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Beijing prepares to deliver
Jul 8 - One month to go until the Olympics and Beijing prepares to deliver the games as worries...
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Ronaldinho's Olympic goal blocked
Jul 10 - Spanish soccer giants Barcelona tell Brazilian star Ronaldinho he can't go to the...
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U.S. boxing team goes for gold
Jul. 11 - The U.S. Olympic boxing team is vowing to wage a battle for medals in Beijing at the...
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Morocco aiming for Olympic glory
Jul 19 - As Morocco's athletics squad prepares for this year's Olympics, they're feeling the void...
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Blind marathon man heads to Olympics
Jul 19 - When Kenyan athlete, Henry Wanyoike started running in the 80's he never imagined that...
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Olympic queues for Olympic tickets
Jul 24 - Nearly 10,000 people are queueing outside an Olympics tickets booth in Beijing to try...
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Going for gold
Jul 26 - Sandrine Thiebaud-Kangni, an athlete from Togo is hoping to return from the Beijing...
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Olympics '08: Music in Tiananmen Square
In the countdown to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Olympic Orchestra gave a performance on...
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Olympics '08: Fake Ticket Controversy
The IOC is moving to shut down an American web site that may have sold fraudulent tickets to the...
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Bolt to Run the 100 and 200 in Beijing
100-meter world record holder Usain Bolt will run in both the 100
and 200 meters in the Beijing...
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Fraudulent Website Offers Tickets to Olympics
The U.S. Olympic Committee is again asking a federal judge to
shut down a Web site allegedly...
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Olympics '08: Torch Enters Beijing
The Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long
and sometimes contentious global...
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Olympics '08: Phelps' Second Gold, Hoff Upset
Jason Lezak outtouched Alain Bernard of France at the wall Monday
to give the United States a...
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Olympics '08: Chinese Men Take Gymnastics Gold
China has the Olympic title it has long
craved and everyone else expected. The Chinese won the...
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Olympics '08: Americans Dominate in the Pool
Michael Phelps joined a stellar cast,
including Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis, to become one of the...
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Olympics '08: Cullen Jones on Swimming Victory
American swimmer Cullen Jones talks about his gold-medal victory
in the 4x100 freestyle relay...
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Beijing Olympics mask controversy
Four United States track athletes brief the media on why they donned protective face masks upon...
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Olympics '08: Yang Wei Finally Gets His Gold
With each day bringing another gold medal, gymnastics is fast
becoming China's domain at the...
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Olympics '08: Big Day for China, Japan in Pool
Swimmers from Japan and China stole the show in the Water Cube
Thursday, as American swimmer...
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Fastest man on the planet
Japaiman Usain Bolt sprints to victory in the Beijing Olympics 100 metre race and sets a new...
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Olympics '08: Gold Medal Game for Women's Soccer
The U.S. women's soccer team is preparing to play Brazil in the gold medal game in Beijing. (Aug....
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Olympics '08: Johnson, Liukin Take More Medals
Shawn Johnson of the United States won an
Olympic gold medal in the last event of the women's...
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Olympics '08: Gold in Women's Beach Volleyball
The
Chinese and the wretched Beijing weather were no match for Misty
May-Treanor and "Six...
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Beijing hands Olympics to London
The Olympic flag has been turned over to London after a spectacular ceremony ended the Beijing...
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Olympics '08: IOC on Legacy of Games
In his last Olympic news conference, International Olympic Committee
President Jacques Rogge talks...
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Obama Makes Pitch for 2016 Chicago Olympics
President-elect Barack Obama made a personal appeal Friday to
bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to...
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Madrid optimistic of hosting 2016 Olympics despite financial woes
Madrid - Madrid expressed again Thursday its confidence in being chosen to host the 2016...
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Kohl's former manager arrested on doping charge
Vienna - Stefan Matschiner, the former manager of disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, was...
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Federer will become a father this summer
Indian Wells, California - Roger Federer Thursday revealed that he will become a father within...
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Former Pistons coach Chuck Daly diagnosed with cancer
Los Angeles - NBA Hall of Fame coach Chuck Daly, who guided the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back...
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Hewitt Hip Holds Up In Australia Loss To Germany
Perth, Australia - Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made a...
