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IN case anyone could possibly have thought that Roy Keane had lost his bite, these are his thoughts on Dwight Yorke, as delivered at an Ipswich Town press conference yesterday morning, in response to observations in Yorke's new autobiography that Keane's management style at Sunderland was "leadership by inspiring fear".

Can art get people to pick up trash? Absolutely, Laura Smith will tell you. A 25-year-old graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Smith excelled at art as a child, particularly in the medium of clay. But while working and teaching in Acton, she decided to explore another aspect of art: its power to make things happen. Having been inspired by ...

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AFP - FC Zurich pulled off a famous and unlikely victory as Finland's Hannu Tihinen scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory over AC Milan in the Champions League at the San Siro on Wednesday.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Antti Miettinen scored the deciding goal in a shootout to give the Minnesota Wild a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers in the final preseason game for both teams on Tuesday.

The Avett Brothers, "I and Love and You" (Columbia/American) The Avett Brothers have been the best kept secret in American roots music for nearly a decade -- until now.

Sept. 26, 1969 “The Brady Bunch’’ debuts on ABC.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday met with the head of the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Vice Foreign Minister Park Gil Yon, voicing his hope again that "the nuclear and other outstanding issues will be resolved through dialogue." A statement, issued by Ban's spokesperson after their meeting, said, "The secretary-general met this afternoon with the head of the DPRK delegation, Vice Foreign Minister Park Gil Yon and discussed matters of mutual in ...

Singapore's total population reached 4.99 million at the end of June this year, according to data from Singapore's Department of Statistics on Monday. This comprises 3.73 million Singapore residents and 1.25 million non-residents. Singapore residents, comprising Singapore citizens and Singapore permanent residents, formed 75 percent of total population. The total population grew 3.1 percent in 2009 over the previous year. &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...

GUANGZHOU: Exports of Cantonese-style mooncakes are set to disappear behind a dark cloud this year. The popular delicacies, a traditional gift during the Mid-Autumn festival, could be hit hard following a ban in the United States on mooncakes that contain meat, poultry or yolk. "And other foreign countries and regions, including the European Union, Japan, Canada and Australia, have also introduced their own trade barriers and strict examination standards to ban and reduce importing moonc ...

Pakistan's security forces killed eight Taliban militants and arrested another 33 in the search and clearance operations in northwest Pakistan's Swat and Malakand districts during the last 24 hours, the army said Thursday. The army said in a daily update that the security forces killed eight militants early Thursday morning in Palai area near Dargai of Swat in exchange of fire, which also injured two security forces personnel. During the operations in other areas of Swat, the sec ...

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Prevention of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure improves the lives of older Americans and also reduces medical costs, study findings show.

AFP - The father of an Iraqi man who died in British military custody in 2003 told an inquiry in London Wednesday his son may have been singled out for bad treatment because he had accused troops of stealing.

New drugs are on the way, but it is not clear whether they will arrive in time to make a difference in thwarting the H1N1 flu pandemic.

A group of 71 New Zealand Special Air Service (SAS) troops have arrived in Afghanistan, Prime Minister John Key announced on Monday. New Zealand would provide three rotations of SAS troops during the next 18 months. Key described the deployment as a dangerous assignment, and told a press conference that he cannot rule out the possibility of casualties. The troops will be under the control of the commander of the NATO international security assistance force in Afghanistan, ...

Broadway ticket availability and capsule reviews of shows as of Sept. 21. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available at the theaters' box offices for the shows listed. Details about how to obtain tickets appear at the end.

Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. is beginning to sell a line of electronics accessories called AmazonBasics this weekend.

A total of 60 giant pandas relocated from the Wolong base in southwest China's Sichuan Province after the 8.0-magnitude earthquake last year are expected to return their home in 2012, local authorities said. The China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center of the Wolong nature reserve had 63 giant pandas in captivity before the May 12 quake, but one died and one was missing in the tremor. Another one died of illness on the way to hospital, said Luo Zengbin, deputy head of Sichuan Pro ...

Reuters - Maybe Tim Blake Nelson just got tired of being so serious. The actor and writer -- whose previous films as a director have questioned the existence of God ("Eye of God"), retold "Othello" in a high school setting ("O") and examined the conscience of Jews who worked with their oppressors in Nazi concentration camps ("The Grey Zone") -- goes absolutely bonkers in "Leaves of Grass."

AP - Jennifer Hudson's son is only 1 month old, but she already sees singing in his future.