One day last weekend I woke up at 4 AM, gathered my fishing gear, and drove out to the Rockaways in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Captain Habibul Bashar top-scored for Bangladesh with 47 and can now look forward to the first two one-day internationals this weekend.

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So there it was over the Labor Day weekend, topping the Google News charts for most of one day.

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Silver overcame one big hurdle over the long Memorial Day weekend: Democrats said they heard no outrage about the scandal in their annual return to their districts for parades and speeches.

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Barks, an Isle of Man local, has just returned to the UK after performing One Day More from Les Miserables at the Oscars last weekend.

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The day before a long weekend is traditionally a quiet one, as many market professionals skip out early.

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But last weekend, ASEAN's consensus style produced agreement during a one-day informal summit of the seven members in Jakarta.

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Mozambique state-news announced at the weekend that Anadarko was set to build a natural gas factory that will produce upwards of one billion cubic feet per day.

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