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Sports
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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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Jordan leads class of 2009 into Hall of Fame
Los Angeles - As a youngster, he never thought about it, but Michael Jordan soared into the...
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Euro 2008 Final Top Of Spanish Television Chart
Madrid - Spain's sporting "annus mirabilis" is reflected in the end-of-year chart of...
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Cavs Rally To Beat Heat And Improve To 16-0 At Home
Los Angeles - LeBron James got the best of fellow-superstar Dwyane Wade, and the Cleveland...
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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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Cavs rally to beat Heat and improve to 16-0 at home
Los Angeles - LeBron James got the best of fellow-superstar Dwyane Wade, and the Cleveland...
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Whistler Stands Out Among North American Ski Areas
Whistler, British Columbia - In just over a year, the Olympic Winter Games will open in Vancouver,...
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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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Ole Einar And The Wolves
Erfurt, Germany - Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is surrounded by hungry wolves out to deny him...
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Rondo runs red-hot Celtics to 15th-straight win
Los Angeles - When the Utah Jazz visited the red-hot Boston Celtics, they were concerned with...
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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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Cycling, skiing fear more doping cases
Berlin - Suspected doping cases are being investigated in cycling and cross-country skiing, an...
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Ginobili Has Successful Season Debut As Spurs Shoot Down Grizzlies
Los Angeles - Through the first 12 games, the San Antonio Spurs missed their leading scorer Manu...
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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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Unbeaten Hawks soar past Bulls for sixth straight win
Los Angeles - Al Horford was unstoppable and the high-flying Atlanta Hawks remained unbeaten in the...
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Don King announces WBC heavyweight title bout in China
Beijing - Veteran US promoter Don King on Sunday announced a first heavyweight title bout in China...
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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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Tony Allen goes off for 32 points as Celtics clip Nets
Los Angeles - The Boston Celtics' Big Three were given the night off, but Tony Allen was on....
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Bogut, Bucks Bounce Warriors in China Games
Los Angeles - The Milwaukee Bucks had to travel halfway around the world to post their first...
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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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Venus Williams returns to Porsche GP in winning style
Stuttgart (dpa) - Venus Williams returned to the Porsche Grand Prix after a decade in winning...
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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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Champions Man Utd Look to Build Momentum after Slow Start
London - After a slow start to the season, champions Manchester United will be looking to build...
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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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The flame may be out but the memory will linger
Beijing - The Beijing Olympic Games ended just as they had began Sunday, with a glittering...
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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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Wanjiru gives Kenya first marathon title, 50th gold for China
Beijing - Samuel Wanjiru won the first Olympic marathon title for Kenya on Sunday as boxer Zou...
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World
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The Dalai Lama Is Opting For Caution
The Dalai Lama is the political leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is based in...
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Dalai Lama's Envoys Travel to China for Talks
New Delhi - Envoys of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, were travelling to...
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Internet Companies And Human Rights Organizations Fight For Freedom Of Speech
In some states, censorship reaches frightening new standards. Just take into consideration the...
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Merkel Wants Cooperation with China over Financial Crisis
Beijing - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said her country wanted to cooperate with...
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Chinese Taikonauts Returned Safely To Earth
China
is celebrating the safe return of its taikonauts after a three-day voyage into
space. The...
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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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Obama’s Speech Will Become a Memorable History Lesson
About 40 million people watched Barack Obama’s acceptance
speech on Thursday. Nielsen Media...
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Obama’s Magnetic Acceptance Speech Draws Record 38 Million Viewers
The speech held by presidential candidate Barack Obama during his acceptance of the Democratic...
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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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Russia's role in global affairs at risk, Bush says
Washington - Russia has placed its role in diplomatic and global economic affairs at...
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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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Crisis Rages in East Ossetia, Georgia’s Breakaway Province
Russia sent its once feared tanks into the separatist province of South Ossetia and the Russian air...
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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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Two die in beach explosion in Russian Olympic city
Moscow - Two people died in an explosion on a tourist beach in the Olympic host city of Sochi,...
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Bush off to Beijing with a Myanmar mission
US President George W Bush departed Bangkok Thursday for Beijing, where he plans to chide China for...
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US President George W Bush arrives in South Korea
US President George W Bush arrived in South Korea Tuesday, the first stop on his week-long visit to...
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6.0 Magnitude Quake Jolts China Ahead of Olympic Games
A powerful earth quake measuring 6.0 degrees on the Richter scale struck China’s already devastated...
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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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Two Uighur Extremists Believed Responsible For 16 Dead Chinese Policemen
Two men drove a truck right into a group of jogging policemen and then,
armed with knives and...
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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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The Solar Eclipse Is a Good Omen for China
People all around the Earth witnessed a spectacular solar
eclipse on Friday. Its range began in...
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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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Clinton to Announce Endorsement for Obama
After losing the race for the party nomination, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton will most...
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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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Talks Start Between The Tibetans and China
Chinese President Hu Jintao said he had hopes for a
“positive outcome” between envoys of the Dalai...
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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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Technology
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Internet Companies and Human Rights Organizations Fight for Freedom of Speech
In some states, censorship reaches frightening new standards. Just take into consideration the...
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China Re-Invents Tom-Skype’s Privacy Policy
During the Olympic Games in Beijing, 2008, journalists faced countless problems transmitting...
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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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Update2: China Casts Censorship Veil Over Apple’s iTunes Store
China seems to continue with its censorship practices, even
when it comes to Apple. Chinese...
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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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Greeks Used Astronomical Calculator To Organize The Olympic Games
Understanding the mysteries behind the world’s first calculating
device developed by the ancient...
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Nintendo Wii Still No.1, Xbox Left Behind
Sony‘s PlayStation 3 was far from being top of the list in terms of last month’s U.S. sales, but it...
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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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China To Adopt Three 3G Standards
China
media reported that country’s Ministry of Information Industry approved the use
of...
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