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الثلاثاء، 30 يونيو 2015
Becker: Djokovic can retain title
Novak Djokovic's coach Boris Becker backs the world's number one to rebound from his French Open disappointment at Wimbledon.
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Tennis stars cool on Wimbledon heat rule
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal won during a heatwave in London on Tuesday, but stopped short of saying a heat rule should be adopted for the men.
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What it's like to drive around Silverstone
Lotus F1 driver, Romain Grosjean, takes CNN's Amanda Davies on a lap of Silverstone
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Can Chile end '100-year evil?'
Chile beat Peru 2-1 in the Copa America semifinal to gives themselves a chance of ending their 99 year trophy drought.
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Can USWNT make history?
It's a showdown between the two top teams in women's football -- and according to United States star Alex Morgan, this match is "virtually a final."
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Azerbaijan's rising stars
CNN's Amanda Davies meets the athletes Azerbaijan hopes can lead them to success in the European Games.
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Baird plunders Canberra’s digital talent
The flow of talented senior public servants finding greener away from Canberra’s hard pruned bureaucracy has chalked-up another impressive exit.
New South Wales Premier Mike Baird has named Martin Hoffman, formerly the Deputy Secretary of the federal Department of Industry and Science, and one time chief executive of NineMSN as the new head of the NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation.
Mr Hoffman’s appointment comes as the Baird government continues to keep its foot down on the accelerator in terms of public sector reform where major changes to and investments in improved customer service and technology driven innovation have paid back substantial political capital as public satisfaction levels with the bureaucracy enjoy new highs.
At a time when many senior public servants are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their digital age smarts, Mr Hoffman represents somewhat of a paradox in technology business circles having traded-in a high flying digital career for public servitude at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in 2009.
His departure is unlikely to be the kind of Digital Transformation the federal government is looking for as Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull tries to motivate a major online shift among agencies.
Also getting a conspicuous promotion is Tim Reardon who becomes the Secretary for Transport for NSW after serving as Deputy Secretary from 2011 and acting Secretary from February, a move that is sure to bring much needed leadership continuity to one of the state’s most sensitive portfolios.
“Tim will provide strong leadership at Transport for NSW as we ramp up our bold infrastructure agenda, including Australia’s biggest public transport project, Sydney Metro,” Mr Baird said.
Bold is no understatement as the government battens down for substantial disruption in the Sydney CBD as rips up George Street to drive through a light rail connection to take unsustainable pressure off crawling city busses.
The two NSW secretarial appointments are particularly significant because they come in portfolios where the Baird government has delivered conspicuous and reform-led success that have afforded it greater latitude to make otherwise difficult policy calls in other areas.
In Finance this has included the creation of Service NSW as a retail customer front end that took its cues from commercial successes, including the banking industry and companies like Apple, and applied them to government services consumed by the public.
On the Transport side, the NSW has been hard-selling the benefits of using improved public transport to anyone who will listen after it upped service frequencies and went to war on congestion points and bottlenecks, even allowing senior bureaucrats to hit talkback radio station to push their point over that of shock jocks.
Mr Baird wasted no time in up-selling the merits of his latest promotions as “outstanding candidates who bring dynamism and vast experience to these critical roles in delivering government services to the public”.
“A priority of this government is to embrace innovation and new technology to drive excellence in customer service,” Mr Baird said.
“Martin’s mix of public sector and business experience makes him the ideal person to head up this newly-formed department.”
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The small-town girl with the big tennis game
You'd never know Petra Kvitova is a Wimbledon champion -- she prefers to live a quiet life, and gets her solitude in a small Czech city.
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الاثنين، 29 يونيو 2015
'Dirty scum' outburst at Wimbledon
Nick Kyrgios said he doesn't mind being potentially fined for a verbal outburst during his first-round win Monday, while fellow Aussie Lleyton Hewitt bid adieu to SW19.
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Backside poker Jara handed ban
Chile's hopes of making the Copa America final on home soil were dealt a blow after key defender Gonzalo Jara was suspended for three matches and handed a $7,500 fine by South America's football confederation for poking his finger into Edison Cavani's backside.
