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The Times Editorial: Public funding of political parties took centre stage yesterday. The ANC resolved at its national conference in Mangaung in December that more public money be spent on subsidising political parties "to promote democracy".

The Times Editorial: The sensible economic choices made by the ANC at its national elective conference in Mangaung last month helped lift some of the gloom afflicting South Africa watchers.

The European Commission will use sweeping new powers backed by sanctions to impose controversial social and economic reforms on European countries later this week.    

Bayern Munich have won their fifth European Cup after beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night.    

The Dutch winger shook off the horrors of his penalty miss in last season's showpiece to give the Bundesliga champion European glory in the most dramatic of circumstances

Pittsburgh will face the New York Rangers in the conference finals after defeating Ottawa, 6-2.Eight playoff wins down, eight to go for Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.    

Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben slotted in an 89th minute winner as they defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-1 to be crowned European champions for 5th time.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bayern Munich overcame the heartbreak of losing two Champions League finals in three seasons by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in a memorable all-German clash on Saturday to become European champions for the fifth time.

For those of us in nearby timezones, now might be a good time to take a nap. It's going to be a long, binge-y night.

Syrian rebels today kept up resistance to a Hezbollah-backed assault on a strategic central town as pressure grew on the opposition to attend a peace conference after the regime agreed to do so.    

It was a night of outstanding drama, fully reaffirming everything that has been said and written about the illuminating standards of German football, and when it was all done Bayern Munich had moved alongside Liverpool with their fifth European Cup and the Borussia Dortmund players were on their knees.Jürgen Klopp's players had been quick to the ball, strong in the tackle,...

As inequality and segregation start to rise, the spread of youth disorder has shaken ethnic Swedes and older immigrants alikeThe pace of the neighbourhood watch suddenly picks up. "Here's the fire we've been waiting for," grins Samiy, an Iraqi in a bulky jacket.It's half past two in the morning and Samiy, along with dozens of others from local Islamic groups and community...

The Times Editorial: Public funding of political parties took centre stage yesterday. The ANC resolved at its national conference in Mangaung in December that more public money be spent on subsidising political parties "to promote democracy".

The Times Editorial: The sensible economic choices made by the ANC at its national elective conference in Mangaung last month helped lift some of the gloom afflicting South Africa watchers.

Half a dozen changes and presence of Sexton may just give Leinster edge in reprise of last season’s European final    

Pakistan Tehrik Insaaf (PTI) has decided not to leave the field open for the PML –N and contest all the offices in the National Assembly. Announcing this at a press conference here on Saturday, Deputy Cbairman of the Party Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that Mr Javed Hashmi will be the PTI candidate for the election of Prime Minister. He said that newly elected member from...

PPP leader Syed Khurshid Shah says the party will cooperate with the PML-N government on all issues of national interest and benefit of the people. Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Saturday afternoon‚ he said the PPP will also cooperate in constitutional amendments if these were motivated by democratic spirit and protection of rights of the people and provinces. He...

Best-of-seven Western Conference final switches to Memphis on Saturday night

Excitement building ahead of European final

MIAMI (AP) -- Chris Bosh stood up in a relatively quiet Miami Heat locker room and offered a concise, blunt and accurate assessment of where things stand so far in the Eastern Conference finals....

Although 3D printing technology has existed for some time, it's only now beginning to cross over into mainstream awareness, thanks to increasingly affordable access to the printers themselves as well as attention-grabbing headlines about 3D printed guns and life-saving medical applications. While less eye-catching, perhaps, the innovation is also powering a new class of...

The Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake has a fantastic, must-read essay on the problem with "cyber-war." She lays out the case for securing the Internet (and the world of people and systems that rely on it) through fixing vulnerabilities and making computers and networks as secure and robust as possible, rather than relying on weaknesses in security as vectors for attacking adversaries.    ...

KUMROVEC, Croatia (AP) -- Forget the European Union, many in this Croatian village are saying. The group of nations being celebrated this weekend is one that died more than 20 years ago when Yugoslavia - now fervently remembered as a haven of peace, prosperity and equality - fell apart in a cascade of ethnic wars....

