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Football's controlling body FIFA on Friday said that the global economic crisis has not caused a problem for the organization.
"We are glad that the crisis has not touched FIFA. We are not Swiss for nothing. We are still a safe company," general secretary Jerome Valcke said.
Addressing a press conference in Johannesburg...
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Bayern Munich have lost their mythos of invincibility in German football after a stumbling start to the Bundesliga season, club president Franz Beckenbauer said.
Smaller teams are now losing their respect for the champions, who are only 11th in the table after two wins in seven matches, Beckenbauer wrote in his column for Bild...
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Premier League clubs Tottenham and Everton face tough fights to keep their UEFA Cup hopes alive while former European champions Borussia Dortmund are in a perilous position in second leg matches of the first round on Thursday.
Of England's five-team contingent looking for a place in the 40-team group stage, Everton face the most...
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Germany coach Joachim Loew is relying on the core of his Euro 2008 squad in his only test before the World Cup qualifiers when Belgium are the visitors in Nuremberg on Wednesday.
However injury to Rene Adler has scotched what probably would have been an international debut for the promising Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper.
The decision...
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It’s time for some change at The Jets after their
devastating 13-3 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. And as it is nobody’s fault
for the present situation, coach Eric Mangini tries some alleviation in
replacing Chad Pennington with Kellen Clemens.
As startling as it may seem, it is a last resort step, as the
Jets lost the last...
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 The Chicago Bears decided it’s in their best interest to let Tank Johnson go after his latest scrap with the law. Not even Tank had a hard time understanding that his former team did what they had to do."I want to thank the Bears organization and fans for their support during this difficult time," Johnson said in a statement...
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 Assistant head coach ,Bill Lynch, will take over as Indiana’s head coach for the next season as Terry Hoeppner continues his medical leave. The 59-year-old has undergone brain surgery twice in the last 18 months."Most importantly, I wish Terry well with his ongoing health issues," said IU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan....
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 Paris Hilton and Benji Madden spilt up after nine months of “endless” happiness. But no romance holds forever, even if you’re the heiress of the Hilton Hotels. Paris broke up with Benji a few days ago and a close source to Paris told People magazine that "she is saddened by the breakup but they're just too different and they wanted...
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 Alicia Keys, 27, has managed to stay away from all the show biz’s scandals. She works very hard for every one of her albums and singles and she also plays in movies. She now stars in “The Secret Life of Bees” which will open on Friday. The movie is about three beekeeping sisters who take in a girl. The movie is about the strength of the...
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London - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, singer, former top model and First Lady of France, enhanced her celebrity status in Britain even further with a performance on BBC television in which she revealed that French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes kindly to being woken at night by her music.
"I play it at home and I disturb him with it in...
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 On Sunday, at only six months after she gave birth to her twins Max and Emme, Jennifer Lopez finished the triathlon in Malibu, California, which consists of a charity swim-run-bike race. After the race, the new mommy went to New York to celebrate her husband’s, Marc Anthony, 40s birthday party.After the triathlon ended, Jennifer Lopez...
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 It’s clear that the most important event of the year is the birth of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, the twins of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, pseudo-named by the paparazzi “Brangelina.” The twins were born at the Lenval hospital in Nice, France, on July 2. The two were born by caesarean and were very healthy. On July 19, Jolie-Pitt...
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 Guy Ritchie’s marriage to Madonna “is fine,” as far as he is aware of, the film director told People in a recent interview. He denied rumors that their marriage is on the rocks. Ritchie, 39, who joined the cast of his upcoming directorial effort “RocknRolla’ on Thursday afternoon at the San Diego International Comic-Con, also spoke about...
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 Rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis
Jackson, sued Taco Bell on Wednesday for using his name without permission and
without paying him a fee in an advertising campaign.
Curtis James Jackson III accused the
fast-food restaurant chain of “diluting the value of his good name.” According
to the lawsuit the chain released a...
