US to Execute 1st Woman Since 2010

(AP) – Texas is preparing tonight to execute the first woman in three years in the United States. Kimberly McCarthy, 51, will be just the 13th woman executed in the US and the fourth in Texas, the nation’s busiest death penalty state, since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976….

Beware slow-starting Spain: Defeat to Switzerland in 2010 paved the way for World Cup win

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It started with a miss. Spain‘s stunning success in South Africa will live long in the memory, but things got off to the worst possible start for La Roja with defeat to Switzerland.

After doing things the hard way in 2010 following that shock 1-0 reverse in their first group game, Spain had wanted to begin on…

Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery: 2010 was the darkest year of my life, but I am happy again

Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery has expressed his relief at putting behind himself what he described as the ‘darkest’ period of his life in 2010.The 28-year-old and other members of the France national team were embroiled in a sex scandal with under-age prostitute Zahia Dehar, but escaped heavy sentences after…