UPDATE 4-NBA results

Jan 14 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the NBA games on Sunday (home team in CAPS)NY KNICKS 100 New Orleans 87Milwaukee 107 TORONTO 96BROOKLYN 97 Indiana 86SAN ANTONIO 106 Minnesota 88DENVER 116 Golden State 105Oklahoma City 87 PORTLAND 83LA LAKERS 113 Cleveland ...

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NBA-Howard returns to help Lakers snap dire run

Jan 13 (Reuters) - The return of Dwight Howard helped the Los Angeles Lakers end their longest losing streak in nearly six years as they blew out Cleveland 113-93 on Sunday.Howard had missed the last three games with a right shoulder injury and the Lakers had been ailing on the court with a six-game losing streak, but they broke out in a big way to snap the stretch.Howard had 22 points and 14 rebounds,...

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Howard returns to help Lakers snap dire run

Kenneth Faried during their NBA basketball game in Denver, Colorado December 26, …more (Reuters) - The return of Dwight Howard helped the Los Angeles Lakers end their longest losing streak in nearly six years as they blew out Cleveland 113-93 on Sunday.Howard had missed the last three games with a right shoulder injury and the Lakers had been ailing on the court with a six-game losing streak, but...

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Victims of Costa shipwreck mark anniversary

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Survivors of the Costa Concordia shipwreck and relatives of the 32 people who died marked the first anniversary of the grounding Sunday with the unveiling of memorials to the victims, a tearful Mass in their honor and a minute of silence to recall the exact moment that the cruise ship rammed into a reef off Tuscany.One of the most moving tributes came first, with the daybreak...

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Politicians slam "extremely generous" wind power cable scheme

LONDON (Reuters) - A new system devised to attract investors to spending money on connecting Britain's offshore wind farms is too generous and does not offer a good deal for consumers, a parliamentary committee said on Monday.The government wants a huge fleet of offshore wind farms to produce between 8 percent and 15 percent of Britain's electricity by 2020 to reduce carbon emissions.All wind farms...

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Somali witnesses to failed rescue describe mayhem

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The night of mayhem and death started with the sound of helicopters above pitch-black fields. When it was over, the French intelligence agent who had been held hostage for more than three years was almost certainly dead, as was at least one French commando, and the home that served as the agent's final jail was destroyed. And now the Somalis living in the muddy farm town...

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