MILAN - Serie A scoring leader Antonio Di Natale has been banned two gamesfor criticizing and threatening the referee after Udinese's 2-1 loss to Bologna.Di Natale, who scored Saturday to raise his season tally to 11 goals, wasnot carded for his pr
CONAKRY, Guinea - Guinea's military strongman, airlifted to a hospital in Morocco after being wounded in an assassination attempt, cannot speak and may not be returning home anytime soon, two top government officials said Monday. The future of the b
SYDNEY - Australia's conservative opposition relished a small bounce in opinion polls on Monday after dumping its leader for a maverick right-winger during fierce debate over climate change. A Newspoll taken over the weekend showed new Liberal Part
WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America. Given a chance Sunday to clea
RABAT, Morocco - Morocco's chief military doctor says the president of Guinea is doing fine after surgery following an assassination attempt. Brig. Gen. Ali Abrouq, the royal armed forces health inspector, says in a statement that Capt. Moussa Dadi
ANKARA - Turkey has again defended its treatment of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan saying it has invited a European anti-torture group to visit his new prison cell, the foreign ministry said. Ocalan, 61, is the founder of the outlawed Kurdis
CONAKRY - Guinea's capital was on edge on Saturday following a botched assassination attempt on the head of the ruling junta, with residents bracing for further violence between out-of-control army factions. Pickup trucks carrying heavily armed sol
New Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones is joining other senior party figures at a meeting to draw the battle lines ahead of the next general election.Welsh Secretary Peter Hain and First Minister Rhodri Morgan are also taking part in the Welsh Labour
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