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| Jan.28 |
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Byggmark completes surprise double
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| Feb.4 |
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Stenson denies Els, Woods in Dubai Henrik Stenson is winning the Dubai Desert Classic by one stroke. He shoot a closing 68 for a 19-under-par tally of 269
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| Feb.9 |
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Paerson seals double gold triumph Anja Paerson won her 2nd gold of the Alpine skiing world championships with a slalom run victory in super-combined race
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| Mar.10 |
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 Cuche wins downhill to claim title Didier Cuche clinched the World Cup title with victory in the penultimate race of the Alpine ski season
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| Mar.18 |
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Raikkonen clinches opening victory Kimi Raikkonen made a triumphant start to his Ferrari career with a pole-to-flag victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix
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Svindal snatches overall cup prize Aksel Lund Svindal held off Austrian Benjamin Raich to win skiing's overall World Cup title
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Center Party wins narrow election victory| The governing party won parliamentary election, but the main opposition Conservatives made strong gains | |
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| Apr.19 |
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 Abbas: Kidnapped reporter is alive Palestinian President said he was convinced a BBC journalist abducted in Gaza last month was still alive
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| May.12 |
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Koivu sends Finns into world final Mikko Koivu scored an overtime winner to send Finland into the ice hockey final with a 2-1 victory over Russia
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| May.25 |
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Riis admits doping during Tour de France Bjarne Riis became the first Tour de France winner to admit using performance-enhancing drugs to win the race
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| Jul.1 |
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Raikkonen won French Grand Prix Finland's Kimi Raikkonen is leading Brazilian team-mate Felipe Massa in a Ferrari one-two to end McLaren's winning streak
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| Jul.8 |
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Raikkonen dashes Hamilton's hopes Finland's Kimi Raikkonen further enhanced his own world championship hopes with victory in the British Grand Prix at Silverston
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| Jul.15 |
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Rasmussen surges to yellow jersey  Dane Michael Rasmussen, of Rabobank, won the 8th stage of the Tour de France, a 165km run from Le Grand-Bornand to Tignes
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| Jul.25 |
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Leader Rasmussen kicked off Tour| Michael Rasmussen has been kicked out of the Tour de France and sacked by his Rabobank team. He missed out-of-competition drugs tests | |
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| Jul.30 |
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Film director Ingmar Bergman dies| The iconoclastic filmmaker, one of the great masters of modern cinema, was 89 | |
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| Aug.23 |
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 Pirates free crew, ransom paid The pirates released the crew of a hijacked Danish cargo ship Danica White after receiving a ransom payment
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| Sep.15 |
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 Bounty set over Prophet cartoon The head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has offered a reward for the murder of a Swedish cartoonist over his drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad
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| Sep.16 |
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Raikkonen first in Ferrari one-two Kimi Raikkonen dominated from start to finish to win the Grand Prix for the 3rd straight time, beating teammate Felipe Massa
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| Sep.23 |
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 Roddick puts U.S. into Davis final Roddick used his big serve to defeat Bjorkman 6-2 7-6 6-4 to give the Americans an insurmountable 3-1 lead over Sweden
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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... | |
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| Oct.21 |
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Raikkonen champion as Lewis stalls Kimi Raikkonen claimed his first world title after previous overall leader Hamilton suffered a nightmare end to his season at the Brazilian Grand Prix
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| Nov.7 |
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8 dead in school shooting Map of Tuusula Finland At least three 8 were killed in a school shooting in southern Finland, in Tuusula, 30 miles north of the capital, Helsinki
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| Nov.8 |
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Mourning after fatal school shooting Flags were flying at half-staff and government workers observed 3 minutes of silence a day after a teenager opened fire at his high school
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| Nov.21 |
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Victory gives Sweden finals place Sweden sealed their place at Euro 2008 with a 2-1 victory over Latvia which rendered Northern Ireland's bid to win in Spain irrelevant
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