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 Britney Spears and Kevin Federline met
again Tuesday in the courtroom. The child custody hearing in Los Angeles County
Superior court resulted in “a change of visitation status” for the 26-year-old
singer. It looks like the singer’s attempt to get more visitation rights for
her two sons from her marriage with Kevin Federline was a...
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 A week after the battle of words between Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee, it’s time for a new war of words: this time Tom Cruise fights celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky. It all started with Dr. Drew’s comments about the actor’s mental health. Pinsky speculated in Playboy magazine that Cruise’s Scientology beliefs could be the result of...
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 Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy took part in
the Green Our Vaccines march on Washington
D.C. The actors hope that by
joining the march they could raise awareness about autism.
They joined with national autism advocacy
groups to raise awareness about toxins in vaccines and to change children’s
vaccination schedules.
The debate...
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 Robert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist, who rose
to fame in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, died Monday
of heart failure, as it was announced Tuesday by Jennifer Joy, his
representative at PaceWildenstein gallery in New York. He was 82.
His unique artistic style, which mixes odd articles...
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 Audrina Patridge, the star from MTV’s most popular reality
show, “The Hills” will change her destiny soon. She will be known for more than
just a reality series star, but for an actual movie star as she will try her
luck as an actress in the sequel to the 2005 Jessica Alba/Paul Walker film
"Into the Blue," according to The...
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 The four members of the “Sweet Crude” crew, who went in Nigeria for a
documentary about the oil production, were finally set free to go home after
being held for six days in the African country. They arrived in Seattle on Sunday. During
a news conference held at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sandy Cioffi,
46, talked about the...
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 The Penns have had a change of heart and they stick
together.
Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn are not divorcing anymore,
and however peculiar that might seem for a Hollywood
couple, it is true for them. The petition seeking their divorce filed in
December has been withdrawn and all we can guess now is that the couple is
happy...
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 Besides being a successful actor, Harrison Ford has yet
another job: he is the father of his girlfriend’s adopted son, Liam. The
43-year-old actress Calista Flockhart adopted the now 7-year-old Liam in 2001,
one year before she and Ford started dating. So, how does the “Indiana Jones”
star feel about that? Actually, he is very happy...
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 Destiny Hope Cyrus, the 15-year-old actress and singer who
plays the role of Hannah Montana, has filed papers in Los Angeles County
Superior Court to change her name into Miley Ray Cyrus. TMZ reports that the
daughter of Leticia and Billy Ray Cyrus wanted to do that in order for her
legal name to be the same as her “commonly used...
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 The Elton John AIDS foundation managed to raise $5.1 million
on the occasion of its 16th annual Academy Awards viewing party on
Sunday night, United Press International informs.
Prince was supposed to perform at Elton John’s party, but
eventually he did not show up.
"He said from the very beginning that he might...
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 A former stripper claims that she photographed boxer Oscar
De La Hoya in racy feminine lingerie, he denies the allegations and then guess
what? It is she who files a lawsuit against him, for emotional distress caused
by his statements.
The 22-year old Milana Dravnel showed up at the Manhattan
Federal Courthouse dressed in black,...
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 Britney Spears’ stay in the
psychiatric ward has been extended with 14 days. Sources close to the troubled
pop singer reported to the Associated Press that the doctors and a medical
officer considered that she should remain hospitalized.
Britney was due to be released
from hospital on Sunday.
The medical staff at...
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 Jamie Spears, Britney Spears’ father was named her temporary
conservator along with the lawyer Andrew Wallete, after a hearing in California
Superior Court, on Friday. This decision puts him in charge of all Britney’s
assets, while Britney remains in hospital under psychiatric care, according to
The Associated Press.
In addition...
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 Luckily rapper Busta Rhymes avoided prison and a trial,
although they constituted the prosecutors’ recommendation.
Rhymes, whose real name is Trevor Smith, had a change of
heart about his plea. He initially pleaded innocent to assault, two driving
infractions and weapons possession and was scheduled to go on trial on
Wednesday....
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 Surprise, surprise! Santa Claus doesn’t really exist, but he
usually comes to us every year, on the other hand, Britney Spears, without
doubt exists, but she does show up virtually never in court lately.
