A U.S. couple are letting customers at a Starbucks coffee shop choose the name of their baby.
Twenty-five-year-old Jennifer James and 24-year-old Mark Dixon of West Haven tell the New Haven Register (http://bit.ly/1adT5d6 ) they have been struggling between two names for the boy they are expecting in September.
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A two-headed turtle has hatched at the San Antonio Zoo and officials have named her Thelma and Louise.
The female Texas cooter arrived June 18 and will go on display Thursday at the zoo's Friedrich Aquarium.
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U.S. military commanders have been told to explore ways to increase security assistance to Lebanon and Iraq, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs said Wednesday, as the violence in Syria spills across borders and Iraqis face growing threats from the local al-Qaida offshoot.
Gen. Martin Dempsey said the assistance is aimed at improving the two nations' military capabilities and could include sending in U.S. training teams and accelerating foreign military sales of weapons and equipment to Iraq and Lebanon.
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Five months after waving goodbye to Mario Balotelli, Manchester City is preparing to offload another enigmatic striker to Italian football and bring an end to one of the most divisive and controversial careers in the Premier League's 21-year history.
When Carlos Tevez — sporting a hair band and a broad grin — stepped out at Upton Park in 2006 to be paraded as one of West Ham's two big-name Argentine signings that summer, English football was warned to expect a striker of great potential but one already with plenty of baggage.
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New coach Carlo Ancelotti was presented as "a true sage" of football by Real Madrid President Florentino Perez on Wednesday.
Ancelotti was introduced to Madrid members and the press at the Santiago Bernabeu by Perez in a step aimed at healing the rifts caused by predecessor Jose Mourinho.
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Injuries knocked five players out of Wimbledon on Wednesday — including second-seeded Victoria Azarenka, the man who stunned Rafael Nadal in the first round, and the American who won the longest match in tennis history.
The start of Day 3 of the grass-court Grand Slam was less about the tennis results and more about a casualty list that included Azarenka, Steve Darcis and John Isner.
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Some 25,000 Bayern Munich fans are expected for Pep Guardiola's first training session in charge of the team on Wednesday.
Such is the interest in seeing the Spanish coach in action, that Bayern has taken the unusual step of holding open training sessions at its 69,000-seat stadium on Wednesday and Thursday.
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FIFA has extended provisional bans for two Lebanese football officials facing charges related to match-fixing in the Asian Football Confederation so that they apply worldwide.
Assistant referees Ali Eid and Abdallah Taleb were provisionally suspended from all football-related activities by the AFC while the governing body reaches a decision on whether they attempted to manipulate a match on April 3.
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Jordan has appointed Egypt great Hossam Hassan to coach the national team through the Asian qualifying playoffs for the World Cup.
Hassan replaces Iraqi Adnan Hamad, who resigned this month after Jordan reached the playoffs with a 1-0 win over Oman. But by then, Hamad was under increasing fire from Jordan fans and media for the team's stuttering campaign.
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Fenerbahce was expelled from the Champions League for the second time in three seasons and Besiktas was banned from the Europa League after the Turkish clubs were punished by UEFA on Tuesday over separate charges of match-fixing.
Fenerbahce was banned from the next three UEFA club competitions for which it would have qualified, starting with next season's Champions League, in relation to a long-running fixing case that dates back to the Istanbul club's league-winning run in 2011. UEFA said the sanction for the third competition is deferred "for a probationary period of five years."
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