Giuliana Rancic Leaves E! News Anchor Post, Continues to Present Fashion Police.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBd_JgR0BonmKxQPAd3hE3UaC-MQymKvFVZGThIeUskPiHU3ugxRzNbYRoizMjg8RF-c542IAXdfzkL-Yj8263nhgjs9GZclBe2KyCGL6mgG4WNNffVzxzSBbG2R06xcBR5vqJj8U89w7A/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBd_JgR0BonmKxQPAd3hE3UaC-MQymKvFVZGThIeUskPiHU3ugxRzNbYRoizMjg8RF-c542IAXdfzkL-Yj8263nhgjs9GZclBe2KyCGL6mgG4WNNffVzxzSBbG2R06xcBR5vqJj8U89w7A/s400/11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div data-action="Zoom" data-category="Article" data-label="0" id="article-image" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 19px 17px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 240px;"> <span class="caption" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Giuliana Rancic has left her post as E! News host</span><span class="caption" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Credit: David Becker/Getty Images for Le Vian</span></div> <div data-action="Contextual" data-category="Article" data-track-tags="a" id="article-body" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/giuliana-rancic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #009bd5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Giuliana Rancic</strong></a> is leaving her post as<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> E! News</em> anchor, the network has confirmed in a statement to <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #009bd5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Us Weekly</strong></a>.</div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/giuliana-and-bill-rancic-their-love-story-2012274/22058" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #009bd5; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PHOTOS: Giuliana and Bill's love story</a></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The 40-year-old mom-of-one will continue as a co-host of <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fashion Police</em> and <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Live From the Red Carpet</em> but from Monday, August 10, she will no longer be seen on a daily basis as anchor of the popular celebrity TV news show.</div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "For more than a decade, I was fortunate enough to play a role in the success of <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E! News </em>and will miss my family at the show,” Rancic said in the statement. “At the same time, I am excited to not only continue as host of two major franchises on <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E!</em> but also executive produce the aspirational new show <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rich in Faith</em> for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oxygen</em> as well as take my wine and clothing lines to the next level. This is such a thrilling time for me and I thank the gang at <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E!</em> for understanding my desire to embark on this next chapter in my life," she added.</div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/pictures/giuliana-bill-rancic-take-us-parenting-quiz-2012155/22466" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #009bd5; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PHOTOS: Giuliana takes Us' parenting quiz</a></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It's been quite a year for Rancic who hit the headlines in a major way this past February for her <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kelly-osbourne-quits-fashion-police-amid-giuliana-rancic-controversy-2015272" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #009bd5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">controversial comments</a> about <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zendaya</strong>'s dreadlocks during a post-Oscar's Fashion Police.</div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The host said Zendaya looked like she smelled of "weed" and "patchouli" -- comments that were taken by many to be racially insensitive, and led to a bitter public feud with Fashion Police then-co-host <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/kelly-osbourne" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #009bd5; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly Osbourne</strong></a>. Osbourne subsequently quit the show, and the program was temporarily taken off air.</div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/kelly-osbourne" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #009bd5; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PHOTOS: Celebrity feuds</a></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> She has also faced wide-spread criticism for her skinny frame, a topic which she addressed a couple of months ago on <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Dr. Oz Show</em>. "Trust me, I don't want to lose weight," the slender <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E! </em>presenter told the doctor, explaining the cause of her extreme weight loss is her cancer medication, Tamoxifen. "I don't think it looks attractive. I think I used to be more attractive. But I'm doing the best I can."</div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Last month, Rancic expressed her excitement about working with newly-announced co-host <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Melissa Rivers</strong> on the soon-to-be-relaunched <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fashion Police</em> which will return in August.</div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/joan-rivers-comedy-career-2014318/40493" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #009bd5; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PHOTOS: Joan Rivers' life and career</a></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I adore Melissa,” Rancic gushed to <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Us</strong>. “I’ve known Melissa forever, we talk all the time, we text all the time. 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FASHION Giuliana Rancic Leaves E! News Anchor Post, Continues to Present Fashion Police.

Giuliana Rancic has left her post as E! News host Credit: David Becker/Getty Images for Le Vian Giuliana Rancic  is leaving her post a...

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A species of blindsnake breaks the head off its termite prey before swallowing the rest of its body