Well, this is what has happened since December, when the pop
tart/queen stopped visiting the court in the bitter custody case...
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 Whatever New Year’s resolutions Britney Spears set for 2008,
showing up in court is surely not on the list. And as a consequence, a new
matter to be resolved on the list of resolutions was added: finding new attorneys.
The lawyers that were representing the pop singer in the
custody battle with her ex-hubby Kevin Federline asked to...
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 A career of thirty year can go to the dogs within an
instant, even though we’re talking about New
York radio icon, Don Imus, who has made a name for
his ruthless remarks.
In the same time, the racist, sexist comments – blurred also
by the passing of eight months - weighted less his renowned name, and thus Don Imus
made his way...
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 In a roundtable reunion at Harlem's
historic Apollo Theater, former American President Bill Clinton, backed up by
popular celebrities like Chris Rock, Shakira, Bono or Alicia Keys tried to talk
teenagers into volunteering into do-good activities.
The event, part of the three-day Clinton Global Initiative
had as primarily goal...
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 Movie star George Clooney found himself lying on a hospital
bed after he and his new girlfriend were involved in a motorcycle accident in New
Jersey yesterday.
Clooney, 46, was treated for "a hairline fracture of a
rib and road rash" at Palisades Medical
Center in North Bergen,
his spokesman, Stan Rosenfield,...
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 After facing more ups and downs than the country side of Wales,
Britney Spears appears to want to make amends and really straighten out her
sinuous life.
So after a tumultuous past few weeks, Britney agrees to
compensate her ex-husband Kevin Federline with a multi-million dollar
arrangement in return for joint custody of...
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 The troubled singer and mother-of-two is currently under active investigation for child abuse by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family services.While Britney was spotted doing many dumb things publicly, we can only wonder what she does behind closed doors.Not so long ago, rumors were that Britney tried to feed her two...
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 A raid of rapper DMX’ home on Friday ended with the removal of his 12 apparently neglected dogs and a number of guns.After being tipped that several animals were being mistreated at the Cave Creek, Arizona home of rapper DMX, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said they first warned the rapper’s lawyers about the animals’...
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 Speaking about his alleged suicide attempt, actor Owen Wilson asked for time alone to "heal during this difficult time."The Oscar-nominated comedian was hospitalized Sunday afternoon when Santa Monica police officers responded to a medical aid call at the actor's home. He reportedly attempted suicide over undisclosed reasons by...
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 The fourth kiddie in the Jolie-Pitt brood has officially taken his super-famous mom and dad’s surnames. Three-year-old Vietnamese-born Pax Thien is a Jolie-Pitt.
Angelina Jolie filed the necessary documents for adopting the little boy earlier this year in March. He had been living for three years in a Vietnamese orphanage....
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 Houston filed for a legal separation in September 2006 and then divorce the following month after 14 years of marriage.According to court documents, she, 43, and Brown, 38, had a prenuptial agreement preventing them from amassing community property and paying spousal support, which left only the matter of custody of the couple's...
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 American actor Gordon Scott, best known for his portrayal of Tarzan in five films from 1955 to 1960, has died at age 80 on April 30 at Johns Hopkins Hospital of pulmonary complications following several heart surgeries.Scott was born Gordon Merrill Werschkul in Portland, Oregon. He served in the Army from 1944 and was honorably...
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Frankfurt (dpa) - Only the sky was the limit when Yvonne Buschbaum soared to big heights as one of the leading women's pole vaulters in Germany.
Now the sky is wide open for Buschbaum, who feels the lightness of being after revealing her transsexuality last year and undergoing a gender change to Balian Buschbaum since...
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Industrialized countries are continuing to emit more greenhouse gasses despite goals set by the Kyoto agreement to curb carbon pollution, a UN body said Monday.
The UN Climate Change Secretariat said planet-warming gases released by 40 industrial states that signed up the Kyoto framework increased an average 2.3 per cent between...
