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July 25 (Reuters) – Spaniard Alberto Contador claimed his third Tour de France title after finishing safely in the bunch in the final stage won by Briton Mark Cavendish on Sunday.
Contador, winner in 2007 and 2009, beat Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck by 39 seconds.
Russian Denis Menchov finished third overall.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot, editing by Justin Palmer)
July 14 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Vestas (VWS.CO), the world’s biggest maker of wind turbines, said on Wednesday it had won an order for 21 turbines with total capacity of 64 megawatts in Sweden.
Vestas Wind Systems A/S said in a statement the deal with Nasudden Vast Invest, Slitevind AB and Stugyl AB includes a service agreement and the installation, on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, is to be completed in late 2011.
The company did not disclose financial details.
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom; editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
July 13 (Reuters) – Finnish engine maker Wartsila (WRT1V.HE) said on Tuesday it had won a deal worth more than 23 million euros ($29 million) from Brightoil Petroleum Group (BPG) in China.
The Finnish company said it will deliver 80 main engines for 40 new bunkering tankers ordered by oil company BPG, and it had also signed an eight-year service deal for all the engines. Wartsila said the deal was one of the largest orders it has ever received and the first 10 engines were scheduled to be delivered between December and next June. (Reporting by Helsinki Newsroom; Editing by Dan Lalor) ($1 = 0.7939 euro)
(Reuters) – Ace pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez recorded his Major League-leading 14th win of the season despite bleeding four runs from his final inning in the Colorado Rockies’ 10-6 win over the NL West-leading San Diego Padres on Monday.
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Jimenez (14-1), who struggled in his previous start against the Boston Red Sox last week, tossed five scoreless innings before getting punished in the sixth.
The Rockies had long established an 8-0 lead for their starter, however, led by Miguel Olivo who hit a two-run double in the third and a two-run homer in the fifth.
San Diego outfielder Scott Hairston recorded four RBIs and pulled the home side within 8-6 with a run-scoring double in the seventh, but Colorado added two insurance runs in the ninth before reliever Huston Street took the final three outs.
(Reporting by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; Compiled by Infostrada Sports; Editing by Ian Ransom)
June 29 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Samsung C&T (000830.KS) has won a 618 billion won ($513.7 million) order to build a hospital in Abu Dhabi, the firm said on Tuesday.
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Samsung C&T said its joint venture with Belgian group Besix, in which it has a 40 percent stake, won the order from Mubadala Development Co.
(Reporting by Suh Kyung-min; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)
June 24 (Reuters) – The new Finnish government of Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi won a parliamentary confidence vote on Thursday as expected.
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The Nordic country’s four party coalition government, which holds a clear majority in parliament, won the vote 118-66 with 15 parliamentarians absent.
The vote ends a government reshuffle process that started last Friday when then prime minister Matti Vanhanen stepped down as planned. Kiviniemi won a parliament vote on Tuesday to become prime minister and was sworn in later that day.
(Reporting by Terhi Kinnunen, Writing by Brett Young)
June 13 (Reuters) – Sandro Rosell will be the next president of Barcelona after winning a landslide vote among club members on Sunday, the Spanish champions said on their website (www.fcbarcelona.com).
The 46-year-old businessman will replace Joan Laporta, who steps down at the end of the month, after gaining just over 61 percent of the vote against three other candidates Agusti Benedito, Marc Ingla and Jaume Ferrer.
(Writing by Mark Elkington, editing by John Mehaffey. To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
(Reuters) – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix in a McLaren one-two with team mate Jenson Button on Sunday.
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Hamilton’s second win in a row, from pole position in Montreal, sent him top of the championship standings after eight races. Spain’s Fernando Alonso finished third for Ferrari.
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June 13 (Reuters) – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix in a McLaren one-two with team mate Jenson Button on Sunday.
Hamilton’s second win in a row, from pole position in Montreal, sent him top of the championship standings after eight races. Spain’s Fernando Alonso finished third for Ferrari.