<div class="byline" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-top: 2.4em; vertical-align: bottom;"> <ul class="seperated-list source-attribution" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 8px; padding: 1em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWO-tlpppoY7ykHQld_Jm4zUI5bBze5QLh5sZqWKjnauRedr4FTsIegIGY3Fg88wvJgdnmGfl7dfeBPnjrArFHusgqZ1gb7noWelxFP_wWKXJMgVyUHPOJ50lf0lp1p9ZjjpL75OyKzfXD/s1600/snake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWO-tlpppoY7ykHQld_Jm4zUI5bBze5QLh5sZqWKjnauRedr4FTsIegIGY3Fg88wvJgdnmGfl7dfeBPnjrArFHusgqZ1gb7noWelxFP_wWKXJMgVyUHPOJ50lf0lp1p9ZjjpL75OyKzfXD/s320/snake.jpg" width="320" /></a> <li class="seperated-list-item source-attribution-author" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 8px;"><span class="index-body" style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.14285714285714em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Presented by<br />Melissa Hogenboom</span></li> </ul> </div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px;"></span><br /> <div class="body-content" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px;"> <div class="mpu-wrapper"> <div class="ad-slot bbccom_slot mpu " data-advert-groups="1_2_3" id="bbccom_mpu_1_2_3" style="background-color: #e8e8e8; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;"> </div> </div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> To eat food in one gulp or not, that is the question. Slice it into smaller pieces first and it becomes easier to swallow. Gulp it whole and there is less chance your food will escape, if it is still alive that is.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> Most snakes do the first. They have no limbs to tear food apart and have an incredible ability to swallow food whole, even if it is much larger than them. </div> <blockquote style="float: left; margin: 3.2em 8px 0px; width: 289.328125px;"> <div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.4em; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.33333333333333em; margin-top: 0.4em; padding: 0px 24px 48px 0px;"> Prey-dismembering behaviour may be widely used</div> </blockquote> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> But there are some exceptions. New research has found that one particular species of blindsnake (<em>Indotyphlops braminus</em>) breaks the head off its termite prey before swallowing the rest of its body.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> First, the snake swallows the termite's body while its head remains outside the snake's mouth. The snake then rubs the termite's head against a surface – in this case its cage – until its head is separated from its body. This sequence of events can be seen in the photo below.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxi5n8dzf_gMy5DDv9THyxDHjdzCG5A3qyZHSiH-uZ6ndfTXyZ8y55XJ_EU8CFFby1yjGAi40pgyajKnhQ2rLfZkX3axO5KYrlMkL19Svxb11bz7UNpFu-zRGmxya0uPFwkiDZ0vA0UTBe/s1600/%2523.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxi5n8dzf_gMy5DDv9THyxDHjdzCG5A3qyZHSiH-uZ6ndfTXyZ8y55XJ_EU8CFFby1yjGAi40pgyajKnhQ2rLfZkX3axO5KYrlMkL19Svxb11bz7UNpFu-zRGmxya0uPFwkiDZ0vA0UTBe/s400/%2523.png" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> It swallows the rest of the termite after its head is disconnected. This process only takes three seconds and the decapitated heads are left uneaten. </div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> Occasionally these small snakes will even regurgitate a termite after swallowing it whole. Only then will it decapitate it before swallowing it again.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> The research, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12268" style="background: 0px 0px; color: black; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">published in the <em>Journal of Zoology</em></a><em>,</em>discovered that the snakes only decapitated their termite meals about half the time.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> This is an unusual feeding behaviour for a snake and was completely unexpected, says lead author of the study Takafumi Mizuno of the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> "Taken together with brief reports from 1950s and 1960s on similar behaviours in other blindsnakes, our finding implies that prey-dismembering behaviour may be widely used in poorly-known basal [ancient] snakes," he adds.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> </div> <div class="inline-media inline-image" style="margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;"> <div class="caption-wrapper" style="background-color: #f1f1ef; overflow: hidden; padding: 1.6em 16px;"> <div class="caption-lining" style="display: inline; float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 572px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZ4hkWDmfF7QtehoTF5MX_3ArEKM2Yy9aPHTvT8KSNo_t1yRkfzrj-PK9Bf_GMZFW7zx21fGgg2dd1uuS1GQnPnmFeYYgdVI-SPCq11QETx3YQGBDsVb8FLYPr9d_w8gXh4XCHSxcCTlb/s1600/download.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZ4hkWDmfF7QtehoTF5MX_3ArEKM2Yy9aPHTvT8KSNo_t1yRkfzrj-PK9Bf_GMZFW7zx21fGgg2dd1uuS1GQnPnmFeYYgdVI-SPCq11QETx3YQGBDsVb8FLYPr9d_w8gXh4XCHSxcCTlb/s400/download.png" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="caption-text caption-body" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 1.4em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.14285714285714em; margin-top: 0.571428571428571em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; width: 572px;"> Most snakes eat their prey whole (Credit: ER Degginger/Alamy)</div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> </div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> It did not take longer to eat a decapitated termite instead of swallowing one whole. The researchers therefore propose two reasons why the snakes may be doing so at least some of the time.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> The heads contain toxic chemicals which could be bad news for the snake. The reptiles may therefore leave the termites' heads to avoid swallowing these unpleasant toxic compounds.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> But those that do swallow them appear unaffected. The termite heads remain undigested. They come out the other end in the same physical state. So perhaps foregoing the heads saves space in a snake's gut.</div> <blockquote style="float: left; margin: 3.2em 8px 0px; width: 289.328125px;"> <div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.4em; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.33333333333333em; margin-top: 0.4em; padding: 0px 24px 48px 0px;"> This makes it stand out among 3,000 or so species of snake</div> </blockquote> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> Blindsnakes will always try to decapitate termites, says Mizuno, but it can be difficult for them to do so. "As a consequence decapitation rate are about 50%."</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> Though tearing food apart before eating it is rare, blind snakes are not the only ones to do so. Two species of Asian crab-eating snake break the legs off their prey before eating them.  </div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> The blindsnake and the crab-eating snakes are genetically very different. They are separated by a common ancestor which lived 100 million years ago. This prey-tearing behaviour could therefore have evolved independently in these two lineages, the team proposes.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> More research is needed to discover just how many other snakes have similar dietary preferences.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBZ2zhgHOfY1V5iE1vJEpqjl7oVI84sv7ADrIa-4zVG8O6udhT9tOPMIc964LHIW1gb2ydc5pWVgpilp0DX0fnypUL6xd1gPYuBAFMq0Cq5InO6oEq335tfeNqmOMnzcYi_J4-o2yax3n/s1600/download+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBZ2zhgHOfY1V5iE1vJEpqjl7oVI84sv7ADrIa-4zVG8O6udhT9tOPMIc964LHIW1gb2ydc5pWVgpilp0DX0fnypUL6xd1gPYuBAFMq0Cq5InO6oEq335tfeNqmOMnzcYi_J4-o2yax3n/s400/download+%25281%2529.png" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> What we don't know about these snakes could fill an entire library, says <a href="http://www.biology.usu.edu/htm/our-people/graduate-students/memberID=6753" style="background: 0px 0px; color: black; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">Andrew Durso</a> at Utah State University, US, who was not involved with the research.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> "It's very exciting. These researchers were able to discover something brand new about this snake, almost by accident, something that makes it stand out among 3,000 or so species of snake."</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> It could also be present in many of the other 400 species of blindsnake, becoming another unusual habit they can add to their name. They are also the only known snake where all species are female. That is, they are parthenogens, they have<a href="http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141219-spectacular-real-virgin-births" style="background: 0px 0px; color: black; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">virgin births</a>.</div> <div style="font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55555555555556em; margin-left: 82.65625px; margin-right: 20.65625px; margin-top: 1.55555555555556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"> <em>Follow <a href="http://www.twitter.com/owoadeu" target="_blank">ADELOWO PHILIP</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/bbcearth" style="background: 0px 0px; color: black; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">BBC Earth</a> on twitter</em></div> </div>

