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FIFA admits to giving $5-million to Ireland over Henry handball
FIFA have confirmed they made a $5 million payment to the Football Association of Ireland after Thierry Henry\'s handball stopped Ireland qualifying ...More than 30,000 rally at anti-G7 kick-off demo in Bavaria
More than 30,000 people demonstrated Thursday against a G7 summit starting at the weekend in the southern German state of Bavaria, police ...Fighting flares up near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists on Wednesday fought their first serious battles in months and Ukraine\'s defense minister said an attempt by ...George W. Bush now more popular than Obama, poll finds
Former US President George W. Bush is now more popular than his successor Barack Obama, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday.Latvian parliament elects defence minister Vejonis as president
Latvia\'s parliament on Wednesday elected Defence Minister Raimonds Vejonis as the Baltic state\'s new president with 55 of its 100 legislators backing ...Barrel bombs kill 33 in Syria
At least 33 people, including 10 children, were killed in government barrel bomb attacks in northern Syria on Wednesday, a monitoring group ...South Korea test-fires longer-range ballistic missile
South Korea on Wednesday test-launched a new ballistic missile that can hit all of North Korea, the president\'s office said, developed under ...Hurricane Blanca forms, heads toward Mexico resorts
Hurricane Blanca formed off Mexico\'s Pacific coast on Tuesday and was on track to strike the Los Cabos resorts during weekend elections, ...Divers comb capsized China ship, 400 still missing
Scores of divers searched a capsized ship in the Yangtze River on Wednesday for more than 400 missing people, many of them ...Sepp Blatter resigns as FIFA president
Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday in the face of a U.S.-led corruption investigation that has plunged world soccer\'s governing ...