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Sharapova, Ivanovic move into Australian Open women's final 3 hours ago MELBOURNE, Australia - A year after losing the Australian Open final in embarrassing fashion to American Serena Williams, Russian Maria Sharapova is looking unstoppable in her quest for a third Grand Slam singles title. But if it doesn't happen in Saturday's final at Melbourne Park against Serbia's Ana Ivanovic, she won't lose too much sleep over it. "From the beginning of the tournament, you want to go a step further than you've done in the past," Sharapova said after her 6-3, 6-1 semifinal win over Jelena Jankovic on Thursday....

Car bomb targets moderate Kosovo Serb leader By Branislav KrsticMITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro, Feb 8 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded on Tuesday under a car used by a moderate Kosovo Serb politician who has recently fallen out with Serb hardliners in the U.N.-run province.No one was hurt in the blast which damaged Oliver Ivanovic's car parked outside his home in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica, a United Nations police source told Reuters.The attack in the Serb-dominated north of the city came before mid-year talks planned by the United Nations on whether Kosovo becomes independent -- as demanded by the...

Canadian journalist Nancy Durham, whose film quot;Truth about Rajmondaquot; Milosevic plans to present in The Hague to prove that western media fabricated lies, admits that both sides used her in propaganda purposes. Albanians used her to launch lies and Serbs presented her film at the Serb Radio and Television to show how the West manipulated with information