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What are Greece's options now?

<div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> There aren't many. The debt is still there and Greece's economy has gotten worse this year. The country's banks are almost out of money.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqOKsM3IEc8Ldgz9HtfMRbrrrjdcZNbtp3DipGZhOogmPj5rZNmiqeK6uXCCpqi2Y7d6G8x7z9a96TE-cC3-J-LkyhHFCZD92rZNKwa2YRVmXN8X2NDC5_Uq9Vpq4_udAOS1oU_sLi22l/s1600/greece-protests-adelowo+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqOKsM3IEc8Ldgz9HtfMRbrrrjdcZNbtp3DipGZhOogmPj5rZNmiqeK6uXCCpqi2Y7d6G8x7z9a96TE-cC3-J-LkyhHFCZD92rZNKwa2YRVmXN8X2NDC5_Uq9Vpq4_udAOS1oU_sLi22l/s640/greece-protests-adelowo+blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> Because Greece is on the euro -- a currency used by 19 countries -- it doesn't set the value of its money. So it can't turn to an age-old response by countries with too much debt: devaluation. Devaluation means using the levers of finance to make money worth less. When money is devalued, the cost of debt goes down.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> Bankruptcy is also not an option for Greece. Companies deep in the red can ask a judge to help them get lenders to accept less than they are owed. There is no bankruptcy court for countries.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> The other way a country can get rid of debt is if the economy grows. But Greece owes so much compared to the size of its economy, it would take a miracle for that to work anytime soon.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/29/news/economy/greece-banks-internation-exposure/index.html?iid=EL" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1173b4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="inStoryHeading" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Related: Which countries are most exposed to Greece?</span></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> <span class="inStoryHeading" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 26px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px -25px; padding: 0px;">What's next?</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> Nothing good. Sunday's vote asks Greeks to accept, or reject, yet another bailout with less-severe austerity conditions attached to it.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> Tsipras, who called for the referendum, wants people to vote "No." He thinks that would give him more leverage with Greece's bailout lenders. Leaders of Tsipras' political opposition disagree and argue that an "Oxi" vote will only tell the rest of Europe that Greece doesn't want to be part of the eurozone anymore. The vote could lead to a change in government.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> At this point, exiting the eurozone and going back to Greece's old currency, the drachma, would be very disruptive. The value of the money people have in their pockets (and banks) would decline. Prices would go way up. Life could get even worse.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> Meanwhile, there's still the debt and no money to pay for it. And the <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/03/news/economy/greece-crisis-depression/index.html?iid=EL" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1173b4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ravaged economy</a>.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"> <a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/world/greece-debt-crisis/index.html?iid=EL" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1173b4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="inStoryHeading" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Full coverage: Greece in Crisis</span></a></div>

