Venice's resident population keeps sinking
Venice - Is Venice, the lagoon city of canals and gondolas, in danger of becoming an open-air museum teeming with foreign tourists and devoid of Venetians? The fear may seem exaggerated, but it is true that the number of natives keeps sinking. In Oct...
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Taiwan, China plan cultural representative offices
Taipei - Taiwan and China might open representative offices in each other's capitals to promote cultural exchanges, an official said Thursday. Chang Yu-yue, vice minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs, said broad consensus on the issue was reac...
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Soderling marks career top 10 start with Stockholm win - Summary
Stockholm - Swede Robin Soderling took victory in his first career start as a top 10 player Wednesday, leading German second seed Tommy Haas into the second round of the Stockholm Open. New number 10 Soderling, the 17th Swede to reach an elite ATP ra...
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Haas heats up in Stockholm with 17-ace winning performance
Stockholm - German Tommy Haas tested his recent Shanghai shoulder niggle with resounding success Wednesday, opening his account at the Stockholm Open with 17 aces on the way to a 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Frenchman Florent Serra. The 31-year-old Haas showed...
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Henin, Nalbandian to make tennis returns in January
Melbourne - Justine Henin will make her return to tennis while David Nalbandian will test his form after hip surgery at the start of the year in preparation for the Australian Open. Former number one Henin has confirmed that she will headline on the ...
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Grounded swimmers rip into Masters Games organizers in Australia
Sydney - Ocean swimmers ripped into World Masters Games organizers Saturday after the 3-kilometre open water event in Sydney Harbour was cancelled moments before the gun was to fire. Everybody was numbered up, capped up, told to warm up and then nex...
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Haas withdraws before Stockholm match with influenza
Stockholm - German Tommy Haas withdrew for the second straight week from an ATP event, pulling out before his Stockholm Open second round against Finn Jarkko Nieminen Thursday. Haas, seeded second, cited influenza as the reason for failing to take th...
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Student protests spread across Austria - Summary
Vienna - Thousands of student demonstrated in Vienna and other Austrian towns Wednesday, calling for better conditions at their universities. Protesters at Vienna University issued an open letter to the government, calling for free access to higher e...
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German youth claims he was solo killer family of four
Ulm, Germany - An accused youth admitted Wednesday to shooting dead four members of a fellow schoolboy's family, asserting to a court in Ulm, Germany that he had been the sole killer. He said he had been requested to open fire on them by his friend...
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Murray, Federer to begin finals play Sunday
London - Home hero Andy Murray faces Argentina's US Open champion Juan Del Potro Sunday with Roger Federer to follow as Group A matches start the ATP World Tour Finals. Roger Federer, who could possibly lose his number one ranking to Rafael Nadal und...
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Bellucci blasts Johansson for Stockholm semi-final spot
Stockholm - Tomaz Bellucci of Brazil reached his second semi-final in three months Friday with a huge serving performance to defeat Swede Joachim Johansson 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 at the Stockholm Open. Bellucci, 21, the August winner in Gstaad on clay, raine...
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Williams collapses under desert pressure in Doha - 2nd Update
Doha, Qatar - Holder Venus Williams choked while serving for a straight-set victory to open the door for Russian Elena Dementieva's 3-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2 victory Tuesday on the opening day at the Sony-Ericsson Championships. The Maroon group round-robi...
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Janet Jackson opening AMAs
'All For You' singer Janet Jackson is to open the star-studded American Music Awards (AMAs) ceremony later this month with a moving tribute to her late brother Michael who has received five nominations.
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Firefox celebrates five years
San Francisco - The open source internet browser Firefox marked its fifth anniversary Monday, celebrating its rise from an unknown challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a formidable competitor that has been downloaded over 1 billion times by...
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Australians warned of 'catastrophic' fire danger
Sydney - More than 1,000 of Australia's volunteer firefighters were in action Saturday as crews battled 60 of forest blazes in the sweltering south-east where a decade of drought has left tinderbox conditions. A total ban on open fires was declared i...
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Del Potro dodges upset bullet with laboured London win
London - Juan Del Potro almost threw away a 5-2 lead in the final set, with the US Open champion needing to top off victory with a winning tiebreaker to escape against Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-1) at the ATP World Tour Finals Tuesday. Roger ...
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Tiger Woods in front at the Australian Open
Sydney - Tiger Woods did not drop a shot Friday to build a three-stroke lead going into the second half of the Australian Open. I didn't really do anything great, Woods conceded after carding a 4-under second round on Melbourne's par-72 Kingston He...
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Google unveils social search function
Hamburg - Google is testing a new Social Search function to make it easier for people find their friends' blogs and twitter feeds. The only catch is that users of the service need to have an open profile with Google that includes personal contact dat...
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Stalemate in Kazan leaves Group wide open
Kazan, Russia - A goalless draw between Rubin Kazan and Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday left Group F of the Champions League wide open. Kazan join Inter Milan at the top of the table with six points from their five games, but the Serie A club has played one g...
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