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Michael Owen could return to action in Newcastle's friendly against Valencia on Saturday after getting the green light to begin training after a calf injury.

Blackburn boss Paul Ince returned to his former club to sign Manchester United defender Danny Simpson on a season-long loan on Monday.

In a fanfare-filled ceremony that included dancers and bursts of confetti, the Olympic torch was paraded Monday around a stadium that only weeks ago was filled with earthquake survivors. The sweltering afternoon heat did not faze some 3,000 hand-picked spectators whose singing and cheering filled this city's Jiuzhou Stadium, the third stop for the flame in Sichuan province, where a powerful...