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Islamic State 'murders 25 men in Palmyra'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJbCMuvO-MUDR7qU0kaldvLdMtVgZhtoDjvvDlO46El2WwG_zocie4OuXeAlDTS-n8CrzqRuS8JMrXtlocN6Lhyphenhyphen7SIV1i7oQvyGLq4qmRZOCKK8lmQW_TFulkjEQw2yVLiLzf32eXscvQ1/s1600/adelowo+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJbCMuvO-MUDR7qU0kaldvLdMtVgZhtoDjvvDlO46El2WwG_zocie4OuXeAlDTS-n8CrzqRuS8JMrXtlocN6Lhyphenhyphen7SIV1i7oQvyGLq4qmRZOCKK8lmQW_TFulkjEQw2yVLiLzf32eXscvQ1/s400/adelowo+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A video apparently released by the Islamic State group shows 25 men being shot dead in the ancient city of Palmyra, in Syria.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> IS said the men were soldiers captured in the city of Homs. They were shot dead inside Palmyra's amphitheatre.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Stills from the video showed the killers to be young males, possibly even as young as 13 or 14.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> IS <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32820857" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">captured Palmyra</a> and the neighbouring modern city, locally known as Tadmur, in late May.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The video was distributed by accounts known to be linked with Islamic State militants. It is not clear when it was filmed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The killings took place on a stage in the amphitheatre in front of a large black IS flag.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Several hundred men in civilian clothes are filmed sitting on steps watching the shootings. Among them was a young boy.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In close-up shots of the men waiting to be killed, they appear to have been beaten on the face.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Days after IS claimed Palmyra, <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32920614" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">it executed 20 men in the same amphitheatre</a>.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJ4GLG0D_dSme-a53dOqv3KhYBU0EVH1i5KJ81L2KUWLuQh8N50C7ibB6JgsX_6gDCtD0XrxphKgC3LNBTZjFT8Q-uTGuIGqdPrZ50piZm-9iib3_XsHHPk9LANEgjlwrp_O6GmVKi80Y/s1600/adelowo+blog1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJ4GLG0D_dSme-a53dOqv3KhYBU0EVH1i5KJ81L2KUWLuQh8N50C7ibB6JgsX_6gDCtD0XrxphKgC3LNBTZjFT8Q-uTGuIGqdPrZ50piZm-9iib3_XsHHPk9LANEgjlwrp_O6GmVKi80Y/s400/adelowo+blog1.jpg" width="230" /></a></div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.syriahr.com/en/2015/07/is-slaughters-a-soldier-and-executes-25-others-in-the-roman-theater/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says shootings took place in the amphitheatre on 27 May</a>, but it is not clear if those killings are the ones in the video.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The video goes on to show the destruction of <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33197612" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tadmur prison</a>, which occurred in late May.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In May, Mamoun Abdelkarim, Syria's head of antiquities, said: "Using the Roman theatre to execute people proves that these people are against humanity."</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr Abdulkarim said most of the museum's antiquities had been transferred to Damascus before IS approached the city.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG8W0UpBXmAK6NnMkMdcOzpbmwjsGOEiAJ_bW_UHwuLRLOb1GvzcaNpf54kDFuI3b_BRX0sI2ZRo08vBsYRNBtON_lsBwh7y_v5L73SNEHkS0jwU8DlrkWeR-NJL8Y_sP-sAljpRO4WQ6l/s1600/_83121508_palmyra_sites_624_v2adelowo+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG8W0UpBXmAK6NnMkMdcOzpbmwjsGOEiAJ_bW_UHwuLRLOb1GvzcaNpf54kDFuI3b_BRX0sI2ZRo08vBsYRNBtON_lsBwh7y_v5L73SNEHkS0jwU8DlrkWeR-NJL8Y_sP-sAljpRO4WQ6l/s400/_83121508_palmyra_sites_624_v2adelowo+blog.jpg" width="231" /></a>Since then, <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-33216305" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">there have been reports that mines have been planted among some of Palmyra's ruins</a>, and there were claims this week that militants<a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/02/isis-militants-destroy-palmyra-stone-lion-al-lat" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">destroyed an ancient sculpture</a> outside Palmyra's museum.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Since capturing the city, IS has also taken control of a military airbase and a notorious prison nearby.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The ancient ruins are situated in a strategically important area on the road between the capital, Damascus, and the contested eastern city of Deir al-Zour.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Fighters with IS started claiming vast swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, aided in part by the insecurity generated by Syria's civil war.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> More than 230,000 Syrians have died in the war, which began after President Bashar al-Assad's forces tried to put down anti-government protests in March 2011.</div>

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Chile secured the first major trophy in their history on home soil courtesy of a penalty shootout win over Argentina in the Copa America final.

