Archive for  January 2010
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The Australian dollar was stuck near three-week lows on Friday as investors fled riskier trades and higher-yielding currencies, unwinding leveraged positions funded mainly in yen. Most Asian stocks markets were in the red after a
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The South Korean won and Indonesian rupiah tumbled on Friday, leading emerging Asian currencies lower, as a wave of risk aversion hammered stocks and commodities after the US government proposed new restrictions on banks. Fears
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The Swiss franc gave back some of the previous day's gains against the euro on Friday after it hit a fresh 10-month high on Thursday as Greece's fiscal woes and weak equities weighed on the
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Model Town Green utilised home advantage to perfection and inflicted huge 113 runs win over Faiz Bagh Gymkhana in the Group-B tussle of Colonel Fateh Sher Ali Khan Memorial Cricket Cup 2010 at Model Town
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Kim Clijsters was left reeling from a humiliating Australian Open exit Friday, but fellow Belgian Justine Henin and defending champion Rafael Nadal kept their Grand Slam dreams alive. A hapless Clijsters was hopelessly out of
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The opening match of the Indian Premier League in March has been shifted out of Hyderabad due to ongoing protests over the proposed creation of a new state, a top official said on Friday. The
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China on Friday sacked the chief of its football association after it was revealed that he was in custody as part of a probe into match-fixing and other corruption that has stained the Chinese game.
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Cameron White Friday bludgeoned Australia to victory over Pakistan in first one-day cricket international before a poor crowd at the Gabba after the visitors had got their act together to set an imposing target. Pakistan
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Pakistan are to appoint a new captain after the tour of Australia next month, the country's cricket chief said Friday. "This captain (Mohammad Yousuf) was for this series only and we will decide after the
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Eight people were killed and 13 missing after flash floods smashed through villages in Indonesia's Southeast Sulawesi province, officials said Friday. The powerful waters were unleashed after the Rante Limbong river overflowed and rushed through
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