Results from the French first-division football league (home teams listed first):
Saturday's Games
Bordeaux 4, Lorient 1
Montpellier 0, Nancy 2
Valenciennes 0, Lens 0
Rennes 1, Paris Saint-Germain 0
Grenoble 1, Nice 1
Saint-Etienne 0, Marseille 0
Boulogne vs. Sochaux, postponed
Sunday's Games
Auxerre 1, Toulouse 1
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Only days after leading UPS Teamsters to one of labor's biggestvictories in years, Ron Carey finds himself facing a new battle afterhis hard-fought election as Teamsters president was voided Friday.
Chicago area Teamsters are facing a battle, too. They weresplit between Carey and James Hoffa Jr. in last year's election.
Federal election overseer Barbara Zack Quindel nullified Carey'selection and ordered a new vote after an eight-month investigationinto the source of $221,000 in contributions made to his campaign -money that was later returned.Gerald Zero, secretary-treasurer of Local 705 in Chicago, saidhe figures that, coming off of the United Parcel Service …
NEW YORK (AP) — Government bond prices fell Friday on hopes that Greece will get more help to avoid defaulting on its debt.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel softened that country's stance on giving more loans to Greece, relenting on an earlier insistence that private bondholders give concessions. Traders are hoping that a new package of financial support will prevent Greece from defaulting on its loans and causing another financial crisis.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou also named his main internal rival as finance minister as part of an effort to raise support to pass steep tax hikes and budget cuts.
That helped stabilize bond markets a day after yields on …
New York health officials are ramping up their regulation of more than 2,000 tanning salons and gyms offering indoor ultraviolet rays even as health advocates push for a law banning exposure by anyone under 18.
"We're not claiming that people get addicted to tanning the same way you do nicotine, but it clearly is a habit you develop as a teenager," said Peter Slocum, vice president for advocacy at the American Cancer Society in Albany. "That's when most people start frequenting the cancer chambers."
Last year, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified tanning as a definite human carcinogen, …
The San Francisco Fudge Factory in Bath is giving away a huge,handmade honeycomb heart as a special St Valentine's Day prize.
The heavyweight heart weighs in at just over 4kg and is 2ft tall.It contains 8lbs of sugar with the other ingredients includinggolden syrup.
The heart was hand made by Gareth Sayers, who also makes thefactory's other products including caramel apples, truffles and, ofcourse, their trademark fudge.
Animation master degree student Gareth made a large honeycombhouse last year and is described as a "creative genius" by ownerMaureen.
The prize, worth pounds113, will be displayed in the shop windownear the abbey during the run-up to …
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The Yokohama BayStars of Japan's Central League have signed former major league slugger Dan Johnson to a one-year contract worth $1.2 million.
Johnson, 29, spent three seasons with the Oakland Athletics from 2005 before splitting the 2008 season with the A's and the Tampa Bay Rays. He …
