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Germany's famous football duo Poldi and Schweini could be separated again at club level as Lukas Podolski and Bastian Schweinsteiger have been linked with moves away from Bayern Munich.
The Bild daily said on Monday that Podolski, 23, has had enough of his role as reserve player and told club officials he wants to leave the Bundesliga...
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 The British Football Association confirmed on Wednesday that Fabio Capello is considered for the vacant position as the national English football team coach, as they began discussions with the Italian."I can confirm that Brian Barwick and Sir Trevor Brooking have today held talks with Fabio Capello in London," an FA statement...
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 Researchers stated on Wednesday that the commercials made to promote the fast food products are directly linked to the obese children. The research team proved that the forbiddance of such ads could reduce the number of overweight children with at least 18%.This banning also happened in countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland and the...
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The Commonwealth Fund developed a plan
concerning health insurance reforms that would modify payment systems. The plan
was published Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs and contains proposals
similar to the ones put forward by the Democratic presidential candidates. The
ideas that have been delivered with this new program are...
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 The state of Maryland and Prince George's County managed to find a temporary solution which will enable hospitals in the county to remain open for two more years while a buyer takes over. The state and the county will each contribute $12 million each year to maintain the health care facilities up and running."This is a continuation...
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Spain's opposition Thursday expressed concern over the possibility of the oil and gas company Repsol YPF coming partly under Russian control.
Companies from outside the European Union should not get involved with strategic sectors in Spain, Cristobal Montoro of the conservative People's Party (PP) said amid reports that the Russian...
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Industrialized countries are continuing to emit more greenhouse gasses despite goals set by the Kyoto agreement to curb carbon pollution, a UN body said Monday.
The UN Climate Change Secretariat said planet-warming gases released by 40 industrial states that signed up the Kyoto framework increased an average 2.3 per cent between...
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Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will make an official visit to Japan and Brunei at the end of October, the royal palace in London said Tuesday.
However, the Duchess, 61, would miss the final leg of the tour to Indonesia due to the extreme heat in the country at that time, a Clarence House...
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has opposed calling in ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki to salvage a power-sharing deal with prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Zanu-PF's chief negotiator Patrick Chinamasa rejected calls from the MDC for Mbeki to step in to end the...
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North Korea's leader Kim Yong Il suffered a stroke but was recovering and still in charge of the country, a South Korean lawmaker said Wednesday, citing information from the country's intelligence service.
"There is no power vacuum in Pyongyang," opposition lawmaker Won Hye Young told journalists in Seoul after parliament...
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Thailand's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday that talks between Bangkok and Phnom Penh over disputed border areas were postponed by mutual agreement for internal procedures and not because of political tension in Thailand, as some media reported.
The "meeting has been postponed, not because of Thailand's domestic...
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No one expected US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas, which ended Tuesday, to result in a breakthrough in the peace process, so no one was disappointed.
A breakthrough is always possible in the peace negotiations, which resumed around the turn of the year, after a seven-year...
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Five people, including an army officer, were killed Wednesday in India's Jammu and Kashmir state by suspected Islamic militants who had infiltrated across the border from Pakistan, police said.
Security forces had killed one of the militants who were holed up in a house in a residential area on the outskirts of Jammu city, the...
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North Korea said Tuesday it had stopped disabling its nuclear facilities in protest of the United States' failure to remove the country from its terrorist blacklist.
The foreign ministry in Pyongyang accused Washington of not having kept its side of a deal struck to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
In response,...
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Police in Zimbabwe detained two members of parliament from Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Monday after they turned up at parliament to take part in a swearing-in ceremony, the MDC said.
George Sibotshiwe, spokesman for MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said Shua Mudiwa, MP for Mutare West, and Eliah Jembere,...
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Twelve people died from their injuries Friday, the day after twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's largest arms and ammunition factory, hospital authorities said, as investigators interrogated at least a dozen suspects.
The latest casualties raised the death toll to 78 in the two synchronised attacks at the gates of the Pakistan...
