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Melbourne - The title defence of Novak Djokovic melted in 36 Celsius heat while Roger Federer came out in the evening cool to claim a runaway win at the Australian Open on Tuesday.
Struggling Serb Djokovic quit his quarter-final to present a 6-7, (3-7), 6-4, 6-2, 2-1 victory to Andy Roddick.
Federer never broke stride as he crushed...
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Russia and Ukraine held talks over a solution to the escalating gas dispute shortly before the beginning of an EU crisis meeting in Brussels, media reports said Thursday.
The heads of Russian state-owned Gazprom, Alexei Miller, and Ukraine's Naftogaz Oleg Dubina met in Moscow, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov was quoted as...
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Dominik Hrbaty and Dominika Cibulkova clinched a third Hopman Cup title for the Slovak Republic as they swept Russia 2-0 in the Friday final.
Hrbaty finished off a six-hour tie as Marat Safin sent a return out, with the 31-year-old Slovak earning a 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) victory.
That scoreline, added to Cibulkova's opening...
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Dominika Cibulkova put her brain into neutral and let her instincts take over for a nail-biting 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 6-4 victory against Dinara Safina to give the Slovak Republic a 1-0 lead over Russia in the Friday final of the Hopman Cup.
The 19th-ranked Cibulkova notched her first ace of the evening to produce a match point, which was...
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Angel Di Maria scored the only goal of the game Saturday as Argentina successfully defended their Olympic football title, beating Nigeria 1-0 in the gold medal match played in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium.
A near capacity crowd of 89,000 saw Benfica's Di Maria latch onto a defence-splitting pass from Barcelona star Lionel Messi on 58...
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Los Angeles - Kobe Bryant lit up the Garden like no other.
Bryant exploded for a modern Madison Square Garden record 61 points on Monday night, carrying the short-handed LA Lakers past the New York Knicks for a 126-117 victory.
"It's a blessing to do what you love and to have moments like this," said Bryant, who reached...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Monday that it accepted Iranian swimmer Mohammad Alirezaei did not swim in his 100-metre breaststroke heat owing to sickness and not because Israel's Tom Beeri was also competing.
"The athlete has withdrawn because of sickness. He confirmed this in writing to his federation,"...
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This “good” brown fat is a protein which helps the bones to grow. Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have recently discovered that this protein could fight against obesity by burning calories. The protein, called BMP-7, is said to be able to prevent overweight.Researchers said that their study began from the fact that...
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 According to researchers at the University of Texas,
more Americans are predisposed to suffer from kidney stones in the coming
years, as a result of global warming.
Kidney stones, which usually arise from dissolved minerals
in the urine, can be awfully painful and are regularly attributable to
dehydration, either by not drinking...
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 Diabetes, overweight and underweight people are perilous to their sperm production, showed two reports presented Wednesday at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology, in Barcelona, Spain. Scientists from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, analyzed the sperm of more than 5000 men in couples...
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 The Canadian Auto Workers has voted to ratify a new collective agreement with Ford Motor Co., which is expected to be matched also by Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp..The around 9.000 CAW members that are working for Ford in Oakville, Windsor, St. Thomas and Bramalea voted in an overwhelming majority of 78 percent in favor of the...
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 Former sportsman and double murder acquittee O.J. Simpson
has set a new goal and is doing his best to accomplish it: he is yearning for making
an appearance in the next season of “Celebrity Apprentice.”
Well, that’s a new one. First of all, we weren’t at least
certain that there would be a next season of the NBC’s hit show....
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 The Minnesota Department of Agriculture issued a consumer advisory on Friday for some refrigerated potato products made by Northern Star Co. After some serious testing, they found the Listeria bacteria in a sample of Simply Potatoes Southwest Style Hash Browns, even if no one has reported an illness related to those products yet....
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 The temporary homes that sickened victims of the Gulf Coast
hurricane have urged environmentalists take into consideration the indoor
air-quality issue.
"In retrospect, we did not engage the formaldehyde
issue as aggressively and as early as we should have," Howard Frumkin,
director of the CDC's National Center For...
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 Office Live Workspace is a free online tool which allows users to view, share and store their Office documents online. Still, they are not be able to edit them. Editing is only offline, and during offline editing, the file appears "checked out" so that others are informed about the ongoing process.Microsoft has allowed,...
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 A three-day simulation is being held in Indonesia, the country with the world's highest human death toll from bird flu. The purpose of this drill is to test people’s ability to deal with a pandemic triggered by the virus and to inform them on how they should handle things if their poultry gets infested.
The event is taking...
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 A top CDC scientist, considered by some as a whistleblower, told a congressional panel that his bosses at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have ignored his repeated warnings about the health hazards posed by formaldehyde fumes found in emergency trailers."I stated that such clinical signs were a 'harbinger of a pending...
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 First, baby cosmetics and now
baby bottles. There is a new concern among parents regarding baby bottles,
which might contain toxic substances. A new study has drawn attention upon the
fact that when baby bottles are exposed to heat, they release a chemical that
could cause obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab...
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 Local authorities have reported that fighting has again
erupted in eastern Congo's North Kivu province between forces loyal to
dissident General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army.
