Jets coach Claude Noel says goaltending and injuries key in short NHL season

WINNIPEG - Head coach Claude Noel said goaltending and managing injuries will be the Winnipeg Jets key to success in the lockout shortened season.Winnipeg has a new backup goaltender — Al Montoya — behind starter Ondrej Pavelec.Noel says he can't say how much either will play right now.He spoke after an open practice where about 5,000 fans showed up to watch the start of the Jets' training camp.Forward...

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March to protest Russia's adoption ban draws 20,000, energizing anti-Putin opposition

MOSCOW - Thousands of people marched through Moscow on Sunday to protest Russia's new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a far bigger number than expected in a sign that outrage over the ban has breathed some life into the dispirited anti-Kremlin opposition movement.Shouting "shame on the scum," protesters carried posters of President Vladimir Putin and members of Russia's parliament...

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Witnesses to a failed rescue by French commandos in Somalia describe mayhem, night of terror

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The night of mayhem and death started with the sound of helicopters above pitch-black fields. When it was over, the French intelligence agent who had been held hostage for more than three years was almost certainly dead, as was at least one French commando, and the home that served as the agent's final jail was destroyed. And now the Somalis living in the muddy farm town had...

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