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's opposition resumed talks on Saturday aimed at closing their fractious ranks, crucial to launching an international peace conference, and government forces pressed an onslaught on a rebel-held town to try to gain the upper hand in civil war.

HONOLULU (Reuters) - The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn't stopped four trustees of its public pension funds from spending $22,000 of retirement system funds to attend a conference in Hawaii this week.

The Times Editorial: Public funding of political parties took centre stage yesterday. The ANC resolved at its national conference in Mangaung in December that more public money be spent on subsidising political parties "to promote democracy".

Protestors against European soccer tournament set to be held in Israel crash exclusive dinner, according to UK media.

Das Halbfinale der nordamerikanischen Profiliga NHL nimmt Konturen an. So hat sich am Freitag (Ortszeit) Pittsburgh als erstes Team für die Runde der letzten Vier qualifiziert. Das Team um Superstar Sidney Crosby setzte sich gegen Ottawa durch und wartet nun im Finale der Eastern Conference auf den Sieger zwischen den Boston Bruins und den New York Rangers.

TOM SHEEN: LeBron James turned the ball over twice in the final minute of the game to hand the Indiana Pacers a vital away win in the Eastern Conference Finals.

An anonymous reader writes "Neelie Kroes, European Commission vice president responsible for the digital economy, wants to use 5 billion euros of European Union tax payers' money, together with matching funds from the chip industry, to recreate European success in semiconductors similar to that of Airbus. Because of its strategic importance to wealth creation Kroes wants...

An anonymous reader writes "When it comes to spotting malware, signature-based detection, heuristics and cloud-based recognition and information sharing used by many antivirus solutions today work well up a certain point, but the polymorphic malware still gives them a run for their money. At the annual AusCert conference held this week in Australia a doctorate candidate...

LeBron James scored 36 points, but his two late turnovers helped Indiana beat Miami to tie the Eastern Conference finals at one game each.    

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Boston or the New York Rangers? To be honest, Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson doesn't think it matters who the Pittsburgh Penguins face in the Eastern Conference finals....

MIAMI (Reuters) - The Indiana Pacers threw open the NBA Eastern Conference finals on Friday, upsetting the Miami Heat with a 97-93 victory to level the best-of-seven series at 1-1.

Pittsburg steht im Finale der Eastern Conference. Die Penguins entschieden im Conference-Halbfinale die Serie gegen die Ottawa Senators durch einen 6:2-Heimsieg mit 4:1 für sich.

MIAMI — David West's right hand helped the Indiana Pacers grab home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals.Roy Hibbert scored 29 points, West knocked away two passes by LeBron James for huge turnovers in the final minute, and the Pacers evened the East title series with a 97-93 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 2 of the series on Friday night.Read More...More...

Paul George quieted the Heat fans in the final seconds of the third quarter in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals with a vicious dunk. Then LeBron James woke them back up. With nine seconds remaining in the quarter, Indiana's emerging star drove to his left and blew right by James. A five-time First Team All Defensive player, LeBron was unable to contain George and...

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins expected desperation.Instead, the listless Ottawa Senators offered little more than resignation.Read More...More on 2013 NHL PLayoffs

The Times Editorial: Public funding of political parties took centre stage yesterday. The ANC resolved at its national conference in Mangaung in December that more public money be spent on subsidising political parties "to promote democracy".

The Times Editorial: The sensible economic choices made by the ANC at its national elective conference in Mangaung last month helped lift some of the gloom afflicting South Africa watchers.

New Jersey bets big on on-line gaming, but will European players join in?    

In a pause-filled press conference that left many weeping, Amy Simpson said her teachers had done everything they could to protect their students when Monday's tornado hit the Oklahoma school.

Follow Sportsmail's coverage of the Champions League final as Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich clash at Wembley in a bid to become European champions.

The weather is supposed to improve considerably at the BMW PGA Championship on Saturday, but it has come too late to save some of the most celebrated names in European golf.

TWO-TIME European Cup winner makes case for underdogs to beat Bayern in Champions League final

James Neal scored a hat trick to lead Pittsburgh to the Eastern Conference finals

James Neal scored a hat trick as Pittsburgh advanced to the Eastern Conference finals by closing out Ottawa 6-2 in Game 5.