Rebels and Congo's armed forces on Monday battled for
control of key towns in North Kivu province.
Congo's army attacked the rebel stronghold of...
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Indonesia Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, with thousands of people scrambling up to higher ground on the coast of North Sulawesi as sirens blared in a drill.
In Aceh at the northern end of Sumatra, where more than 170,000 people were either killed or went missing when a massive 9.0-magnitude...
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Indonesia Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, with thousands of people scrambling up to higher ground on the coast of North Sulawesi as sirens blared in a drill.
In Aceh at the northern end of Sumatra, where more than 170,000 people were either killed or went missing when a massive 9.0-magnitude...
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India, once safely cocooned from the world economy, is struggling to maintain its rapid economic growth as a global recession spreads its tentacles.
But its carefully graded integration with the world economy may have cushioned India from the worst of the current global financial volatility, analysts and officials said.
After...
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Made-in-China explosive tear-gas canisters were blamed Friday for death and mayhem at an anti-government protest last week in Bangkok.
A group of policemen and their friends submitted a letter to China's ambassador to Thailand, demanding an investigation of the components of tear-gas containers used to disperse protests on October...
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The hijackers of a Sudanese plane on Wednesday have begun releasing all the passengers of the plane at Libya's Al- Qafra airport, Libyan civil aviation officials said.
A spokesman for the civil aviation authority said that after negotiations, the hijakcers had agreed to release the passengers, but that the crew members must remain on...
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Chinese Internet users are clamouring for used Olympic tickets, with demand highest for last week's China-US basketball match and other high-profile events, local media said on Wednesday.
Tickets are changing hands for 300 yuan (44 dollars) for the China-US basketball game, which was watched by US President George W Bush and featured...
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Host China got a first swim gold at the Beijing Olympics from Liu Zige with a world record 100 metres butterfly performance on Thursday while Alain Bernard gave France its first- ever gold in the showpiece 100m freestyle sprint.
The Australian women's 4x200m relay team smashed the world record to take the gold and Japan's Kosuke...
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 Adding to their current fear that the volcanoes could erupt
at any moment, several volcanoes in Indonesia today spewed hot ash,
molten rock and clouds of dark smoke.
Mount Kelud, on the densely populated Java island, looked
the most threatening as a dome of magma formed under a crater lake and soaring
temperatures overheated...
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 The popular Ubuntu open-source
community has launched on Thursday the 7.10 version of its famous Linux
operating system. The new version features more user-friendly updates, although
it is still not known how the new operating system will get along with
non-technical consumers.
The “Gutsy Gibbon”, as Ubuntu
7.10 has been...
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 Microsoft has just announced it
is to launch its traditional Office suite’s “online companion”. This move means
that the company has eventually realized that the battle within the
productivity arena will go also online.
Office Live Workspace will be a
free online tool with which the users will be able to view, share and...
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 Officials are on high alert after an unidentified object
crashed into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border, on
Saturday.
According to local media reports, the object that left an 8
meters deep and 20 meters wide crater is believed to be a meteorite.
Signs of sickness have been appearing ever since the...
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 On Wednesday IBM released two high-end Power Systems models; one is a water-cooled supercomputer (Power 575), and the other was described by the company as the world’s fastest UNIX server (Power 595). The first has the copper plates that are placed above each processor water-chilled; the mechanism of this cooling system is quite simple,...
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 The 2008 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was filled with events, as Bill Gates announced his partial renouncement at his role in Microsoft and the battle between the HD-DVD and the Blu-Ray format. But one of the main events was the announcement of Netgear on Sunday that it has delivered a system that allows wireless...
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 A new shuttle has been recently
announced to be scheduled to find its way for the stars in the upcoming month!
Its name is Discovery and NASA has said about four days ago that its mission
will be vital for the International Space Station’s future expansion plans. The
new shuttle will be transporting a crew on the ISS that will start...
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 Microsoft Hardware Group reportedly unveiled some notebook-focused accessories this week. The company on Tuesday introduced its first Notebook Cooling Base, an inch-thick stand with built-in fan. Available in white and black, the laptop-chiller is powered over a USB connection. So the news unfortunately does not regard any new...
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 According to the Arizona State University’s
findings in just few years the flash memory could get already forgotten, as a
new technology could knock it out from the spotlight. Arizona State
University’s Center for
Applied Nanoionics (CANi) has announced that it has already developed a new
technique for storing memory.
The brand...
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 The rumors about three-core
microprocessors have just revealed to be true: Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD,
will be launching a line of three-core microprocessors, hitting the market in
an area where its old rival, Intel, seems not to be currently able to follow
because of its current architecture. But for AMD it seems that dropping...
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The suddenly slumping Boston Celtics have lost their way and some of their swagger.
China's Yao Ming scored 26 points, Von Wafer drilled the go-ahead three-pointer with 44 seconds left and the Houston Rockets sent the the Celtics to their third straight loss, with an 89-85 victory on Wednesday night.
The stumbling Rockets (22-15)...
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The San Antonio Spurs turned up their trademark defense down the stretch to turn back another opponent.
Tim Duncan had 19 points with nine rebounds, and Argentine Manu Ginobili blocked Dwyane Wade's shot in the final minutes as the Spurs beat the Miami Heat 91-84 on Monday night en route to their eighth win in the last nine...
