Archive for the October 25, 2005
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Stuart MacGill must bowl with Shane Warne in next week's opening Test match against the West Indies, former Australian skipper Steve Waugh was quoted as saying Monday. Debate is raging in Australian cricket over whether
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Spanish teenager Rafael Nadal, who has picked up the French Open crown as well as four Masters titles in 2005, believes it will be almost impossible to match his astonishing achievements next year. The 19-year-old,
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Lucas Glover holed out from a bunker at the 18th on Sunday to claim a stunning one-stroke victory in the 4.4 million-dollar Funai Classic. Outlasting a strong field and some trying weather earlier in the
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Chinese plans to turn an untamed river into a hydro-electric hub have sparked a war of words about national priorities as the government rethinks the balance between economic growth and environmental protection. Officials and experts
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party was mired in confusion on Monday over whether to take part in a controversial senate poll that has fractured the party seen as the biggest challenge to President Robert Mugabe's power.
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Mobsters in the 1990 film "Goodfellas" have beaten a fear of heights in "Vertigo" and the great white shark of "Jaws" to help the Martin Scorsese film clench the mantle of greatest movie of all
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European Union leaders will debate how to adapt their social systems to the challenge of globalisation on Thursday at their first summit since a bitter clash in June over a long-term budget for the bloc.
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Poland's conservatives, buoyed by the presidential victory of their leader Lech Kaczynski, offered to embrace market reforms on Monday to try to coax their Civic Platform allies into a government. Kaczynski, who combines traditional, Catholic
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Nigerian investigators and rescue workers combed through the shattered wreckage of a crashed airliner on Monday attempting to find the cause of the disaster and identify the shredded remains of the 117 people who had
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Eritrea's president has rejected a plea by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to reverse Asmara's ban on UN helicopter flights that the world body says are vital to peacekeeping operations. A letter from President Isaias Afewerki,
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