Jan 19 (Infostrada Sports) – Results from the Australian Open Women’s Singles Round 3 matches on Saturday Bojana Jovanovski (Serbia) beat Kimiko Date-Krumm (Japan) 6-2 7-6(3) 29-Sloane Stephens (U.S.) beat Laura Robson (Britain) 7-5 6-3 10-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine) 6-4 6-3 Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat 16-Roberta Vinci (Italy) 4-6 7-6(4) 6-4 3-Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Ayumi Morita (Japan) 6-1 6-3 Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) beat Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 6-2 4-6 6-3 1-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) beat Jamie Hampton (U.S. …
Raonic defeats Kohlschreiber in straight sets to move to 4th round
MELBOURNE, Australia – Canada’s Milos Raonic moved into the fourth round of the Australian Open for the second time in his career beating German Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday.
West African leaders gathering for Mali summit
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- West African leaders headed to a special Mali summit in Ivory Coast on Saturday to discuss how to step up their role as the French-led military intervention to oust Islamic extremists from power entered its second week. Dotcom says new site legal, no revenge for Megaupload saga
AUCKLAND (Reuters) – Kim Dotcom, founder of outlawed file-sharing website Megaupload, said his new "cyberlocker" was not revenge on U.S. authorities who planned a raid on his home, closed Megaupload and charged him with onl ine piracy for which he faces jail if found guilty. Dotcom said his new offering, Mega.co.nz, which will launch on Sunday even as he and three colleagues await extradition from New Zealand to the United States, complied with the law and warned that attempts to take it down would be futile. "This is not some kind of finger to the U.S. … No surprises as most seeded players make it through 1st week at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia – Nearly a week into the Australian Open, the only major surprise is that there have been, well, not many surprises at all.
Iran says progress made in U.N. nuclear talks
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said it had made some progress in resolving its disputes with the U.N. atomic watchdog, state media reported, even though the two sides' latest talks failed to seal a deal on letting inspectors visit a military site. Th e Islamic state and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met this week, but did not manage to revive an investigation into Iran's suspected nuclear arms research, the U.N. organization's officials said on Friday. Iran's ambassador to the body, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, later said some progress had been made in the talks, Press TV reported. … Tennis-Federer crushes Tomic and Australia to reach fourth round
MELBOURNE, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Roger Federer crushed the hopes of a nation by dismantling local favourite Bernard Tomic 6-4 7-6 6-1 to sail into the last 16 of the Australian Open on Saturday. The much-hyped clash between the Swiss maestro and his 20-year-old opponent briefly caught fire in the middle stages but ultimately fizzled out under the lights of Rod Laver Arena, as Federer marched to a clinical 118-minute victory. …
Caterpillar writes off most of China deal after fraud
(Reuters) – Caterpillar Inc uncovered "deliberate, multi-year, coordinated accounting misconduct" at a subsidiary of a Chinese company it acquired last summer, leading it to write off most of the value of the deal and wiping out more than half its expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012. Shares of Caterpillar fell 1.5 percent in afterhours trading following news of the fraud, which was discovered after problems were found with the Chinese company's inventory. … 
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