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LONDON (AFP) - England manager Martin Johnson has insisted England have learnt from last year's defeat by Australia and won't give away so many 'soft' penalties against the Wallabies at Twickenham here on Saturday.November 7, 2009, 4:25 am

LONDON (AFP) - The price of gold hit a record high above 1,100 dollars an ounce in trading here on Friday following a report that Sri Lanka had joined India in purchasing the precious metal in favour of the US currency.November 7, 2009, 4:19 am

BERNE, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Romanian club Unirea Urziceni could face disciplinary action for the poor organisation of their Champions League match against Rangers, UEFA said on Friday.November 7, 2009, 4:15 am

The New Zealand men's hockey team will nurse key defender Hayden Shaw through the opening matches of the World Cup qualifying tournament in Invercargill.November 7, 2009, 4:13 am

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - Talks on a new UN climate pact were wrapping up Friday, leaving a roster of bitterly divisive issues to be hammered out at a showdown in Copenhagen next month.November 7, 2009, 4:13 am

BERLIN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Towering world heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev weighed in seven stones heavier than Britain's David Haye ahead of their WBA title bout in Nuremberg on Saturday.November 7, 2009, 4:13 am

RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's Shi'ite rebels said they had captured some Saudi soldiers on Friday, after Riyadh said it would press on with its offensive until it had cleared them from its territory.November 7, 2009, 4:11 am

LONDON (Reuters) - Seven black-and-white photographs of the Beatles sitting on a grassy field, taken by a teenage girl on the last day of filming for their movie Help!, will be sold next week, the auctioneer said.November 7, 2009, 4:09 am

Brendon McCullum has defied critics of his opening the batting in limited overs cricket, by achieving 131 runs off 129 balls as part of New Zealand's 303 for eight against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi.November 7, 2009, 4:07 am

GENEVA (Reuters) - H1N1 swine flu is on the rise in China and Japan after triggering an unusually early start to the winter influenza season in Europe, Central Asia and North America, the World Health Organization said on Friday.November 7, 2009, 4:07 am

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - A logger from rural America who lives in a trailer is among nine card players eying a 8.5-million-dollar jackpot as the climax of the World Series of Poker gets underway here Saturday.November 7, 2009, 4:05 am

Foreign Minister Murray McCully is against imposing further sanctions against Fiji, in the wake of the expulsion of the Acting Head of Mission in Suva.November 7, 2009, 3:59 am

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Shi'ite rebels have captured an unspecified number of Saudi soldiers, a rebel spokesman told Al Jazeera television on Friday, following clashes near the border between the two countries.November 7, 2009, 3:51 am

GENEVA (Reuters) - H1N1 swine flu is on the rise in China and Japan after triggering an unusually early start to the winter influenza season in Europe, Central Asia and North America, the World Health Organization said on Friday.November 7, 2009, 3:48 am

Two people were killed and six were hurt in the second mass shooting in the United States in as many days, with police still hunting the gunman in Orlando, Florida.November 7, 2009, 3:45 am

LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.November 7, 2009, 3:36 am

LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.November 7, 2009, 3:36 am

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Target is offering its top 10 pre-order DVD movie titles at $10 and free home delivery on the discounted DVDs in a bid to match Wal-Mart Stores price cuts ahead of the all-important holiday season.November 7, 2009, 3:35 am

MOSCOW, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Australia's Marieke Guehrer broke the 50 metres backstroke short course world record with a time of 26.17 seconds at a World Cup meeting on Friday.November 7, 2009, 3:26 am

LONDON (Reuters) - Record label EMI has won an injunction against music website BlueBeat.com which it said was selling Beatles songs without its permission.November 7, 2009, 3:24 am