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Fabio Capello hails David Beckham’s move to AC Milan

London, Oct 31: England coach Fabio Capello reckons that David Beckham will be a great acquisition for AC Milan after the midfielder finalised his loan switch to the Italian giants.

Betis striker Edu out for six weeks

Madrid - Brazilian striker Edu de Souza is out of action for around six weeks due to injury, his Spanish club Real Betis announced on Friday.

Real Madrid likens ‘senile’ Ferguson to General Franco

London, Oct 31: Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson has been branded ‘senile’ in Spain and compared to Spanish dictator General Franco.

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon said Ferguson was ‘getting old’ after an interview in which Manchester United’s coach resurrected Real Madrid’s links with Franco.

Madrid-based paper Marca responded with a series of five pictures of Ferguson changing into Franco, with a headline ‘Ferguson Senile’.

I’m not going to waste any time answering him. I admire his history but recently he has gone a bit senile,” The Sun quoted Calderon, as saying.

Ferguson’s own comments came as he slaughtered Real’s arrogant pursuit of Ronaldo during the summer.

Men make better combat leaders, women peacekeepers

Washington, October 31: A team of University of Kent researchers has shown that the selection of male or female group leaders may depend upon specific situations that the members face.

Psychologists Mark Van Vugt and Brian R. Spisak made volunteers participate in an investment game to see whether gender influences the selection of group leaders during various group competition situations.

Each volunteer was given six dollars, any of that amount could be invested into a group fund, with the volunteer keeping the rest for themselves. The participants were told that they would receive a bonus if the group fund exceeded a certain amount.

Aussie boy, 7, banned from pub for being ‘unruly’!

London, Oct 31: A seven-year-old Australian boy has been barred from a pub for "unruly behaviour and being offensive to patrons’.

Ronnie Wighton, of Oakden, has been banned from the Rocks Tavern, Carpenter Rocks, for one month after being served with the notice by licensee Kevin Mullins.

The final straw came on a Sunday evening earlier this month, when Ronnie refused to get down from a wall he had climbed at the Rocks Tavern.

"I asked his father to take the boy home and told him he was welcome to come back and keep drinking with his mates but he said I wasn''t kicking him and his son out of the pub and told me to ring the police, which I did," the Telegraph quoted Kevin Mullins, the landlord, as saying.

Vietnam flood dead toll rise; Hanoi inundated

Hanoi - Heavy rains flooded Hanoi Friday as the death toll from rain and landslides in Vietnam's central provinces rose to at least 10 in the last week.

According to figures published Friday by the Central Committee for Storm and Flood Control, heavy rains and flood since October 24 have killed 10 people and left one missing in central Vietnam.

Heavy rains beginning early Friday morning paralyzed Hanoi, the country's capital. Local media reported thousands of motorbikes, cars, and buses trapped by high water.

The southern suburb of Ha Dong was reported to have received 350 millimeters of rain so far.

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