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Football’s world ruling body FIFA on Friday officially turned down a request from the Irish football authorities to stage a replay of their controversial World Cup playoff defeat to France. Backed by Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on Thursday, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) had lodged the request with FIFA on Thursday. However, a statement on FIFA’s website said “FIFA has replied to the request made by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and states that the result of the match cannot be changed and the match cannot be replayed.”

France qualified for the 2010 World Cup by winning the two-leg tie 2-1 on aggregate on Wednesday, although there has been outrage and claims of cheating after a blatant Thierry Henry handball led to France’s decisive equalizer. The French Football Federation (FFF) said it had “taken note” of FIFA’s decision but said it would make “no further comment”. The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) meanwhile confirmed it had received FIFA’s rejection letter and was due to meet later to consider the decision.

Despite no likelihood of a replay, there have been calls for FIFA president Sepp Blatter to personally comment on the controversy, which many commentators claim has further tarnished the sport. Former Republic of Ireland midfielder Ray Houghton admitted he did not expect FIFA to order a replay as they are governed by the rules but he called on Blatter to make a public statement on the decision. “Where is Sepp Blatter? Why hasn’t he come out and stood up and told everyone how it is. He is very good at telling other countries how to run their game. It really needed the top man to come out and tell the footballing public why they have made this decision.”

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The Oprah Winfrey Show, an iconic, influential broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar empire, will end its run on 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey’s production company said on Thursday night. Winfrey plans to announce the final date for her show during a live broadcast on Friday, Harpo Productions Inc said, bringing an end to what has been US television’s top-rated talk show for more than two decades, airing in 145 countries worldwide and watched by an estimated 42 million viewers a week in the Unites States alone.

A Harpo spokeswoman declined to comment on Thursday on Winfrey’s future plans except to say that The Oprah Winfrey Show will not move to cable television. Over the years, The Oprah Winfrey Shows grew from a newcomer that chipped away at talk king Phil Donahue’s dominance into a programme that turned inspirational. The show covered a gamut that ranged from interviews with the world’s most famous celebrities to to an honest discussion about her weight struggles.

“As that show evolved, it really kind of dressed up the neighborhood of the day-time talk show,” said Robert Thompson, professor of the television and popular culture at Syracuse University. Winfrey, 55, is widely expected to start up a new talk show on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a much-delayed joint venture with Discovery Communications Inc that is expected to debut in 2011. OWN is to replace the Discovery Health Channel and will debut in some 74 million homes.

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As he prepares to meet President Barack Obama in Washington, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hopes the US will be “more liberal” in transferring technologies to India and clear the way for implementing the landmark agreement on nuclear cooperation. Dr.Singh, who left for Washington on Saturday, gave enough indications in an interview to The Washington Post that nuclear cooperation would be high on his agenda during talks with Obama. “We have a landmark agreement with the US on nuclear cooperation. We would like to operationalize it and ensure that the objectives for the nuclear deal are released in full,” said.

Dr.Singh said the restrictions on technology transfers to India “make no sense” since the country has an impeccable record of non-proliferation. “My hope is that we can persuade the US administration to be more liberal when it comes to transferring technologies to us. The restrictions make no sense. India has an impeccable record of not participating in any proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. So that’s my number one concern,” he said. Top Indian and US officials are holding hectic parleys to conclude a deal on reprocessing of spent fuel before the November 24 Singh-Obama meeting.

The US side is insisting on an assurance from India on nuclear non-proliferation, a sticking point in clearing the way for nuclear commerce. The requirement for the “assurance” which is seen as a “proximate obstacle” to doing business, has surprised the Indian side which is looking forward to implementation of the 123 Agreement for civil nuclear cooperation signed last year. The Obama administration cited the requirement of the assurance in February last and this has been pushed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Energy Secretary Stevan Chu during their visits to India later.

