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Adding to a US Legacy Defined by One Pass...

The place of Eddie Lewis in the history of United States soccer is secure, frozen in a flash of his polished left foot. Lewis delivered a perfect cross to Landon Donovan's forehead in a second-round game of the 2002 World Cup, and Donovan nodded the ball into Mexico's net for an insurance goal as the Americans advanced to the quarterfinals.

News and features from around the world of soc...

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Stabbing suspect may face death penalty...

Police in Japan have handed over to prosecutors the suspect behind a fatal stabbing frenzy for questioning and possible charges that could leave him facing the death penalty.

Tomohiro Kato, 25, clad in a t-shirt and with his head down, was driven out of a police station in a van in the Tokyo district of Akihabara as dozens of camera crews swarmed around.

In Japan's deadliest cri...

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The Renewable Effect: Inverter Market Jumps to 3 Billion by 2014...

“A booming market in Spain is rewriting market dynamics for renewable energy-based inverters. Moreover, new incentives for green electricity in Portugal and Greece are set to accelerate the pace of growth in the future,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Chandni Raj. “Across Europe, renewable energy-based inverters registered growth of 36.7 per cent in 2007 as compared to 2006.” login to post comments | read more

Newfields native has two-year stint in Morocco with Peace Corps...

NEWFIELDS — Casey Coes first felt the pull of the Peace Corps almost three years ago on a trip to South America.

A Peace Corps volunteer he met just outside of La Paz, Bolivia, made an impression on the Newfields native. So much so, that when Coes returned to college at American University after the trip, he began studying politics with a focus on American international development ...

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Japan stabbing suspect cries during interrogation...

TOKYO (AP) — The suspect in a knifing rampage that left seven dead in Tokyo was handed over to prosecutors Tuesday, as Internet postings he is accused of writing painted a picture of an angry, lonely young man and a meticulously planned attack.

Tomohiro Kato, a 25-year-old factory worker, was transferred from police custody to a holding cell at the Tokyo prosecutors office, where h...

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Bush visits Europe, pushes for tough Iran policy...

President Bush, pushing for a tougher international stanceagainst Iran's nuclear ambitions, worked Tuesday towardconsensus with his European Union partners on a statement embracingfinancial sanctions beyond those the United Nations already hasundertaken to pressure Tehran.

Bush had a long list of trans-Atlantic issues on his plate _ butnone more pressing than Iran _ for his last summit w...

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Bush prods allies for tougher stance on Iran...

KRANJ, Slovenia (AP) — President Bush says the United States and Europe must rally to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, calling the threat an incredible danger to world peace.

Speaking in Slovenia at his final European Union-U.S. summit, Bush said of Iranian leaders, "They can either face isolation, or they can have better relations with all of us."

Bush said the U....

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Everything Unified: Leading Edge Technologies for Customer Contact...

www.frost.com - The Information and Communication Technologies group at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2008 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the North American contact center market to be held on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.

Companies grapple with dramatic changes in methods used to manage their customers' experiences through business

contact ce...

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Mastering the tunes of Nazrul...

Nazrul singer Nasima Shaheen's last solo album Akashe Bhorer Tara was produced by Bengal Foundation. The album is a compilation of 12 Nazrul Sangeet rendered by Nasima, who had also been nominated in the last Citycell-Channel i Music Awards.

When asked about her feelings on being acknowledged with such an honour she said, "I really appreciate Channel-i and Citycell's initiative to inspi...

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Servants often singled out as the usual suspects in Indian crimes...

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SFO report looks at low conviction rate...

The Serious Fraud Office will be unable to negotiate swift plea bargain deals with defendants unless its conviction rate improves dramatically and the attorney general instigates a radical overhaul of pre-trial disclosure rules that mire many of its most complex cases, according to a government-commissioned review.

Former New York prosecutor Jessica de Grazia, whose report was handed to t...

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Orthofix International Appoints Chief Compliance and Government ......

BOSTON--(eMediaWorld )--Orthofix International N.V. (NASDAQ: OFIX) announced today that Denise Pedulla has been appointed to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer effective as of June 9, 2008.

Ms. Pedulla was formerly Vice President, Compliance, Regulatory and Government Affairs and Associate General Counsel for Fresenius Medical Care North America. She will b...

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Southern Baptists pick Woodstock's Hunt as leader...

His election, at the SBC's annual meeting in Indianapolis, is seen as a victory for the more fundamentalist wing of the denomination, which led the conservative resurgence that began in the late 1970s and takes a hard line on the inerrancy of Scripture. It is seen as a rejection of young reformers, who have questioned the SBC leadership's reluctance to consider a wider range of issues such as...

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