<div class="blq-clearfix" id="match-overview" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 111px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; width: 624px;"> <div class="team" id="home-team" style="color: white; display: inline; float: left; margin-left: 8px; width: 263px;"> <div class="team-match-details" style="float: right; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; text-align: right; width: 179px;"> <span class="team-name" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039); display: block; font-size: 2.1em; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; margin-right: 1px; min-height: 40px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; width: 171px; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/teams/chile" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;">Chile</a></span><span class="team-score" style="background-color: #ffdf43; color: #1c1c1c; display: block; float: right; font-size: 2.1em; height: 36px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; min-height: 40px; padding-top: 4px; position: absolute; right: -41px; text-align: center; top: 0px; width: 40px;">0</span></div> </div> <div class="team" id="away-team" style="color: white; display: inline; float: right; margin-right: 8px; width: 263px;"> <div class="team-details" style="float: right; width: 76px;"> <div class="team-badge" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); height: 76px; position: relative; width: 76px; zoom: 1;"> <img alt="Team badge of Argentina" height="66" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/images/football/team-badges/66/argentina.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; padding: 5px;" width="66" /></div> </div> <div class="team-match-details" style="float: left; margin-left: 1px; position: relative; width: 179px;"> <span class="team-name" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039); display: block; font-size: 2.1em; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; min-height: 40px; padding-left: 8px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; width: 171px; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/teams/argentina" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;">Argentina</a></span><span class="team-score" style="background-color: #ffdf43; color: #1c1c1c; display: block; float: left; font-size: 2.1em; height: 36px; left: -41px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; min-height: 40px; padding-top: 4px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: 0px; width: 40px;">0</span></div> </div> <div id="match-details" style="background-color: #ffdf43; color: #1c1c1c; display: inline; float: left; margin-left: 1px; margin-top: 45px; position: relative; width: 81px;"> <ul id="match-timings" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: center;"> <li id="extra-time-details" style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px;"><abbr title="Extra Time">ET</abbr> <span class="match-time" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold;">30</span></li> <li id="full-time-details" style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px;"><abbr title="Full Time">FT</abbr> <span class="match-time" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold;">90</span></li> <li id="half-time-details" style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px;"><abbr title="Half Time">HT</abbr> 0-0</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="special-notice" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 16px 8px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"> <div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039); color: white; display: inline-block; padding: 4px; zoom: 1;"> Chile win 4-1 on penaltie</div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJV4mWFa-p0LU1K6JElx4wXuKgleJWrTCTuNdkuZfsit7ZNW_2BZVX8JsSPjPIxYJkWB1oD9r6KzxzFy4tbiy4FgQ0aatIYPomJAtgFlnO2jbI09cNbi5FLkfB9j3BWy5ZQ1zYbP4cmNRR/s1600/adelowo+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJV4mWFa-p0LU1K6JElx4wXuKgleJWrTCTuNdkuZfsit7ZNW_2BZVX8JsSPjPIxYJkWB1oD9r6KzxzFy4tbiy4FgQ0aatIYPomJAtgFlnO2jbI09cNbi5FLkfB9j3BWy5ZQ1zYbP4cmNRR/s400/adelowo+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div id="special-notice" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 16px 8px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"> <div id="headline" style="text-align: start;"> <span class="byline" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="display: block; margin: 8px 0px 16px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><span class="text" style="display: table-cell; min-height: 48px;"><span class="byline-name" itemprop="name" style="color: #4f4d4b; display: block; line-height: 1.1;">By Phil Dawkes</span><span class="byline-title" itemprop="jobTitle" style="color: #4f4d4b;">BBC Sport</span></span></span></div> <div class="introduction" id="story_continues_1" itemprop="description" style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.462em; line-height: 1.11; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Chile secured the first major trophy in their history on home soil courtesy of a penalty shootout win over Argentina in the Copa America final.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez slotted in the winning spot-kick after Argentina's Gonzalo Higuain fired over and Ever Banega was denied by Claudio Bravo.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Higuain had earlier missed from close range after 90 minutes of few chances.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Sanchez came closest in extra time for Chile, who scored all four of their penalties in the shootout.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Where Chile held their nerve, Argentina wilted in the shootout at the end of a performance that fell well short of the heights they reached in their <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33085956" style="color: #5e789b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6-1 semi-final win over Paraguay.</a></div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Le Albiceleste are without a major trophy in the last 22 years since winning the 1993 Copa America in Ecuador.</div> <div class="data-table-outer" style="text-align: start;"> <table class="data-table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; width: 464px;"><colgroup><col width="100%"></col></colgroup><thead> <tr class="heading"><th class="left first" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 223, 67); font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 16px;"> BBC World Service's Richard Padula in Santiago</h2> </th></tr> </thead><tbody> <tr><td class="left first" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 8px 4px 16px;"><div style="color: #1c1c1c; padding: 0px;"> "It was a game in which the destroyers kicked, grappled and smothered the playmakers. Messi wasn't given a yard of space as Chile stifled Argentina's attack. In that regard Jorge Sampaoli's game-plan worked perfectly. Apparently he'd studied hours of tapes of Barcelona in action to discover the key to stopping Messi.</div> </td></tr> <tr class="row2"><td class="left first" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 8px 4px 16px;"><div style="color: #1c1c1c; padding: 0px;"> "But throughout the tournament the Chileans have shown a strong will-to-win, which at times could even be described as dirty. Jara's finger the perfect case in point. They out-fought Uruguay and stamped out Argentina's goal menace.</div> </td></tr> <tr><td class="left first" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 8px 4px 16px;"><div style="color: #1c1c1c; padding: 0px;"> Chile have never won the Copa America in the competition's 99-year history, but with such a strong team there was clearly a feeling inside the country of 'now or never'.</div> </td></tr> <tr class="row2"><td class="left first" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 8px 4px 16px;"><div style="color: #1c1c1c; padding: 0px;"> "And so it went to penalties. Maybe it was just the smoggy air but it seemed almost impossible to breathe inside the stadium."</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <h2 class="cross-head" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: left; font-size: 1.692em; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.09; margin: 20px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: start;"> Chile make history</h2> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Chile's victory brought an end to almost a century of competing in the Copa America without claiming a title.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGfyatgabwlzHNsG1n-ujbOBsRmWC3qy6dtp8bATk2b25wm8m7e2VYDVApBgjVSPkTiOPoifLhyOTP-85uy4qhykFbH2T9VgVrPsGGIVAUepDu0A0rojWqknuhrgqx9f_plymyRrBLy3H/s1600/adelowo+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGfyatgabwlzHNsG1n-ujbOBsRmWC3qy6dtp8bATk2b25wm8m7e2VYDVApBgjVSPkTiOPoifLhyOTP-85uy4qhykFbH2T9VgVrPsGGIVAUepDu0A0rojWqknuhrgqx9f_plymyRrBLy3H/s640/adelowo+blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <br /></div> They were one of four teams who played in the very first tournament in 1916 in Argentina but the best they had done until this year was runner-up, which they have achieved on four occasions (1955, 1956, 1979 and 1987).<br /> <div class="data-table-outer" style="text-align: start;"> <table class="data-table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; width: 464px;"><colgroup><col width="100%"></col></colgroup><thead> <tr class="heading"><th class="left first" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 223, 67); font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 16px;"> Chile end a century of hurt</h2> </th></tr> </thead><tbody> <tr><td class="left first" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 8px 4px 16px;"><div style="color: #1c1c1c; padding: 0px;"> Chile won their first Copa America after 173 games played in this competition, dating back to the first tournament in 1916.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> The Estadio Nacional Julio Martinez Pradanos was a cauldron of noise on Saturday, full of flag-waving red-clad home supporters, some of whom had reportedly paid up to $25,000 for tickets.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMFcG_5gZ1dXabag1IW0K_lljfUM2AT9lpdRMTVarYeipfiFsq7EeecAIvbiS11CIknugHOnZtqD9CxUyBR2d5vSCdWuRRNkFzYPMw17JpaOXK1rogoxd6fJXhecvz8ZGM7r3NSv41YZQn/s1600/adelowo+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMFcG_5gZ1dXabag1IW0K_lljfUM2AT9lpdRMTVarYeipfiFsq7EeecAIvbiS11CIknugHOnZtqD9CxUyBR2d5vSCdWuRRNkFzYPMw17JpaOXK1rogoxd6fJXhecvz8ZGM7r3NSv41YZQn/s640/adelowo+blog.jpg" width="640" /></a>They were not treated to a dazzling attacking display from their side but rather one of drive, discipline and, ultimately, composure, epitomised by the industrious and energetic Sanchez and Charles Aranguiz.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <span style="color: #4f4d4b; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Alexis Sanchez scored the winning penalty in Santiago</span></div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> However, after Arturo Vidal had powerfully dispatched Chile's second, Higuain blazed his effort way over the bar.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Charles Aranguiz made it 3-1 to the hosts and it remained that way as Ever Banega's tame effort was palmed away by the diving Claudio Bravo.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Sanchez showed supreme composure to chip his effort down the middle and in to win the game and the competition for his side.</div> <h2 class="cross-head" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: left; font-size: 1.692em; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.09; margin: 20px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: start;"> Missing Messi</h2> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> Following <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28181689" style="color: #5e789b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Argentina's World Cup final defeat to Germany</a> last summer, four-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi once again missed out on his first major international medal.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> He put in a supreme showing in the Copa America semi-final demolition of Paraguay, playing a part in all six of his nation's goals, but on Saturday he was largely on the periphery throughout, with his most significant contribution being a trademark run towards the Chile box to set up a wasted chance for Higuain in the final minute.</div> <div style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 1.35; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: start;"> <br /></div> </div>

