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Ian Poulter wins WGC Champions after Lee Westwood fades
WGC Champions, Shenzhen, final leaderboard (par 72)
- -21: I Poulter (Eng)
- -19: J Dufner (US), S Piercy (US), E Els (SA), P Mickelson (US)
- -18: L Oosthuizen (SA), L Westwood (Eng)
- Selected others: -17: A Scott (Aus); -16: M Kaymer (Ger); -14 B Snedeker (US); -12 L Donald (Eng); -10: K Bradley (US); -9 P Hanson (Swe), J Rose (Eng)
Ian Poulter secured his first win of the year with a closing round of 65 at the WGC Champions in Shenzhen.
The Englishman, 36, who won his four games in Europe's Ryder Cup win in September, produced eight birdies in his first 15 holes to take control.
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Guan Tianlang set to become youngest golfer to play at Masters
Guan Tianlang is poised to become the youngest golfer to play at the Masters after the 14-year-old won the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
China's Guan earned the invitation to next April's tournament thanks to his 15-under-par victory at Thailand's Amata Spring County Club.
A final-round even-par 71 ensured he beat Pan Chung-Tseng by a stroke.
If Guan plays at Augusta he will beat the record set in 2010 by Italy's then 16-year-old Matteo Manassero.
Australia's Oliver Goss finished third and said Guan - the youngest player to compete at a European Tour event when he teed up at this year's China Open - was "too young to be intimidated".
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Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Sebastian Vettel held on to his championship lead despite starting from the pit lane.
Raikkonen inherited the lead when Lewis Hamilton's McLaren retired.
Vettel fought back up through the field, benefited from a safety car period that wiped out early errors, to finish third behind title rival Fernando Alonso's Ferrari.
Alonso has narrowed Vettel's lead to 10 points with two races to go.
Abu Dhabi Top 10 Results
1 Kimi Raikkonen - Lotus 1:45:58.667
2 Fernando Alonso - Ferrari +0.852
3 Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull +4.163
4 Jenson Button - McLaren +7.787
5 Pastor Maldonado - Williams +13.007
6 Kamui Kobayashi - Sauber +20.076
7 Felipe Massa - Ferrari +22.896
8 Bruno Senna - Williams +23.542
9 Paul di Resta - Force India +24.160
10 Daniel Ricciardo - Toro Rosso +27.463
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They're back on the road
No wonder they broke down. Get a look at the size of those two.
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A crowd watches as Denmark's second-tallest building, a 108-meter-tall gas container in Copenhagen, is demolished on Nov. 4. The container had not been in use since 2007. The demolition was carried out by British specialist, John M. Faulkner with the Precision Demolition Company, and the structure fell in only eight seconds.
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Tatyana Samokhval, left, daughter of local resident Sergei Khlystov, embraces her crying mother Valentina Khlystova in front of their partially demolished house in the Black Sea city of Sochi, Russia. The workers arrived at Sergei Khlystov's gate on a Friday evening to bulldoze his home and clear a path for sewage pipes to the Olympic village being built in the Russian city of Sochi. Khlystov and his 33-year-old son-in-law, Maxim Samokhval, at first tried to block the bulldozers but then stood aside and watched as the two-storey house was destroyed. The earthmovers ended Khlystov's battle to stay in his house, one of the last razed in the Mirny neighbourhood to make way for the Winter Olympics in 2014.
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New homes are being provided for Sochi residents displaced by the reconstruction of their town. But such is the importance attached to the Olympic project that people who don't want to move have no option but to get out of the way of the bulldozers
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Zac Vawter, a 31-year-old software engineer from Seattle, Wash., pauses after climbing the stairs to the top of the 103-story Willis Tower using the world's first neural-controlled bionic leg in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 4. According to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, their Center for Bionic Medicine has worked to develop technology that allows amputees like Vawter to better control prosthetics with their own thoughts. Vawter made the climb during the RIC SkyRise Chicago event, a fundraiser for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
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David Cameron walks with Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, second left, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airlines and Group, and President of Dubai's Civil Aviation Authority, on his arrival at the Dubai World Trade Center today. The Prime Minister is on a three day visit to the Gulf
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As the hours tick away before the US goes to the polls President Barack Obama keeps up an energetic campaign greeting a cheering crowd at a campaign event on the University of Cincinnati campus last night.
