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New York – Michael Jackson’s posthumous film This Is It grossed 101 million dollars in its first five days in cinemas around the world, according to preliminary studio estimates issued Sunday.
Sony, the studio that paid 60 million dollars for rights to the film, announced over the weekend that the originally planned two-week run would [...]

London, July 5 (DPA) Roger Federer made tennis history Sunday, winning his sixth Wimbledon title in seven years to claim an all-time best 15th Grand Slam trophy 5-7, 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 16-14 over American Andy Roddick.
The Swiss, only man to appear in seven consecutive Wimbledon finals, re-wrote the records in front of tennis [...]

Over 1.2 mn people request Jackson memorial tickets
Los Angeles, July 5 (DPA) More than 1.2 million Michael Jackson fans had requested tickets by Saturday afternoon for admission to his memorial tribute Tuesday in Los Angeles, a number that could climb to over two million.
Only 8,750 of those people will win two tickets each for themselves [...]

London, July 4 (DPA) Striker Michael Owen completed his free-transfer move to English football champions Manchester United Friday.
The 29 year old underwent stringent medical tests before signing a two-year contract on what is believed to be a pay-as-you-play basis with a basic weekly wage topped up by bonuses.
“Michael is a world-class forward with a proven [...]

Los Angeles, July 3 (DPA) Organisers Friday released the first details of Michael Jackson’s public memorial service, confirming that it will take place at the Staples Centre in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday.
A total of 17,500 tickets will be available via lottery for fans who register online at Staplescenter.com. But police will not allow any mass [...]

Hong Kong, July 2 (DPA) Hong Kong gamblers sent out a positive note about the state of the city’s economy by staking more than $155 million on the last racing day of the season, officials said Thursday.
More than 63,000 people placed the bets Wednesday’s races at the city’s Sha Tin race course, recording the second [...]

Johannesburg, June 29 (DPA) Brazilian midfielder Kaka was awarded the Golden Ball as best player of the Confederations Cup tournament Sunday. Kaka garnered most votes in a poll of accredited journalists organized by world governing body FIFA.
The vote was taken before Sunday’s final in which Brazil defeated the United States 3-2, with striker Luis scoring [...]

Honduras News – Honduras president arrested: Reports
Tegucigalpa, June 28 (DPA) Soldiers Sunday arrested Honduras President Manuel Zelaya and confiscated documents from the executive mansion, various radio stations here reported.
Though Zelaya’s whereabouts were unclear, some reports said he had been taken to an air force base. Others said that he had been forced abroad, based on [...]

Paris, June 19 (DPA) Organisers of the Tour de France have said they would not allow 2005 world road race champion Tom Boonen to take part in this year’s race because he tested positive for cocaine.
“Tom Boonen’s image and behaviour are incompatible with the image of the Tour de France,” the Amaury Sports Orgainzation said [...]

Seoul – North and South Korea on Friday held another round of talks on the future of the last remaining joint business project, as political tension on the Koran Peninsula is on the rise.
In a first session Friday morning, talks centred on North Korean demands for hikes in wages and rents worth several hundred million [...]

Los Angeles, June 10 (DPA) Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson married girlfriend Lakiha Spicer over the weekend, just two weeks after the tragic death of his four-year-old daughter Exodus, according to US media reports Tuesday.
The couple tied the knot in a Las Vegas chapel. It was the third marriage for Tyson, 42.
Tyson’s daughter died [...]

Brussels – The European Union should open talks with Turkey this year on how to bring its energy sector into line with EU laws as part of the country’s accession process, the man who is set to take over the bloc’s rotating presidency in July said Tuesday.
But opposition from some EU member states means that [...]

London – Manchester United confirmed on Wednesday that they have agreed to a shirt sponsorship deal with American financial giant Aon Corp believed to be worth
20 million pounds (32.6 million dollars) a year.
United’s previous shirt sponsor, AIG, decided not to renew its deal when it expires at the end of next season following huge losses [...]

New York – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday “strongly” condemned the recent violence aimed at overthrowing the transitional government in Somalia, which resulted in large number of civilian casualties.
Ban defended Somalia’s transitional federal government, which survived several armed attacks in the past weeks, saying that the government’s open door policy is directed at [...]

Geneva – Global unemployment levels will be worse than previously predicted, the International Labour Organization said Thursday, revising upwards its previous numbers.
According to the new data, unemployment could hit global rates between 6.5 per cent and 7.4 per cent. This would roughly be equal to 210 million and 239 million unemployed worldwide.
The new data [...]

Hamburg – Mercedes has come up with a compromise which could end in the Formula One budget cap row between the teams and the governing body FIA, British daily The Times reported on Thursday.
The Times said that Mercedes motorsport chief Norbert Haug has suggested a two-stage plan to reach the budget cap of around [...]

Taipei – A total of 56,103 Taiwan couples filed for divorce in 2008, averaging 153 divorces per day or 6 divorces per hour, a official report said Thursday.
According to the Interior Ministry report, the number of divorces declined by 2,307 couples in 2008 from 2007. The 2008 divorce rate was 11.1 divorcees per every [...]

Taipei – More Taiwan residents consider themselves Taiwanese rather than Chinese, reflecting their identification with Taiwan, a government survey showed Thursday.
According to the poll of 1,113 adults by the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, 65 per cent considered themselves Taiwanese, and 11.5 per cent saw themselves as Chinese.
But 82.7 per cent saw themselves as [...]

Munich – Bayern Munich on Thursday dismissed British media reports that they are in talks with Chelsea about a sale of their French star Franck Ribery to England.
“This is not true,” Munich spokesman Markus Hoerwick told the German Press Agency dpa.
The reports said that Chelsea and Munich were negotiating a 43-million pound (49.3 million euros) [...]

Madrid – Senior Vatican official Antonio Canizares was Thursday criticized for allegedly downplaying the abuse of thousands of Irish children at Catholic institutions in the 20th century.
Spanish Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said it was “very serious” and “irresponsible” by the cardinal to make an “inadequate” comparison between “two completely different things.”
He was referring to [...]