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Robert Allenby and Martin Kaymer are tied for lead in the second round of the Castello Masters after play was suspended because of darkness.
France, Portugal, Russia and Greece will be seeded in the playoffs to decide the final four European spots at the 2010 World Cup.
Ross McGowan took the biggest 54-hole lead on the European Tour this year after a 12-under 60 on Saturday gave him a seven-stroke advantage at the Madrid Masters.
Luke Donald was almost perfect with his putter on the way to an 8-under 64 at Kingsbarns on Sunday that gave him a one-stroke lead over Rory McIlroy and Simon Dyson in the weather-delayed third round of the Dunhill Links Championship.
Spain and England are among five European teams that can secure a spot in the 2010 World Cup on Wednesday.
Peter Hedblom shot a second straight 4-under 66 Friday to share the lead with defending champion Darren Clarke at 8 under halfway through the KLM Open.
Brawn GP's Rubens Barrichello won the European Grand Prix on Sunday to claim his first Formula One victory in five years.
Sweden's Oskar Henningsson made six birdies Sunday to win the Moravia Silesia Open by two strokes, shooting 13-under 275 at the Prosper Golf Resort.
Ricardo Gonzalez won the SAS Masters by two strokes on Sunday, making birdies on five of the final six holes for a 4-under 69.
Martin Kaymer of Germany won the French Open on Sunday, beating Lee Westwood of England in the first hole of a playoff.
Huntsman Corp. said Tuesday two investment banks will pay it a $1.7 billion settlement over its accusation they schemed to scuttle a $6.5 billion buyout of the chemicals maker last year.
Polar bears have taken over screen savers. Two of the last five Nobel Peace Prizes have gone to eco-campaigners. Climate change has crept onto government agendas.
A British far-right party won its first-ever parliamentary seats in European Union elections as the extreme right advanced in several countries across the continent on a volatile mix of apathy, anger and economic uncertainty.
Britain elected its first extreme-right politician to the European Parliament in results announced Sunday, a development mainstream lawmakers blamed on the recession and a collapse of trust in major political parties.
Incomplete European election results project this range of seats for political groups in the next EU assembly:
Conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrated beating her center-left opponents by a huge margin in European Parliament voting and said Monday that the outcome bolstered her party's chances in upcoming German national elections.
Conservatives scored victories in some of Europe's largest economies Sunday as voters punished left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France, Germany and other nations.
A volatile mix of apathy, anger and economic uncertainty translated into gains for extreme-right parties in European parliamentary elections, including the first seats won by the all-white British National Party.
In some of Manchester's bleakest neighborhoods where unemployment is rife and anxiety about an immigration influx is palpable, one of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's worst fears is unfolding before Thursday's European Union elections.
Unheralded Jeppe Huldahl of Denmark shot a 4-under 67 to win the Wales Open by one stroke over Niclas Fasth of Sweden on Sunday.
A right-wing lawmaker called on Dutch voters worried about immigration to pick his party Thursday in European Parliament elections expected to bring successes for fringe and extremist groups.
Christian Cevaer of France made a 12-foot birdie putt on his last hole Saturday to share the Europen Open lead with Jeev Milkha Singh of India.
Paul Casey shot a 5-under 67 Friday for a two-stroke lead midway through the BMW PGA Championship.
Daniel Vancsik of Argentina shot a 2-under 69 despite two late bogeys Saturday to retain a slim lead after the third round of the Italian Open.
Gareth Maybin of Northern Ireland shot a course record 7-under 64 on Thursday to take a three-shot lead after the first round of the Italian Open.
Europe rises as the modest superpowerTHIS week's expected nomination of a Belgian or Baltic politician as the first president of the European Union is fuelling excitement in Brussels at the emergence of a force to rival the United States and other world powers.
How Democracy Is Destroying PakistanWill Pakistan, the only Muslim nuclear country, be fragmented as it was done in Iraq? This is the common fear among Pakistanis in view of the forces-United States, Europe and Israel, which turned Iraq and Afghanistan into slaughterhouses, are responsible for the deepening quagmir …
European Union Treaty Clears Its Final Hurdle - NYTimes.comThe Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, signed the landmark Lisbon Treaty on Tuesday, making his country the last of the 27 European Union countries to approve it and allowing its unifying, strengthening measures to go into force shortly across the bloc of half a billion people.
