Murray overcomes Del Potro to open with year-end win - Update
London - Andy Murray secured the first group victory Sunday as the Scot began with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 win over Argentine Juan Del Potro at the ATP World Tour Finals. Top seed Roger Federer was playing later in a start against Spain's Fernando Verdasco, ...
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Leverkusen on top after draw in Munich; Bochum stun Hamburg - Summary
Hamburg - Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday moved back to the top of the Bundesliga standings after playing to a 1-1 draw at Bayern Munich. The win takes Leverkusen to 27 points, one more than Werder Bremen and two more than Schalke 04. Bayern, who were jee...
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Nilmar goals continue Villarreal's revival
Madrid - Villarreal continued their march up the Spanish league table on Sunday with a 3-1 home win over lowly Valladolid. The Yellow Submarine made a terrible start to the season but are now 11th. ...
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Brown's Labour party gains ground on Cameron's Conservatives
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party has narrowed its electoral gap to the opposition Conservatives, or Tories, to just 6 points, according to a poll for the Observer newspaper released Sunday. In the Ipsos Mori poll, the Labou...
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Iran's controversial former interior minister dies
Tehran - Iran's controversial former interior minister, Ali Kordan, died on Sunday, the labour news agency ILNA reported. Kordan, who was dismissed in November last year by the parliament for having presented a faked university certificate, died at t...
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Comeback on the cards for Schumacher?
Stuttgart - Speculation is increasing that seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher could make a sensational Formula One comeback next season. I know that Michael spoke to Dieter Zetsche and Norbert Haug at the final race in Abu Dhabi, Schumach...
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US envoy visits Taiwan to give briefing on Obama's China trip
Taipei - The top US official for Taiwanese relations arrived in Taipei late Sunday to brief authorities on US President Barack Obama's recent trip to China. Raymond F Burghardt, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute in Taiwan (A...
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Deep ocean census finds jumbo Dumbo and oil-drilling worms
Washington - Marine scientists have identified 17,650 species in ocean depths so far down that light no longer penetrates, according to the newest update in the years-long census of marine life released Sunday. The oddest...
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Murray overcomes Del Potro to open with year-end win
London - Andy Murray secured the first group victory Sunday as the Scot began with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 win over Argentine Juan Del Potro at the ATP World Tour Finals. The Scottish crowd pleaser took two hours, ten minutes to secure the opening-day succes...
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Bolt and Richards are World Athletes of the Year 2009
Monte Carlo - Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt and American 400m world champion Sanya Richards were on Sunday crowned as the World Athletes of the Year 2009 at a gala in Monte Carlo. In a statement issued by the sports' controlling body, the Inte...
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