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WIMBLEDON, England — No man had beaten Roger Federer at Wimbledon since 2002. But in near darkness, one of the greatest tennis matches ever played concluded in the Wimbledon final Sunday with Roger Federer hitting a short forehand into the net and with a victorious Rafael Nadal flat on his back with camera flashes illuminating [...]

Omaha, NE. (July, 2008)> – July is filled with fireworks, hot dogs, parades and family traditions. This summer, the American Red Cross is asking blood donors to begin or continue with a lifesaving tradition and help Meet the Need by making an appointment to donate blood.
“The average blood donor gives less than two times a [...]

Upper valley communities celebrated Independence Day Friday with parades, parties, playing in the parks, breakfasts, barbecues, rodeos and fireworks.
Flag waving also was in vogue. Red, white and blue adorned everything from flags proudly and patriotically carried by veterans in the parades to T-shirts, hats and cakes.
Rexburg, Ashton, Island Park and communities in between each held [...]

Brendan Fraser has earned his high-profile adventure cred: First, there’s Friday’s 3-D “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” followed by the return of his Rick O’Connell role in August’s “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperoro.”
So why has he kept such a low profile lately?
“The answer, my friends,” he said, is due to lengthy [...]

Large U.K. hedge fund GLG Partners LP, facing the coming departure of one of its key fund managers, has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Driss Ben-Brahim.
Mr. Ben-Brahim, 42 years old, currently helps oversee emerging-markets trading at Goldman Sachs from London. GLG, which is run by several former Goldman partners, targeted Mr. Ben-Brahim to help [...]

More than a hundred Albuquerque pets are waiting to be returned to their owners after running away during Fourth of July fireworks.
A shelter spokesman says the city has taken in nearly 130 animals so far this weekend. About 40 of those animals showed up Sunday–but that number is likely to go up before the end [...]

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner’s controversial proposal to raise the tax on soybean exports seems likely to be approved by the country’s legislature and sanctioned into law, following its passage by a narrow margin in the lower house on Saturday.
The 129-122 vote in the lower-house for the tax increase was a victory for Mrs. Kirchner, though [...]

MOSCOW (AFP) — Four people died and six were wounded late Sunday when an explosion rocked a cafe in Georgia’s pro-Russian separatist province of Abkhazia, Interfax news agency reported Monday.
A local official quoted by the agency said “a local security official and a local resident” died on the spot while two other people including a [...]

Fidel Castro has called on Columbia’s Farc rebels to release its remaining hostages.
The former Cuban president’s comments follow the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician, and 14 others on Wednesday.
In an internet article posted on Saturday, Castro said he was against kidnapping and holding prisoners in the jungle.
But he also said the Revolutionary Armed [...]

Pakistani police are sifting evidence to try to determine who carried out a suicide bombing in Islamabad that killed 15 policemen.
Sunday’s blast came on the first anniversary of the ending of a siege at the city’s Red Mosque, in which more than 100 people died during fighting.
The mosque was stormed by Pakistani troops to evict [...]