Hamburg - A neatly taken second-half goal from substitute Didier Drogba helped Chelsea book their place in the knockout stages of the Champions League with a
2-1 victory Tuesday over Romanian side CFR Cluj.

Despite the win, last year's beaten finalists Chelsea still finish second in Group A behind Roma, who secured top spot with a 2-0 win over Bordeaux, who qualify for the UEFA Cup.

New York  - A public opinion poll conducted in 25 countries showed "remarkable" support for the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years after it entered into effect, WorldPublicOpinion. org said Tuesday.

A majority of residents in all the countries polled, including those ruled by authoritarian regimes, endorsed the human rights of their citizens to have freedom opinion, including the right to criticize governments, to demonstrate peacefully and to have a media free of government control.

Athens - Greece's two largest unions said on Tuesday they will go ahead with planned 24-hour strikes Wednesday to protest the government's austere economic policies, amid nationwide rioting that has crippled the country.

Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis appealed to union leaders of the private-sector federation GSEE and public-sector union ADEDY to cancel the strikes in an effort to stop the violence, triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager Saturday, from escalating for a fifth consecutive day.

Washington  - US president-elect B

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