James Neal had a hat trick and the Penguins finished off the lifeless Senators in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals to take the best-of-seven series, 4-1.    

MIAMI (AP) -- David West's right hand helped the Indiana Pacers grab home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Pittsburgh Penguins expected desperation....

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang criticized the European Union over its plans to investigate alleged anti-competitive behavior by Chinese mobile telecom equipment makers and to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China, state media reported.

ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on Friday.

According to Bloomberg.com, Google is facing a new Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission According to the story the FCC is looking into “into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition” The story goes on to say that the investigation is in the preliminary stage and...

The Times Editorial: Public funding of political parties took centre stage yesterday. The ANC resolved at its national conference in Mangaung in December that more public money be spent on subsidising political parties "to promote democracy".

The Times Editorial: The sensible economic choices made by the ANC at its national elective conference in Mangaung last month helped lift some of the gloom afflicting South Africa watchers.

The press conference comes on the same day that members of his executive committee sent him a letter urging him to confront the allegations.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has agreed "in principle" to send representatives to a new peace conference aimed at ending his country's civil war, his Russian backers said.    

BP, Shell and Statoil have been named in a proposed class action lawsuit over alleged oil price rigging, following the launch of a European Commission investigation into the oil giants.    

Gibraltar becomes the smallest European football nation as Uefa grants the colony full membership.    

The 22-year-old Belgian star has been linked with a move away but Eris Kismet denies that he will force a move, though admitting that European football may be hard to ignore

After years of campaigning with European football's authorities, the British Overseas Territory has been granted permission to compete on the international stage

The former England midfielder tips his old club to begin a period of dominance in European football, praising its infrastructure and warning that only complacency can stop it

UEFA has endorsed a more stringent 10-match sanction for racist abuse to apply for matches in European competitions

In a brief press conference on Friday, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he uses crack cocaine. This is the first time Mr. Ford has denied allegations that he can be seen smoking crack cocaine in an video reportedly seen by American media site Gawker.com and The Toronto Star

PARIS (AP) -- Perhaps not surprisingly, the first three questions posed to Roger Federer at his pre-French Open news conference Friday concerned rival and nemesis Rafael Nadal....

VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) - Francesco Molinari flourished while five of his European Ryder Cup team mates fell flat on their faces as the Italian grabbed the lead after the PGA Championship second round on Friday.

In 1986, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the nucleus of a comet, passing and imaging Halley's nucleus as it receded from the sun. Data from Giotto's camera were used to ...

In advance of Cook's appearance at D11 next week, a deep dive into Apple's business. FORTUNE -- For the second year in a row, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to be the opening night speaker at the annual D: All Things Digital conference, an invitation-only event that prides itself in assembling the people that really matter in the world of high tech. Asymco's Horace...

TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back! We're very excited to announce tickets are on sale and stealth companies can now apply for Startup Battlefield. This September 7-11, we're bringing Disrupt back to San Francisco to welcome an all new slate of outstanding startups, influential speakers, guests and more to the stage. It marks the seventh time we've set up shop here in SF and...

The Association for Computing Machinery's annual SIGGRAPH conference is where you will find many of the most incredible, edgiest developments in computer graphics research. Above is the video trailer for this year's "Technical Papers" program. SIGGRAPH 2013 takes place July 21-25 in Anaheim, California.    

Universities asked to draw up guidelines on handling preachers with track record of inciting hatred in aftermath of attackA fresh drive to prevent radicalisation of impressionable students on campus is being launched in which universities will be asked to draw up guidelines on how to handle preachers who have a track record of inciting hatred, at the end of a dramatic...

Doctors at BMA conference vote almost unanimously against proposal to place them back on call at evenings and weekendsGPs yesterday overwhelmingly reiterated their opposition to taking back responsibility for providing out-of-hours care, with some predicting that many older family doctors would quit if that was imposed on them.About 400 delegates representing Britain's...

Terminals near London and in Wales were 40% and 52% full on the day it was claimed the UK had six hours' worth of gas leftSome of Britain's biggest energy suppliers were holding back gas in storage tanks at a time when the market ran into an acute shortage two months ago, triggering a doubling of wholesale prices.The revelations came after claims the UK was within six...