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Sven-G�ran Eriksson: Fabio Capello should not be fearful to take play on Ashley Cole International Football

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He took David Beckham in 2002, Wayne Rooney in 2006 and, if the medical advice is favourable, would advocate taking Ashley Cole in 2010. For Sven-Göran Eriksson, it is a simple equation. The England manager should take his best players to a World Cup and play as many as possible in their best positions.

Not that the Swede wants to tell Fabio Capello how to do his job. There is enough pressure to managing England without intensifying the burden, as Eriksson knows all too well. When it comes to predicting who will win in South Africa this summer, he rates England as third favourites behind Brazil and Spain but do not expect him to moralise or interfere.

The timing of Coles broken ankle represents the kind of dilemma that the former England head coach faced when Beckham and Rooney broke metatarsals before the previous two World Cup finals.

You have to be in the situation of Capello to decide that, by talking to the doctors and experts, Eriksson says as he overlooks the Atlantic from the cliff-edge terrace of the Vivenda Miranda Hotel on the Algarve, where he is promoting his new football academy, part of the multisports Cascade resort. Its important you take exact advice on the injury and whether he will get back in a couple of weeks.

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Cole is scheduled to be fit in mid-May, as the Barclays Premier League season finishes. England face the United States in Rustenburg on June 12, with two friendly international matches in between. The Chelsea defender will have next to no match fitness, but he is a high-class player, integral with his pace to Capellos 4-2-3-1 formation.

The decisions to take Beckham and Rooney backfired on Eriksson. Should that inform Capello, who has insisted that he will not take players who are less than fully fit? They were two extremely important players and when the doctors said it was OK, I had no problem with my decision, Eriksson says. Every case is different. [But] remember you have three or four weeks of preparation time at the end of the season [before the World Cup]. I leave it to Capello.

Eriksson ranks Cole alongside Patrice Evra, the Manchester United left back. They are similar: quick, very aggressive, great going forward, he says. If you talk about left backs in the world, they are among the best.

Eriksson says he will be back in the dugout by the start of next season, but he does not regret his ill-fated venture as director of football at Notts County, which ended last month. Its sad, sad, sad, he says, the dream having ended when Munto Finances promise of a 25 million investment proved empty. I thought that was maybe the best job in my life, to take a team from the bottom to the Premier League in five years.

He believes that Roberto Mancini, the Manchester City manager and his protg from their time together with Sampdoria and Lazio, will be a success in the English game. He is the second-best man for the job, jokes Eriksson, who was in charge at the City of Manchester Stadium for one season. Even as a player, he was always asking questions and acquiring knowledge. You could tell he would be a manager.

As for this seasons Champions League, Eriksson, who won domestic titles in three countries, can envisage Rooney facing off against Lionel Messi in a Manchester United v Barcelona final. So who is the best player in the world? If he could take only one, which one would it be? You will have to allow me to have both, he says. You cant compare Rooney and Messi because one is more of a striker, one the wide player.

Rooney can play on his own, as he does now for United, so Im not surprised by that this season. He is as strong as an ox. The way he wants to defend for the team is a strength and it is very rare for a [goalscorer]. I think he can do it all; he can run all day. Scoring more than 30 goals this season confirms he is among the best in the world.

Better than Messi, then? Come back in May and perhaps we can compare them in the Champions League final, he says. And then we have a World Cup to judge them.

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• Sven-Göran Eriksson has hit back at Gareth Southgate for criticising his coaching style at the 2002 World Cup. England lost 2-1 to Brazil in the quarter-finals and Southgate, an unused substitute, attacked the England head coach in his autobiography for his half-time team-talk, saying: We were expecting Winston Churchill and instead got Iain Duncan Smith.

• Eriksson believes his methods were fully justified, despite the result. I gave a normal team-talk, the Swede said. If Southgate was disappointed he was not playing, perhaps he wouldnt remember it well. When we defeated Germany 5-1 [in Munich] I was not Winston Churchill then, either. Its stupid of Southgate and thats it. I know what Ive done in football, how many trophies I have won, and I have my style. If its not good enough for Southgate, I can live with that.

• Eriksson will be involved in this summers World Cup finals in some capacity. He was interviewed for the Nigeria coaching post and is strongly tipped to take charge of Ivory Coast. He is also weighing up media offers.

