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LONDON — Liverpool midfielder Ryan Babel was charged with improper conduct by the Football
Association (FA) on Monday after posting a mocked-up photo of referee Howard Webb wearing a
Manchester United shirt on social networking site Twitter. The picture appeared on the Dutch
forward's official page on Twitter just hours after United beat Liverpool 1-0 [.
MANCHESTER Dimitar Berbatov scored a hat trick as Manchester United dominated Birmingham, 5-0, in
English Premier League action on Saturday. With the win, United stays at the top of the table, all
alone after Manchester City's loss later in the day. Arsenal actually jumped into second, two
points back of the leaders.
WEST BROMWICH, England — Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney could be out of action for two
weeks after injuring his left ankle in Saturday's 2-1 Premier League win at West Bromwich Albion.
Rooney scored in the third minute for his first goal from open play since March but hobbled off
late in the match after [.
DOHA, Qatar — Reigning champions Iraq stunned the United Arab Emirates 1-0 on Saturday at the
Asian Cup with an injury-time own-goal to put the holders in a strong position to make the knockout
rounds. Three-times champions Iran became the first team at the championships to qualify for the
quarter-finals after they defeated World Cup [.
DOHA, Qatar — Qatar stormed into the Asian Cup quarter-finals for only the second time in their
history on Sunday with a commanding 3-0 victory over Gulf champions Kuwait, who were eliminated
from the tournament. They went through after Uzbekistan drew 2-2 with China to top Group A,
allowing Qatar to finish second and make [.
MADRID, Spain Barcelona took advantage of Real Madrid's surprise draw at Almeria to move four
points clear at the top of the Primera Division. The Catalans swept aside Malaga 4-1 at the Nou
Camp after Madrid were made to settle for a 1-1 draw against the league's bottom side. Pep
Guardiola's men put Malaga [.
HAMBURG, Germany — Top German football club St Pauli has shown the red card to strippers
performing inside a corporate box owned by one of Hamburg's many lap dance clubs but they can dance
once matches are over. The Susis Show Bar on Hamburg's main red-light drag, the Reeperbahn, has
installed a large mirror [.
MADRID, Spain — Misfit striker Karim Benzema reminded Jose Mourinho of his talents on Sunday,
scoring the 60th-minute goal in Real Madrid's 1-0 win over Real Mallorca which cut Barcelona's lead
back to four points. Mourinho said Benzema, a 35-million euro signing from Lyon, needed to step up
his game and the 23-year-old responded as [.
MADRID, Spain Real Madrid confirmed on their website on Tuesday they had signed Manchester City's
Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor on loan till the end of the season. The 26-year-old has been brought
in to add urgently needed firepower after Argentinian striker Gonzalo Higuain underwent surgery to
fix a slipped disc earlier this month and [.
LONDON, England One of British soccer's leading television commentators was fired Tuesday, a day
after being taken off the air and temporarily suspended for making sexist remarks about a female
match official. Andy Gray, the face of Sky Sports' soccer coverage for the past two decades, was
dismissed by the broadcaster after "new evidence [.
GENEVA, Switzerland Spanish national and Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas, along with Special
Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, Mr. Wilfried Lemke,
launched the new comic book "Score the Goals" at the United Nations in Geneva. Following his
appointment as United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador by Ms.