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Sharapova pulls from Hong Kong as injured shoulder needs more time
The Russian revealed that she underwent arthroscopic surgery in October on her problem...
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Swiss Skiers Shine In Quest For Glory
Hamburg - Ski-jumper Simon Ammann and cross-country skier Dario Cologna weren't even mentioned...
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Bolt, Phelps Eye 2009 Glory Amid Economic Concern
Hamburg - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and American swimmer Michael Phelps aim to confirm...
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Bach Hopes For Munich 2018 Success - Praises Beijing
Dusseldorf - Munich stands a good chance to win the 2018 Winter Games in its...
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Grim German Sport Outlook With Lack Of Stars And Events
Hamburg - Germany may host the world athletics championships in 2009 but apart from the Berlin...
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End Of An Era As EBU Could Lose Olympic Broadcast Rights
Hamburg - Olympic television broadcasts from 2014 onwards could be aired by private networks in...
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Bolt and Isinbayeva are World Athletes of the Year
Monte Carlo - Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt and Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva...
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Third Time Lucky For All Whites?
Wellington - New Zealand's All Whites see 2009 as their most important year since the national team...
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New Orleans Hornets crush Washington Wizards again
Los Angeles - From Germany to Spain, the New Orleans Hornets trashed the Washington Wizards in...
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Nadal Lives Up to Expectations with Opening Madrid Win
Madrid - Top seed Rafael Nadal lit up the second day of his home Madrid Masters Tuesday, overcoming...
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After Kohl Doping Case, Austrian Media Call for Stronger Controls
Vienna - Following reports that Austrian Tour de France star Bernhard Kohl had tested positive for...
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IOC Plans to Retest all Beijing Olympics Samples for CERA
Hamburg - The International Olympic Committee will have all samples from the Beijing Olympics...
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Oden Makes Long-Awaited NBA Debut as Blazers Crush Kings
Los Angeles - Greg Oden made a successful NBA debut with 13 points and five rebounds, as the...
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Cycling's Olympic future may be reconsidered over doping
Hamburg - Cycling's future at the Olympics may have to be reconsidered, International Olympic...
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Ginobili Expected to Miss First Two Months of the Season
Los Angeles - If the San Antonio Spurs are looking to get off to a fast start, they'll have to do...
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Track star Marion Jones released from prison
Washington - Disgraced track superstar Marion Jones was released from prison on Friday after...
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Mission accomplished for Team China
Beijing - China finishes the 2008 Beijing Games sitting proudly on top of the medals table with a...
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Olympic attention now swings to London
Beijing - David Beckham kicked a football and three-time Beijing gold medallist Chris Hoy rode a...
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"Truly exceptional" Beijing Olympics closed
Beijing - The Beijing Olympics were officially closed on Sunday by International Olympic Commitee...
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Redeem team win, Kenya marathon joy, China reach 51 golds
Beijing - Samuel Wanjiru won the first Olympic marathon title for Kenya on Sunday at the Beijing...
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Gold double for Bekele, US and Kenya - triple joy for Russia
Beijing - Kenenisa Bekele emulated fellow-Ethiopian Miruts Yifter when he completed an Olympic...
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Mountain bike gold for Spitz and Absalon
Beijing - Sabine Spitz of Germany and Frenchman Julien Absalon on Saturday won the mountain bike...
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Di Maria the hero as Argentina defend Olympic title
Beijing - Angel Di Maria scored the only goal of the game Saturday as Argentina successfully...
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Ukrainian lifter fails doping test, kicked out of Olympics
Beijing - Ukrainian weightlifter Igor Razoronov was disqualified and kicked out of the Beijing...
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Dibaba's Historic Distance Double - No Luck for Jamaica
Beijing - Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal...
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Technology
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Britney beats Obama in web search race
San Francisco - Britney Spears was more popular than US president-elect Barack Obama among internet...
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China Ready To Send First Astronaut On Spacewalk.
Shenzhou VII, China’s upcoming space mission, the
first Chinese mission that will take astronauts...
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Who Won The August Gaming Industry “Olympics”?
It seems that August was a time when the game industry chose
to take it more slowly - after all,...
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Cameras monitor your every step in China's most watched city
Shenzhen, China - It's nightfall in China's most watched city. Women nervously draw tight their...
