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Kosovo's breakaway from Serbia provoked fresh unrest Friday as U.N. police were attacked by ethnic Serb demonstrators in northern Kosovo a day after angry demonstrations in the Serbian capital Belgrade left one person dead. art.embassy.afp.gi.jpg Serbian riot policemen guard the entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on Friday. more photos » The Associated Press said protesters among a crowd of 5,000 trying to cross a key bridge in the divided city of Mitrovica, hurled empty bottles and stones at the police. It was initally thought that the police retaliated with canisters of tear gas but AP later said this...

THEY appeared, by and large, to be normal kids - right up until the moment they plotted to blow thousands of people into oblivion. "Outward impressions with certain people who have a disconnect, a fracture if you will, in their makeup don't necessarily mean a lot," said Dr. Allan Manevitz, a leading psychiatrist at Weill-Cornell Medical Center. "There are serial killers with mothers who love them and who love their mothers." The British terror suspects were soccer fans, and largely polite. One of them was Brian Young, 28, who changed his name to Umar Islam after converting two to three...

STUTTGART (Reuters) - Riot police detained a group of around 100 rowdy England soccer fans in a square in the center of Stuttgart on Saturday after they had clashed with German fans, throwing bottles and chairs and trading punches. Tens of thousands of English and German fans had gathered in the area, many drinking throughout the day, to watch Germany's 2-0 second-round World Cup win over Sweden on big screen TVs. Trouble broke out shortly after the end of the game. England fans were in the city for their country's second-round match against Ecuador on Sunday. Some 150 fans on...

Shooter waited - cops BY JESS WISLOSKI AND MELISSA GRACEDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS A violent collision in a sandlot soccer game in the Bronx led one player to fatally shoot his opponent, cops and the victim's family said yesterday. Albanian immigrant Besnik Qelia, 27, was gunned down near his Bolton St. home at Lydig Ave. at 10:20 p.m. Saturday - just hours after a game on a Pelham Parkway median. "That is where it started, an argument on the field," said a relative of Qelia's who didn't want his name used. "Things got carried over, the guy waited for him...

DECENT soccer fans fired a broadside at the sick senors of Spain last night over disgraceful racist taunts aimed at black England players. Stars Ashley Cole, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Jermaine Jenas endured vile monkey chants as England lost 1-0 to Spain in a “friendly” in Madrid on Wednesday. But yesterday England fans threw the taunts back in Spain’s face and sang: “One Armada and NO World Cups.” It was an ironic twist on the terrace chant aimed at German rivals - “Two World Wars and one World Cup”.