Soccer is struggling to shake off the curse of flopping -- when a player dives through the air to win his team a penalty. Here's a list of the top soccer floppers.
FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
Should All Drug Use Be Made Legal? Although the media sporadically reports on major narcotic raids, the general consensus about the war on drugs is t...
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LISBON, Portugal -- Kevin Widemond, a 23-year-old guard from Newark, died of a heart attack during a Portuguese basketball tournament. Texas A&M-C...
AP | STUART CONDIE | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
— Switzerland and Slovakia earned Europe's final two automatic berths for next year's World Cup on Wednesday night, while Argentina tried to beat out Uruguay and Ecuador for South America's last certain spot in the 32-nation field.
Costa Rica played at the United States, which clinched its sixth straight berth last weekend, and the Ticos hoped to stay ahead of Honduras and gain the final automatic place from North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Portugal, Greece, Slovenia and Ukraine finished second in their groups and joined Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Ireland and Russia in the European playoffs. They will be drawn into four pairs on Monday, and the winners of home-and-home, total-goals matches on Nov. 14 and 18 will qualify for next year's 32-nation field.
By the end of Wednesday, 23 of the 32 nations will have been determined for next year's tournament in South Africa.
In addition to the U.S., Mexico had ensured a berth in CONCACAF, while Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Serbia and Spain had clinched automatic berths in Europe. Brazil, Chile and Paraguay had earned berths from South America, and Australia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea won Asia's spots. Ghana and Ivory Coast joined host South Africa, which qualified automatically as host.
AP | BARRY HATTON | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home
The office of Portugal's president says Pope Benedict XVI will visit the Fatima shrine next year.
A statement says the pope will preside at the Portuguese shrine's annual May 13 ceremonies.
Three shepherd children claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in Fatima in 1917, the first time on May 13 of that year. The shrine is visited by millions of pilgrims each year.
The last visit to Fatima by the head of the Roman Catholic Church was by Pope John Paul II nine years ago. Other possible trips by Pope Benedict XVI next year include to Malta and Britain.
AP | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home
Pope Benedict XVI will next year make the first visit to Britain by a pontiff in decades, British media reported Wednesday.
Reporters traveling to New York with Prime Minister Gordon Brown reported news of the planned visit, but Brown's Downing Street office refused to officially confirm it.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, said he was encouraged and pleased by reports of the pope's visit. He said the British government had invited the pope on several occasions, but that any official confirmation would have to come from the Vatican.
"We are glad the Holy Father is giving such consideration to the invitations he has received from Her Majesty's government, which accord closely to the wishes and requests also expressed by the bishops of England and Wales," Nichols said in a statement. "The prospect of a visit by Pope Benedict fills us with joy."
Three British newspapers and the Sky News and BBC broadcasters all cited unidentified sources in reporting the planned visit.
The Independent | Independent | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home
Kate McCann returned to Portugal today for the first time since being quizzed by police over her daughter Madeleine's disappearance. ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo inmate who said the prison's harsh conditions drove him to attempt suicide has been sent to Portugal, the U...
AP | BARRY HATTON | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
LISBON, Portugal — Portugal's Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the country's ban on gay marriage, rejecting a challenge by two lesbians who are...
AP | BARRY HATTON | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
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Huffington Post | Morgan Korn, Susan Ryan | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
Florida may be one of the most popular places for retirees to settle, but many Americans are packing their passports and choosing locations in foreign...
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Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations' target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries.
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Investigators probing the c of Madeleine McCann in Portugal have identified a paedophile as a possible suspect, press reports and a spokesman for the ...
Modiba | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
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Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.24.2009 | Home
Nissan plans to begin selling a full-electric vehicle to fleet customers in the U.S. in 2010, and the Renault-Nissan Alliance has started pilot progra...
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Nissan plans to begin selling a full-electric vehicle to fleet customers in the U.S. in 2010, and the Renault-Nissan Alliance has started pilot progra...
Johann Hari | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
At the end of the failed age of market fundamentalism, the long-suppressed democratic cry for equality is emerging once again.
Steve Parker | Posted 05.06.2009 | Business
The perfect financial storm decimating the US auto sector could result in the nation's largest manufacturing industry falling even farther behind overseas competitors when it comes to EVs.
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This wine is super versatile and pairs well with a lot of food. We went out on a limb and had it with Cantonese from and it surprisingly worked with the moo shu chicken and fat egg rolls.
Guardian.co.uk | Matthew Weaver and Agencies | Posted 01.11.2009 | World
European countries should offer asylum to former terrorist suspects released from Guantánamo Bay, Portugal's foreign minister said today. In a...
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It wasn't hard to predict the demise of the "Hemi hybrid," but the end came a lot faster than expected. They should have given them a full year of production before, literally, pulling the plug.
Alan Black | Posted 11.19.2009 | Sports