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  Spain drops Torres for France, Finland WCup games

  Spain coach Vicente del Bosque left out Fernando Torres on Friday from his squad for two World Cup qualifiers, including the critical match against ... 

• Aland islands brewery to make 'shipwreck beer'

  Local authorities on the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea say a local brewer will begin producing a beer inspired by bottles found in a 19th century ... 

• Finnair plans 300 layoffs among technical staff

  Finnair PLC says it plans to shed some 310 technical jobs as it streamlines operations and outsources some services as part of an ongoing cost-cutting ... 

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  Schlierenzauer wins overall ski jump World Cup

  Austrian ski jumper Gregor Schlierenzauer won his second World Cup overall title with four races to spare after finishing fifth in Kuopio, Finland, ... 

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  Freitag wins ski jump World Cup event in Finland

  Richard Freitag of Germany won a large hill event on the ski jump World Cup on Sunday, while Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria failed to clinch the ... 

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  Northug, Kowalczyk win cross-country races

  Petter Northug of Norway dominated a men's 15-kilometer classical race Sunday to gain ground in the overall cross-country World Cup standings, while ... 

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  Randall clinches cross-country WCup sprint title

  Kikkan Randall of the United States clinched the cross-country World Cup sprint title on Saturday by beating Norwegian world champion Marit Bjoergen ... 

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  Frenzel wins Nordic combined World Cup event

  Germany's Eric Frenzel took a big step towards his first overall World Cup title in Nordic combined by winning Friday's event ... 

• Nordic Combined World Cup Results

  Results Friday from a Nordic combined World Cup event at the Lahti Ski Games: (Ski jumping, and 10 kilometers cross country ... 

• World Freestyle Skiing Championships Results

  Results Friday from the freestyle skiing world championships: Dual moguls(equals) Men(equals) 1. Alex Bilodeau, Canada. 2. 

• IIHF to revamp European hockey championships

  The head of Finland's ice hockey association says the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour will be replaced by a new series of championships across Europe ... 

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  Quaint Finnish homes in Warsaw face destruction

  Nearby the big city rumbles, but one feels almost transported to a quiet forest village when standing amid a colony of Finnish wooden houses in ... 

• Myanmar leader defends military's political role

  Myanmar's president says the country's military is likely to retain its quota of seats in Parliament through the next election in 2015. During a visit ... 

• Finnish teenage gunman gets life sentence

  A teenager who killed two people and injured seven in a shooting from a rooftop in southern Finland has been sentenced to life in prison. The Hyvinkaa ... 

• Kidnapped Austrian says his captors demand ransom

  An Austrian man held hostage in Yemen for two months has appealed to his government to save his life, saying his captors would kill him in a week if ... 

• FIFA investigates Zambia over match-fixing players

  FIFA is investigating Zambian officials over allegations they allowed eight players banned for match-fixing in a notorious case in Finland to return ... 

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  Kennedy Center opens Nordic Cool cultural festival

  For the next month, the Kennedy Center will glow each night with blue light and shimmers of green, depicting the northern lights and signaling what ... 

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  Police track elusive figure in soccer match-fixing

  At 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2011, when early risers would have been sipping espressos and buttering toast, a man dressed in black disembarked at Milan's ... 

• Finland halts tank parts from Russia to Syria

  Finnish customs says it has intercepted a shipment of tank spare parts en route to Syria from Russia, suspecting it was in breach of a European Union ... 

• Germany's E.ON pulls out of Finnish nuclear plans

  Voimaosakeyhtio SF says it has purchased E.ON's 34 percent share in the Finnish energy company Fennovoima, completing the German utility's withdrawal ... 

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  Much-investigated ref denies fixing soccer matches

  It was in the final minutes of a June 2011 soccer game between Nigeria and Argentina when the little green flags on computer screens in London started ... 

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  Arrested Singaporean reveals match-fixing secrets

  When police arrested Wilson Raj Perumal in Finland, it didn't take long for him to realize that his criminal buddies had ratted him out. He's been ...