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With economies facing a deep recession, inflation is set to drop sharply (though the benchmark for the test is falling too).
ECONOMIST: The financial crisis has made the euro look more alluring
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Despite falling short of an unprecedented Test record, Sehwag remained in upbeat mood.
BBC: Dhoni leads India to record score
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Smith and fellow opener Alvaro Petersen (67) put on 153, with Smith overtaking Allan Border to become the top-scoring Test captain before falling for 100.
BBC: Graeme Smith hits ton as South Africa punish Pakistan
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New Zealand added just 38 to their overnight 369-6, but Brendon McCullum had the consolation of making his fifth Test century before falling for 104.
BBC: Phillip Hughes takes Australia to victory in Wellington
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Strauss and Cook produced the 20th-best stand by any England pair in Ashes history, and they only narrowly missed making the best start by two openers in a home Test against Australia, falling 23 runs behind the mark set by Charlie Barnett and Len Hutton at Trent Bridge in 1938.
BBC: Strauss century defies Australia
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Daniel Flynn and Jesse Ryder both hit half-centuries, with Flynn falling five runs short of a maiden Test century.
BBC: New Kiwi era off to solid start
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When it joined the PEF scheme two years ago it suffered an exodus of fee-paying pupils whose parents worried about their children mixing with the wrong sort, and about falling standards (justifiably at first, test results showed).
ECONOMIST: A small start on the big problem of illiteracy
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The Air Force quickly released video of the March test, which showed the bomb falling through the sky and bursting into a massive fireball upon impact.
CNN: MOAB bomb moved to Iraq war region
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But Ramdin (61) and Nash (81), both centurions in the Test series between these teams in the Caribbean, applied themselves well, before finally falling to an impressively hostile Broad.
BBC: England seal emphatic Lord's win
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China had as much reason as anyone, or more, for falling in with international condemnation of the rocket launch, as it did after North Korea's nuclear test.
ECONOMIST: Banyan