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Finance pushes ahead with ASIC registry outsourcing
Government agencies in Australia are reaping big benefits by exposing vast volumes of valuable but otherwise lazy and hidden public information for free through the Open Data movement.
And then there’s the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC).
The Australian financial and markets regulator on Monday called for registrations of interest for the right to operate its highly lucrative registry operations that charge businesses and the public substantial fees for obtaining corporate information which companies are required to provide to it.
The move to outsource – or effectively lease-out the corporate registry cash cow – comes as a growing rift over who owns public emerges between older-style advocates of public sector contestability with the commercial sector and more progressive Open Data advocates who believe public information and data needs to remain freely accessible to maximise its potential to generate new efficiencies, innovation and wealth.
Such is the value of ASIC’s registry holdings and its commercial operations that the Abbott government has retained international investment bank Greenhill to handle the transaction, a move generally reserved for substantial divestments or privatisations.
According to public notices placed by the Department of Finance, registrations of interest are now being sought “from parties considering participation in the competitive tender process for the right to upgrade and operate [the ASIC Registry] and to develop and sell value added products and services…”
While few doubt there will be strong interest for the business, it is understood there is growing unease among state governments seeking to get a firmer data-driven grasp of business activity within their borders.
While ASIC has firmly set out that “The Government will retain ownership of the Registry’s base data” a growing concern is that handing the holdings exclusively to a private operator could sacrifice future innovations in favour of sweating the price of access to ASIC’s holdings that amount to 10 million records.
Those records span corporate and professional registers and include both the Companies Register and Business Names Register as well as millions of financial disclosures.
According to Finance, the government is seeking to “explore the capacity of the private sector to operate the Registry, invest in the Registry’s systems and enhance user experience.”
As the tender process roll on, opponents of the registry sell-off both within the public sector and private industry are understood to be have started a rear guard lobbying effort to ensure that information becomes easier and cheaper to access rather than more expensive.
Some Abbott government Cabinet Ministers have already voiced their opposition to the sale of ASIC data over making it freely available, including Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
In March 2014 Mr Turnbull broadsided ASIC and other government agencies that commercialised access to public data via paywalls calling the practice “really regrettable” and saying that “as a matter of principle, I don’t think the government should be charging the public for data.”
“Obviously these are tough and troubled times from a budgetary point of view – and there will be all sorts of contractual issues – but really, the productivity benefits from making data freely available are so much greater than whatever revenues you can generate from them,” Mr Turnbull said at the time.
Since then the Communications Minister has obtained a mandate through the Digital Transformation Office to put government information online, however ASIC remains conspicuously out of the Open Data fold thanks to the apparent on-market cash value of selling its data holdings.
The deadline for Registrations of Interest for participation in the competitive tender process to operate ASIC’s registry has been set for 27th July 2015, with interested parties instructed by Finance to contact Greenhill for documents.
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Strikes hit merged Immigration and Border Protection on first day
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Happy financial new year? Not likely if you’re travelling mid-week.
Major disruption at international airports is primed to mar the official ‘standing up’ of Australia’s latest public sector mega-merger, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and its new frontline operational border agency, the Australian Border Force, on its very first day.
Unionised staff at the new entity are continuing their preparations to go on strike on Wednesday 1st July as the Community and Public Sector Union ramps-up protected action across the public service to try and force the Abbott government’s hand pushing through deeply unpopular cuts to conditions and entitlements in many agencies.
The union has warned that international airports to be affected by the two hour strikes include Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Cairns, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin.
The confirmation of the latest industrial action comes despite a last minute back down by the government to provide assurances to Customs staff transitioning into Immigration and Border Protection that they will not be immediately left out of pocket to the tune of thousands of dollars a year because of the consolidation through changes to entitlements, allowances and conditions.
“The Secretary of the Department issued a determination under section 24 of the Public Service Act 1999 on Friday that will provide transition payments and provisions equivalent to most current allowances from the 1st of July for Customs Officers who currently receive them,” the CPSU said in a bulletin to members.
