| Els ousts Donald, Tiger fights on at WGC Match Play |  Top-ranked defending champion Luke Donald was hammered by Ernie Els while Tiger Woods had a narrow first-round escape at the World Golf Championships Match Play Championship.
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| RBS annual net loss widens to almost £2.0 bln |  State-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland on Thursday said its net losses widened to almost £2.0 billion in 2011, hit by the Greek debt crisis and compensation costs linked to insurance mis-selling.
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| FACTBOX - Chronology of the Maldives' crisis in paradise |  MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago best-known as a luxury sun-and-sand holiday destination, is in the middle of a political crisis, after its first democratically elected president left office hastily in what he says was a coup. Current president Mohamed Waheed Hussain Manik, who ascended from the vice-presidency, says he took power constitutionally. ...
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| Crisis in paradise in Maldives' new democracy |  MALE (Reuters) - It was an ordinary blue felt pen, and not a bullet, that killed Mohamed Nasheed's term as the first democratically elected president of the Maldives. After rising to acclaim as a champion of democracy and action against climate change, Nasheed is now back on the streets where he led a nearly two-decade campaign to bring full democracy to an archipelago ruled more like a sultanate. ...
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| Allianz says profits halved by Greece, natural disasters |  German insurance giant Allianz said Thursday natural catastrophes and losses on its investments in Greece slashed its bottom-line in half in 2011.
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| Suspect of SNSD nude pictures circulation caught |  A 53 year-old government servant was caught as a suspect for the fake nude pictures of SNSD members
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| Bulgaria's abandoned children crave tenderness |  The pallid little face and big sad eyes of two-year-old Gergana say it all -- she is starving for tenderness like thousands of other children abandoned in social care homes across Bulgaria.
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| Indonesia to evacuate foreigners, women from Bali jail |  Indonesian authorities said Thursday they would evacuate foreigners and women from a prison on Bali island after rioting inmates regained control, triggering a tense stand-off.
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| Stop the tinkering - After last-gasp defeat to Marseille, Inter's Claudio Ranieri must banish Sneijder & Zarate back to the bench |  The under-fire Nerazzurri boss appears to have lost the courage of his convictions if his team selection for his side's latest defeat is anything to go by
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| South Korea demand action after crowd trouble in Oman |  (Reuters) - South Korea will seek punishment against Oman for their failure to control supporters in Wednesday's Olympic football qualifier between the two teams in Muscat, local media reported Thursday.
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