World News

13.11.07

BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Doctors at Sparsh Hospital in the southern Indian city of Bangalore began a huge operation Tuesday on a 2-year-old girl, Lakshmi Tatma, born with four legs and four arms. The operation will last 40 hours and the first stage was successful, according to Indian media reports.

Half of the limbs connected with the girl belong to a headless conjoined twin who stopped developing in their mother's womb and joins to Lakshmi at the pelvis. read on here

Winners of the Miss Earth beauty pageant (L-R) Miss Water Silvana Santaella Arellano of Venezuela, Miss Earth Jessica Nicole Trisko, Miss Air Pooja Chitgopeker of India and Miss Fire Angela Gomez of Spain smile to the crowd during the coronation night in Manila Nov. 11, 2007. click here for more pics.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- American former world No.1 Andy Roddick started his Masters Cup campaign with a roller coaster 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 win over Russian world number four Nikolay Davydenko here on Monday.

Roddick should have made it shorter when he was leading one set and one break up in the second set, but the bald Russian stretched his opponent all the way in a shade of two hours. continue reading here

SHANGHAI, China (AP) — Top-ranked Roger Federer lost consecutive matches for the first time in 4 1/2 years, falling to No. 7 Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 4-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 Monday at the Masters Cup.

The defending champion lost for the first time in 11 meetings against Gonzalez. It snapped Federer's 15-0 record in round-robin play at the season-ending tournament, which features the top eight men's singles players and doubles pairs.

"It was a tough loss," Federer said. "I thought I played pretty good. I wish I had an excuse." read on here


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