Vice President Biden stairs in over Israel and Palestine talks

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Israeli and Palestinian talks contingency go on with no delay, the US Vice-President pronounced in a approach residence to the Israeli open on the last day of a scattered visit.

"The majority critical thing is for these talks to go brazen and go brazen soon and go brazen in great faith," pronounced Joe Biden in a debate to Tel Aviv University. "We can"t check given when swell is postponed, extremists feat the differences."

Mr Bidens revisit was meant to attest the USs joining to Israels security, and accelerate the fledgling assent talks voiced only days ago.

But Israel broke the American commission by announcing plans for 1,600 new homes in an easterly Jerusalem allotment during Mr Bidens initial day of meetings in Jerusalem throwing in to the limelight one of the majority quarrelsome issues confronting the assent process.

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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apologized for the timing of the announcement, but was incompetent to relieve the indignant reply to what was dubbed a slap in the face to the Obama Administration.

In one of their majority strongly-worded statements to-date, US officials cursed the Israeli allotment plan.

In his speech, Mr Biden pronounced that he appreciates Mr Netanyahus reply to the row, that enclosed a guarantee done by the Prime Minister that a resource was being determined to forestall the regularity of that sort of event.

Mr Netanyahu additionally told Mr Biden that the tangible construction a whole in easterly Jerusalem was expected to take multiform years.

"That"s poignant given it gives negotiators the time to finalise this as well as alternative superb issues," Mr Biden said.

Palestinians, however, could confirm to call off their impasse in the surreptitious talks, in that the US is due to action as a substitute mediating in between the dual sides.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa last night that the Palestinians had motionless not to come in the talks for now.

"The Palestinian side is not ready to come to terms underneath the benefaction circumstances," Mr Abbas said.

Sabri Saidam, a comparison official, pronounced that there was a stream box of stagnation.

The entrance couple of weeks and days are critical, he said. He added, that Palestinians are not ready to go to any negotiations unless Israel cancels this preference on the settlements.

George Mitchell, the US assent envoy, has been perplexing to restart assent talks given they were called off some-more than a year ago.

Mr Abbas had demanded a full hindrance to Jewish allotment construction in the West Bank and easterly Jerusalem, areas prisoner by Israel in a 1967 war, prior to any resumption of the two-decade old assent process.

Israel considers all of Jerusalem the capital, a explain that has not won general recognition.

Palestinians wish easterly Jerusalem to be the collateral of the state they goal to settle in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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Nigel Farage insults EU boss Herman Van Rompuy- contains video

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Nigel Farage was currently indicted of utilizing personal insults to win broadside after he called the EUs new boss a slightly wet broom and discharged his local Belgium as a non-country.

The former personality of the UK Independence Party showed his present for anticipating the media spotlight by rising a sarcastic conflict opposite Herman Van Rompuy, the former Belgian Prime Minister selected to lead the European Council.

His distributed conflict came as piece of a plan to set up his form for a ubiquitous choosing conflict with Speaker John Bercow in Buckingham.

The Times understands that Mr Farage is dynamic to be censured or dangling from the European Parliament to assistance with his Westminster campaign.

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I don"t wish to be bold but, really, you have the glamour of a slightly wet broom and the coming of a low-grade bank clerk, Mr Farage pronounced to Mr Van Rompuy in the European Parliament, sketch snub from the Belgian press this morning.

The subject I wish to ask is: who are you? I"d never listened of you, nobody in Europe had ever listened of you."

Mr Farage added: "I can verbalise on interest of the infancy of British people in observant that we don"t know you, we don"t wish you and the earlier you are put out to grass, the better."

Mr Van Rompuy pronounced that he "would not bob to that level" to respond.

Like most of Mr Farages proudest moments, it was placed on YouTube and has turn an internet hit.

But the BBC was additionally indicted of handing Mr Farage additional media bearing by using his harangue on the headlines bulletins to progress ratings for the own Question Time programme tonight, on that Mr Farage is due to appear.

The BBC is compelling Mr Farage who has turn one of their house pet behaving animals, pronounced Denis MacShane, the former Europe Minister.

The BBC should not abuse the headlines bulletins by compelling a loudmouth of small significance simply since he is looming on one of their budding time programmes.

