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Use words that heal, not words that harm: Obama to Americans
World | Dec 21, 2014, 05:46 PM ISTWashington: US President Barack Obama today appealed to fellow Americans to reject violence and words that harmed others and turn to words that heal, hours after a lone black gunman killed two uniformed New York
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Wimbledon: Sock, Pospisil beat Bryan brothers in doubles final
Tennis | Jul 06, 2014, 02:01 AM ISTLONDON : American Jack Sock and Canadian Vasek Pospisil made their first tournament together a championship-winning one by defeating Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6 (5), 6-7 (3), 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in the Wimbledon doubles final.
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American testifies in court, tells of meeting bin Laden before 9/11
World | Mar 07, 2014, 09:06 AM ISTNew York: An American who trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan in the spring of 2001 before losing his nerve testified on Thursday how he encountered Osama bin Laden and bin Laden's son-in-law at
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Dubai jails American over video mocking teens
World | Dec 24, 2013, 10:56 AM ISTDubai: An American man was sentenced to up to a year in prison in Dubai after being convicted in connection to a satirical video about youth culture there.The video they produced and uploaded to the
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Indian-American Manju Goel announces candidacy for US Congress
World | Sep 10, 2013, 03:22 PM ISTChicago: Indian-American Manju Goel has announced her bid to seek Republican party nomination to run for a seat in the US Congress, focussing on divisive issues like “Obamacare” and the growing national debt.Goel, an Aurora
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Indian-American jumps into 100-ft mine shaft to 'appease gods'
World | Jan 16, 2013, 04:28 PM ISTWashington, Jan 16: A 28-year-old Indian-American jumped into a 100-foot mine shaft at a meteor impact site in Arizona to “appease the gods” and was pulled out following a massive eight-hour rescue operation.Parminder Singh of
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Boston University sophomore wins Miss Universe 2012 crown
World | Dec 20, 2012, 03:20 PM ISTLas Vegas, Nevada, Dec 20: A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore and a self-described “cellist-nerd” brought the Miss Universe crown back to the United States for the first time in more than a decade when she
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Finnish couple win American wife carrying contest
World | Oct 09, 2012, 04:49 PM ISTNewry, Maine, US, Oct 9: A Finnish couple has added to their victories by taking first place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship at Maine's Sunday River ski resort. Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen
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Frenchman, American win Nobel physics prize
World | Oct 09, 2012, 04:00 PM ISTStockholm, Oct 9 : Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing and developing methods for observing tiny quantum particles without destroying them.The Royal Swedish Academy
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American supermom carries her 6 children on a cargo bike
World | Sep 13, 2012, 08:32 AM ISTPortland, Oregon, Sep 13 : Thirtyfour-year-old Emily Finch of Portland, Oregon, has ditched her SUV car to cycle 20 miles a day to carry her six children around town on a bike modelled on the
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American wild card Burdette enters 3rd round of US Open
Tennis | Aug 31, 2012, 02:29 PM ISTNew York, Aug 30: Mallory Burdette opened the summer plotting how she would take pre-medical courses to pursue her dream of studying psychiatry.A few unanticipated wins on the tennis court later, the 21-year-old American is
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Indian American director's thriller wins two US awards
Hollywood | Aug 28, 2012, 12:18 PM ISTWashington, July 28: "9 Eleven", a Bollywood-style thriller by Indian American director Manan Singh Katohara, has won the Best Feature and Best Director awards at the 2012 World Music & Independent Film Festival (WMIFF) here.Written
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Brian Baker of US gets to Wimbledon's 3rd round
Tennis | Jun 28, 2012, 09:18 PM ISTEngland, Jun28: Brian Baker's remarkable comeback keeps getting better: Now the American is into the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.After missing major tournaments for 6½ years because of a
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Melanie Oudin receives wild card into Wimbledon
Tennis | Jun 18, 2012, 04:31 PM ISTLondon, Jun18: American Melanie Oudin has received a wild card into Wimbledon.The 20-year-old was a quarterfinalist at the 2009 U.S. Open but has struggled to regain that form. On Sunday, she reached the final at
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Nestor, Mirnyi beat Bryans for French Open title
Tennis | Jun 10, 2012, 06:41 PM ISTParis, Jun 10: Top-seeded Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Daniel Nestor of Canada won a second consecutive French Open doubles title by beating American twins Bob and Mike Bryan 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday.“Beating the best
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American Tycoon Donald Trump Plans Residences, Hotels In India
Apr 04, 2012, 05:55 PM ISTMumbai, Apr 4: American real estate tycoon Donald Trump, who is known for creating landmark properties globally, is eying Indian market in a big way and plans to focus expansion in the country on luxury
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Highest-Ranked American, Fish, Out Of Davis Cup
Tennis | Apr 03, 2012, 10:37 AM ISTKey Biscayne (Florida), Apr 3: Hours after losing his most recent match, Mardy Fish woke up in the middle of the night feeling ill and immediately went to be checked by a doctor. He saw
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Federer Beats American Harrison At Key Biscayne
Tennis | Mar 25, 2012, 09:28 AM ISTKey Biscayne (Florida), Mar 25: On the verge of victory, Roger Federer stopped playing when he thought a pivotal point had ended at the Sony Ericsson Open on Saturday.He mistook a fan's shout for a
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American TV Channel Calls Hindu Deities 'Weird'
World | Jan 26, 2012, 07:40 PM ISTChicago, Jan 26: An American television station here has offended the Hindu community after a sports commentary on its website used the term "weird" to describe their deities. The commentary on an ice hockey match
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Oprah Amazed With India's Tolerance Levels, Joint Families
Bollywood | Jan 17, 2012, 11:01 PM ISTMumbai, Jan 17: American talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who is on her maiden visit to India, is amazed with the tolerance and system of joint families in the country.“What I love most about this