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Los Angeles  – The Cleveland Cavaliers welcomed back centre Zydrunas Ilgauskas, and sent coach Mike Brown to a well-deserved trip to the desert next month.

Melbourne, Australia  – Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will play for history in Sunday’s men’s final at the Australian Open as the Swiss attempts to cement a record-levelling 14th Grand Slam singles title.

Moscow – Thousands of people in far-eastern Russia on Saturday began what are expected to be nationwide protests against the Kremlin’s economic policies.

London  – A British soldier was killed in a firefight while on patrol with Afghan troops in volatile southern Afghanistan, the British Defence Ministry said.

Washington  – Device drivers are the indispensable link between your computer and everything you attach to it. Without them, your digital camera, printer, scanner, iPod, Webcam, video card, or digital video recorder are just useless gadgets. With device drivers, though, you’re in business.

Kiev  – It used to be that Kiev City Hall stopped trying to make money off taxpayers once they were finally dead.

San Francisco  – If it can be said that sports is a secular religion, then Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals is like Yom Kippur, Christmas and Ramadan rolled into one for the American sporting world.

Melbourne  – With Andy Murray long gone from the Australian Open, ever-present British interest has turned to 15-year-old starlet Laura Robson, Aussie-born but a UK passport holder.

Melbourne  – Women’s sporting rich-list leader Serena Williams could widen the earnings gap between herself and retired Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam with a fourth Australian Open title.

Washington  – With the US economy contracting 3.8 per cent in the last quarter and 2.6 million jobs being shed last year, economists and politicians of all stripes agree that the world’s largest economy is in serious crisis. But arriving at solutions has proven to be far more divisive.