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US and Indian officials are racing to put the finishing touches to a nuclear reprocessing deal that - if completed - will be the big ticket agreement that both sides would like to see at the heart of this “state” visit, already marred by the US president’s unexpected nod to China’s role in resolving the Indo-Pak issue and bereft of the drama and excitement that marked the Bush-Manmohan bonhomie.

With less than 24 hours to go before the prime minister departs for Washington, via Geneva, however, officials here hve indicated that the deal has stalled, and are downplaying expectations that any agreement is possible during the prime minister’s four-day visit. They are well aware that a rush to reprocess spent fuel in a safeguard facility overseen by the US, could be seen as a concession to the Obama administration, which is completely behind the Indo-US nuclear agreement as the previous Bush administration had been.

While the contrast between the high-octane Bush visit to Delhi and Manmohan Singh’s reciprocal visit to Washington in 2005 and the decidedly cooler Obama-Singh chemistry has already been remarked on, officials here said that President Obama’s enormous respect for Singh’s management of the economy, his tackling of a rough neighborhood in the aftermath of 26/11 and India’s emerging power status, is part of the reason that Singh is being accorded  the rare honor of a first state visit.

India has announced two nuclear park sites - in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh for the American companies. The US is unable to move forward with the nuke agreement unless it can agree to allow New Delhi to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, bu the Obama administration is insisting that New Delhi give it an assurance that it will not divert reprocessed fuel to its weapons programme or unsafeguarded civil nuclear facilities. India is also being asked to pass a civil nuclear liability legislation in parliament that will limit the damages to be borne by US nuclear companies that invest in India in case of a nuclear accident.

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A suicide car bomber killed 11 people, including four children, on Saturday at a police check-point on the outskirts of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the latest string of militant attacks targeting the city, officials here said. “Ten people including a policeman were killed and 30 others injured in a powerful suicide car bomb blast in Peshawar (on Saturday),” a police official said.

The suicide car bomber hit his explosive-laden vehicle near a police check-post in Pishtakhara “as a result ten people were killed”. he added. Several vehicles were damaged and windows of nearby buildings were smashed, he said. The Peshawar blast came a day after suicide bomber killed over 20 people in two separate attacks on the offices of the security agencies. The death toll has since risen to 24. The police was manning checkpoints at all entry points to the city and were checking every vehicle, said a local government official, Sahibzada Mohammed Anis.

“Suddenly a car exploded with a big bang,” said police official Malik Jehangir, who was working at the check-point. “There was a long queue of the vehicles. One of our officials wanted to search the car when it exploded.” Mr Jehangir said 10 people were killed, including two people officials. Four children and a woman were among the dead civilians, he added. The Friday attack devastated the provincial headquarters in the city of Peshawar of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), destroying more than half the building. Meanwhile, at least 27 militants and soldiers died in separate terror and anti-terror incidents in various Pakistani cities on Saturday, officials said.

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Billing himself America’s first ‘Pacific President”, Barack Obama on Saturday said the United States did not seek to “contain” China and promised an engaged US role in charting Asia’s future. Mr Obama also repeatedly challenged regional leaders to wean themselves off lucrative US export markets to secure a “balanced” global economic rebound. The President chose Japan, for half-a-century a bedrock US ally, to deliver his latest major speech framing a new foreign policy, invoking his upbringing in Indonesia and Hawaii to show he shared the region’s world view.

“As America’s first Pacific President, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world,” Mr Obama said on the second day of his debut Asian tour. He later flew in to Singapore for an Asia-Pacific summit, where he was due to meet regional leaders including China’s President Hu Jintao.

His Tokyo remarks signaled yet another break with the foreign policy of ex-president George.W.Bush, who is accused by Obama aides of letting US ties with East Asia flounder while waging war in Iraq and against global terrorism. Drawing an enthusiastic welcome from 1,500 people in Tokyo’s Suntory concert hall, Mr Obama said he knew many in Asia wondered how Washington viewed China’s rise to prominence. “The United States does not seek to contain China, nor does a deeper relationship with China mean a weakening of our bilateral alliances,” Mr Obama said.

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