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    Jelena Jankovic (pictured) beat Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-2 in Dubai

    Jankovic upsets Stosur, into Dubai last four

    Former world number one Jelena Jankovic returned to somewhere nearer her best form on Thursday to upset Samantha Stosur and reach the semi-finals of the Dubai Open in her adopted home city. More »Jankovic upsets Stosur, into Dubai last four

    • Put Schumacher in a Red Bull, says Ecclestone Reuters - 1 hour 24 minutes ago

      LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Schumacher can be a winner with Mercedes this season but ideally he would be alongside double world champion Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Thursday. The 43-year-old seven-times world champion is starting the third season of his comeback still chasing …

    • Put Schumacher in a Red Bull, says Ecclestone Reuters - 1 hour 44 minutes ago
      Mercedes F1 driver Michael Schumacher of Germany drives during a training session at Circuit de Catalunya racetrack, in Montmelo, near Barcelona

      LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Schumacher can be a winner with Mercedes this season but ideally he would be alongside double world champion Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Thursday. The 43-year-old seven-times world champion is starting the third season of his comeback still chasing …

    • LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Michael Schumacher can be awinner with Mercedes this season but ideally he would bealongside double world champion Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull,Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Thursday. The 43-year-old seven-times world champion is starting thethird season of his comeback still chasing …

    • Awhale being dragged on board a Japanese whaling ship after being harpooned in Antarctic waters

      Anti-whaling campaigners Sea Shepherd attacked a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic Ocean by firing paint bombs at it and trying to jam its propeller with ropes, Japan's whaling body said Thursday.

    • India debates Tendulkar's one-day future AFP - 2 hours 59 minutes ago
      Sachin Tendulkar is the longest-serving international cricketer, having made his debut in 1989

      India's cricket greats have begun talking about a topic that was considered unthinkable a year ago -- Sachin Tendulkar's retirement from the sport.

    • A man looks at an electronic shares index board in front of a securities company in Tokyo

      Asian shares were mixed Thursday as concerns about Greece's debt crisis returned to worry investors but domestic factors also came into play.

    • The Shepherd's beaked whale is so rare it has never been filmed live before

      Australian researchers Thursday revealed they had filmed a pod of extremely rare Shepherd's beaked whales for the first time ever.

    • Kevin Rudd (left) and Julia Gillard at a news conference in Melbourne in December

      Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday called a ballot on the leadership of the ruling Labor party, bringing to a head an increasingly bitter and ugly row with her predecessor Kevin Rudd.

    • SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Finding Nemo is about to get a lot easier with the launch of a scientific survey that will allow anyone with access to the internet to take a virtual tour of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The survey, which will use a variety of high-tech underwater cameras, will carry out one of the most intensive …

    • Net profits for the fourth quarter alone came to $983 million

      Reinsurance giant Swiss Re shrugged off natural disasters to report net profits of $2.6 billion for 2011 on Thursday, up sharply from the $863 million recorded the previous year and higher than analysts had expected.

    • Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard addresses the media at the Parliament House courtyard in Adelaide

      CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dared her political rival, former foreign minister Kevin Rudd, to challenge her in a leadership vote next week, hoping to end infighting that threatens to sink the minority government and its reform agenda. Gillard called on Thursday for the vote to be held …

    • Carleton pedalling toward success Vancouver Province - 8 hours ago
      Carleton pedalling toward success

      Talk about being on a fast track.In just eight months Victoria cyclist Gillian Carleton has gone from being a road racer with no track experience to joining Edmonton’s Tara Whitten and Burnaby’s Jasmin Glaesser on a Canadian team pursuit squad that rode into 2012 Olympic medal contention with a silver at a World Cup on …

    • SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The yen edged up versus the dollar on Thursday but still hovered close to a 7-month low, with the dollar supported by demand from Japanese importers. The greenback took a breather from its recent rally against the Japanese currency, having climbed 5.4 percent from lows hit in early February. The dollar …

    • Australia's captain Ponting reacts after playing a shot on the third day of their third test cricket match against India in New Delhi

      (Reuters) - Australian captain Michael Clarke has said he was partly responsible for the sacking of former skipper Ricky Ponting from the one-day squad. Clarke wrote about how difficult the decision had been in a newspaper column on Thursday, while adding that the 37-year-old Ponting remained a "huge part of our test team." …

    • JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African diversified miner Exxaro on Thursday reported a 40 percent rise in full-year profit, boosted by strong demand and higher prices for the majority of its commodities and despite negative currency effects. Exxaro, South Africa's second-largest coal producer and a major supplier to power …

    • Australian publishing giant Fairfax is the major rival in the country to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited

      Australian publishing giant Fairfax, the major rival in the country to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited, reported a 44 percent plunge in first-half profit Thursday due to flagging print advertising revenue.

    • REGINA - The Lingerie Football League is coming to Regina.

    • Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called a ballot on the leadership of the ruling Labor party

      Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday called a ballot on the leadership of the ruling Labor party, bringing to a head an increasingly bitter and ugly row with predecessor Kevin Rudd.

    • Ousted prison guards and armed police and military spent the night massed outside the notorious Kerobokan prison

      Indonesian forces backed by water cannons and armoured vehicles were locked in a tense stand-off outside a prison on Bali island Thursday after rioting inmates took control for a second night.

    • A Yukon musher wants the three northern territories to enact tough laws around the care of sled dogs.

    • FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2011 file photo, Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd laughs while sitting across the table to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and U.S. President Barack Obama at a parliamentary dinner in Canberra, Australia. Rudd resigned Wednesday, Feb. 22, in a bitter rift with Gillard, who may poll her party's lawmakers next week on who should lead the country. (AP Photo/Alan Porritt, Pool, File)

      CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by the premier she ousted in a Labor Party coup. But Kevin Rudd's supporters said that even if Gillard survives Monday's vote, the turmoil surrounding her unpopular government …

    • A man takes photographs of a container ship at a port in Tokyo

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was still considering whether to support Japan's bid to join talks on a trans-Pacific regional free trade agreement, three months after Tokyo announced interest in the negotiations. "Both governments agreed to continue the consultative process, with additional …

    • Budget airline Virgin Australia is the country's number-two carrier

      Budget airline Virgin Australia said Thursday it more than doubled its first-half net profits as it picked up business from rival Qantas which grounded its entire fleet for two days in October.

    • Ousted prison guards and armed police and military spent the night massed outside the notorious Kerobokan prison

      Indonesian forces backed by water cannons and armoured vehicles were locked in a tense stand-off outside a prison on Bali island Thursday after rioting inmates took control for a second night.

    • (updates) Feb 22 (Reuters) - Results from the first round of the WGC-AccentureMatch Play Championship at Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Marana,Arizona on Wednesday (U.S. unless stated) Results: Bobby Jones bracket Peter Hanson (Sweden) beat Jason Dufner 2&1 Brandt Snedeker beat Retief Goosen (South Africa) 21st …

    • Indonesia is to evacuate all 60 foreigners as well as female prisoners from a bali jail under the control of inmates

      Indonesian authorities on Thursday began evacuating foreigners and women from a jail on the resort island of Bali after rioting inmates retook control triggering a tense stand-off.

    • Kevin Rudd

      Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday called a ballot on the leadership of the ruling Labor party, bringing to a head an ugly row with predecessor Kevin Rudd.

    • East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta

      East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday that many Timorese will waste their vote in a presidential election next month if they back one of the explosion of small parties in contention.

    • CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Julia Gillard is announcing that her party will vote next week on its leadership.

    • A Yukon musher wants the three northern territories to enact tough laws around the care of sled dogs.

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