UPDATE 7-NBA results

Jan 6 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the NBA games on Saturday (home team in CAPS)Boston 89 ATLANTA 81NY Knicks 114 ORLANDO 106INDIANA 95 Milwaukee 80BROOKLYN 113 Sacramento 93Houston 112 CLEVELAND 104Portland 102 MINNESOTA 97New Orleans 99 DALLAS 96 (OT)SAN ANTONIO 109 Philadelphia 86DENVER 110 Utah 91LA CLIPPERS 115 Golden State ...

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UPDATE 3-NBA results

Jan 7 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the NBA games on Sunday (home team in CAPS)Oklahoma City 104 TORONTO 92MIAMI 99 Washington 71Charlotte 108 DETROIT 101 (OT)Memphis 92 PHOENIX 81Denver 112 LA LAKERS 1...

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NBA-Nuggets survive Kobe fireworks to ice Lakers

LOS ANGELES, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Denver Nuggets dropped the stumbling Los Angeles Lakers further into the doldrums on Sunday with a 112-105 win despite some fourth-quarter fireworks from Kobe Bryant.Ty Lawson scored 21 points and 10 assists and Danilo Gallinari hit five of his 20 in the final seconds to kill the Lakers' rally and send them to a third successive defeat.Bryant did his best to rescue...

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Republicans push own "fiscal cliff" plan; talks frozen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the Congress pushed ahead on Thursday with a "fiscal cliff" plan that stands no chance of becoming law as time runs short to reach a deal with President Barack Obama to avert a Washington-induced economic recession.House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" to limit income-tax increases to the wealthiest sliver of the population appeared likely...

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Canada's seven-month budget gap narrows to C$10.6 billion

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's federal budget deficit narrowed in the first seven months of the fiscal year to C$10.57 billion ($10.68 billion) from C$13.90 billion in the same period last year as personal and corporate income tax revenues rose and debt charges were lower.The monthly shortfall in October was C$1.68 billion, compared with a gap of C$2.13 billion a year earlier, the Department of Finance...

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"Fiscal cliff" creates waiting game for payrolls firms

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - At payroll processing businesses across the United States, the "fiscal cliff" stalemate in Washington means uncertainty over tax-withholding tables just days before the start of 2013.The U.S. Internal Revenue Service still has not issued the tables for next year that show how much money employers should hold back from workers' paychecks to cover federal income taxes.Payroll...

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5 men charged with murder in New Delhi gang rape

NEW DELHI (AP) — Five men accused of raping a university student for hours on a bus as it drove through India's capital were charged with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring them the death penalty.The attack on the 23-year-old woman, who died of severe internal injuries over the weekend, provoked a fierce debate across India about the routine mistreatment of females and triggered daily...

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New law points to Philippine church's waning sway

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Twenty-six years after Roman Catholic leaders helped his mother marshal millions of Filipinos in an uprising that ousted a dictator, President Benigno Aquino III picked a fight with the church over contraceptives and won a victory that bared the bishops' worst nightmare: They no longer sway the masses.Aquino last month signed the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health...

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Afghan militants freed by government

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Some 250 prisoners formerly held by the U.S. have been released by Afghan authorities in hopes that this will lead to reconciliation in the 11-year conflict, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday.Police Maj. Jalal Uddin said that 80 were freed from prisons across the country that day, the latest batch of a total of 400 to be released this week. The released prisoners had...

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UPDATE 1-Golf-Jimenez out for several months after breaking leg

* Spaniard injured in skiing accident* Operated on at clinic in native Malaga* Expected to be discharged on Monday (Adds confirmation from European Tour)MADRID, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Spanish golfer Miguel Angel Jimenez will be out of action for at least three months after breaking his leg in a skiing accident on Saturday, the European Tour said on Sunday."I was skiing in Sierra Nevada, I lost control...

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