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Exhausted Serena digs deep for WTA title | | An exhausted but elated Serena Williams is left celebrating her 11th title of the season to round off 2013 by claiming the WTA Championships in Istanbul Sunday. |
Duke Stuns No. 16 Virginia Tech, 13-10 | | The numbers suggested it was the same old Duke 0-for-11 on third-down conversions, a 387 to 198 deficit in total offense, and a whopping 3927 to 2033 disadvantage in time of possession. |
Immelt Economic efficiencies drive China ahead | | Jan 19 - In an exclusive interview with Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt says a large and educated workforce is fueling China's strength and not simply a deflated yuan. |
Beauty of vanishing tribes | | A photographer has recorded the lives and customs of some the world's last authentic tribes, before they disappear. |
Quartet into World Cup finals | | Michael Lang celebrates Switzerland's 2-1 win in Albania that booked the Swiss' place in Brazil in 2014. Colombia, Germany and Belgium also sealed qualification. |
Motorsport Lorenzo sets up decider | | Jorge Lorenzo set up a thrilling last race finale with MotoGP title leader Marc Marquez by claiming the Japanese Grand Prix Sunday at Motegi. |
German parliament to meet over U.S. spying scandal | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's parliament will hold a special session on reports the United States tapped Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone and left-wing parties demanded a public inquiry calling in witnesses including former U.S. intelligence operative Edward Snowden. |
Putin Gays, lesbians welcome in Sochi for Olympics | | Russian President Vladmir Putin on Monday said everyone will be welcomed to next year's Winter Olympics in Russia, regardless of sexual orientation -- comments that come on the heels of a controversial Russian law on homosexuality. |
UK phone hacking trial begins | | Oct 28 - The trial of former News International executive Rebekah Brooks and former News of the World editor and Cameron spin doctor Andy Coulson has begun in London following a police investigation into activity surrounding the now-defunct News of the World newspaper. Joanna Partridge reports |
FCC adopts access deal involving ATT, Dish, others | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. telecommunications regulators on Monday formally adopted an agreement by ATT Inc, Dish Network Corp and other wireless companies to give smaller operators access to devices now made only for ATT's airwaves. |
Rocker Lou Reed of Velvet Underground dies at 71 | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lou Reed, the pioneering musician who fronted influential rock band The Velvet Underground and won mainstream acclaim with solo songs "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Perfect Day", died on Sunday aged 71. |
Three U.S. states, British Columbia to ink climate pact | | WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California governor Jerry Brown said on Thursday he plans to sign an agreement to formally align the state's climate and clean energy policies with those of Oregon, Washington state and the Canadian province of British Columbia. |
Conrad Murray regains his freedom | | Oct. 28 - Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for administering a lethal dose of a surgical anesthetic to Michael Jackson. Alicia Powell reports. |
Ralph Pellecchio, James Wernz | | A special counsel for Citigroup in Manhattan and an attending physician at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn are married by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
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