Unabashed sentimentality took the unofficial Super Bowl trophy for advertising brilliance, with draft horses and pickup trucks both putting a lump in America’s collective throat.

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Mardy Fish began the defence of his Atlanta Tennis Championships crown with a straight-set win over Nicolas Mahut.

Andy Roddick cantered into the second round of Wimbledon after demolishing Rajeev Ram 6-3 6-2 6-2 in an all-American showdown on Court One.

Lleyton Hewitt will begin the defence of his US Men’s Clay Court title against Indian lucky loser Somdev Dewarman following a busy day of first round play in Houston, Texas.

Sikhs wielding knives and a handgun attacked two preachers at a rival temple in Vienna in a brawl that left one of the victims dead today and at least 15 others wounded, police said. A related clash later broke out in northern India.

An increasingly disturbing picture of the Israeli army’s conduct in the Gaza war has emerged as more troops described wanton vandalism to Palestinian homes, humiliation of civilians and loose rules of engagement that resulted in unnecessary deaths.

More than 60 former employees of an Italian manufacturing company in India have been arrested for allegedly beating to death the company’s local chief executive, police said today.

A BABY with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said yesterday.

Jamie Murray and Max Mirnyi have been knocked out of the Pacific Life Open after a straight sets semi-final loss to Israeli duo Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram.

THE work of poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh is to remain on the Leaving Certificate Irish syllabus for at least the next two years.

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Doctors separated 10-month-old conjoined twin boys in a hospital in central India today, a news report said.

In a likely suicide attack, unidentified militants blew up a security fence today and stormed a northern Indian Hindu shrine at the heart of a bitter sectarian dispute, setting off a fierce gunbattle with security personnel that left five other attackers dead.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s party lost elections in four key states, according to near final results released today, in a potentially destabilising blow to his two-year-old national coalition.

Thousands of police were patrolling the northern Indian town of Ayodhya today to prevent violence on the ninth anniversary of the demolition of a 16th century mosque.

Indian novelist R K Narayan died in hospital today after suffering heart trouble and breathing problems, a close family friend said. He was 94.