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Spain deports bin Laden son after denying political asylum

Spain deports bin Laden son after denying political asylumMadrid - Spain on Saturday deported the son of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who had spent almost a week in the country trying to get political asylum.

Omar bin Laden, 28, boarded a plane bound for Cairo on Saturday, Spain's Interior Ministry confirmed. Bin Laden's lawyer criticized the move, saying bin Laden was being removed for political reasons.

Bin Laden applied for asylum in Spain on Monday. He and his British wife, Zaina al-Sabah, 52, were in Madrid on a stopover for a flight from Cairo to Casablanca in Morocco.

Leverkusen throw away three-goal lead in 3-3 Karlsruhe draw

Leverkusen throw away three-goal lead in 3-3 Karlsruhe drawHamburg - Bayer Leverkusen threw away a 3-0 lead in a 3-3 draw at SC Karlsruhe on Saturday as they failed to go top again in the Bundesliga standings.

Patrick Helmes, Stefan Kiessling and Michal Kadlec were on target in the opening 24 minutes for Leverkusen who appeared on course for a fifth straight victory.

But Karlsruhe rallied from Anthony da Silva, Tim Sebastian and Alexander Iashvili to earn a point after losing the previous five matches.

Rogge: still seven doping cases in pipeline

Rogge: still seven doping cases in pipeline Vienna - International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has said that the number of doping cases at the Beijing Olympics could still increase by seven.

In an exclusive interview with the Austrian news agency APA late Friday the Belgian said that the number of positive doping cases from the Beijing Olympics could practically double.

"There were 39 cases before the Olympics, while there were eight cases during the Olympics and seven cases are still in the pipeline, so there could be 15 cases in total.

Leverkusen held 3-3 in Karlsruhe after 3-0 lead

Leverkusen held 3-3 in Karlsruhe after 3-0 lead Hamburg - Bayer Leverkusen threw away a 3-0 lead in a 3-3 draw at SC Karlsruhe on Saturday and failed to go top again in the Bundesliga standings.

Patrick Helmes, Stefan Kiessling and Michael Kadlec were on target in the opening 24 minutes for Leverkusen, but Karlsruhe rallied from Anthony da Silva, Tim Sebastian and Alexander Iashvili.

Carmakers eying German banking bail-out program

Carmakers eying German banking bail-out program Hamburg - Carmakers struggling to fund lease purchase sales may turn to a German government fund originally devised to bail out banks, according to a news report Saturday.

The financial services divisions of most automakers hold banking licences in Germany and could qualify for guarantees. Interest rates on those guarantees average about 
2 per cent annually, which is significantly cheaper than commercial borrowing rates in the current credit crunch.

Twins for Taiwan cancer patient who had sperm frozen 13 years ago

Taipei - A Taiwan man, infertile due to cancer, has become the father of twins after the sperm he had frozen 13 years ago, was used to impregnate his wife, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Doctors at the Taipei Medical University's College of Medicine set the local record for the use of the longest-preserved sperm in helping the couple have children, the China Times reported.

The man, identified only as Chen, was 23 and a university student in 1995 when he contracted testicular cancer. Fearing chemotherapy would make him infertile, he stored nine tubes of sperm in a sperm bank.

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