LONDON - Jay DeMerit made a successful return to professional soccer thisweek after a three-month injury layoff.The U.S. defender, who had surgery to replace a cornea in his right eye onOct. 17, took the field for Watford on Monday. He helped his t
LONDON - Tottenham midfielder Luka Modric has played his first match sincebreaking his right leg in August.The Croatia international returned to action Tuesday in a friendly againstnon-league club Grays Athletic. Modric played 70 minutes and coac
Wasps fly-half Danny Cipriani made his comeback after two months out with a broken leg in a reserve-team game against Harlequins on Monday night.The 22-year-old England fly-half played 40 minutes in the A League match in Henley, which Wasps lost 27-
LONDON - American defender Jay DeMerit has returned from a three-monthlayoff caused by an eye injury.The 30-year-old from Green Bay, Wis., played the second half Monday night asWatford defeated Queens Park Rangers 3-1 in England's No. 2 division, t
It’s textbook Cheney: Guantanamo Bay? Better than those terrorists deserve. Waterboarding? Effective and necessary. Barack Obama? A weak apologist.These words do not, however, come from Dick Cheney, the Bush administration vice president whose tenur
CONAKRY, Guinea - The overnight return to Guinea of the No. 2 man in the junta that seized power a year ago makes it more likely that the military clique will be able to hang on to power following an assassination attempt of their president. Many pe
HALABJA, Iraq - Six families nervously awaited the DNA tests on the young man who returned from Iran. They wondered: Could this be their son who was just an infant in 1988 and somehow lived through a deadly chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's regime
CONAKRY, Guinea - A government spokesman says that the No. 2 of Guinea's military junta that grabbed power in a coup last year returned to the country overnight. Sekouba Konate's return Saturday helps fill a power vacuum after Capt. Moussa Dadis C
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