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Sydney - Sydney surgeons said Tuesday it was a miracle that Bondi Beach shark attack victim Glenn Orgias has two hands rather than just one.
"I thought the hopes for the hand were close to zero, but I have hope in time that Glenn will have a working hand," plastic surgeon Kevin Ho said. "We're far from out of the...
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Sydney - Australian copper and gold producer OZ Minerals Ltd on Monday recommended to shareholders a cash offer from China Minmetals Non-ferrous Metals Company Ltd that values the debt-laden company at 2.6 billion Australian dollars (1.6 billion US dollars).
The takeover bid follows Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd's...
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Sydney - Unemployment in Australia rose to 4.8 per cent in January from 4.5 per cent in December, official figures released Thursday showed.
Economists had predicted as many as 17,000 jobs would be lost, but 1,200 jobs were created with a steep fall in full-time employment was outweighed by a rise in part-time...
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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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Dominik Hrbaty and Dominika Cibulkova led the Slovak Republic to a third Hopman Cup title on Friday with a storming 2-0 victory over Russia.
It marked the second honour at the team competition for veteran Hrbaty, who outlasted longtime friend and rival Marat Safin 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3).
Teenaged Cibulkova began the win with an...
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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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Richard Gasquet knocked out former tennis classmate Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 to reach his fourth semi-final in six months at the Brisbane International on Friday.
Tsonga, last year's Australian Open finalist, will face off on Saturday against Czech Radek Stepanek, who defeated Swede Robin Soderling 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Tsonga,...
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Serena Williams arrived in Australia on Thursday vowing to begin her tennis year in style and playing down any talk of the injuries which plagued her in late 2008.
The self-absorbed three-time Australian open winner will take her place in the field at next week's Medibank International after weeks of speculation about her fitness -...
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German Nicolas Kiefer was rushed to hospital for treatment of an ankle injury suffered as the Slovak Republic backed into a fifth final at the Hopman Cup teams event on Thursday.
The 31-year-old fell victim to the worst possible luck as he suffered a freak mishap while leading Slovakia's Domink Hrbaty 3-1.
The Europeans,...
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Only hours after a first-round upset in Brisbane on Tuesday, Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic was set to head to Sydney to tune his tennis at the Medibank International.
The world number three was granted a late wildcard into the men's and women's event which starts on Sunday, one week prior to the Open.
The Serb crashed...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made successful injury comebacks at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 in the eight-nation team event.
The Slovak Republic hammered the defending champion and five-time holder the US through singles victories from teenager Dominika Cibulkova and...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made a successful injury comeback at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 at the eight-nation team event.
Hewitt made a resounding return after summer hip surgery, winning his singles over Nicolas Kiefer 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 6-2.
Dellacqua, who had to...
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Top seed Ana Ivanovic on Monday needed to escape a first set that lasted one hour on the way to a struggling 6-4, 6-2 win over Czech teenager Petra Kvitova at the Brisbane International.
The Serb top seed and defending French Open winner found herself in a battle. "I had to fight for each point (but) it was good in the first...
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Legend Rod Laver will be honoured for his part in tennis history next month as the Australian Open brings together the great man and those he defeated on the 40th anniversary of his tennis Grand Slam.
It was 1969 when the man they called the Rockhampton Rocket won all four majors in the same calendar year, the last man to achieve...
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French round-the-world sailor Yann Elies, who was rescued by an Australian navy frigate after he fell and broke his leg 1,200 kilometres off the Australian coast, was back on dry land on Monday.
Elies, 34, spent two days in his cabin unable to move before the HMAS Arunta reached him in the Indian Ocean on Saturday.
The...
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Australia's Adelaide United defeated New Zealand rivals Waitakere United 2-1 as the club world cup got underway in Tokyo on Thursday.
Adelaide United captain Travis Dodd hit an 83rd-minute winner as the Australians came from behind to beat Oceania champions Waitakere United in a quarter-final play-off.
Paul Seaman put the New...
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Hollywood star Nicole Kidman said Tuesday her acting career may be over as her focus shifts to family and a second child with fellow Australian Keith Urban.
"I'm in a place in my life where I've had some great opportunities, but there are many things I want to do besides act," the 41-year-old Oscar winner said. "In...
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A 60-year-old Australian woman was sentenced Wednesday for her part in the mercy killing of the 71-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer who had been her partner for 18 years.
In sentencing Shirley Justins to spend her weekends in jail for the next two years for the manslaughter of former Qantas pilot Graeme Wylie, Judge Roderick Howie...
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Sydney on Tuesday joined London, Singapore and other big cities in charging motorists for driving into the central business district (CBD) at peak times.
But the New South Wales state government is denying that a toll levied on cars coming over the famous Harbour Bridge into the city that varies according to the time of day is a...
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Australian banks Tuesday pulled the rug from under debt-laden local leveraged buy-out specialist Allco Finance Group.
Receivers were appointed for Allco and its shares placed in a trading halt after talks with the 12 banks failed to reach agreement on a repayment schedule for debts of 667 million Australian dollars (446 million US...
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Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, will tour the world with a reconstituted Jackson 5, his older brother Jermaine Jackson said in Sydney on Wednesday.
"This has been a long time coming for the Jackson family to get back together," Jackson told Australia's AAP news agency. "It's just the timing," he said....
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Kevin Rudd needed something to give his poll ratings pep and it came in the ghastly form of a stock market meltdown that wilted the pension plans of millions of Australians.
Now, the approval ratings of the 50-year-old former diplomat, a year into his first spell as prime minister, suggest he could walk on water.
"It puts him...
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United States cyclist Lance Armstrong is on track to make his official comeback to professional road racing in Australia in January, organizers of the Tour Down Under said Sunday.
The 37-year-old announced his retirement after winning the Tour de France a record seven times in 2005 but has said he will try for an eighth triumph in the...
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An Australian civil libertarian who has spent over a year in jail for refusing to register her car Friday lost a Supreme Court appeal against a sentence she argues runs contrary to "Bible-codified common law."
Losalina Rainima will be released on Sunday but the likelihood is that she will again offend and be back behind bars...
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Australia announced Wednesday it will provide 50 billion rupiah (5.36 million dollars) to help improve food security and reduce malnutrition among children in eastern Indonesia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said.
The contribution was announced by Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, while visiting a clinic...
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Elephant seals rigged with sensors are helping Australian scientists collect data in the Antarctic.
"They measure temperature and salinity as a function of depth as they dive down and up through the water column, and from that information, we can determine what the ocean currents are doing," oceanographer Steve Rintoul told...
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An Australian heartbroken man who decided to put his life on
sale on the Internet was bewildered to see that bids to buy his existence had
reached about $2 million, while he thought it was only worth a quarter of that
sum.
Ian Usher, who emigrated from England to Australia six years
ago, first auctioned his life on eBay in March,...
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 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed on Thursday not to let the whale-hunt issue to
intervene in their partnership. During their several-hour talk the two decided
that the dispute over Japan's
annual whale hunts should not come between their plans to strengthen their
security and...
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 An Australian jury proved to be quite a disappointment for
both the judge and the lawyers who have been dealing with a drug trial for the past three months. It
turned out that five members of the jury in case were playing Sudoku during the
hearing while everybody thought that they were taking notes. As a result, Sydney
District Court...
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 Sydney, Australia – The investigations of a global child
pornography network obliged the Australian police take measures and entitled
them to arrest 70 people and to remove four children from their homes. Twenty
other persons are expected to appear in front of the court the following days
and more arrests are foreseen.
All of them...
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 An Australian woman who had an apparently healthy baby with
her father pleaded for approval of the couple’s incestuous relationship. Both
father and daughter appeared on national television with their nine-old-month
child, Celeste. After going public, they are currently being monitored by
police and social services.
Jenny...
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 Governments around the world are trying to reduce emissions
of carbon gases because these are responsible for global warming. Australia has
made the first step in this process. A large underground carbon storage
facility was opened in the southern state of Victoria,
near the town of Warrnambool, west of Melbourne. It will
capture...
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 The people of New Zealand and the mountain Sherpas of Nepal joined
Tuesday in Auckland at the state funeral of Everest conqueror Sir
Edmund Hillary, to honour a man loved and revered in both countries.
"He was a colossus. He was our hero," said New Zealand Prime
Minister Helen Clark. "His extraordinary life has been...
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 An Australian court on Tuesday ruled Japanese whaling in the Antarctic illegal but admitted it had no power to stop it.
The Federal Court, in a hearing brought by the Humane Society
International, declared the Japanese in contravention of Australian
environment protection legislation because they were killing and
injuring minke and...
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 Sir Edmund Hillary was honoured throughout the world as the first man,
with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest
peak at 8,848 metres, in 1953.
He died Friday at the age of 88. In his native land, he was the
best-loved New Zealander of his generation and could have ruled the
country for years had he...
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 A court ruling Friday cleared the way for an Indian doctor held briefly
on terrorism charges to return to his job in an Australian hospital.
In a further boost for Mohamed Haneef, Immigration Minister Chris
Evans said the Indian doctor was free to return to Australia under his
original visa.
Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef were...
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 New Zealand and Australia announced Wednesday they will lead a formal
diplomatic protest against Japan's move to catch more than 1,000 whales
in the Antarctic over the southern hemisphere summer.
At the same time, the Greenpeace environmental organization's
protest ship Esperanza left Auckland in a bid to stop four Japanese
boats...
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 Cyclone Daman destroyed two villages on the small Fiji island of
Cikobia early Saturday, according to a Radio New Zealand report from
the capital, Suva.
The first cyclone of the 2007/08 season in the South Pacific, rated
category four, which can have wind gusts up to 279 kilometres an hour,
Daman passed directly over the island...
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Serial confidence trickster and international playboy Peter Foster was jailed by a Brisbane court Friday on money laundering charges linked to a property deal in the South Pacific.
Foster, 45, will spend at least four years in jail after pleading guilty to fraudulently obtaining a bank loan of 234,000 US dollars from the tiny Pacific...
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 Australia is not ready to commit to deep greenhouse gas emissions cuts at
the Bali climate conference, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Thursday.
He backed away from statements made by officials on the Indonesian
island that Australia "fully supports" the proposal that developed
countries cut emissions by 25-40 per cent by...
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 The Labor Party's Kevin Rudd became Australia's prime minister Saturday
after a crushing victory over John Howard's Liberal-led coalition in a
general election.
"I'll be a prime minister for all Australians," Rudd said after
gaining a thumping majority of at least 24 seats in the 150-member
Parliament.
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 Opinion polls Saturday showed Kevin Rudd's Labor Party maintaining its
clear lead over Prime Minister John Howard's ruling coalition with just
a week to go before Australia's November 24 general election.
Support for Labor is steady at 54 per cent with the conservatives
on 46 per cent, according to an opinion poll in The...
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A Sydney coroner claimed Friday that Indonesian troops deliberately
killed five Australian-based journalists to prevent news getting out
about the 1975 invasion of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor.
Dorelle Pinch said the death of those who have become known as the Balibo Five could constitute a war crime.
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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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Four world records tumbled in a remarkable second day of Olympic swimming Monday as American superstar Michael Phelps' attempt to win an unprecedented eight gold medals stayed on track. In shooting, Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever Olympic gold medal in an individual event, while Japan's women toppled China's top-seeded 2004...
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Nick Heidfeld's future at
BMW Sauber remains uncertain, with the German admitting to experiencing
a difficult phase of the Formula One season.
BMW motorsport director Mario Theissen has been giving nothing away
on the team's plans for 2009 as speculation surrounds both Heidfeld and
his Polish team-mate Robert Kubica.
Theissen...
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Nothing, it seems, can stop Tiger Woods when he really wants to win.
The world number 1 went into the US Open at Torrey Pines with a
dodgy knee, eight weeks after surgery, and was confronted with an
inspired opponent in Rocco Mediate.
Woods had needed a birdie at the last on Sunday to force the 18-
hole playoff and again found...
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A strong backwind aided Tyson Gay in sprinting 100 meters in 9.68 seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials Sunday in Eugene, Oregon.
Though the time was the fastest ever it doesn't count as a world
record due to the 4.1-metres-per-second tailwind. Anything above 2.0 is
not allowed for record purposes.
Behind Gay was Walter Dix at 9.80...
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 Only less than 24 hours since the unfortunate event of the death of Ryan Shay in the Olympic Games trials Marathon on Saturday, another marathon took place, the New York City Marathon, won by Paula Radliffe.The incident has cast a cloud over the Sunday’s marathon due to the fact that the athlete world of long distance running is like a...
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 The United States Olympic Games trials took place on Saturday, in New York, on a rather difficult track, the last 25 miles of Central Park. The top three finalists will attend the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.From the favorites, Abdi Abdirahman, Meb Keflezighi and Ryan Hall, only the last one succeeded to reach one of the three first...
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 The well known tennis champion Martina Hingis, who has won five Grand Slams, announced her retiring in the same time as she was found positive for cocaine in a drug test occurred at this year’s Wimbledon.In a press conference, the 27 Swiss athlete has denied the accusations, saying that while A and B urine test turned out positive for...
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Pamela Jelimo of Kenya won't be able to seek another million-dollar jackpot as the 800 metres is not among the disciplines confirmed on Thursday for the elite Golden League athletics series in 2009.
The ruling body IAAF said in a statement that Golden league disciplines next year are the men's 100 metres, 400m, 3,000m/5,000m, 110m...
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The IAAF, the governing body of world athletics, has imposed two-year doping bans on eight Russian athletes for testing positive a varied of substances, including the banned blood-booster EPO.
It emerged Thursday that the athletes are mostly from the sport of walking and include Vladimir Kanaykin, the 20-kilometre walk world record...
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Maria Belen Dutto fulfilled on Wednesday her dream of competing at the Olympic Games. However, the Argentine could not hear the shouts of the crowd gathered at the BMX circuit, and she will not be able to hear her national anthem if she wins a medal on Thursday.
Dutto is 98 per cent deaf, but she represents Argentina alongside Maria...
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Twin brothers Pavol and Peter Hochschorner of Slovakia claimed their third successive Olympic gold medal in the men's canoe C2 doubles event Friday, beating the Czech Republic into second place.
The Hochschorners won with a time of 190.82 seconds while Czechs Jaroslav Volf and Ondrej Stepanek got silver with a time 2.07 seconds slower...
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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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Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland and American Kristin Armstrong added Olympic road racing time trial gold medals to world titles won earlier in their cycling career on Wednesday.
The two-time reigning world champion Cancellara underlined his supremacy in the race against the clock with a big win on the hilly 47.5-kilometres between...
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Guilia Quintavalle secured Italy's first judo medal of the Olympic Games Monday when she took gold in the final of the women's 57-kilogram category event Monday at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium.
Quintavalle defeated Deborah Gravenstijn of the Netherlands, who won bronze four years ago in Athens, by yuko in...
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Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying for
Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of McLaren-Mercedes team-mate
Heikki Kovalainen as he seeks his third successive Formula One victory.
The 23-year-old Briton set a best time of 1 minute 20.899 seconds,
0.242 seconds ahead of Finland's Kovalainen to capture his fourth pole
position of the...
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South Africa won the 2007
Rugby World Cup by beating holders England 15-6 in a hard-fought title
match, played Saturday at the Stade de France outside Paris.
The tournament's leading scorer, Percy Montgomery, converted all
four of his penalty kicks and young Francois Steyn kicked another to
account for all of the points for the...
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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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 This year’s Olympic torch world tour seems to find chaos anywhere it goes, as activists gather to protest against the Chinese crackdown in Tibet. It was now time for San Francisco, the torch’s only stop on the North American continent, to feel the smell of the fight for human rights, after delirious marches in London and Paris.It was the...
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 Austrian Georg Streitberger won his first World Cup title on Sunday, edging the US skier Bode Miller by two- tenths of a second in the super-G race in Norway.Streitberger finished the 2.574- meter course in 1 minute 26.68 seconds and moved to the 10th position from the 21st in the super-G overall standings. Miller finished the race in 1...
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 Tiger Woods won his sixth consecutive tournament worldwide and 63 on tour on Sunday, as he managed to race down Stewart Cink 8 and 7 in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson, Arizona.Woods is now the fourth player on the all- time PGA Tour win list, going past Arnold Palmer and trailing Ben Hogan by only one."Just to...
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 The US sprinter Maurice Greene, who had won two Olympic gold medals, as well as several other titles, and who is the former holder in the 100-meter dash, announced that he will retire from track and field.According to CNN International, the 33-year- old sprinter said that the cause of his retirement are the difficulties that he had due...
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 Bode Miller took the World Cup super- combined title in the event of the season that took place on Sunday in France, as he further increased his overall lead in the cup points race.With this victory, Miller's lead in the overall standings jumped to 122 points more than the second- place, which is held by Benjamin Raich of Austria.The...
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 Olympic three-time gold medalist Marion Jones on Friday was sentenced
to spend six months in jail for lying about using steroids and a
check-fraud scam, media reports said.
Jones, the first woman to claim five medals in an Olympics, could
have faced up to 10 years in jail for the offences, and even under a
plea deal faced up to 37...
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 Bode Miller of the United States won his first World Cup race of the
alpine ski season with a faultless downhill run at Bormio, Italy on
Saturday.
It was the 26th career World Cup win for Miller who won gold medals
in super-g and downhill in Bormio in the 2005 world championships.
Miller, 30, had the speed and the staying power...
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 Denise Karbon of Italy registered her third win of the Alpine World Cup
season Friday when the 27-year-old claimed victory in the women's giant
slalom in Lienz.
Karbon had times of 1 minute 00.88 seconds and 1:01.85 minutes in her two runs for a winning time of 2:02.73 minutes.
American Julia Mancuso came second with a combined...
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 Benjamin Raich of Austria claimed the 30th World Cup victory of his
career Sunday in the men's slalom race in Bad Kleinkirchheim.
Raich, who also led after the first run, registered a winning time
of 1 minute 34.46 seconds with Jens Byggmark of Sweden taking second
spot in 1:35.12.
Italy's Manfred Moelgg finished third in...
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 For his first ski World Cup victory, combined world champion Swiss Daniel Albrecht won the super- combined on Thursday, on the Birds of Prey downhill course at Beaver Creek.Having a combined time of 2 minutes and 00.26 seconds, Albrecht defeated his main rival, French Jean- Baptiste Grange, who trailed by 0.67 seconds as he received...
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 Purdue University and the parents of the student who died after a shock in a high-voltage campus utility room have reacehd an agreement for a legal settlement that will earn the family $500,000 - the maximum amount Purdue could have been liable for under Indiana law - and a $100,000 scholarship endowment, according to the school’s...
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 "Crush" Adams Dead at 44, Wrestling Mortality IncreasesBrian "Crush" Adams was found out cold at his residence in Tampa, Fla. Police still wait the autopsy results, which could take up to a week, before proceeding with their investigation to conclude what could have killed him as they didn’t find any visible signs of...
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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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 Less than two weeks before the expected end of analog
broadcasting the House of Representatives voted 264-158 on Wednesday to push
back the 17th of February deadline to the 12th of June. Consumers who rely on
antennas to receive over-the-air broadcast signals will need to obtain a
set-top converter that will receive the digital...
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The contemplative peace of
the idyllic resort of Toyako on Japan's northern Hokkaido island has
been shattered temporarily by the G8 summit. The 10,000
residents of the village surrounded by stunning nature have never
before experienced such an invasion of journalists, politicians and
police officers. Everywhere you look there...
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 Filmmaker Spike Lee has teamed up with Nokia in a project that consists in making a movie composed of cell phone footage recorded by regular people. The film will be made up of three acts; each of them will have a certain theme that will be made public online in due time, so that cell phone users would have four weeks to record and send...
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 The US tennis player Mardy Fish paved the way for its team to reach the final of the Hopman Cup for the fifth time, as he defeated Australian Peter Luczak 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (12-10). As he fired 25 aces to save set points, Fish needed six match points to prevail after the he saved three shots of the Australian to send the match into a third...
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 Noah Baumbach made a terrific job with his “Squid and the
Whale”, depicting the drama of a dysfunctional Brooklyn
family that ends with a divorce that leaves deep marks on the two sons. And you
rightfully might expect the same quality time from his new “Margot At The
Wedding”, but there isn’t unfortunately.
Margot, a successful...
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 BMW has launched a convertible and new coupe of the 6-Series
featuring several advanced drive technologies and driver assistance
safety systems.
Both the coupe and convertible have strong lines extending from the
A-pillars along the engine compartment lid to the BMW kidney grille,
forming a dynamic arrow further emphasised by...
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 Serious car accidents can often be put down to technical malfunctions resulting from poor maintenance or a lack of servicing, several experts said.
Around 10 per cent of accidents in Germany alone can be directly attributed to technical faults, says Alexander Berg, a researcher of at the DEKRA testing authority.
"We are seeing...
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 In one of the most spectacular Formula 1 crashes in recent years, Polish driver Robert Kubica crashed his BMW-Sauber against a concrete wall during the Canadian Grand Prix at a speed of more than 280 km/h, almost miraculously surviving without injury.
Many a motorist might have thought: "Why can't such safety technology be...
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 Canonical presented on Monday the next version of the Ubuntu Linux desktop, also introducing a server edition of Ubuntu 8.10 that includes improvements in virtualization, system management and Java development. As users have been accustomed, the software is free and will be available for download on October the 30th. One important...
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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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 The software company SCO Group
Inc. has been involved in so many lawsuits, than it should barely have any time
for creating and developing its products! However, on the 10th of
August 2007, one of SCO Group’s battles has been finalized. At least for the
moment, the case of SCO v. Novell has reached to an end thanks to Judge...
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 After the recent interoperability frenzy started by Microsoft, which engulfed the likes of Novell, Xandros or Linspire, many have asked how much is going to take the Redmond giant to convince the remaining important Linux vendors, Canonical and Red Hat, to join its boat.However, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and...
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 The Portuguese writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 and became well-known to the readers for his books of subversive perspectives on historic events, in which he emphasizes the human factor rather than the officially sanctioned story. Jose Saramago, 84, has recently released his newest book, entitled “Death with...
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A member of the Nobel Academy said on Friday that the Swedish Academy is worried that somebody might have found out earlier than the award night that Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was going to be given the Nobel Prize for Literature. Still, Horace Engdahl, the academy's permanent secretary, told a local paper that he will look at the...
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 Lynne Spears, mother of the two troubled sisters Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears, releases her book “Through the Storm” on September 16 and it will be published by Thomas Nelson, a leading Christian publisher. Lynne Spears says that her daughter Britney has overcome all her problems and nightmares of the past few years and she...
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 Salman Rushdie, the Indian-British novelist and essayist who won the Booker Prize for his second novel “Midnight’s Children,” won a special award marking the 40’th anniversary of his novel. He also won the 25th anniversary Booker prize in 1993. The novel is an example of Rushdie’s magical realism style. The dominant theme of his novels...
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 With him reaching 50 years old, singer Prince decided it’s
time for something new in his life. Recognized worldwide as a fabulous musician,
the one who by the passing of the years has received a considerable number of
nicknames, will go further with his talent and will try his luck as a writer.
Prince’s first book will be released...
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 Kids are fed up with the usual Snow White and Cinderella
bed-time stories, probably thought Dr Michael Salzhauer. This is why he came up
with a new modern story, replacing fairy tale princesses with a beautiful woman,
who is the mother of every child. To be more precise, every mother who is
getting a tummy tuck and a nose job....
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 A plastic surgeon thought children might need a book that
explains why mommy needs a tummy tuck, or a new nose; the man who had the
original idea is Dr. Michael Salzhauer, father of four kids.
The book, titled “My Beautiful Mommy,” has become the main
issue of an entire debate which combines pro and against opinions. The...
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 Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll reveals more than
150 interviews and thousands of documents in “The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family
in the American Century,” an exciting history of bin Laden’s siblings, the
famous villain who orchestrated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The book is a family biography and not...
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 The magic universe of Harry Potter couldn’t end more
magically than it did, with the sole copy on sale being sold for $ 4 million.
Sotheby’s auction house in London sheltered the auction for one of the
seven copies of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” and the purchaser is no one else
than Web retailer Amazon.com Inc., who was...
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 Speaking for the first time since the seventh and final Harry Potter book was released, British author JK Rowling is definitely considering writing more books about the boy wizard’s world. In a tell-all interview with Today’s Meredith Vieira, the writer revealed she plans on penning a sort of Harry Potter Encyclopedia based on the...
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 The seventh and final instalment in J.K. Rowling's best-selling series "Harry Potter" is set to previous sales records, according to its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will be published on July 21 and amazon.co.uk has taken more than 1.4m pre-orders.The record...
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 J.K. Rowling is reportedly coming to the United States in October for the "J.K. Rowling Book Tour," which will include four events in Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York City (two events), of which three will only be open to schoolchildren. The New York's Carnegie Hall event will be open to fans of all ages. Rowling is set to...
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London - It's do or die for Liverpool in the English Premier League this weekend as they look to keep alive their flickering hopes of winning the title for the first time in 19 years.
Rafael Benitez's side go to relegation-threatened Middlesbrough, knowing only victory will be enough to convince leaders Manchester United that the...
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Johannesburg - Tickets for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa go on sale Friday 475 days before kick-off in the opening game on June 11 next year.
The tickets are being sold on the website of world football body FIFA and through South Africa's First National Bank (FNB), a sponsor of the tournament.
Football fans in South...
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London - Didier Drogba hit out at former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and pledged his future to the club in newspaper interview on Friday.
The Ivory Coast forward has been much criticised for his poor form this season, and Scolari questioned his commitment shortly before his dismissal last week.
He has also been linked with...
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London - Guus Hiddink says he expects to be the new coach at English Premier League club Chelsea next week, Dutch radio reported on Wednesday.
The Dutchman, who will continue in his role as Russia coach, told Radio 538: "One of these days I will go to London. I expect to be there on the field next week.
Hiddink has a contract...
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London - The Los Angeles Galaxy were considering on Thursday a plea from David Beckham to let him join AC Milan on a permanent basis.
The England midfielder joined the Italian giants on loan last month, and is due to return to the US on March 9.
But the 33 year old's form there has confounded critics who expected him to make the...
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Seoul - South Korea staged a last-minute entry into the competition for hosting football's World Cup in 2018 or 2022, officials said Tuesday.
The world football association FIFA had been informed before the deadline for host applications expired Monday, South Korea's national football association said.
South Korea hosted...
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Lausanne, Switzerland - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday announced that two Italian footballers have been banned for one year for a doping violation.
Daniele Mannini, 25, and Davide Possanzini, 32, had originally been suspended for 15 days after being found guilty by the disciplinary committee (GUI) of the Italian...
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Even the Prime Minster was moved as Portugal on Tuesday celebrated Cristiano Ronaldo's 2008 World Footballer honour.
Monday's announcement by the ruling body FIFA at a gala in Zurich delighted his home nation and England as well as the Manchester United winger Ronaldo is the first Premier League-based player to win the prestigious...
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Germany coach Joachim Loew has admitted to dissenting voices in the national team squad but still feels the Euro 2008 finalists can look back "positively overall" on the year.
Apart from the run to the final in the summer, where they lost 1-0 to Spain, Loew also pointed to his side's confident start to the 2010 World Cup...
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Chelsea missed the chance to go top of the Premier League on Sunday, as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by West Ham United.
Craig Bellamy put West Ham ahead in the first half and although Nicolas Anelka levelled just after the break Chelsea were unable to find a winner.
For manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who had spent the...
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Sevilla jumped above Villarreal into third place in the Spanish Liga on Sunday with a somewhat fortunate 1-0 defeat of the "Yellow Submarine."
Sevilla were the beneficiaries of two crucial refereeing decisions. Just before half-time, Renato scored the only goal despite being offside when set up by Frederic Kanoute and...
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Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann has called for former Germany defender Markus Babbel to be allowed to obtain his coaching badge on a special coaching course.
Klinsmann said an exception should be made for 36-year-old Babbel, a former Germany and Bayern Munich team-mate who has taken over as coach of VfB Stuttgart.
Under...
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European Footballer of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo is one of five players shortlisted Friday for the 2008 FIFA World Player awards.
The newly-crowned Ballon d'Or winner will face competition from last year's winner Kaka of AC Milan while Barcelona pair Lionel Messi and Xavi and Liverpool striker Fernando Torres have also been nominated...
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Two straight defeats and the failure to secure first place in their Champions League qualification group have not dented the confidence of Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho.
"The true bad luck will be also for the first team of another group, who will have to tackle a team like Inter (in the tournament's knockout stage),"...
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The critics have been silenced, organizers of the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa said on Wednesday.
"Plan B is dead," Danny Jordaan, head of the World Cup local organizing committee told reporters in Johannesburg in a year-end review of preparations for the tournament.
Jordaan was referring to speculation earlier...
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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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Glasgow (dpa) - Diego Maradona has dismissed suggestions that his Argentina team struggled to a 1-0 friendly international victory over Scotland in his first game in charge.
Maxi Rodriguez scored the only goal of the game Wednesday evening after eight minutes at the end of a slick passing move involving Carlos Tevez and Jonas...
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German football authorities Wednesday honoured goalkeeper legend Bernd Trautmann for his services to football at a ceremony ahead of an international between Germany and England.
Trautmann, 85, was awarded the German Football Federation pin with diamond - its highest award for a person outside the federation - for his "unique...
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In 2010 South Africa hosts the world's premier footballing event, the World Cup, for the first time, yet there are still many who doubt whether South Africa will be ready to host the huge event.
Infrastructural problems, an alarmingly high crime rate and delays with the building of stadiums are some of the obstacles that need to be...
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Liverpool moved clear at the top of the table, for a few hours at least, with a 2-0 win at Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League table.
Dirk Kuyt and Steven Gerrard scored the goals to put Liverpool three points clear of Chelsea, who play away to bottom side West Bromwich Albion later on Saturday.
Liverpool dominated the...
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Bayer Leverkusen downed Schalke 2-1 to stay top of the Bundesliga on Saturday, while Bayern Munich lost ground after conceding two late goals in a 2-2 draw at Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Hoffenheim meanwhile stayed second, level on 28 points with Leverkusen but with a slightly inferior goal difference after edging Wolfsburg...
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Wednesday will be a very important night for Real Madrid.
That is when the Spanish giants will be trying to turn the tables on their Euro jinx team of recent years, Juventus of Turin, in the week's most high-profile Champions League game.
At the same time, Real will be trying to go back on top of Group H.
"The Old...
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Former Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona has been named coach of the country's national team despite a lack of experience as trainer at a time when Argentina has struggled in World Cup qualifiers.
"Now the real work begins," Maradona said.
His appointment followed a meeting Tuesday that Maradona and former...
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Not long ago 1899 Hoffenheim were campaigning in the German fifth division in front of a few dozen fans.
On Sunday a capacity crowd of 26,300 will be in the Carl-Benz- Stadion in Mannheim to see the club take on Bundesliga table-toppers SV Hamburg.
But what makes the story so remarkable is not that before the start of the season...
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Premier League club Aston Villa begin their UEFA Cup group phase campaign on Thursday against former Champions League winners Ajax Amsterdam.
With SV Hamburg, Slavia Prague and MSK Zilina the other teams in Group F, the teams will be all out to ensure that they get enough points to progress to the next round.
Villa are one of three...
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Osasuna raised eyebrows across Spain on Monday by sacking coach Jose Angel Ziganda - and replacing him with former national manager Jose Antonio Camacho.
Camacho has still to sign a contract with Osasuna, but the digital versions of AS and Marca are claiming that he has already agreed to take over the struggling Pamplona...
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European champions Spain will be seeking to maintain their winning run, while losing Euro finalists Germany have a tough test when Russia are the visitors in World Cup qualifiers on Saturday.
Meanwhile France and Portugal are among teams under pressure after mixed starts to their World Cup campaign as they visit Romania and Sweden...
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Europe's freedom of movement laws mean make it highly unlikely that UEFA president Michel Platini will get his way by restricting foreign ownership of British clubs.
On Tuesday, the Frenchman attacked what he said was excessive overseas investment in the Premier League, claiming that the country's top clubs are losing their...
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SV Hamburg will face Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam and English Premier League club Aston Villa in the group stages of the UEFA Cup following the draw made Tuesday at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The Bundesliga leaders spearhead a handful of German teams in the competition and will also face Slavia Prague and Zilina in Group F,...
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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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Arsenal will be hoping to shake off their inconsistent start to the English Premier League season this weekend and regain top spot.
With joint leaders Chelsea and Liverpool, and third-placed Aston Villa all not in action until Sunday, Arsenal have the chance to move back to the top, for 24 hours at least.
To do that, they will have...
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Football's world governing body FIFA and European ruling body UEFA said Tuesday they did not recognize a decision in Poland to suspend the leadership of the Polish football federation.
"FIFA and UEFA do not recognize either the decision by the arbitration court of the Polish National Olympic Committee, or the appointment of an...
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Poland's plans to co-host Euro 2012 are not in danger, Sports Minister Miroslaw Drzewiecki said on Tuesday after the leadership of the Polish football federation (PZPN) was suspended by an arbitration court of the nation's Olympic Committee (PKOL).
"The Euro will be in four years, and everything that must be done for the Euro...
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Three months after taking over Inter Milan, star coach Jose Mourinho seems to have achieved better results in media exposure than in the performance of the Italian champions.
Inter's only truly convincing game was a 2-0 win away to Panathinaikos in the Champions League opening game, while a 1-0 defeat to AC Milan at the weekend topped...
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Poland's plans to co-host Euro 2012 are not in danger, Sports Minister
Miroslaw Drzewiecki said on Tuesday after the leadership of the Polish
football federation (PZPN) was suspended by an arbitration court of the
nation's Olympic Committee (PKOL).
"The Euro will be in four years, and everything that must be done
for the Euro...
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Romanians CFR Cluj and Cypriots Anorthosis Famagusta give home fans
their first taste of Champions League action when they will be out to
show Wednesday that their strong starts in the competition were not
down just to good fortune.
Cluj take on Chelsea having already upset Roma in a shock 2-1 victory in Italy in their opening...
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Holders Manchester United will be out to kick- start their Champions League title defence when they travel to Denmark to face AaB Aalborg on Tuesday.
Having drawn at home with Villarreal in their opening game of the group stages, United will be looking for three points from the Group E encounter, and will have fit-again Cristiano...
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UEFA's decision is final that Poland and Ukraine will host Euro 2012, the head of Poland's football association Michal Listkiewicz said on Friday after UEFA decided to keep the two nations as co-hosts of the football championship.
"This ends any speculation on the possibility of taking this tournament away from us,"...
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Champions Bayern Munich visit Hanover 96 on Saturday for a meeting of last weekend's big Bundesliga losers.
Munich crashed 5-2 at home against Werder Bremen while Hanover were trounced 4-0 at Bayer Leverkusen.
The holders Munich recovered in midweek to beat Nuremberg 2-0 in the second round of the German cup, with French star...
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Hoffenheim coach Ralf Rangnick has rejected spending inflated sums for players despite the backing of one of Germany's wealthiest men.
Rangnick has taken the village club from the third to the first division in successive seasons and now finds himself second in the Bundesliga ahead of a visit Saturday by Werder Bremen.
But the...
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Saturday will be a red-letter day for Espanyol.
That is when they will hoping to remain on top of the Spanish Liga, by beating Getafe at home.
Espanyol are the only team to have won their first two league matches, thanks to two goals from Spain striker Luis Garcia.
"We just have to take this thing one step at a time,"...
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Cristiano Ronaldo is back in contention as Manchester United begin the defence of their European crown on Wednesday when they take on Spanish hopes Villareal at Old Trafford.
The Portuguese winger has recovered from ankle surgery and could make a timely return as United aim to become the first club to retain the Champions League...
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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners when the first round kicks off with first leg matches on Tuesday and Thursday.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners'...
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Azerbaijan coach Berti Vogts says his team is on the right road despite being held to a goalless draw by Liechtenstein in a World Cup qualifying match on Wednesday.
Vogts told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Thursday he wouldn't be put under any pressure despite the draw, which followed a 1-0 defeat in Wales on Saturday.
The German...
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On the eve of Wednesday's World Cup qualifying match against England, at least ten members of Croatia's national football squad ordered luxury gold-plated bibles worth over 2,000 euros each (2,830 dollars), Zagreb media have reported.
The bibles are reported to be in Croatian and in a limited edition of just 2,000 copies. Each copy...
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Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien is likely to be sidelined for several months with a serious knee injury, the club said Tuesday.
The Ghana international has been confirmed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered playing in a World Cup qualifier against Libya on Friday.
"Michael has ruptured his anterior cruciate...
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Germany face a first stern test of their 2010 World Cup credentials when they take on Finland in a Group 4 qualifying match in Helsinki on Wednesday.
The Germans began their qualifying campaign with a comfortable 6-0 outing against Liechtenstein in Vaduz on Saturday, and coach Joachim Loew looks like keeping an unchanged side against...
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An Azerbaijan football official on Monday said that national team coach Berti Vogts had been misquoted when he said that he would resign if there was too much pressure on him.
The general secretary of the Azerbaijan football association Elkhan Mammadov said that Vogts had given an interview to German media on Saturday after his side...
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SV Hamburg are expected to announce the signing of a second Brazilian within two days with the expected transfer of playmaker Thiago Neves to the Bundesliga club, local media reports said Thursday.
It would take Hamburg's spending on new players to close to 27 million euros (40 million dollars) after the club Wednesday sealed the...
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The recent success against Roma in the Italian Supercup gave Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho an idea of what is expected of him when his first Serie A season at the helm of the Italian champions begins this weekend.
The game Sunday which saw Inter prevail on penalties after a 2-2 draw was tense, spectacular and gruelling, with an...
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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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Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried has hit an injury crisis with four days to go before the start of the tournament at Melbourne Park as a bad back forced him to withdraw ahead a match in Sydney on Thursday.
The pullout at the Medibank International sent Finn Jarkko Nieminen into the semi-finals, his first of the season and third...
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Novak Djokovic's upcoming defence of his Australian Open title was plunged into chaos on Tuesday as the Serb crashed out 6-4, 6-4 in his opening match at the Brisbane International.
The world number two was upset in his first match of the season and now has no chance this week of gaining ranking ground on Roger Federer competing in...
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Melbourne (dpa) - Jelena Dokic has again arrived in Australia determined to rescue her tennis, but this time bearing a conciliatory message to her adopted country.
The Serbia-born player, whose career has been a roller-coaster of success and dismal disappointment, has rolled back her harsh comments of a year ago, when the 25-year-old...
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Roger Federer will play only two tune-up events on clay in 2009, ahead of the only Grand Slam he has never won, the French Open.
The former world number one Federer said on his website that he will play at the Madrid and Rome 1000 Series (formerly Masters Series) events ahead of the May 24 French Open start in Paris.
Switzerland's...
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The triumph of two Serbs at the Shanghai Masters over the weekend, two players on top of global rankings and another two with the throne in sight at the close of the tennis season drove Belgrade newspapers deeper into euphoria on Monday.
"Shanghai fairy tale," "Serbia's pride," "Serbian Shanghai," and...
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Venus Williams' title at the WTA Championships on Sunday marked the end of a turbulent year in women's tennis which saw six changes at the number one position after Justine Henin's retirement.
The Belgian Henin was tipped to dominate 2008 after an amazing unbeaten second half of 2007, but her win streak came to an end at the...
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David Nalbandian defeated compatriot Juan Del Potro for the second week in a row, earning a 6-4, 6-0 victory in the third round of the Paris Masters on Thursday.
Nalbandian's victory over his 20-year-old rival also mathematically delayed Del Potro's chance of formally clinching a place in the Masters Cup.
Del Potro has been nursing...
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German Philipp Kohlschreiber dealt a likely fatal blow to the season-ending hopes of Spain's David Ferrer as he defeated the Spaniard 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday in the second round of the Paris Masters.
Ferrer, seeded fifth, will be unable to make the trip to Shanghai as a direct qualifier next week as his progress was halted while...
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Three-time Paris Masters champion Marat Safin floated the possibility of retirement after a 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) first- round disappointment on Monday at the hands of Juan Monaco
But the 28-year-old Russian's immediate hope of just seeing the back of another so-so ATP season may have been stronger than any desire to actually chuck in his...
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Roger Federer will end his short break from tennis after three weeks after confirming after he will be a starter in the Madrid Masters which begins Sunday.
The Swiss, who has spent the past days in Dubai, confirmed through his management that he would show up in the Spanish capital.
His manager had made a preliminary hotel booking...
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Argentine's Juan Martin Del Potro moved into the men's top ten for the first time in his career when he was ranked ninth in the rankings issued on Monday by the ATP.
The 20-year-old, who already won four tournaments in 2008, lost the final of the Japan Open against Tomas Berdych on Sunday 6-1, 6-4. He is the only newcomer into the top...
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Officials took cover indoors as rain from an approaching typhoon dampened the Japan Open for a second day on Tuesday, with teenaged tennis hero Kei Nishikori securing an opening win under the roof.
The 18-year-old, who claimed his nation's first ATP title in 16 years when he won Delray Beach in February, took two hours to overcome...
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Top seed Novak Djokovic crushed Germany's Simon Stadler 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday in a runaway start as top seed at the Thailand Open.
The Serbian world number three champion wasted little time in revving up his game, taking the first set in just 22 minutes over the world number 141.
Djokovic was broken in the second game of the second...
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Nicolas Mahut stunned fifth seed Jarkko Nieminen, sending the Finn flying out to his earliest career exit at the Thailand Open 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Thursday.
The second-round ambush in one hour, 40 minutes put a third French player into the quarter-final after second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and number four Gael Monfils.
Nieminen was...
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Match-tough Finn Jarkko Nieminen schooled the kid brother of Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-0 in 46 minutes on Thursday in a harsh welcome to the teenager at the Thailand Open.
The 17-year-old Djokovic Jr, gained entry as a wild card thanks to the pull of his elder brother, the top seed playing the event for only the second time,
It was the...
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Match-tough Finn Jarkko Nieminen schooled the kid brother of Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-0 in 46 minutes on Thursday in a harsh welcome to the teenager at the Thailand Open.
The 17-year-old Djokovic Jr, gained entry as a wild card thanks to the pull of his elder brother, the top seed playing the event for only the second time,
It was the...
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Reviving Roger Federer buried an Olympic demon from four years ago on Wednesday with a 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) defeat of Czech Tomas Berdych to reach the quarter-finals at the Beijing Games.
In Athens, the young Czech ended Federer's medal dream as he beat the number one in the second round.
This time, there was not chance of an upset with...
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No driver at the door, no luxury hotel suite. The Beijing Olympics offer athletes buses and rooms in shared apartments instead.
But Spaniard Rafael Nadal, set to become the world number one of men's tennis next week, is happy anyway.
"Everything is very well-organized, but you have to get your act together. At the Olympic...
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Volatile Venus Williams vows
not to be distracted in her mission for a fifth Wimbledon title by
hints that family wishes might count for more than tennis talent in
Saturday's Wimbledon final against sister Serena. Beaten
fifth-seeded semi-finalist Elena Dementieva expressed innocent doubts
when she suggested confusingly that the...
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Roger Federer and Rafael
Nadal comfortably mowed down quarter-final opposition in dominating
style on Wednesday as the pair of powerhouse players edged closer to
their third potential final at the Wimbledon Championships.
Federer, aiming for a sixth straight title at the All England Club
after holding off Nadal for the last two...
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 Nikolay Davydenko did not need more than 82 minutes in order to defeat Rafael Nadal 6-4 6-2 in the final of the Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament that took place in Miami.The two players made a trade of service breaks early in the opening set, but the fourth- seeded Davydenko staved off two other break-point chances for...
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 Russian star tennis player Maria Sharapova won over the No. 5 seed and defending champion Daniela Hantuchova 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 on Wednesday, which has extended her unbeaten 2008 record to 18-0 and sent her directly into the women semifinals of the 2.1 million dollars Pacific Life Open.Australian Open champion Sharapova fired six aces in the...
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 Lindsay Davenport managed to beat Olga Govortsova in straight sets on Saturday in the final of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championship in Memphis, as the former world number one has won the 55th singles title of her career.Since her returning on the court after giving birth to her son in last September, the player has recovered extremely...
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 Former best
tennis player in the world, Monica Seles announced her official retirement from
professional tennis yesterday.
Seles had
not participated in tennis competitions for five years because of an unlucky
succession of foot injuries, but she had not actually retired until now.
“Tennis has been and will always...
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 Russia’s Maria Sharapova claimed her third grand slam title Saturday, winning the Australian Open for the first time.She defeated Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 6-3 in just over one and a half hour. The 20-year-old Russian entered the tournament as fifth seed, but during her ascension she outclassed top-ranked players like Lindsay Davenport, Elena...
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 Jelena Jankovic claimed her third career Grand Slam semi-final as she
dismantled petulant holder Serena Williams 6-3, 6-4 in a dazzling
display on Tuesday.
The smiling Serbian third seed has now reached the final four in
Melbourne, New York and Paris since 2006. Victory - marred by 10 breaks
of serve - boosted her record against...
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 Roger Federer gained momentum for a possible Australian Open trophy
hat-trick with a win over Tomas Tomas Berdych, 6-4, 7-6 (9-7), 6-3, on
Monday, while the home Grand Slam again ended in disappointment for
Lleyton Hewitt.
Less than 48 hours after being stretched to the five-set limit by
studious Serb Janko Tipsarevic, an avid...
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 Seven-time Grand Slam champion Justine Henin and last year's finalist
Maria Sharapova met minimal resistance on Sunday as the pair bolted
into the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.
Top seed Henin, unbeaten since Wimbledon last summer, crushed Hsieh
Su-wei of Taiwan 6-2, 6-2. Fifth seed Sharapova, who lost the 2007
final to...
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 Roger Federer underwent involuntary shock therapy at the hands of
dedicated Serb spoiler Janko Tipsarevic before finally emerging with a
6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-1), 5-7, 6-1, 10-8 win on Saturday at the Australian
Open.
Ill with stomach virus the week before the start, the world number
one came to the court this week without any...
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 Philipp Kohlschreiber survived a barrage of 42 aces with 104 winners as
he stunned sixth seed Andy Roddick in the third round of the Australian
Open in the early hours of Saturday, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (11-9), 6-7 (3-7),
8-6.
The German 29th seed clinched victory after 3 hours 53 minutes of
late-night play in the Rod Laver Arena when...
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 Justine Henin tackled the fear factor and Jelena Jankovic played
through fatigue Friday as seeds struggled into the fourth round of the
Australian Open.
Top seed Henin stretched her current winning streak to 32
matches but admitted that she plays in fear that the record run might
be broken.
She staved off that immediate...
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 Number one Justine Henin overcame a niggle to lead fellow seeds into
the third round of the Australian Open on Wednesday as the Belgian
re-grouped to advance past Russia Olga Poutchkova 6-1, 7-5.
Also going through on day three was third seed Jelena Jankovic, who
put aside memories of an opening-round struggle to roll...
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 Lindsay Davenport became the leader of the richest tennis players with her first-round win at the Australian Open on Monday, which brought her career earnings to the amazing amount of 21.9 million dollars.The recent mother won in the match against the Italian Sara Errani with 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory that propelled her on the top of the...
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 After being kept from playing any of his tune- up matches at the Kooyong club a week before the Australian Open due to a stomach virus, Roger Federer managed to beat the sickness and is expecting a great performance in the Grand Slam that starts on Tuesday."I'm not sick very often, it just took me five days, a week," he said...
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 The Hopman Cup took off on Saturday with the US team’s 2-0 victory over India, despite the absence of Serena WilliamsWilliams, the defending Australian Open winner and a champion at the eight-nation mixed team event in 2003 with partner James Blake, announced that she would not be able to arrive at the place until as soon as Sunday, due...
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 Prior to Maria Sharapova’s exhibition this weekend in Singapore, the organizers have auctioned the hotel toilet seat that would be used by the Russian trendsetter."Since there's an interest for products that Sharapova will use during her stay here, we want to do this tastefully," organizer Jerry Goh told Singapore's New Paper...
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 As a result of her impressive return to the game after giving birth last summer, Linsday Davenport was named in the 2008 US Fed Cup team.The squad will play in the quarter- finals against Germany in February in La Jolla, California, near San Diego. This will be the first time Davenport will play on the United States’ territory since the...
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 Out of the 16 matches between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick, the former one has managed to defeat Roddick the 15th time, on Friday, making it into the Master Cup semi-finals, where he is going to play against Rafael Nadal.Federer has beat American Roddick 6-4, 6-2, making him loose his temper, as he smashed one of his rackets to pieces...
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 Justine Henin confidently defeated the second Williams sister, Venus, 7-6, 6-4. Venus Williams looked shaky, dizzy, but still put up a great game. "I was definitely having some problems. But she played well. By the time I got on the court, I was shaky," Williams said. Apparently, there was no real medical problem."I didn't...
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 Venus Williams surpassed Jelena Jankovic and is now set up to encounter Justine Henin in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. The 27-year-old American eventually came through after a tie-break, 4-6 6-1 7-6 (7-4), and will play the world number one Henin for a place in Saturday's final.Both Venus and Jelena Jankovic were very courteous at...
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There will be no Federer-Roddick final like last year at the U.S. Open. After yesterday’s draw that posibillity was rulled out, but the two will probably meet in the quarter finals. Nevertheless, the top seeded Swiss will have to work pretty hard to win his 51st careertitle , 12th grand slamm or his fourth US Open, as his path to it is...
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 Roger Federer eliminated Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-1) in the semifinal round of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters on Saturday in Mason, Ohio to move on step closer to his 50th career title. The Swiss, who won this tournament in 2005, will face American James Blake in today's final. Blake ousted fifth-seeded...
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 Roger Federer ousted Spaniard Nicolas Almagro to advance into the semi-finals of the Cincinnati Masters but not without struggle as he lost his first set of the week before recovering to win it 6-3 3-6 6-2 in the end. "I actually think I played better today than I did yesterday," Federer told reporters in the press...
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 Anna Chakvetadze's attempt to record her 13th straight victory on American soil which would grant her a place in the San Diego Classic final was ended by fellow countrywoman and top seed Maria Sharapova, who won 6-3 6-2 the semifinal on Saturday.The defending champion will face Swiss 11th seed Patty Schnyder, who knocked out ninth seed...
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 With the Wimbledon title in her pocket – her fourth - Venus Williams left it all on the court in the Fed Cup semi-final against Russia but it still wasn’t enough as the American couple lost in the decisive doubles match in Stowe, Vermont.She recorded wins in both her singles matches but playing with Lisa Raymond in the decisive ended...
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 Roger Federer proved Sunday once more why he is number one in the world, breaking Rafael Nadal’s tremendous will in five sets 7-6 4-6 7-6 2-6 6-2 and lifting the Wimbledon trophy for the fifth time.After a long and tiresome week, Federer and Nadal faced each other on the London grass in a final that would give their fans spectacular...
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 Venus Williams advanced to the semi finals after a much disputed match against Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova. The triple champion won in two sets 6-3, 6-4 on the famed Centre Court and will meet Ana Ivanovic on Friday. "I was able to stay tough against a great opponent," said Williams in the press conference. "I felt so...
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 Probably the most frustrating of the weather-plagued match-ups at Wimbledon finally concluded as last year’s finalist Rafael Nadal needed five match points today to add to the one he held on Monday before he could win over Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 4-6, 7-5.The second-seeded Spaniard has survived five sets, seven rain delays...
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 Last year’s Wimbledon queen Amelie Mauresmo had to bow before Czech teenager Nicole Vaidisova in three sets 7-6 4-6 6-1.This is the first time since 2001 that Mauresmo left the All England Club tournament before the semi-finals. The match started as scheduled at 11 a.m. but by 1:32 p.m. there were three interruptions already due to the...
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 Saint Patrick’s Day parade is the world’s oldest and largest civic parade and celebrates the faith of Ireland, Irish heritage and culture. It honors Saint Patrick, the patron Saint of the Archdiocese of New York and Ireland. Therefore St. Patrick's Day revelers took a break from worries about the global economy to enjoy a day of...
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 Where did the trademark blonde bombshell look come from? Some would say Marilyn Monroe, but others would actually bet everything on Barbie.In spite of the fact that Mattel’s doll looks even better than she did half a century ago, she has reached an age some would not even dare to pronounce. The much loved plastic beauty turned 50 on...
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 For a woman just turning 50, she has had a very exciting life. She has been through various career changes and has even taken part in the run for United States president. In addition, she has been the subject of many lawsuits. However, notwithstanding all this trouble, she displays no wrinkle on her forehead and is still maintaining...
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 Animated comedy The Simpsons is to become the longest-running prime-time series in US TV history after makers Fox ordered another two seasons. The show is currently in its 20th season which matches the record of Western drama Gunsmoke, shown on CBS, which ended in 1975. The 21st season will begin in the autumn with the 22nd airing next...
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 The beloved Jerry Seinfeld is heading back to TV for ... a reality show?The comedian is set to team up with NBC again after an 11-year break to create and produce a reality series that finds humor in marital woes of other people.The working title for the show is "The Marriage Ref" and will invite athletes, celebs and comedians...
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 Beaten-up beauty Rihanna donned a bikini and soaked up some Mexican sun a day after her 21st birthday. The shocking bruises that sources say boyfriend Chris Brown left on the songbird's face just before the Grammy Awards were not visible in exclusive photographs obtained by the Daily News.Her grim expression, so at odds with the balmy...
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 The troubled R&B singer, who was arrested two weeks ago on suspicion of making criminal threats against girlfriend Rihanna, attended his first class in Glendale, California, on Monday afternoon. According to a source, Brown opted for anger management at the behest of his spin doctor, Michael Sitrick.The February 7th incident in which...
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 Paris Hilton’s younger sister, Nicky, made a citizen’s
arrest over the weekend. No, she did not become a cop since the last time we
have heard of her, but she bravely took quite a challenging matter into her own
hands. It all happened while the...star?
was eating at an IHOP.
Access Hollywood has found
out that Hilton was leaving...
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 Over the past decade, the academy has chosen to divide its
awards among several big winners, but for "Slumdog Millionaire," the
academy was willing to break recent tradition. On Sunday night, there was a
general feeling of celebration because the movie turned out to be the big
winner at this year's Academy Awards ceremony....
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 Rihanna gathered a
circle of friends on Friday to celebrate her 21st birthday. Chris Brown, was
not on the guest list, but he had the nerve or the decency to call her to wish
her a happy birthday, according to an insider. The source also said that he
seems to be absolutely trying to get back into her good graces. He is...
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 Over the past decade, the academy has chosen to divide its
awards among several big winners, but for "Slumdog Millionaire," the
academy was willing to break recent tradition. On Sunday night, there was a
general feeling of celebration because the movie turned out to be the big
winner at this year's Academy Awards ceremony....
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 The feds stated on Thursday the fact that the actor who
plays a steroid dealer in the Oscar-nominated movie "The Wrestler"
had a real-life stash: 1,500 bottles of anabolic steroids and more than
$100,000 in cash were found in two homes.
The details showed up in a criminal complaint filed by
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 After first being spotted at the Hard Rock Hotel, Brad Pitt
was seen at the MGM Grand on Wednesday as he continued what appeared to be a
boy’s night out.
Instead of gazing at the girls at Crazy Horse Paris or
taking shots of Patron at Studio 54, however, the 45-year-old star was spotted
with adopted sons Maddox, 7, and Pax, 5, in...
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 Mickey Rourke is Hollywood's
great comeback this year. He has won critical acclaim for his role in “The
Wrestler,” a Golden Globe for the best actor category, which also earned him
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In the movie, he embodies the character of Randy 'The Ram'
Robinson, a...
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 “Dr. Horrible's
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The musical miniseries is supposed to have three parts, and
the heavy traffic crashed the server for the free-view website when the first
part was posted. The iTunes...
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 Susan Atkins, a follower of Charles Manson who took part in
the killing of pregnant actress Sharon Tate nearly 40 years ago was denied
compassionate release Tuesday.
Atkins, who was a leading character in one of the most
horrible crimes in California history, hoped to be allowed to go home, because
she is dying due to brain...
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 “The Dark Knight”’s Monday night World Premiere in New York gathered the
world’s most famous stars who paid tribute to the late Heath Ledger.
Kim Ledger, the father of the deceased actor, and his wife,
Heath Ledger’s stepmother, Ines, attended the premiere, although they stayed
away from the red carpet. The couple entered the...
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The New York Times’ fifty-two story building seems to be
ever tempting for people with a lot of time on their hands.
Wednesday morning, another man climbed a portion of the
building in Manhattan, becoming the third in a few weeks to do so, the police
said.
The adventurer managed to reach the 11th floor,
and then he descended to...
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time full-length films on its Web site, www.disney.com.
It seems that this new release is part of a well-known series “Wonderful World
of Disney” that the company is broadcasting on ABC. The movies have been
scheduled to stream until August.
Films like "Monsters, Inc.,"...
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 The Rev. David Ajemian, 46, a Boston catholic priest, pleaded guilty
Tuesday to disorderly conduct in front of Manhattan Criminal Court. He was
accused of stalking Conan O’Brian, the host of the “Late Night with Conan
O’Brien” talk-show.
He admitted in Manhattan Criminal Court that he sent letters
and DVD’s to his favorite star...
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 The U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez said
Tuesday that the case of Britney Spears’ conservatorship should remain in a California court. The
reason for this decision is, according to the judge, the fact that the lawyer who
claims to represent her is not actually her attorney because Britney hasn’t got
the right to hire one on her...
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 Whoopi Goldberg was very sad and upset because on Sunday night’s Academy Awards broadcast on ABC she was left out of a montage
of Oscar’s memorable moments. It is uncertain for now whether this happened
unintentional or not, but this fact bothered Whoopi, who was the first woman to
solo as Oscar host.
When asked by Sherri Shepherd...
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 troubled singer Britney Spears has finally obtained the
permission to visit her children. The 26-year-old pop star spent Saturday
almost three hours with 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden
James. The visit comes after a two-month break, as Spears had previously
seen her children on January 3rd.
According to People...
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 Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. also known as Will Smith is a
39-year-old two time Academy Award-nominated American actor and singer.
However, this year Smith hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar, but has received
the first Cadet Choice Movie Award from the U.S. Military Academy for his role
in “I Am Legend.”
The...
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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are finally parents. The
38-year-old Latin singer gave birth to a girl and a boy Friday in Long Island, New
York. According to People the girl was born at 12:12
a.m. with a 5lbs. 7oz weight, while the boy came to the world at 12:23 a.m.
weighing 6lbs.
Jennifer Lopez’s pregnancy was...
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 A 138-acre property near the famous
Hollywood sign is for sale. The property is
located west of the “H” in the sign and its estimated price is $22 million.
A Chicago
investment group announced Wednesday the sale of the mountaintop land as they
could not reach an agreement with the City of Los Angeles to preserve it....
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 George Clooney was appointed U. N. messenger of peace on Thursday, by U. N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He has been involved in a campaign about Sudan’s Darfur for years. He has recently returned from a two-week trip to Africa.
Like many other celebrities, Clooney has been using his fame to draw attention upon international...
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A 25-year-old man was arrested Wednesday
after having been caught trying to get into the Jolie-Pitt’s Los Angeles house.
The housekeeper looking after the
couple’s house said a man, blocking the driveway, got out of his car and asked
where Brad Pitt’s house is. The housekeeper called the police. According...
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 Britney Spears has been sued by Las Vegas resident
Nancy Rosu, a fashion consultant, after Britney allegedly stopped paying
for the clothes bought and delivered by Rosu, reported USA Today.
According to TMZ, the case was
filed on Jan. 18, on the roll of Clark Country District Court for compensation
exceeding $50,000. Nancy...
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 Unless the United Kingdom would take all the measures needed and would assure Russia of the fact that the 120 paintings that should be exhibited for London's Royal Academy of Arts next month will not be seized, the blockbuster art exhibition will be cancelled, Russia's federal agency for culture announced on Wednesday. The paintings...
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Today is Saturday, September 15, 2007 TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT): Sun............... 23rd degree Virgo Moon.............. 25th degree Libra Mercury........... 15th degree Libra Venus............. 18th degree Leo, retrograde Mars.............. 24th...
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Today is Wednesday, September 12, 2007TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLEPositions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):Sun............... 20th degree VirgoMoon.............. 1st degree LibraMercury........... 11th degree LibraVenus............. 17th degree Leo, retrogradeMars.............. 22nd degree...
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Today is Thursday, September 6, 2007TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLEPositions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):Sun............... 14th degree VirgoMoon.............. 15th degree CancerMercury........... 2nd degree LibraVenus............. 17th degree Leo, retrogradeMars.............. 19th degree...
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By D.DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Thursday, August 16, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 24th degree Leo
Moon.............. 5th degree Libra
Mercury........... 24th degree Leo
Venus............. 26th degree Leo,...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Saturday, July 21, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 29th degree Cancer
Moon.............. 20th degree Libra
Mercury........... 9th degree Cancer
Venus............. 3rd degree...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Friday, July 20, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 28th degree Cancer
Moon.............. 9th degree Libra
Mercury........... 8th degree Cancer
Venus............. 2nd degree...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Tuesday, July 10, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 18th degree Cancer
Moon.............. 26th degree Taurus
Mercury........... 3rd degree Cancer
Venus................
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Friday, June 15, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 25th degree Gemini
Moon.............. 29th degree Gemini
Mercury........... 12th degree Cancer, stationary...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Sunday, June 10, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 20th degree Gemini
Moon.............. 16th degree Aries
Mercury........... 11th degree Cancer
Venus............. ...
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 Netflix will stop selling used DVDs by the end of this month. The company says it will discontinue these sales, which are as low as $5.95 per DVD, on November the 30th, but the rental of DVDs will continue. Most likely, Netflix will sell the used DVDs to wholesalers, which will eventually resell them. The company seems to focus more on...
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 It was long time known that coral reefs are in an increased danger of extinction because of the effects that the increase in water temperatures pose for them, but scientist have found one new and perhaps even harder to avoid reason for concern: the acidifying water of the oceans. This is also the effect of pollution and increased CO2...
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Artists have recently received some very
good financial news. Following the decision of a New York rate court, thousands of music
composers and writers may receive as much as $100 million for the online
coverage that their work has recorded.
The online services affected by the court’s
ruling are Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks...
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 The exchange of information is sometimes urgent and there are certain situations in which people have their hands tied and simply have to wait for a while before getting down to business. Flying is no longer part of this category, as European regulators approved on Monday the plan to allow mobile phone calls on European flights.A warning...
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 A gold necklace, which now constitutes the oldest known gold
object discovered in the Americas,
was found near Lake Titicaca in southern Peru. The radiocarbon dating method
that was used to determine its age places its origin at about 4,000 years ago.
”The gold reflects a universal tendency for human beings to
strive for prestige...
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 A new version of Mac OS X 10.5 operating system has been released on the market this week. After the Panther and Tiger, it now came the time for Leopard, which it has been promoted as coming with 300 new features. Unleashes One of them is called the Time Machine. This function allows the system to be restored to an earlier moment and...
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 Two spacewalking astronauts worked together for around five hours in order to repair a solar array that has previously torn on the International Space Station (ISS), in one of the riskiest spacewalks ever, as NASA has declared.The two astronauts that came through with the mission’s fourth spacewalk were Scott Parazynsky, a 48 years old...
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 The Recording Industry
Association of America, or RIAA, as it is generally known, has eventually won
the trial over a Minnesota woman whom it accused of having violated the copyright law. Jammie Thomas, 30
years old, has been found guilty by the federal jury of having encouraged the
illegal sharing of more than 1,700 music tracks and...
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 Adobe System Inc. has recently
announced that it is preparing two hosted services that are to allow the
developers to add real-time collaboration capabilities such as voice over IP
(VoIP) and rich Internet applications (RIAs).The two services, which have been
code-named Pacifica and CoCoMo, have been announced by the company with...
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 Google Inc., the company behind
the powerful and popular web search engine, has been recently reported to have
not stopped from its continual adjusting to the present market, to its new
smarter devices and technologies. Google Inc. is a model for how all companies
should be: smart, creative and in a continual adjustment to present...
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 Following the recent accusations coming from Privacy International and European Commission’s concerns about data retention at Mountain View, Google decided to keep information about search queries only for 18 months.Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel for Google, posted on the official Google blog the company’s recent history...
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 Everyone was expecting something big, but instead Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs only made the announcement that Safari browser will now work with Windows PCs and that no SDK for iPhone will be available.High hopes were surrounding last night San Francisco’s Moscone Center, where industry’s beloved Steve Jobs was preparing his keynote,...
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 Alienware, Dell’s subsidiary which manufactures high-end desktops for enthusiasts, has recently unveiled Hangar 18, an unusual desktop that sits…in your living room, under your TV.Alienware Hangar 18 is a device that allows you to watch, pause, and record your movies, TV shows, photos, and internet videos on your widescreen TV in high...
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 And it appears that they spend their time online even more than the majority of the Americans, according to the newest study conducted by comScore Media Matrix.comScore went on measuring how much time spend online different populations across the globe on a regular April day and found out that the Brits and the Swedish are champions in...
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 EA is shifting the Need for Speed Franchise towards a new (and probably needed) circuit: developed by the company’s Black Box studio in LA, NFS ProStreet now puts the players in a head to head competition against the best street racers in a multitude of racing showdowns.“Need for Speed ProStreet accelerates street racing culture by...
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 Apple recently released another batch of software patches, this time aimed at its Mac OSX operating system, making this the 5th important upgrade in 5 moths.The software upgrades should fix certain crashes and protect areas considered vulnerable in the OS.This latest bundle of fixes marks the fifth update from Apple this year and...
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 According to a US Weekly report, the Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen married National Football League star Tom Brady in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica on Thursday.The celebrity magazine said the ceremony took place at St. Monica Catholic Church in the oceanfront community, and the guests were mostly immediate family members. The...
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 Seven people, including a baby, have been hurt after a shooting incident occured at the New Orleans Mardi Gras in the United States. Police lining the parade route on historic St Charles Avenue heard the shots coming from the crowd at about 13:40 local time. The shootings happened just minutes after the final major parade of the...
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 She has an Oscar-winning father, but Heath Ledger's
3-year-old daughter Matilda will not be moving to Hollywood or following her parents into
acting, according to her mom.
A notable absentee from Sunday night's Academy Awards,
Matilda's Brooklyn-based mother Michelle Williams, 28, told British newspaper
the Daily Telegraph that...
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 Condoleezza Rice has agreed to a book deal with Crown
Publishers starting with a memoir of her eight years under former U.S.
President George W. Bush, first as national security adviser and then as
secretary of state. Although often criticized as unduly loyal to the president
and some of his policies, including the Iraq War, she is...
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Pristina- Kosovo declared independence from Serbia a year ago, but foreign diplomats and local observers agree that it is more dependent than ever before.
The illusion fomented by politicians, that independence would quickly end economic and social misery, has evaporated. Instead, the majority of Albanians have come to a rude...
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Washington/Moscow - A US satellite was destroyed in an unprecedented collision with a spent Russian satellite, raising fears of danger to other satellites, the space.com internet portal reported Thursday.
The collision between Iridium-33, a commercial US communications satellite and Russia's Cosmos 2251 satellite, which had...
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Madrid - Arco, one of the world's biggest art fairs, felt the impact of the global economic crisis as it opened for the 28th time Wednesday with a lower number of exhibitors.
The number of exhibitors had gone down from 257 in 2008 to 238, organizers said in the Spanish capital.
About 30 countries are participating in the Arco this...
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Brussels - The row over the use of foreign workers in Britain which erupted on Friday could be the "first in a flood" of cases across Europe if the European Union's labour laws are not improved, a top union leader warned Wednesday.
"If there's suspicion that people are working cheaply, then there will be more and more...
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A court in Spain's Basque region on Monday dropped charges against regional Prime Minister Juan Jose Ibarretxe, who had gone on an unprecedented trial for meeting with the illegal separatist party Batasuna in 2006.
Batasuna is regarded as the political wing of the militant Basque separatist group ETA.
The Superior Tribunal of...
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Sri Lanka held remembrance ceremonies in various parts of the island nation to mark the fourth anniversary of the devastating tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004, that claimed over 40,000 lives and displaced more than half a million people..
An island-wide two-minute silence was observed Friday morning as friends and relatives of those...
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Israel gave Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in Gaza 48 hours Friday to avoid an Israeli military operation in the strip, government officials said.
For the first time in 10 days, it opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Friday morning to allow in essential humanitarian supplies.
If Hamas, the radical...
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Two giant pandas given by China to Taiwan arrived in Taipei on Tuesday amid huge public interest in the latest sign of improving ties between the two political rivals.
The pandas, named Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, arrived on board a chartered EVA Air jet, following a three-hour flight from a panda reserve in China's Sichuan...
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"Christmas greetings from the banana republic called Belgium."
The text message arrived on this correspondent's mobile phone on Monday, sent by a Belgian friend not normally characterized by her interest in politics.
And it put into words a widespread feeling of weariness and deja vu as the country found itself looking...
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Mountain gorillas living in a Congolese national park controlled by rebels battling the government are doing well despite the conflict, the director of the park said Tuesday after rangers gained access for the first time in 15 months.
Rangers have not been able to access the gorillas in the Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic...
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A UN tribunal Thursday sentenced former army colonel Theoneste Bagosora to life in prison for helping to organize the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Bagosora, who was the Director of Cabinet in the Defence Ministry at the time of the genocide, faced 12 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Prosecutors at the...
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Wednesday met for an extraordinary conference in the Algerian city of Oran at which its member nations are expected to approve a cut in oil production of about 2 million barrels per day.
With global oil demand falling this year for the first time since 1983, the group...
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A mysterious group calling for the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan claimed responsibility on Tuesday for planting five sticks of dynamite in a large department store in central Paris, the French Interior Ministry said.
Police found the dynamite in the Printemps department store on the posh Boulevard Haussmann after a...
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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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It was a year of extremes, starting with the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ending with a global financial crisis that engulfed millions across the world.
The year 2008 saw the eruption of the war in Georgia just as the Olympics opened with a glittering ceremony in Beijing....
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It was a year of extremes, starting with the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ending with a global financial crisis that engulfed millions across the world.
The year 2008 saw the eruption of the war in Georgia just as the Olympics opened with a glittering ceremony in Beijing....
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Shareholders of Britain's Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) Friday overwhelmingly approved a mammoth merger with Lloyds TSB bank amid further stockmarket turmoil. The merger, agreed at the height of banking crisis in September, was backed by 84 per cent of individual shareholders at a meeting in Birmingham, HBOS said. The link-up will...
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Spanish giants Atletico Madrid announced on Monday that they would travel to Marseille, for Tuesday's Champions League clash against Olympique just hours ahead of the kickoff.
Like most European teams, Atletico normally travel the day before the game, in order to get used to the city, the stadium and the weather.
This time,...
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 Winona Ryder’s spokeswoman said that the 37-year-old actress was taken to the Hillingdon Hospital in west London after she had fallen ill during a flight from Los Angeles to London. The spokeswoman added that it was a "precautionary measure" and Ryder was discharged after a short time.The spokeswoman also confirmed the fact...
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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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Indian equities dropped more than 6 per cent Tuesday, largely because investors were selling stocks to lock in profits from previous gains given the gloomy global economic outlook and negative trading on other Asian markets, analysts said.
A fall in India's exports for the first time in five years in October added to the negative...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Austrian Benjamin Raich goes into the new alpine season - which starts on the weekend in the Austrian town of Soelden - looking for a second overall World Cup title.
The 30-year-old, who has also won 30 World Cup races, however, is aware that even though he is one of the favourites, he is far from guaranteed to repeat...
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The Clinton County Sheriff’s Department issued an Amber Alert for two youngsters who went missing.14-year-old Christina Alley from Lathrop disappeared Friday, October 17th at approx 2:30 p.m. She was last seen while attending a high school football game in Lathrop, Missouri, said Maj. John Farmer, the chief deputy for the Sheriff’s...
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Three US-based researchers shared the Nobel prize for chemistry Wednesday for work on developing a key tool used for tagging bioscience processes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm.
The three - Osamu Shimomura of Japan and US citizens Martin Chalfie and Roger Y Tsien - were cited for "the discovery and...
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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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Sweden and Denmark on Monday joined the growing group of European countries that have raised state guarantees for bank deposits amid the ongoing financial turmoil.
