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Hingis banned for doping offense 27-year-old Martina Hingis has been given a two-year ban after testing positive for cocaine while competing at Wimbledon last year
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| Jan.5 |
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Berthod leads double Swiss success
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| Jan.15 |
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Federer rolls in Aussie opener
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| Jan.16 |
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Venus, Federer advance at Austral. Open
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| Jan.19 |
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No. 1 Federer survives Serb scare
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| Jan.23 |
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Federer rolls past Blake
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| Jan.24 |
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Davos switches focus to Mideast
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| Jan.25 |
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Bill Gates new project: Farming Microsoft billionaire announced a new direction as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries
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 Karzai: You can call me U.S. puppet He warned in Davos, that unless more is done to tackle growing extremism in Pakistan, Afghanistan could once again fall into terrorist hands
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| Feb.11 |
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Gang robs Zurich of top paintings
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| Mar.22 |
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No. 98 Fish upsets Federer, easily
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| Apr.1 |
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UBS doubles sub-prime writedowns Swiss financial giant has reported that its writedowns as a result of the sub-prime crisis have more than doubled to about $37bn
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| Apr.20 |
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Federer ends title drought
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| May.26 |
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Federer, Jankovic advance to 2nd round
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| May.31 |
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Federer through but Davydenko crashes
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| Jun.1 |
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Swiss reject new citizenship rule Voters have rejected a move to make it even harder for foreigners to obtain citizenship. 64% were against a bid
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| Jun.4 |
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Federer fights back to reach semifinals
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| Jun.7 |
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  Portugal impress in 2-0 win over Turkey  Portugal made a confident opening to their Euro 2008 campaign with an impressive win over Turkey in their Group A clash
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Sverkos gives Czech Republic opening win
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| Jun.8 |
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 Nadal humiliates Federer in French final Rafael Nadal became the second man to win 4 successive French Open titles after crushing world No. 1 Roger Federer in straight sets
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| Jun.9 |
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Rampant Netherlands crush sorry Italy
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| Jun.11 |
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Ronaldo puts Portugal into quarterfinals
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Turks rain on Swiss Euro 2008 parade
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| Jun.13 |
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Brilliant Dutch thrash France to qualify
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| Jun.15 |
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Comeback puts Turkey through
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| Jun.17 |
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Champs Italy snatch last-8 Euro berth
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| Jun.18 |
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Rampant Russia make last-8
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| Jun.19 |
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 Ballack steers Germany to Euro semifinals Michael Ballack sent his new Chelsea manager packing from the finals as Germany clinched a berth with a dramatic 3-2 win over Portugal
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| Jun.21 |
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  Brilliant Russia beat Dutch in extra time 3-1. Pavlyuchenko put the team ahead in the the 56th minute. Goals in the second half of added time from substitute Torbinski and Arshavin
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| Jun.25 |
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Lahm goal puts Germany in final Map of Basle Switzerland Philipp Lahm struck a superb last-minute winner as Germany reached the final of Euro 2008 with a 3-2 victory at St Jakob-Park over Turkey
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| Jun.27 |
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Federer, Serena advance
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| Jul.2 |
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Federer, Safin, Nadal reach semifinals
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| Jul.6 |
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  Nadal stuns Federer in Wimbledon final Rafael Nadal has won his first Wimbledon singles title after holding off a stunning fightback from 5-times champion in an epic 5-set final
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| Jul.19 |
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 Iran describes nuke talks as 'constructive' Map of Geneva Switzerland| Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, called talks with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana constructive. Iran fails to give an answer on a proposed... | |
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| Jul.20 |
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Fresh push in global trade talks Map of Geneva Switzerland Negotiators from more than 30 countries will meet to inject fresh impetus into long-running efforts to agree a global trade deal
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| Jul.24 |
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 Libya 'halts Swiss oil shipments' State shipping company halted oil shipments to Switzerland in protest at the brief arrest of leader Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son
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| Jul.28 |
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 U.S. issues trade rebuke to China, India The United States accused China and India of threatening 7 years of work on a new global commerce pact
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| Jul.29 |
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Fears for collapse of trade talks Talks aimed at rescuing a deal to liberalise world trade appear close to collapse amid deep differences between delegations
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Global trade deal falls apart Map of GENEVA Switzerland After coming tantalizingly close to a historic trade deal, WTO talks collapsed in a dismaying blow to 7 years of efforts to open up the global economy
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| Aug.12 |
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 Federer, Nadal, Djokovic cruise through The top 3 seeds in the Olympics men's singles all moved easily into the third round with convincing wins
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| Aug.14 |
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Federer and Serena Williams crash out Top seed Roger Federer saw his Olympic challenge come to a crashing end with a straight-sets defeat at the hands of American No
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| Sep.6 |
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Federer sweeps past lackluster Djokovic 4-time defending champion brushed aside the subdued challenge of Serbian third seed Novak Djokovic to reach U.S. Open final
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| Sep.8 |
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Federer beats Murray for 5th U.S. Open| Roger Federer easily beat Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 to win his fifth consecutive U.S. Open and 13th Grand Slam title | |
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| Sep.9 |
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Giant particle collider set to start  Map of Geneva Switzerland| Scientists hope to fire the first beam of protons around a 27-kilometer tunnel in science's next great step to understand the makeup of the universe. 30 years after it was conceived, the world's most powerful physics experiment is... | |
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| Sep.10 |
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'Big Bang' experiment starts well | Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Bang | |
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