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With goals certainly needed as a draw will do little for the Spanish, Jonas will likely start behind Roberto Soldado, with Sofiane Feghouli earning a spot on the left after bagging a brace versus Getafe on Saturday. Read more

The former prime minister of Ukraine was arrested in a courtroom here on Friday for contempt, during her trial on what rights advocates say is a trumped up charge that centers on whether a document was stamped correctly.cheap Carrera Sunglasses Supporters of the former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, tried to stop the police from taking her into custody in the courtroom, and then tried to block the path of the car that took her away. Ms. Read more

As NASA prepares to launch its last space shuttle — ending 30 years in which large teams of creative scientists and engineers sent winged spaceships into orbit — it is facing what may be a bigger challenge: a brain drain that threatens to undermine safety as well as the agency’s plans. Space experts say the best and brightest often head for the doors when rocket lines get marked for extinction, dampening morale and creating hidden threats. They call it the “Team B” effect. “The good guys see the end coming and leave,” said Albert D. Read more

When the clock struck 12:01 a.m. Friday in New York, Arn Tellem was in his backyard in Los Angeles, hosting a cookout. This is not how an N.B.A. power agent typically celebrates the arrival of July. In a normal year, Tellem would have been juggling phone calls and meetings, shuttling between players, coaches and general managers, managing the happy chaos that is free agency. But this is not a normal year. At midnight Thursday — when free agency usually starts — the N.B.A. declared a lockout, putting an indefinite moratorium on all league business. Read more

The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants on Monday for Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, one of his sons and his intelligence chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity during the first two weeks of the uprising in Libya that led to a NATO bombing campaign. In addition to Colonel Qaddafi, warrants were issued for Seif al-Islam Qaddafi and the chief of military intelligence, Abdullah Senussi, the Libyan leader’s brother-in-law. Read more

A suicide bomber blew up his sport utility vehicle outside a small clinic in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, bringing the building down on those inside, Afghan authorities said. At least 35 people were reported killed. Would-be rescuers were frantically digging through the rubble in search of survivors trapped in the collapsed 10-bed clinic, said Mohammad Zaref Nayebkhail, the provincial health director. The Taliban, authors of many bombings in this war-ravaged land, denied responsibility for this one. Read more

A recent bout of deadly sectarian clashes in this northern Lebanese city has stirred fears that the turmoil of Syria's uprising is beginning to spill over the border into Lebanon. Lebanon long has lived under the shadow of its powerful Syrian neighbor and many Lebanese say that it will be hard for this tiny Mediterranean country to escape unsinged as Syria burns. “We are going to have a few security problems in the future based on the behavior of Damascus of the last few days and weeks,” says Sateh Noureddine, a columnist with Lebanon’s As Safir daily newspaper. Read more

President Obama is slated to announce plans to begin a withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan – the first of its kind since the US and NATO officially entered Afghanistan nearly a decade ago. Though initial estimates look to be modest, many Afghans are greeting the news of US withdrawal with a mix of joy and concern. “People are happy when they hear that the foreigners are preparing to leave. All the security problems are because of them. If they leave, who will Al Qaeda and the Taliban say they are fighting against?” says Shah Wali, a money exchanger in Kabul. Read more

Jack Warner commands headlines nearly every day in this Caribbean nation, known simply by his first name in his highly visible if conflicting roles as energetic public servant and now disgraced soccer power broker. As a member of Trinidad and Tobago’s Parliament and its minister of works and transport, Warner appears ubiquitous, holding news conferences, hugging children and cutting ribbons at road openings, promising warehouse workers that they will soon have proper toilet facilities and dressing rooms. One recent poll named Warner the country’s most popular minister. Read more

Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was treated last year for cancer in his gallbladder and pancreas, and may be suffering a recurrence that spread to his stomach, his defense lawyer said Monday. However, two senior Egyptian medical officials — one of them the head of Mubarak's team of doctors — said he does not have the disease. Mubarak, 83, has been hospitalized since early April. He is set to face trial in August on charges he ordered the killings of protesters during the 18-day uprising that ousted him on Feb. 11. Read more