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Draws for play-offs of UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League

043 - Draws to be held at UEFA headquarters on 9 August




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Top 3 nominees announced for UEFA Best Player in Europe 2012/13

UEFA Best Women’s Player in Europe 2012/13 – Shortlist of top three announced




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UEFA launches Best Women’s Player in Europe Award

045 - 2013/14 UEFA Women’s Champions League draws for rounds of 32 and 16 in Nyon




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Top European club coaches to meet at UEFA

046 - UEFA Elite Club Coaches Forum takes place on Wednesday 4 September and Thursday 5 September




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Referee appointed for UEFA Super Cup in Prague

047 - Swedish official Jonas Eriksson to handle FC Bayern München v Chelsea FC




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Franck Ribéry wins UEFA Best Player in Europe Award 2012/13

Award presented at Monaco ceremony




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Nadine Angerer wins UEFA Best Women’s Player in Europe Award 2012/13

049 - Award presented during ceremony at UEFA Headquarters




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UEFA Executive Committee agenda

050 - Media accreditation deadline is Wednesday 11 September at 12.00CET




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Thirty-two countries declare interest for UEFA EURO 2020 bid

051 - Decision on 13 final tournament hosts to be taken in September 2014




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MSPs call on UK and Scottish Governments to work together as billions of pounds in benefits go unclaimed

The UK and Scottish Governments must work more closely together to ensure people get the benefits they are entitled to, a new report by the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee has said.




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Tallinn to stage 2018 UEFA Super Cup

The 2018 UEFA Super Cup will be played on 15 August of next year at Tallinn's Lilleküla Stadium, the first senior UEFA final in Estonia in the centenary of that republic's creation.




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UEFA Super Cup roll of honour: Madrid end 27-year wait

Real Madrid have continued Spain's dominance of the UEFA Super Cup with victory against Manchester United – becoming the first side since 1990 to retain the trophy.




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Manchester United's previous UEFA Super Cup matches

Twice UEFA Super Cup losers after UEFA Champions League successes – and now once as UEFA Europa League winners – Manchester United have won only one of their four appearances.




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Where the UEFA Super Cup was won and lost

Zinédine Zidane makes it five in a row, Real Madrid's scoring machine rumbles on and United's new boys provide hope – our experts in Skopje pick out four takeaways.




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Watch highlights of Real Madrid's UEFA Super Cup win

Goals from Casemiro and Isco helped Real Madrid successfully defend their title but Manchester United gave the European champions a scare after Romelu Lukaku pulled one back.




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Beşiktaş Park, Istanbul to stage 2019 UEFA Super Cup

The 2019 UEFA Super Cup will be played at Beşiktaş Park in Istanbul on Wednesday 14 August of that year, the third major UEFA final to be played in the Turkish city.




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Nine associations interested in hosting 2020 UEFA Super Cup

UEFA has received declarations of interest from nine associations to host the UEFA Super Cup in 2020.




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Porto to host 2020 UEFA Super Cup

The Estádio do Dragão, home of 2004 European champions Porto, will stage the 2020/21 season-opener.




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UEFA Super Cup tickets have been allocated

The UEFA Super Cup ticket ballot has been conducted and applicants notified via email.




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All you need to know about the 2018 UEFA Super Cup

Real Madrid will take on Atlético in Tallinn, Estonia, on Wednesday.




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Where to watch the UEFA Super Cup

Real Madrid face Atlético in the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday – here's how you can watch the game.




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Real Madrid and Atlético's UEFA Super Cup pedigree

Atlético ended Real Madrid's four-game UEFA Super Cup winning streak in Tallinn, and maintained their 100% record in the competition.




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UEFA Super Cup records and statistics

Diego Costa scored the fastest-ever UEFA Super Cup goal to help Atlético win in 2018: all the records.




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UEFA Super Cup roll of honour: Atlético make it three

Atlético Madrid have joined Liverpool in fourth spot on the UEFA Super Cup honours board.




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2019 UEFA Super Cup: Beşiktaş Park, Istanbul

The 2019 UEFA Super Cup will be played at Beşiktaş Park in Istanbul on Wednesday 14 August.




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Where to watch the UEFA Super Cup

Fans have no need to miss a single minute of the 2019 UEFA Super Cup between Liverpool and Chelsea.




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Math Curriculum Company Drops Defamation Suit Against N.C. Parent

Mathematics Vision Project has dismissed the lawsuit after the surprising move the company made this summer to take legal action against one of its most vocal parent critics.




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UEFA.com wonderkid: Meet the Hamburg Harry Kane

"The boy is extraordinary," Hamburg great Uwe Seeler said of the club's fine 18-year-old striker Jann-Fiete Arp, who is carrying his Under-17 form into the Bundesliga.




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UEFA.com wonderkid: Ferrán Torres, the new Marco Asensio

"He's the complete package technically," Spain Under-17 coach Santi Denia said of Ferrán Torres, who is starting to make first-team headway at Valencia aged 17.




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Referee Meler hopes U17 final just the start

"I know it is the beginning of a long path," said Halil Umut Meler ahead of refereeing the U17 EURO final in England.




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France's Aouchiche equals UEFA finals scoring record

France's Adil Aouchiche equalled a record shared by Michel Platini with his nine U17 EURO finals goals.




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Online tutor helps general public turn COVID-19 prevention efforts into action

Penn State researchers have developed a comprehensive online tutor to educate the general public about the science behind COVID-19 and appropriate steps anyone can take to help reduce its transmission.




