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Thirty six days ago when England lost by a 36-point margin to South Africa in their opening Pool game in the Rugby World Cup, most of the rugby pundits and commentators were writing off England’s chances of even reaching the final, let alone...
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Hospital officials say 37-year-old French actor Guillaume Depardieu has died from complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia.
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The head of France’s anti-doping agency says Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl tested positive for a banned blood booster at the Tour de France, where he finished...
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European governments say they are putting nearly $2 trillion on the line to protect the continent’s banks through guarantees and other emergency measures.
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There are two things I hate in this life. One is having to take a cold shower and the other is hypocrisy.
Cold showers are my problem, but hypocrisy is everyone’s,...
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The head of the International Monetary Fund welcomed a European bank rescue plan on Monday despite its high cost, and predicted that weekend efforts by world leaders...
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In secular France, it is illegal for hotel owners to turn away women wearing Muslim headscarves but OK to ban those wearing head-to-toe burqas from state-sponsored...
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France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy says countries that use the euro will temporarily guarantee bank refinancing to ease the credit crunch.
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A draft declaration by euro-zone leaders says their governments plan to temporarily guarantee future loans among private banks to unlock frozen credit markets.
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A draft declaration by leaders of countries that use the euro currency says their governments would temporarily guarantee future bank debt to encourage lending and ease...
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The president of the European Commission said he was very hopeful that a meeting of European leaders Sunday would take an important step toward a coordinated response...
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The French president’s office says that a former member of the Italian left-wing Red Brigades terrorist group won’t be extradited to Italy because of ill...
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European leaders are searching for a common response to the spreading financial crisis which has ricocheted across the Atlantic to their shores.
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This article is a big thank-you for all the inspiring comments on my last article (Meditation time, girls and boys). Those comments were gentle and moving, friendly and...
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The French Interior Ministry says police have dismantled a large network of stolen and trafficked art in western France.
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France, which famously opposed the Iraq war, is in talks to resume sales of military equipment to Baghdad for the first time in nearly two decades, French and Iraqi...
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The head of France’s anti-doping agency expects researchers to perfect a test to stamp out a currently undetectable form of blood doping.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that Russian peacekeeping forces will leave Georgia buffer zones around Abkhazia and South Ossetia by midnight Wednesday.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made a mistake by letting investment bank Lehman Brothers fail, France’s finance minister said Wednesday.
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The head of the Tour de France on Tuesday hailed a new lab test that has exposed three riders in the 2008 race for cheating with an advanced form of the blood booster...
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For the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims have long indulged in nights of earthly pleasures after daylong fasts. But as the 2008 holiday draws to a close in Europe,...
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The Tri Nations trophy, Bledisloe Cup and other remarkable successes supported All Blacks favoritism to end its 16-year run of the World title underachievement, but...
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Scott Staniforth, the blazing and the most reliable player with whom the Wallabies have never lost their half a dozen Tests, faces World Cup exit due to bad bruising to...
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Fears that pivotal All Blacks Daniel Carter will miss the World Cup quarter-final against France are dissipating fast.
A major tear in left calf muscle also left the...
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Two weeks ago, countless Rugby fans downed Ashton’s team at the ongoing tournament, but proving them all wrong they have struck back again and are through to the...
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With a remarkable popularity at the recent Rugby World Cup ‘Ikale Tahi’ expects full support from French fans ahead of the pool decider against England,...
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Going close in achieving one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history restricting Ireland to 14-10, Georgia romps to its first World Cup victory with a 30-0 triumph...
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Romania edges Portugal 14-10 to register its first win at the current tournament while the Japanese players erupted on the field as if they had won the Rugby World Cup,...
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South Africa’s win to clinch first place in Group A has now placed the three traditional Southern Hemisphere powers to stand five points ahead in their groups....
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Formidable New Zealand blanked Scotland 40-0, while mighty Australia thrashed a hapless Fiji 55-12 to storm in the quarterfinals of the Rugby World Cup where they join...
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An imperative 25-3 World Cup triumph over Ireland clearly states a message coming out of the French camp that they are back. Pick of the day, scrum-half Elissalde...
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Wales disarrays Japan to record its biggest win at the Rugby Worlds that has boosted its chances of reaching the quarterfinals. Japanese side troubled by injuries, as...
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Italians must have been thinking of surpassing the 83-0 score they recorded against Portugal last year, but ironically the tournament newcomer looked a determined and...
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The $4 million rugby ball on the Eiffel Tower’s front lawn is going to be the center of attraction for all the visitors coming to see the Rugby World Cup this...
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Earlier, South Africa whitewashing defending champions England 36-0 at the Rugby Worlds and now it was the turn of the Scots to rout Romania 42-0 in a one sided game....
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It was a David versus Goliath scenario when France met Namibia in Pool D of the Rugby World Cup in Toulouse on Sunday and this time Goliath battered David. Les Bleus...
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We are on to a week’s play at the World Cup marking France a Mecca for rugby fanatics. Latest on goings in the rugby-mad city makes it hard to predict which team...
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Jean de Villiers, Springboks midfielder recounts the sad moments of his World Cup-ending injury. Suffering a ruptured bicep during a victory over Samoa, Villiers faced...
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The 2007 Rugby World Cup started off at Stade de France in Paris and how! Few would have put their money on Argentina to beat tournament hosts France but those who did...
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All Blacks have been world’s awe-inspiring team with a winning streak against all rugby-playing nations yet the first World Cup of 1987 is the only feat they have...
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