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...pants - always a fashion faux-pas in the football world - pulling up short across his shins. Yet, the last time North Korea's footballers participated in the World Cup, they were the pride of the continent and the darlings of football fans around the world. In the 1966 tournament held in England, their side of amateur players - given 1,000-to-1 odds of winning the competition - made it to the quarterfinals, famously beating European powerhouse Italy along the way. It's a feat that was not matched by any Asian country until the 2002 World Cup, when the hosts...
...debate energized supporters of both candidates, hundreds of thousands of whom flooded the streets of Tehran after it was over, each side proclaiming its man the victor. Moussavi supporters chanted, "Doctor [Ahmadinejad], remember Moussavi is above you," to which Ahmadinejad supporters responded, "The debate was held, and Moussavi was destroyed...
...veil of secrecy over the whereabouts of three doctors who worked in Sri Lanka's shrinking war zone last month has finally been lifted. On Thursday Colombo announced that the doctors, who were treating patients in areas held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the final days before those areas were gained by Sri Lankan government forces, are now in government custody and face court action for collaborating with the Tigers...
...three doctors - T. Varatharajah, T. Sathyamurthi and V. Shanmugarajah - had been detained by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and are being investigated for suspicion of working with the Tigers. The three doctors remained in the shrinking combat zone during heavy battles in May and crossed over to government-held areas only three days before the government announced the death of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, signifying the effective end of the Tigers' long insurgency. (See pictures inside Sri Lanka's rebel-held territory...
...place that commemorates this camp, there is a photograph in which we can see a 16-year-old Elie in one of the bunks along with the others. We saw the ovens of the crematorium, the guard towers, the barbed wire fences, the foundations of barracks that once held people in the most unimaginable conditions...