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BBC News
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Max Mosley has won a vote of confidence to stay on as president of motorsport's governing body, the FIA.
More than a third of delegates did not back Mosley at Tuesday's meeting in Paris but he won 103 of 169 votes.
Mosley called the vote following a..
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CNN
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Zimbabwe's electoral commission released the first result Wednesday from a recount of 23 legislative districts, but it still has not said who won the March 29 presidential election. The recount confirmed initial results showing that President Robert Mugab..
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CNN
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Britain's highest court decided Wednesday that a rapist who won the lottery while in prison may be sued by his victim even though the statute of limitations ran out 20 years ago.
The decision by the Law Lords effectively changes British law, giving vic..
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BBC News
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has won Sierra Leone's presidential election run-off, say national election commission officials.
He won 54.6% of the vote while his rival Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP..
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CNN
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President Filip Vujanovic won re-election by a landslide, election monitors said Monday, cementing Montenegro's westward economic and political course since breaking away from Serbia two years ago. Sunday's presidential vote -- the tiny Adriatic nation's..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party has won a majority of seats in parliament, displacing the ruling Zanu-PF, final official results show.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) took 99 seats, while President Robert Mugabe's party polled 97.
With pre..
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MSNBC
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In final results of the election for parliament's lower house, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won 99 seats, while Mugabe's ZANU-PF won 97 seats and a breakaway MDC faction won 10. One independent candidate won a seat.
Results for parliament's..
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BBC News
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The main opposition MDC in Zimbabwe has released its own results from the presidential election, claiming they prove it won.
Party Secretary General Tendai Biti told a news conference that MDC leader Morgan Tsvangarai had won 50.3%, so avoiding a run-o..
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BBC News
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Hardline nationalist Tomislav Nikolic has won the first round of Serbia's presidential election, but will face a run-off poll, officials say.
Mr Nikolic, who leans towards Russia, appeared to have won 39.6%, while the more pro-EU president, Boris Tadic..
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BBC News
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Thailand's Supreme Court has dismissed a suit seeking to dissolve the People Power Party (PPP), which won the most votes in December's general election.
The court rejected a petition accusing the PPP of violating electoral law by acting as a proxy for..
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BBC News
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Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama have won the Iowa caucuses - the first nominating contest of the 2008 US presidential election.
Mr Huckabee won for the Republicans, defeating Mitt Romney.
At the Democratic caucuses, Mr Obama won by a clear margin, de..
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BBC News
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Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party has won a resounding victory in the country's general elections, according to preliminary results.
But international monitors say the poll failed to meet international standards.
Mr Bakiyev's Ak Zhol party..
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CNN
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Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for work that helps explain situations in which markets work well.
The three researchers "laid the foundations of mechanism design theor..
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MSNBC
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English writer Doris Lessing, who ended her formal schooling at age 13 and went on to write novels that explored relationships between the genders and races, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
Lessing, who turns 88 in just over a week,..
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SF Gate
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English writer Doris Lessing, who ended her formal schooling at age 13 and went on to write novels that explored relationships between the genders and races, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
Lessing, who turns 88 in just over a week,..
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CNN
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English writer Doris Lessing, who ended her formal schooling at age 13 and went on to write novels that explored relationships between the genders and races, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy cited her as "that epicis..
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