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The San Antonio Spurs turned up their trademark defense down the stretch to turn back another opponent.
Tim Duncan had 19 points with nine rebounds, and Argentine Manu Ginobili blocked Dwyane Wade's shot in the final minutes as the Spurs beat the Miami Heat 91-84 on Monday night en route to their eighth win in the last nine...
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Dwyane Wade was good until the very last drop.
Wade poured in 41 points, including the game-sealing free throws with 6.1 seconds, carrying the Miami Heat to its season-high fourth straight victory, 100-96 over the pesky Charlotte Bobcats on Monday night.
"It's winning time," Wade said. "This is a good Charlotte...
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Rajon Rondo recorded his first career triple-double, and the Boston Celtics extracted a measure of revenge.
Rondo had 16 points, 13 rebounds and a personal-best 17 assists, as the Celtics rolled to their 10th consecutive victory, 114-96 over the visiting Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night.
"It's not easy to do," Rondo...
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Although Kevin Garnett missed the game on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics seemed to be just fine without their emotional leader.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points and fan favourite Brian Scalabrine, filling in for the suspended Garnett, fired in a game-sealing three- pointer with just over a minute left to play as the Celtics held off...
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Superman made an unexpected late appearance in Boston to rescue the reigning NBA Champions.
Paul Pierce poured in 22 of his 36 points in the final quarter, rallying the Celtics to a 94-87 victory over the visiting Toronto Raptors on Monday night.
"I like to play within the flow of the offence," said Pierce, who was icing...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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 On Friday in central Oklahoma a train derailed and sent fireballs into the sky but the incident caused no injuries. Only two people were aboard the train, an engineer and the conductor, but they got off with no wounds. The train derailed near the 110-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe where about seven cars were carrying crude oil or...
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 The Monday Texans’ preparations for the tropical storm were accompanied by a heat wave which has been lasting for 11 days. The tropical storm strengthened as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Galveston. Even if extreme weather is normal for the coast of Texas, the temperatures were too high.Residents bought more water and...
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 Thousands of residents north of Sacramento have been ordered to evacuate
their homes after irregular airstreams blew embers across wildfire repression
lines, the most recent impediment for already pressured firefighters.
Authorities forced the residents of 3,200 homes in Paradise to abandon their houses on Tuesday after...
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This is the fourth day in New
York that temperatures crossed the limit and went
higher than usual. Almost 18 degrees added to the normal level of
temperatures. The weathermen announced 96 degrees for today, breaking the
record set in 1984. Humidity will create the sensation of an outside
temperature of 103 to 106...
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 Petal, a 52-year-old female elephant, has lived in the
Philadelphia Zoo since she was one or two years old. Throughout this period she
has won the hearts of both the Zoo’s staff and the visitors’ ones. On Monday
morning Petal passed away. The causes of her death were not determined as yet. Tests
are being conducted in the attempt to...
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 Two people were killed by water this weekend in Connecticut. A
four-year-old boy drowned into a pool and a 56-year-old man was killed by the
waters of a river, one day after meteorologists announced a four-day heat wave.
Apparently, the boy, whose name was Aiden Wahlberg, died in
a backyard pool in Trumbull on Saturday afternoon...
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The Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel, which was scheduled to
open in December, suffered serious damages after an explosion hit it this
Monday. The hotel was under construction and 14 of the 400 workers who were
there when the explosion occurred were injured, five of them critically. Maurice
Luque, the San Diego Fire-Rescue...
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 It has been previously reported that the six sea lions found
dead in traps were killed by gun shots. Now, officials think that the cause of
their death was quite different: overheating. The change comes due to the fact that necropsies made by experts resulted no bullets. The National Marine Fisheries
Service said Wednesday that all...
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Talk about responsibility! According to The
Associated Press, Krystal Rose Downes, 24, and Jhimy Alban Vintimilla, 28, left
their 2-month old baby in the car while they went to see the Kentucky Derby at
a New York off-track
betting parlor.
Town police say the baby was left
unattended for more than 20 minutes, in the parking lot...
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The U.S. navy may try to shoot down an errant spy satellite loaded
with toxic fuel on Wednesday night, in an area of the Pacific Ocean west of
Hawaii, Reuters reports.
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency warned mariners
about “hazardous operation” between 9.30 p.m. EST on Wednesday and midnight EST
on...
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 Wind-whipped fires near the South Carolina coast have seriously damaged
a number of structures, have sent people away from their homes and have closed
several highways.
About 60 houses were evacuated on Sunday, after the fire
sent the smoke on a distance of 15 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, we read in the Associated
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 According to airline officials, tens of thousands of airline
passengers will soon be flying on jets outfitted with anti-missile systems as
part of a new government test aimed at thwarting terrorists armed with
shoulder-fired projectiles.
Three American Airlines Boeing 767-200s that fly daily
round-trip routes between New York and...
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 Christian conservative Mike Huckabee boosted his up-and-coming
presidential bid Friday by naming Ronald Reagan's former campaign chief
to head his 2008 bid for the White House.
