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Newcastle United's Papiss Cisse, celebrates his goal during their Europa League round of 16 second leg soccer match against Anzhi Makhachkala at St James' Park, Newcastle, England, Thursday, March 14, 2013.

Cisse snatches points at death
Belfast Telegraph Papiss Cisse headed Newcastle to a last-gasp victory over Crystal Palace as the Magpies left it desperately late at St James' Park. The Senegal international, who had earlier been denied three times... (photo: AP / Scott Heppell)

File - In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, prison guards ride horses that were broken by inmates as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana.

Death row inmate Glenn Ford released 30 years after wrongful conviction
The Guardian Man found guilty of murder by all-white jury in deeply flawed trial had one of America’s longest ever waits for exoneration Glenn Ford, 64, talks to the media as he leaves the maximum-security Angola... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)

Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge during his team's English Premier League soccer match against Stoke at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday Aug. 17, 2013.

How Sturridge went from Manchester City outcast to Liverpool talisman
Goal Seemingly destined to go down as one of English football's great unfulfilled talents after frustrating spells at the Etihad Stadium and Chelsea, he is a man rejuvenated COMMENT By Paul Clennam In... (photo: AP / Jon Super)

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at a town hall meeting, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at Green Valley High School in Henderson, Nev.

Obama, Putin share common ground
The Oklahoman Oklahoman ; Kathleen Parker’s “Getting inside the mind of Putin” (Commentary, March 20) noted that “Putin’s yawing response to Western penalties could mean that he doesn’t fully realize the effect... (photo: AP / Laura Rauch)

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Blindfolded Mahmoud Asgari, 16, left, and another unidentified teenager are set to be publicly hanged, in Mashhad, Iran, on charges of raping boys in this photo taken on July 19, 2005.

Iran And Iraq Responsible For 'Sharp Global Spike' In Executions
Business Insider See Also Rights group Amnesty International says in its annual report on the death penalty that Iran and Iraq were responsible for a "sharp global spike" in executions... (photo: AP / )

Pope Francis looks at his watch after arriving to the stage on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro

Pope Francis To Meet President Obama For The First Time
The Inquisitr It will be the 28th time a sitting President visits the Holy Father at the Vatican and even though neither can influence the other’s policies the meeting is hugely... (photo: AP / Victor R. Caivano)

Salman Khan’s hit-and-run case’s trial adjourned to April 1
The Times of India MUMBAI: A sessions court on Wednesday adjourned the trial in the hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan to April 1. The new trial will require that witnesses and... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)

Jeff Carter of the Philadelphia Flyers during the 2006-07 season against the New York Rangers. Date 4 January 2007

Jeff Carter scores in Philadelphia return as Kings beat Flyers, 3-2
The Los Angeles Times PHILADELPHIA — Flyer fans booed every time Kings forward Jeff Carter touched the puck Monday, but it was music to his ears. Carter, traded by the Flyers to... (photo: Creative Commons / Brett Weinstein)

Tottenham Hotspur's Emmanuel Adebayor, right, celebrates with the crowd after scoring against Liverpool during their English Premier League soccer match at White Hart Lane stadium, London, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011.

Spurs crash out to Benfica March 20, 2014
ESPN Tottenham failed to book their place in the Europa League quarterfinals despite a late rally against Benfica, while Juventus moved a step closer to a dream final in their... (photo: AP / Tom Hevezi)

John W. Ashe, President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly

UNGA president to raise Italian marines issue with India
The Times of India UNITED NATIONS: UN General Assembly president John Ashe has informed Italy that he will try and raise with India the issue of the two Italian marines who are being tried... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)

Italian interior Mininster Angelino Alfano, left, and Italian Premier Enrico Letta stand at the Senate in Rome, Friday, July 19, 2013. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano, faces a vote of non-confidence on Friday in the Senate, after telling lawmakers that neither he, Premier Enrico Letta, nor the foreign minister, had been told about Kazakhstan's diplomats urging lower-level ministry officials to swiftly deport businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov's family from their Rome home in May..

Italy seeks UN help to get its marines freed
The Times of India NEW DELHI: An increasingly desperate Italy appealed to the United Nations for help in freeing its marines from Indian custody while India believes Italy is unnecessarily... (photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia)

President Barack Obama holds a town hall style meeting at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio,, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010.

Sanctions Battle: Obama and E.U. Punish Russians, Ukrainians—and Russia Will Sanction U.S. Senators
National Journal By Sara Sorcher and Jordain Carney March 18, 2014 By Sara Sorcher (@SaraSorcherNJ) and Jordain Carney (@jordainc) Welcome to NJ's Early Bird, a morning assembly of the... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)

Bale-Benzema-Ronaldo, Van Basten-Gullit-Rijkaard and football’s great trios
Goal Many of Europe's classic sides have been built upon a core trio of key players and Goal takes a trip down memory lane to recall some of those famous link-ups £5... (photo: AP / Paul White)