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• Capello battles to put Beckham row behind him (AFP)
• Higgins, last AP bureau chief in Iran, dies at 66 (AP)
• Europe's biggest balloon festival takes flight (AFP)
• Sunderland sign United's Welbeck on loan (AFP)
• UK police charged with beating terrorism suspect (Reuters)
• AB InBev Q2 profit up 7.5 pct on World Cup boost (AP)
• Iceland footballers score on YouTube (AFP)
• Adlington still coming to terms with Beijing glory (AFP)
• 4 UK officers to be charged with suspect attack (AP)
• London, Belfast in secret dissident talks: McGuinness (AFP)
• Sinking of Russian submarine taught Putin a lesson (AP)
• Polish leaders try to calm passions over cross (AP)
• Moroccan protesters block Spanish enclave border (AP)
• Wildfires spread in Portugal's national parks (AP)
• Poland extradites alleged Israeli spy to Germany (AP)
• French police dismantle some 40 Gypsy camps (AP)
• Greenland police stop search for Norwegian hikers (AP)
• Sinn Fein: British, Irish talk with IRA dissidents (AP)
• Smoke-shrouded Moscow gets welcome break from smog (AP)
• Russia refuses to turn over Jewish library to US (AP)

Capello battles to put Beckham row behind him (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:38 PM PDT AFP - England coach Fabio Capello insists the bond with his players will not be broken by the ham-fisted and controversial manner in which he ended David Beckham's international career.

Higgins, last AP bureau chief in Iran, dies at 66 (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:30 PM PDT AP - Alexander G. Higgins, who covered the U.S. Embassy siege in Tehran as The Associated Press' last bureau chief in Iran and served as a longtime AP bureau chief in Geneva, has died. He was 66.

Europe's biggest balloon festival takes flight (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 01:55 PM PDT AFP - Europe's biggest balloon festival took off Thursday with weird and wonderful shapes filling the skies to mark the golden jubilee of modern hot air ballooning.

Sunderland sign United's Welbeck on loan (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 12:49 PM PDT AFP - Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck joined Sunderland on a season-long loan, it was announced Thursday.

UK police charged with beating terrorism suspect (Reuters) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 11:56 AM PDT Reuters - Four British riot squad officers have been charged with beating up a Briton now awaiting extradition to the United States to face terrorism charges when they arrested him, prosecutors said on Thursday.

AB InBev Q2 profit up 7.5 pct on World Cup boost (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 11:54 AM PDT AP - Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world's largest brewer, said Thursday that the football World Cup helped push up sales in the second quarter, boosting net profit by 7.5 percent to $1.15 billion.

Iceland footballers score on YouTube (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 11:35 AM PDT AFP - An Icelandic football team that became a global Internet hit after a fun goal celebration admitted they now felt under pressure to make fans laugh.

Adlington still coming to terms with Beijing glory (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 11:18 AM PDT AFP - While world champion Gemma Spofforth and compatriot Elizabeth Simmonds have helped propel Britain to joint top of the standings at the European swimming championships, double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington admits she has been struggling.

4 UK officers to be charged with suspect attack (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 10:58 AM PDT AP - Four British police officers will face criminal charges over an alleged attack on a terrorism suspect wanted by authorities in the United States, prosecutors said Thursday.

London, Belfast in secret dissident talks: McGuinness (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 10:20 AM PDT AFP - London and Belfast have held secret talks with dissident republicans in Northern Ireland linked to recent bombings, the province's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said Thursday.

Sinking of Russian submarine taught Putin a lesson (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 09:55 AM PDT AP - The sinking of a nuclear submarine 10 years ago taught Vladimir Putin a lesson that shaped his leadership of Russia: When disaster strikes, take control — most importantly of television.

Polish leaders try to calm passions over cross (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 09:48 AM PDT AP - The Polish church and the country's top officials tried Thursday to calm passions over a cross erected in front of the presidential palace in memory of the previous head of state.

Moroccan protesters block Spanish enclave border (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 09:46 AM PDT AP - Demonstrators in Morocco blockaded a Spanish enclave for hours Thursday, restricting trucks from making food deliveries in a dispute over alleged police violence and racism against Moroccans entering the city.

Wildfires spread in Portugal's national parks (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 09:45 AM PDT AP - Authorities in Portugal struggled Thursday to contain wildfires sweeping across northern parts of the country.

Poland extradites alleged Israeli spy to Germany (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 09:07 AM PDT AP - Polish authorities on Thursday extradited a suspected Mossad agent to Germany, where he faces charges over a passport that was used in the slaying of a Hamas leader in Dubai earlier this year.

French police dismantle some 40 Gypsy camps (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 08:44 AM PDT AP - French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux says that more than 40 illegal Gypsy camps have been dismantled around the country in the last two weeks.

Greenland police stop search for Norwegian hikers (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:29 AM PDT AP - Police in western Greenland have called off the search for two Norwegians who went missing after going hiking in the Arctic wilderness.

Sinn Fein: British, Irish talk with IRA dissidents (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:28 AM PDT AP - The British and Irish governments are in secret negotiations with IRA dissidents in hopes they can be persuaded to abandon violence, the senior Sinn Fein official in Northern Ireland's power-sharing administration said Thursday — a claim immediately denied by both governments.

Smoke-shrouded Moscow gets welcome break from smog (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:11 AM PDT AP - The skies were clear over Moscow Thursday, giving residents a desperately needed break from air pollution thanks to favorable winds and some success in fighting wildfires that have choked the capital with clouds of acrid smog.

Russia refuses to turn over Jewish library to US (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 04:58 AM PDT AP - Russia has rejected a U.S. court ruling to turn over a Jewish library to a Hasidic group in New York.

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