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By Michael Winfrey BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Anti-government demonstrators streamed into Budapest on Saturday for what was expected to be the biggest protest yet against Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany over his admission that he lied to the electorate. A Reuters correspondent at the scene said that around 2,000 had gathered by mid-afternoon in front of the huge neo-Gothic parliament, where daily protests have been held for the past week. The protests have widened the bitter division betw ...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is unable to confirm a French newspaper report that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to have died last month in Pakistan, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday. "We don't have any confirmation of those reports," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. "We have no confirmation of that report," echoed White House spokesman Blair Jones. A U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, came close ...

By Adrian Croft MANCHESTER (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters marched on Saturday against Prime Minister Tony Blair on the eve of a rally of his Labour Party where a struggle over the leadership looked set to eclipse debate on policy. Chanting opposition to the Iraq war, to nuclear weapons and shouting "Blair must go!", activists streamed through the centre of the northern city of Manchester, which will host Labour's annual conference from Sunday until Thursday. It will be Blair's fi ...

By Mussab Al-Khairalla and Alastair Macdonald BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed 26 people in a Shi'ite Muslim stronghold in east Baghdad on Saturday as Iraq's minority Sunnis began the fasting month of Ramadan, which U.S. commanders have warned may see a rise in sectarian bloodshed. The blast, claimed by a Sunni militant group as a strike at Shi'ite militia, also wounded 29 people who had gathered around a tanker distributing fuel for stoves in Sadr City, police sources said, adding that it wa ...

(Reuters) - In an unusual move, aides to Prince Charles denied a report on Saturday that the heir-to-the-throne's staff have to cook him seven boiled eggs to allow him to choose one with the perfect consistency. According to BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman's new book "On Royalty", Charles enjoys a boiled egg after a day's hunting but he is fussy about how long it is cooked. "If the Prince  ...

By Tony Jimenez STRAFFAN (Reuters) - World number one Tiger Woods lost his second successive match as Ryder Cup holders Europe grabbed a 7 1/2 to 4 1/2 lead after the morning fourballs on Saturday - their third successive session win. Woods was well below his best on Friday and again sprayed the ball all over the K Club course on the second day as he and Jim Furyk were beaten 3 & 2 by wildcards Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood. Jose Maria Olazabal equalled the all-time fourballs record after co ...

By Anna Willard PARIS (Reuters) - France said it could not confirm a report on Saturday that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died in Pakistan last month. The French regional daily L'Est Republicain, published in Nancy, quoted a document from the DGSE foreign intelligence service as saying the Saudi secret services were convinced bin Laden had died of typhoid in late August. French President Jacques Chirac told reporters after a summit with leaders of Germany and Russia that bin Laden's de ...

By Tony Jimenez STRAFFAN (Reuters) - World number one Tiger Woods lost his second successive match as holders Europe grabbed a 7 1/2-3 1/2 lead after three of the four morning fourballs of the Ryder Cup on Saturday. Woods was well below his best on Friday and again sprayed the ball all over the K Club course on the second day as he and Jim Furyk were beaten 3 & 2 by wildcards Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood. Sergio Garcia and Jose Olazabal combined brilliantly again to beat Phil Mickelson and  ...

By Tony Jimenez STRAFFAN (Reuters) - Tiger Woods is in danger of being dropped from a Ryder Cup session for the first time in his career after Europe maintained their stranglehold on the biennial team event on the second day. Woods was well below his best on Friday and again sprayed the ball all over the K Club course as he and Jim Furyk fell two down after nine holes against Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood in Saturday's morning fourballs. Europe, 5-3 up on the U.S. overnight, were ahead in th ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has got out of bed and walked after suffering brain injuries in a high-speed crash, co-host Jeremy Clarkson told The Sun newspaper on Saturday. "In the wee small hours of Thursday night, just 30 hours after what is almost certainly the world's fastest ever car crash, Richard Hammond suddenly sat up in bed opened his eyes and asked what had happened," wrote Clarkson in his Sun column. "'You've been in a car accident', I said. 'Was I driving  ...