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Tennis: Murray escapes as heat victims hit new Slam record
NEW YORK (AFP) – Andy Murray escaped his earliest US Open exit in 10 years Thursday as the searing heat at Flushing Meadows took the number of mens singles retirements to a Grand Slam record 12.Third seed and 2012 champion Murray came back from two sets down to defeat tiring Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 5-7, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1 on Arthur Ashe...
Tennis: Angry Stosur, Azarenka into US Open third round
NEW YORK (AFP) – Samantha Stosur, the last woman to beat Serena Williams at the US Open four years ago, and two-time runner-up Victoria Azarenka made the third round Thursday.Australian 22nd seed Stosur breezed past Russias Evgeniya Rodina — one of two mothers to have reached the second round — 6-1, 6-1.Stosur, 31, fired eight...
Russia rejects French proposal to limit UN veto
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Russia on Wednesday dismissed as populist a French proposal to limit the use of the veto at the UN Security Council and said it would oppose it.France has launched an initiative to persuade the other four Security Council permanent members — Britain, China, Russia and the United States — to refrain from...
Polio in Europe
GENEVA: Two children in southwestern Ukraine have been paralysed by polio, the first outbreak of the disease in Europe since 2010, the World Health Or …read more Source: The News...
Ukraine ceasefire undermined
KIEV: Several civilians were killed on Wednesday in eastern Ukraine, undermining fresh efforts to end continuing violence as the European Union extend …read more Source: The News...
Russian, Danish, Kazakh astronauts blast off for ISS
BAIKONUR (AFP) – A Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts on board, including the first Dane to fly into space, blasted off towards the International Space Station on Wednesday.The trio launched on schedule at 0437 GMT from the same launchpad in Kazakhstan used by Yuri Gagarin on his historic entry into the cosmos in 1961.The crew is doing...
Russia expels Ukrainian diplomat
MOSCOW: Moscow has expelled Ukrainian diplomat in retaliation for Kiev s expulsion of a Russian diplomat, RIA news agency on Tuesday quoted a source a …read more Source: The News...
Tennis: Federer cruises as US Open quit list hits record nine
NEW YORK (AFP) – Five-time champion Roger Federer breezed through sweltering conditions at the US Open on Tuesday as the crushing heat and humidity took the number of first-round retirements to a record nine.Second-seeded Federer had little trouble in seeing off Argentinas world number 34 Leonardo Mayer 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in just 77 minutes on...
Tennis: Halep through to US Open second round, Tennis, Sports
NEW YORK (AFP) – Second seed Simona Halep reached the US Open second round on Tuesday when New Zealand opponent Marina Erakovic retired with a knee injury.Halep was leading 6-2, 3-0 when her 99th-ranked rival called it quits, having received a medical timeout for treatment on her right knee at the end of the first set.Romanian 23-year-old...
Tennis: Safarova joins US Open seeds casualty list
NEW YORK (AFP) – Lucie Safarova joined the US Open seeds casualty list on Tuesday when the Czech left-hander became the fourth top-10 player to lose in the first round.Sixth-seeded Safarova slipped to a 6-4, 6-1 defeat to Ukraines Lesia Tsurenko, the woman she defeated in the semi-finals in New Haven just last week.I talked with my coach...
