Japan's Mori wins troubled Miss Universe contest
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A raven-haired Miss Japan, Riyo Mori, was crowned Miss Universe 2007 on Monday in a contest marked by protests, a banned dress and the withdrawal of one beauty queen on the ground the pageant degrades women.
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Nationalist Shinzo Abe, a proponent of a tight alliance with the United States and a more assertive military, won election as Japan's new prime minister Tuesday, scoring comfortable majorities in both houses.
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Miss USA Rachel Smith made the top 10 Monday night in her bid to reign as Miss Universe 2007. Smith was vying to become the first American winner since Brook Lee in 1997. From Tennessee, the journalism graduate carried a guitar and wore a white, Elvis-style suit during the opening parade of nations.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Sharp-shooting Spain blew away   Greece 70-47 to capture an emotional first world basketball   championship gold medal on Sunday.
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The moderate veteran politician Yasuo Fukuda easily won election as president of Japan's struggling ruling party on Sunday, assuring his selection as the new prime minister in a parliamentary vote later this week
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Japan scrambled Wednesday to win the release a 24-year old Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq, dispatching high level diplomats to the middle east and
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Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono  was declared the runaway winner of Indonesia's first direct  presidential election on Monday, but faced an immediate problem  when his opponent refused to concede defeat.
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A 20-year-old dancer from Japan was crowned Miss Universe 2007 on Monday night, marking only the second time her country has won the world beauty title.
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After four exhausting days of competition, a Japanese-born French poodle named Smash on Monday defeated competitors from around the globe to be crowned Best in Show at the annual World Dog Show competition here.
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Former rebel spokesman Irwandi Yusuf has won the first direct election for governor of Indonesia's Aceh province according to an unofficial quick count, the director of the local survey group that conducted the count has told AFP.
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Motorsport.com. Petter Solberg claimed a comfortable victory on Rally Japan, keeping his WRC championship hopes alive, and giving a home-soil victory to the Subaru team.
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The moderate veteran politician Yasuo Fukuda easily won election as president of Japan's struggling ruling party on Sunday, assuring his selection as the new prime minister in a parliamentary vote later this week.
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Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese man to win an ATP title in 16 years by upsetting top-seeded James Blake, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, on Sunday in the International Tennis Championships final.
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Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi scored an upset victory over Japan&#39;s No. 8 seed Ai Sugiyama at the Filderstadt Grand Prix in Germany yesterday, on the same day as the WTA rankings were released, dropping her out of the world&#39;s top 30.
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Tokyo: Japan on Thursday ended a year of disasters on a happy note with the royal family announcing that the emperor&#39;s only daughter Princess Sayako will marry, a piece of good news delayed twice by tragedy.
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Anna Chakvetadze won the Western & Southern Financial Group Womenâs Open with a 6-1, 6-3 win against Akiko Morigami on Sunday.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Indiaâs Jyoti Randhawa won the Masters of Asia title Sunday after beating Australian Terry Pilkadaris in a play-off, while Thai star Thongchai Jaideeâs fifth-placed finish secured him the Asian Tour Order of Merit crown.