'Rocket' downed by Aussie cueman
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English snooker superstar Ronnie 'Rocket' O'Sullivan's statement on Wednesday that he could play dreadfully and still win tournaments came back to haunt him as Australian Neil Robertson edged him 5-4 in the quarter-finals of the Welsh Open.
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Australia dealt England a potentially fatal Ashes blow with an astonishing come-from-behind last day victory in the second cricket Test at the Adelaide Oval.
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By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia - A champion German paraglider said Friday she did not believe she would survive when she was lifted higher than Mount Everest by a thunderstorm in eastern Australia.
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to the southeast province of Gardez after a rocket exploded just before he was due to land by helicopter. was travelling was preparing to touch down.
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DESTINY&#39;s child Michael Clarke hammered New Zealand but batting bunny Glenn McGrath received a guard of honour for breaking Kiwi hearts in Brisbane yesterday.
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JERUSALEM, May 27 â An Israeli man died from a Qassam rocket launched from Gaza today, andIsraelâs Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to continue Israelâs military assault on Hamas as an effort to stop the rocket fire, warning that âno one involved in terror is immune.â.
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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.  &nbsp;  The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.  &nbsp;  Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design, said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrows bid for the X Prize. It went really well and everything worked as it should. ...
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Fatally injured "Crocodile   Hunter" Steve Irwin pulled a stingray's serrated barb from his   chest before he lost consciousness and died, his manager said   Tuesday as fans worldwide mourned the exuberant naturalist.
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MORE than 120 people were this morning hurt when a high-speed Tilt Train derailed in Australia. Rescue workers said it was a miracle that nobody was killed in the incident - 250 miles north of Brisbane.
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Michael Kasprowicz snared three wickets, Shane Warne took two and Australia held the upper hand in the first cricket Test Thursday until Jacob Oram&#39;s rearguard half-century salvaged New Zealand&#39;s innings.
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AN extra time &quot;golden goal&quot; ended decades of heartbreak for the Kookaburras and ensured Australia&#39;s Athens Olympians go down as the nation&#39;s most successful ever.
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Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian  naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, was killed by a stingray  barb through the chest on Monday while diving off Australia's  northeast coast, emergency officials and witnesses said.
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A Briton has been knocked over and killed in Athens by an Olympic competitor driving to an event. Errol Strachan, 45, was walking in the city centre when he was hit.
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The prizefighters of tennis punched their way out of trouble at the Australian Open on Monday but British hope Andy Murray was felled by a fierce right hand at Melbourne Park.
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Three people celebrating a 40th  birthday with a joyflight had a miraculous escape after their  pilot was forced to crash-land his plane on a quiet Australian  road, despite losing the aircraft's wings on the way down.
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Australian snooker star Eddie Charlton dies in New Zealand following an operation.
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Aspirations doomed for another year The sole remaining contender to win a prize for privately-built rocket lander systems exploded yesterday, ending hopes that the prize might be won this year.â¦