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German football authorities Wednesday honoured goalkeeper legend Bernd Trautmann for his services to football at a ceremony ahead of an international between Germany and England.
Trautmann, 85, was awarded the German Football Federation pin with diamond - its highest award for a person outside the federation - for his "unique...
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Champions Bayern Munich visit Hanover 96 on Saturday for a meeting of last weekend's big Bundesliga losers.
Munich crashed 5-2 at home against Werder Bremen while Hanover were trounced 4-0 at Bayer Leverkusen.
The holders Munich recovered in midweek to beat Nuremberg 2-0 in the second round of the German cup, with French star...
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 Detroit Lions defensive tackle Shaun Rogers was accused for inappropriately touching a stripper in her dressing room in a Detroit strip club.Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office spokeswoman Maria Miller said a request for an arrest warrant was received from the Detroit police. No charges have been issued.“We will proceed as usual,...
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 Is indecent vocabulary blamable or not? Who decides it? The FCC regulators say that during Cher’s speech at a televised awards show, she used indecent words. And it seems that Andy Sipowicz from NYPD Blue also used indecent words, but when the movie Saving Private Ryan appeared, the same regulators said that the indecent vocabulary was...
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 Former WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter Amy Jacobson sued
a CBS station in Chicago,
claiming it aired a videotape of her in bathing attire at the home of a
potential news source, whose estranged wife Lisa has been missing since April
2007.
Jacobson claims the CBS station WBBM-TV
broadcast the tape “with the sole motive of boosting its...
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 Longtime New York TV anchor Sue Simmons apologized to
viewers Monday night after dropping an F-bomb during a live news promo on WNBC,
Reuters reports. Sue Simmons has been working at the NBC owned-and-operated
station since 1980.
Simmons had been doing a tease regarding the cost of
groceries when, off camera, she yelled, “What...
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 Redemption works in the entertainment field, the most
eloquent example being pariah Duane “Dog” Chapman’s case.
The TV bounty hunter is bound to return to his A&E show
soon, as TMZ.com reported. The network confirmed to TMZ that the hit show would
be back on screens as soon as possible, preparations having already been
started...
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 CBS’ “Big Brother” drew the fury of Autism United, demanding
a public apology.
“Big Brother” contestant Adam forgot about politically
correctness or even about the mission of his job when he made an insensitive
remark during the last week’s episode of the reality show. The comment
immediately engendered public and organizations’...
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 Correspondents from the People Ethical Treatment of Animals said that an anti-fur activist threw a bag of flour into Lindsay Lohan’s head while the actress was trying to have some fun in a nightclub in Paris. Just after 1 a.m. on Saturday, while Lindsay was heading to the VIP Room, she woke up with flour in her head while the activist...
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 Kayne West must really have some kind of disease that makes him hate the paparazzi so bad. The 31-year-old rapper has just been implied in another scandal regarding a paparazzo. The police arrested West on Friday morning after he had been involved in a fight with a photographer outside a nightclub in Newcastle.According to the “Evening...
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 Blake Fielder-Civil was arrested last year because he had attacked a pub’s landlord in 2006. After the incident, Amy Winehouse’s husband also tried to cover up his misdeed but he was finally caught red handed by the police. Fielder-Civil, also a former video assistant, was released on Wednesday.He and singer Amy Winehouse got married in...
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 On Monday, actor Keanu Reeves was cleared of having hit a paparazzo with his car. The incident happened in March 2007, when Reeves visited a relative in Ranchos Palos Verdes. The photographer followed him from the Sunset Strip. Alison Silva sued him because he said Reeves intentionally hit him and he fell to the ground, injuring his...
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 Saturday night wasn’t so cool for singer Jessica Simpson, 28, and her best friend, hairstylist Ken Paves. Paves was injured by a paparazzo outside Madeo, a hotspot in Los Angeles, and had to be rushed to the hospital. As they got out of the club, Simpson was quickly accosted by the photographers and Paves tried to protect her. By...
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 A paparazzo sued Keanu Reeves after, as the photographer stated, the actor injured him seriously. On Tuesday, the trial moved its attention to the witnesses’ statements. Reeves told the jurors that the only thing he did was to move his car slowly and tried to get Alison Silva, the paparazzo, out of his way. The incident happened in March...
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 We haven’t heard many rumors lately about Lindsay Lohan’s personal life. She seems to be stabilizing at last, but this doesn’t mean it’s valid for all her life plans. Currently, Lohan signed a contract to play in six episodes of “Ugly Betty,” but she kicked two episodes away by her misconduct. Actually, she acted really unprofessional...