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Polish and US officials planned to sign a deal Wednesday to station US missile interceptors in Poland, fuelling conflict with Russia in a region once dominated by Moscow.
Poland agreed last week to host part of the US missile shield in return for military aid, including a battery of Patriot air defence missiles in Poland, capping more...
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The head of NATO is "seriously concerned" by the outbreak of fighting in Georgia and calls on all sides to return to the negotiating table, a statement released in Brussels said Friday.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is "seriously concerned about the events that are taking place in the Georgian region of...
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Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh
clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's
troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round
missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing
seven members of the same family, including five children. The house
was completely...
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 Anglican bishops from all over the world were gathering in Canterbury for the
opening of the Lambeth Conference on Wednesday, with the once-in-a-decade
meeting appointed to be eclipsed by discussions regarding the position of women
and homosexuals.
The 650 bishops will have three days dedicated to prayer and
contemplation led by...
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According to BBC, the head of the Anglican Church in the U.S.
has expressed her disapproval regarding the Communion’s approach to sexuality.
Giving her statement prior to the Lambeth Conference,
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori supported churches that had tackled
the notorious matter. Furthermore, she said she wished that...
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German electronics giant
Siemens AG could face industrial action as the group prepared Tuesday
to unveil a tough restructuring plan aimed at slashing 17,000 jobs
worldwide. The announcement by Siemens chief Peter Loescher
that the Munich- based group proposes to cut 4 per cent of the group's
global 435,000- strong workforce comes...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday ruled out entering a unity government with President Robert Mugabe and again called on the African Union (AU) to send an envoy to the troubled southern African state.'A government of national unity does not address the problems facing Zimbabwe or acknowledge the will of the...
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the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include economist Adam Smith in 1723; Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John Maynard...
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 Israel and Syria stated on Wednesday they had launched indirect talks to reach a comprehensive peace
agreement. The talks are mediated by Turkish officials in Istanbul. This is the first time in eight
years when the two countries are willing to reach a common denominator.
"It will be a very long process. The direct...
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 Indian and Pakistani foreign ministry officials met on
Tuesday to review the peace process that has been held up because of the
internal political tensions that burst in Pakistan last year. Both countries
intend to continue the dialogue that began four years ago under former military
strongman, President Pervez Musharraf.
Some of...
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, the 140th day of 2008 with 226 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include American-born Nancy Astor, the first woman member of the British Parliament, in 1879; Vietnamese leader...
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 U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to meet the three U.S. presidential candidates Thursday before
holding talks with President George W. Bush in Washington. As British newspapers pointed
comparisons between the premier’s three-day visit in the U.S. and the chronicled trip of Pope
Benedict XVI, a British official said that the...
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 According to Russian officials, President Vladimir Putin
will travel to Libya
Wednesday at the invitation of Lybian leader Moammar Gadhafi,
Voice of America reports. Their talks are expected to focus on gas exploration
deals with Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas company.
Putin’s visit comes as Russia’s
neighbor Ukraine is...
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 North Korea’s
nuclear links to the nuclear ambitions of other nations remain a “major issue”
in six-nations talks aimed at stopping North Korea’s nuclear plan. The United States and North
Korea have talked about Pyongyang’s
declaration of its nuclear activities but have not reach to any conclusion, U.S....
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 Representatives from 163 countries met with the secretary
general of the United Nations to find solutions for the global problem of
climate change that affects all of us. They will also try to find a replacement
for the Kyoto
climate change pact because it only binds 37 rich countries to cut emissions of
greenhouse gases.
Poor...
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 After the symbolic “Earth Hour” on Saturday evening, March 29, representatives from 163
countries met with the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, to
find solutions to the global problem of climate change.
The talks are scheduled to conclude at the end of 2009.
“The world is waiting for a...
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 Two Sri Lankan police were killed in a claymore mine
explosion while escorting a Japanese official on a visit in eastern Sri Lanka, a
region recaptured from Tamil rebels. It had been under the control of
separatist rebels for more that 25 years. The Japanese aid convoy was visiting
an agricultural irrigation project in Vavunathivu...