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Russian servicemen, dressed in World War II uniforms, take part in rehearsal for a military parade in Moscow's Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral seen in the background, on Nov. 5, 2012. The parade will be held on November 7 to mark the anniversary of a parade in 1941 during World War II when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square towards the front lines.
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The bloody conflict in Syria shows no sign of abating with 179 people reported killed on Sunday and at least eight on Monday, according to opposition activists cited by Reuters
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A rebel fighter celebrates after he fired a shoulder-fired missile toward a building where Syrian troops were hiding in the Jedida district of Aleppo on Nov. 04, 2012
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A pile of shoes covered by blood from wounded or dead residents lies at the entrance of the emergency ward at a hospital in the Tarik Al-Bab neighborhood in Aleppo on Nov. 1, 2012.
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An 8-year-old girl struggles for life outside a hospital after she arrived badly injured by an aerial attack by government forces in the Bab al-Neyrab neighborhood of Aleppo on Oct. 31, 2012.
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Guanajuato, Mexico: naked volunteers perform for photographer and artist Spencer Tunick at Los Senderos village
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Shirakawa, Japan: crops and fields watered at Shirakawa-go world heritage site, a village famed for its traditional thatched roof homes
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Shanghai, China: figure skaters perform the 'Gangnam Style' dance during the Grand Prix of Figure Skating
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Lima, Peru: a man uses a public phone
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Istanbul, Turkey: a Turkish riot policeman kicks away a gas canister during clashes with protesters
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Oregon, US: a protester's eyes are rinsed with water after police used pepper spray. Demonstrators were angry over planned cuts to social services
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Figaro the cockatoo has astonished scientists by figuring out how to make and use tools. It is the first time a parrot has shown this initiative. The captive-reared Goffin's cockatoo uses his bird brain to fashion wooden sticks just the right size and shape for retrieving nuts placed out of his reach. Animal behaviour experts noticed that Figaro was more than just a pretty boy while observing him playing with a small stone
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Labour leader Ed Miliband accompanied by Islington council leader Catherine West, right, and Labour shadow minister Rachel Reeves, centre, walk through a corridor in Islington Town Hall, as he arrives to meet employees of Islington Council. The opposition leader has vowed to address Britain's 'living standards crisis' by delivering a living wage of at least £7.20 per hour to millions of people in the public and private sector during a speech on the Living Wage at the Town Hall in London.
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Camilla left holding the baby in Oz
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Ukrainians hold a portrait of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko during a rally in front of the central election committee building in Kiev. Opponents of President Viktor Yanukovych are protesting over alleged fraud in recent parliamentary elections and the slow vote count, say local media reports
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Police stand guard during the rally in Kiev
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Charlie in Longreach, Oz, trying to fend off descendants of convicts :)
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They're cyclists Jim, but not as we know it. Actors dressed as Star Trek characters Data, Worf and Picard, join commuters in central London, to promote the launch of Star Trek: The Next Generation in high-definition, which will be shown on Syfy, the first channel in the UK to be granted the rights to do so, every week night at 7pm
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Getting a bit carried away: Fans of Robbie Williams join the queue early for Monday night's signing of his new album, Take The Crow, at HMV Oxford Street in London. Each were given a life-size cut out for their hero to sign. The singer is due to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights today
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Nicholas Levene, City financier, jailed for fraud
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A City financier who admitted conning investors out of tens of millions of pounds to fund his extravagant lifestyle has been jailed for 13 years.
Nicholas Levene, 48, took investors' money to buy shares on their behalf but spent it on luxury cars and yachts, Southwark Crown Court heard.
His high-profile victims included the founders of Stagecoach, Sir Brian Souter and his sister Ann Gloag.
The judge said the scale of Levene's fraud was unprecedented.