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has opposed calling in ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki to salvage a power-sharing deal with prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Zanu-PF's chief negotiator Patrick Chinamasa rejected calls from the MDC for Mbeki to step in to end the...
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Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday made a surprise visit to banks in the capital Harare that were the scene of long queues resulting from cash shortages.
Some of those queuing temporarily forgot about the miseries as they cheered the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Others said they had been in...
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A gigantic atom smasher took the first step Wednesday to explore the origin of matter in what has been described as the biggest and most expensive experiment in scientific history.
A beam of atomic particles was accelerated around a massive tunnel or "ring" 27-kilometres in circumference, located 100 metres below ground near...
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Simmering anger with the Indian government and its security forces over a land row in the Kashmir Valley has sparked a larger movement that has seen thousands of Kashmiri Muslims take to the streets to demand "azadi," or freedom, in non-violent protests over the past two weeks.
Protestor Shakeel Ahmed, a university student,...
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Police in Zimbabwe detained two members of parliament from Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Monday after they turned up at parliament to take part in a swearing-in ceremony, the MDC said.
George Sibotshiwe, spokesman for MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said Shua Mudiwa, MP for Mutare West, and Eliah Jembere,...
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Twelve people died from their injuries Friday, the day after twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's largest arms and ammunition factory, hospital authorities said, as investigators interrogated at least a dozen suspects.
The latest casualties raised the death toll to 78 in the two synchronised attacks at the gates of the Pakistan...
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In a little street, next to Beijing's Workers' Stadium that hosts Olympic football matches, rests a corrugated iron shed on wheels bearing the Chinese signs for "bicycle" amd "repairs".
It's where Li Guobao earns his living - and also where people from the neighbourhood come together to chat, one of countless such...
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Bayern Munich expect new coach Juergen Klinsmann to deliver a 22nd German league title when the Bundesliga season begins for the league and cup winners at home to SV Hamburg on Friday.
Bayern start the Bundesliga's 46th season as clear favourites but the change of coach from the experienced Ottmar Hitzfeld to 44-year-old Klinsmann,...
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Compared to the two earlier editions - at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 - the beach volleyball tournament at the Beijing Olympics will have to settle for bronze.
But it will not be for lack of effort from Chinese organizers, who set up a 14,150-square-metre temporary site for competition with all comfort for players, media and sponsors...
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 U.S. National Hurricane Center informs that Tropical Storm Fausto, which is expected to become a hurricane, and Hurricane Elida plowed across the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from Mexico, whereas in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bertha moved away from Bermuda.At 4 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was situated about 355 miles...
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According to BBC, the head of the Anglican Church in the U.S.
has expressed her disapproval regarding the Communion’s approach to sexuality.
Giving her statement prior to the Lambeth Conference,
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori supported churches that had tackled
the notorious matter. Furthermore, she said she wished that...
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 The heads of developed and developing countries, including President Bush, and international officials, met in Toyako, Japan do debate the problem of climate change, among other matters.In the last G-8 summit of George Bush's presidency he declared "significant progress" had been made regarding combating global warming. The...
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Thai Foreign Minister Noppodon Pattama
announced his resignation Thursday after being accused of violating the
constitution for signing a communique last month with Cambodia to back
the listing of an ancient Hindu temple as a World Heritage Site. 'To show responsibility and spirit I resign,' Noppodon told a press conference. ...
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 Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate, aged 46, was freed last week together with 14 other hostages after being held in captivity for six years by Columbian Marxist guerillas. The perpetrators were allegedly tricked into handing them over to military staff disguised as autonomous organization workers.Even now, the...
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 Bridge officials outlined five design options which could
cost between $25 million and $50 million. Erecting a suicide barrier would not
change the look of the historic span, authorities hope. The design options were
studied in an environmental impact document.
The problem with this solution would be that there are no
funds...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday ruled out entering a unity government with President Robert Mugabe and again called on the African Union (AU) to send an envoy to the troubled southern African state.'A government of national unity does not address the problems facing Zimbabwe or acknowledge the will of the...
