World number one Lindsay Davenport and Russia's Elena Dementieva advanced to the quarter-finals of the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament with victories over Japanese opponents here on Thursday. American top seed Davenport, seeking a third

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Australian captain Ricky Ponting on Thursday said his Pakistani counterpart was fortunate to be playing in the tri-series cricket finals after escaping a ban for slow over-rates. Speaking ahead of the best-of-three limited-overs final series

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French self-confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret was charged here Thursday with murdering two young French women in the late 1980's, bringing to six the number of such cases brought against him this week, his lawyers

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Macbeth was not the ambitious, cold-blooded murderer Shakespeare described in his play but a popular king who ruled over a peaceful land, a group of Scottish parliamentarians said on Thursday. They want to restore the

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A South Korean Buddhist nun's life hung in the balance on Thursday, the 100th day of her fast to protest against plans to blast a tunnel through the habitat of several endangered species including a

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Four soldiers found guilty of plotting coups in Mauritania were sentenced to life in prison with hard labour on Thursday, escaping the death penalty in a mass trial in the desert Islamic Republic. Three opposition

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Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy left the country and one of his deputies was arrested after parliament stripped them of immunity from prosecution in a vote that drew swift US condemnation, party officials said. Sam

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Five influential members of the European Union parliament have proposed Ukraine's new President Viktor Yushchenko for the Nobel Peace Prize in tribute to his "courage" in fighting for democracy. In a letter to the Nobel

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European commentators Thursday cautioned US President George W. Bush to spend his famed "political capital" wisely as he pursues the ambitious policy agenda laid out in his State of the Union address. Comments in the

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Vietnam said on Thursday it has appealed for international help in its desperate battle against a rapidly spreading outbreak of bird flu which has killed 13 people in the past month and may have crossed

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