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...Look into history, apologize to the people of Asia." BANNER taunting Japanese fans and players at the Asian Cup soccer tournament, over Japan's occupation of China during World War II. Chinese authorities deployed some 6,000 security officers to keep the peace as Japan beat China 3-1 in Beijing...
...diverse, our lives too busy, our economy too global and our appetites too vast to lose a whole day that could be spent working or playing or power shopping. Pulled between piety and profit, even Christian bookstores are open. Children come to Sunday school dressed in their soccer uniforms; some churches have started their own leagues just to control the schedule. Politicians recite their liturgies in TV studios. Post offices may still be closed, but once you miss that first Sunday e-mail from the boss, it becomes forever harder not to log on and check in. Even the casinos...
...largest defection from the repressive state. Pyongyang accused Seoul of kidnapping its citizens, who travelled into the South via China and Vietnam. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K.... Ring Fenced Bounty hunters were barred from a nature reserve near Liverpool after newspaper reports claimed the fiancé of English soccer star Wayne Rooney had flung her $46,000 engagement ring into the bushes after a row over the player's alleged infidelity. The National Trust worried about the area's population of rare red squirrels, fearing the unwanted attention would drive them nuts...
Europe's most famous soccer teams are having a busy summer wooing fans in that longtime soccer wasteland, the United States. Scottish champion Glasgow Celtic, English powerhouses Manchester United and Chelsea, and Italian champ AC Milan are among nine teams on tour, playing in such cities as Seattle, Cleveland and Philadelphia, often to packed stadiums. For the players, it's a chance for a preseason tune-up in the perfect environment - away from their rabid fans. "The facilities are second to none," says Chelsea Football Club CEO Peter Kenyon. But more important, the big clubs...
...life, so it's not so good," says beanie-wearing Ronald Hogarth, 50. "Well, the pub's good." Elder Lorraine Williams, 48, calls it "a sleepy little town" whose main store recently closed down because there were "not enough customers." So sleepy, in fact, that written across a soccer ball found abandoned by the road is the instruction: kick da f---king thing...