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Victoria Azarenka plays in the women's final against Serena Williams on Day 13 of the Sony Ericsson Open, Key Biscayne, Florida USA 04.04.09
Photos   Russia   Sport   Tennis   Wikipedia: Victoria Azarenka  
 Gulf News 
Azarenka ousts Bartoli at Stanford
| Stanford: Victoria Azarenka overcame a slow start to upset defending champion Marion Bartoli 3-6 6-3 6-3 in the quarter-finals of the Stanford Classic on Friday. | The Belarussian was joined in the ... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
Renault F1 driver Fernando Alonso from Spain, left, drives past German driver Sebastian Vettel before a practice session in new Valencia Street Circuit in Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008.
Hungary   Photos   Sportstar   Vettel   Wikipedia: Sebastian Vettel  
 National Post 
Vettel runs away with Hungarian Grand Prix pole
  By Alan Baldwin, Reuters July 31, 2010 11:02 AM        Pole sitter Sebastian Vettel (C) of Germany and Red Bull Racing celebrates with second placed team mate Mark Webber (R) of Australia and R... (photo: AP / Fernando Bustamante))
** FILE ** In this Feb. 7, 2009 file photo, a fire truck moves away from out of control flames from a bushfire in the Bunyip Sate Forest near the township of Tonimbuk, 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of Melbourne, Australia.  BBC News 
Australia awaits 2009 Victoria bushfire verdict
A report into Australia's worst bushfire disaster is to be made public. | One hundred and seventy three people died and hundreds of homes were destroyed when fires tore across the state of Victoria in... (photo: AP / FILE)
Australia   Disaster   Photos   Wikipedia: Bushfires in Victoria   Wildfire  
England batsman Kevin Pietersen walks from the field after he was dismissed during their loss to Australia in the fifth and final Ashes cricket test in Sydney, Friday, Jan. 5, 2007. Australia completed the most crushing Ashes series victory in 86 years on Friday, sending bowling greats Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath into test retirement with a 5-0 sweep of England.  The Hindu 
Pietersen needs to be back on track
| Peter Roebuck | England needs to come to its senses or the Ashes will be thrown away. Murmurs have started about omitting Kevin Pietersen from the touring party, and it only takes another couple of ... (photo: AP / Mark Baker)
Cricket   England   Photos   Sports   Wikipedia :Kevin Pietersen  
Top Stories
Telecom - Wireless Internet towers, Pune, India NZ Herald
Telecom gets $75m for AAPT consumer sale
By 4:00 AM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | Telecom has quit part of its Australian business with the sale of its retail business to rival iiNet. | The A$60 million ($... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Electronic   Photos   Technology   Telecom   Wikipedia:Telecom  
House The Australian
House-price growth across the nation hits a wall
| HOUSE-PRICE growth has come to a halt, with capital-city residential prices flatlining in the June quarter. | Melbourne, which had been the country's hottest housing ma... (photo: Creative Commons / Royalbroil)
Economy   Housing   Market   Photos   Wikipedia: Real estate economics  
Parisians wait for a vaccination against H1N1 swine flu at a temporary center inside a gymnasium in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. The Daily Telegraph Australia
Flu vaccine for under-5s given OK
| THE suspension of flu vaccine for children under five has been lifted by the Commonwealth's Chief Medical Officer after a series of adverse reactions earlier in th... (photo: AP / Francois Mori)
Children   Health   Photos   Vaccine   Wikipedia: Influenza vaccine  
Tibetan momo in soup, Dharamshala, India The Daily Telegraph Australia
Foetal attraction to this cult soup
| IT'S the birth of a new Sydney culinary craze and, fittingly, it involves an embryo - a chicken embryo, to be precise. | The unusual ingredient, an egg pulled from... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Food   Health   Photos   Soup   Wikipedia:Soup  
Stones with the word "hero" written on them lay on grave stones in Section 60, where many soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, Thursday,July 29, 2010, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The Australian
Thousands of errors unearthed at Arlington
| THE debacle at the Arlington National Cemetery on the edge of Washington is much worse than first thought, with thousands of graves estimated to be unmarked or wrongly ... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin)
Military   Photos   Society   US   Wikipedia: Arlington National Cemetery mismanagement controversy  
With a poster of soldiers in the background, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, center, U.N. Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick, left, and Tea Banh, right, Cambodian defense minister, pose during a U.S.-backed peacekeeping exercise dubbed "Angkor Sentinel 2010" at the Cambodian tank command headquarters in Kampong Speu province, 65 kilometers (42 miles) west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, July 17, 2010. Asia Times
US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep
|      Jul 31, 2010 US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep | By Clifford McCoy | BANGKOK - Cambodia's first-ever multinational military exercise is... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith)
Asia   Cambodia   Defence   Photos   US  
In this July 7, 2008 photo, an investor looks at a stock price board at a private securities' company in Shanghai, China. Chinese shares fell sharply Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, on heavy selling of airlines and other market heavyweights, as investors and analysts puzzled over why expectations of a rally linked to the Beijing Olympic games never materialized. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index sank 4.5 percent, or 122.81 points, to 2,605.16. The Shenzhen Composite Index of China's smaller, second market dropped 5.6 percent to 74 Asia Times
Asia nudges ahead
|      Jul 31, 2010 MARKET RAP | Asia nudges ahead | By R M Cutler | MONTREAL - Overall, Asia looks like having some rough going, at least for a while... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko, FILE)
Asia   Economy   Finance   Markets   Photos  
Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara bats during the fourth one day international cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in Calcutta, India, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. The Telegraph India
Should’ve got 750: Kumar
Though they failed to beat India, in the second Test, in Colombo, Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said that he was quite satisfied with the performance of his bowlers.... (photo: AP / Bikas Das)
Colombo   India   Photos   Sport   Wikipedia: Kumar Sangakkara  
Morris Iemma (sl1) The Australian
Morris Iemma's private battle
| IT was 3am on a Wednesday morning in May last year and Morris Iemma was lying on a gurney in a resuscitation bay at St George Hospital, in south Sydney. The former NSW ... (photo: Creative Commons)
Body   Health   Hospital   Iemma   Photos  
England's Eoin Morgan, right, and Paul Collingwood leave the field at the end of the first day of the first cricket test match against Pakistan at the Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham, England, Thursday July 29, 2010. London Evening Standard
England suffer blow as Paul Collingwood and Eoin Morgan fall
Paul Collingwood missed out on his 11th Test match hundred today as Pakistan also picked up the wicket of centurion Eoin Morgan. | Collingwood had added only one to his o... (photo: AP / Tom Hevezi)
Cricket   England   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: Paul Collingwood  
Sport Business & Economy
- Dan Carter inspires as freewheeling New Zealand crush Austra
- Kevin Pietersen just needs reassurance to bat through fragil
- England v Pakistan - day three as it happened
- Steven Finn's successful reappearance for England defies
Renault F1 driver Fernando Alonso from Spain, left, drives past German driver Sebastian Vettel before a practice session in new Valencia Street Circuit in Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008.
Vettel runs away with Hungarian Grand Prix pole
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- Earnings outstrip jobs, economic growth
- Sir Richard Branson advocates big Australia
- China's Influence Grows With Its Economy
- China setting milestone as economy passes Japan's
In this July 7, 2008 photo, an investor looks at a stock price board at a private securities' company in Shanghai, China. Chinese shares fell sharply Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, on heavy selling of airlines and other market heavyweights, as investors and analysts puzzled over why expectations of a rally linked to the Beijing Olympic games never materialized. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index sank 4.5 percent, or 122.81 points, to 2,605.16. The Shenzhen Composite Index of China's smaller, second market dropped 5.6 percent to 74
Asia nudges ahead
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Society & Entertainment Politics
- Beautiful Kate
- Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intell
- England v Pakistan - day three as it happened
- Tuna meltdown: is there an alternative?
Katy Perry singing 2, by medigirol
Katy Perry: My parents didn't want me to turn out like a prostitute
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- Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intell
- Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intell
- Earnings outstrip jobs, economic growth
- Poll predicts loss for Australia PM
Telecom - Wireless Internet towers, Pune, India
Telecom gets $75m for AAPT consumer sale
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Energy Technology
- Tuna meltdown: is there an alternative?
- Cash-strapped BP seeks buyer for petrol network
- Tuna meltdown: is there an alternative?
- The young girl and the sea
In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, people wait to board trains at the West Railway Station in Beijing, China.
Population Research Presents a Sobering Prognosis
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- Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intell
- Tuna meltdown: is there an alternative?
- Aussie airlines ground in-air mobile chat
- Winning the America's Cup will be such a boon for Mills
Telecom - Wireless Internet towers, Pune, India
Telecom gets $75m for AAPT consumer sale
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