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 It appears that the United
States and Russia
did not reach an agreement towards Washington’s
plans of deploying a missile defense shield in the east of Europe,
Reuters reports.
“The problem remains and consists of the fact that the
Americans are not giving up their plans to deploy a missile defense system in
eastern...
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 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend a meeting with top Israeli officials on Wednesday as a last stop in her Middle East tour. The main issue to be debated at the scheduled meeting will be the Israel-Gaza peace efforts. However, the meeting has been somewhat overshadowed by the latest Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip in...
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 In an attempt to minimize further casualties caused by serious differences over the fight against Iraq-based Kurdish guerrillas, President Bush and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sought Monday to resolve these issues. The two state officials agreed on the need to share intelligence to end their deadly raids.However there...
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After undergoing serious discussions between the United
States and Russia
regarding U.S.
plans for a missile defense system in Europe and a range
of strategic arms issues, Russia
strongly opposed the US’s
proposal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates...
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will commence a two-day visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank on Tuesday, in preparation for
a Washington-proposed international conference on the Middle
East.
The Bush administration under direct supervision of the president has
proposed a conference in the US in November to confront...
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 When you hear that Role Models is a comedy with the guys and for the guys, you think that you’ve already seen this movie. Well, the misconception about this movie also includes the obsession for girls and how they don’t understand them, meetings where it’s all about beer and football and not so funny jokes. Still, the heroes in this guy...
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 Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated English
actress Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to join “Terminator Salvation” cast.
She is reportedly in talks with director Joseph McG Nichol, who also directed “Charlie’s
Angels,” to be a part of the fourth Terminator project, which is already
filming in New Mexico.
According to The...
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 Robert Downey Jr., the summer’s revelation with the huge success of “Iron Man,” is currently in talks to star in DreamWorks/Universal’s “Cowboys & Aliens.”According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story “draws a parallel between the American imperialist drive to conquer the ‘savage’ Indians with its advanced technology and the aliens'...
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 Actress Moon Bloodgood is reportedly in final talks for a
female lead in McG’s “Terminator Salvation: The Future begins.” After signing
the contract, she will play the role of a veteran member of John Conner’s
resistance. Her partners in the movie will be Christian Bale, Sam Worthington
and Anton Yelchin, according to The Hollywood...
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 Deprivation and incarceration seem to have become the
favorite themes to tackle in his movies, Julian Schnabel making no exemption
with his third one.
“Basquiat” depicts imprisonment
engendered by addiction and incapability of integrating into a large group, “Before
Night Falls” tells the story of a Cuban poet who is both...
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 After two weeks of argument regarding the script, Brad Pitt has pulled out of the Universal’s political thriller “State of Play”, while the production missed its original scheduled start date of November 15, and hope that they would find a replacement that would allow them to start shooting the film on November 29.Directed by Kevin...
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 The biopic of the first gay rights activist to become a
politician, Harvey Milk is due to initiate filming early next year, having Sean
Penn as central character.
Following a script by Dustin Lance Black, the documentary
under Focus Features will shot on location, exclusively in San Francisco starting with January....
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 Executive producer of The Passions Of Christ and Braveheart,
Steve McEveety went on with another story that is meant to teach us an
essential lesson.
Starring former soap opera actor Eduardo Verastegui, Bella
targets to persuade us that the quintessential element in life is the life
itself, the movie intending to highlight the...
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 Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston is reportedly in final negotiations to star in New Line Cinema’s comedy, "He’s Just Not That Into You."If all goes well, the "Friends" star, who’s set to play a woman in a long term relationship with a boyfriend who won’t commit to marriage, will be joining actors like Jennifer...
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 Norwegian film director Harald Zwart will reportedly helm the soon-to-start-shooting sequel to the Pink Panther movie. Steve Martin will again reprise the role of Inspector Jacques Clouseau (created by Peter Sellers in 1963). Reportedly, he initially polished the script written by Scott Neustadter and Michael M. Weber and delivered it to...