Ed Rollins, a veteran political strategist, boasts decades of
campaign and fund-raising experience as well as his link to Reagan, the
late 1980s president...
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 US President George W Bush on Tuesday granted a traditional "pardon" to
May and Flower, the latest two turkeys to be spared ahead of the annual
Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.
"If you can't take the heat, then you're definitely going to stay
out of the kitchen," he told his feathered friends in a...
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 According to fire officials at least three Orange County homes burned today as flames as high as 75 feet engulfed the ridges above Modjeska Canyon. The canyon was too narrow and the heat and flames too intense for firefighters to try to save 330 homes, officials said. Erratic winds gusting up to 60 mph continued to fuel the Santiago...
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 The Zephyr is a solar-powered unmanned airplane that has
reportedly crushed all previous world records for longest unmanned flight.
The Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) flew for more than 54 hours making the previous record of 30
hours, 24 minutes, 1 second seem tiny. The test flight took place at...
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 Los Angeles
was sent back to the Dark Ages a week-long heat wave caused a power surge.
More than 40,000 customers of California’s Southland Industry are struggling
in the heat without power due to strains on the region's power infrastructure.
About 11,000 Department of Water and Power (DWP) customers
remained without service...
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 It hasn’t even been that long since British author JK Rowling wrapped up the Harry Potter series but she is rumored to be already working on a detective novel, a British newspaper reported Saturday.Known for working in cafes rather than the confinement of her home, Rowling was spotted by the wife of a fellow author and neighbor, Ian...
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American swimmers scored a hat-trick of victories and set three world records at the Beijing Olympics on Friday as superstar Michael Phelps took his tally of gold medals to six.
Germany's Britta Steffen broke the US domination with a remarkable comeback in the women's 100 metres freestyle to give her country its first Olympic swimming...
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 Tiger Woods won his fourth U.S. PGA Championship and 13th major title with a two shot victory on Sunday at the Southern Hills Country Club leaving his fellow countryman Woody Austin on the second place. South African Ernie Els ranked third. This was Woods’ 59th PGA Tour title as he became only the third player to win at least four PGA...
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 Brazil gets another crack at the most desired trophy in South America after a dramatic win against Uruguay in the semifinal, 5-4 in a nerve-wreaking penalty shootout.The Seleçăo knew the tremendous force it’s facing and rushed in to score after only 13 minutest through Internazionale Milano’s defender Maicon. As the two teams were...
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 On Thursday, the "Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States" report was released by the Bush administration. Four years of research were needed to put all the information together; however, it was thanks to a court order that the report eventually came out. One of the conclusions of the report...
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 On Saturday, Paso Robles recorded its highest temperature in over twenty years, as no less than 103 degrees could be seen on airport thermometers. As found in the data base of the National Weather Service in Oxnard, something similar goes back to 1973, when the place experienced a heat wave of 102 degrees.Along the coast however,...
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 Gathered for a workshop that
takes place in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, the
World Health Organization wanted to warn the whole world about how global
warming has important health implications worldwide.
The regional director for the
Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization, Shigeru Omi, warned
that this is the...
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Serbia, its stability already under much pressure, faces ad hoc financing as the deadline for the 2009 budget expired Tuesday amid endless obstruction by the opposition.
Parliament had until midnight on December 15 to adopt the budget for the coming year, but could not wade through filibustering by the ultra-nationalist...
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Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will make an official visit to Japan and Brunei at the end of October, the royal palace in London said Tuesday.
However, the Duchess, 61, would miss the final leg of the tour to Indonesia due to the extreme heat in the country at that time, a Clarence House...
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, the 135th day of 2008 with 231 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include English portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1727; Scottish reformer Robert Owen in 1771; opera...
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 Coming up this month is the 20th anniversary of the Montreal save the atmosphere’s
ozone layer treaty. The anniversary will be honored by 191 nations involved in
the pact.
This does not only mark the a break through in removing the use of ozone
depleting chemicals like those found in coolants, but it also provides a model
for...
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 According to new satellite images, the once treacherous Northwest
Passage in the Arctic Ocean, impracticable
by even the largest ships and ice breakers, has shrunk to the lowest level on
record, making the ice so thin that it may yet become a navigable shipping
channel.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been tracking various...
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 The queue outside the Colosseum is long and winding. But with aching feet and the sun burning, waiting for an hour or so to get into the ancient amphitheatre does not seem an option.
A few metres away, two young Italians dressed as gladiators or Roman legionaries are having their picture taken by an enthusiastic tourist. Surely,...
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 Martin Lawrence, who starred in
blockbusters like “Bad Boys” with Will Smith, “Big Momma’s House,” “Wild Hogs”,
and his recent sitcom series “Martin,” is back with two new films: Universal's
“Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins,” which opens Friday, and the upcoming Disney...
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 Given the circumstances, Owen Wilson’s decision to drop out of DreamWorks’ ensemble comedy "Tropic Thunder" is understandable. Just days after Wilson’s tragic attempt to take his own life at his Los Angeles home, the funnyman backed out of Ben Stiller’s film which started shooting six weeks ago in Hawaii, and Wilson was due to...