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 Britney Spears had her trial about her driver license on Thursday, but she didn’t show up. Instead, Jamie Spears, her father, did all the talking. This was her only defense that was present in court. He told the jurors that his daughter wants to return to Louisiana as soon as she gets back the custody of her children. Michael Flanagan,...
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 Britney’s past year was a terrible one regarding her personal and public life. She released “Blackout” last year and won three VMA’s with her single “Piece of Me.” But that was the beginning of her healthy comeback. Before that, she had had some terrible happenings at the beginning of 2007. Britney lost her children’s custody, got...
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 Prosecutors announced today that Kayne West won’t face felony charges after what had happened this month at Los Angeles International Airport. The rapper and producer together with his manager, Don Crowley, were welcomed to Los Angeles Airport by a lot of paparazzi trying to capture closer images of Kayne West. But the rapper lost its...
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 The Hip-Hop star will face a trial on criminal charges. The police have been investigating the case since last summer, when Akon, 35, threw a fan off the stage during one of his New York’s concerts last June. After the singer talked to his lawyer in Fishkill Town Court, he asked for a jury trial. If a deal isn’t negotiated in the...
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 In an interview with OK! Magazine, Britney Spears, 26, has revived the new happenings in her life. Even if she didn’t discuss her mental health problems she managed to be as opened as to give further information about her state.Britney Spears has recently shot an ad for the MTV VMA which starts on September 7 together with the host of...
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 “The Dark Knight” star Christian Bale asked
for privacy in his first comments since he denied the allegations he assaulted
his mother and sister in a London
hotel.
Speaking about the alleged family dispute,
the Welsh-born actor told reporters at a press conference it is “a deeply
personal matter.” “I would ask you to respect my...
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 Oscar winner Tatum O’Neal has pleaded
guilty to disorderly conduct following her arrest in New
York, Manhattan,
on June 1, for buying crack cocaine. The 44-year-old actress was arrested after
she was seen making a purchase from a suspended drug dealer, Alan Garcia, 33.
The actress was initially charged with criminal possession of a...
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 Pop-star Britney Spears is looking for a new home. She wants
a house with extra outdoor space for her children. Court papers have shown that
Britney wants a house closer to parks and quiet environment, for her sons Sean
Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.
She started to dislike her Beverly Hills house because of the constant...
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 The former Culture Club frontman’s solo
summer tour is in doubt after US immigration officials refused to issue him a
visa, his official Web site said Tuesday.
Authorities denied him the visa because Boy
George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, faces trial in November in London on charges of false
imprisonment. The singer of...
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 It all started with a conversation Monday
about the arrest of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones. During this
conversation radio host Dan Imus asked “What color is he?” When he was told
that Jones is African-American, he said “Well, there you go. Now we know.”
“He’s also been arrested six times since
being drafted by...
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 A 29-year-old photojournalist trying to
photograph and videotape actor Matthew McConaughey at the beach Saturday told police
that he was attacked by a group of surfers who threw his camera in the ocean
and stuck him.
The paparazzo from Santa Monica told
sheriff’s deputies that the group of surfers approached him and other...
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 British Airways denied claims of racism on Saturday after supermodel Naomi Campbell, who pleaded guilty to assault in a foul-mouthed "air rage" incident, said she was named a black "Golliwog" by someone on the flight, Reuters reportsBA said it did not accept the accusation made by Campbell, who was convicted of...
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 US rapper 50 Cent filled a $20 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins with whom he has an 11-year-old child. The lawsuit filled on Friday in Connecticut takes aim at public accusations Tompkins has made saying 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, threatened her life a week before the incident which...
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 Supermodel Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty to
assaulting two police officers after causing a stink aboard a BA flight at London's Heathrow
Airport in April, E! Online
reported.
U.K supermodel pleaded guilty to six
charges: two charges of assault on a police officer during the incident on a
British Airways Plc plane, one count of...
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A 52-year-old Los Angeles woman is suing lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret for an eye injury she said she suffered after an allegedly defective “low-rise v-string” flew apart and struck her in the eye. The sexy piece of clothing was a part of Victoria’s Secret collection called “Sexy Little Thing.”“I was putting on my underwear from...
