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A late goal from Andrés Iniesta gave Spain victory over Holland at the death of a cynical and ill-tempered final

To Spain, the glory of a World Cup triumph in which they prevailed over a deplorable Holland side that was reduced to 10 men was sealed when the English referee Howard Webb eventually dismissed Dutch defender [...]

Countrywide celebrations were held last month to mark the completion of one year of defeating the LTTE.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa and senior Defence officials along with the family members of fallen Armed Forces personnel took part in a ceremony at the site of the monument erected to honour the war heroes.
They had made the supreme sacrifice [...]

“We are deeply pained at the unfortunate happenings in the recent past in the state and sincerely express our anguish and grief over the loss of life and property in these incidents ? our whole hearted sympathies are with the bereaved families. The government has decided to provide all possible help and relief to such [...]

Never in recent times have relations between the UN secretariat and Colombo been this acrimonious or so unashamedly mishandled over an issue that could have been easily resolved through diplomatic channels.
When Wimal Weerawansa, a minister, recently encouraged the public to lay siege on the UN compound in protest against Ban Ki-moon’s appointment of a special [...]

New Delhi: Taking inspiration from the Beijing Olympics held last year, the Delhi government, too, is keen to display its commitment towards the conservation of environment to the world. It plans to introduce ‘hybrid’ electric buses during the Commonwealth Games to be held in October 2010.
These hybrid buses will run on CNG and electric energy, [...]

And it,s over. Spain have done it. They are the World Champions.
Torres seems to have pulled a hamstring.
Two minutes of additional time.
116th minute And Spain have the opener. From the left, Torres tries to find Iniesta but his cross is blocked. The clearence falls very kindly for Fabregas, who from the edge of the [...]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifaworldcup/live/match64.html
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N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu, tweets live from Soccer City, Johannesburg, the venue of the World Cup final.
02:30: Match stats: Possession: Spain: 56%. The Netherlands: 44%
02:29: Match stats: Shots on goal: S-18, N-13. Corners: S-8, N-6. Yellow cards: S-5, N-6. Red: N-1.
02:26: Iniesta, deservedly MoM
02:25: Spain deserves this World Cup, barely.
02:22: Spain has quietly collected [...]

A doctor has been transferred out of a hospital in the northern islet of Kayts after the mysterious death of a nurse working there sparked anger among residents.
Sarvanai Dharshika’s body was found inside her room at the nurses’ quarters with a nylon rope tied around her neck. As Dharshika was seen in an argument with [...]

The first World Cup final in Africa will for the first time produce a European victor in a tournament held outside Europe.
Spain or the Netherlands will win the title for the first time when the two teams meet Sunday at Soccer City in Johannesburg, resulting in an eighth champion in the 80-year history of the [...]

Mahinda, Ranil agree on Govt-UNF dialogue for constitutional changes

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will abandon moves to amend the Constitution to enable him to contest any number of times for this post. Instead, he has agreed ‘in principle’ to create the office of an Executive Prime Minister.The change in thinking was conveyed yesterday by President Rajapaksa to [...]

Shaik Nabil Kaouk told the state news agency that the Israeli release comes at the anniversary of “Israel’s defeat” in the 2006 war
Beirut: A senior official with Hezbollah says they have a list of military targets inside Israel to hit in any future war.
Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon, Shaik Nabil Kaouk, made his comments on [...]

Day 31:  Netherlands vs. Spain, final
Date and location
Sunday, July 11, Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg
Broadcast details
Live on CBC and CBCSports.ca (12:30 p.m. ET). Consult CBC’s full broadcast schedule.
What’s at stake
Only the most prestigious prize in all of soccer. The victorious nation will hoist the World Cup trophy for the first time in its history, while the [...]

Recommencement of the police registration for the Tamils in the city of Colombo is pure discriminatory. We are certain that it is only the Tamils who are instructed to register though the Colombo range DIG and Wellawatta OIC strive to portray this process as nation wide process.

This is being conducted only in the city divisions [...]

Even 26 years after the Bhopal gas leak killed over 15,000 people, the CBI refuses to reveal the details of its correspondence with External Affairs Ministry on the extradition of main accused Warren Anderson saying disclosure would impede the process of bringing him back.
A former Joint Director of the agency who led the probe into [...]

Germans quietly celebrated third-place of their World Cup football team on a sweltering on Saturday night amid hopes for more success in the future.
The start of school holidays in several states, the intense heat and the disappointment about the semifinal defeat against Spain led to smaller crowds at the fanfests and other public viewing events.
The [...]

The Sri Lankan navy today vehemently denied reports of attacking Indian fishermen over the past few days with a navy spokesman telling Daily Mirror online an in-depth probe was conducted over the claims and the results proved the reports were false. 
In the latest claims Indian media reports quoted Indian fisheries department officials as saying that 50 [...]