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 In an interview with Roger Friedman at the all-star Time magazine dinner for the 100 most influential people, director George Lucas derided "Spider-man 3" and talked Indiana Jones and Star Wars.Lucas said that Sean Connery still hasn't signed on for Indy 4, but his character, Indy's dad, is in the script. "Steven thinks we...
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Australian banks Tuesday pulled the rug from under debt-laden local leveraged buy-out specialist Allco Finance Group.
Receivers were appointed for Allco and its shares placed in a trading halt after talks with the 12 banks failed to reach agreement on a repayment schedule for debts of 667 million Australian dollars (446 million US...
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu Friday evening for a two-day visit.
During his stay in Nepal, Ban is scheduled to meet Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav and other politicians.
Talks with Nepalese leaders...
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 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed on Thursday not to let the whale-hunt issue to
intervene in their partnership. During their several-hour talk the two decided
that the dispute over Japan's
annual whale hunts should not come between their plans to strengthen their
security and...
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New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday ahead of meetings at UN headquarters on religion and peace that the opportunity it would provide for Arab and Israeli leaders to meet was "quite unique."
Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa and Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah...
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Extending an olive branch to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of unity talks in Cairo next month, the Islamic Hamas movement released 17 members of the president's Fatah movement it had detained in the Gaza Strip in July.
The 17 were among dozens of Fatah activists arrested by Hamas police after a car bomb killed five Hamas...
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Israel will have to withdraw from the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, if it wanted peace with its Arab and Palestinian neighbours, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in remarks published Monday.
"We need to reach an agreement with the Palestinians, in which the significance is a...
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One day after securing the leadership of Israel's ruling party, Tzipi Livni called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to implement his promise to resign as soon as possible, allowing her to form a new government urgently.
The Israeli foreign minister - chairing the first meeting of the centrist Kadima party since she won primaries held...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday evening, for their last talks before his ruling Kadima party chooses a new leader.
The parley would be business as usual, senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said, adding the Palestinians would work with Israel's prime...
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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni remains the favourite candidate to win next week's primary in Israel's ruling Kadima party, maintaining her two-digit lead, according to an opinion poll published Friday.
Over 46 per cent of Kadima members polled said they supported Livni, while under 28 per cent said they favoured her main rival, Shaul...
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Israel has conveyed its displeasure to Washington over reported remarks by US Consul General Jacob Walles that it had agreed to start negotiations with the Palestinians over Jerusalem, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday.
The Jerusalem Post quoted an Israeli government source as saying Walles's comments to the Palestinian daily...
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Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to negotiate the future of Jerusalem, a US official said Thursday.
An Israeli official confirmed that that Israel was ready to negotiate Jerusalem, seen as the most sensitive bone of contention that the sides need to settle.
But he added the issue had not yet been brought up in the talks...
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Israeli Defencse Minister Ehud Barak arrived in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on Tuesday, to continue talks with the Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak.
Talks are to focus on the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, kidnapped by Hamas-linked militants in June 2006.
The situation in the Gaza strip and the...
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Israel began freeing 198 Palestinian prisoners Monday, in a goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas approved by the Israeli cabinet one week ago.
The prisoners were to be transferred from a prison close to Jerusalem to a checkpoint near Ramallah, from where they would cross into Palestinian territory for an official...
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Eight months into its difficult negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel has drawn up a detailed proposal for a peace agreement in principle, offering to withdraw from 93 per cent of the West Bank, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.
The proposal includes arrangements on three bottleneck issues of the decades-old...
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Iran has presented its reply to an offer by
world powers to resolve the dispute over its nuclear activities, Fars
news agency reported Tuesday. The reply was delivered to
European Union officials by the Iranian ambassador to Brussels, Fars
said without giving further details. The offer by the five United Nations veto powers plus...
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Iraqi and US teams negotiating a controversial
security pact have reached an initial agreement that states that US
troops will withdraw from Iraq between 2010 and 2011, the pro-
government Iraqi Al-Sabah newspaper reported Monday. The
newspaper reported that 'the Iraqi and American technical teams have
already reported the outcome...