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Chinese Authorities Blocked The Apple iTunes Store
According to the Associated Press, users of iTunes
in China
have been unable to download music...
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Internet Giants Oppose Censorship, Agree To Code Of Conduct
Internet giants Microsoft, Yahoo and Google announced they
have reached an agreement on a...
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IOC Promised In Vain, China Keeps Web Censorship During Olympics
The Internet censorship remains in place for the Olympics,
despite the International Olympic...
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Bye-Bye Gates, Hello IE8, Silverlight Beta!
Tuesday morning’s TechEd
developers conference was about future plans: the future of Bill Gates,...
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44,000 Porn Sites Closed By Chinese Authorities
With one idea in mind, that
pornography perverts the young population, the Public Security...
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Fight Between Activists, Chinese Authorities Intensify as Olympics Close In
With only one year before the Summer Olympics kick off in Beijing, human rights activists...
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World
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Oxford win 155th Boat Race
London - Oxford lived up to their status of favourites Sunday by beating Cambridge by...
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Prime suspect in Litvinenko murder to run for Sochi mayor
Moscow - The principal suspect in the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko, is likely to run for...
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China Celebrates Entering Year of the Ox
Millions of Chinese around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year and considering the problems...
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Hewitt Keeps Australia In Contention With Fighting Comeback Win
Perth, Australia - Lleyton Hewitt made a resounding return after summer hip...
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Tibetan exiles end meeting with call for more vigorous action
New Delhi - Tibetan exiles ended a crucial meeting on their future in the northern Indian town of...
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China says "serious differences" remain in Dalai Lama talks
Beijing - China on Monday said "serious differences" remained in its dialogue with the...
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Russians prefer the more "approachable" Obama
Moscow - John McCain's US presidential campaign begged at the enemy's door this week when a wayward...
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Denmark to stage referendum on royal order of succession
Copenhagen - Danish voters are to vote in June in a referendum on the order of succession to the...
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New Zealand Company Recalls Contaminated Milk in China
New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra recalled a batch of prenatal milk sold in China under its...
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Thailand Supreme Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Former Premier
Thailand's Supreme Court for political office holders on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for...
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Number of Babies in China Ill from Contaminated Milk Rises to 1,253
As many as 1,253 babies had become ill with contaminated baby formula milk produced by the Chinese...
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Arrests Made in China as Second Baby Dies in Contaminated Formula Milk Case
Chinese authorities arrested two brothers in the
contaminated baby formula milk case, which killed...
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US Recruiting War Veterans for Paralympics
Beijing - "It is as if I have been given a second chance," American swimmer Melissa...
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Taiwan confirms purchase of 60 Harpoon missiles from US
Taipei - Taiwan confirmed on Wednesday that the United States has decided to sell 60 Harpoon Air...
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London not intimidated by Beijing Olympics
Beijing/London - London is in the best of moods for the 2012 Olympics after a light-hearted...
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Medvedev, Sarkozy Present Peace Plan For South Caucasus
Moscow/Tbilisi - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday...
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Arrest warrants issued for deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra
Thailand's Supreme Court issued arrest warrants Monday for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
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World Leaders Praised the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
Foreign leaders present in Beijing
for the Olympic Games have acclaimed abundantly the successful...
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Bombings in China Smear the Beijing Olympics
Terrorists using homemade bombs carried out a series of
explosions and fought with police Sunday...
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Xinjiang Inhabitants Are Giving Chinese Authorities a Hard Time
China's
state news service says a series of bomb blasts has occurred in the north-west
Xinjiang...
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Spectacular ceremony marks Beijing Olympic opening
China launched the 29th summer Olympics Friday with a glittering opening ceremony combining 5,000...
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Official: Pakistan's Coalition To Impeach Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan's ruling coalition has decided to table a motion in the parliament to impeach embattled...
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Musharraf cancels China visit amid impeachment fears
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday called off his visit to China, hours before he...
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Policemen Killed in Kashgar
A combined
grenade and knife attack killed 16 people in Kashgar, a remote city near
China's far...
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Sixteen People Killed In Attack On Police Station In China
The official news agency Xinhua reported that a terrorist
plot is suspected as a cause of the...
