When Kim Clijsters thinks about changing her nationality to thatof Australian fiance Lleyton Hewitt once they marry, there is noBelgian waffle.
The No. 2-ranked women's tennis player will continue to be fromBelgium, no matter how many folks Down Under call her Aussie Kim."
Sidelined a month with a wrist injury, Clijsters was back on thecourt Saturday in Bree, Belgium, for a love match" against Hewitt. Herallied from a 6-4 deficit to win the best-of-17 game match 9-8.
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To determine whether older Quebecers are eating adequately and whether summary scores represent diet quality, a representative subset of participants aged 55 to 74 (weighted n=460, 47% male) was studied from the 1990 Enquete quebecoise sur la nutrition dataset. Participants' diet quality was scored from adjusted 24-hour recalls. Foods were coded into Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating food groups. Usual Dietary Adequacy Score (maximum=18) and Dietary Diversity Score (maximum=4) were calculated from adjusted food guide portions and validated internally in relation to achievement of nutrient recommendations using correlation analysis. Average usual Dietary Adequacy Score …
Asian stocks showed signs of life Tuesday after a global market rout the previous day, with several markets climbed into positive territory or paring losses after opening sharply lower.
Australian stocks jumped after its central bank cut interest rates by a bigger-than-expected 1 percentage point to 6 percent in response to the unfolding global financial crisis. The S&P/ASX-200 index rose 2 percent to 4,634 after opening down 3.7 percent.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index erased some losses after briefly falling over 5 percent to below 10,000 for the first time in almost five years. By midday, it was trading about 1.7 percent lower at 10,292.
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A chain of hotels based near Bath experienced its best April foryears - despite going into administration last month.
Peasedown St John-based von Essen, which runs the Royal CrescentHotel and Homewood Park, said the double four-day bank holidayweekends had produced a surge in late bookings as couples opted fora taste of royal wedding-style class.
The parent company which runs the hotels has gone intoadministration, after a turbulent couple of years in the high-endhotel and spa business.
The venues themselves are operating as normal whileadministrators at Ernst and …
WASHINGTON - A raid on suspected terrorists in northern Iraq failed after Iraqi soldiers ran out of gas and couldn't send half their men to the mission, a U.S. commander says.
The incident illustrates "a critical weakness" in the Iraqi security forces, which still have "a way to go" in learning logistics and other soldiering skills, said U.S. Army Col. Stephen M. Twitty.
Twitty commands the 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division in northern Iraq, where the main job is doing counterinsurgency operations and training local forces in intelligence, engineering, medical evacuation and other skills they need to take over the country's security themselves.
"We lost valuable …
SAO PAULO (AP) — Zico has stepped down as Flamengo's executive director, saying he was unable to do his job because many people were unhappy with his presence in the club.
"It is not possible to do what I would like to do at Flamengo," Zico said in a statement posted on Friday on his website. "I realize that my presence has caused the discontent of many people. The conditions are not right …
LONDON (AP) — American hurdler Duane Ross has been disqualified retroactively from the 2004 Athens Olympics for doping.
The IOC stripped Ross of his Athens results following the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's decision to suspend him for two years for using banned drugs.
Ross finished fifth in his semifinal heat of the 100-meter hurdles in Athens and did …