He added: Nigel Farage gives the normal rent-a-quote MP or MEP a bad name. He has regularly confused personal insults with critical politics.

A UKIP orator said: It was not unparliamentary language. It was rude, but it was not unparliamentary. UKIP is there in the European Parliament to try and have a little waves.

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Andrei Arshavin: Arsenal not clever sufficient to win the Premier League this season

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Arsenal lay second in the table, dual points at the back of Manchester United and dual forward of Chelsea.

However, the Russian striker believes Arsenal"s miss of summer signings - along with injuries to Robin outpost Persie, Kieran Gibbs and Aaron Ramsey - leaves them disadvantaged.

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"I am still of the perspective that to win trophies Arsenal needs some-more players," Arshavin told the Sun.

"There is the elementary actuality that last summer we sole dual players and paid for usually one. So there is an viewable necessity of at slightest one. Then we lost Van Persie, Gibbs and Ramsey for a prolonged time. So for me it is healthy we need new players.

"Without the accumulation of players we have less farrago in attack. That allows the opponents to review the combinations some-more easily. Finally, it formula in less round receive for us and the counterclaim comes underneath some-more pressure.

"The Premier League is really interesting, at slightest as prolonged as we go on fighting to win it. But but new experienced players, genuine stars, it will be formidable to grasp success.

"Ideally we need 3 or 4 such experienced players and afterwards between the youths there should be guys who are not usually great at personification football but have genuine character."

Chilean troops takes carry out of quake-hit cities World headlines

Soldiers ensure the streets of Talcahuano, in southern Chile, after the earthquake. Photograph: Aliosha Marquez/AP

The Chilean troops has taken carry out of towns and cities influenced by the earthquake, it was reported today, commanding curfews and guarding shops from looters as the genocide fee from the mess rose to some-more than 700.

The Chilean president, Michelle Bachelet, sealed a direct putting the troops in assign of security in the range of Concepción, where looters have targeted markets and supermarkets, attack food and H2O supplies.

"We are confronting a mess of such inconceivable bulk that it will need a hulk bid [for Chile to recover]," Bachelet pronounced after assembly ministers and generals at the quake-damaged La Moneda Palace.

Concerns are flourishing over Britons blank in the issue of the catastrophe.

An estimated 65,000 British people revisit Chile each year, and a series of UK holidaymakers sojourn unaccounted for. A Foreign Office orator pronounced there had been "no reports of any casualties" so far.

The Surfer"s Cottage, an eco-cottage for surfers in Pichilemu, executive Chile, listed five Britons between the missing.

UK gift workers were due to arrive in Chile currently to assistance with assist efforts.

The US cabinet member of state, Hillary Clinton, will revisit the nation tomorrow on a formerly scheduled outing separate to the quake.

"Our hemisphere comes together in times of crisis, and we will mount side by side with the people of Chile in this emergency," she said.

As aftershocks measuring up to 7.5 one after another to beat the country, rescuers arrived at coastal cities to find that complete fishing villages had been cleared away.

There were reports that 350 people had died in the locale of Constitución, that was strike initial by the trembler and afterwards by a tsunami.

The genocide fee was approaching to climb dramatically since of the series of blank people. Identification of the passed has been hampered since majority were sleeping when the upheaval struck and were not carrying any personal documents.

More than 100 people remained trapped inside a wrecked 14-storey building a whole a whole in Concepción, Chile"s second largest city, 40 miles north-west of the epicentre.

The new building a whole a whole was usually half occupied, but an estimated twenty bodies were private from the rubble, and teams of firefighters were stability to poke the disadvantage for signs of life.

An estimated 500,000 residential buildings have been exceedingly shop-worn by the quake, withdrawal scarcely one in eight residents homeless.

As food, H2O and fuel ran out, looting erupted in Concepción and troops primarily attempted to stop the looters utilizing teargas.

A pitched conflict erupted inside one supermarket, finale when troops and supermarket officials authorised residents to remove necessary equipment free of charge.

Food warehouses were additionally looted, and Jacqueline outpost Rysselberghe, the mayor of Concepción, warned: "We are going to have amicable blast if assist is not perceived today."

The Chilean air force sent a 747 filled with troops to the segment in an try to recover control, whilst troops roadblocks were set up outward a little cities in an bid to forestall outsiders from fasten the looting.

