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"This is my last match. Farewell Badminton World Federation, farewell my beloved badminton." - Yu Yang, writing on her microblog account. Yu was one of the eight players who were disqualified from the Olympics after they tried to lose games in the badminton tournament. Yu is only 26, a young age to be retiring from the sport. Yu and her partner said they played poorly because they were resting from injuries, and they shouldn’t have been booted from the Olympics.
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Kofi Annan resigned Thursday as the U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria after violence persists in the country. Annon had proposed a peace plan earlier this year, but nothing has come of it, and the fighting has only intensified.
Hot video: 7-Eleven clerk goes berserk
We’ve all had bad days at work, but one clerk at a 7-Eleven in Orlando, Fla., had a bad day for the record books.
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Quote of note
"This is my last match. Farewell Badminton World Federation, farewell my beloved badminton." - Yu Yang, writing on her microblog account. Yu was one of the eight players who were disqualified from the Olympics after they tried to lose games in the badminton tournament. Yu is only 26, a young age to be retiring from the sport. Yu and her partner said they played poorly because they were resting from injuries, and they shouldn’t have been booted from the Olympics.
News to know
Kofi Annan resigned Thursday as the U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria after violence persists in the country. Annon had proposed a peace plan earlier this year, but nothing has come of it, and the fighting has only intensified.
Hot video: 7-Eleven clerk goes berserk
We’ve all had bad days at work, but one clerk at a 7-Eleven in Orlando, Fla., had a bad day for the record books.
GateHouse News Service
