FEDERER WINS WIMBLEDON, 15TH GRAND SLAM
LONDON - ROGER Federer made history on Sunday when he defeated brave Andy Roddick 5-7, 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 16-14 to win a sixth Wimbledon title and claim a record 15th Grand Slam crown in a classic final.
But the Swiss second seed was given a huge fright by the American sixth seed who led by a set, had four set points in the second and didn't drop serve until the final, heartbreaking game of the match.
SINGAPORE'S swimmers won one gold, one silver and one bronze on the penultimate day of the Asian Youth Games swimming competition.
Quah Ting Wen (25.43sec) and Amanda Lim (25.68sec) led a 1-2 finish in the 50metres freestyle.
PARIS - SEARCH teams scouring the Indian Ocean coast off the Comoros on Sunday detected a signal from the black boxes of the Yemenia airliner that crashed last week with 153 people on board, investigators said.
French, Comoran, Yemeni and US teams stepped up efforts to locate the flight recorders that contain vital data needed to determine the cause of the crash.
BEIJING - FLOODS blocked roads in southern China, leaving some 300 teenagers stranded at a school with limited supplies of food and water, an official said on Sunday, after days of heavy rain killed at least 16 people.
More than 320,000 people have fled their homes in southern and central China after heavy rains toppled houses, flooded roads and damaged a dam, news reports said.