(Editing by Alan Baldwin; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
June 8 (Reuters) – Roche (ROG.VX) said on Tuesday the European Commission had extended the label for its drug Roactemra to reduce the rate of progression of joint damage and improve physical function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, when given in combination with the older drug methotrexate.
The move had been expected following a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency in April.
The drug, which is known as Actemra in the United States, is currently approved for use in combination with methotrexate to treat adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis who respond inadequately to other treatments.
The new label extension is a recognition that Roactemra can also inhibit structural damage to joints, reinforcing its effectiveness.
(Writing by Ben Hirschler)
May 30 (Reuters) – Briton Dario Franchitti charged to a second Indianapolis 500 win in four years on Sunday, giving team owner Chip Ganassi a unique 500 double.
With the victory, Ganassi becomes the first team owner to win America’s two biggest races, the Daytona and Indy 500s in the same year. (Reporting by Steve Keating; Editing by Sonia Oxley; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
SYDNEY (AP) Former Australia coach Rick Stuart has announced he will quit the Cronulla Sharks at the end of the National Rugby League season. Stuart said Monday he has asked for a release from the final year of his coaching contract, which was set to end in 2011.
The club said he will be replaced by his current assistant, Shane Flanagan. The Sharks have won just eight of their past 34 matches over two seasons.
This year, they are in 15th place of 16 teams with a record of three wins and seven losses. Stuart played for the Canberra Raiders and the Bulldogs from 1988 to 2000 and appeared in nine test matches for Australia.
The former Sydney Roosters coach led Australia from 2006-2008, winning 10 of 11 matches.
TOKYO (AP) Grand champion Hakuho defeated Mongolian compatriot Harumafuji on Sunday to finish the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a perfect record from 15 bouts. Hakuho, who wrapped up his 14th Emperor’s Cup on Friday, got a grip of Harumafuji’s belt and lifted his opponent out to stay undefeated on the final day of the 15-day meet at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan.
Hakuho is the sole grand champion competing in sumo after the retirement of Mongolian Asashoryu in February. Veteran Kaio defeated fellow ozeki Kotooshu of Bulgaria to improve to 9-6 and pick up his 1,000th career win.
Only former grand champion Chiyonofuji has more wins with 1,045. Estonian Baruto, making his debut at the second-highest rank of ozeki, lost to Kotomitsuki on Sunday to finish with a 10-5 record.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Pim Verbeek has given an informal goodbye to Australia as he prepares to take the Socceroos to South Africa for the World Cup. The 54-year-old Dutchman will lead Australia against New Zealand on Monday in the team’s final home match ahead of leaving for South Africa on Wednesday.
Verbeek will leave the Socceroos after the World Cup to coach Morocco’s national youth teams. Verbeek led Australia to both the World Cup and Asian Cup and in 27 matches coached the team to 15 wins, eight draws and four losses and more than twice as many goals scored as conceded.
London, May 21(ANI): A British policeman, Gary Heseltine, has won the 2010 Disclosures Award in Washington for his database of UFO sightings in the UK.
The 49-year-old picked up the award for his website, prufospolicedatabase.co.uk, which he launched in 2002. The database includes 330 cases and the witness statements of more than 750 police officers.
“Winning the award was a total surprise, I didn’t know I was going to win until my name was read out,” The Telegraph quoted Heseltine, as saying.
“It’s also a terrific boost for my database as it puts me on an international platform and I have already been offered chances to give lectures in Brazil and Denmark,” he added.
Elucidating his fascination with the unexplained, Heseltine said it began at the age of 15, when he spotted a mysterious bright light while walking his first girlfriend home.
“I was with my first girlfriend heading towards the comprehensive school and suddenly became aware of a large bright light. Suddenly all the electricity on the housing estate we could see ahead cut out,” Heseltine said.
“We were terrified at the time, but afterwards I decided to investigate and discovered that power cuts are extremely common during UFO sightings,” he added. (ANI)
London, May 21 (ANI): British singer Lily Allen has bagged three Ivor Novello Awards.
