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| Jan.31 |
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CIA flights to Greenland investigated| Denmark will investigate claims that the CIA secretly used an airport on the Arctic territory to transport prisoners in the U.S. war on terror | |
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| Jan.18 |
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Eccentric chess icon Fischer dies  Chess master Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players in history, was 64. He became the first American world chess champion
| Fischer was wanted for breaking international sanctions by playing a match in the Yugoslavia in 1992
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| Oct.12 |
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Gore shares Nobel Prize with U.N. panel  Ex-Vice President and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for work to raise awareness about global warming
| The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited 'efforts to build up and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change'
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| Oct.9 |
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Sixth 2006 Nobel goes to American Every prize save for the literature and peace prizes have gone to Americans
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| Oct.10 |
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Game theory economists win Nobel Israeli and U.S. citizen Aumann and American Schelling won the Prize for their work in game-theory analysis
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| Oct.11 |
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Pair share Nobel economics prize Kydland of Norway and Prescott of the US were chosen for their study of how economic policy drives global business cycles
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| Sep.11 |
New York |
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Hewitt tames big-hitting Johansson Lleyton Hewitt is cruising through 6-4 7-5 6-3 in one hour 59 minutes, to reach his second U.S. Open final
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| May.23 |
Texas |
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Annika Sorenstam failed to make cut 3 bogeys at The Colonial on the front nine led to a 4-over-par second round
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| Dec.10 |
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Nobel winner Carter's Iraq warning| Carter has warned of the 'catastrophic consequences' of a preventative war strategy in Iraq | |
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| Jun.14 |
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Bush met European leaders| Thousands of demonstrators hurled bottles in a protest against globalisation | |
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