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• Sevilla and Valencia both held to home draws

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Madrid, Nov 29 (DPA) Sevilla and Valencia both failed to make up ground on Barcelona and Real Madrid after being held to disappointing home draws by Malaga and Mallorca in the Primera Liga.Sevilla came from behind to snatch a 2-2 draw against Malaga thanks to a brace from Luis Fabiano, Valencia conceded a late 1-1 ...
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• Genoa win tense city derby against Sampdoria

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Roma, Nov 29 (DPA) Genoa stepped close to the upper tiers in the Serie A late Saturday with a 3-0 win over Sampdoria in a city derby decided by goals from Omar Milanetto, Marco Rossi and Raffaele Palladino.Genoa scored their second goal with 10 men and secured the win after Samp also had a [...]
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• Supporters rally for family accused of Philippine massacre

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Shariff Aguak (Philippines), Nov 29 (DPA) Thousands of people Sunday rallied in support of a prominent political family in the southern Philippines accused of masterminding the massacre of 57 people allegedly committed out of political rivalry.About 3,000 demonstrators gathered outside the residences of the Ampatuan ...
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• Yahoo improves its search engine

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Munich, Nov 29 (DPA) Searches on the Yahoo engine should soon deliver more results, thanks in part to new filter functions, reports the company.Those new filters could allow a searcher, for example, to limit results to those found on major websites like Amazon or Wikipedia. The company also reports that its filter ...
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• Olympic Champions Germany off to good start in Champions Trophy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Melbourne, Nov 28 (DPA) Germany got their Champions Trophy hockey campaign off to a winning start Saturday with a 3-2 victory over England here.The Olympic and World champions secured the group victory on the opening day of the tournament with a 66th-minute winner from captain Max Mueller.Hosts Australia also made a ...
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• Saudi Arabia raises toll from flooding to 106

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Jeddah, Nov 28 (DPA) Saudi Arabia’s civil defence authority Saturday raised the toll from this week’s flash floods caused by heavy downpours to 106.An official with the authority said crews were still searching for survivors from the flooding that hit the western part of the country, including the area where many ...
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• Uli Hoeness elected Bayern Munich president

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Munich, Nov 28 (DPA) Uli Hoeness was elected Bayern Munich president Friday night, moving up at the German Bundesliga football top club after three decades as their general manager.Hoeness, 57, received 4,458 of 4,490 votes at the annual members meeting to take the place of Franz Beckenbauer, who had led Bayern for ...
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• Davydenko fills last spot in London year-end semi-finals

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 28 (DPA) Novak Djokovic joined Andy Murray on the statistical scrapheap as Nikolay Davydenko defeated Robin Soderling 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-3 to earn the last of the semi-final places at the ATP World Tour Finals.Russia’s Davydenko joins Soderling as Group B representatives for the weekend with defending ...
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• DPA wants court to reject SEIU arbitration request

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 137
  The Department of Personnel Administration has launched another preemptive legal strike against a state worker union. This time the administration is asking the courts to keep SEIU Local 1000 from seeking contract arbitration over holiday and overtime changes in SBX3 8 . DPAs 285-page document argues that ...
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• Call of Duty racks up $3 bn in sales

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Los Angeles, Nov 28 (DPA) Video game franchise Call of Duty has rackedup over $3 billion in global sales thanks to the record-breaking release of its latest installment Modern Warfare 2, publisher Activision Blizzard said Friday.The company said that over 55 million copies of Call of Duty have been sold since the ...
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• Chile avoids threat of World Cup exclusion

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Santiago, Nov 27 (DPA) Chilean football club Rangers de Talca withdrew an appeal against their relegation from the country’s first division, ending a crisis that could have seen Chile excluded from the World Cup spot that the team earned in qualifying. The rules of world football governing body FIFA forbid appeals ...
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• BMW agrees to sell F1 team to Sauber

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Munich, Nov 27 (DPA) German carmaker BMW confirmed Friday that it has reached an agreement with Peter Sauber about the sale of the BMW-Sauber team which should ensure it can race in the 2010 Formula One season. BMW refused to reveal what price had been agreed with Sauber but stated that the deal is subject [...]
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• Goalkeeper Enke’s widow overwhelmed by German mourning

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Hanover, Nov 27 (DPA) Robert Enke’s widow Friday expressed her gratitude about the nationwide outpouring of mourning over the Germany oalkeeper’s death.“I am lost for words about the overwhelming sympathy around the death of my husband. I was able to experience how much sympathy and respect was felt for ...
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• Only 80 wild elephants left in Vietnam

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Hanoi, Nov 27 (DPA) There are only 80 elephants left in the wild in Vietnam and they are in danger due to illegal hunting and deforestation, state media reported Friday.The state-run newspaper Lao Dong quoted experts at a Vietnam Forest Management Agency workshop on elephant preservation as saying the population was ...
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• Mexico expects swine flu infections to peak at New Year

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Mexico City, Nov 27 (DPA) Mexico expects a peak in influenza A (H1N1) infections in late December and early January, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said Thursday.Cordova Villalobos said that those are teh dryest and coldest weeks of the year in Mexico, and “the virus spreads faster” in dry ...
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• Eight dead, 15,000 evacuated in Argentina, Uruguay

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Buenos Aires, Nov 27 (DPA) Severe flooding claimed at least eight lives in Argentina and Uruguay, authorities said Thursday.About 15,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes in the northern portions of both neighbouring South American countries.In Argentina, two young men drowned in an overflowing river ...
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• EU regulators charge Philips, others over cathode ray tube cartel

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Brussels, Nov 26 (DPA) European Union regulators Thursday formally charged Dutch electronics giant Philips and other manufacturers of cathode ray tubes (CRT) of forming a cartel aimed at inflating the price of television sets and computer monitors.The announcement by the European Commission in Brussels follows ...
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• Algeria dream of reviving the memories of 1982 (Team Profile)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Algiers/Cairo, Nov 26 (DPA) After more than two decades the Algerian national football team will take part in the 2010 World Cup, carrying to South Africa the hopes and aspirations of the Arab World as their lone representative.In the 1980’s Algeria was one of the strongest teams on the continent and played in the ...
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• Hong Kong police probe Facebook group planning ‘mass suicide’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Hong Kong, Nov 26 (DPA) Police in Hong Kong were Thursday trying to trace the founder of a Chinese-language Facebook group whose members claim to be planning a mass suicide on Dec 21.The investigation was triggered after a 15-year-old member of the group was stopped by friends as she tried to throw herself off [...]
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• Doctor-hunters seek bounty in Australia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Sydney, Nov 26 (DPA) Advertisements ran in local newspapers Thursday offering a finder’s fee of 3,000 Australian dollars ($2,750) for anyone who can persuade an overseas doctor to work in Australia.The advertisements were placed by the Australian Medical Association (AMA), which hopes to lure 500 doctors to meet a ...
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