Canada push Spain to brink of shock Davis Cup exit

(Reuters) - Canada raced to a 2-0 lead over Spain in their Davis Cup world group first round tie on Friday, pushing the five-times champions to the brink of defeat and moving to within a doubles victory of a maiden win at this level.

With top-ranked Spain missing big guns Rafa Nadal, David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro, the Canadians seized their chance when Milos Raonic and Frank Dancevic dominated the clay-loving Iberians on the lightning fast Vancouver hard courts.

Raonic, the world number 15, delivered as expected to tame feisty Alberto Ramos 6-7 6-4 6-4 6-4 before Frank Dancevic, ranked 161, destroyed world number 34 Marcel Granollers 6-1 6-2 6-2.

Spain looked determined to make it a difficult day for Canada when Ramos, making his Davis Cup debut, fought off three break points on his opening serve then forced the first set tie-break, which he won 7-5 when rattled Raonic sent his forehand long.

There would be few other miscues, though, as Raonic broke Ramos to open the second set and then collected the decisive break at 4-4 in third on his way to a 2-1 lead.

At 4-4 in the fourth, Raonic broke Ramos again before serving out the match with two thundering aces.

"It wasn't always the prettiest but thankfully I'm through." Raonic told courtside television as the celebration erupted around him. "I just put everything aside and focused on winning.

"I was hoping to turn the match in the first set, I had three early chances on his serve, three forehands into the net, I couldn't change it around there.

"But as soon as I got that first break right away in the second it let me play a little more freely."

Dancevic, still chasing his first career ATP Tour title, dropped to his knees and clenched his fists to celebrate the biggest win of his career when a Granollers return hit the net.

"I think I played the match of my life today," said the 28-year-old.

"I just went in with a lot confidence, like just had to go all or nothing today. Anytime I had an opportunity I went for it.

"This isn't over yet. We've to go strong, these guys aren't finished yet, they're going to come strong tomorrow.

"They've got a great doubles team ... we just have to go hard until the last ball this weekend."

Granollers will team up with Marc Lopez to take on Canada's Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil in a must win doubles match on Saturday if they are to keep alive their hopes of advancing to the quarter-finals.

Spain have not crashed out in the first round since 2006, when they fell 4-1 to Belarus.

(Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto, editing by Nick Mulvenney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/canada-push-spain-brink-shock-davis-cup-exit-030841352--ten.html

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Philadelphia priest and former teacher guilty of child sex abuse

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A priest and a former parochial school teacher were found guilty on Wednesday of sexually attacking a former altar boy, the latest chapter in the child sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Rev. Charles Engelhardt, 66, faces the possibility of 37 years in prison, and Bernard Shero, 50, faces a maximum sentence of 57 years in prison following the guilty verdicts by a jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.

Engelhardt and Shero were accused of molesting an altar boy who was 10 years old at the time at St. Jerome's parish in the Northeast section of Philadelphia.

A grand jury report in 2011, which detailed child sex abuse in the archdiocese, the nation's sixth largest with 1.5 million members, said the altar boy was "in effect passed around" from one molester to another in 1998 and 1999.

Now 24, the victim testified at the trial.

"The victim in this case has shown exceptional courage," District Attorney Seth Williams in a statement following the verdicts.

"Not only did he have the strength to report his abuse but he had the tenacity to look his abusers in the eye and testify in front of complete strangers about the horrific details of his attacks," Williams said.

Engelhardt was convicted of indecent assault, corruption of a minor and other sex-related crimes. The jury deadlocked on a charge of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child.

Shero was convicted of six sex-related crimes, including rape of a child and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.

Sentencing will take place this spring, authorities said.

A third man accused in the case, former priest Edward Avery, 71, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse and is serving a prison sentence of 2-1/2 to five years.

The same grand jury report led to the conviction last year of Monsignor William Lynn, former secretary of the clergy for the archdiocese, who was found guilty of endangering the welfare of a child.

Lynn is serving a prison sentence of up to six years. He was the highest-ranking clergyman to be convicted in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church scandal.

The Philadelphia district attorney's office has successfully prosecuted four of the five men charged by the grand jury in 2011. Charges against the fifth, Rev. James Brennan, involving another youth, ended in a hung jury in June, and he awaits retrial.

(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Leslie Adler)

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This undated image released by CBS shows Michael Emerson, left, and Carrie Preston in a scene from "Person of Interest." Emerson has played a serial killer, a mysterious, villainous Island leader and currently stars as a billionaire computer genius on ?Person of Interest.? But he says playing the romantic interest for his real life wife has been his most unsettling role. Emerson plays the off-beat Harold Finch in ?Person of Interest,? which airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. Eastern. His wife Carrie Preston has a recurring role as Finch's former fiance, who believes he is dead. (AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo)

This undated image released by CBS shows Michael Emerson, left, and Carrie Preston in a scene from "Person of Interest." Emerson has played a serial killer, a mysterious, villainous Island leader and currently stars as a billionaire computer genius on ?Person of Interest.? But he says playing the romantic interest for his real life wife has been his most unsettling role. Emerson plays the off-beat Harold Finch in ?Person of Interest,? which airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. Eastern. His wife Carrie Preston has a recurring role as Finch's former fiance, who believes he is dead. (AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo)

