The 19-year-old -- who dominated the event last year culminating in her stunning Beijing win -- had complained of having a problem with her ankle after Sunday's first round heat.
This is largely an offshoot of an event -- I use the word "event" somewhat loosely -- last year.
FIA, the sport's world governing body, will have an extra observer at the four-day event after last year's incident when the Ford Focus of Carlos Sainz hit a radio-car and hit a group of spectators, injuring 13 people.
In the Women's World Championship - an elite-field event limited to 20 players - last year she tied for 13th but this year she intends to do much better.
One Arab media report - cited in a US Federal Research Division report last year - said Belmoktar had attended an event organized by Wissam ben Hamid, an Islamist commander, in the town of Sirte.
This week's EU-Mediterranean conference is noteworthy because all 12 Mediterranean partners -- including Syria and Lebanon, which boycotted the event last year to protest Israel's presence -- have agreed to attend.
Don Horrocks, of the Evangelical Alliance, a Christian body, recalls attending a government-sponsored event last year to discuss policy with ministers, along with representatives from other faiths.
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"I knew that if I could keep my serve strong it would make things hard (for Gambill), " said Suzuki, who finished in the quarter-finals in last year's event.
Last year Mr Cameron participated in a running event - along with his wife and their two eldest children - to raise money for Sport Relief, whose funds go towards Comic Relief.
"It was the same for me last year and the year before, " Davydenko, who qualified for 2008's season-ending event in Shanghai, told the ATP Tour Web site.
Kvitova, who also lost to Vinci last weekend in the final of the Katowice event in Poland, must now beat last year's French Open runner-up Errani to prevent Italy taking an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five rubber.
The 34-year-old, who saw his 281-week spell as world number one ended by England's Lee Westwood last month, triumphed in the event last year before problems in his personal life forced him to take a four-month break from the game.
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The showpiece at last year's event was the reconstructed 18 meter-long "popemobile" of Pope John Paul II.
Fisher finished third at the same tournament in January last year, his best result in a top-level event.
Keshi made big changes after Nigeria failed to qualify for last year's event in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon -- a turbulent period for the national team, which was suspended from international football by President Goodluck Jonathan before world ruling body FIFA threatened to intervene.
Last year, the event was moved from its traditional Oscars-eve slot to April Fools' Day.
Robert Dunlop won last year's 125cc event, after a battle with long-time race rival, Welshman Ian Lougher.
Williams won last year's event when it was held on blue clay -- an unpopular experiment that was later banned by the tennis authorities -- but she has not played in a final on red dirt since 2002.
Last year's Oscars ceremony was supposed to be a pared-down event because of the conflict in Iraq.
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The 1, 600 marketing and advertising executives gathered for the Association of National Advertisers conference in Orlando are an optimistic, forward-looking bunch compared to the recession-racked crowd that assembled for this event last year.
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Meanwhile, a number of high-profile bankers -- especially from Wall Street -- are expected in Davos, after shunning last year's event, in an attempt to avoid the unquestionable hostility directed towards their sector.
She said she had discussed the issue with Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, who was only able to compete in one sprint cycle event at last year's Beijing Games while team-mate Chris Hoy won three golds in the discipline.
Foley, director of event marketing for Philips Healthcare, which spends several million dollars a year on trade shows, set up a 31, 000-square-foot exhibit at a radiology event in Chicago last year.
The Citroen driver, who won the event for the fourth time last year, dominated the four-day race from the start to eclipse the feats of four-time victors Sandro Munari, Walter Rohrl and Tommi Makinen.
At this year's event last month, he was looking to sell the Ontario-based gold miner after financing dried up.
Rossi will be driving a Peugeot 206 with Carlo Cassina as his co-driver in the rally, the last event in this year's world championship.
Continuing a trend set at this event last year, Sharp also demonstrated its range of 4K models - including one screen which utilises technology inspired by the naturally anti-reflective qualities of a moth's eye.
Last year Chris won both the Under-18s and the Novice wrestling at his local Haltwhistle event.
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