“The Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister has also issued a section 24 (3) determination preserving all Marine Unit conditions of employment post 1 July and until a new Departmental Enterprise Agreement is reached.”
The continuation of the allowances until a new enterprise agreement is reached is a tactical victory for the CPSU which has managed to galvanise substantial new support within Customs to preserve longstanding conditions.
“This immediately prevents Customs Officers from losing thousands of dollars in take home pay from 1 July. The Department and Government has held this over staff for months. This Determination makes a huge difference to members who were facing enormous financial hardship from 1 July,” the CPSU told its members.
“Make no mistake, by standing together, joining our union in huge numbers and participating actively in industrial action, CPSU members in DIBP and ACBPS have achieved a significant win. But it’s only a temporary stay of execution,” the union said.
The latest strike action is a serious headache for the government on two fronts.
Firstly, the walk-off by those charged with defending the integrity of Australia’s borders comes at a time when government members are seeking to get maximum political mileage from border protection issues.
Secondly, unlike previous lower impact CPSU action, the disruption at airports and sea ports is certain to register in the minds of affected travellers and businesses keen to avoid any industrial brawl at the nation’s entry and exit points.
The CPSU’s National Secretary, Nadine Flood, wasn’t making any apologies for the disruptions saying striking staff were some of the worst affected under enterprise offers that had been resoundingly rejected.
“Customs and Immigration officers are being hit particularly hard by the Abbott Government’s bargaining policy which forces their agency to cut many of the allowances they rely on to make up their pay packet, Ms Flood said,”
“Thousands of officers face losing $5000 to $8000 a year; while small groups of highly specialised officers stand to lose even more take home pay. We have Border Protection workers desperately worried about how they’ll pay their bills and that is appalling.
“These men and women literally put their lives on the line to keep Australia safe.”
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service is standing by its original advice to customers and travellers. Deputy chief executive for Border Operations, Michael Outram, said this month that arrangements were place “to protect Australia’s borders and minimise the impact on business operations.”
“While there will be some delays in services, we anticipate that contingency measures in place will keep interruptions to a minimum. The Portfolio regrets any inconvenience this industrial action may cause the public and industry,” Mr Outram said.
“During protected industrial action, the health and safety of our people and the protection of the border continue to be our priority.”
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Marathon makeover: Tennis 'loser' is now a winner
Since losing the longest match in tennis history, Nicolas Mahut has turned his career around -- the soul-destroying defeat to John Isner at Wimbledon no longer defines him as "an unlucky loser."
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First Indian basketballer in NBA draft
Making it big in basketball had long been a dearly held dream for Satnam Singh.
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Marathon makeover: Tennis 'loser' is now a winner
Since losing the longest match in tennis history, Nicolas Mahut has turned his career around -- the soul-destroying defeat to John Isner at Wimbledon no longer defines him as "an unlucky loser."
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Buyback to finally demolish Mr Fluffy asbestos legacy in NSW
The name Mr Fluffy has for decades sent a shiver down the spines of Canberra homeowners and their neighbours where the painstaking clean-up for the loose fill asbestos scandal is set to cost around a billion dollars.
Now New South Wales residents stuck with properties contaminated by the infamous loose fill asbestos business will finally be able to access state government financial help to safely rid their properties of the deadly fibre that’s so dangerous that houses insulated with it must be demolished by men in moonsuits.
The NSW Government has announced a voluntary purchase and demolition program for all NSW residential property owners with positive results for loose-fill asbestos insulation, similar to the one already operating in the ACT.
The move is in response to the findings of the Loose Fill Asbestos Insulation Taskforce headed by former Deputy Commissioner Dave Owens, which has now submitted its Final Report to the NSW government.
Minister for Finance, Services and Property, Dominic Perrottet said the Baird government had considered the report and accepted all of the Taskforce’s 13 recommendations. “Ensuring the health and safety of NSW residents is our top priority,” Mr Perrottet said. “This package will provide safety, certainty and support for our citizens and an enduring solution to the problem of loose-fill asbestos insulation.”
