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FIFA call crisis talks after qualifiers, betting scandal

PARIS (AFP) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called an extraordinary general meeting for December 2 following the Thierry Henry handball incident and an ongoing investigation into match-fixing in Europe.
thewest.com.au - 41minutes ago
Darwin book worth up to $100,000 found on shelf

LONDON (Reuters) - A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," which had been kept in a toilet bookcase for years, will go on sale this week and is expected to fetch 40-60,000 pounds ($66-100,000).
thewest.com.au - 41minutes ago
Judge blocks law allowing guns in bars

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A judge on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that allowed people to bring handguns into restaurants and bars.
thewest.com.au - 41minutes ago
Cops on trail of "gingerbread town" vandals

OSLO (Reuters) - The people of Bergen rolled out the cookie dough Monday as local police tried to sniff out vandals who destroyed the Norwegian city's traditional Christmas decoration -- a town of gingerbread houses.
thewest.com.au - 41minutes ago
South Africa hit by injury crisis

DUBLIN (AFP) - World champions South Africa on Monday put off naming the team to play Six Nations Grand Slam holders Ireland this Saturday in Dublin because of an injury crisis which forced them to cancel training.
thewest.com.au - 41minutes ago
Gartner forecasts 2.8 percent growth in PC sales in 2009

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Worldwide sales of personal computers, which had been forecast to decline this year, will instead post modest gains, Gartner research group said Monday.
thewest.com.au - 41minutes ago
Google buying display ad startup Teracent

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google is acquiring Web display advertising startup Teracent, the Internet giant announced on Monday.
thewest.com.au - 41minutes ago
Obama meets war cabinet on Afghanistan

Barack Obama will meet with his war cabinet for "possibly" the last time before deciding whether to dispatch more troops to Afghanistan, an official said.
thewest.com.au - 41minutes ago
Carla Bruni, Harry Connick Jr in TV duet

Carla Bruni, the supermodel wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, and US crooner Harry Connick Junior reunite on French television for a duet.
thewest.com.au - 46minutes ago
Fox says will make profit with sci-fi epic Avatar

ATHENS, (Reuters) - Twentieth Century Fox film studio will make a profit with James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic "Avatar," Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Jim Gianopulos said in an interview, and dismissed reports the movie cost $500 million as "ridiculous."
thewest.com.au - 45minutes ago