World Cup qualifiers and 4 months in charge
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:44:20 EST
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia has fired national soccer team coach Leonel Alvarez after barely four months in charge. Alvarez oversaw three World Cup qualifying matches during his tenure: a 2-1 win in Bolivia, a 2-1 loss to Argentina and a 1-1 draw against Venezuela. Colombian soccer federation president Luis Bedoya says the decision made by the organization’s seven-man board was “unanimous.” Read full article >>
FIFA invites European broadcasters to bid for 2018-2022 World Cup rights deals
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:34:53 EST
ZURICH — FIFA invited broadcasters in more than 40 European countries on Wednesday to bid for rights to show the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. FIFA already has signed two-tournament deals in the United States, Middle East and Latin America at considerably higher prices than the respective 2010-2014 World Cup contracts. Read full article >>
South American champion Santos beats Kashiwa Reysol 3-1 to reach final of the Club World Cup
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:49:03 EST
TOYOTA, Japan — South American champion Santos advanced to the Club World Cup final by beating Japanese club Kashiwa Reysol 3-1 Wednesday, setting up a possible showdown between Barcelona star Lionel Messi and Brazil teenager Neymar. The 19-year-old Neymar, who is touted to be the next big star in soccer, scored one of the Brazilian club’s goals. Borges and Danilo scored the others for Santos, the former club of Pele. Read full article >>
After ‘clasico’ loss, Real Madrid beats third-tier Ponferradina 2-0 in Copa del Rey
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:45:58 EST
BARCELONA, Spain — Real Madrid rebounded from last weekend’s league loss to Barcelona by defeating third-tier Ponferradina 2-0 Tuesday night in the Copa del Rey on goals by Jose Callejon and Cristiano Ronaldo. On a rainy night before 8,500 fans at Ponferradina, Callejon scored in the 29th minute when he redirected Sami Khedira’s bouncing cross into the net. Ronaldo, criticized for his poor play in Saturday’s 3-1 loss, doubled the lead in the 74th when ran onto Gonzalo Higuain’s pass and shot under the goalkeeper for his Read full article >>
AP Newsbreak: New MLB deal included more video replay, longer All-Star break, some tattoo bans
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:00:00 EST
NEW YORK — Baseball’s new labor contract includes more video replay, the chance for a longer All-Star break and a small, but likely welcome perk for players: the chance to get a private room instead of a roommate during spring training. The Associated Press obtained the document that includes several changes, many starting next year. Among them: Read full article >>
C Kelly Shoppach returns to original team, agrees with Red Sox on $1.35 million, 1-year deal
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:54:49 EST
BOSTON — Kelly Shoppach and the Boston Red Sox have agreed to a $1.35 million, one-year contract that brings the free-agent catcher back to his original team. The move Tuesday likely ends Jason Varitek’s 15-year tenure behind the plate in Boston. The 31-year-old Shoppach batted .176 with 11 homers and 22 RBIs in 87 games last season, his second with Tampa Bay. But he showed a strong arm on defense, throwing out 36.6 percent of runners trying to steal. Read full article >>
Arizona Diamondbacks sign RHP Jonathan Albaladejo, add him to 40-man roster
WASHINGTONPOST Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:32:56 EST
PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks have signed right-hander Jonathan Albaladejo and added him to their 40-man roster. Albaladejo pitched in Japan last season after appearing in 10 games for the New York Yankees in 2010. The 29-year-old right-hander is 6-3 with a 4.15 ERA in four major league seasons with the Yankees and Washington Nationals. Read full article >>
Allen, Garnett, Pierce reflect on returning from lockout for second time in NBA careers
WASHINGTONPOST Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:16:07 EST
WALTHAM, Mass. — If experience counts, the Boston Celtics should have an edge coming out of the lockout. Four of their players have been through two of them. Kevin Garnett already had played three seasons when his first NBA lockout began on July 1, 1998. Ray Allen and Jermaine O’Neal were two-year veterans. And Paul Pierce was looking forward to his first season after being taken with the 10th pick in the draft. Read full article >>
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MSNBC.MSN Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:45:00 GMT
Beagles saved from a research lab in Spain have been flown to Los Angeles for adoption, and lots of Nightly News watchers want to get involved. NBC News’ Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)
Video: Laboratory pups get first taste of freedom in US
MSNBC.MSN Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:56:23 GMT
Dozens of beagles take their first walk outside in Los Angeles, Calif., after being rescued from a research laboratory in Spain, where they were used and abused for animal testing. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports. (TODAY)
VIDEO: Young Spain a 'lost generation'
BBC Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:42:49 GMT
Unemployment in Spain is twice the average for the rest of the EU, with young people particularly badly affected - and in the southern Spanish region of Andalucia, more than half are out of work.
