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Russian retired heavyweight boxer Nikolai Valuev, who was elected a parliament deputy from the ruling United Russia party in December, spoke on his new job in an interview with the Izvestiya daily.

On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.

It's hard to be the greatest player of all time, when you're not the greatest player of your time.

Melbourne, Jan 25 : Despite losing out to Novak Djokovic on Monday night, Lleyton Hewitt now has a new cohort of fans who certainly did not love him when he was at the peak of his career nearly a decade ago.

Reigning champion Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, who lost in the last two finals in Melbourne, were a pair of fourth-round winners Monday at the Australian Open.

Andy Murray will have to plot a way past one of the strongest relationships in tennis to see off Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin and reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Monday.

With his grand racquet slam, Marcos Baghdatis made us nostalgic for racquet pulpers of times past.

THE sun was yet to simmer past the yard arm on day one, and it seemed the fading duo of Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick would be the only men alive outside the ''big three'' to have won a grand slam tournament.

Throughout the history of the Australian Open there have been some hair-raising, heart-pounding finishes.

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark smiles for the cameras during a news conference in Melbourne.