UPDATE 3-Cricket-South Africa leave NZ batting in disarray again

(Adds quotes)* New Zealand close day two on 47 for six* Hosts declare on 525 for eight* We are being outclassed, says Kiwis coachPORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, Jan 12 (Reuters) - New Zealand collapsed again against South Africa's pace attack when they staggered to 47 for six in their first innings in reply to the hosts' 525 for eight declared on the second day of the second test at St. George's Park...

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Tennis-Revised Australian Open men's singles draw

MELBOURNE, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Revised Australian Open men'ssingles draw after final qualifying (prefix denotes seeding;w-indicates wild card; q-denotes qualifier):1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) v Paul-Henri Mathieu (France)Ryan Harrison (U.S.) v Santiago Giraldo (Colombia)q-Arnau Bruges-Davi (Spain) v Felciano Lopez (Spain)Viktor Troicki (Serbia) v 31-Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic)20-Sam Querrey (U.S.)...

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Tennis-Revised Australian Open women's singles draw

MELBOURNE, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Revised Australian Openwomen's singles draw after final qualifying (prefix denotesseeding; w-indicates wild card; q-denotes qualifier):1-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) v Monica Niculescu (Romania)Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) v Karolina Pliskova (CzechRepublic)q-Luksika Kumkhum (Thailand) v Sofia Arvidsson (Sweden)Jamie Hampton (U.S.) v 31-Urszula Radwanska (Poland)21-Varvara...

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UPDATE 1-NBA-Timberwolves overcome lost Love to clip Hawks

* Rubio returns for Timberwolves* Hawks lose third straightJan 8 (Reuters) - The Minnesota Timberwolves coped with the absence of head coach Rick Adelman and All Star forward Kevin Love to beat Atlanta 108-103 on Tuesday, ending a near seven-year winless run against the Hawks.Timberwolves coach Adelman missed the game for personal reasons, while Love is out indefinitely after reinjuring his right...

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Timberwolves overcome lost Love to clip Hawks

(Reuters) - The Minnesota Timberwolves coped with the absence of head coach Rick Adelman and All Star forward Kevin Love to beat Atlanta 108-103 on Tuesday, ending a near seven-year winless run against the Hawks.Timberwolves coach Adelman missed the game for personal reasons, while Love is out indefinitely after reinjuring his right hand last week, but the home team still had enough beat the Hawks...

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Microsoft's Ballmer, group to pay $500 mln for NBA's Kings-report

SEATTLE, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A group of investors including Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer and hedge fund manager Chris Hansen is close to a deal to buy the Sacramento Kings professional basketball team for $500 million and move the National Basketball Association franchise to Seattle, Yahoo Sports reported on Wednesday.The Maloof family is close to agreeing to sell the Kings to the Ballmer group,...

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NBA-Knicks' Anthony banned one game for approaching Garnett

Jan 9 (Reuters) - New York Knicks All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony has been suspended one game by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for approaching an opposing player on multiple occasions after a recent game, the league said on Wednesday.Anthony confronted Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett in the arena tunnel near the players' locker rooms and again in the parking garage following New...

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Huawei unveils two new quad-core Android phablets

Huawei (002502) on Monday took the wraps off its colossal Ascend Mate and Ascend D2 smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Ascend Mate is the larger of the two and is equipped with a 6.1-inch 720p display, a 1.5GHz in-house quad-core processor, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a massive 4,050 mAh battery. The smaller Ascend D2 features a 5-inch 1080p display with a class...

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Diminishing Returns: The Cold, Hard Truth for CES Smartphones

Sony has a new flagship phone at CES called the Xperia Z, and it is pretty decent. The company has another one, called the Xperia ZL, that’s also fairly nice. They’re both roughly as okay as the flagship Ascend D2 phone that Huawei was showing off in another part of the room.If my descriptors seem lacking, that’s intentional. The truth is that none of these phones seem markedly better than last year’s...

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Iranian Bank Hackers, the Fate of the Dreamliner, and a Poetic Inauguration

Behind the New York Times pay wall, you only get 10 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories that can make your clicks count.RELATED: Wheelchairs, Miguel Cabrera, and 'Impressionism and Fashion'Top Stories: Recent online attacks on U.S. banks, which were responsible for "transforming the online equivalent...

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