Obama inspires Cambridge to Boat Race victory (AFP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 06:13 PM PDT AFP - Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" slogan inspired Cambridge to defy the odds and beat Oxford in the University Boat Race, said their leader, who worked on the US president's election campaign.
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O'Neill relieved as Villa get back on track (AFP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 06:09 PM PDT AFP - Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill was delighted with his side's 1-0 win over Bolton following their crushing defeat against Chelsea last week.
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Man. United count the cost of Rooney injury (AFP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 06:06 PM PDT AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson's angry tirade at the officials who handled Manchester United's 2-1 defeat by Chelsea may have temporarily blurred the picture.
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Mancini eyes Champions League after Burnley floored (AFP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 06:03 PM PDT AFP - Roberto Mancini has his eyes firmly on playing in next season's Champions League after Manchester City's resounding 6-1 win over struggling Burnley in the Premier League moved them into fourth place.
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Stretched Rangers feeling strain, says Smith (AFP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:46 PM PDT AFP - Walter Smith said tiredness was behind his side's recent poor performances after Rangers laboured to a 1-0 win over Hamilton at Ibrox.
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Anglican leader: Irish church lost all credibility (AP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:36 PM PDT AP - The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has lost all credibility because of its mishandling of abuse by priests, the leader of the Anglican church said in remarks released Saturday. A leading Catholic archbishop said he was "stunned" by the comments.
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Anglican leader regrets Irish Catholics comments (AFP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:11 PM PDT AFP - The leader of the world's Anglicans expressed "deep sorrow and regret" for saying the Catholic Church in Ireland was "losing all credibility" over the paedophile priests scandal.
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Impressive Haye retains WBA heavyweight title (AFP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:27 PM PDT AFP - Britain's David Haye retained his WBA world heavyweight title on Saturday after John Ruiz's corner threw in the towel in the ninth round of their fight in Manchester.
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Britain's Haye retains WBA heavyweight title (AFP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT AFP - Britain's David Haye retained his WBA world heavyweight title after John Ruiz's corner threw in the towel in the ninth round of their fight in Manchester on Saturday.
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Pope celebrates Easter Vigil amid abuse scandal (AP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 02:59 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Vigil on Saturday as the Vatican newspaper denounced what it called a "vile defamation operation" against him concerning the clerical abuse scandal.
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Small coterie advises pope, but decisions his own (AP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 02:09 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI has surrounded himself with a small group of men he feels he can trust, but he acts very much on his own. That isolation and shunning of advice have frequently created problems and are increasingly under scrutiny as the clerical sex scandal inches closer to him.
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Hometown of Russian suicide bomber rattled (AP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 01:17 PM PDT AP - When a 16-year-old girl married a militant Islamist separatist entangled in a long-running and bloody struggle against Russian government forces, her relatives in this dusty North Caucasus village say they disowned her immediately.
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Document: Levada kept accused priest from US kids (AP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 12:52 PM PDT AP - A church document released by the Vatican's lawyer shows that Cardinal William Levada insisted that a priest accused of sexually abusing teenagers in the United States not work with children when he went back to church work after therapy.
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2 former Gitmo inmates settling in new Swiss home (AP) Posted: 03 Apr 2010 06:05 AM PDT AP - A aid agency for migrants says two Chinese Muslim brothers who were resettled in Switzerland after being released from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are studying French and are getting used to daily life. |
Talat: Election loss would kill Cyprus peace talks (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:55 PM PDT AP - The leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots has warned that talks to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus would collapse if he loses to a hardliner in elections this month.
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