Levene, from north London, admitted 12 counts of fraud, one count of false accounting and one of obtaining a money transfer by deception
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Colonel Riley Workman murder: Former gamekeeper guilty
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A former gamekeeper has been found guilty of the murder of a retired colonel in Hertfordshire.
Christopher Docherty-Puncheon denied shooting Lt Col Robert "Riley" Workman at his Furneux Pelham home in 2004 but was convicted by a majority verdict.
The five-week trial at St Albans Crown Court heard the 33-year-old confessed to the killing to cell mates while on remand for another murder.
He must serve a minimum of a further 32 years in prison.
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Pakistan acid attack parents 'feared dishonour'
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Mother: "It was her destiny to die this way"
A couple arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of killing their 15-year-old daughter with acid say they carried out the attack because she looked at a boy.
The girl's father told the BBC that they feared she would bring dishonour on their family. Her mother said it was her "destiny" to die that way.
The couple were arrested in Pakistani-administered Kashmir last week.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported 943 women were killed in honour killings last year.
That represented an increase of more than 100 from 2010.
Police say that the incident took place in a remote village in the southern district of Kotli. They say that the case was brought to their attention by the couple's eldest daughter.
The girl, known only as Anusha, was found to have burns over 60% of her body. Her father Muhammad Zafar told the BBC what happened:
"There was a boy who came by on a motorcycle. She (Anusha) turned to look at him twice. I told her before not to do that, it's wrong. People talk about us because our older daughter was the same way," he said.
Her mother Zaheen described the aftermath: "She said 'I didn't do it on purpose.
I won't look again.' By then I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way."
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Laos approves Xayaburi 'mega' dam on Mekong
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Laos has given the go-ahead to build a massive dam on the lower Mekong river, despite opposition from neighbouring countries and environmentalists.
A formal ceremony marking the start of full construction at Xayaburi would be held on Wednesday, the government said.
Countries downstream from the $3.5bn (£2.2bn) dam fear it will affect fish stocks and the livelihoods of millions.
The announcement came as leaders from Asia and Europe began a two-day meeting in the Laos capital, Vientiane.
Landlocked Laos is one of South-east Asia's poorest countries and its strategy for development is based on generating electricity from its rivers and selling the power to its neighbours, says the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Bangkok.
Xayaburi is being built by a Thai company with Thai money - and almost all of the electricity has been pre-sold to Thailand, our correspondent says.
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Veterans and members of the public pay tribute to those who died during war at the opening of the garden of remembrance in Princess Street Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 5, 2012. A two minute silence was held to honor those who fell during World War I and World War II and recognize those who died in conflicts since.
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Left: Christian Gabarri sweeps the floor of a relatives' home where his family moved to after the demolition of their own home at the Spanish gypsy settlement of Puerta de Hierro, outside Madrid, Spain, Nov. 15, 2011. Right: The remains of Gabarri's home months after it was demolished, June 26, 2012
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Fifty four families have been living in Puerta de Hierro, on the banks of the Manzanares River, north of Madrid, for over 50 years. The settlers are registered with the local government and have access to public services, but since the summer of 2010 have been subject to evictions under orders from Madrid's town planning board, on the grounds that the dwellings are illegal.
Some of the eldest members of the community have been relocated to social rent flats in the city, but often their children and grandchildren have been denied the same right, leaving them homeless. The relatives whose houses are still standing take them in while the debris keeps piling up as more demolitions take place.
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A sign in front of Billy Hague's home reads 'No Trespass-will be shot.' in the Ocean Breeze neighborhood of Staten Island, New York on Nov. 5.
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He wonders if it might have been better if the house was completely gone.
Emelock, his wife and their dogs barely escaped the storm surge as the water rushed in from the beach over Father Capodanno Blvd. "A neighbor called and said, 'You gotta get out' so we had a go bag and barely made it out in time. Next time when they say 'evacuate' we're gone."
"I am voting tomorrow. I feel like I should. My polling place is still open but my problem is the gas," says Emelock, as he wonders how much gasoline it will take to drive to the polling station, and if the state could do something more. "This is a Katrina for Staten Island and the East Coast. It took too long for [FEMA] to bite into this."
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