2009:: Chelsea defeats Milan 2-0 in friendly PASADENA: Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard scored to give Chelsea a 2-0 victory over Inter Milan in their football friendly at the Rose Bowl on Tuesday.The game - which pitted Inter coach Jose Mourinho against his old side _ was part of the World Football Challenge, a series also involving AC Milan and Mexican club America.Drogba scored on a swerving 30-yard shot that Inter goalkeeper Vid Belec could only deflect inside the right post.Lampard converted a penalty in the 50th minute after Inter-defender Ivan Cordoba used his right elbow to block Daniel Sturridge's shot.Inter striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, believed to be on the verge ofa move to European champions Barcelona, come on as a 59th minute substitute. Ibrahimovic led Italy's Serie A with 25 goals last season.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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