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Worn out from her gold medal performance the night before, Yuliya Efimova slept late, missed her warm-up — and still swam a world record.
In morning prelims.
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Less than a year after giving birth to her first child, Megan Fox is pregnant again.
A spokeswoman for the actress said Friday that Fox and her husband, Brian Austin Green, are expecting their second child. Publicist Dominique Appel offered no details.
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Taylor Swift's childhood home in Pennsylvania is on the market, but fans looking to "Begin Again" in Pennsylvania may be too late.
Century 21 Gold agent Lisa Tiger says the six-bedroom home in Wyomissing, near Reading, is in contract and expected to close this month.
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Brown University archaeologists have uncovered the site of a village in northwest Alaska that's believed to be at least 200 years old.
The village dig is in Kobuk Valley National Park about 20 miles up the Kobuk River from the community of Kiana, according to KSKA (http://is.gd/0A7kSC).
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More than 4,000 years ago, Dilmun merchants traveled from Mesopotamia to the Indus River, titans of trade and culture before rise of the empires of the Persians or the Ottomans
Over a millennia, the civilization that Dilmun created on the back of trading in pearls, copper and dates as far as South Asia faded into the encroaching sands. It wasn't until an excavation by Danish archaeologists in the 1950s that its past was rediscovered.
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A congenital heart ailment that had gone undetected in numerous physical examinations killed star 27-year-old Ecuador striker Christian Benitez, the national team's physician said Friday.
Dr. Patricio Maldonado said a second autopsy performed after Benitez' body was flown home from Qatar found that the athlete died due to problems "that cannot be detected even with very sophisticated exams."
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On a night when Missy Franklin finally lost, Ryan Lochte turned in an epic performance at the pool.
Lochte swam three races in less than two hours at the world championships Friday, coming away with two gold medals and the top time in an event he's competing in for the first time at a major international meet.
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Spain beat Australia 8-6 Friday to become the first host country to be crowned world champion in women's water polo.
Spain, which won the silver medal at the 2012 Olympics, never trailed at Barcelona's Bernat Picornell pool in front of their raucous home fans.
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IndyCar has updated its rulebook following a series of late-race issues last month in Toronto.
The new rules will go into effect this weekend at the Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio.
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Brazil is sending a message to everyone who plays rugby out there: You want to participate in the Rio Olympics? Come talk to us!
Hoping to put on a good show when rugby sevens debuts in the 2016 Games, the Brazilian federation has announced that it will go hunting for players abroad, looking for anyone with at least some experience in the game and a Brazilian link that would allow them to represent the country.
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