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 Orson Welles' first feature film, Citizen Kane, is still holding on strong to the lead spot of the American Film Institute's top 100 movies, 10 years after the list was first compiled. The list is made upon the evaluations by a special jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians.The jury evaluates the movies based on their...
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 Microsoft is not concerned about rumors that its next-generation console is suffering more and more from the fatal disease of over-heating (which usually manifests through the famous red-ring-of-death).Last week, GamePro addressed the alleged addition of heatsinks to repaired Xbox 360 units in Europe, although Microsoft subsequently...
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 African-American saxophonist and jazz composer Ornette Coleman has collapsed because of heat stroke at the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. After collapsing on stage, the 77-year-old saxophonist was rushed to a nearby medical tent and given intravenous fluids, Billboard reported.Coleman was then taken to a local hospital Sunday and...
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 Beneath the cupola of a Parisian palace in the shadow of a worldwide economic crisis, the world's top art buyers gathered on Monday for a historic auction: the sale of 733 pieces of art owned by the late designer Yves Saint Laurent who died last year at 71, valued at as much as $380 million.The proceedings took place under chandeliers...
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 Somebody has their panties in a twist – literally. An actor is suing Jackass star Johnny Knoxville, TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and radio personality Adam Carolla for a traumatic genitalia injury.
Actor Perry Caravello has filed a suit against Knoxville and others, claiming to have been tricked into injuring his...
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Ostrava, Czech Republic - Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country chairs the European Union until June 30, called for a nuclear power revival in the wake of a gas crisis that left thousands of Eastern Europeans without heat in the midst of winter.
"Do we want sustainable energy supply with low (CO2) emissions? Then we...
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A week-long Russian embargo of natural gas deliveries to Moldova had left the former Soviet republic with idled factories and increasingly cold homes, the Infotag news agency reported.
The Kremlin in a row with Kiev over natural gas deliveries on January 7 cut off all fuel shipments through Ukraine to Europe. The move severed all...
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The leaders of the Balkan states suffering most from a week-long gas embargo embarked on a desperate round of shuttle diplomacy between Kiev and Moscow Tuesday as the two faced another day of feuding over gas supplies.
The prime ministers of Moldova, Slovakia and Bulgaria will meet their Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to press for...
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The leaders of the Balkan states suffering most from a week-long gas embargo embarked on a desperate round of shuttle diplomacy between Kiev and Moscow Tuesday as the two faced another day of feuding over gas supplies.
The prime ministers of Moldova, Slovakia and Bulgaria will meet their Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to press for...
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City managers in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday began energy conservation measures because of falling supplies of natural gas, officials at the power company Kievenergo said.
Kiev residents, for their part, were resorting to tried and true methods of beating the cold, as yet another gas war with Russia and a vicious cold snap...
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Germany was experiencing Wednesday the coldest weather in more than 20 years, with overnight temperatures dropping below minus 20 degrees centigrade.
Near Dresden, in the eastern state of Saxony, Germany's lowest temperature of minus 27.7 degrees centigrade was recorded in the town of Dippiswolde, according to the Meteomedia weather...
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Russian gas supplies to Turkey via Ukrainian pipelines have been cut amid the ongoing dispute over gas between Kiev and Moscow, the Turkish government said Tuesday.
Deliveries have stopped from the West pipeline, Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler told journalists.
The flow of Russian gas supply was terminated at the Ukrainian-...
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Simone Bolelli and Flavia Pennetta staged an upset to deny France at the Hopman Cup on Tuesday, earning a 2-1 victory which keeps both teams in with a chance to reach the Friday final.
The untried Italian pair iced their surprise success with a mixed doubles victory, defeating off-the-boil Gilles Simon and Alize Cornet 6-4,...
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Germany has kept its stores of gas full as a fresh, end-of-year dispute between Russia and Ukraine over gas prices looms, according to a Berlin official Tuesday.
The Economics Ministry spokeswoman said German gas distributors had assured Berlin there would be no shortages in Germany because of the dispute.
"The storage is...
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Fierce protests accompanied the arrival of a shipment of radioactive waste at a northern German long term storage site early Tuesday, one day behind schedule as thousands of anti-nuclear activists tried to hold up the transport.
After more than 80 hours by train and truck, 11 containers with spent nuclear fuel from German nuclear...
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European countries were Monday urged to step up cooperation and information exchange over threats linked to climate change such as floods, droughts and loss of biodiversity.
Vulnerable areas in Europe include coastal zones, mountainous regions, the Mediterranean and the Arctic, a new report said.
"This report makes strikingly...
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The European Union cannot have a "perfectly normal" relationship with Russia while it continues to ignore the six-point peace plan that it has signed up to, and keeps recognizing the Georgian breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
And in an effort to show that Europe is ready to play "an active role" in...
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Lightning killed three people Thursday and
hospitalized six others with electric burns in Russia's Volga region of
Bashkortostan, a local emergency service spokesman said. The
victims had gone to a secluded beach on the Kama River to escape the
summer heat, but, as one witnesses told the Interfax news agency,
clouds covered the...
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Greece's emergency services on Monday braced
themselves for a week of power cuts, forest fires and heart-related
ailments as temperatures were expected to rise above 40 degrees
Celsius.
Medical services and hospitals have been placed on alert for a
possible influx of patients suffering from heat stroke and other
heat-induced...
