Nominated artists Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal and The XX are arriving in London for this year’s prestigious Mercury Music Prize.
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Stars turn out for Mercury Prize
China urges international support for the Burmese general election planned for later this year, as Burma’s leader begins a five-day visit to China.
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China backs Burma’s election plan
Elton Chigumbura, the Zimbabwe and Mashonaland Eagles captain, was named the country’s cricketer of the year at the CBZ Bank 2010 cricket awards in Harare on Friday
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Elton Chigumbura named player of the year
Google proposes paying $8.5m (£5.5m) to settle a class-action lawsuit brought over its Buzz social network, launched earlier this year.
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Buzz lawsuit to cost Google $8.5m
CARDIFF (Reuters) – World Twenty20 champions England celebrated their first international since winning the World Cup in Barbados this year with a five-wicket win over controversy-hit Pakistan on Sunday.
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England win first T20 match since World Cup triumph
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s European 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah withdrew from next month’s Delhi Commonwealth Games on Friday and said he will not race on the track again this year.
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Farah pulls out of Commonwealth Games
NZC is bracing for a financial hit in their home series against Pakistan later this year, due to what chief executive Justin Vaughan called a “residual impact” of the spot-fixing controversy
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Revenue from Pakistan tour could suffer – NZC
NZC is bracing for a financial hit in their home series against Pakistan later this year, due to what chief executive Justin Vaughan called a “residual impact” of the spot-fixing controversy
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Revenue from Pakistan tour could suffer – NZC
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Songwriter Kara DioGuardi has quit “American Idol,” the third of four judges to leave the top-rated U.S. television singing contest this year following Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres
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Kara DioGuardi becomes 3rd judge to quit "American Idol"
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) – To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but schoolchildren in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens which project erotic images.
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German party mistakenly hands out porn pens to kids