SPORT Chile secured the first major trophy in their history on home soil courtesy of a penalty shootout win over Argentina in the Copa America final.

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Greece debt: Greeks vote in bailout referendum

<div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Millions of Greeks are voting in a crucial referendum on whether to accept the terms of an international bailout.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Polling stations opened at 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT), with the first results expected on Sunday evening.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The end of a frenetic week of campaigning saw huge rallies being held by both sides of the referendum on Friday.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The government has urged voters to vote "No", but<span style="font-size: 1.6rem;"> </span>opponents warn this could see Greece ejected from the eurozone.</div> <h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;">'Spreading fear'</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told local media on Saturday that the EU had "no legal grounds" to throw Greece out of the euro.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> On the eve of the referendum, he accused Athens' creditors of trying to sow fear around the vote. Speaking to Spain's<a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2015/07/04/5596f1b3ca47412d048b459e.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> El Mundo newspaper</a>, he said: "Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people. And spreading fear is called terrorism."</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZJsA9bXVqoksybYD96meCQ13zojDG-ghRJvVLNs2wgcrkLekqr7Y9zz872cvQ8ULQci_MpFf2NOrdMEvIKhlkSgP-tZDPJaSv9e9miV0_69xeaoB7rF1DJgtp9Bu0l6R7RxQ-dsHcMUT/s1600/adelowo+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZJsA9bXVqoksybYD96meCQ13zojDG-ghRJvVLNs2wgcrkLekqr7Y9zz872cvQ8ULQci_MpFf2NOrdMEvIKhlkSgP-tZDPJaSv9e9miV0_69xeaoB7rF1DJgtp9Bu0l6R7RxQ-dsHcMUT/s400/adelowo+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Meanwhile, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of Greece's harshest critics, suggested that if Greece were to leave the eurozone, it might only be temporary.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Greece is a member of the eurozone. There's no doubt about that," he told German newspaper Bild.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Whether with the euro or temporarily without it: only the Greeks can answer this question. And it is clear that we will not leave the people in the lurch."</div> <h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Tight race</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Greece's current bailout programme with the European Commission, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB) ran out on Tuesday.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Banks have been shut all week, with limits imposed on cash withdrawals.</div> <br /> <figure class="media-landscape body-width no-caption" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px -24.640625px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="null" class="js-image-replace" datasrc="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/464/media/images/75306000/jpg/_75306515_line976.jpg" height="2" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/75306000/jpg/_75306515_line976.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616.203125px;" width="464" /></figure><br /> <h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Ballot paper question</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Must the agreement plan submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund to the Eurogroup of 25 June, 2015, and comprised of two parts which make up their joint proposal, be accepted? The first document is titled "reforms for the completion of the current programme and beyond" and the second "Preliminary debt sustainability analysis".</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Voters must check one of two boxes - "not approved/no" or, below it, "approved/yes"</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33381070" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Voices from a Greek island</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33311422" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The question that makes (almost) no sense</a></div> <br /> <figure class="media-landscape body-width no-caption" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px -24.640625px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="null" class="js-image-replace" datasrc="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/464/media/images/75306000/jpg/_75306515_line976.jpg" height="2" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/75306000/jpg/_75306515_line976.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616.203125px;" width="464" /></figure><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr Varoufakis has said that the banks in Greece would reopen on Tuesday whatever the outcome and that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras would still reach an agreement with creditors if the result was "No" in the referendum.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tens of thousands of people attended rival rallies urging "Yes" and "No" votes on Friday night.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr Tsipras told supporters Greece needed to "say a proud 'No' to [European] ultimatums" to sign up to fresh austerity.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He also used similar language to Mr Varoufakis, urging Greeks to say no to "the campaign of terror".</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He denied a "No" vote would mean leaving the European Union - though opponents said they believed Mr Tsipras could not deliver on such a promise<span style="font-size: 1.6rem;">.</span></div>

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Tunisia beach attack: State of emergency declared

<div class="story-body__introduction" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tunisia has declared a state of emergency, just over a week after 38 tourists, mainly Britons, died in an attack in the resort city of Sousse.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The state of emergency gives security forces more powers and limits the right of public assembly. </div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Authorities had already tightened security, deploying more than 1,400 armed officers at hotels and beaches.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said in a national address that "exceptional measures" were needed.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "In order to face up to this scourge we need to be prepared. We need to have enough troops, proper training and material means - we are in desperate need of material means," he said, appealing for international counter-terrorism support and co-operation.</div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="bbccom_slot mpu-ad bbccom_standard_slot bbccom_visible" id="bbccom_mpu_1_2_3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-transform-origin: 20% 40%; -webkit-transition: height 2s ease-in-out; background-color: #e7e7e7; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: right; transition: height 2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The state of emergency will be in place for a renewable period of 30 days. </div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> An official from the prime minister's office said several officials had been sacked in the wake of the attack, including the governor of Sousse.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Just as there have been security failures, there have also been political failures," Dhafer Neji told AFP.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Security forces were criticised for not responding more quickly to the attack on 26 June in Sousse, when a gunman opened fire on tourists on a beach and in a hotel before being shot dead by police.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Those killed included 30 Britons.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The gunman has been identified as student Seifeddine Rezgui, who authorities say had trained in Libya.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid conceded in a BBC interview on Friday that the slow response of the police was a key problem.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.33333; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He said Rezgui had probably trained with the Ansar al-Sharia group, though Islamic State (IS) earlier said it was behind the attack.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/179D/production/_84054060_72m6r5oy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/179D/production/_84054060_72m6r5oy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>