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 Swedish police said on Wednesday they were questioning a man
who had entered a nuclear plant on Sweden's southeast coast having
highly explosive material on him. The man, a contractor welder, was stopped on
his way into work by a security check.
Police received a call from the Oskarshamn plant at 7:58 a.m. Several buildings...
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The Russian military proudly states to have developed and tested
the world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
According to the Russian military scientist, the thermo
baric bomb creates powerful vacuums and overpressure level similar to a nuclear
bomb.
The thermo baric bomb is the latest in a series of new
Russian...
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 Devastating fires are sweeping the Canary Islands, destroying the Spanish archipelago's unique wildlife. Both Gran Canaria and Tenerife were affected, with some 24,000 hectares (60,000 acres) of land already gone up in smoke. Around 10,000 people fled out of their homes to seek safety from the fires.The fires had not affected beaches or...
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 European Union newest members Romania and Bulgaria face new criticism over the corruption still present at alarming levels in most structures.The European Commission published a report Wednesday in which both states were criticized for not complying with clauses agreed upon before their adherence to the political body.The EU is not very...
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 As the EU summit kicked off Thursday in Brussels, a certain dose of incertitude regarding Poland’s position towards the “double majority” voting system was floating in the air.This is why the Czech Republic came with a compromise solution that would ensure Poland will back the new treaty establishing a constitution for Europe and will...
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 Ukraine Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko turned up the heat Friday by ordering his troops to regain control over governmental buildings previously seized by security forces loyal to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. The conflict between Yushchenko and his vehement opponent Yanukovich is bound to reach unprecedented levels, clashes...
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 Mary-Kate Olsen, 22, refused to talk to investigators about the death of her friend, actor Heath Ledger, unless she is granted immunity. The young actress wants assurance before she speaks with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA wants to know from where Heath Ledger had taken those medicines that killed him.The masseuse who...
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 A promotional commercial featuring TV chef Rachel
Ray was pulled after she was accused of dressing like a terrorist. Critics said
the black-and-white scarf with a paisley floral design offered symbolic support
for Muslim extremism and terrorism.
In the ad, the host of one of the
top-ranked daytime programs on television wears a...
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 Oh, what a shock! Star Jones and Al Reynolds are putting an
end on their marriage.
Ever since the two tied the knot, everyone has been talking about their
divorce, so Jones’ announcement of divorce came as no surprise to anyone. The
former “The View” host announced that she filed the divorce papers a month ago.
Her rep also...
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 Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal has filed for divorce from his wife of five years, claiming their marriage has been “irretrievably broken.”
Shaquille O’Neal, 35, married Shaunie Nelson in 2002. They have four children together, and one more each from previous relationships. The family of six lives on the...
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 Hollywood legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are set to reunite on screen once more, in a serial killer thriller.
The two actors have played together before but not alongside each other for long, in “The Godfather Part II” and “Heat.”
This time around, “Righteous Kill,” directed by Jon Avnet and...
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 Xbox Live Arcade is welcoming two new classic arcade games this week, the 1982 shooter Xevious and Konami’s Rush 'n Attack.After last week’s bumpy launch of Halo 3 public beta, Microsoft announced the debut of two “oldies, but goodies” from the ’80: Xevious and Rush’n’Attack.Xevious, developed by Namco and published by Atari in 1982, is...
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 As if political feuds weren’t enough, Pakistan bakes under a sizzling sun that raised the mercury in thermometers up to 51 degrees Celsius, scorching the life out of thirteen people in the past day.Six Pakistanis couldn’t resist the record temperatures and died Saturday in the massive populated district of Okara, where 48 degrees Celsius...
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 Major Pakistani cities have been paralyzed by strikes provoked by the recent violent acts that lead to the death of 41 people.Protesters took the streets of Karachi and other cities and rallied against the government lead by Pervez Musharraf. No serious disturbances were reported, as the demonstrators limited to burning pictures of the...
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 A NASA satellite which had been designed to gauge greenhouse gas emissions and to pinpoint the dangers connected to the global warming crashed on Tuesday. Officials announced that the satellite failed to reach its orbit because a protective covering had failed to separate from the space craft shortly after its launch at Vandenberg Air...
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 The Phoenix Mars Lander seems to be having quite a difficult time getting started with the Martian soil analysis. On Saturday, NASA officials announced that even though the Lander’s robotic arm placed a soil sample on the screen of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA), the processing of the sample hasn’t been confirmed by the...
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 May 25 was a successful day for
the scientists from NASA Jet Propulsory Laboratory in Pasadena. After ten months of traveling through space, the spacecraft Phoenix
has successfully landed on Mars with all its equipment apparently intact, accompanied by the
applauses and shouts of joy of the mission team.
Although it was expected to...
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 Studies conducted on ocean-related activity were published Thursday, presenting some rather alarming news about the rapidly expanding oxygen-depleted regions. Researchers looked at the oxygen levels between 300 and 700 meters for their studies and explained that the process would soon spread to the surface.According to an international...
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 On Thursday, the astronauts on
the International Space Station were preparing for the fourth walk into space
of their mission. After they successfully assembled and attached the Special
Purpose Dextrous Manipulator, or Dextre, as the Canadian robotic system is
simply known, Endeavour’s astronauts were now preparing for quite a...