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 As France takes over the European Union presidency today,
President Nicolas Sarkozy guarantees to change the EU's crisis of assurance
into a prospect to turn the reviled union into a more popular one among almost
half a billion Europeans.
After the Irish refused to vote in favor of the Lisbon
Treaty, Polish President Lech...
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 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it has established a rules change that could affect who gets nominated in the Best Original Song and Best Foreign Language Film Oscar categories. This could result in the foreign-language film category becoming more inclusive and the original song category becoming more...
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Harare, ZIMBABWE – Presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai has
returned to continue campaigning after being held for almost ten hours in the
police’s custody, in the country’s second main city.
According to a spokesman of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party,
Tsvangirai and several other MDC leaders were held by police...
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 A week of protests between pro- and anti-government
supporters in Bangkok ignited rumors
of a military coup and contributed to the ruination of a government minister
who quit the office last week.
Only five months after national elections determined the end
of military rule, tensions between supporters and opponents of the coup...
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The need for a global warming
pact has reunited a Group of Eight environment ministers on Monday in Japan.
U.N. European countries and other
developing nations made pressures on the eight ministers to discuss and find a
solution for this major issue that is affecting the whole world. They even
suggested that a cut of the...
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 The Global Peace Index brought up a report which ranks each nation in terms of “peacefullness”. It took in consideration factors as a nation's
relations with its neighbors, arm sales, troop organization, respect for human
rights and number of homicides per 100,000 people. It is the second year when
the index was conducted and it rates...
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 U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to meet the three U.S. presidential candidates Thursday before
holding talks with President George W. Bush in Washington. As British newspapers pointed
comparisons between the premier’s three-day visit in the U.S. and the chronicled trip of Pope
Benedict XVI, a British official said that the...
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 Attacks and violence have been reported in rural areas
between activists for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and
militant supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
Robert Mugabe, who was the leader of Zimbawe for 28 years,
is accused by the Zimbawe’s opposition that he has led a campaign of violence
since the...
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 Representatives from 163 countries met with the secretary
general of the United Nations to find solutions for the global problem of
climate change that affects all of us. They will also try to find a replacement
for the Kyoto
climate change pact because it only binds 37 rich countries to cut emissions of
greenhouse gases.
Poor...
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 After the symbolic “Earth Hour” on Saturday evening, March 29, representatives from 163
countries met with the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, to
find solutions to the global problem of climate change.
The talks are scheduled to conclude at the end of 2009.
“The world is waiting for a...
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 Switching off lights for one hour on Saturday night is meant
to draw everybody's attention on the threat of climate change.
From Australian's Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge to
Melbourne's Flinders Street Station and Silicon Valley companies, the Golden
Gate Bridge, City Hall, the Hyatt Regency and Rincon Center, to the...
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 According to recent news reports, Russia and India signed a
deal to jointly build a multipurpose transport plane Monday as President
Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrapped up a visit that
highlighted deepening military and economic ties between the two nations.
It was unclear, however, whether the two sides were...
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 Despite the fact that the final Sunday in October has become
known as the end of daylight-saving time and the day to turn clocks back an
hour, this year Americans will have to wait one more week to get that chance at
an extra hour of sleep.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed by Congress and signed by President
Bush two...
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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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 ic The Danish island of Aeroe is like something out of a picture-book. The sea is never far away and the countryside has been blessed by gently rolling hills.
Aeroe is a relaxing place without room for fast paced modern life. In the summer, elderberry blossoms decorate the countryside and with a bit of luck you might spot a Fire...
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 The Economist Intelligence Unit published with international businessman Steve Killelea a report on Wednesday called Global Peace Index, which ranks 121 countries according to their peacefulness. The ranking system used 24 indicators, such as the number of external and civil wars fought, the level of respect for human rights and the...
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 State officials from California want to cap the list of people registered in the health insurance system based on children of the poor working people. The authorities stated that this decision can come because of too many new clients who take upon the insurance health system. But advocates say that if the Healthy Families Program needs...
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