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki
has said that no deadline had been set for Iran by world powers
regarding the ongoing dispute over the Islamic republic's nuclear
programme, Tehran media reported Thursday. 'The terminology
of deadline is not clear us as we have presented the world powers our
standpoints and now await...
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Iran's supreme leader said Wednesday that
world powers would not change their policies towards Iran even if
Tehran made concessions on its nuclear dispute with them.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the view that Iranian concessions on its
nuclear programme would lead world powers to change their policy
towards Iran 'totally...
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Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is to travel to Washington Tuesday night for another round of peace negotiations
with Palestinians under the auspices of US officials scheduled for
Wednesday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. Former
Palestinian premier Ahmed Qureia would represent the Palestinian side
in the three-way talks...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown received a red carpet welcome in Israel on Sunday, with President Shimon Peres calling him 'one of the most respected leaders of our time in my judgement.'Brown's visit to Israel is his first since he took office a year ago. He is scheduled to hold talks with both Israeli and Palestinian officials,...
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
joined the chorus against making concessions at nuclear talks with the
major powers over the weekend. 'Nuclear technology has been
achieved by our own local experts and belongs to the whole nation and
no power can block us from pursuing this technology,' the Iranian
leader said in a...
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Iran is unhappy about ongoing indirect talks
between Syria and Israel and believes that any ensuing peace agreement
would lead to radical changes in Syrian-Iranian relations, an Iranian
official said in remarks published Monday. Hussein
Shariatmadari, an advisor to Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, told the Saudi...
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The Lebanese opposition and the government concluded an
agreement on Wednesday. This is supposed to solve the 18 months’ political
crises that have gripped the country, leading to the worst fighting since the
1975-1990 civil war.
The negotiations lasted five days and resulted in an appeal
made to the Parliament in Beirut, which...
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 "I'm still hopeful we'll get an agreement by the end of
my presidency," President George W. Bush said at a news conference at the
White House, after the meeting in Washington
with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and State Secretary Condoleezza Rice. He
will encourage peace negotiations, seeking a Middle East
peace...
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 Pakistan’s
President Musharraf has sworn in his political enemy as Prime Minister on
Monday. The President administered the oath during a ceremony at his office in Islamabad, which was
broadcast live on television. As Yousaf Raza Gilani completed the oath, some
supporters chanted “Long Live Bhutto.”
In order...
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 U.S. Vice
President Dick Cheney said on Monday that Palestinian militant group Hamas is
trying to “torpedo” the Middle East peace talks, along with Syria and Iran.
“There is evidence that Hamas is supported by Iran and Syria and they are doing everything
they can do to torpedo the peace process,” Cheney declared quoted by...
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 Two Palestinian militants were killed and four wounded in an
explosion at a beachfront facility of the militant Hamas organization in
southern Gaza City, witnesses and Palestinian doctors
said on Thursday.
Security officials claim the explosion was probably caused
by a “work accident” which led to premature detonation of...
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 Israeli police released the identity of the gunman who shot the eight students inside the library of a well-known religious school in Jerusalem, The New York Times wrote on its Web site.The gunman’s name was released the same day the families of the eight students killed in the attack attended the funerals of their children. The man...
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 At least eight people were killed and 10 other were wounded on Thursday as a Palestinian militant opened fire inside a renowned Jewish religious school in Jerusalem. The shooting was labeled as a “slaughterhouse" by Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of the Zaka emergency service according to Reuters. He made that statement after...
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 Despite intense peace efforts, the violence in Israel and Gaza persists. Two Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday by an Israeli air strike, Reuters wrote on its Web site. One of the victims was a rocket squad member according to militant and medical sources. The strikes determined Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend...
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 Israel responded to UN’s demand to end the violence in Gaza and began to wind down its raids and air strikes that killed approximately 116 Palestinians since last week. Most of the ground troops already left the troubled area ruled by the Islamic Hamas movement, an army spokesman told Bloomberg.However, despite the fact that Israel began...
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