Her single ‘The Fear’, No1 for four weeks in February last year, won Most Performed Song and Best Song Musically And Lyrically at the songwriters’ bash on May 20.
Allen, 25, and Greg Kurstin, with whom she penned a string of her hits including ‘The Fear’, together won Songwriters Of The Year.
“I didn’t realise I was an exceptional songwriter. I just thought I wrote nursery rhymes – little ditties that I write for myself. I am overwhelmed,” the Sun quoted her as saying.
She wants to establish herself as a hitmaker for hire and has set her sights on adding extra magic to chart-topping acts such as Lady Gaga, whose ‘Just Dance’ was knocked off No1 by ‘The Fear’.
“I’m still writing songs all the time and I won’t be writing just for myself any more. I want to write for Lady GaGa,” she added. (ANI)
London, May 20 (ANI): Renowned litterateur J G Farrell has won another Booker prize, this time for 1970, three decades after his death.
Farrell has been posthumously conferred with the Lost Man Booker Prize for his book Troubles.
The award was instituted to acknowledge novels published in 1970 that did not get recognition because of a change in the award”s rules.
In 1971 a decision was taken to judge books from the current rather than the previous year.
Farrell, who bagged the Booker in 1973 for The Siege of Krishnapur, has now joined the league of J. M. Coetzee and Peter Carey who have won twice.
Richard Farrell, the late author”s younger brother, collected the prize at an event in Central London.
“This is a bitter-sweet moment for me…Sweet because he has won the prize, but bitter because he can”t be here to collect it himself. To his family it is proof-positive that he had overcome his disease, in childhood, of polio,” the Times quoted Richard, as saying.
He added: “To me, the book is a time machine. It takes me back to our childhood – growing up in Ireland, the smell of peat smoke in the air.”
Talking about how his brother would have felt about after winning the Booker again, Richard said: “I don”t think he would have been very surprised. He said that he expected his books to be read in 30 to 40 years” time, and he said that he thought Troubles was his best work.” (ANI)
London, May 18 (ANI): Tiger Woods has confirmed his participation in the prestigious Open in St Andrews known as the �Home of Golf�.
Fans feared that Tiger would not be able to compete following an inflamed joint in his neck that rendered him out of action for the Players� Championship a little over a week ago.
However the ace golfer is expected to make a full recovery by the time the Open starts in mid-July, and has confirmed his participation on his website.
The troubled star who is still ranked no.1 and was triumphant at the Home of Golf by eight shots in 2000 and by five in 2005, returned to the game at The Masters last month after five months out because of a sex scandal.
If he wins this year�s Open, he will become the first player in golf�s history to claim the title three times the Daily Express reports. (ANI)
London, May 18 (ANI): Spinner Graeme Swann is sure that England can make it two World Cup wins by clinching the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
He backed the England footballers to follow the cricketers and make it a double glory for the country inside three months, The Sun reports.
Swann was the Bowler of the Tournament in England’s World Twenty20 triumph.
“Winning a World Cup is something I can recommend. It is a great feeling. The world’s biggest sporting tournament is coming up in a couple of weeks and I feel England can go all the way,” he said.
“It sounds a bit cheesy to say ‘We’ve shown you how to do it’. But I sincerely hope they do. The country will go crazy. I can”t wait for kick-off,” Swann said.
“I genuinely believed when we came to the Caribbean that we were going to win the tournament here. And I have the same feeling about the football. I reckon they are going to do it,” he added. (ANI)
Top seed Tuba entered the final of the sub-junior girls’ singles category when she recorded an easy 17-0, 8-2 win over Nidhi Gupta in the semi-final match of the XIIIth St Stephen’s Carrom Ranking Tournament being held at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, on Saturday. She will meet Priya Sharma for the title who upset second seed Manu Gupta.
Meanwhile, Hassan and Talib scored a White Slam in the boys’ junior category.Tuba outclassed Gulshan 15-3, 15-6.
Tuba claimed her third win of the day when she defeatd jyoti 14-0, 14-2 in the women’s singles quarter-final match.
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