(Adds details) LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – New Zealand flyhalf Dan Carter will miss Saturday’s test against Wales at the Millennium Stadium and has been replaced by Aaron Cruden after failing to recover from a leg injury. “Gutted not to be playing with these boys in this stadium tomorrow,” Carter said on his official Twitter account. Carter, the leading points scorer in test rugby, pulled up in training on Thursday and looked to be in discomfort. Cruden, 23, has won 18 caps. …
Abbas determined to seek UN nod for Palestine
After bitter rival Hamas held its own in a fierce battle with Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has no choice but to override U.S. objections and seek U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine next week, his aides said Friday.
Brazilian soccer federation fires national coach Mano Menezes; Scolari touted as replacement
SAO PAULO – Brazil’s soccer federation has fired national team coach Mano Menezes.
Canada's third quarter GDP growth seen falling sharply
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s economy likely expanded at a disappointing annualized rate of 0.9 percent in the third quarter, hurt by weaker demand for the country’s exports and the drag of a rapidly cooling housing market. The median forecast in a Reuters survey of 25 analysts was less than the Bank of Canada’s already modest 1 percent forecast and well below what is needed to absorb the economy’s unused slack. Such a pace is likely to keep the central bank from raising interest rates anytime soon. Just last month, a Reuters poll showed analysts were expecting third quarter growth of 1. …
Canada's Lolë women's wear expanding, could challenge Lululemon
(Reuters) – A small, privately owned Canadian women’s active wear brand is pushing further into the United States, where it could challenge yogawear retailer Lululemon Athletica Inc in its main growth market. Montreal-based Coalision Inc’s Lolë, which has 11 stores in North America and Europe, is planning to open five new locations in 2013, and hopes to hit 50 in the next five years, the company said. Lolë’s only U.S. locations are a temporary, or “pop-up”, store in Santa Barbara, California, and one outlet in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. …
Analysis: Charges against BP employees test reach of U.S. statute
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Not all manslaughter charges are created equal. If they were, the U.S. Justice Department might have filed just 11 charges when it brought a criminal case against two BP Plc employees last week, one for each of the 11 deaths in the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Instead, the government charged Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, the two highest-ranking BP supervisors on board the rig in the hours before the 2010 disaster, with 11 counts of involuntary manslaughter and 11 counts of what's known as seaman's manslaughter. … Alberta, Quebec to study rerouting Canadian crude eastward
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) – Alberta, Canada’s oil-producing heartland, and Quebec’s separatist government will study the benefits of shipping the western province’s crude to refineries in Quebec, a shift that could help cut the industry’s dependence on the U.S. market. The development is a shift from previous comments by Quebec officials that had cast doubt on the energy industry’s quickly evolving plans to get oil sands-derived crude to Eastern Canadian refineries, which now handle mostly imported oil that arrives at a much higher price. …
Return of 'Downton Abbey' for fourth season confirmed, filming to start next year
LONDON – British television channel ITV has confirmed that hit drama “Downton Abbey” will return for a fourth season.
New protests in Tahrir Square as Egypt's Morsi grants himself broad powers
Thousands of opponents of Egypt’s Islamist president clashed with his supporters in cities across the country Friday, burning several offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the most violent and widespread protests since Mohammed Morsi came to power, sparked by his move to grant himself sweeping powers.
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