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By Iain Rogers MADRID, May 18 (Reuters) - Real Madrid and Jose Mourinho were sifting through the debris of what the Portuguese coach termed a "disastrous" 2012-13 campaign after Friday's King's Cup final defeat left the world's richest club without a major trophy for the season. The 2-1 reverse to Atletico Madrid at their own Bernabeu stadium meant Mourinho, widely expected to move on at the end of this term, finished a season without significant silverware for the first time in his otherwise glittering career. ...

May 19 (Reuters) - The 33 car field for the Indianapolis 500 was set on Sunday with women drivers claiming three of the nine spots on offer on Bump Day. Brazil's Ana Beatriz and Britain's Pippa Mann and Katherine Legge joined Swiss Simona De Silvestro, who was among the 24 cars that qualified on Saturday for next Sunday's race. "I'm much happier than I was this time yesterday (Saturday)," said Mann, who failed to earn a spot on Pole Day at the famed Brickyard. "This was a nice, clean run. "We almost had four really nice clean laps... I'm happy right now, much less stressed than I was ...

May 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Classification from Giro d'Italia after Stage 15 on Sunday 1. Vincenzo Nibali (Italy / Astana) 62:02:34" 2. Cadel Evans (Australia / BMC Racing) +1:26" 3. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia / Team Sky) +2:46" 4. Mauro Santambrogio (Italy / Vini Fantini) +2:47" 5. Michele Scarponi (Italy / Lampre) +3:53" 6. Przemyslaw Niemiec (Poland / Lampre) +4:35" 7. Carlos Betancur (Colombia / AG2R) +5:15" 8. Rafal Majka (Poland / Saxo - Tinkoff) +5:20" 9. Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy / AG2R) +5:57" 10. Benat Intxausti (Spain / Movistar) +6:21" 11. ...

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LYON, France (Reuters) - A British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his 5-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were found at his apartment in a suburb of the eastern city of Lyon. "He offered explanations linked to the children's custody," an official from the Lyon prosecutor's office told Reuters. ...