ALKMAAR, Netherlands - AZ Alkmaar says Dick Advocaat will coach the clubfor the rest of the season, replacing the fired Ronald Koeman.Advocaat will combine the AZ job with his position as Belgium national teamcoach. AZ says Advocaat will start wo
ISLAMABAD - The FBI is sending a team to Pakistan and India as part of an inquiry into a Chicago man accused of plotting against a Danish newspaper and sizing up targets ahead of last year's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India's financial capi
BRASILIA, Brazil - Wanderlei Luxemburgo, the former coach of Real Madridand Brazil, is taking over Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro.Luxemburgo and Atletico Mineiro president Alexandre Kalil confirmed the moveon Tuesday on their Twitter feeds. Luxemb
After spending 16 months cycling 18,000 kilometres (11,180 miles) from Brisbane to Copenhagen, Kim Nguyen is taking part in the UN climate talks with a host of eyewitness accounts of the effects of global warming from his odyssey. The first place t
GEISPOLSHEIM, France - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would not let his country's literary heritage be taken away by a friendly large American company, in a thinly veiled challenge to Google France is anxious to avoid French-
A decline in food price inflation has caused Tesco to lose some of its sales momentum in the UK.The country’s biggest supermarket chain published a third-quarter trading update on Tuesday that showed that its UK like-for-like sales rose 2.8 per cent
The US government said Monday it would start to regulate carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant, sidestepping a divided Congress to boost global climate talks in Copenhagen. The decision paves the way for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) t
BUCHAREST - Romanian centre-right President Traian Basescu was in the lead in the country's presidential election, according to partial results released on Monday. Basescu led with 50.4 percent of the vote with 95.4 percent of the ballots counted w
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