Archive for  January 2010
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Sayid Papers Stags notched 94 runs win over Lahore Tigers in 12th National Senior Cricket Cup at Model Town Whites Ground on Thursday. Haji Shahid Anwar put up blistering 124 run in stag's win. Shahid,
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England allrounder Ben Stokes scored a century to set up a 31-run win over defending champions India at Lincoln Thursday in the final pool match of the Under 19 cricket World Cup. The group A
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The ICC has stopped a 2011 World Cup venue in India from hosting any international cricket until the end of this year after a match was abandoned last month due to a substandard pitch. A
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Roger Federer and the Williams sisters stamped their authority on the Australian Open Thursday, but former world number one Ana Ivanovic was sent packing. The Swiss world number one took his place in the third
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The head of China's scandal-rocked football association and two other top officials have been taken in for questioning amid a police probe into corruption in the sport, state media said Thursday. Nan Yong, named to
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Sixteen per cent of European Union residents live in poverty, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday on launching a European Year against Poverty and Social Exclusion. The fact that 80 million Europeans are
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Yemen will stop issuing tourist visas on arrival to foreigners in an effort to prevent militants entering the country as it steps up its war on al Qaeda, a government official and state media said
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A passenger was arrested Thursday in a Philadelphia airport after a reported bomb threat on a plane from New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said. "There's an individual in custody," an FBI spokesman
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President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday he had neglected his direct connection to the American people, after a stunning Republican election win shifted the balance of power in Washington. Obama's aides meanwhile insisted his historic health
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for an unfettered world-wide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with the United States over
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