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | The 'first true scientist'By Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.
Holdout Ireland votes to back EU reformIreland's electoral office confirms overwhelming voter approval for the EU Lisbon Treaty, with two-thirds voting "yes" to the long-delayed blueprint for reform of the 27-nation bloc.
brascal53 wrote: Obama is smart to make an overture like this to the Russians.
More sex with strangers - Love & SexAs her Summer of Sex draws to a close, Deirdre Morrissey heads to Berlin, a city beloved by Irish swingers. With a leash around her neck, she rides the Love Parade, checks out the wildest club in Europe and finds herself unshockable. Photography by Yoran Nesh and Rory Moran.
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Long shadow of 1929 Hebron massacreBBC reporter, Dina Newman, reports how the events of the past has shaped Hebron today and how the current situation is what those who live there think of it. Most interesting is an old Palestinian man who witnessed the 1929 massacre.
SPOILER ALERT: Getting Back to Work at the 2009 European Grand PrixEver come back from vacation only to feel like you need another vacation? We've all been there, so we can all empathize with the performers in the Formula One circus.
Japan To Help Introduce Digital Broadcasting To Peru Japan and Peru have agreed to study how Japan can help Peru introduce terrestrial digital broadcasting by using a Japanese format.
Arsene Wenger's vision of a united EuropeA full-blown, midweek European League could be in place within a decade, according to Arsene Wenger.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Racism' claims at Lebanon beach clubsRacism overall in Lebanon, not just at the beach clubs. New law maybe on the way to outlaw discrimination, we'll see. These maids and labourers need protection from abusive employers. Like at the end of the article says:
Walrus Magazine » Is Europe Worth Saving? » By Nick FraserThe piece is long enough to offer a brief history of the European Union to help readers understand where it came from and where its going, but short enough to not scare readers way. It shows what problems the EU has and what challenges the bloc faces.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Debunking a YouTube hitBBC Magazine article by Richard Knight fact checks a xenophobic and anti-Muslim propaganda video which claims that Muslims will take over Europe and install Islamic Emirates.
So I was reading an article I found from 2007 saying that Dr. James Watson, one of the world's most respected scientists, Nobel Prize Winner and DNA Pioneer has claimed that black people are less intelligent than white people.
Europe pressures Iran on protest crackdownEurope has stepped up pressure on Iran to end its bloody crackdown on street protests, feeling less constrained to speak out than President Barack Obama.
So, how's the stimulus working for you? What? It's not? Well, that must explain how Obama and Biden are feigning anger now that the money hasn't hit the streets like they promised. Here is a little advice for Obama that even I know: bureaucracies are inefficient.
I watched Rabbit Proof Fence last night on TV. I was horrified. "In 1931, (in Australia) three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes (by white settlers) to be trained as domestic staff (for white settlers) and set off on a trek across the Outback."
Experts Encourage Action Against Sex Trafficking This is from news of the UN that the biggest growing problem is sex trafficking. It is going to be a bigger crime problem than drugs. I had been looking on something more on the problem in the Ukraine about sex trafficking that was in the PBS movie.
Poll Does any one know where the original homeland of white people was located ? I recently learned that all other races of people on this planet had and still have ancestral lands that their evolutionary ancestry can be tied to except white people.
Lacy Threads and Leather Straps Bind a BusinessKARACHI, Pakistan — In Pakistan, a flogger is known only as the Taliban's choice whip for beating those who defy their strict codes of Islam.
Iceland Shifts To The Left Iceland has voted in its first left-wing government, a tectonic shift in the country's political landscape fueled by last year's economic implosion which may ultimately result in the island nation joining the European Union.
Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is RealRacialized science seeks to explain human population differences in health, intelligence, education, and wealth as the consequence of immutable, biologically based differences between "racial" groups.
Ahmadinejad's Speech Text & Jewish Israeli Atzmon: "Israel is indeed a racist state!"Here is the full text of Iranian President Ahmadinejad condemning West racism, racist Zionist REGIME and asking why should Palestinians pay for the Nazi Holocaust - Jewish Israeli Gilad Atzmon agrees in commentary.
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