SHANGHAI: Andy Murray has won an amazing match against Roger Federer at the Masters Cup event in Shanghai, China. Murray had already qualified for the semi-finals, but Federer had to win to seal his place in the last four.He won 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 in a match that lasted 3 hours and 3 minutes. The former world number two won the first set, but then Murray hit back and took the second to set up a decider. The third and final set was a thriller, with Murray missing out on seven match points before finally sealing a brilliant victory. The Masters Cup is a pretty important tournament, and only the four Grand Slam titles and the Olympics are bigger events. Only the top eight players in the world get to play in it, and now Murray is just two matches away from winning it. The first of those games comes on Saturday, when Murray takes on Nikolay Davydenko in the semi-final, after Gilles Simon plays Novak Djokovic in other last-four match.
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ISLAMABAD: Owing to being part of US led war against terrorism, Pakistan has estimated a loss of Rs2.080 trillion on its economy on account of exports
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KarachiDespite the publication of photographs and the spate of protests over the elaborate arrangements made by federal minister Khurshid Shah
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Canadian officials have been working with Pakistani authorities to seek the release of a Canadian woman who was kidnapped in Pakistan earlier this week, Canada’s foreign affairs department said Friday.
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KarachiAn ex-activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was shot dead in Sachal police limits, and the police described the murder as target k
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LAHORE: Former premier Nawaz Sharif has categorically stated that he would not appear before the Supreme Court on November 20 because he did not recog
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ABU DHABI: West Indies bowled a disciplined line and length to dismiss Pakistan for 232 in the second One-day International at the Sheikh Zayed Stadiu
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LAHOREPrison Minister Ch Ghafoor amused the parliamentarians on Friday proceedings through his irrelevant and entertaining speech during the q
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TORONTO: Stock markets deepened their losses as Friday morning wore on, with investors putting their optimism aside once again to focus on the struggling global economy.Toronto’’s SP/TSX composite index dropped 271.45 points in morning trading to 9,081.14, after gaining 430 points or five per cent Thursday.The Canadian dollar was at 81.95 cents US, down 0.59 of a cent.Media conglomerate Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) reported a billion-dollar quarterly loss after writing down its Canadian TV operations by $1.01 billion, which “reflects a deterioration in the near-term profit expectations.” Its stock declined eight cents to 72 cents, down from $7.50 a year ago.On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrials dropped 241.41 points to 8,594 and the Nasdaq composite index slipped 57.79 to 1,539. Both indexes had gained 6.5 per cent in the previous session. The SP 500 tumbled 30.03 to 881, after increasing seven per cent a day earlier.Traders are re-focusing on the economy - and the picture keeps getting bleaker. The U.S. Commerce Department reported that retail sales fell 2.8 per cent last month - the steepest monthly decline on record, even worse than in the aftermath of the September 2001 terror.U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said financial markets remain under “severe strain,” and he left open the door to further interest rate cuts. The Fed is scheduled to meet Dec. 16 at its last regularly scheduled meeting this year.On the TSX, the gold sector fell back two per cent, although the December bullion contract surged ahead $34.20 to US$739.20 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange.The Toronto market’’s energy sector dropped 4.5 per cent as the price of crude oil for December delivery declined $1.98 to $56.26 a barrel.
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LAHOREPunjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that the provincial government is ready to give a blank cheque to the doctors provide
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