Roger Federer won the Paris Masters for the first time on Sunday by defeating Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1, 7-6 (7/3) in a one sided final.

It was the Swiss star's third tournament win of the yea

Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi won their first ever ATP Masters tournament after whipping away the challenge of Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut in straight sets in the final on Sunday.

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India's Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi entered their first ATP World Tour 1000 Masters final, stopping Canadian Daniel Nestor and Max Mirnyi of Belarus from reaching thei

Roger Federer closed on a first ever Paris Masters final when he beat Richard Gasquet to reach the quarter-finals on Thursday, after Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray had swept into the last eight.

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Ratings agency Standard and Poor's said Thursday that it had mistakenly announced to some clients a downgrade of France's top 'AAA' credit rating, amid speculation of just such a move.

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Top seed Novak Djokovic on Friday pulled out of the ATP Paris Masters, in which he was due to play Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals, because of a shoulder injury.

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European planemaker Airbus said on Thursday it was abandoning production of its A340 long-haul four-engine aircraft, which failed to compete with Boeing's 777.

"We have accepted reality. We have not

French President Nicolas Sarkozy branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘a liar’ in a private conversation with President Barack Obama that was accidentally broadcast to journalists during

A beefed-up European debt crisis defence shield, the EFSF bailout fund, will be operational in December but fully fleshed out only in February, Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the eurogroup finance min

Dapper Venezuelan militant Carlos the Jackal goes on trial in a Paris court on Tuesday charged with four deadly bombings carried out almost 30 years ago as extreme-left wing attacks ravaged Europe.

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