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Graeme McDowell sure McIlroy will part company with management
Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell has defended his slip about World No.2 Rory McIlroy leaving his management company, saying that although the move is not yet confirmed, it is already being much talked about in the golfing world. For weeks there have been whispers at big events in America that McIlroy is about to leave Horizon, the Dublin-based management agency that negotiated his 20 ...
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Zhang retains mens world crown
PARIS, France (AFP) - Defending champion Zhang Jike of China retained his men's singles title at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris on Monday after defeating compatriot Wang Hao in the final.Fourth seed Zhang prevailed 11-7, 11-8, 6-11, 14-12, 5-11, 11-7 in a rematch of last year's Olympic final to secure a fourth major title in a row.Zhang completed a career grand slam when ...
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Construction disputes in Middle East drag on
Going nowhere: a pronounced escalation in stalled construction projects during the financial downturn has led to a plethora of protracted legal disputes. Jeff Topping / The ...
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South Africa Mandela name pulled into politics
JOHANNESBURG -; Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already ...
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Ex-Saab executives arrested on accounting charges
STOCKHOLM -; A Swedish prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud ...
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3 killed in blast at Spanish army base
MADRID -; Spain's Defense Ministry says three soldiers have died and two others have been injured in an explosion at an army bomb disposal unit in southern ...
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Militiamen attack gas complex in western Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya -; A Libyan gas company official says militiamen have attacked a natural gas complex in the country's west, injuring two guards and stealing weapons and military ...
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Russia claims to have foiled possible terror act
MOSCOW -; Russia's counter-terrorism agency says it killed two militants it believes were planning a terrorist act in Moscow and detained a ...
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Man refused overdraft guns down four
Members of the media and police special forces stand outside a Bank Hapoalim branch after a shooting at the bank in the southern city of Beersheba May 20, 2013. A gunman shot dead four people execution-style in the bank in Israel on Monday after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine. The assailant, identified by media reports as a former paramilitary border ...
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No bail for cleric facing deportation
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada is seen arriving back at his home after being released on bail, in London in this November 13, 2012 file ...
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No options off table’ over Syria - Hague
LONDON - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must realise that ';no option is off table'; if his government fails to negotiate seriously at peace talks in Geneva, Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said on ...
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Reid wins wheelchair tennis event in Rome with victory over singles world number two
May 20 - British wheelchair tennis star Gordon Reid claimed a superb victory at the Internazionale d'Italia in Rome by beating singles world number two Stphane Houdet 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the final. The 21-year-old from Scotland, who is ranked sixth in the world, lost the opening set to his French rival but battled back superbly to take the next two sets and win his third tournament of the ...
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Voice commenting on the Pacific security situation at the Chahar China-Europe Dialogue
"China is more concerned about the peace and security of the Pacific Ocean than any other country in the world. And turning it into a 'peaceful' ocean constitutes China's greatest hope."Peng Guangqian, an expert on Chinese military and strategic issues,commenting on the Pacific security situation at the Chahar China-Europe Dialogue, quoted by People.com.cn on ...
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The Worlds First 3D-Printed Gun
On May 3, high tech gunsmithing group Defense Distributed gave Forbes a first look at the world's first fully 3D-printed gun, what it called the ...
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No Friendly For Ghana…Before World Cup Qualifiers In June
Ghana black stars players Ghana have ruled out playing any friendly match before next month's World Cup qualifiers against Sudan and Lesotho. The Black Stars will be preparing for two crucial World Cup qualifiers which could determine whether they will reach the final phase of the qualifiers. They had previously arranged a friendly against Kenya but pulled out of the game citing the late ...
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Iran tries to block out Rafsanjani
Iran is to ban physically weak candidates from next month's presidential election, seen as a way of excluding a former leader who is a threat to ...
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At least 79 dead after wave of attacks hit Iraq
An Iraqi police officer inspects the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last ...
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Chicago man breaks record for worlds longest Ferris wheel ride
A manager of 's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite.Clinton Shepherd spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier's Ferris wheel over the weekend. Shepherd is park operations manager at Navy Pier.He calls it "a very overwhelming ...
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Tim Peake to become first British astronaut to visit International Space Station - video
A former army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake will live and work on the space station for six months in November 2015. At a news conference at the Science Museum in London, where he was announced as the first UK astronaut in space for 20 years, he said it is a great ...
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Ian Reifowitz Hello Republicans Japan Switches to Stimulus Gets Growth Europe Sticks With Austerity Stays in Recession
right now in Japan and in Europe. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has embarked on aggressive measures to stimulate Japan's long-moribund economy since he took office in December, and the result so far has been strong growth -- and, perhaps, liftoff after a triple-dip recession. Europe, on the other hand, remains mired in the muck of austerity and economic contraction. To briefly recap ...
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Bulgarian Socialists vow to help poor look to form coalition
Leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party Sergei Stanishev (3rd L) speaks during a news conference at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia May 13, ...
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The Public Interest Design 100 Designers Changing The World
The second installment of this annual list features global designers using their craft to improve lives--from building floating schools to learning about city design from ...
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Video The war on terror Where do we stand
Flash Points: CBS News national security correspondent Bob Orr discusses the war on terror with CBS senior national security analyst Juan Zarate, who explains why, after more than a decade of counterterrorism efforts by the American government, new threats are popping up in new places, making the environment "more complicated, perhaps in some ways more localized, but also more ...
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Video Royal princes open wounded vet center
Prince Harry is back in Britain after his U.S. tour. He recently joined his brother, Prince William, visiting wounded veterans and their families at a recovery center, west of London. Gayle King ...
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Video World War II graduates go to prom 70 years later
New Haven's Hillhouse High School class of 1943 never had a prom because of World War II. But finally, after a 70-year wait, classmates gathered to celebrate and ...
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Latin American unity plagued by tensions
Division and suspicion seem the order of the day in Latin America at present, negating any optimism that the countries of the region may one day move toward a regional integration model based on that of the EU.
Latin America has seen itself become heavily divided over the issue of whether to readmit Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS) after the 2009 coup, with all the Central American states accepting the new government while big regional players like Brazil and Mexico insist that more must be done before they’ll recognize it. Meanwhile, President Alan Garcia of Peru has told Latin America news providers that there is a quiet arms race occurring in the region. In all, it seems that regional integration along the same lines as the EU remains a long way off at present. Read more
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