England will truly find out on Saturday whether they have what it takes to get back to the top of world rugby - they have a hard job on their hands.
The Spaniard claimed his eighth straight title at the tournament, ending a run of seven defeats in finals to the man who replaced him at the top of the world rankings, including January's record-breaking six-hour epic at the Australian Open.
The former world number one was replaced at the top of the world rankings by Rafael Nadal earlier this year.
Sherchan climbed the 29, 028 feet (8, 848-meter) Everest at the age of 76 in 2008 but when the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records came out, Japanese national Yuichiro Miura was recorded as the oldest person to reach the top of the world aged a sprightly 75.
The Island Lake trailhead, one mile east of the Top of the World Store at the end of a short road to Island Lake Campground, provides as much or as little a hike as you like.
Westwood is not the only player in the running to overtake Woods at the top of the world rankings as Germany's Martin Kaymer could also move ahead of the American.
The Unep assessment said the concentration of mercury in the top 100m of the world's oceans had doubled over the past century, and estimated that 260 tonnes of the toxic metal had made their way from soil into rivers and lakes.
The Unep assessment says that the concentration of mercury in the top 100m of the world's oceans has doubled over the past century, and estimates that 260 tonnes of the toxic metal have made their way from soil into rivers and lakes.
Back in the 13th and 14th centuries, China was on the top of the world.
He went from the top of the world, to upset, to sleepless, to manic, to gone.
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European explorers spent centuries searching for a passage through the ice at the top of the world.
It was not about the experience on the top of the world.
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If ever there was an event that deserved to be the first Asian tournament to impact the top of the world rankings this is the one.
Luke Donald, who can return to the top of the world rankings if he wins this weekend, is well placed to make a move on Saturday.
Westwood, needing to finish in the first two to dethrone Tiger Woods at the top of the world rankings, was 10 shots back after the second day.
The 21-year-old Czech, who can usurp Caroline Wozniacki at the top of the world rankings in the next fortnight, faces Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro in round two.
But it is his accuracy in hitting greens at just over 70% over the past five years which has propelled him towards the top of the world game.
Matthew's victory will return him to the top of the world rankings above Egypt's Ramy Ashour, who made a second-round exit in Al Khobar with a damaged hamstring.
Although that is 1% fewer than during the same period in 2011, it is probably still enough to keep Honduras at the top of the world's murder table for another year.
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Ferrero, who climbed to the top of the world rankings in 2003 after winning his only Grand Slam, the French Open, will be seeking to emulate his effort of making the quarter-final stage two years ago.
She reached the top of the world rankings in August 2003 and had a record of 427 wins against 104 defeats as well as having the rare dinstinction of holding the number one spot in both singles and doubles in 2003.
He was also beaten by Bernard Tomic in his singles rubber in the match against hosts Australia, but against Verdasco in the final he showed the form which has kept him at the top of the world rankings for the past two seasons.
Summer visitors see grazing reindeer and Sami camps, and in winter a special bus follows a snow plow up the final eight miles to reach the 1, 000-foot high plateau where, bracing against the winds, you get to stand beside the iconic North Cape globe for photographic proof positive that you have literally stood at the top of the world.
Indonesia and Brazil now find themselves in the top four of the world's top polluting nations as a result (around 80 percent of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions tally comes from deforestation).
The result was enough to send Australia back to the top of the ODI world rankings in place of South Africa.
Next up for Sock is Tommy Haas, the 35-year-old German in the midst of a late-career surge that has put him back inside the top 15 of the world rankings.
People now have more money to spend, and some of them go to the new Shangri-La-run hotel at the top of the China World Tower, Beijing's tallest building.
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New York (CNN) -- Construction crews at the 16-acre World Trade Center site will raise the final two sections of a 408-foot spire to the top of One World Trade Center on Monday morning, making the building the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, according to the site's management.
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