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 US rapper Young Jeezy, whose real name is Jay Jenkins, was charged with driving under the influence and speeding. He was arrested at 2: 30 a.m. in Atlanta on a variety of charges, including driving impaired by alcohol or drugs, driving with an open container and no proof of insurance. Police stopped the singer after noticing there were...
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 It seems troubled singer Amy Winehouse’s
hospital stay isn’t over yet. The 24-year-old singer remained hospitalized
Tuesday morning after tests proved “inconclusive.”
The actress fainted and nearly fell down a
flight of stairs at her London
home on Monday. She quickly recovered and her father, Mitch, took her to
hospital as a...
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 Prosecutors said the paparazzo who pressed
charges against Britney Spears after she allegedly drove over his foot in Los Angeles was himself to
blame for his injury.
“We have no evidence to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt that the suspect was aware that the victim's foot had been
struck by the car,” Deputy District Attorney Joseph...
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 Troubled singer Amy Winehouse was hospitalized on Monday
afternoon, after she fainted at her London
home. The causes are still unknown, as at the press time, the performer was
still undergoing tests, MTV reports.
“Amy was at home this afternoon when she briefly fainted,” read a statement
from her U.S.
publicist, Tracey Miller,...
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 Warren G, who was arrested in Hollywood on Sunday on
suspicion of marijuana possession with intent to sell, has denied that the
marijuana found in the car belonged to him.
American West Coast rapper and producer
Warren Griffin III, better known by his stage name Warren G, was a passenger in
a car that was pulled over on suspicion...
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 The former “Law and Order” actor was
charged with illegally carrying a loaded .22-caliber handgun in his briefcase.
Actor Dennis Farina, 64, was arrested last month at Los Angeles International
Airport after a loaded
gun was discovered in his luggage at a security checkpoint.
The city attorney’s office on Wednesday
charged the...
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 A suspicious fire, as authorities called it, destroyed 50 Cent’s Long Island home early Friday. Six people, including his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tomkins and their 10-year-old son, Marquise, were immediately taken to a nearby hospital after suffering smoke inhalation. They were later released. Apparently, 50 Cent was not there at the...
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 Actor Bill Murray’s wife has filed for
divorce after almost 11 years of marriage, alleging he abused her and he is
addicted to marijuana and alcohol. Jennifer Butler Murray also accuses him of
sex addiction and physical violence towards her during their marriage.
In the document, which was filed on 12 May
in Charleston County,...
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The daughter of Tampa Bay’s
most popular wrestler, Hulk Hogan, was involved in a car accident on Sunday
afternoon. Brooke had one passenger in the car (it wasn’t Hulk or Linda) and no
one was seriously injured. Originally it had been reported that Brooke’s
father, Hulk Hogan was the Hogan family member involved the...
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 Hip-hop pioneer Slick Rick, who spent more than five years in prison on an attempted murder conviction and weapon charges, and was facing deportation to his native Briton years after rehabilitating his life, was given a full pardon Friday by New York Governor David Patterson. According to The New York Times, Governor Patterson delivered...
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 Michael Jackson has managed to avert a foreclosure sale for
his Neverland Ranch. The ranch was averted after a loan on the California property was
sold to Colony Capital, a large real estate investment firm, Reuters reports.
The loan, held by Fortress Investment Group, was about $23.5 million.
Michael Jackson said on Sunday that...
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 It seems that the troubled rap singer, Foxy Brown, never has
enough problems. Diplomacy is obviously not the word to describe the diva,
whose real name is Inga Marchand. Brown avoided going back in prison after she
pleaded guilty to throwing her BlackBerry into her neighbor during an argument
over the volume of her car...
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 Former NBA star Dennis Rodman was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion
of domestic violence against his girlfriend, police said Thursday.
The former husband of Carmen Electra, an eccentric basketball
star member of five NBA Championship winning teams during colorful stints with
the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls, was detained...
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 A London
judge ruled Friday Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil will remain in
jail at least until June 9, People reports.
The singer did not appear at the hearing in London's Snaresbrook Crown Court. His mother,
Georgette Civil, known as a fixture at his court dates, did not attend the
hearing, but his father and a...
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 Let’s get something straight! Tom Cruise won’t return to “The
Oprah Winfrey Show” for the sofa. Three years after the incident when the
45-year-old actor jumped up and down on the host’s couch, Cruise returns to the
so popular show. The reason of his return is the 25th anniversary of
his “Risky Business” movie. Tom should feel...
