Chelsea won the penalty shootout by a score of 4-3.

Bayern dominated most of the final, but was held goalless until the 83rd minute of the match, which was held at their home stadium, Allianz Arena, in Munich on Saturday.

Thomas Mueller opened the scoring when he shocked Chelsea keeper Petr Cech with a stunning header.

Mueller drifted in to meet a long cross by Toni Kroos at the far post, and his header bounced down and then into the goal off the underside of the crossbar.

However, Didier Drogba leveled the match with a dramatic header two minutes before the final whistle and sent the game to extra time.

Drogba, in what may have been his last game for Chelsea, took Juan Mata’s corner cross and powered a header high into the net, leaving no chance for Bayern goalie Manuel Neuer.

In the early minutes of the first period of extra time, the Bavarians had the best opportunity to score a second goal on a penalty kick, but Arien Robben missed the chance.

In the shootout, Drogba buried the winning penalty as he sent Neuer the wrong way in front of massed Bayern fans, moments after Bastian Schweinsteiger’s last kick for Bayern hit the post.

Chelsea will be taking home its first Champions League title, four years after losing in a shootout to Manchester United in the Champions League final.

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Provincial sources told Press TV on Saturday that the unmanned aerial vehicle was on a routine patrol sortie and took off from Mianwali Airbase, located some 200 kilometers (124 miles) southwest of the national capital Islamabad.

It went down in open fields near the city of Chakwal, located 90 kilometers southeast of Islamabad, after it developed a technical problem.

The incident comes two days after two Pakistan Air Force planes crashed in a residential area in northwestern Pakistan, killing all four pilots on board and injuring five people on the ground.

Police official Fazil Khan said residents of Nowshera city, where the planes went down, reported that the aircraft collided before they crashed, but the air force is still investigating.

The Pakistan Air Force has a fleet of Chinese aircraft, including F-7PGs and A-5s, plus US-built F-16s and French Mirages. It recently acquired JF-17 jets, also known as Thunder jets, which are manufactured jointly by China and Pakistan.

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The suit consolidates 21 related cases filed in more than a dozen states in 2011 and early 2012 alleging that Facebook tracked internet use of its members even after they logged out of their accounts.

Lawyers in the suit seek up to USD 10,000 for each Facebook user, or more than $15 billion.

“The only way you are going to stop companies from disregarding the privacy rights of the American people is to take some of their money,” attorney Billy Murphy of Baltimore, Maryland, told AFP. “That’s the only thing that gets their attention.”

The lawsuit comes after Facebook launched its market debut worth USD 104 billion, more than companies like Amazon.com, Disney and Kraft.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly apologized for privacy lapses that outraged users for their online activities being visible to advertisers and other users.

Facebook promised to honor users’ privacy preferences in a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission late last year.

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On Saturday, a roadside bomb killed 6 soldiers who were on a security mission in Gubta-gar village.

Another roadside bomb exploded in Gubadley village also left at least two AMISOM forces death.

Meanwhile, two separate grenade attacks by unknown assailants killed at least three people and injured eight others near the capital’s Bakara market.

“The grenades thrown by unidentified assailant hit a restaurant near Abdalla Shideye Mosque, killed one civilians and two soldiers,” an eye witness told Press TV correspondent in Mogadishu.

No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack. However officials are blaming al-Shabab militants.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

The weak Western-backed transition government in Mogadishu has been battling al-Shabab fighters for the past five years, and is propped up by a 12,000-strong African Union force from Uganda, Burundi and Djibouti.

Somalia is one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world.

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In an interview with Russia’s Channel One, Berkan Yashar, who is also a Turkish politician, said the US has not killed the al-Qaeda leader.

“In September of 1992, I was in Chechnya, that’s when I first met the man whose name was Bin Laden. This meeting took place in a two-story house in the city of Grozny; on the top floor was a family of Gamsakhurdia, the Georgian president, who then was kicked out of his country. We met on the bottom floor; Osama lived in the same building,” Yashar said.

