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Last Update: Tue Jun 10 08:05:22 2008

+ Hauliers' strike sparks shortages at Spanish markets - Update + Madrid - A hauliers' strike protesting high fuel prices was creating shortages Tuesday in Spain, where wholesale markets began to run ...

+ Euro fans in bad odour in Basle + Zurich - Football fans have caused a stink in Basle by ignoring hundreds of portaloos and insisting on relieving themselves against ...

+ German brewers hoping for another summer football fairy tale - Feature + Berlin - Germany could not have had a better start to the European football championships. A 2-0 win in its first game with Poland ...

+ Arsenal set to win race to sign Welsh starlet Ramsey + London - English Premier League giants Arsenal look to have won the race to sign teenage Welsh starlet Aaron Ramsey, ahead of ...

+ Futures drop after Bernanke's inflation warning + NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would ...

+ Cambodian king cheers celebration of border temple anniversary + Phnom Penh - Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni on Tuesday endorsed a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the International Court ruling ...

+ Behind the pitch is on the pitch - say football rules - Feature + Hamburg - Luca Toni was booked for disputing the call and Germany coach Joachim Loew also admitted he didn't know the rule that made ...

+ UN adviser hopes South Africa can party like Swiss + Geneva - The UN's special adviser on sport for Development and Peace said Tuesday he hoped the 2010 World Cup in South Africa would be ...

+ Fishermen blockade southern Irish harbour + Cork, Ireland - Fisherman blockaded the entrance to Cork harbour in southern Ireland Tuesday to protest rising fuel costs and limited ...

+ EXTRA: EU, US urge Russia to respect Georgia's borders + Brdo, Slovenia - The European Union and the United States pressed Russia to back off its push for influence in former Soviet ...

+ Somalia peace deal offers slim hope to end violence - Feature + Mogadishu - A United Nations-brokered agreement between Somalia's government and an opposition faction has been hailed in some ...

+ Ukraine predicts inflation slowdown to 16 per cent + Kiev - Officials at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on Tuesday predicted the country's galloping inflation will soon slow down to a ...

+ EXTRA: EU, US to seek financial squeeze on Iran + Brdo, Slovenia - The European Union and the United States agreed to tighten the squeeze on Iran's financial links to disrupt its ...

+ Daughter of Austrian incest victim awake after weeks in coma + Vienna - The teenage daughter of Austrian incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl awoke from her coma and is no longer in intensive care, ...

+ UN's Mr Sport accuses media of manipulation over olympics + Geneva - The United Nation's new special advisor on sport said on Tuesday he believed 99 per cent of sportsmen and women were happy to ...

+ Mass stranding of dolphins is puzzling British experts + London - The death of 26 dolphins on the south-west coast of Britain remained a mystery Tuesday as post-mortem examinations on the ...

+ Italy probes Milan's 'Horror Clinic' + Milan, Italy - Italian authorities on Tuesday began interrogating suspects linked to a private Milan clinic where unnecessary surgery, ...

+ Rijkaard to take year off after being sacked by Barcelona + Madrid - Frank Rijkaard has decided to take a year off after being sacked by troubled Spanish football club Barcelona, the Catalan ...

+ Drug trial aborted over sudoku-playing jurors + Sydney - A million-dollar drug trial in Australia was aborted Tuesday after several jurors in a Sydney courtroom were spotted playing ...

+ Euro 2008 defeat also hits Polish economy + Warsaw - Poland's defeat against Germany at Euro 2008 may have cost the Polish economy 50 million zloty (23.3 million dollars), the ...