• Djokovic wound up winning, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-2, taking his third straight Australian Open, which was a genuinely historic accomplishment unto itself, last done by the Aussie legend Roy Emerson, and never in tennis's Open era.

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  • Unfortunately, it would be the last album by the Latin American legend, who died Jan. 19 at the age of 47.

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  • The home side started brightly, perhaps boosted by the news that club legend Henrik Larsson was watching from the stands, but could not carve out a clear chance in the opening minutes despite their pressure.

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  • The Pendragon Legend is published by the Pushkin Press, which has taken upon itself the task of exposing readers to European writers neglected in the Anglophone world.

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  • The Hindi Crorepati, hosted by film legend Amitabh Bachchan, taps the nation's raging get-rich-quick spirit with a sexy basic formula.

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  • The event, hosted by golf legend Jack Nicklaus, has attracted one of the strongest fields of the PGA Tour season, including the world number one who missed out last year due to his knee injury.

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  • The company, which has been endorsed by the likes of basketball legend Michael Jordan, tennis star Andre Agassi and now golf's rising star Rory McIlroy, will have to plug the gap left by the fall of one of its most marketable names.

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  • For all of 10 minutes Tories who oppose the euro gathered outside the conference hall by the sea in Bournemouth to wave banners bearing the legend "Keep The Pound" .

    BBC: Battle for sterling won in 10 minutes

  • The computer was hand-assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who, according to legend, financed the device's construction by selling his HP-65 calculator (co-founder Steve Jobs also sold his VW campervan).

    CNN: Vintage tech 'firsts,' including Apple 1, up for auction

  • The Stanford selectors, led by cricket legend Sir Viv Richards, have named a 17-man squad for the game which includes Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shiv Chanderpaul.

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  • But they also have exclusive in-house amenities, such as a private lobby desk and concierge staff, with escorted in-room iPad registration, one of the best upgrades you can get in a city where main lobby registration, even at top hotels, often resembles the economy class check-in line at JFK. The 24-hour room service features the first-ever in-room dining menu designed by the man himself, culinary legend Nobu Matsuhisa.

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  • The "Bambino" in question was baseball legend Babe Ruth - sold by the Red Sox owners to their bitter rivals, the New York Yankees, in 1920.

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  • "If an American can achieve that feeling in an Englishman 200 years after the events simply by representing Napoleon, I don't see how the legend will ever die, " he said.

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  • The evening will feature performances by the Marine Corps Band and music legend Gladys Knight.

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  • The pictures were set to a soundtrack from the Russell Crowe film Gladiator and the opera Turandot performed by Italian legend Pavarotti.

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  • It signaled not only Ghana's long-awaited arrival at football biggest global gathering but also a fulfillment of a prediction in 1990 by Cameroon legend Roger Milla that the world had not seen the best of African football until the Black Stars made it to the World Cup.

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  • The backstory of the lost fourth-gen iPhone prototype acquired by Gizmodo last week is certainly already the stuff of some legend, but hold on tight, because it just got even wilder: Giz editor Jason Chen's house was apparently raided by California's REACT computer crimes task force under the authority of a search warrant on Friday night and his computers and several other items were seized.

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  • The Welsh team were led out by Manon and Gwenan Gravell, the young daughters of late rugby legend and broadcaster Ray.

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  • Lay It Down was produced by ?uestlove of The Roots, and features performances by new singers such as John Legend.

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  • The 1983 champs, led by local legend Cal Ripen Jr.

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  • Rugby sevens was represented on the day by stars including All Black legend Jonah Lomu, former Argentina captain Agustin Pichot, Kenya captain Humphrey Kayange and Australia women's captain Cheryl Soon.

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  • Gangel's auction has a third part, a general consignment sale that includes a revolver once owned by Western legend Wyatt Earp, and the rifle Virginia Governor Henry Alexander Wise used to send famed abolitionist John Brown to the gallows in 1859.

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  • The legend goes it was sung by the angels on Christmas Eve and written down by a monk.

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  • Previously known as the Seve Trophy the Vivendi Trophy was created by Spanish golf legend Severiano Ballesteros intended to give European players a chance to hone their match-play skills in preparation for the Ryder Cup.

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  • By 1980 Merthyr-legend Owen had won the British, Commonwealth and European bantamweight titles, before the painfully shy, hugely popular 24-year-old headed to Los Angeles' 10, 000-seat Olympic Auditorium to face the formidable WBC world champion Pintor.

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  • Irving picked up his obsession with detail from Charles Dickens, the celebrated Victorian author whose vivid tales, filled with circuitous sentences, were wordy enough to inspire a false legend that he was paid by the word.

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  • The screenplay, by Pen Densham and John Watson, is a mishmash of halfhearted dramatizations of episodes from the legend and equally halfhearted nods to contemporary attitudes.

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  • The legend of Faust has been treated by many artists from Christopher Marlowe to Liszt (another Weimar resident).

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  • According to popular legend, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who, while gambling, told his butler to put some meat between two slices of bread so he could eat without interrupting the game and getting grease on the cards.

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  • The short life and lasting legend of the Irish freedom fighter Michael Collins, compressed into a vigorous movie by the writer and director Neil Jordan.

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