The voluntary purchase/demolition program will offer eligible homeowners a choice of actions – a NSW Government purchase of premises and land or a NSW Government purchase of the premises only. The program follows on from the Make Safe Assistance package announced in December last year.
Mr Perrottet said the Government would now establish a new Loose-Fill Asbestos Implementation (LFAI) taskforce to oversee and implement the program, supported by a number of legislative changes. These will include establishing a public register of affected properties, introducing mandatory hazard labelling and identifying affected properties on planning certificates.
“NSW Fair Trading will establish and oversee the taskforce, which will be able to scale up or down depending on the number of properties identified in NSW,” said Mr Perrottet. “At this stage, 66 properties have been positively identified in NSW – 57 from historical records and 9 from sample testing.” There are 56 in Queanbeyan, where residents affected by the Mr Fluffy insulation had ranged a long and vocal battle to be treated the same as affected residents across the border in the ACT.
Mr Perrottet said the NSW Government would be extending the free sample testing program across the 26 Local Government Areas until 1 August 2016. The free testing is only available initially to the listed 26 Local Government Areas but it would be expanded if there are positive results in LGAs outside the original list.
He said the taskforce will be in place until all properties registered by 1 August 2016 have been demolished and the soil remediated under the scheme.
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Cabcharge’s ticket clipped by ACCC
The federal competition watchdog’s campaign to enforce fairer competition in Australia’s notoriously cloistered taxi industry has taken a significant step forward after dominant payments processing player Cabcharge finally accepted a court enforceable undertaking to let rival firms accept its cards.
The undertaking made to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) means that Cabcharge Australia must negotiate in good faith with rival payment processors, who will soon be able to process Cabcharge cards on their own in-taxi payment terminals.
Having successfully resisted regulatory intervention for years, the deal struck between Cabcharge and the ACCC opens the way for competing payment platforms to take a bigger cut of non-cash fares that they would not otherwise have access to.
To date, third parties have been unable to reach agreement with Cabcharge to process its cards on their terminals. This limited their ability to compete with Cabcharge for the acceptance and processing of non-cash payments in taxis.
Cabcharge’s subsequent near-monopoly has been frequently criticised inside and outside the industry and led to frequent complaints that cabs in Australia, and especially in Sydney, are overpriced with both drivers and passengers paying the price.
It has been one example of how the cab industry, for years led by the late Reginald Kermode, has had to change its ways. For decades it was a politically powerful closed shop. More recently challenges by online upstarts like Uber have challenged its monopoly, but it is only really since Kermode’s death in 2014 that the wider cab industry has been forced to play be the same rules as most other industries.
“The undertaking opens up this market to further competition and will provide third parties with the ability to process Cabcharge cards for the first time,” ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said. “The undertaking provides a clear pathway to facilitate third parties processing Cabcharge cards.
“If third parties obtain access, this will allow them to better compete against Cabcharge for processing revenue, as Cabcharge will no longer be the only terminal in a taxi that can process all forms of commonly used non-cash payment.”
Cabcharge has undertaken, for a period of five years, to:
• negotiate with third parties in good faith in relation to providing access to the system that will allow them to process Cabcharge cards.
• execute an agreement with third parties who apply for access in accordance with the provisions set out in the undertaking.
• provide to a third party which has executed an agreement any reasonable technological support requested by the third party to enable it to process Cabcharge cards.
• provide access to third parties that have demonstrated they can provide processing services on the terms set out in the agreement.
Mr Sims said Cabcharge has cooperated with the ACCC and has made a significant investment towards facilitating third party access, by developing software that enables third parties to process Cabcharge cards.
The issue goes back some years. In 2010, the Federal Court made orders that Cabcharge pay $15 million in penalties and costs for three contraventions of the Trade Practices Act (now the Competition and Consumer Act 2010), by refusing to deal with certain firms and engaging in predatory pricing.