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 So, he panicked all his fans, friends and family. But, come
on! The guy needed some space of his own. Orlando Brown of TV’s “That’s So
Raven” turned up on Wednesday night after missing more than 24 hours. The artist
explained that he “needed to be alone” and that’s why he disappeared on Tuesday
morning.
Brown worried everyone who...
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 During her Tuesday arraignment, the woman who hit Sandra
Bullock’s car on Friday pleaded not guilty. Lucile P. Gatchell, 64, who was
accused of drunken driving, highlighted that she was very sorry for the
incident.
The woman pleaded not guilty to two counts, driving under
the influence and failure to stay in a marked lane,...
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 The Bon Jovi guitarist entered a plea deal linked to a DUI
incident just a few hours after prosecutors had filed drunken driving charges
against him and escaped without severe punishment.
Consequently, a second charge, of driving under the
influence of alcohol was dismissed, as Farrah Emami, a district attorney
spokeswoman...
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 Heather Mills had high hopes that in the United States
she could escape the disgrace she fell in. Well, she was wrong.
Mills, who was recently granted £24.3 million after she
divorced Beatles star Paul McCartney, was invited to be a judge at the Miss USA
beauty pageant this weekend. But when she was introduced, the audience...
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 Unfortunately for the former pop princess, Britney Spears,
another issue will shadow her good behavior. The problem is now a car crash. The
fact is that it is hard for her to be left alone considering her past, but let’s
take it this way: it could happen to anyone! Saturday night Spears was involved
in a minor collusion while driving...
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 A rep for British supermodel Naomi Campbell is defending
her, after the arrest at London’s Heathrow Airport, Access Hollywood reports. According
to Naomi’s rep, Jeff Raymond declared in a statement that “Naomi was flying to Los Angeles for a memorial
service on Thursday, April 3. She arrived at Heathrow Terminal 5 in plenty of
time,...
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 When kids throw tantrums, they have to go to their room;
when adults throw tantrums, they get arrested.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell probably forgot about that on
Thursday while she was at the Heathrow
Airport in London. Celebrity news site TMZ.com reported
that the 37-year old model was busted after she had allegedly assaulted...
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 Another employee at the UCLA Medical
Center has learned that
patient privacy is not just a story, after medical details upon actress Farrah
Fawcett’s condition were disclosed to the media. The incident comes only a few
weeks after other 13 employees at the same medical center were disciplined for
snooping in Britney Spears’ medical...
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 The future is not so bright for rapper Remy Ma, as she was
convicted on Thursday for having shot in the abdomen an acquaintance the last
year. The dispute was stemmed by the rapper’s belief that the victim had stolen
her some money.
Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, was convicted of
assault, weapons possession and coercion...
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 This week Oprah Winfrey’s attorneys are going to be pretty busy, because they will have to fend off two separate lawsuits. The first suit was filed by a woman claiming that she was seriously injured during an audience stampede and blames Harpo Productions for the incident. The other suit was filed by a mother saying that the original...
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 The “Transformers” star Shia LaBeouf showed up in court
eventually and pleaded his innocence to an unlawful smoking charge.
Just a day after the 21-year old actor failed to appear in a
Californian court on Tuesday, LaBeouf showed up and pleaded not guilty to the
charges stemming from a November arrest. Back then he got busted...
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 “The Punisher” star Thomas Jane has to be punished after he
was busted in the small hours on Monday for driving under the influence.
Moreover, the actor, whose real name is Thomas Elliot, apart from DUI, was
also charged with driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit of
.08. Authorities also said that he was driving...
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 After his new-born twins were almost accidentally killed in
hospital, actor Dennis Quaid is determined to raise awareness upon the
accidents produced by medical staff.
In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Dennis Quaid talked
about the peril stemming from medical mistakes. He stated that nearly 100,000
Americans are killed in...
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It might have been considered a delicacy in some parts of the world, but a Vienna woman lost her appetite when she discovered a dead frog in frozen spinach she was cooking, Austrian daily Oesterreich reported Tuesday.
"Any green vegetable sickens me now," the 32-year-old woman told the newspaper after having found the brown...
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One man was killed and two injured in an exchange of fire in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia on Saturday, officials in the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi said.
The clash took place after Abkhazian border troops discovered a group of six people attempting to cross the border from mainland Georgia near the city of Gali, the...
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and his Hungarian counterpart Ferenc Gyurcsany Saturday failed to thaw icy relations between their countries in a meeting called to reduce nationalist tensions.
