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England's manager Roy Hodgson inspects the pitch before their World Cup 2014 qualifying group H soccer match against Poland in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. On Tuesday the organizers failed to close the roof of the stadium which caused the cancellation of the match due to heavy rainfall.

Football World Cup 2014: Heat on England as 'Group of Death' awaits
DNA India Roy Hodgson was hardly singing in the rainforest at the news that England have been sent to Manaus, the capital of the jungle. With Fifa dismissing as "nonsense" that England's opening... (photo: AP / Czarek Sokolowski)

Dr. Conrad Murray listens as the jury returns with a guilty verdict in his involuntary manslaughter trial Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 in a Los Angeles courtroom . Murray was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star.

Doctor convicted in Michael Jackson death leaves prison
Daily Press LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's personal physician, convicted of manslaughter for administering a lethal dose of anesthetic to the pop singer, was released from a Los Angeles prison on... (photo: AP / Al Seib)

Gay people in no danger: Putin
Belfast Telegraph Russia's law banning gay "propaganda" does not harm anybody and there is "no danger" for homosexual competitors or spectators at the forthcoming Winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin has insisted. The... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office)

Rand Paul at a campaign stop in Ames, Iowa for his father, ahead of the Ames Straw Poll.

Senator Paul wants light punishment of Snowden for NSA leaks
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The public debate over the fate of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden intensified on Sunday with conservative Senator Rand Paul calling for a light prison... (photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore)

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Eusebio Dead: Soccer Legend Dies At 71
Huffington Post Getty LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Eusebio, the Portuguese soccer star who was born into poverty in Africa but became an international sporting icon and was voted one of the... (photo: Creative Commons / Alface)

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi throw stones at riot police during clashes at Nasr City, where protesters have installed their camp and hold their daily rally, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013.

Thirteen killed in Brotherhood clashes with police in Egypt
DNA India Thirteen people were shot dead as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with police across Egypt on Friday, defying an ever-widening state crackdown on the... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra)

U.N. seeks access to Palestinians in Syria after 15 die of hunger
Swissinfo Arab Spring Reuters December 30, 2013 - 13:54 BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Monday for the Syrian army and rebel fighters to allow urgent aid to reach... (photo: EC / © EU)

Patriot missiles PAC-3 launchers are seen at the Kadena U.S. Air Base in Okinawa, southern Japan, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. The deployment is part of a multibillion dollar effort to build a ballistic missile shield in the Pacific to counter the threat of an

Clarification: Japan-US-Okinawa story
The Washington Post TOKYO — In a story Dec. 27, The Associated Press reported that the governor of Okinawa, Japan, approved land reclamation for a new U.S. military base. The new air... (photo: AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Pervez Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan, talks during a public rally of his new political party, the "All Pakistan Muslim League" in Birmingham, England, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010.

Musharraf says army still backs him in treason case
The Siasat Daily Islamabad, December 29: Embattled former military ruler Pervez Musharraf today said treason case against him smacks of a "vendetta" and dismissed the notion that... (photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf salutes journalists as he arrives in his office for a press briefing before leaving to Karachi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 24, 2013.

Thank you but no thanks, Musharraf tells Pak govt
The Siasat Daily December 28: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has rejected "with thanks" the government's offer to bring his ailing mother to Pakistan from Dubai, one of his aides... (photo: AP / Kamran Jebreili)

Traders and Specialists work on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, April 9, 2010, in New York

Business news of 2013: Wall Street gains and fiscal pains
The Charlotte Observer It was an easy year to emulate Warren Buffett even as Congress almost wrecked the economy. U.S. stocks rocketed to new heights, and markets in Japan and Europe jumped,... (photo: AP / David Karp)

A Ugandan man reads the headline of the Ugandan newspaper "Rolling Stone" in Kampala, Uganda. Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, in which the papers reveals the identity of allegedly gay members of Ugandan society and calls for public punishment against those individuals. The "Rolling Stone" is a fairly new publication under the management of Giles Muhame, a Ugandan journalist..rights activitists say that at least four homosexuals have been attacked since a Ugandan newspaper published an article this month called "100 Pictures of Uganda's Top Homos Leak _ Hang Them." A year after a Ugandan legislator tried to introduce a bill that would have called for the death penalty for being gay, rights activists say homosexuals face a host of hostility.

Uganda's deplorable anti-gay bill
The Los Angeles Times Uganda's deplorable Anti-Homosexuality Bill has reappeared periodically for consideration by its parliament, but until now it has always been withdrawn or placed on the... (photo: AP)

Egyptian activists shout anti-terrorism slogans as they hold posters showing Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and late President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, right, with Arabic slogans read, "Egypt is entrusted to us.

Egypt arrests dozens under anti-terror law, one killed in Cairo
South China Morning Post Egypt stepped up pressure on the Muslim Brotherhood a day after declaring it a terrorist group, using the new classification to detain dozens of its supporters on... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil)