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Germany's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) will introduce from the start of 2009 strict new rules requiring the country's top athletes to make themselves available for at least one hour a day for random dope tests.
"During this hour, one would have to wait for a tester at a certain place," said NADA legal advisor Anja...
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Lewis Hamilton's victory at
a rain- soaked Silverstone has set up an even tighter battle for the
Formula One drivers' championship as it goes into the second half of
the season.
Britain's Hamilton joins Ferrari drivers Kimi Raikkonen of Finland
and Felipe Massa of Brazil on 48 points with nine of the 18 races
remaining following...
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Australia's bratty world-champion cricket team is learning that winning is not everything.
After not giving visitors India a sporting chance of evening the
score after two games and allowing the four-match series to continue in
a competitive manner, the team has fallen foul of its own fans.
Many sympathize with the Indians in...
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 Anti- torch protesters were seriously outnumbered by the Chinese supporters as the Olympic flame began its two- day journey on the divided Korean peninsula on Sunday, guarded by thousands of violent policemen armed with shields and truncheons.Thousands of Chinese students, waving their country's flag shouted, "Come on China,"...
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 Following clashes between the police and protesters in London on Sunday, which resulted in 37 arrests during the Olympic torch trip around the world, the French police is prepared to protect the torch as it makes way from the Eiffel Tour to the city hall in Paris. Already, hundreds of people gathered in the square facing the Eiffel Tour...
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 A panel of experts has issued a report against the Food and Drug Administration, criticizing the agency for having overlooked significant evidence about bishpenol A safety."When we looked at the draft report, we felt that it was incomplete in a few very important aspects," said a member of the scientific advisory board, Dr....
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 Following a
wave of criticism coming from doctors, as well as from politicians, such as
Hillary Clinton or governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Blue Cross announced it will
stop sending letters that requested private information about its clients’
health.
The giant
insurance company used to send letters to Californian...
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 A person with a toothache usually touches his cheek where he feels the pain, while someone with a bellyache instinctively soothes it by putting a hand on his tummy. Just about everyone would agree that laying a hand on a part of the body that's not well can have a calming effect.
This is a principle of Reiki, an esoteric treatment...
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 Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft, along with several human rights groups have announced the launch of the Global Network Initiative: Protecting and Advancing Freedom of Expression and Privacy in the Information and Communication Technology Industry (GNI). The agreement comes after giants as Google and Yahoo faced criticism for working with...
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 Comcast Corp. promised yesterday that it would not
discriminate against specific Internet traffic. With more than 24 million
subscribers, the company is the largest cable TV and Internet provider in the U.S. The
announcement comes after criticism received by the company last year on the
alleged blocking of a software program utilized...
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 The new “Miss Bimbo” Web site was launched in the UK last month and
it has already attracted numerous children players. It is specially designed
for girls and here they are given a naked virtual character to look after or to
see it as their own reflection. “Bimbo” dollars are the reward for a good-looking
female character, dressed in...
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 MySpace has finally agreed to reveal data about thousands of sex-offenders lurking on the popular site to state attorneys, in an attempt to fend off criticism coming from both worried parents and the authorities.Initially, MySpace had announced that it is “working” with a group of state attorneys from North Carolina, Connecticut,...
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 News Corp.-owned social networking site MySpace is taking serious steps towards fending off illegal video postings from its fans, in an attempt to dampen criticism from content-owners who have already sued YouTube for the same matter.MySpace recently added a new feature to its site (now ranked 4th in the world) which basically forbids...
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 NBC Universal joined the mounting choir of anti-YouTube protesters, by joining forces with Los Angeles News Service operator Robert Tur.[more]Robert Tur, winner of three Television News Emmy Awards and credited with the first coverage of OJ Simpson’s slow-speed chase in 1994, sued YouTube last year, on July 14 for hundreds of copyright...
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 “Today” host, Matt Lauer, and Tom Cruise were present at the New York Friars Club, an annual charity event. And this was a good time of remembering past stories. Tom Cruise was invited at Matt Lauer’s show back in 2005, when the two spoke about Cruise’s criticism of the use of antidepressants. Still, the two seem to be very close...
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 Yoko Ono had sued the producers of “Expelled:
No Intelligence Allowed,” a movie focused on the concept of Darwinian
evolution, saying they used the song “Imagine” without her permission.
Jon Lennon’s widow, her son Sean Ono
Lennon, and Julian Lennon, the singer’s son from his first marriage, along with
privately held publisher...
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 Actress Katie Holmes has signed on to make
her Broadway debut this autumn in a revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,”
joining a cast that will include John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson.
The “Dawson’s
Creek” star had been reportedly in final negotiations for the part last March.
The play, first seen in Broadway...
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 Mercades Nichols, one of the eight teens arrested for
beating another 16-year-old teenager , Victoria Lindsay,while videotaping her was bailed out of jail
by some of “Dr Phil’s” staff members. A spokesman of the show, Terri Corigliano,
confirmed that the staff posted bond this weekend. So why the noble gesture?
The answer is: to have...
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 Denise Richards shattered the Sheen off her name for good.
In an attempt to leave behind everything related to ex-hubby
Charlie Sheen, Richards won a court decision that removes the name of her former
husband from her legal last name. Richards has never used it for professional
or public purposes, but she definitely wanted to...
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 No light has been shed upon the death case of Donda West,
the mother of rapper Kanye West that died in November following a plastic
surgery.
The Los Angeles County Coroner announced on Thursday that the
exact cause of her death couldn’t be established, but mentioned that there was
no hint of “surgical or anesthetic misadventure.”...
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Senator Barack Obama of Illinois found a way to reduce criticism
coming from organizations representing gay rights, or at least he attempted to.
The conflict sparked when a gospel singer that is known for
his anti-gay attitude was announced to be delivering a concert on Sunday in Columbia, S.C.
The gospel singer Donnie...
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 When you think “sexiest woman alive”, whose image comes to
your mind? If you cannot decide on the spot, the October 16 issues of the Esquire
magazine brings you the name and the pictures of the woman that suits perfectly
the title, and that is, unsurprisingly, Charlize Theron.
The 32-year actress that owns an
Oscar, a Golden...
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 The renowned film critic for the ABC morning news show 'Good Morning America' for the last 25 years, Joel E. Siegel, died on Friday at age 63 after a decade-long battle with colon cancer."Joel was an important part of ABC News, and we will miss him," ABC News President David Westin said. "He was a brilliant reviewer and a...
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 One of Akon’s recent performances was uninspired, to say the least; he shared an explicitly sexual dance with a female fan who happened to be a minor. Hence the criticism and some unpleasant consequences.
One of these consequences affects his musical collaborator Gwen Stefani. The hip-hop singer wrote “The Sweet...
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 Michael Douglas is set to play Gordon Gekko once more, in a sequel that comes 20 years after the successful “Wall Street.”
The new movie will be titled “Money Never Sleeps” and will feature Gekko as deceitful as ever. The storyline shows Gecko being released from jail after serving a sentence for inside trading....
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Nairobi/Goma (dpa) - A United Nations aid convoy taking supplies behind rebel lines in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not enough to meed the needs of hordes of desperate refugees, aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of civilians remain displaced after rebel Tutsi general...
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Officials across the Arab World reacted with shock and outrage Monday at a US military raid that reportedly killed eight people - allegedly including children - in a small Syrian town Sunday.
The United States made no immediate official comment. A helicopter-borne commando raid was reported to have attacked the Syrian town of Abu...
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Another rockslide occurred on Tuesday in the Doweiqa shanty town on the outskirts of Cairo, the scene of an accident where hundreds of people were killed on September 6 when rocks dislodged from a cliff overhang.
No casualties were reported from Tuesday's rockslide as the area had been cordoned off by police.
The official death...
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The death toll from a rockslide in Cairo earlier this month has risen to 101 after rescuers pulled five more bodies from the rubble, local media reported on Friday.
Rescuers have started to break a rock exceeding 1,000 tonnes to free 17 victims of one house crushed under it, Egyptian daily al-Masri al-Youm reported.
The rockslide,...
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The body of late Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa arrived back home from Paris Saturday in a gold coffin draped in a Zambian flag to a sombre ceremony at Lusaka International Airport.
The plane touched down in overcast conditions at 9 am (0800 GMT) to a 21-gun salute and a fly-past by Zambia Air Force jets.
The mood of sorrow that...
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Sudanese President Omar El Bashir on Monday brushed off criticism of
the appointment to his personal staff a Janjaweed leader suspected of
involvement in ethnic cleansing in Darfur saying that allegations he
was involved in murders was blatantly wrong.
"These allegations (against Musa Hilal) are untrue and we
definitely do...
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 UN Security Council members on Wednesday criticized Sudanese troops for
shooting at a UN-African Union supply convoy in Darfur, the first such
an attack since the joint force's deployment to try to end the ethnic
conflict in that region.
Jean-Marie Guehenno, UN undersecretary general for peacekeeping
operations, told a closed-door...
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 The main faction of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) party said Sunday it remained committed to talks with the
ruling ZANU-PF but hinted there were still sticking points.
The declaration came after claims in Zimbabwe's state-controlled
media that talks between President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and the...
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 Embattled South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday used a speech
to members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) meeting to
elect a new leader to lash out at corruption in party ranks.
Mbeki is attempting to remain on as president of the party but is
expected to be routed by party deputy Jacob Zuma. Zuma's victory...
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 Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues his
farewell tour around the world and during his trip to South
Africa he urged the international community
to offer additional help to African nations.
Blair along with President Thabo Mbeki addressed the
journalists present in South African capital Pretoria
and spoke about...
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 British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues his farewell tour
around the world with a trip to Libya
where he met with President Muammar al-Gaddafi and took note of British
Petroleum’s return to the north African country after three decades.
Blair declared his “good personal relationship” with Gaddafi
took him to Libya,
where he...
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 Zimbabwe
is the scene of new turmoil after several supporters of the opposition were
arrested Saturday at a political meeting, a local source informed.
Hundreds of Movement for Democratic Change supporters were rounded up by
policemen and taken to the police station in Harare,
a spokesman of the opposition said.
The police...
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A popular Myanmar comedian known for his criticism and satire of the country's military junta was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison in a closed-door court session in Yangon, an opposition spokesman said.
Zarganar, who had provided food and water to monks involved in anti-government demonstrations in September 2007, was...
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Few international football tournaments have had such a troubled history as the Confederations Cup.
Considered arguably the second most important competition staged by the sport's governing body FIFA, the Confederations Cup has seen teams declining to participate and tragically, it has seen the only death of a player on the field of...
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A new Lebanese magazine that focuses on body art, science and literature and aims to tackle subjects such as eroticism and fetishism, is due to hit the stands in the Arab world next month.
Joumana Haddad, editor-in-chief of Jasad (the Arabic word for body), said the publication aims to break taboos and will provide its writers,...
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Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met in Jerusalem Monday, with a collapsing Gaza truce high on their agenda.
The two leaders have been meeting regularly since they revived Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations for the first time in seven years at an international summit in...
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An airstrike by a US drone aircraft killed 12 people Friday in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district, a known hub of al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, Pakistani officials said.
The pre-dawn attack in north-western Pakistan targeted a militant hideout in Waladeen, a remote village some 75 kilometres west of Miranshah, the...
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Israeli caretaker prime minister Ehud Olmert wants to start direct negotiations with Syria by January, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday.
Olmert wants to upgrade the talks despite internal criticism by members of both the opposition and coalition, who say he lacks the legitimacy to negotiate during his final months in...
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In a new Vatican exhibition, Pope Pius XII's more mundane belongings - his heavily-worn shoes and portable typewriter - have gone on show, along with World War II-era radio transcripts in which he purportedly denounced totalitarian rule, including Nazism.
"The purpose is to allow the general public to get to know the full life...
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Five Chinese oil workers kidnapped in Sudan have been slain by their abductors, the Chinese embassy in Khartoum said.
Sudanese authorities told the embassy Monday that five of nine Chinese workers abducted on October 19 were killed, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.
Two more of the abducted workers were missing,...
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem Monday accused the US of "criminal and terrorist aggression" by launching a raid on civilians in which seven people, including three children, were killed.
Speaking at a news conference during a visit to London, al-Muallem urged the US government and the government of Iraq to...
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About half of Australia's 21-billion-Australian-dollar (14.7-billion-US-dollar) government surplus is to be spent trying to ward off a recession, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday.
To breathe life back into consumer spending habits, around a quarter of adults would receive an early financial Christmas present that Rudd said he...
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Two blasts occurred outside Iraq's foreign ministry on Tuesday as visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was due to hold a press conference in the Green Zone compound, al-Jazeera satellite channel has reported.
Two mortar rounds had landed in the area. At least five people were injured in the incident.
The Foreign...
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An anti-government protest turned bloody Tuesday, claiming at least one dead and about a hundred injured as police confronted followers of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to help legislators first get in and then get out of Parliament.
Riot police early Tuesday scattered thousands of PAD followers who had laid siege...
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Pizza Hut Taiwan on Friday began an investigation into melamine found in its cheese packets after tests showed a high level of the toxic chemical melamine.
The investigation came amid reports of the first suspected case in Taiwan in which a child was recently diagnosed to have a kidney stone and four other suspected cases in which...
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China has approved Taiwan's request to send a delegation to investigate its tainted milk products and exports to Taiwan, officials said Thursday.
The team of health experts are ready to leave for Beijing on Sunday, they said.
The latest development came as Taiwan's Health Minister Lin Fang-yue resigned to take responsibility over...
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Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Taro Aso became Japan's prime minister Wednesday, vowing to build a "bright and strong Japan."
"My mission is to build a bright and strong nation," Aso, 68, said at his first press conference as a prime minister Wednesday, sporting a lavender-coloured necktie with navy-blue...
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Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Taro Aso became Japan's prime minister Wednesday, vowing to build a "bright and strong Japan."
"My mission is to build a bright and strong nation," Aso, 68, said at his first press conference as a prime minister Wednesday, sporting a lavender-coloured necktie with navy-blue...
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Malaysia has jailed a popular anti-government internet blogger for two years under a draconian security law that can keep him detained indefinitely without a trial, a minister said Tuesday.
Raja Petra Kamarudin, who is known for his sensational online articles targeting top government leaders, was served with an order Monday night...
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Taiwan braced Monday for Typhoon Hagupit as the storm, which already killed at least one person and stranded thousands of passengers in the Philippines, was expected to brush the southern tip of the island.
The Central Weather Bureau said the rim of the typhoon, which packed centre winds of 155 kilometres per hour and gusts of 191...
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Taro Aso, an Olympic shooting competitor, finally hit his target on the fourth try Monday and became president of Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The 68-year-old political veteran is expected to assume the prime ministership on Wednesday to succeed Yasuo Fukuda, but Aso's leadership may not last too long.
After...
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Malaysia on Thursday blocked access to a popular news website that often carries anti-government articles, sparking criticism of cyberspace censorship.
The extremely popular Malaysia Today website is run by Raja Petra Kamarudin, who was charged with sedition in May for allegedly implying that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak was...
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Malaysia on Thursday blocked access to a popular news website that often carries anti-government articles, sparking criticism of cyberspace censorship.
The extremely popular Malaysia Today website is run by Raja Petra Kamarudin, who was charged with sedition in May for allegedly implying that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak was...
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Jacques Rogge should have kept his mouth shut. That, at least, was consensus of much of the world media Friday, a day after the International Olympic Committee President criticized the wild celebrating style of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.
"Rogge, who is 66 and competed in the Olympics as a yachtsman three times between 1968 and...
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Monday resigned from his post in what he called "the best interest of the country" to avoid facing an impeachment planned by the ruling coalition in parliament.
"No charge sheet can stand against me," a defiant Musharraf said. "My actions were in accordance with my...
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The Dalai Lama warned Wednesday against isolating China and said instead Beijing should be nudged by dialogue to accept democracy and freedom.
China was the world's most populous country and wanted to be part of the international community, the Tibetan spiritual leader told journalists during a 12-day private visit in which he also...
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A director of food safety in China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine died mysteriously in what authorities suspect was a suicide, a magazine reported Wednesday.
Wu Jianping, director of the administration's food production inspection and management division, died on August 2, one day after he...
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A majority of the members of the Iranian parliament demanded Wednesday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad make his deputy resign after making pro-Israeli comments, the website of the state television network IRIB reported.
In a letter to Ahmadinejad, 200 of the 290 deputies condemned the recent remarks by Vice President Esfandiar...
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An estimated 2,000 Tibetan exiles demonstrated in Kathmandu Thursday, a day ahead of the official start of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
The demonstration was the biggest by Tibetan exiles in Nepal since their protests started in March.
The demonstrators, including monks, nuns and schoolchildren, gathered near a Buddhist temple on...
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Nepalese police Monday broke up anti-China protests by exiled Tibetans in the capital Kathmandu and arrested nearly 100 demonstrators.
The incident occurred just days ahead of the start of the Olympic Games
in Beijing, and was the third large protest by Tibetans in Nepal this
month. The demonstration outside the Chinese embassy...
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Thailand and Cambodia failed Monday to find a quick fix to a dispute over an ancient Hindu temple on the Thai-Cambodian border, but both sides agreed they wanted the row to subside.'We want the temperature to come down,' said Cambodian Defence Minister Teah Banh after an eight hour meeting on the Preah Vihear temple dispute with Thai...
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Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo gave the
Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) a grade C for its
handling of Myanmar following the Cyclone Nargis disaster in May, when
the country's ruling junta resisted foreign aid, a transcript of his
remarks said on Friday. Since Myanmar is expected to top the
agenda during the...
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Nepalese police Tuesday detained more than 40 Tibetan exiles trying to cross the border into Tibet as part of their protest against continued Chinese rule in their homeland, police said.Police said they had detained 42 Tibetan exiles who were attempting to cross into Tibet on foot from Chaku village, about 10 kilometres from the...
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 A rocket hit a shopping mall center on Wednesday in the
southern Israeli city of Ashkelon,
injuring at least 14 people, the Israeli military and emergency officials said,
according to CNN. Among the victims, a mother and infant were seriously wounded.
According to Islamic Jihad sources, the militant group claimed
responsibility...
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 China’s
president Hu Jintao faced hundreds of protesters sharp criticism of his Tibet policy outside a Tokyo university Thursday, the Washington
Post reports.
Inside Waseda University, Hu urged Beijing
and Tokyo to put their history behind them,
underlining efforts at bolstering links between Asia’s
two giants.
It...
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 A pacifist Israeli group claims construction in West Bank settlements will continue, despite previous
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The report of “Peace Now” was released during
a visit by U.S. Secretary of the State Condoleezza Rice and it shows that more
than 500 buildings are under construction and that...
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 Although the US
has dropped China from its
list of worst abusers, China's
foreign minister Yang Jiechi is accusing the United States of “practicing double
standards” and “clinging to a Cold War mentality,” reports the Associated
Press.
Yang Jiechi's comments were a feedback to the annual U.S.
State Department report which...
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 Islom Karimov was announced as the re-elected Uzbekistan President on
Monday amid criticism by the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) over the course of Sunday's elections.
Karimov received 88.1 per cent of the vote, according to
provisional official results announced by the electoral commission
Monday, the...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday promulgated a decree
to end the emergency rule he imposed six weeks ago, but the move
received mixed reaction from opposition parties.
"The proclamation of emergency issued on the 3rd day of November
2007 stands revoked on, and with effect from, 15th day of December
2007,"...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has signed an order to end the
country's state of emergency, to be lifted on Saturday midday. Hours
later he will address the nation, government officials said late
Friday.
"The President has promulgated some amendments in the constitution
like the one which says that all those senior...
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 Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif
will return to Pakistan on Sunday from Saudi Arabia, as the country's
election commission ratified the disputed re-election of the President
Pervez Musharraf.
"Mr Sharif is expected to reach Lahore tomorrow (Sunday) at 16:00
local time (1100 GMT) from Saudi...
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 Ichiro Ozawa, the head of Japan's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), offered his resignation on Sunday over internal party criticism about his discussion of Japan's Afghan mission policy with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
Ozawa was the object of sharp criticism from within his own party for not immediately...
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 According to what the official Xinhua news agency said on its
English-language newswire, paraphrasing experts speaking at a conference this
week publicly acknowledged "hidden dangers" at the massive Three
Gorges Dam, including landslides, erosion and pollution that could lead to an
environmental disaster if not quickly...
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A plan to pay tribute to a Catholic saint in the Spanish parliament was cancelled Wednesday, while parliament president Jose Bono came under criticism for calling his Socialist party comrades "sons of a bitch" over the decision.
The parliamentary committee had earlier agreed to place a plaque in the parliament building in...
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