The leaders called for cooperation and condemned extremism after their meeting in the southern Slovak border town of Komarno.
However,...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy convinced Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin not to attack the Georgian capital Tbilisi and overthrow Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili this summer, the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur reported on Thursday.
Citing Sarkozy's foreign policy advisor, Jean-David Levitte, the magazine said that the...
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Two Georgian police officers were killed when a land mine exploded near the border of South Ossetia, where Georgia went to war with Russia in August.
The Georgian Interior Ministry said the mine detonated while the policemen were on patrol in the border village of Dvani around 7:15 am (0415 GMT) on Monday.
A second mine exploded...
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Spanish police were Wednesday investigating the killing of the captain of an Italian freighter off north-western Spain, police said.
A fight broke out between a crewman and the 50-year-old captain, who was stabbed to death Wednesday morning while MS Paxi C was travelling from Alexandria to Gijon in northern Spain.
The crew informed...
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Two Jesuit priests died of knife wounds in Moscow, Russian news agencies said Wednesday.
Igor Kovalevsky, the general secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, said the priests bodies were found in their central Moscow apartment late Tuesday.
Kovalevsky called the incident a "brutal murder."
Police at the scene...
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem Monday accused the US of "criminal and terrorist aggression" by launching a raid on civilians in which seven people, including three children, were killed.
Speaking at a news conference in London, al-Muallem urged the US government and the government of Iraq to investigate the...
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A Dubai court sentenced a British couple on Thursday to three months in jail for having sex on a public beach in the Gulf emirate.
Michelle Palmer, 37, a resident in Dubai and her visiting partner Vince Acors, 34, were also fined 1,000 dirham (202 euros) for drinking alcohol in public.
Their lawyer, Hassan Mattar, said that he...
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Squabbling raged among Poland's leaders on the eve of a European Union summit, but they agreed on two points: they will both attend and they are both in charge.
For Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Lech Kaczynski, the spat over who sits at the table in Brussels on Wednesday was just the latest installment of a personal and...
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More than 30 people were injured and 28 were arrested in violent pro-Serbia protests in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica Monday night, local media reported Tuesday.
Podgorica was calm on Tuesday, but Montenegrin police banned a further protest planned for Thursday. The government will hold an emergency session to discuss Monday's...
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More than 30 people were injured and 35 arrested in violent pro-Serbia protests in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica on Monday night, the daily Vijesti reported Tuesday.
A crowd of several thousand rallied Monday evening, on call by opposition parties, against Podgorica's recognition of Serbia's breakaway province Kosovo.
At the...
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A British Airways (BA) Boeing was Monday forced to request a priority landing at London's Heathrow airport after fumes were detected in the passenger cabin, the airline said.
No one was hurt or taken ill as the Boeing 757, travelling from Nice in southern France with 137 passengers on board, landed safely just after 0700 GMT...
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The German cycling federation BDR was on Tuesday set to investigate two-time Tour de France stage winner Stephan Schumacher after a positive doping test for third-generation EPO.
"The (BDR) board will come to an agreement today to launch proceedings," BDR boss Rudolf Scharping told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The...
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Five students were killed when a school stairwell collapsed on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Russian Civil Defence Ministry said.
Conflicting reports gave the number of people initially trapped in the debris as between eight and 11, but Russian media reports agreed emergency teams reached and freed all trapped individuals within...
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 The capital of Syria was the victim of a car bomb which was carrying nearly 400 pounds of explosives. The car exploded on Saturday and killed over 17 people and Bassim Abdel Majid, the Interior Minister, blamed the “terrorists” for the attack. Still, he didn’t know any exact data about who carried out the explosives. He added that they...
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Czech police Friday charged a 43-year-old former postal worker who allegedly stole some 39,000 letters at a postal hub in south-eastern Czech Republic, police said.
The man faces two years in prison for the theft of international mail at a post office in the south-eastern town of Breclav between 2001 and 2006.
He first stole mail...
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Finland held a national day of mourning and flags were at half-mast Wednesday, a day after a 22-year-old man killed 10 people at a trade school in western Finland.
Finnish gun laws, still under review after a similar rampage at a high school almost a year ago, were to be tightened, Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said during a visit to...
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A 22-year-old student killed nine persons and seriously wounded himself Tuesday in a school massacre in western Finland, with officials disclosing that police had met with the alleged suspect on the eve of the killing spree.
The Finnish news agency STT said at least two people were wounded in the shooting spree at the trade school in...
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