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Wolfsburg slump to home defeat against Cologne - Berlin - Visiting Cologne piled on the misery for Wolfsburg with a 3-2 victory Sunday over the Bundesliga champions who have now gone seven games without a win. Goals from Kevin Pezzoni, Sebastian Freis and Adil Chihi downed coach Armin Veh's side wh...

Napoli firm in fourth place through win at Livorno - Rome - Napoli strengthened their hold on fourth place in the Serie A through a 2-0 win clinched Sunday at 10-man minnows Livorno. Palermo also moved up to leapfrog troubled Juventus in fifth place as young Uruguayan Abel Hernandez scored a brace in a...

Germany win Nordic combined team event - Schonach, Germany - Hosts Germany won a Nordic combined team event on Sunday which saw the absence of several top stars. Georg Hettich, Eric Frenzel, Bjoern Kircheisen and Tino Edelmann led after the ski-jumping portion and covered the 4x5-kilometres...

Stoke stun Arsenal to reach fifth round of cup - London - Two goals from Ricardo Fuller knocked Arsenal out of the fourth round of the FA Cup on Sunday as Stoke City recorded a 3-1 win at the Britannia Stadium. Premier League title-chasing Arsenal became the latest victims of the traditional FA Cup...

EU foreign ministers' meeting to focus on Haiti reconstruction - Brussels - European Union foreign ministers are set to meet Monday to discuss a common stance on long-term development aid for quake-stricken Haiti in advance of an international donor conference scheduled for March. No decisions are expected Monday....

History repeats itself for Mesotitisch; Henkel also wins - Summary - Anterselva, Italy - Daniel Mesotitsch of Austria ended a biathlon World Cup victory drought after exactly eight years when he dominated a race in Anterselva again on Sunday, a 12.5-kilometres pursuit. Earlier, Andrea Henkel completed a victory sweep ...

Jordan's king urges UN Mideast envoy to intensify efforts for peace - Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday urged US Middle East envoy George Mitchell to intensify efforts to achieve the needed progress in relaunching meaningful peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Mitchell briefed the Jordan...

'Interesting' ideas at meeting with envoy, Netanyahu says - Summary - Jerusalem - A meeting between US Middle East envoy George Mitchell and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aimed at restarting the peace progress with the Palestinians, saw interesting ideas raised, the Israeli leader said Sunday. I heard s...

Hundreds protest against police brutality in Russian city of Tomsk - Moscow - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Russian city of Tomsk Sunday, four days after a journalist died in detention there after allegedly being beaten by a policeman, the Interfax news agency reported. The 47-year-old reporter had...

Felix Neureuther emulates his father with Kitzbuehel win - Summary - Kitzbuehel, Austria - Felix Neureuther of Germany emulated his father Christian when he won the Kitzbuehel World Cup slalom on Sunday. Neureuther, 25, claimed his first career victory ahead of Frenchman Julien Lizeroux and Gioliano Razzoli of Italy. ...

Arab stocks plunge on global market losses, foggy annual results - Amman - Middle East stock markets sank across the board at the start of the trading week Sunday, with investors apparently responding to plunges on global bourses and uncertainty over the world's leading economies, financial analysts said. It appear...

Israel Holocaust centre to exhibit original Auschwitz blueprints - Jerusalem - Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre will on Monday display the original architectural blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, which Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev said provide a graphic illustration of the Ge...

Developing countries want climate negotiations by March - Summary - New Delhi - The Copenhagen accord should be seen as part of the two-track negotiating process towards reaching a climate accord in Mexico City in December, ministers from the major developing Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) said Sunday....

Pyongyang: Seoul first strike threat 'declaration of war' - Summary - Seoul - North Korea warned Sunday that it regarded South Korea's threat of a military first strike as an open declaration of war, the state-controlled KCNA news agency reported. Pyongyang's response comes in the wake of comments from the South Ko...

Gaddafi and Syria's al-Assad hold talks in Tripoli - Tripoli - Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi on Sunday hosted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, for talks. The two met behind closed doors and the country's tightly controlled government press had little to say about it, sa...

Felix Neureuther emulates his father with Kitzbuehel win - Kitzbuehel, Austria - Felix Neureuther of Germany emulated his father Christian when he won the Kitzbuehel World Cup slalom on Sunday. Neureuther, 25, claimed his first career victory ahead of Frenchman Julien Lizeroux and Gioliano Razzoli of Italy. ...

Last-minute Sri Lankan campaigning continues, defying edict - Summary - Colombo - Sri Lanka's elections commissioner Sunday ordered media to stop reporting campaign events as political parties ignored orders to end electioneering in the 48 hours ahead of Tuesday's presidential poll. Campaigning was supposed to end at mid...

Comeback queen Henin seizes stage as Nadal, Murray advance - Summary - Melbourne - Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray played giant-killers to eliminate the biggest serving pair in the game as Justine Henin continued to shine in her Grand Slam return Sunday at the Australian Open. Second-seeded holder Nadal successfully negoti...

BASIC countries want climate negotiations by March - New Delhi - The Copenhagen accord should be seen as part of the two-track negotiating process towards reaching a climate accord in Mexico City in December, ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) said Sunday. The BASIC ministers,...

CHRONOLOGY: The world's most catasrophic earthquakes since 1900 - Hamburg - The earthquake in Haiti that claimed at least 112,000 lives is one of the worst in living memory worldwide. The following is a list of the worst earthquakes since 1900:...