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Kim Kardashian’s Coffin-Posing Fundraiser Makes Slow Start
Kim Kardashian and stars like Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake may be gone from Twitter longer than we thought. Yesterday the stars shut down their social networking venues until $1 million is donated to raise awareness and money for World AIDS Day and Keep a Child Alive .
US soccer coach gears up for another run up to a W.Cup (AFP)
CHICAGO (AFP) – Bob Bradley says he is looking forward to the challenge of coaching in another World Cup and part of that process includes getting to know his players better. “If you don’t watch yourself, given your different responsibilities, you can so easily get out there and kind of be in your own little world,” he said.
Bradley to head US football through to 2014 W.Cup (AFP)
CHICAGO (AFP) – Bob Bradley is back as head coach of the US men’s football team through to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. US Soccer announced Monday it had agreed to a four-year contract extension with Bradley.
SAfrican player charged in policeman’s slaying (AP)
PRETORIA, South Africa – South African rugby union player Bees Roux has been charged with murder in the beating death of a policeman in Pretoria. Roux’s lawyer says his client intends to plead not guilty.
Research on Owens-Illinois and Ball Corp. — Still in the Green Even With Profit Declines
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Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates at a TB clinic in South Africa Photograph: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/ Sharon Farmer/SHARON FARMER The headquarters of probably the most powerful charity in the world, and one of the most quietly influential international organisations of any sort, currently stand between a derelict restaurant and a row of elderly car repair businesses. Gentrification has yet to fully colonise this section of the Seattle waterfront, and even the actual premises of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which, appropriately perhaps, used to be a cheque-processing plant, retain a certain workaday drabness.
SAfrica gives another hint at Olympic bid (AP)
PRETORIA, South Africa – South Africa president Jacob Zuma again strongly hinted that Africa’s first World Cup host is considering a bid for the Olympics. “I don’t see why we can’t bid to host the Olympics,” Zuma said in an interview Friday with football’s governing body, FIFA.
South Korea draws 2-2 with Nigeria (AP)
DURBAN, South Africa – South Korea has been a regular at the World Cup. All but one of its previous seven appearances ended disappointingly in the first round.
French dressing down leaves stars in tears (AFP)
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AFP) – A French minister reduced the country’s disgraced World Cup stars to tears as she gave them a dressing down over their tantrums ahead of their final group game on Tuesday. With the whole of France outraged at the antics of the millionaire footballers in refusing to train and threatening to boycott the match against South Africa, Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot said she had told the players they are a “moral disaster”.
FXCM MENA Launches New Arabic & English Website
BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 20, 2010 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — In 2009, FXCM products became exclusively available in the Middle East and North Africa region through Master Capital Group SAL (“FXCM MENA”). As of June 1, 2010, FXCM MENA is happy to announce the launch of its new website http://www.fxcmmena.com , in both Arabic and English.