VIDEO: Spanish views: 'A lot to do quickly'
BBC Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:51:15 GMT
Voters and media in Spain react to centre-right Mariano Rajoy's victory and the Socialist Party's worst ever defeat in general elections.
Breakingviews: Spain's next government now faces hard part
REUTERS Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:30:00 GMT
Nov. 21 - Mariano Rajoy's absolute majority is good news, but now Spain's new prime minister needs to show he's serious - and he needs support from the ECB, says Breakingviews Assistant Editor Chris Hughes.
Spain's new PM jumps on economy
CNN Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:54:10 GMT
Spainish Prime Minister-elect Mariano Rajoy gets to work trying to fix the broken economy. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
VIDEO: Spanish socialists' crushing defeat
BBC Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:33:30 GMT
Spain's ruling socialist party has seen a crushing and humiliating defeat in elections on Sunday.
Spain's conservatives win
CNN Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:16:28 GMT
Spain's conservatives triumph and inherit nation's deep economic crisis with 21.5% unemployment. Al Goodman reports
Debt crisis Spain goes to polls.
REUTERS Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:33:00 GMT
Nov. 20 - Spanish voters head to the polls to elect their next parliament, which is expected to enact further austerity measures to save the country from an international bailout. Lindsey Parietti reports.
Day of decision in Spain
CNN Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:45:18 GMT
Voters in Spain head to the polls for parliamentary elections. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
VIDEO: Spanish election campaigns close
BBC Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:04:15 GMT
Spain prepares to go to the polls on Sunday, after a campaign dominated by fears about high unemployment, spending cuts and the eurozone.
Spain's ghost airport
CNN Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:54:29 GMT
CNN's Dan Rivers reports on an airport in Spain that symbolizes monumental waste in a struggling country.
Spain gears up for elections
CNN Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:32:00 GMT
Parliamentary elections in Spain are expected to be a referendum on the nation's economic crisis. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
Weak job market in Spain
CNN Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:46:31 GMT
Obtaining a job in Spain has become a challenge for an entire generation. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
VIDEO: Spain: Socialist party facing defeat
BBC Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:42:25 GMT
Spain: Almost five million unemployed, cost of government borrowing hitting new highs, and a growth forecast of zero.
Spain's troubles ahead of election
REUTERS Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:55:00 GMT
Nov 17 - Jobless for two years and evicted from her home, Spanish woman Isabel Torres has little faith in her country's future ahead of general elections at the weekend dominated by high unemployment and Europe's economic crisis. Sonia Legg reports.
Spain health cuts angers staff, patients
CNN Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:07:08 GMT
A family blames health cuts for a mother's 63-hour wait for emergency treatment for a stroke. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
VIDEO: Change at the top for Spain?
BBC Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:47:11 GMT
Spain's governing socialist party seems to be heading for its worst ever defeat in this week's general election.
Spain protests before vote
CNN Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:03:47 GMT
Demonstrators take to the streets of Madrid a week before voters elect a new government. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
Inside a prostitution investigation
CNN Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:30:10 GMT
Unprecedented access to an ongoing prostitution investigation with Spain's Mossos d'Esquadra. Martin Savidge reports.
Video: Shopping in Spain? Snag a pair of espadrilles!
MSNBC.MSN Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:56:48 GMT
Madrideno Carolina Herrera Baez, daughter of the famed fashion designer, shows TODAY’s Matt Lauer how to look stylish in Spain while taking in the sites on his Wherein the World journey. (TODAY)
Video: Inside the palace of Spain’s eccentric duchess
MSNBC.MSN Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:47:28 GMT
On Day 2 of Where in the World, NBC’s Peter Alexander meets TODAY’s Matt Lauer in Madrid for a tour of the palatial homes of Spanish royalty, including the colorful 85-year-old Duchess of Alba. (TODAY)
Video: 5 fun facts about Spain?
MSNBC.MSN Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:26:20 GMT
How well do you know Spanish culture? TODAY’s Matt Lauer offers up interesting facts about the second stop on his Where in the World journey. (TODAY)
Video: Taste Spain’s finest Manchego, jamon and olives
MSNBC.MSN Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:45:33 GMT
On the second day of his Where in the World journey, Matt Lauer samples some of the tasty tapas and snacks of Spain. (TODAY)
Video: Hasta la vista! Matt embarks on next adventure!
MSNBC.MSN Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:25:59 GMT
TODAY’s Matt Lauer wraps up his travels in Spain at Madrid’s famed Plaza Mayor and provides a clue for the third location of his Where in the World journey. (TODAY)
Video: Snake slithers out of ATM machine
MSNBC.MSN Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:52:24 GMT
A snake is captured on video slithering out of an ATM machine in Spain. TODAY’s Natalie Morales reports. (TODAY)
Crisis hurting Spain's small businesses
CNN Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:52:02 GMT
CNN's Al Goodman meets one small business owner in Spain who describes the daily battle to stay afloat.

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