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Jul 21st 2012, 19:36

Die Truppen des syrischen Präsidenten Assad gehen mit aller Gewalt gegen die Rebellen vor. Damaskus und Aleppo sind schwer umkämpft, Hunderttausende sind auf der Flucht. Die syrische Armee hat in Damaskus und in anderen Teilen des Landes eine schwere Offensive gegen die Rebellen gestartet. Die Armee griff Berichten von Einwohnern zufolge am Samstag mehrere Stellungen der Aufständischen in der Hauptstadt an. Hubschrauber feuerten Raketen ab, Panzer rollten durch das Zentrum von Damaskus. Oppositionelle berichteten, dass Regierungstruppen einen Vorort von Damaskus erobert hätten. Auch in anderen Teilen des Landes fanden Gefechte zwischen Regierungstruppen und Aufständischen statt. Nördlich der...

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Jul 21st 2012, 23:03

IT'S time a woman got the job. That is the clear message being sent to Australian Olympic officials as they sit down to decide which athlete will carry our flag into the opening ceremony. The pressure to appoint a women flagbearer for Friday's ceremony is growing with four-decade Olympian Ric Charlesworth declaring it is time to address an historical imbalance. And beach volleyballer Natalie Cook, backed into odds-on favouritism...

Jul 21st 2012, 22:53

The Kentucky head coach knows that fans are unhappy. He knows they expected more than a lackluster 5-7 last season. Joker Phillips knows they want to see much better performances on the field this season. He knows all of this because he's a Kentucky fan, too. That was his message to a Rotary Club of Lexington meeting recently and it was a message Phillips reiterated to the media this week in Hoover, Ala., at Southeastern Conference Media Days. Phillips said no matter what fans think of him or his job performance (11-14 in two seasons as head coach), he hopes they'll support the players on the field when the season starts at Louisville on Sept. 2. "When I'm done in our business, I'll become...

Jul 21st 2012, 22:54

The 32-year-old triple Olympic champion enhanced his position at the top of the general classification with an imperious performance in the 53.5-kilometre stage-19 time-trial from Bonneval to Chartres, which saw him move three minutes 21 seconds clear of Team Sky colleague Chris Froome, with Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) 6mins 19secs behind in third. Barring a freak accident on tomorrow's concluding 120km 20th stage from Rambouillet to the Champs-Elysees in Paris, Wiggins is set become the first British winner of the fabled yellow jersey in the 99th edition of the legendary race. Wiggins finished fourth in the Tour in 2009 - equalling Robert Millar's 1984 British best - and crashed...

Jul 21st 2012, 23:05

This was how to fly into history. This was the way to put all the questions to bed, to put all the nitpicking naysayers to the sword. Man of contrasts: Bradley Wiggins mat be a guitar-playing, industrial-speaking Mod maverick but he is also throwback too, a man of honour Photo: AP By Ian Chadband, Chief Sports Correspondent, Chartres 11:00PM BST 21 Jul 2012 Comments Blitz your rivals, shout to the heavens and thrust forward to spear a punch through the air. Yes, that was the way, Wiggo. Do it like Superman! How fitting. The day Bradley Wiggins decided to write his own totally improbable sporting legend, he determined to pen it in the most bravura fashion he could muster. By...

Jul 21st 2012, 23:06

Gateway High School graduate AJ Boik, 18, was being remembered Saturday as a talented and kind man who enjoyed baseball, making pottery and music. "AJ Boik was a wonderful, handsome and loving18-year-old...

Jul 21st 2012, 22:39

Panathinaikos signed Uruguayan forward Bruno Fornaroli...

Jul 21st 2012, 22:56

| Green Bay - Former Packers coach Mike Holmgren will be inducted in to the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame this evening. He will be introduced by former general manager Ron Wolf. Holmgren led the Packers to the playoffs in six of his seven seasons, compiling an overall record of 75-37 (and 9-5 in the postseason). Green Bay won the NFC Central three times and NFC championship twice. The Packers won the Super Bowl following the 1996 season. He is now the president of the Cleveland Browns. We will have a story later in JSOnline, but here are a few highlights from what they said at the press conference in the media auditorium of Lambeau Field Saturday afternoon: Holmgren said his legacy...