The Court’s orders obliged Cabcharge to establish a written set of criteria against which it would assess every request for another business to accept or process Cabcharge cards by electronic means or with an EFTPOS or other electronic system for the payment, by non-cash means, of fares and charges incurred by taxi passengers.
The undertaking now provided by Cabcharge arises from an investigation by the ACCC into allegations that, between 2011 and 2012, Cabcharge had refused to deal with a third party processor making requests pursuant to the Request Processing Policy.
The investigation also concerned allegations that Cabcharge had constructively refused to deal with third parties by establishing and implementing the Request Processing Policy in terms that would discourage or deter requests.
The undertaking is available here.
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الأحد، 28 يونيو 2015
Sydney’s Central Railway revamp sells more ads
Sydney’s Central Station has seen many revamps over the years, including a major realignment of approach roads and other access points in the 1990s. Now it has a dual role as a train station and an advertising vehicle.
Central Railway is supposed to be the state’s centrepiece railway station, but it has struggled at times. Its initial location south of the CBD made little sense when it was opened in 1906 – it was until not the construction of Sydney’s underground system in the 1920s and the opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1933 that it assumed its present role as the hub of Sydney’s public transport system.
Now there has been another change.
The NSW Government has unveiled a new high-tech Customer Service Centre in the middle of the concourse — the same spot where a grand wooden indicator board stood until was replaced with TV monitors in 1982. The much loved board was removed only with much complaint and is now in the Powerhouse Museum.
(Rail history buffs will attest that Sydney’s art deco era Clyde station still retains a wooden indicator board and remains devoid of electronic platform monitors giving it almost cult status as the destination that time forgot.)
With the latest Central revamp train arrivals and departures are now displayed on an 11 metre long digital information board made up of 20 individual screens. The giant screen also contains information about major events – and advertising – along with a tourist information kiosk and a mobile device charging station.
Andrew Constance, NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, toured and officially opened the new centre at Central Station on Monday. He also announced the introduction of a Concession Opal card for job seekers, and an upgrade to the Transport NSW website.
But it is the pervasiveness of advertising on the train system that most people have noticed.
Large scale talking billboards now verbally harangue commuters at major city stations, and even some destination boards are now displaying advertising, though these appear to be trials. Trains themselves are also on track to being gradually converted into advertising vehicles, a move the state government has cashed-in on in more ways than one.
Many rail commuters in NSW were surprised when Premier Mike Baird made a cameo appearance in a video advertisement for Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper posing as a train traveling reader of the tabloid.
Meanwhile, selling space on and around the railway network has become big business. Advertising for Sydney Transport is now outsourced to four separate advertising companies: APN Outdoor (Billboard and ‘cross track’), Adshel (Station platforms and concourses, including the ominous sounding‘station domination), Torch Media (train exteriors) and S&J Media Group (train interiors).
Announcing the contracts in December 2013, then Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian said that “the new advertising contracts are expected to double the revenue Sydney Trains receives through advertising to at least $100 million over five years, unlocking the potential that has long been underutilised across the network.”
There you have it. The NSW state government quite clearly sees empty space on trains and platforms as ‘underutilised potential’.
And here’s a lurk. When the previous contracts were announced, Sydney Trains Director of Customer Service Liz Ward said the increased advertising would “make it easier for customers to find their way around our stations as by using more scrolling and digital advertising we’re able to reduce the amount of other advertising around the station, making directional signs easier to spot.”
That’s settled, then.
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Australian government leap to extend FY15… by one second
It’s one small step for accountants, but one giant leap for official timekeepers, markets traders, rocket scientists and computer boffins around the nation, as the ending financial year gains a crucial extra second on Tuesday to recalibrate and catch-up with the flow of time.
Perhaps concerned that Australians might blink and miss the landmark, the Federal Government has even gone to the extent of holding a special media event to celebrate the brief addition of a ‘leap second‘ to the nation’s most official clocks during the very last minute of 30th June.
Although brief, it’s a chronological curiosity that will result in Australia’s official atomic clock showing 23:59:60 as well as 00:00:00. There will also be 61 seconds in the minute, providing accountants more time to complete their year end reports and allowing all of us to sleep in.
