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Italian players' strike delays start of Serie A season
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This weekend's scheduled start of the Serie A season in Italy will be delayed because of a strike by players.
The players' union (AIC) and the clubs' union (Lega) are disputing a collective bargaining agreement after the previous deal expired at the end of last season.
"We tried right up until the end, but all the attempts were in vain," said the Italian players' association president Damiano Tommasi.
The clubs earlier rejected an Italian FA proposal to resolve the matter.
The AIC is unhappy about clubs trying to force players to move in the last year of their contracts.
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Pakistani slain governor Salman Taseer's son abducted
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Shahbaz Taseer was kidnapped on Friday
The son of assassinated Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who was killed in January for opposing the blasphemy law, has been abducted, Pakistan police say.
Shahbaz Taseer's car was intercepted by four men in Lahore city's upscale Gulberg area on Friday.
It is not known who seized Mr Taseer but his family said they had received "threats from extremist groups".
Governor Salman Taseer was assassinated by his own bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri as he was about to get into his car.
"Four men in a car intercepted Shahbaz Taseer's car," news agency AFP quoted police emergency official Syed Mumtaz as saying.
"They overpowered him at gunpoint and forcibly put him in their car and sped away," he said.
Police said they have launched a search for Mr Taseer.
His brother Sheryar Taseer told Reuters that their family had been receiving threats from the Taliban and extremist groups and that they could be behind the abduction.
Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was one of Pakistan's best-known political figures.
His killer said he was angered by the governor's support for reforming Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law
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US jury rules against penis amputee trucker
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A jury in Kentucky has sided against a truck driver and his wife who sued the doctor who amputated his penis during an emergency cancer treatment in 2007.
Phillip Seaton had argued his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to have been a circumcision to treat inflammation.
Dr John Patterson said he had found life-threatening cancer during the procedure and saved Mr Seaton's life.
The Seatons had asked for $16m (£9.8m) for "loss of service" and "love".
They had already sued Jewish Hospital, where the surgery took place; the facility settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
After brief deliberations on Wednesday, the jury ruled unanimously against the Seatons' claim that Dr Patterson had not exercised proper care, but split 10-2 against a claim Mr Seaton had not consented to the amputation
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Dr John Patterson (right, with his lawyer last week) says he found cancer during the surgery
In court filings, the Seatons argued Mr Seaton should have been awakened from anaesthesia and consulted before Dr Patterson did the surgery.
Clay Robinson, a lawyer for Dr Patterson, argued his client had only removed about an inch of the penis after finding it riddled with cancer, with the rest amputated by another doctor.
He also contended Mr Seaton had signed a document authorising necessary treatment in unforeseen circumstances.
Penile cancer is rare, with only 1,360 new cases and 320 deaths estimated in the US in 2011, according to the National Institutes of He
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Motown executive Esther Gordy Edwards dies at 91
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Motown executive Esther Gordy Edwards - the sister of label founder Berry Gordy - has died at the age of 91.
She served as senior vice-president and was charged with exposing the unique Motown sound to international audiences.
She also led the efforts to turn Motown's original headquarters in Detroit into a museum.
Berry Gordy started the famed label, home to such artists as Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, in 1959.
A statement on the Motown Museum's website said Edwards died "surrounded by family and friends" on 24 August.
Edwards - Gordy's eldest sister - held several positions within the label but is best known for turning Motown's famed Studio A in Detroit into an attraction after the company moved to Los Angeles.
Gordy called her "one of my biggest assets at Motown".
He said: "Esther turned the so-called trash left behind after I sold the company in 1988 into a phenomenal world-class monument."
She also worked with several of Motown's biggest artists through the years such as Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder said in a statement: "She believed in me. When I was 14 years old and many other people didn't or could only see what they could at the time, she championed me being in Motown."
"I shared with her many of my songs first before anyone else," he added
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German Marcel Kittel of the Skil-Shimano team (R) sprints as he crosses the finish line of the seventh stage of the Vuelta tour of Spain cycling race in Talavera de la Reina on August 26, 2011. Marcel Kittel won the seventh stage of the Tour of Spain in a finish marred by a huge crash that took out several top riders after a 183km ride from from Almaden to Talavera de la Reina.
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Outdoor furniture sits in a pool at the Hilton hotel keep it from blowing away in preparation for Hurricane Irene on August 26 in Ocean City, Maryland. Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan has ordered a mandatory evacuation for thousands of residents and visitors to leave the ocean front community and Maryland's Governor O'Malley has declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Irene moves up the eastern seaboard.
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Soldiers from the Army Old Guard photograph headstones, in Section 15, as they take part in Task Force Christman to photograph and catalog more than 219,00 grave markers and the front of more than 43,000 sets of cremated remains at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 24. Night after night this summer, troops have left their immaculately pressed dress blues, white gloves and shiny black boots, photographing each and every grave with an iPhone.
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A soldier of the Army Old Guard uses an Apple iPhone to photograph a niche at the Columbarium in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Soldiers of the Army Old Guard Task Force Christman use Apple iPhone's to photograph and catalog more than 219,00 grave markers and the front of more than 43,000 sets of cremated remains at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Army Spc. Matthew Caruso, 24, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., shows the Apple iPad and spreadsheet which is used to keep track of which headstones the Army Old Guard has photographed at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Hurricane storm surge team leader Jamie Rhome center, speaks on a conference call with east coast National Weather Service forecast offices from the National Hurricane Center in Miami as they review the track and intensity of Hurricane Irene on Friday, Aug. 26. The hurricane warning was extended into the Chesapeake Bay as far as Drum Point, and existing warnings remained in effect from North Carolina to New Jersey. A hurricane watch was in effect even farther north and included Long Island, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass.
