Sixth seed Irakli Labadze of Georgia reached the second round of the 355,000-dollar ATP tennis tournament here on Monday, rallying to beat Alex Kuznetsov in three sets. Labadze dropped the first set against the American

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France Davis Cup captain Guy Forget admits his side will have its work cut out to beat Sweden in their World Group First Round tie at Strasbourg on March 4-6. "We all know this looks

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Australian opener Matthew Hayden returned to his majestic best with a superb century as the world champions trounced New Zealand by 106 runs in the second one-day international on Tuesday. After being sent in to

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Pramod Ojha went to Lahore last year hoping to see the Indian cricket team thrash Pakistan. By the end of his trip, he had lost his heart to a country he had been brought up

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The Brazilian army has captured a third suspect in the killing of an American nun who battled illegal logging in the Amazon, police said on Tuesday. Soldiers, who entered the Amazon state of Para last

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Talks between Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika and several opposition groups to form a new party have failed, which analysts said could threaten his grip on power weeks after he survived a major leadership challenge.

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A massive, grass-roots publicity campaign kicked off on Monday to support Mexico City's controversial leftist mayor as he faces a legal battle that may derail his bid for the presidency in 2006. Home-made posters hung

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Mediators trying to end 18 years of war in northern Uganda say the International Criminal Court's war crimes investigation of the brutal conflict is undermining peace efforts. Uganda has offered amnesty to Lord's Resistance Army

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With the Academy Awards days away, film industry experts are betting that Clint Eastwood's gut-wrenching boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby" will knock out its main rival, Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator," an epic tale of the

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Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who wrote about Cuba's steamy cabaret society and became a staunch critic of Cuban communism, died on Monday in London where he lived in exile for 40 years, his wife

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