FILE - This May 30, 2012 file photo shows married actors Carrie Preston, left, and Michael Emerson at the premiere of HBO's "True Blood" in Los Angeles. Emerson has played a serial killer, a mysterious, villainous Island leader and currently stars as a billionaire computer genius on ?Person of Interest.? But he says playing the romantic interest for his real life wife has been his most unsettling role. Emerson plays the off-beat Harold Finch in ?Person of Interest,? which airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. Eastern. His wife Carrie Preston has a recurring role as Finch's former fiance, who believes he is dead. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Michael Emerson has played a serial killer, a mysterious, villainous Island leader and currently stars as a billionaire computer genius on "Person of Interest." But he says playing the romantic interest for his real life wife has been his most unsettling role.

Emerson plays the off-beat Harold Finch in "Person of Interest," which airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. Eastern. His wife Carrie Preston has a recurring role as Finch's former fiance, who believes he is dead.

The couple has acted together in a few independent films and Preston even played Emerson's mother in an episode of ABC's "Lost," but this was their first romantic pairing. This season even showed the characters' first kiss.

"Neither of us are the kind to get a lot romantic work in front of the camera so for us to get a big old languid first kiss with music underneath it and everything ? that's a first in my career," he said.

Emerson said having his wife play his love interest can be tricky: "It's a little hard to turn off her wife-ness to me to make her just this other character."

Still, the Emmy-winning actor said he's happy to have his better half on set ? even though he didn't help get her there. "Maybe Jonah (writer Jonathan Nolan) called me on the phone and said, 'Would you have a problem if we asked your wife to play a character that we're working on?' And I said, 'No.' That's how much I politicked to get her the part. I was completely unaware of it."

Preston, who also appears in "True Blood" and "The Good Wife," also found working with him a little strange but that nothing was more bizarre for them than watching the kiss on TV.

"We both sat and watched it together at home on the sofa and we got all kind of giggly and shy about it. It was like we didn't know how to look at each other," he said. "It's like, 'Oh God, there we are. We're kissing.'"

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Egypt's opposition leader calls for broad national dialogue involving powerful military

CAIRO - Egypt's liberal opposition leader on Wednesday called for a broad national dialogue with the Islamist government, all political factions and the powerful military, aimed at stopping the country's eruption of political violence that has left 60 dead the past week.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei's appeal appeared to be aimed at responding to a sharp warning by the head of the armed forces a day earlier that Egypt could collapse unless the country's feuding political factions reconcile.

But so far the opposition National Salvation Front headed by ElBaradei and the government of President Mohammed Morsi have been at loggerheads, with the front demanding Morsi make major concessions as a condition for any dialogue. Morsi has ignored their demands, holding his own "national dialogue" program, mainly with his own Islamist allies.

Meanwhile, violence has spiraled after first erupting in Cairo on eve of last Friday's second anniversary of the uprising that toppled authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak. It since spread around the country, with the worst violence in the Suez Canal city of Port Said, which has virtually declared itself in revolt against Morsi's government.

In response, Morsi declared a 30-day state of emergency and night curfew in Port Said and two other Canal cities, Suez and Ismailiya, and their surrounding provinces. But every night since it went into effect, tens of thousands of residents in the city have defied the curfew with nighttime rallies and marches, chanting against Morsi and the Musllim Brotherhood, which forms the backbone of his rule.

In a Tweet, ElBaradei called for an immediate meeting between Morsi, the defense and interior ministers, the Brotherhood's political party, the National Salvation Front and parties of the ultraconservative Salafi movement "to take urgent steps to stop the violence and start a serious dialogue."

He said stopping the violence is the priority, but stuck by the front's previous conditions for holding a dialogue ? that Morsi form a national unity government and form a commission to amend contentious articles of the Islamist-backed constitution.

There was no immediate response from the presidency or the Muslim Brotherhood on ElBaradei's new call. Morsi was on a brief visit to Germany and was expected back in Egypt later Wednesdsay.

Over the past week, Morsi ignored ElBaradei's demands, and the Brotherhood said they don't accept conditions for talks.

The Front has depicted the unrest as a backlash against Islamists' insistence on monopolizing power and as evidence that the Brotherhood and its allies are unable to manage the country on their own.

Morsi has been holding his own national dialogue program for more than a month, touting it as a chance for non-Islamists to make their voice heard in decision-making. But almost all opposition groups have shunned it as mere window dressing.

Officials in the presidency and the Brotherhood have blamed the opposition for instigating the violence, accusing them of trying to bring down Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president.

Late Tuesday, Morsi authorized governors of the three provinces to either cancel or limit curfew hours in an attempt to assuage public anger. Suez Governor Gen. Samer Aglan said that he will ease up the curfew while deploying more troops to the streets after midnight.

Source: http://www.startribune.com/world/188820781.html

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