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NEW DELHI, India - Thursday's results at the Commonwealth Games saw the usual haul of gold medals by some of the world's top athletes - but the glory was accompanied by glitches: A large scoreboard crashed to the ground at the vacant rugby stadium and more than a dozen swimmers fell ill with a stomach virus.
NEW DELHI - More than a dozen swimmers from Australia and England have fallen ill at the Commonwealth Games in the latest setback for trouble-plagued organizers in New Delhi.
NAIROBI, Kenya - The three American veterans from three different wars had only one good leg among them.
SAINT-DENIS, Reunion - Sixteen-year-old sailor Abby Sunderland is homeward bound - though her plane flight back to California isn't the homecoming she originally imagined when she set off in hopes of sailing around the world.
SAINT-DENIS, Reunion - Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland got a big hug from her older brother Saturday on the appropriately named Reunion Island, and again defended her family for letting her try to sail around the world alone.
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