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Speed skater Lee, Dutch team break own world records
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» South Korea's Lee Sang-Hwa broke the women's world 500-meter record Saturday for the third time in eight days to win an ISU World Cup Speed Skating race.
Hall leads England into WCup semis with France victory
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» Ryan Hall stormed back to the top of the Rugby League World Cup try scoring chart as England defeated France 34-6 on Saturday to book a semi-final clash with New Zealand.
Ivory Coast, Nigeria qualify for World Cup
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» Ivory Coast joined Nigeria in the World Cup finals on Saturday after a 1-1 draw against Senegal gave them a 4-2 aggregate win on a tense night in neutral Casablanca.
Speed skater Lee breaks her own 500m world record
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» South Korea's Lee Sang-Hwa broke the women's world 500-meter record Saturday for the third time in eight days to win an ISU World Cup Speedskating race.
Bolt, Fraser-Pryce named as IAAF athletes of year
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» Jamaican sprint duo Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were on Saturday named as the IAAF's male and female World Athletes of the Year for 2013.
Parra guides France past Tonga as tempers flare
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» Morgan Parra guided a listless France to a 38-18 victory over Tonga in an ill-tempered one-off Test match at Le Havre's Stade Oceane on Saturday.
Cooper orchestrates Aussie demolition of Ireland
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» A sublime performance by Australia's mercurial fly-half Quade Cooper inspired the Wallabies to a 32-15 victory over a flat Irish side on Saturday, their first back-to-back wins of the year.
End to China labour camps cheered -- but what next?
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» Stripped naked and beaten, Peng Hong's memories of his time in a Chinese "re-education" labour camp are dark -- but even so, he greeted Beijing's abolition of the widely-loathed system with only cautious optimism.
Nine shot dead in Xinjiang police station attack: Xinhua
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» Nine axe-wielding assailants were shot dead during an attack on a police station in China's restive Xinjiang province, state media reported Saturday.
China Open favourites march into finals
AFP, Published on 17/11/2013
» It will be an all-Chinese showdown in the men’s singles, women’s singles and double’s finals at the VICTOR China Open Finals following Saturday’s semi-finals.