According to the former CIA agent, he personally knew Bin Laden’s three Chechen bodyguards, who had protected him until his death and witnessed his death on June 26, 2006.

“Even if the entire world believed, I could not possibly believe it,” Yashar said. “I personally know the Chechens who protected him, they are Sami, Mahmood, and Ayub, and they were with him until the very end.”

“Only three Chechens buried him, according to his will” in the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border, he said.

Yashar added that the CIA abducted one of the bodyguards, Sami, before the announced killing of Bin Laden last year.

He says the bodyguard disclosed to the US the exact place of burial in the mountains.

“There was no assault. I know the American operations from the inside: they find the grave, dig out bin Laden and tell everyone about this. They need to show how technologically the security services worked, how each step was controlled, and then present it as a great victory to show that taxpayers are not paying taxes for nothing,” he said.

Washington announced on May 2, 2011 that Bin Laden was killed by US forces in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The lack of transparency over bin Laden’s death has cast further doubt over the announcement.

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“If the members of the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany) have good intentions, are committed to international law and do not try to illegally impose their views, there is hope for the Baghdad talks,” Ali Akbar Velayati said on Saturday.

“Iran will not tolerate any pressure,” Velayati said in an interview with Mehr News Agency.

The Iranian official added that Tehran would conduct the negotiations within the framework of international regulations and Iran’s law.

The latest round of the talks between Iran and the P5+1 was held in the Turkish city of Istanbul on April 14. Both sides hailed the discussions as constructive.

The next meeting will be held on May 23 in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.

Referring to Iran’s choice of location for the next round of talks, Velayati said the gesture proves that the government of Nouri al-Maliki is capable of providing security in Iraq after the withdrawal of American forces.

The last US troops, except for military contingents attached to the US Embassy in Baghdad and US consulates in the country, left Iraq on December 18, 2011.

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Written by Amir-Reza Kouhestani, the play will be performed by Iran’s Eede Theater Group featuring a blend of comic and tragic scenes.

Last Supper was also staged in Lithuania, Sweden and Taiwan, after a successful performance at ASSITEJ International Theater Festival in Denmark.

The 2012 Okinawa Theater Festival will be held from July 28 to August 5, 2012, also presenting seminars and symposiums on various issues such as the role of theatre for young people and peace-building, baby drama, disability and the arts, crisis and the arts and international collaboration.

Workshops of Asian traditional performing arts such as Noh, Kabuki, Kyogen, Kumiodori, Chinese opera, Pansori and Gamelan will also be held on the sidelines of the event.

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Gulten Kisanak, a senior member of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), said the US has been “an accomplice in this crime by giving the early footage.”

“We, as the BDP, will send a letter to the US on behalf of our people and will urge it (Washington) to apologize to the Kurdish people and families of those who were killed [in the attack],” she said in the eastern city of Erzurum on Saturday.

On December 29, 2011, 35 people were killed in a Turkish air strike near a Kurdish village in the Uludere district of Sirnak Province close to the border with Iraq. The Turkish military said it had targeted suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). However, Turkish officials later acknowledged that “civilians” were killed during the attack.

On May 17, a US military official, whose name was not mentioned in the news reports, said US spy drones had provided Turkey with intelligence to carry out the December attack.

“We are familiar with the incident. In this particular case, they (drone operators) did notice a group of people and some pack animals. That information was passed on to the Turks and then our drones departed the area,” the US official said.

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The peaceful rally on Saturday was organized by the anti-capitalist movement known as “Blockupy Frankfurt.”

Police said people marched through the city center to protest against the dominance of banks and “untamed capitalism.”

Roland Suess, a spokesman for the organizers, said the turnout has already reached 25,000. Organizers have told authorities that they expect between 10,000 and 40,000 participants to attend the event.

Europe’s debt crisis has given new fuel to protests, with austerity measures heavily affecting some European nations such as Greece, Portugal and Spain.

On Friday, at least 400 demonstrators were arrested during rallies in Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt, which is home to the European Central Bank (ECB).

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