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The process to extradite Joran van der Sloot from Peru to the United States to face criminal charges has begun, according to Maximo Altez, van der Sloot's Peruvian attorney.

Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson said Thursday he expects Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar to retire at the end of the season.Ferguson said United were already planning for life without van der Sar on the pitch, although the 40-year-old Holland international could possibly stay on as a coach at Old Trafford."We are planning for this being his last season," Ferguson said. Asked about whether the goalkeeper could stay on to help coach his successor, Ferguson said the issue had not been discussed.

English Premier League club Tottenham were still awaiting clearance Wedensday on the last-gasp, cut-price transfer of Dutch playmaker Rafael van der Vaart from Real Madrid.Spurs boss Harry Redknapp became aware of 27-year-old van der Vaart's availability just two hours before the transfer deadline.Redknapp claimed the Holland star had been due to join Bayern Munich for 18 million pounds but the move broke down on Monday, and Spurs had swooped in a bid to sign the player for a slashed eight million.

Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman indicted in the murder of a Peruvian woman and prime suspect in the disappearance of an American girl in Aruba, is showing "psychopathic tendencies," a media-quoted medical report said Monday.Van der Sloot, 22, is being held in a maximum security prison in Lima where he was examined by doctors from Peru's Institute of Legal Medicine, who found him to be "impulsive and showing psychopathic tendencies," El Comercio daily said on its website.