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 According to a new report, it
seems that global warming will affect also roads and all kinds of other types
of transportation. Scientists at the National Research Council released this
recent study’s findings on Tuesday, warning about upcoming events that will
occur because of the global warming phenomenon.
Scientists said that...
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 A team of American researchers unveiled
on Thursday a robot that had been exploring the undersea environment of the Virgin Islands Basin
between St. Croix and St. Thomas by using the
heat energy of the ocean to propel itself. The robot is the only one of its
kind because of the fact that it doesn’t pollute the ocean and it...
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 According to a recent study made
public on Thursday by the British journal Nature, it seems that the warmer the
seas get, the more likely is for hurricanes to form and to threaten countries and
cities and their inhabitants. The study conducted by British researchers Mark
Saunders and Adam Lea of the Benfield UCL Hazard Research...
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 During a ground test that took place on Friday, an astronaut had smelled smoke and feeling heat on his neck inside its space suit, which was assigned to be worn in a future space mission, while being inside a pressure chamber.The incident alarmed NASA, which, although there were no signs of burning inside the test suit, had banned all...
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 The Marvell company, member of Climate Savers group, has announced the release of CMOS-based 88EM80xx power converter chips for the PC and notebook power bricks that would reduce drastically the amount of energy that these equipments would use.The chips are a power factor correction (PFC) controller with a digital signal processor that...
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 After 11 of stay at the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle Discovery has undocked on Monday, getting ready for the journey to head home, according to the United States space agency NASA.The undocking operation has been performed by pilot George Zamka at 10:32 GMT, with no events, 348 km above the Pacific Ocean, in order to...
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 A new discovery has amazed the
biologists, as a quite primitive plant from Australia has proved to still have
had secrets for them after all this time! And more than that, the Australian
cycad has proved once again that the methods plants use for ensuring their
successful pollination are quite sophisticated and, this way,...
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 The American space agency NASA
has announced on Friday that in October it is going to launch a new shuttle to
the International Space Station (ISS). The new shuttle will be transporting a
crew on the ISS that will start laying the foundation of future orbital
laboratories. Discovery’s mission will be vital for the International...
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 It seems that “13” is not such an
unlucky number after all! After its 13-day space mission, the wounded shuttle
Endeavour has eventually landed safely at Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
Despite the spacecraft’s gouge in the heat shield everything has gone just fine
and Endeavour’s all seven astronauts have returned home safe and sound....
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 Bad news! Endeavour has been on
orbit for five days already after it was successfully launched from Pad 39A at
KSC on the 8th of August, but the latest news is not a very good
one. Unfortunately NASA’s shuttle may be seriously wounded, as a close-up laser
inspection has revealed yesterday that a 3 1/2-inch-long gouge has been...
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 Space shuttle Endeavour reached the International Space Station successfully, as the docking rings of the two ships locked together at 2:02 p.m. EDT. The crew is made up of seven astronauts including mission specialist Barbara Morgan, the teacher-turned-astronaut who is embarking her first space flight. They were welcomed by Russian...
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 Astronomers have released for the first time a roughly detailed “picture” of how the weather’s like on an extra-Solar System planet, called HD 189733b.HD 189733b’s weather has been mapped more accurately because it’s much closer to Earth- “only” 60 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. It is considered to be a “gaseous giant”...
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Phoenix, Arizona - They argue and snub each other, and for years, there has been no love lost between the former Los Angeles Lakers teammates Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal. But one thing is certain: When the two play together, good things happen.
The occasional friends and adversaries shared the most valuable player trophy...
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Rodney Stuckey scored 23 points, Jason Maxiell added 13 points, including the first four of overtime, and the Detroit Pistons edged the host Miami Heat, 95-91 on Sunday night as the NBA opened up its pre-season schedule.
The league officially tips off the regular season on October 28, when the defending champion Boston Celtics meet...
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 The Boston Celtics, the best team of the league this season, went on the court and defeated the league’s worst team on Sunday night at TD Banknorth Garden 88-62, limiting Miami Heat to only 17 field goals, the lowest record in the NBA history.Reserve Leon Powe scored 17 points and was the top rebounder of the game with his 13, while...
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 Despite expectations, the Miami Heat was literally unable to be more than another win, the tenth in a row actually, for the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, as Jordan Farmer scored a career- high 24 points to help its team win 106-88.The Lakers registered their 13th win out of 14 games, while they claimed the longest winning streak...
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 The Miami Herald reported on Tuesday that center star Shaquille O’Neal might be the subject of a trade, as the Miami Heat are considering to send him to Phoenix in exchange of forward Shawn Marion and point guard Marcus Banks.O’Neal, who is at the moment injured, still has two years left o his contract after this season. His replacement...
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 Thursday night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs turned out to be another disappointment for the Miami Heat fans, Pat Riley’s team continuing its disastrous run with a narrow defeat, 90-89.The defending NBA champions were 10 points behind in the third quarter, but with Tim Duncan in top shape and Manu Ginobili’s last minute shot, the...
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 Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming clearly weren't themselves. Neither were the San Antonio Spurs.
