Roger Federer Carries Switzerland to First Davis Cup Final in 22 Years
Geneva: France will host Switzerland in the Davis Cup final in November after Roger Federer gave the Swiss the winning point against Italy in Geneva on Sunday. Federer reached the first Davis Cup final of his career with a comfortable 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4 ...
Federer fires Switzerland into Davis Cup final
GENEVA (Reuters) - Roger Federer secured Switzerland's place in the final of the Davis Cup for the first time since 1992 by comfortably beating Fabio Fognini in Geneva on Sunday. Roared on by a capacity crowd in the Palexpo Arena, Federer dismantled the ...
DPRK delegation visits Switzerland for stronger ties
PYONGYANG, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) visited Switzerland recently in a bid to bolster friendly and cooperative ties between the two countries, the official KCNA news agency reported Sunday.
Roger Federer fires Switzerland into Davis Cup final
GENEVA: Roger Federer has taken Switzerland to its first Davis Cup final in 22 years, beating Fabio Fognini of Italy in the opening reverse singles on Sunday for a winning 3-1 lead in their semifinal. Federer celebrated with skipping jumps across the court ...
Switzerland beats Italy 3-1 in Davis Cup semifinal
GENEVA (AP) -- Roger Federer has taken Switzerland to its first Davis Cup final in 22 years, beating Fabio Fognini of Italy in the opening reverse singles Sunday for a winning 3-1 lead in their semifinal. Federer celebrated with skipping jumps across the ...
Busy, busy, busy
I arrived in Tucson on August 20, nearly a month ago, and hit the ground running. Since then I have gotten a crash course on my new duties and then taken over as the President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation (I'll let you keep your first million, but I am after your second million...). In a pr ...
Conditions Set for IMF Loan for Ukraine Facilitate Cultivation of GMO Crops
American author and geopolitical analyst William Engdahl clarifies the implications on Ukraine’s agriculture of legislation ushered in with new IMF loans to Ukraine. Such legislation makes it possible to cultivate GMO crops in Ukraine. Like any lender, the IMF makes conditions when it loans money. I ...
Vivendi’s Vincent Bollore Angles To Become Europe’s Powerhouse Cable, Web & Phone Provider
Call it European Dis-Union: The battle for supremacy in the Euro TV market continues to heat up with Telefonica scoring a major victory over rival Telecom Italia in its attempts to acquire French media giant Vivendi’s Brazilian broadband operator GVT. Got that? While the primary focus of that deal a ...
Readers’ wildlife photographs
Today we have bugs and birds and groundhogs. First the bugs, from reader Jacques Hausser, some pillbugs (terrestrial isopods, which are crustaceans, which are themselves arthropods: Here some Diplopoda of the family Glomeridae (pill millipedes), Glomeris klugii (I’m not 100 % sure of the species!) r ...