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Copa América 2015 final: Chile v Argentina – live

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Ja-OVoRnV59ce3ZdlJVilFxk2DhVzR-d8Fh4RSgBqDAatkNFM7phMQe4kJlMbC3z1o4kpb9KfNg9qCFaxyWoPGsA96RRwrb4EQk_AZD6xU4s0DC-56XFa6jpfq8VMryjVgvnrQImN8P5/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Ja-OVoRnV59ce3ZdlJVilFxk2DhVzR-d8Fh4RSgBqDAatkNFM7phMQe4kJlMbC3z1o4kpb9KfNg9qCFaxyWoPGsA96RRwrb4EQk_AZD6xU4s0DC-56XFa6jpfq8VMryjVgvnrQImN8P5/s400/download.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;"><br /></strong> <br /> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Lionel Messi will go into his second major international final in as many years hoping to finally lead Argentina to glory.</div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The Barcelona man has won everything there is to win in the club game, but is now looking to ease the pain from last summer's World Cup final defeat by lifting the Copa America.</div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> But attempting to stop him and his team are host Chile, who have never won the competition and will be confident that they can end the drought in front of their own fans.</div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Join JONNY SINGER for all the action, with updates from MARTIN DOMIN in Santiago.</div>

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Copa America 2015 Final live stream free (beIN Sports): How to Watch Argentina vs Chile football online (Game preview)

<span style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Copa America 2015 Final between Argentina and Chile takes place on Saturday, and both teams will be desperate to claim the win to end their long wait for international honors. Today's game takes place from Santiago, Chile with a kick off time of 4 p.m. ET</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmtbZlIZ2J-gs5BeDEx2H29f5gSAldSt445xs_0M1qMHX81vHEHFS3EQZx4EJDgoXSw3DrdqJnp0lO8DQgByMXzEj2a2G477HXdxMj4oHz2DDjzAIkb1g8D_f5WOGa-pYJXNUffQv4GDf/s1600/alexis-sanchez-chile-soccer-football.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmtbZlIZ2J-gs5BeDEx2H29f5gSAldSt445xs_0M1qMHX81vHEHFS3EQZx4EJDgoXSw3DrdqJnp0lO8DQgByMXzEj2a2G477HXdxMj4oHz2DDjzAIkb1g8D_f5WOGa-pYJXNUffQv4GDf/s400/alexis-sanchez-chile-soccer-football.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> The game will be available to watch on TV on the beIN Sports network, but will also be available to watch online through live stream via the link below.</div> <div class="nativo" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> <div id="div-gpt-ad-OOP_InRead"> <div id="div-gpt-ad-OOP_InRead_ad_container"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Chile have managed to navigate their way through some tough games to arrive in the Final, and in their semi final they had to fight hard to get past a difficult Peru team. They are now just one game away from a dream Copa America title on home soil.</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> However, Argentina will be big favorites after their performance in the semi finals, demolishing Paraguay 6-1. They themselves will be just as desperate to win this one, as they have not won a major international tournament since 1993. Their supporters back home will be holding their breath with anticipation that their more-than 20 year wait for a trophy will finally be over today.</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Lionel Messi was on fire in the semis, and Paraguay simply had no answer to stop him. At times it was brutal to watch as Messi and Co. completely tore the Paraguay defense to shreds, and it finally seems like the Argentinian team has hit top gear, and it has come at the perfect time.</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> For Messi personally, a win here today would be a sweet moment. He has won cabinet-loads of trophies both personally and at club level, however, at the international level he still has so much more to achieve.</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Many compare him to Argentinian legend, Diego Maradona, however, Maradona drove his national team to win trophies, and that - so far - has been the main thing lacking from Messi's illustrious career.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCOV6szaYPfchIo7iU7pERDltR4E4ZHtd_B2n100dah8H1OtxnQW9AxEseYis6vg6L7MlAbvbADNWigMt3WHD731ADx6kYLOH04_cCeqgXIsUh4stvTsh3zZyUwaNp6t5CWtg_EuDMh3KK/s1600/lionel-messi-argentina-football.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCOV6szaYPfchIo7iU7pERDltR4E4ZHtd_B2n100dah8H1OtxnQW9AxEseYis6vg6L7MlAbvbADNWigMt3WHD731ADx6kYLOH04_cCeqgXIsUh4stvTsh3zZyUwaNp6t5CWtg_EuDMh3KK/s400/lionel-messi-argentina-football.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="imageBox" style="clear: both; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 10px auto; padding-bottom: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center;" tw="740"> <div class="caption" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 6px 0px; text-align: left;"> Lionel Messi celebrates a goal for Argentina in this file photo.</div> </div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> With players around Messi such as Sergio Aguero, Carlos Tevez and Gonzalo Higuain among others, there is no excuse for this Argentina team not to be winning trophies, and they will feel it is their time finally today.</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> However, they face a Chilean side that will be giving their all, and they will have a 12th man with the home fans cheering them on in what is sure to be an electric atmosphere in Santiago.</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Whether they have enough to contain Argentina remains to be seen, but one thing's for sure, they will not be left wanting for lack of effort.</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Aguero has indicated that Argentina will not be taking the hosts lightly, and he even praised the Chile team as "one of the best teams in the tournament".</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> "It is the second major challenge facing us after Uruguay and they will look to impose on us," he said.</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Chile captain, Claudio Bravo, has said: "We have never been favorites in any tournament and often is good for us to feel that, because we are full of energy and enthusiasm. The word fear has not been referred to by anyone in the team, but we have the utmost respect for all the teams. The headline of fear or that we were scared was established by the press and not from us."<br />"I think we have to do the same thing that we did in the match in the qualifiers for Brazil, which was a very seasoned Chile, a Chile that wanted to play on equal terms."</div> <div style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> He added: "This is something we have been doing since long ago, and the truth is that we have a great chance, playing at home, with our fans, which increases our chances of playing a good game and brings us closer to the title."</div> </div>

