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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
LINZ, Austria, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Sixth-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder advanced, but eighth-seeded Sybille Bammer" class="tpstyle">Austrian Sybille Bammer was eliminated Tuesday at the $600,000 Generali Ladies Linz event.
Schnyder, who reached the final in this tennis event in 2005, defeated French qualifier Aravane Rezai 6-4, 6-3. Veteran Japanese Ai Sugiyama beat Linz native and resident Bammer in 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-0. Sugiyama won this tournament in 2003.
Italian Francesca Schiavone defeated Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik 7-6 (8-6), 6-3, and Ukrainian Julia Vakulenko outlasted Russian beauty Maria Kirilenko 7-5, 6-7 (0-7), 6-4.
Also, Australian qualifier Alicia Molik beat world No. 26 Agnieszka Radwanska, of Poland, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
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DETROIT, May 31 (UPI) --
Detroit Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom announced his retirement Thursday, ending a 20-year career.
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The London house where singer Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning last summer is being sold for $4.2 million, the New York Post reported.
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NASA says millions of dollars of science equipment missing for four days during shipment from Minneapolis to Texas has been located in Dallas.
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A Massachusetts woman said she investigated bird sounds in her yard and discovered a baby cardinal with two heads and three beaks.
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