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  Williams sweeps Azarenka aside to win Rome title

  19 May 2013 : World number one Serena Williams beat Belarusia's Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 6-3 to win the Rome Open title on Sunday.

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  Honda's Pedrosa wins French MotoGP

  19 May 2013 : Honda's Dani Pedrosa won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Sunday to take the lead in the world championship standings.

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  Women on the pill prefer men with less manly faces: study

  29 Mar 2013 : A new UK study published this week finds that women who take birth control pills may prefer men with less masculine faces than those who don't.

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  Russian foursome back in Phuket after round-the-world catamaran odyssey

  29 Mar 2013 : Four Russian sailors have finally reached Phuket after an epic first-of-its-kind voyage around the world on an inflatable catamaran, battling storms, broken equipment and, on one occasion, a shark that mistook one of the air-filled hulls for a whale.

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  China orders stepped-up scrutiny on Apple

  29 Mar 2013 : Apple is to face "strengthened supervision" from China's consumer watchdogs, state media reported Friday, as the US computer giant is hit by a barrage of negative publicity and court cases in the country.

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  Philippines marks Easter with bloody mock crucifixions

  29 Mar 2013 : Catholic zealots in the Philippines re-enacted the last hours of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, whipping their backs and nailing themselves to crosses in a grisly Easter ritual that persists despite Church disapproval.

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  IOC to study past samples for dope cheats

  29 Mar 2013 : The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is to re-test doping samples given at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin before the next edition in Sochi, Russia, subjecting them to the latest methods of detection.

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  Tourists fight the flab at Thai boxing camps

  29 Mar 2013 : In a sweltering training camp on a tropical Thai island, sweaty tourists wearing oversized gloves and baggy shorts slam their fists, knees, elbows and feet into a row of heavy bags.

• Ranger outpost attacked in Yala

  29 Mar 2013 : A paramilitary ranger outpost in Raman district of Yala province was attacked on Thursday night, but no troops were hurt, police said.

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  New crew joins ISS after record express voyage

  29 Mar 2013 : A new Russian-American crew arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) Friday after an express trip from Earth of under six hours, the fastest ever manned journey to the orbiting laboratory.

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  Sri Lanka boosts security after anti-Muslim attack

  29 Mar 2013 : Elite police commandos patrolled a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital Friday after hundreds of rampaging Buddhist hardliners torched a Muslim-owned business in the latest in a series of mob attacks.

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  Court rules Nuon Chea fit for trial

  29 Mar 2013 : Cambodia's war crimes court ruled Friday that Pol Pot's former deputy Nuon Chea was fit to continue standing trial after the death of a co-defendant renewed fears that the elderly accused may not live to see verdicts.

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