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Essay in The American Scholar Is Skeptical on School Reform

Education professor Mike Rose has a thoughtful essay questioning some trends in education reform in the quarterly journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.




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Three Testing Issues to Watch in Rewriting No Child Left Behind

Both the House and Senate ESEA bills keep annual tests, but they go very different ways on a lot of other assessment issues.




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Barack Obama Says Education Reform Isn't a 'Cure-All.' Is That a Flip-Flop?

A tweet from the former president about education's role in addressing inequality and lack of opportunities drew split reactions and a chance to review his record and where K-12 stands in the political sphere.




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Bernie Sanders' Record on Testing and No Child Left Behind: A Brief History

The Democratic presidential candidate likes to highlight his vote against the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, although his record on the issue of high-stakes standardized testing isn't black and white.




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Schönefeld: Terminal sections with new designations

As of today, the terminal sections of Schönefeld Airport have new designations: K, L, M Departures, M Arrivals and Q.




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How Schools Can Be More Effective at Growing Young Voters

The reason young people fail to vote is not because they don't care about politics or policy, but because they don't know how to translate their ideals into action, a new book argues.




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UEFA 'Press Play' vlog series now live

Four top European players feature in the first episode of UEFA's new weekly vlog series designed to increase the visibility of women's football to teenage girls.




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UEFA launches #PlayAnywhere campaign

A freestyle world champion stars in an incredible keepy-up video across Europe to launch UEFA's #PlayAnywhere campaign, which also features eight top women's players and 13 unique locations.




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UEFA 'Press Play' vlog series passes three million views

UEFA's ground-breaking weekly vlog Press Play has now had over three million views on the Together #WePlayStrong Youtube channel.




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UEFA and Rita Ora pair up to support #WePlayStrong

UEFA is delighted to announce it will be the official sponsor of Rita Ora's The Girls Tour as part of our Together #WePlayStrong campaign.




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Meet Rita Ora with UEFA's 'What is Strong?' campaign

Rita Ora is offering fans an opportunity to meet her as part of UEFA's newest women's football initiative.




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Former player Martinčić proud to referee WU19 final

Ivana Martinčić, once a player in the Croatian women's top division, speaks about her pride at being selected to referee the 2018 Women's U19 EURO final.




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Lucy Bronze named UEFA Women's Player of the Year

Lyon and England right-back Lucy Bronze is the first defender to win the poll of coaches and journalists.




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How brilliant is UEFA women's award winner Lucy Bronze?

The first defender to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year award: we salute Lyon and England right-back Lucy Bronze.




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UEFA Women's Champions League: Q&A with Nadine Kessler on new format

UEFA's head of women's football Nadine Kessler explains why the 2021/22 switch to a group format is a win-win – for clubs, players and fans.




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Ten for the future: UEFA.com's women players to watch for 2020

We pick out ten young players to watch in the coming year – and decade.




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Church of the Holy Sepulchre closed indefinitely

CNA Staff, Mar 30, 2020 / 02:30 pm (CNA).- The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed last week and has no definite timeline for reopening. This is the first time in nearly 700 years the holy site has closed for an extended period due to disease. 

The church building, which houses the tomb of Christ and the site of the crucifixion, was first closed to pilgrims and other visitors on Wednesday, March 25. Initially, the closure was only expected to last for one week, but religious and Israeli government officials agreed that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the global pilgrimage destination should not reopen. 

"The initial understanding is that this order is valid for one week, although nobody knows how long this crisis will take," Wadie Abu Nassar, a spokesperson for the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, told Reuters. 

Nassar said that if the church is still closed to the public at Easter, some sort of celebration will be arranged in line with the governmental guidelines and restrictions. Easter is celebrated on April 12 for Latin Rite Catholics and April 19 for Eastern Churches using the Julian calendar-- both dates are observed within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. 

If this were to happen, said Nassar, pilgrims would still not be allowed inside, and the denominations that share custody of the church would coordinate to ensure that there are no more than 10 clerics and other leaders gathered inside at any time.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is unique among religious sites as it is partially controlled by several different Christian Churches. The Roman Catholic Church, Greek Orthodox Church, and Armenian Apostolic Church each share control of the building, and other Orthodox Churches also celebrate divine liturgy at the site. 

The last time the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed for an extended period was 1349, during an outbreak of the Black Death in Jerusalem. 

The church, which was first consecrated in the year 335, has been closed for short periods of time in the subsequent millennia due to war or other disputes. In 2018, to protest a proposed tax increase on churches, the site was closed to the public for about three days before reopening. 

Other religious sites, including the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, have also closed due to the Israeli government’s new restrictions aimed at preventing people from catching COVID-19. 

Authorities in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, closed the Church of the Nativity in early March after four cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in the town. The Church of the Nativity was built over the birthplace of Jesus Christ. All tourists were subsequently banned from entering Bethlehem.

Israel has taken a proactive approach in its attempts to contain the spread of COVID-19. On March 9, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that anyone entering the country would be forced to quarantine for a 14-day period. That announcement resulted in the cancelation or abrupt end to many pilgrimages, as travelers scrambled to secure flights back to the United States. 

Israel has recorded more than 4,000 cases of COVID-19, with 15 deaths.



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Gender Gaps Alter Benefits of Extracurricular Activities, Study Finds

A new study finds that extracurricular activities have differing positive effects for rural boys compared to girls.