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UPDATE 1-Tennis-Swiss Indoors men's singles semi-final results

Nov 7 (Reuters) - Swiss Indoors men's singles semi-final results from Basel on Saturday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result) * 1-Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Marco Chiudinelli (Switzerland) 7-6(7) 6-3 2-Novak Djokovic...

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Former UBS client jailed over tax

A US court handed down the first prison sentence to a US former client of UBS yesterday in a ruling that will unsettle the Swiss banking group's former offshore customers, reports Haig Simonian in Zurich. Robert Moran, a US...

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Brown in call for global 'contract'

Gordon Brown has called for a new global "economic and social contract" with the financial institutions to ensure taxpayers around the world will never again have to bear the cost of banking failure. Addressing the meeting of...

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Snowfall gets Alpine ski season off to early start

The Alpine ski season got off to an early start last week after a drop in temperature led to an early snowfall. In the earliest start to the season for 11 years, over a mile of ski runs have been opened in Verbier, Switzerland,...

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Federer to Play Djokovic for Swiss Indoors Title

Federer to play Djokovic in Swiss Indoors in bid for 4th straight title in hometown tourney By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer BASEL, Switzerland November 7, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment Roger Federer will play...

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Iran not to exchange its enriched uranium for fuel: MP

TEHRAN, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- A senior member of Iranian parliament said Saturday that Iran will not exchange its own enriched uranium for fuel to supply a research reactor in Tehran, local ISNA news agency reported. He insisted...

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Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that Moscow and Washington can sign a new nuclear arms control deal before year's end. Medvedev says the U.S.-Russian arms control talks have been going at a good pace. He...

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Logitech to Hold Analyst and Investor Day onWednesday, November 11 in New York

FREMONT, Calif. and ROMANEL-SUR-MORGES, SwitzerlandLogitech International (SIX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI) today announced it will hold an Analyst and Investor Day in New York on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009...

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Bird beats big bang with bit of baguette

The tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider. Photo: CERN GENEVA : THE $6.5 billion machine designed to recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time had to be switched off after a bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into...

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Russian pianists triumph in Honens Competition

Russian pianists won the day in the final round of Canada's Honens International Piano Competition, nabbing the top two laureate positions. Georgy Tchaidze, 21, and Evgeny Starodubtsev, 27, both from Russia were bestowed the...

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