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China Decides To Unblock Some Websites At Olympic Media Centre
China
has unblocked some websites previously inaccessible to journalists at the
Olympic Games...
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Beijing Shortens Torch Relay's Tibet Leg
The Olympic torch relay through Tibet will be shortened to just one day, the Beijing Games...
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China Says Tibetans Linked to Al-Qaeda
China continued its accusations towards the Dalai Lama. During the meeting with the Buddhist...
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China – Tibet Talks Begin in Beijing
China’s top officials welcomed Dalai Lama’s envoys in Beijing on Sunday to hold talks regarding the...
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Dalai Lama’s Envoys Head to China for Talks
Dalai Lama’s representatives will be in China on Saturday to discuss with the Beijing government...
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Specials
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Phelps Says Marijuana Pipe Photo Is Real and Apologizes
Michael Phelps, the man who won more Olympic gold medals than any athlete in the history of the...
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NBC Selling Super Bowl Ads
Even though the Super Bowl is scheduled to kick off in Tampa, Florida, on February 1, NBC has...
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Sarah Palin Tops the Google Searches for 2008
On Wednesday Google released its list of the most popular searches during 2008 and it seems like...
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YouTube Plays Up Classical Music
YouTube is moving to bring classical music to a larger
audience by holding an online contest where...
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YouTube Launches New Online Musical Contest
YouTube, the Web’s biggest video-sharing service, announced
a new initiative called YouTube...
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The Curse Of The “Dancing”: Misty May-Treanor Severely Injured In The Ballroom
Another contestant on the popular ABC dancing competition “Dancing With The Stars” suffers an...
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The Chinese Are Aiming For the Moon
China’s Shenzhou 7 spacecraft was launched at 9:07 p.m. Thursday, carrying three Chinese astronauts...
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Kanye West, Comedy Central to Launch "Hip-Hop Meets the Muppets" Show
Rapper Kanye West will reportedly collaborate with Comedy Central to launch a new program which...
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Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin Is Definitely a “Saturday Night Live” Winner
“Saturday Night Live” style equals uproarious, yet classy approach.
The popular show’s season...
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Saturday Night Live Kicked Off Its 34th Season
The new Saturday Night Live season premiered yesterday with a skit on politics featuring Tina Fey...
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Barack Obama’s Speech Drew Record Ratings
Presidential candidate Barack Obama earned record-breaking
ratings Thursday night, with 38 million...
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Michael Phelps - From Pool to Pulitzer?
World- renowned American hottie and the athlete of the
moment, Michael Phelps takes a jump from...
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Michael Phelps To Turn “Saturday Night Live” To Gold
“Golden Boy” jumps directly from the pool and onto the
“Saturday Night Live” stage.
Michael...
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The Democratic Convention Raised The TV Ratings
Cable television benefited from huge ratings Monday for
broadcasting the opening night of the...
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“Ew, no!” No Michael Phelps for Amanda Beard Please!
While some dream of him, others don’t even want to hear
about being involved with Michael Phelps....
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MSNBC Welcomes Rachel Maddow As Prime-Time Show Host
Rachel Maddow proved many times that she has the wits to
host her own prime-time show. Eventually,...
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One Third of the World’s Population Watched the Olympics’ Opening
Over two billion people or almost one third of the world’s
population watched the opening ceremony...
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Advocacy Groups Protest Against 'Tropic Thunder'
'Tropic Thunder' was launched last night in Los Angeles and a few people came to boycott the film...
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Disability Advocates Gathered at “Tropic Thunder” Premiere
U.S.
groups that advocate for the disabled protested at Monday night’s premiere of
Ben Stiller’s...
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Get Your Olympics Fix From The Web!
This year's Summer Olympics, which started on August 8, will
also be available live over the...
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‘Magic’ Pills Turn Ordinary Mice Into Athletes By Mimicking Exercise
For all of us who are kind of lazy or simply do not find the necessary time to exercise the...
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The Whole World Mourns Pavarotti’s Death (Update)
Today, the Italian media ran special sections about
Pavarotti and his life. The newspaper La...
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Chinese Catholic Priest Detained By Authorities Again
An elderly Chinese bishop from the underground Roman Catholic Church has been detained by police...
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