After a brief meeting in Ankara with Mr Ecevit, a relieved-looking Mr Solana, the EU's top foreign-affairs envoy, said "we have a yes".

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England were pushed back in the second period though and were relieved to see Adriana, looking for her 10th goal in five qualifiers, fire narrowly wide with a late free-kick.

BBC: England women 1-0 Spain women

The mediocrity of the characters and the production is relieved, though only momentarily, by the usually sombre Richard Jenkins, who shows up in black, looking like William Burroughs and playing some sort of ageless sex hipster.

NEWYORKER: Hall Pass