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What Recession? Spanish Club Pays $130M for Soccer Star Ronaldo
Dazzling moves, ambitious targets and intense pressure — it must be off-season in European soccer.
Study: A Safe Drug for Morning Sickness?
Morning sickness is such a hallmark of early pregnancy that for some women, it’s the first sign that they’re expecting. But despite the pervasiveness of pregnancy-related nausea, there is still no easy treatment, since most expecting mothers and their doctors aren’t keen on exposing a still developing fetus to medications. Now, researchers from Israel and Canada report in the New England Journal of Medicine that a commonly prescribed heartburn drug, which also has anti-nausea properties, may be used in pregnant women without causing harm to babies.
The 20 most wanted footballers
For Europe’s biggest leagues the football season has ended, the boring business of kicking a ball about is over, and now the real fun can begin as the transfer window opens.
Pirate Party wins surprise Euro seat, calls for Web freedom
A Swedish political party which wants to legalize file-sharing on the Internet scored a surprise victory Sunday when it took a seat in the European parliament. The Pirate Party won 7.1 percent of the Swedish vote to claim one of the country’s 18 seats in the European parliament. “Together we have changed the landscape of European politics,” Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge told file-sharing news Web site TorrentFreak after the win
D-Day Tributes and Reflection Conclude Obama’s Tour
Barack Obama began his latest overseas trip on a mission to increase international cooperation, with a visit to Islam’s holiest land, Saudi Arabia, and its most dynamic intellectual hub, Cairo. He ended it four days later at a monument to what such common purpose can achieve. Sixty-five years ago today, 135,000 allied troops launched the largest seaborne invasion in history on the beaches of northern France, a move that would eventually decide the outcome of World War II.
Search for downed plane highlights ocean trash problem
The massive amount of garbage in the ocean likely complicates the search for the remains of an Air France flight that went missing Monday near Brazil, oceanographers who spoke with CNN said. Earlier this week, investigators said they had located pieces of the plane in the southern Atlantic Ocean, which might have given them clues to the origin of Air France Flight 447’s crash.
Kanu: African team can win World Cup
Nigeria striker Nwankwo Kanu has exclusively told CNN that he believes an African side can win the World Cup when the tournament is hosted by the continent in 2010. The Super Eagle forward, who has already played in two previous World Cup for his country told Pedro Pinto, in an interview for African Voices the event in South Africa will be special. “It means a lot because I’ve been there already, but the thing with Africa is whenever any country (from the continent) is playing, the other countries are supporting it, which is very very massive and very very good for the region,” said the goal getter, who turns out for English Premier League side Portsmouth
Why satellites failed to find missing plane
Cars have global position systems to pinpoint where drivers are when they get lost, so why can’t GPS be used to locate the exact position of planes when the worst happens?
Search continues for missing Air France flight
Brazilian and French rescue teams continued to search Tuesday for the passengers of an Air France jet that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean as details of Flight 447 began to emerge. The Airbus A330 encountered heavy turbulence about 02:15 a.m