Manchester City are “hopeful” of completing a deal to sign Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli, BBC Sport understands.

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Lance Armstrong’s bid for an eighth win in the Tour de France came to a sorry end on a dramatic eighth stage of the Tour de France won by Andy Schleck of Luxembourg.

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Great Britain win their doubles rubber against Turkey to claim an unassailable 3-0 lead and prevent relegation to the Davis Cup’s lowest tier.

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To cope with the level of noise pollution in today’s oceans, North Atlantic right whales are learning to shout. Shipping noise is a particular problem for baleen whales like the North Atlantic right whale, because their calls are roughly the same pitch. If the noise is disrupting the whales’ communication, it would be bad news for the species.

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There are many odd stories in the world of games, especially when pertaining to the court system. However, this one seems to come out of left field.

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Western nations rebuked Iran for its human rights record after overcoming an attempt by Iran to block the statement from being read aloud in the Human Rights Council. The nations expressed concern over a “lack of progress in the protection of human rights in Iran,” especially since the widespread arrests and bloody crackdowns this year.

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itwbennett writes “Having previously denied demands from Germany that the company turn over hard drives with data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years, Google has reversed course. A Google representative said that it will hand over the data to German, French and Spanish authorities within a matter of days, according to the Financial Times, which first reported this latest development on Wednesday. ‘We screwed (more…)

Hugh Pickens writes “The Toronto Star reports that a Utah woman is suing Google for more than $100,000 in damages, claiming its maps function gave her walking directions that led her onto a major highway, where she was struck by a car. Lauren Rosenberg sought directions between two addresses in Utah about 3 kilometers apart and the top result suggested that she follow a busy rural highway for several hundred meters. The highway did not have sidewalks (more…)

Anthony Ventura filed a lawsuit in California, asking the judge for class-action status. The complaint quotes Sony executives on numerous occasions saying how vital and important the “Install Other OS” feature was to the game console (it’s a computer, remember?) and claims breach of contract, false advertising, and several other causes of actions

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Yahoo and federal prosecutors are embroiled in a privacy battle testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail. The legal dust up concerns a 1986 law that allows the government to obtain a suspect’s e-mail from an ISP or webmail provider without a probable-cause warrant…

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