McGrady scored nine points in his return and the Houston Rockets
survived uncharacteristically poor free-throw shooting from Yao for an
83-81 home victory over San Antonio on Saturday night.
Yao had 21 points and 14 rebounds for the...
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 Brandon Roy and the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team continue to flourish while the Miami Heat remains in a free-fall.
Roy scored 16 of his 24 points in the decisive final quarter, and
the Trail Blazers handed the hapless Heat its season-high 12th
consecutive loss, 98-91 on Friday night.
"Brandon just did a nice job of...
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 Cold-shooting Ray Allen finally found his stroke and the Boston Celtics got back to their winning ways.
Allen scored 26 of his 35 points in the second half, and the
Celtics snapped their season-high two-game losing streak with a 100-90
victory over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.
In his last five games,...
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 LeBron James went into overdrive when the game went into overtime.
James scored 12 of his 31 points in both extra sessions, to go
along with a career-high 19 rebounds and eight assists, carrying the
Cleveland Cavaliers past the pesky Charlotte Bobcats, 113-106 on Friday
night.
"That's my time, that's when my team looks for...
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 The Boston Celtics seem to bring out the best in the Charlotte Bobcats.
Jason Richardson had 34 points along with nine rebounds, and the
visiting Bobcats handed the Celtics' just their fourth loss of the
season, 95-83 on Wednesday night.
The league-best Celtics (29-4) had their nine-game winning streak stopped and fell to 16-2 at...
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 The league- worst Minnesota Timberwolves (5-29) ended their eight-game losing streak with a 101-91 victory over the struggling Miami Heat on Tuesday evening, as Rashad McCants scored 27 points and Al Jefferson finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds.Winning their first game since December 21, the Timberwolves leaded the visiting Eastern...
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 Visiting Seattle SuperSonics has beaten the Miami Heat 104-95, on Wednesday night, as Chris Wilcox scored 20 points, Damien Wilkins had 19 and rookie sensation Kevin Durant finished with 18.Wilcox, Seattle's leading returning scorer from last season, averaged 13.5 points and 7.7 rebounds in 2006-07.The season debut of All-Star guard...
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 Coach Pat Riley announced yesterday he'll resume his job as coach of the Miami Heat and will continue to lead the 2006 NBA Champions for three more seasons.The Heat disappointed their fans as they were ousted by the Chicago Bulls in the 2007 playoffs, an underachievement that made Riley think about leaving his job to someone else. This...
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 The Miami Heat signed All-star forward Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway to a one-year, non-guaranteed, veteran-minimum contract Thursday. The 36-year-old veteran, who last played an NBA game in November 2005, took the opportunity of reuniting with his former Orlando Magic teammate back in the mid-1990s – Shaquille O’Neal. It’s a risky...
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 Greg Oden, the first overall pick in the last draft, will begin his journey as a professional player in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers against none other than the defending champions San Antonio Spurs. That is the opener of the 2007-08 season according to the schedule, which the NBA unveiled Thursday. On the same day, October 30,...
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 All-Star player Steve Francis has agreed on a two-year deal that will see him return to the Houston Rockets, his agent Jeff Fried said Thursday.Francis stared five seasons for the Rockets before being traded to the Orlando Magic in 2004 as part of a multiplayer deal that saw Tracy McGrady going Houston’s way.After he spent two years with...
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 Surrounded by a couple hundred people, Dwyane Wade made a formal free throw at an official opening of a refurbished basketball court at a city park. According to Miami Heat’s guard that was his first shot made after he had surgery on his left shoulder May 15.Despite this sign of slight progress it will take a while before Wade fanes will...
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 After Billy Donovan agreed to coach Orlando and backed off returning to the Florida Gators, Magic acted quickly and hired Stan Van Gundy as head coach.Florida was eager to re-hire Donovan, who spurned a five-year, $27.5 million contract with Orlando.On Thursday, Donovan apologized to the Magic, his family and Florida. "I feel...
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 Coach Billy Donovan is trying to void the five-year, $27.5 million contract signed last week with the Orlando Magic as he is attempting to return to his previous team, the Florida Gators, a person familiar with the negotiations said Monday. He won with the University of Florida the last two national championships.''While Central Florida,...
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 After speaking with Phil Jackson, Los Angeles Lakers’ coach, Kobe Bryant backed off his trade request. On Wednesday he said he would like to be transferred believing he had been misled by the club’s officials.''I don't want to go anywhere, this is my team,'' Bryant declared for KLAC radio. ''I love it here. I called Phil, man, he and I...
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 Los Angeles Lakers’ star player Kobe Bryant asked on Wednesday to be traded as there is no reason for him to remain at the club anymore. Yesterday he called the team's front office "a mess" and today he added that there is nothing the Lakers could do to change his mind."I would like to be traded, yeah," Bryant told...
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 The Detroit Pistons won over the Chicago Bulls 108-87 in Game 2 as well, leaving them with their memories of the first-round sweep over the Miami Heat, the defending NBA Champions. Pistons lead series 2-0 with Game 3 of the best-of-seven semifinal series to be played in Chicago on Thursday, giving the Bulls time to regroup after losing...
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