It may appear insignificant, but for machines that rely on finely tuned and super-accurate links to official clocks, a mere second can make a world of difference. Given that speed-obsessed operators of automated high frequency financial trading systems rely on margins as small as hundredths and even thousandths of a second to make algorithmic decisions to buy and sell, it’s not hard to why those punting hundreds of millions on world bourses are carefully watching Australia’s official clock.
The same goes for space industries where rocket speeds mean that the tiniest difference in time can translate to potentially critical issues for paylodes like satellites.
Australia’s equivalent of Greenwich, the National Measurement Institute in the leafy Sydney suburb of West Lindfield, is taking the momentary extension of the financial most seriously and will even officially mark the occasion at 9:30am on 1st July with an official visit Karen Andrews, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry Ian Macfarlane to help Australia’s measurement boffins strut their stuff.
But it least the NMI tells us why the leap second is needed. “Scientists responsible for Australia’s atomic clocks will add an extra leap second into the clocks, keeping Australia’s time standard consistent with the rest of the world.
“Leap seconds are introduced in unison around the world to keep Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) aligned to the earth’s variable rotation. They occur at irregular intervals—the last one was in 2012. We rely on accurate time, particularly in financial markets, telecommunications, astronomy and navigation.”
The government is also keen for the event to be documented for posterity, enticing the media thoughy an opportunity to snap photos of Australia’s atomic clocks before, during and after the leap second is added.”
But it hasn’t happened yet, so we are doing it for you. Over the few seconds straddling the leap second year, Australia’s digital clocks will look like this:
• 12:59:59
• 23:59:60
• 00:00:00
So don’t blame us if you’re late for an appointment this week. Look before you leap.
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Wimbledon champion Djokovic denies 'cheating' claims
Novak Djokovic has denied claims of receiving illegal coaching during his matches but admitted on the eve of his Wimbledon title defense that players do find a way to bend the rules to their advantage.
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Sorry Brazil exits Copa on penalties to Paraguay
Brazil's hopes of restoring national pride after its disastrous 2014 World Cup exit were cruelly dashed after losing a penalty shootout to Paraquay to exit the Copa America Saturday at the quarterfinal stage.
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Sorry Brazil exits Copa on penalties to Paraguay
Brazil's hopes of restoring national pride after its disastrous 2014 World Cup exit were cruelly dashed after losing a penalty shootout to Paraquay to exit the Copa America Saturday at the quarterfinal stage.
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السبت، 27 يونيو 2015
Rossi teaches young rival a lesson
Motorcycling's old master showed he can still pull off a few tricks on Saturday, as Valentino Rossi pulled off an audacious late move to triumph in the prestigious Dutch TT race at Assen.
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'New Hingis' wins first tennis title
She's been dubbed "the new Martina Hingis" -- and Belinda Bencic delivered her first career title under the watchful eye of her tennis mentor on Saturday.
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Argentina star ends Copa nightmare
The nightmare of 2011 is over for Carlos Tevez, who closed the loop on one of his most painful football memories by putting Argentina into the Copa America semifinals after a dramatic penalty shootout.
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'Defense wins titles,' says U.S. women's soccer star
The U.S. team has not exactly been winning new fans at the Women's World Cup, but its defensive approach is paying off after reaching the semifinals for a record seventh time.
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الجمعة، 26 يونيو 2015
U.S. teen makes Bolt look slow
Usain Bolt's status as the world's fastest man is not only under assault by Justin Gatlin this year -- an American teenager is also proving to be a threat.
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Blatter 'will not' stand for re-election
FIFA President Sepp Blatter will not stand for re-election later this year, a spokesperson for football's world governing body told CNN on Friday.
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Satnam Singh becomes 1st Indian-born basketball player picked in NBA draft
Making it big in basketball had long been a dearly held dream for Satnam Singh.
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Satman Singh becomes 1st Indian-born basketball player picked in NBA draft
Making it big in basketball had long been a dearly held dream of Satman Singh.
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