Injured James Horwill confident David Pocock, Will Genia will step up as Wallabies leaders - Daily Telegraph
27 May 2012, 9:17 pm
SIDELINED Wallaby captain James Horwill has complete faith in deputies David Pocock and Will Genia stepping up as winning leaders for Tests against Scotland and Wales now a cruel "pop" in his hamstring has floored him. "The next few weeks and Tests are out ...

Benji barely raises a sweat in Wests Tigers win - Stuff
27 May 2012, 8:34 pm
The only other time he hit the deck was when he was hit in mid-air by James Tamou, and Marshall, the New Zealand skipper, lashed out at the Kiwi defector with a short-armed jab to the jaw of the floored Cowboy. To suggest Tigers officials need not worry ...

Jack Todd: Home cooking to blame for Lucian Bute's defeat to Carl Froch - Calgary Herald
27 May 2012, 7:51 pm
MONTREAL - Stunned, gobsmacked, floored, shocked, astounded, jolted and just plain old surprised. Frankly, I can’t believe it. Not simply that Lucian Bute lost. That was always a possibility, once he decided to risk his International Boxing Federation ...

Cannes glory at 81 for French screen icon Trintignant - France 24
27 May 2012, 4:02 pm
Set in the hushed rooms of the couple's parquet-floored Parisian flat, the film charts Anne's physical and mental decline, and the increasingly unbearable strain it puts on Georges, who pledges to care for her at home until the end. A classic ...

Kenya: Cheboi floored - AllAfrica.com
26 May 2012, 2:27 am
Bethwel Birgen beat Africa silver medallist Collins Cheboi to win the 1,500m race in the second and final day of the Administration Police athletics Championships at Nyayo Stadium yesterday. Birgen, representing Nyanza, clocked 3:36.6 with Rift Valley's ...

Theodore Orji floors opponent at Supreme Court - P.M. News
25 May 2012, 8:43 pm
The Abia state Governor, Chief Theodore Orji on Friday floored a fellow party chieftain who had been challenging the validity of the governor’s candidacy at the April 2011 gubernatorial election in the state. The Supreme Court in its judgment ...

Italian comedian causing a stir with string of election victories - The Guardian
25 May 2012, 11:54 am
The marble floored study from where he pounds out his venomous attacks on Italy's trembling politicians is hung with prints of orchids. Outside, a garden full of well trimmed rose bushes looks out over the Mediterranean. The son of a Genoa ...

Cupar community group floored by council's £1500 bill to raise the bunting - Courier
25 May 2012, 5:20 am
The Cupar Children's Gala Committee decided it wanted to put up bunting in two town centre streets to mark the gala on June 2 — the Queen's diamond jubilee which falls the same weekend, and the journey of the Olympic Torch through the town on June 12.

As Obama Seeks the Votes of Women - New York Times
22 May 2012, 10:56 pm
Re “Obama: Stop Condescending to Women” (Sunday Review, May 20): It floored me to read Campbell Brown’s essay. The audacity to state that for “most other women,” in addition to the “struggling women” in her life, the economy ...

Alberta RCMP react to Mountie misconduct - inews880.com
22 May 2012, 8:40 pm
The RCMP K Division admits it is floored and very upset with the actions of one of its former members. An RCMP disciplinary hearing has found Sgt. Don Ray guilty of a serial pattern of disgraceful conduct. It's alleged that between 2006 and 2009 ...