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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it had excluded Russian athlete Victoria Baranova (cycling-track, women's sprint) and provisionally suspended Colombian athlete Diego Palomeque Echavarria (athletics, men's 400m) from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London.

Army Pfc. Sarah Pastorius, left, of the 1194th Engineer Company works with Spc. Patrick McCorkle, of the same unit, to install electrical wiring in a building at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in northeast Ohio. BThe Soldiers of the 1194th Eng. Co. wired five buildings that were recently constructed as a way to hone their engineer skills.

Tech. Sgt. Shawn Theberge, a medical technician with the 157th Medical Group, plays the role of a victim during a training exercise at the Santanita Fire Training Complex in San Salvador, El Salvador, as a member of the local fire department begins to extract him.Personnel from the New Hampshire Air National Guard traveled to San Salvador to participate in a Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear High Yield Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) exchange with local search and rescue authorities.

Olympic hopefuls American Ashton Eaton and Canadian Brianne Theisen are hoping to compete for gold for their respective countries, but have already won the affection of one another.

Asians have replaced Latinos as the largest immigrant group in the US, according to the Pew Research Center.

Union European of Football Associations (UEFA) has fined Germany 10000 euros after their fans threw missiles onto the pitch during their opening Euro 2012 match.

Faced with questions about his relationships with two key figures in News Corp's U.K. newspaper scandal, British Prime Minister David Cameron Thursday rejected suggestions that he traded favored treatment for electoral support by Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, terming the allegations of a conspiracy "specious" and "unjustified".