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Greece debt crisis: Tsipras urges 'No' to 'blackmail'

<span style="background-color: #111111; color: #ececec; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.0000095367432px;">"Nobody has the right to threaten to cut down Greece from its natural geographic body" - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras</span><br /> <span style="background-color: #111111; color: #ececec; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.0000095367432px;"><br /></span> <div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has called on voters to reject "blackmail" when they vote in a bailout referendum on Sunday.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">In a TV address, he insisted Greece's EU membership was not at stake. He later told cheering supporters to vote "No" to "live with dignity in Europe".</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">There were scuffles with police as both sides held rallies in Athens.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">A Greek court has rejected a challenge to the legality of the referendum, in which people will vote on the terms of further international loans.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">It comes after tough talks with creditors, and EU leaders have warned that a "No" vote could see Greece leave the eurozone.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Greece's economy is already being squeezed after its bailout programme ran out on Tuesday.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Banks have been shut and limits imposed on cash withdrawals.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The head of Greece's banking association has warned that although the banks have enough funds until Monday, they will be dependent on the European Central Bank thereafter.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sWQxAfdeIZI5L9-yEP17TW5JskoafEh_Ldgl9L_YY8l-wU_b11VQCP87gwsefyoDlvlTRDSz7ZGpL_ZMB-AXWbL7thvQhDLeOgW8hdgFv49TMxoIssKboDDw0Tm4Iwe4u5rdpKAR0AFK/s1600/ADELOWOPHILIP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sWQxAfdeIZI5L9-yEP17TW5JskoafEh_Ldgl9L_YY8l-wU_b11VQCP87gwsefyoDlvlTRDSz7ZGpL_ZMB-AXWbL7thvQhDLeOgW8hdgFv49TMxoIssKboDDw0Tm4Iwe4u5rdpKAR0AFK/s400/ADELOWOPHILIP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">It is a scene that speaks of suffering and exhaustion, and one that may well become the lasting image of the Greek debt crisis.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">An elderly man, sitting on the ground outside a bank, was photographed crying on Friday morning.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The image, taken in Thessaloniki by AFP's Sakis Mitrolidis, was widely shared on social media as soon as it was published.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The man, whose name was not disclosed, was helped away soon after it was taken.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">His story is not known, but those of plenty of other pensioners are.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Monthly pensions have gone down to an average of €833 ($924; £594) from an average of €1,350 in 2009, according to INE-GSEE, the institute behind Greece's biggest union.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Read more: <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33382046" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cost of crisis to pensioners</a></span></div> <figure class="media-landscape body-width no-caption" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px -24.640625px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="null" class="js-image-replace" datasrc="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/464/media/images/75306000/jpg/_75306515_line976.jpg" height="2" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/75306000/jpg/_75306515_line976.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; color: inherit; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616.203125px;" width="464" /></figure><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Claims by Greek politicians that a "No" vote will strengthen their hand in bailout negotiations have been rebuffed by European leaders.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Both EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Jeroen Dijsselbloem - head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers - have insisted a "No" vote will weaken the Greeks' position and that even a "Yes" vote will not mean a deal is easy to agree.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Several European officials have complained in strong terms about Greece's abrupt decision to hold a referendum on the terms of a bailout offer that they say is no longer on the table.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">But in a ruling on Friday, Greece's top administrative court rejected an appeal lodged by two individuals who had argued that it was illegal to hold popular votes on fiscal matters.</span></div> <div class="media-placeholder narrative-video-placeholder enabled" data-media-meta="{"duration":"PT1M53S","available":true,"image":{"height":360,"width":640,"href":"http:\/\/c.files.bbci.co.uk\/137E4\/production\/_84044897_84044896.jpg","altText":"Stefanaki Ioanna, committee member of the \u0027Yes\u0027 campaign group","copyrightHolder":"BBC","originCode":"cpsprodpb"},"mimeType":"application\/xml","href":"http:\/\/playlists.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-33388035A\/playlist.sxml","externalId":"p02w7s6p","caption":"Stefanaki Ioanna: \u0022A yes vote will give Greece a chance\u0022","allowOffSiteEmbedding":false,"live":false,"entityType":"Version","durationInSeconds":113}" data-media-type="video" id="84044115" style="background-color: white; 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border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Debt 'unsustainable'</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Thousands of "Yes" and "No" supporters gathered in separate squares of central Athens on Friday, and police threw stun grenades in brief scuffles with "No" protesters.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Mr Tsipras urged Greeks, at a "No" rally later on Friday evening, to say a "proud 'No' to the ultimatums".</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">In his TV address, Mr Tsipras referred to an <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33373390" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IMF report published on Thursday</a>which said Greece would need an extra €50bn euros ($55bn; £36bn) over the next three years to stabilise its finances and repeated suggestions that Greece needed debt relief.</span></div>

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