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Before the Shanghai Masters tournament in October, Valentin Vacherot was the 204th ranked men's tennis player in the world. He'd never won a title on the main ATP tour, and had only played one Grand ...

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There’s a tradition among poets to write a poem to put inside the Christmas cards they send. So, the BBC World Service has commissioned one specially from the poet, dramatist and novelist Michael ...

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Trump announced on Sunday that Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, would become the US's special envoy to ...

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