The cost of the upheaval repairs was estimated to be $25-$30bn (£16-£20bn) by Eqecat, a organisation formed in Oakland, California, that specialises in mess supervision software.

Experts at the association pronounced Chile"s story of vital earthquakes and plain building a whole a whole had been instrumental in preventing far some-more deaths, with building a whole a whole codes together with earthquake-resistant standards in all new construction.

The Chilean president-elect, Sebastián Piñera, who takes bureau in less than dual weeks, has worked closely with the effusive Bachelet administration department department to organize long-term relief.

On Saturday, he asked key mess use and supervision officials to sojourn in bureau during the early piece of his administration.

He additionally called for vital sanctions opposite and investigations of building a whole a whole companies concerned in new housing projects that have collapsed.

Ricardo Ortega, the head of the Chilean air force, pronounced yesterday a blurb airline use had been to a little extent re-established and aircraft were right away being authorised to land at Santiago"s general airport.

With most vital bridges broken and complete sections of Route 5, the main north-south highway, disfigured and torn, smoothness of use assist to most areas has been done formidable and in a little cases impossible.

Fears of a tsunami resounding opposite the Pacific Ocean were quelled yesterday when waves that strike Japan valid to be minimal.

Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher belligerent after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, formed in Hawaii, warned 53 countries and territories that a tsunami was imminent.

After the centre carried the warning, a little countries kept their own watches in place.

Microsoft adds amicable networking to Outlook

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Microsoft has launched the try to soak up online amicable networking facilities in to the at large used desktop e-mail software.

Features to be incorporated in to the subsequent version of Microsoft Outlook, used by 500 million people as piece of the Office module applications, will spin the e-mail make make use of of in to a heart of amicable information.

The move underlines the flourishing significance of networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn to businesses and comes a week after Google stumbled when it introduced the Buzz amicable network underline in to the Gmail program. The poke organisation has had to apologize and recover multiform fixes after users found that Buzz could exhibit sum about a users contacts.

Google launched Buzz after examination Facebook turn a critical hazard to the prevalence as peoples elite entrance point to the internet. Facebook has some-more than 400 million users worldwide -- half of whom make make use of of the site each day.

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Microsoft, that is an financier in Facebook, wants to make make use of of the energy of amicable networks by bringing the updates in to workers e-mail inboxes at the office.

When an Outlook user clicks to review an e-mail message, Microsofts new Social Connector module will concede a new mirror on the main e-mail celebration of the mass shade to fill with the senders majority new social-networking activities.

Dev Balasubramanian, the Outlook Office organisation product manager, said: As you promulgate you can see their amicable activities; you can see all the folks in your amicable network and it updates as you are celebration of the mass your e-mail.

Microsoft concurred that a little companies competence be endangered about employees wasting time on amicable networks at the office.

Will Kennedy, a corporate vice-president for the Office group, pronounced the innovations could coax productivity. For example, users can lift up details, together with a photo, about those in attendance a stirring commercial operation assembly but carrying to track by particular amicable networks.

We dont wish this to be the subsequent good time waster in the workplace," Mr Kennedy said.

The module organisation will put the renouned amicable networking services in to the subsequent Outlook e-mail program, to be expelled with an Office 2010 set of applications in June. The Social Connector module that channels LinkedIn updates to Outlook inboxes was launched this week as an early exam of the new service.

The LinkedIn tie lets people utilizing the e-mail module stay in hold with any changes in pursuit status, hit report or affiliations common by colleagues in the 60-million clever online community. Elliot Shmukler, product government director, said: Outlook powers the veteran inbox so the compare is really clear."

Analysts design the recover of Office 2010 to assistance progress increase at Microsoft as craving IT spending rebounds in the entrance months. Weak sales of servers and module updates for businesses in 2009 has resulted in restrained demand. The companys Office section is Microsofts greatest business, accounting for a third of the companys $58.4 billion in sales in the last monetary year.

Other companies are additionally aiming to progress partnership in between workplace colleagues by introducing amicable network features. Salesforce, a web-based commercial operation module company, not long ago voiced a exam module for Salesforce Chatter, an craving partnership focus that will concede workers to entrance real-time updates from Facebook and Twitter in a secure network from their computers or smartphones.