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A boy looks at photos of Libya's civil war stuck on the hood of a car in Tahrir Square in Benghazi, Libya, on August 25.
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Libyan rebels remove the green flags from poles at the Abu Salim square in Tripoli on August 26, as the opposition forces announced the transfer of their leadership to the capital, boosted by a UN decision to free up millions of dollars in aid money and despite not having captured strongman Moamar Gadhafi.
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A banker stacks packed Syrian lira bills at the Central Bank in Damscus, Syria, on August 25. US sanctions have forced Syria to stop all transactions in US dollars, with the country turning completely to euro deals, the governor of the Central Bank told the AFP. Adib Mayaleh said that Syrians will have to tighten their belts if protests against President Bashar Al-Assad remain unabated and US and European sanctions bite.
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A Palestinian boy peeks through a gap in a wall from behind which Palestinian women try to cross to Jerusalem at a checkpoint in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, August 26.
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Bangladeshi Muslims offer Jummat-Ul-Vida prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan outside the National Mosque of Bangladesh, Baitul Mukarram in Dhaka on August 26, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival. The three-day festival, which begins after the sighting of a new crescent moon, marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which devout Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.
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A Thai Muslim boy reads the Quran as he attends the last Friday prayer of Ramadan at the Central Mosque in the southern city of Pattani, Thailand, on August 26. The holy month of Ramadan is recording a spike in attacks by suspected Muslim separatist insurgents in the Thai restive south with a roadside blast which killed at least five security officers on August 26 in the neighbouring province of Narathiwat.
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Tripoli, Libya: Medical staff treat a Libyan rebel fighter after a bullet entered his ear
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New Delhi, India: Indian policemen detain supporters of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare during a protest outside Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's residence
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Santiago, Chile: A police officer on horseback rides past a bus stop set on fire by demonstrators
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Qalandiya, Israel: An Israeli border policeman is seen with the shadows of Palestinian women as they wait to cross into Jerusalem
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Kolkata, India: Nuns take part in a prayer session to commemorate the 101st birthday of Mother Teresa at Mother House
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Walajeh, West Bank: Palestinian Abdul Fatah Abed Rabbo sits in the cave where he dwells. Abed Rabbo has been living in the cave for the past 14 years in an attempt to protect his land from being confiscated by Israeli authorities
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Bodies littered floor of Tripoli hospital
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A once bustling, busy hospital is now littered with bodies - dozens, even hundreds of them.
They were mainly men, but there were also some women and children. They were lying in corridors, on trolleys in wards and even piled up at the hospital entrance.
Why they are all here and how they died is not clear.
What we do know is that the doctors and nurses who usually work here fled for their own lives on Monday when the Abu Salim district erupted in violence.
Many civilians, as well as fighters, were wounded or killed in the battle.
The dead and severely injured were simply left and abandoned at the hospital.
After four days of heavy, intense street fighting the bodies were literally piling up.
'Massacre'
In temperatures of more than 36C, the stench was as appalling as the images were gruesome.
Local people, feeling safer about venturing out of their houses, made a heroic attempt to clean up some of the mess and reclaim their hospital.
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But their efforts were in vain, so broken was much of the basic infrastructure in Tripoli.
There was no running water, for example, to even attempt washing the bloodstained floors.
Many put the blame for what happened at the hospital on the Gaddafi regime.
Some said that as the colonel lost control of his capital, his forces took brutal revenge on anyone suspected of opposing the man who ruled this country with an iron grip for more than 40 years.
One doctor who had returned to help the clean-up called it a "massacre".
"There are more than 200 bodies here but there is no government in charge. What can we do? We urgently need international help to stop the situation deteriorating," Osama Bilil said.
It is impossible, at this stage, to know exactly what happened at the hospital.
But the horrors I witnessed are a reminder of what Libya and its people have to overcome as they seek to finally defeat one of the most notorious rulers in modern history.
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Bolivian Mennonites jailed for serial rapes
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A court in Bolivia has sentenced seven members of a reclusive conservative Christian group to 25 years in prison for raping more than 100 women.
The men, members of a Mennonite group, secretly sedated their victims before the sex attacks.
The victims' lawyer said the 2000-strong Mennonite community where the rapes happened welcomed the sentence.
The group follows a strict moral code and rejects modern inventions such as cars and electricity.
An eighth man was sentenced to 12-and-a-half years for supplying the sedative used to drug the women.
The rapes happened in the Mennonite community of Manitoba, 150km (93 miles) north-east of the city of Santa Cruz.
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Satellite image Hurricane Irene off the Carolinas, in an image captured Friday, Aug. 26 at 12:30 p.m EDT
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Libya's New Order
Libyan rebels man a checkpoint at the entrance to the oil rich port of Ras Lanuf. British warplanes bombed a bunker in Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace of Sirte as rebels attempted to locate the nation's longtime ruler.
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Finally Putting Her Son to Rest
Maria Magdalena Arbelaez carries the urn with the remains of her son Jorge Cano at the San Pedro cemetery in Medellin, Colombia. The remains of 28 people were recently discovered in common graves.
