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...sisters, Venus and Serena, kept up the winning ways that have made them the world's top two women players. And Anna Kournikova lost in the first round. It was the 10th first-round defeat this year for Kournikova, who found yet another loss so galling that when a BBC interviewer suggested that her confidence must be low she threw a tantrum. Kournikova even lost out in the pin-up stakes to Slovakia's statuesque Daniela Hantuchova, recently voted the world's sexiest player in a poll of fans. In 1913 Wimbledon was accorded the title World's Championships...
...States, is showing clear signs of recovery, Israel is sinking deeper and deeper into recession. In the absence of any political horizon to the conflict, which would include an end of the occupation, this decline is liable to become permanent." Things look even worse on the Palestinian side. The BBC reports that a meeting of international donors in Oslo agreed to provide $1.2 billion in aid to rebuild Palestinian infrastructure destroyed by the Israeli military campaign - and that's $800 million short of the World Bank's estimated requirement of the cost of restoring basic services. A Norwegian finance official...
Given their long history of choking in the crunch, it's fitting that the most elegant euphemism for sporting failure was invented by the English. You used to hear it all the time on BBC radio, when an England side was beaten, at Wembley or Twickenham or Lord's; at the final whistle, or wicket, a commentator would put the defeat down to "the glorious uncertainty of the game...
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...Development warns that its "recovery is likely to continue to run out of steam." Wearing the tiara of a market economy won't change that, but it might just give Russia the boost it needs to get down to the less glamorous business of serious reform. DIGITAL VIDEO A BBC Show That's Hard to Ignore Since zenith invented remote control in the 1950s, life has often seemed like one big struggle over the TV. Digital video recorders (DVRS) are the ultimate in viewer control, allowing users to skip commercials, pause live programs and watch shows at their own pace...