Katherine Jackson, mother of Michael Jackson, unveiled a granite monument for her son at a memorial event held at 2300, Jackson Street, Gary, Indiana, in the U.S. on June 25, 2010, on the first death anniversary of the music icon.
The eight-foot-tall and two-and-a-half-tonne monument made of premium grade jet black granite was designed in India [...]

The Sri Lankan government is saying that this is a peoples protest. The UN is using words like recall and saying its closing a UNDP office. Both are playing games. The protest has government support. The UN is not actually pulling out. The media has simply run press release headlines without analysis while the reality [...]

New Delhi: India’s burgeoning population has seen a five-fold increase over the last 100 years and will surpass that of China by 2050.
Projections made by the Government show that while India’s population grew by 1.4 per cent over the last five years, China saw only a 0.6 per cent population growth for the corresponding period.
India’s [...]

De Silva, who retired at the age of 38 and played with both Muralitharan and Jayasuriya, is now left with the task of moulding a winning combination. Known for his ability to handle the finest bowling attack in the world, De Silva is a fighter to the core.
Dubai: Aravinda De Silva is set to face [...]

Strongly criticising AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa for her statement on the killing of a fisherman by the Sri Lankan Navy, the Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, on Saturday asked as to what she was doing when similar incidents occurred during her tenure.
She also kept writing letters to the Centre, he said.
Replying to questions, Mr. Karunanidhi said as [...]

The District that had produced some of the greatest artists and musicians of the country is honoring its yet another great son, the well known silver screen icon `Makkal Thilakam’ and the late Chief Minister of Tamilnadu M.G. Ramachandran by constructing a memorial for him in his ancestral village of Vadavannur in Chittur taluk, 15 [...]

The Sri Lankan Government is saying that this is a peoples’ pro- test. The UN is using words like ‘recall’ and saying its closing a UNDP office. Both are playing games. The protest has govern- ment support. The UN is not actually pulling out. The media has simply run press release headlines without analysis while [...]

The neutrals deserve a romantic World Cup ending and a win for either side could satisfy their craving
A Spanish conquest in the battle of the World Cup virgins would be met with ambivalence in the Catalan stronghold of Barcelona and downright hostility in parts of the Basque country. But in a final in which both [...]

HAVANA — New pictures of Fidel Castro show the stooped but smiling former leader venturing out to meet with workers at a Cuban scientific think tank — the first to show him in public since he got sick four years ago.
Previously, Cuba had occasionally released pictures showing him in private meetings with dignitaries, most recently [...]

The ruling DMK on Saturday staged a demonstration near the Sri Lankan deputy high commission in Chennai to protest the recent death of a fisherman in an attack allegedly carried by Sri Lankan navy personnel off the Kodiakarai coast on July 7.
The rally turned out to be a demonstration of one-upmanship as rival parties have [...]

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
Sri Lanka is a sovereign state which belongs to the international system.  It must safeguard its sovereignty as well as its membership of that system. Sri Lanka’s enemies have a main objective – a separate state – and two subsidiary objectives which are a prelude to the main objective.
Those subsidiary objectives are the [...]

New Delhi:  Even as the Government is contemplating bringing in a new law to deal with the spurt in honour killings, reports by human rights organisations show that cold-blooded murders in the name of saving family pride had been prevalent in many parts of the world.
Honour killings have been rampant in orthodox and socially backward [...]

By Frederica Jansz
If ever there was an award winning con artist in the making first prize must indeed go to Wimal Weerawansa.
Of course the political kingpin; able to pull strings, influence the UPFA administration, give employment to close associates at government institutions in mere seconds and to remove them, can only function as he does [...]

BHOPAL: As late as 2008, about 23 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the state government was still involved in virtual subterfuge. Taking advantage of a curfew imposed in Indore, which was reeling under communal riots in July-August that year, the government smuggled out 40 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide factory to [...]

A hunt is on for a doctor after he is alleged to have raped and later murdered a young nurse at the local hospital in Kayts, in the Jaffna peninsula yesterday police said.
Angry residents are reported to have stormed the hospital in search of the doctor after the victim was found dangling on a wire [...]

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams would travel to space for the second time in June 2012, the NASA announced today.
Born of Gujarati parents in Euclid, Ohio, Williams, 44, holds the longest space flight of 195 days for space women.
Williams would be joined by flight engineers Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide on Soyuz [...]

Street Dwellers Rounded Up And Sent To Rehab In Hambantota
Following an increasing number of beggar murders the police have begun rounding them up and sending them to Hambantota for rehabilitation. Police Spokesman SP Prashanth Jayakody said that the institution in the Ruhunu, Ridiyagama was an established one and that a number of beggars were being [...]