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INDIAN WELLS, Calif., March 16 (UPI) -- Top seed Dinara Safina and fourth-seeded Vera Zvonareva were winners Sunday at the Paribas Open at Indian Wells, Calif.
In a round in which most favorites came out on top, Safina defeated 28th-seeded Peng Shuai 7-5, 6-4 while Zvonareva dropped Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-1.
Caroline Wozniacki, the ninth seed, beat 18th-seeded Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 but the No. 19 seed, Anna Chakvetadze fell to qualifier Shahar Peer.
Also Sunday, eighth-seeded Victoria Azarenka defeated Elena Vesnina 6-3, 7-5, 17th-seeded Amelie Mauresmo was upended by Li Na 7-5, 6-2 and Urszula Radwanska beat Alexa Glatch 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) in a match between two wild-card entrants.
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EPSOM, England, June 2 (UPI) --
Camelot dominated Saturday's Epsom Derby, drawing off to win by 5 lengths and giving the O'Brien family a first-ever father-son Derby win.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, June 2 (UPI) --
U.S. pop icon Madonna debuted an updated version of her infamous cone bra as she kicked off her latest world tour in Israel.
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MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. weather forecasters say the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be about average, despite the rare late-May landfall of Beryl.
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ROME, June 2 (UPI) --
Dogs across Italy are wagging their tails as a new ice cream for man's best friend goes to market.
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