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Highlights of the AAP world wire at 08:00 May 7
KABUL, May 7 AFP - The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US forces will give \"a new impetus\" to the fight against foreign \"invaders\" in Afghanistan, the Taliban said in a statement issued on Friday. (BINLADEN TALIBAN sent at 06:36, 505 words.) DAMASCUS, May 6 AFP - Syria's security forces shot dead at least 13 people on Friday as thousands rallied on a \"Day of Defiance\" against the autocratic regime of President Bashar al-Assad after tanks converged on protest centres. (SYRIA Update sent at 03:22, 835 words.) TRIPOLI, May 6 AFP - Muammar Gaddafi's regime reacted angrily on Friday to a decision by world powers to provide funding to rebels fighting to overthrow his rule in Libya, saying plans to tap assets frozen abroad were \"piracy\". (LIBYA sent at 03:35, 856 words.)
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Seve out of intensive care
Ballesteros was moved to the hospital's intensive care unit following the treatment, but the five-time major winner has now recovered enough to leave the unit.
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Never mind the sums, history and Seve's memory say Spain should get Ryder Cup
Aside from the technical merits of each bid - and all have their selling points - there is another, deeper thread that ought to carry weight with the decision-makers. The 2022 event coincides with the 25th anniversary of the first and only time Europe has hosted a Ryder Cup outside the British Isles. If history still means something in this commercially driven environment then surely the Ryder Cup has to return to Spain in honour of the late, great Severiano Ballesteros, who led the continent's first assignment in 1979 and captained Europe to victory in 1997. He broadened horizons, enabled the European Tour to grow geographically and commercially. He laid the groundwork, making possible the exotic bids we see today from parts of Europe where golf has not traditionally been uppermost in people's minds. It is entirely right that the Ryder Cup is spread far and wide. The focus has been on Britain for far too long. With due respect to Gleneagles, Celtic Manor and The Belfry, who would not want to head to Berlin, Vienna or Rome for a week? And all should have a crack in turn, but not, perhaps, in 2022. In conversation last week with Gonzaga Escauriaza, president of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, it was clear the 2022 bid was about more than securing the Ryder Cup, it was about the relationship between Spain and the game, and its connectivity to the European concept began through Ballesteros.
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Ballesteros out of intensive care
[...] the surgical team treating the 51-year-old performed a cranioplasty to repair a bone defect.
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ALSO out THIS week
[Taylor]'s impulsive sister Maddie (Annabel Scholey), who recently broke up with her long-term boyfriend Doug (Greg Wise), has been staying in the coastal town to \"man-tox\". Shockingly, Maddie has fallen head-over-heels for one of the locals and intends to get married in two days. Taylor and Raphael agree to conceal their shared history from the blushing bride. While Taylor wrestles with her emotions, warbling Eternal Flame by The Bangles on the beach as the sun sets, Doug arrives in Puglia, intent on wooing back Maddie. Documentary filmmaker John-Paul Davidson pays tribute to this remarkable sporting statesman, who died of brain cancer in 2011, with a film that intercuts archive footage with dramatisations of [Severiano Ballesteros]' ' formative years in sun-drenched Pedrena.
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Sport: Paying tribute: Sports stars lost in 2011: 'An abiding memory is of a great fighter and a great man': From Barry McGuigan on Henry Cooper to Dario Franchitti on Dan Wheldon, friends remember those who died this year
Everybody loved [Seve], although there were probably a few Americans during Ryder Cup week who had an alternative opinion. But even those whom Seve had tortured with his sheer brilliance on the course were among the first to offer their support and best wishes when he started his long battle against cancer. Seve was everything as a golfer: immensely proud, fiercely determined, swashbuckling, brave, fearless and with a silky short game that few could match. He attracted every age group - Seve was the golfer of the people\"
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Cricket: Seve Ballesteros 1957-2011: Watching Seve in his prime was a life-affirming experience
Here is the sort of thing he said, delivered with the tongue on rapid-fire, punctuated by sleeve-plucking and eye-locking and scribbled down more or less accurately while following his client up hill and down dale: \"[Seve] has one mission. Salvage. That's it. To get things stable. He's the captain of the ship. The bullion's in the hold and it's pulling out of the harbour on the Spanish Main. In his youth he felt invulnerable. He had his adventures and he couldn't wait to get back to give the spoils to Queen Isabella. But now in his old age of 37 he realises that he can't carry the whole world on his shoulders. Three years ago he hit the rocks, the ship sank, and all the gold went down with it. But it's all still there, at the bottom of the sea, waiting.\" So now, at 37, what was his motivation? \"A lot of people follow me. They're pulling for me. When I see the people who've come to watch me, that motivates me a lot. I feel like I must do something extra to make sure they enjoy it. When you enjoy it, the motivation's there.\" It was not just about the mind. He had recently returned from an Arizona clinic where five weeks of intense treatment had failed to achieve more than a temporary easing of the chronic back condition that was slowly and insidiously bringing about the downfall of a champion. Nothing O'Grady or any other coach could say or do would restore the light of [Severiano Ballesteros]'s once blazing talent to anything like full beam. And, like a lot of relationships in his life, the one with O'Grady, which began so promisingly, was corroded by suspicion and ended in acrimony.
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Spain mourns the genius who inspired an era of sporting champions: Giles Tremlett in Madrid witnesses a country - and a family - in grief for a golfer who rose from humble beginnings to dominance of the global game
His elder brother Baldomero told of Seve's final moments, as he said farewell one by one to each family member by his deathbed. \"I held his hands, caressed them and thought: 'what these hands have done in the world',\" Baldomero revealed. \"He knew he was dying, and he did it with full presence of mind. He said goodbye to everyone, one-by-one. He grabbed our hands and whispered into our ears. From very close, I told him: 'I love you.' And Seve replied: 'I love you too'. What is leaving us is more than a brother, a son or a father; what is leaving us is glory.\" \"During my whole career I have been one of the best at overcoming obstacles on a golf course,\" he said before the first operation. \"And now, with all my strength, I want to be the best at confronting the most difficult game of my life.\" \"It's a sad day - [I've] lost an inspiration, genius, role model, hero and friend,\" the world's number one player, Lee Westwood, wrote on Twitter yesterday. \"Seve made European golf what it is today. RIP Seve.\"
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We won this for Seve, say Monty's soldiers
Captain Colin Montgomerie said: 'Every one of my team learned what the Ryder Cup meant to Seve when we spoke to him on the eve of the matches, and they will all tell you it was one of the highlights of the week. He fired up the team and we wanted to win it for him.'
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