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Martyn Ziegler Friday 25 May 2012 FIFA president Sepp Blatter today labelled penalty shoot-outs "a tragedy" and challenged Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative. Two major tournaments last season were decided by shoot-outs - Chelsea's Champions League triumph over Bayern Munich and the African Nations Cup when Zambia beat Ivory Coast. Beckenbauer, honorary president of Bayern Munich, is also head of the

By SAPA REUTERS (File image) Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger The UN atomic watchdog said Friday that it has detected in Iran traces of higher-grade uranium than Tehran had said it was enriching, but that the Iranians had said it may be down to a technical error. "The results of analysis of environmental samples ...

By Associated Press Friday, May 25, 2012 BERLIN - Germany's medical association has adopted a declaration apologizing for sadistic experiments and other actions of doctors under the Nazis. In the statement adopted earlier this week in Nuremberg, the association said many doctors under the Nazis were "guilty, contrary to their mission to heal, of scores of human rights violations and we ask the forgiveness of

0 FIFA President Sepp Blatter has called on Germany's World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer and his panel of football experts to try to come up with an alternative to penalty shootouts to settle drawn matches. Blatter was speaking to delegates at the FIFA Congress on Friday less than a week after Chelsea beat Bayern Munich on penalties to win the Champions League final.

Photo: Can Djokovic add the French Open title to his trophy cabinet? (Alex Livesey: Getty Images) Novak Djokovic's bid to become the first man in 43 years to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time hit its first hurdle on Friday when Roger Federer became a potential French Open semi-final opponent. World number one Djokovic, three times a semi-finalist in Paris, is the top seed at the French Open with Federer, the 2009 champion, seeded three and