The final match starts on Saturday, before a series of five one-day internationals gets underway.
Pioline, the top man in French tennis before a series of injuries caused him to slip down the rankings, entered the tournament as a wild card.
We travelled to northern Iraq to meet the squad as they met up for the last time before a series of big tournaments in the Middle East.
The American, who lost in her first match last year, won 10 of the first 11 games before a series of errors let world No. 37 Kirilenko back into the match.
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So, look, there's no -- that was even before the official recession began and certainly before a series of excessive risk-taking by a few nearly dragged the economy back to a period of a great depression.
After voters returned a divided government to power, investors took flight, fearing that Democrats and Republicans may not be able to reach a compromise on the fiscal cliff before a series of tax increases and spending cuts start Jan. 1.
The Chicago News Cooperative applied for nonprofit status in 2010 and waited a year before getting a series of detailed questions from the IRS. Further delays caused it to shut down in 2012.
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England play a four-Test series in the West Indies, beginning in Jamaica on 4 February, before a home series - against Sri Lanka or West Indies - and then the Ashes later in the summer.
NASA, America's space agency, is carrying out before sending a series of unmanned landing craft there.
Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston in 1948, Summer began singing in church, before fronting a series of bands and appearing in stage musicals, at home and abroad.
"I was five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake in 1989 that happened right before a World Series game and I noticed that the media that was reporting on it wasn't getting it all right, " he said.
Lynn told comedy website Chortle that the BBC "said it was policy" to order a pilot episode before commissioning a full series.
The track follows a blackbutt-forested ridge before descending into a series of corridors between the dunes, where dappled light filters through towering stands of brush box and satinays.
Ponting spilled a tough chance offered by Cook, again off Watson, before - following a series of memorable lofted drives by both batsmen - Strauss called his men in, thus sparing the Australians any further punishment.
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"We haven't been in a series before where we have to go into a final match needing to win to draw the series - but that might not be a bad thing for us right now, " said Ponting.
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Detroit is off Monday before opening a home series against Toronto on Tuesday afternoon.
It is not long before Lown fails a series of breath tests, but even after a final warning he is not convinced by the officers' stance.
He collaborated with Mies on New York's finest modern skyscraper, the Seagram Building, before embarking on a series of big buildings of his own that followed the lead of the talented young architects he courted, encouraged and commissioned in a process of patronage and exploitation that kept him creatively alive, borrowing shamelessly from their work for the hedonistic dilettantism that became his personal style.
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Julia Grimes, who oversees state troopers, called Wooten's conduct "unacceptable, " and accused him of a "lapse in proper judgment, " before suspending him for a series of conduct and ethics violations between December 2001 and November 2005.
It took Princess Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian 17 years to find a publisher for her now twelve-book Tara Duncan fantasy novel series before a publisher in France, where she lives, made the leap in 2003.
England, however, had a disappointing time on and off the pitch, losing to France in the quarterfinals before an investigation into a series of incidents involving the players ended with 2003 World Cup winner Martin Johnson standing down as coach and ructions in the boardroom.
According to the American army, the bodyguard of Adnan al-Dulaimi, a prominent Sunni politician, was arrested just before he could carry out a series of bomb attacks in the heavily fortified Green Zone, where parliament and much of the Iraqi cabinet is located.
Wilkinson's second penalty restored parity before Toulon put together a series of lightning attacks.
And director of cricket Zakir Khan said an appointment would be made before a one-day series in Glasgow in July.
The visitors bring a strong squad north of the border before embarking on a five-match series against Australia.
It was a jubilant finale to a long winter for England and their 3-2 series win provided consolation for Test and one-day series defeats in India before Christmas and a 1-0 reverse in the Test series in the Caribbean.
In one small school, Ebyon, 200 children sit rapt before young women teachers in a series of small, ill-lit rooms each morning.
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The storm, which began in Montana before moving east, follows a series of heavy winter snowstorms that have dropped double-digit snowfalls in the Midwest.
In fact, the new ride offers guests the ability to create their own virtual concept before riding their SimCar through a series of performance tests.
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