In Finland, the cabinet committee on economic policy met Monday to discuss the events, saying Helsinki hoped the moves "will prove efficient in resolving the existing...
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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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Britain's Lloyds TSB Bank is taking over ailing mortgage lender HBOS in what is seen as the biggest shake-up in the banking sector in the wake of the current international market turmoil.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said Thursday the merger was "absolutely necessary to ensure stability in the financial...
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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners in Thursday's first-round first-leg matches.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup).
After being...
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Lehman Brothers' collapse rattled European markets just as the continent struggles to avoid recession and the US-spawned credit crisis shows no sign of ending.
While investors awaited the 158-year-old US investment bank's bankruptcy Monday, Germany's main stock index hit a nearly two-year low. The European Central Bank and the Bank of...
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Two brothers were arrested in a scandal over contaminated baby milk in China, as a second infant died, state-run media said Monday.
Authorities said the number of babies who fell ill with kidney stones after being fed with contaminated baby milk produced by the Chinese dairy San Lu rose to 580. Two infants died.
The brothers from...
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For coach Joachim Loew, Germany's 3-3 draw in Finland was soon forgotten as he looked ahead to what should be an even tougher test next month against Russia.
Loew was satisfied with the point in Helsinki after his side came close to a rare defeat against a lively Finland who were three times in front only to be pegged back each...
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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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Monday's emergency EU summit meeting in Brussels on how to respond to Russia's recognition of the Georgian breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia could be instrumental in confirming the European Union as a major international peacemaker.
With the United States taking a diplomatic back seat on the crisis and the swift...
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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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The Kosovo government named on Thursday its first ten diplomats for postings to diplomatic missions in the West.
Diplomats, among whom are former journalists, professors, scientists, civil activists and presidential advisers, will represent Kosovo in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Austria,...
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No one expected US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas, which ended Tuesday, to result in a breakthrough in the peace process, so no one was disappointed.
A breakthrough is always possible in the peace negotiations, which resumed around the turn of the year, after a seven-year...
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Five people, including an army officer, were killed Wednesday in India's Jammu and Kashmir state by suspected Islamic militants who had infiltrated across the border from Pakistan, police said.
Security forces had killed one of the militants who were holed up in a house in a residential area on the outskirts of Jammu city, the...
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China has deported all 10 of the pro-Tibet activists it arrested for protesting or helping to organize protests during the Beijing Olympics, releasing them before the end of their 10-day detention following pressure from the US embassy in Beijing, a US-based Tibet rights group said Monday.
"All 10 have been deported. They were...
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A Russian court on Friday denied granting parole to former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, news agencies reported.
Khodorkovsky, 45, once Russia's richest man, applied for parole having served over half of an eight-year jail term for large-scale tax evasion charges against his former oil empire Yukos.
"The court ruled...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph at the Beijing Games.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win a slow-paced race a week after she dominated the 10,000m gold with the second best time in event...
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Germany looked strong Friday at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, as they took two of the first four gold medals on offer for the day.
They won the women's kayak four (K4) 500m and the kayak two (K2) 1,000m, while Briton Tim Brabants won the kayak single (K1) over 1,000m and Attila Sandor Vajda from Hungary took gold in the...
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It's probably just as well that defending light welterweight champion Manus Boonjumnong intends turning professional after the Olympic Games because the talented Thai boxer certainly seems to need a bigger stage.
Manus was already assured of becoming the first Thai athlete in history to win medals at consecutive Games before his...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to visit Myanmar in December to discuss the country's political stalemate, his special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari disclosed Wednesday.
"Ban Ki-moon plans to come to Myanmar in the last week of December but this time the trip will be focused on politics," said Nyan Win, the...
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Argentina on Tuesday won their first-ever Olympic cycling medal when they won men's madison race at the Beijing Olympics ahead of Spain, while Britain's Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton took the sprint titles.
In the madison race, Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez beat Joan Llaneras and Antonio Tauler into second place...
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 It comes no longer as a surprise to hear about a burning iPod, but this time, the news is also about a lawsuit being filed against Apple and several retail employees. The mother of a child in Cincinnati, Ohio, has filed a complaint in the Southern District of Ohio after an iPod touch exploded in her child’s pants.The story, which was...
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 New rumors of an Apple netbook surfaced on Monday, when several sources reported that we could expect to see a launch later this year. As it
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 Amazon hurried a little when it released the first Kindle device. The e-book reader seemed a little out of hand to be used by everybody and had a likely hard to use software and design. At first, Amazon promised to offer an always-on connection together with a big variety of e-books and a decent reading experience.Well, the Kindle...
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 Books are still those things you read quietly in your privacy. They are still those old ways of printing someone’s writings and they still have the same specific smell. These are some things that neither Kindle nor Kindle 2 will be able to change. Yet, they do manage to make the e-books look pretty interesting.Kindle 2 began to be...
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 Motorola announced on Monday the launch of Motozone ZN5, its new phone, exclusively for T-Mobile customers in North America. The Motozone was created in collaboration with Eastman Kodak and it’s the first mobile phone to combine Motorola’s ModeShift technology and KODAK Imaging Technology. The new phone will be available online at...
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 Google has started distributing a patch for the Android mobile phone OS. It seems like this is an early try, to see how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates. The system update is announced by a simple, short message: “A system update is available” and the user can update at that time or later. The new software...
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 A group of security researchers have found a serious flaw in the Android software from Google. This comes just after a few days from T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone launch on Wednesday. One of the researchers, Charles A. Miller, notified Google about the flaw. Furthermore, he announced the error publicly in order to show cell phone users that...
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 The social networking giant MySpace announced the launch of an application for mobiles optimized for Google’s Android mobile operating system and available via the Android Market virtual storefront for free. MySpace Mobile promises deep integration with the Android-based devices like T-Mobile’s G1, with features including friend searches...
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 Following the model of Apple, with its iPhone, Google is controlling the Android phone’s programs. Even if users found it hard to believe that the iPhones have a kill switch built in that could destroy applications one has bought and paid for, the rumor was quickly confirmed, to the shock of the buyers. Now Google has a similar kill...
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 Apple launched on Tuesday lighter aluminum MacBooks with
faster graphics and better display. The aluminum casing was introduced for the
first time in the cheapest MacBook line. The most important part of the new
MacBooks is the non-crippled video system. The laptop will perform better
graphically in leaps and bounds. Also, Apple has...
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 Apple’s latest device, the 3G iPhone, has been this weekend’s star gadget as about 1 million units have been sold worldwide. While the exact number isn’t known and there was no time to determine it, the fact that the phone fulfilled expectations is sure.Only about 270,000 units of the old iPhone had been sold in the first two days since...
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 OpenMoko officials have announced the launch of the company’s latest smartphone. The new Linux-based handset is called Neo FreeRunner and will be made available to US residents starting July 4. This touchscreen device could appeal to the electronics enthusiasts for several reasons. The device features WiFi (802.1 1b/g), assisted-GPS,...
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 On Thursday, information regarding the recently-released Samsung
Instinct smartphone was made public. Although the device was made available to
Sprint customers on June 19 and to everyone else the following day, reports of shortages
in certain stores are already being announced.
About one week ago, Sprint Nextel Corp. officials set...
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 Thanks to T-Mobile, starting July 7, US residents will be
able to purchase Motorola’s Rokr E8. The device will be made available for the
price of $199, with a two-year service agreement.
The one thing that really makes this smartphone special is
its keyboard. It can go through a series of successive phases, each one
revealing a...
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 On Wednesday, Panasonic unveiled its new Toughbook CF-U1
ultra mobile PC.
This is the first time a Panasonic machine packs the Intel
Atom processor (Z520 1.33GHz with 533MHz FSB, 512KB L2 cache). The CF-U1 features
a 5.6-inch touch screen, 16GB solid state hard drive, 1GB memory, Intel
Wireless WiFi Link 5100 Series, Bluetooth®...
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 The race to come up with the most attractive smartphone is on and has been for quite some time now. Although recently the spotlight has mainly been on Apple’s new 3G iPhone, there are a lot of things going on in the background. One of the iPhone’s most powerful competitors will probably be Samsung’s Instinct, scheduled for release on...
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 On Monday, Sense Networks came up with a new, very useful BlackBerry
application called Citysense, which can be used in order to look up information
concerning nighttime activities.
By downloading the tool from the Citysense.com website,
users will be able to receive a list of "must see" events and places.
Everything is...
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 On Tuesday, Canon announced the EOS Rebel XS, which is part
of the company's DSLR line.
When compared to the previous model, the XT, the camera
doesn't have all that much to show for; however, the size of the LCD screen has
changed from 1.8 to 2.5 inches,
the resolution has been improved, jumping from 8 to 10 megapixels and it...
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HTC Touch Pro is the next generation business phone to be released by
the Taiwanese company HTC. This is a continuance to the touch screen
smartphones from the HTC Touch lineup.
The new business-focused enhancements make him the new model to follow
after HTC Touch Diamond. Not only the look, but also his new improved...
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 According to information provided by inside sources of technology blog Gizmodo, iPhone’s 3G version will indeed be launched on June 9. Apple is expected to produce at least 11 million 3G iPhones by the end of the third quarter of 2008. This new phone will operate on AT&T’s faster network, which will provide Internet users with a...
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 On Thursday, the new Aliph Jawbone was made available in AT&T retail and online stores for the price of US$129.99. When compared to the previous model, it presents several improvements, some focused on size and design. It is 50% smaller and comes in gold, silver, and black. Hosain Rahman, CEO and cofounder of Aliph, said that people,...
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 Probably after having monitored the constantly increasing popularity of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is now getting ready to launch a touch-screen version for its BlackBerry smartphone.The upcoming device, code-named Thunder, will be made available in the U.S. exclusively through Verizon Wireless and abroad, through...
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 On Monday, Apple Inc. officials said that the U.K. and U.S. online stores are fresh out of iPhones. The announcement comes at a time which is very close to the launch of the next generation of iPhones, that will feature faster Internet speeds. Although the online stocks are out, those who are interested may still have a chance to find...
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 On Monday, Research In Motion Ltd. is launching the new BlackBerry Bold 9000. As this is the company’s first major release in more than one year, it has to be good. The device comes with twice the display resolution of the Curve model; it supports tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE and it is equipped with a 624-MHz StrongARM processor...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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 On Monday, three new Nokia phone models came to complete the company’s already ridiculously wide range of devices. These mid-priced phones, Nokia 6600 Fold, Nokia 6600 Slide and Nokia 3600 Slide, are to hit stores sometime in the third quarter.The Nokia 6600 Fold model, coming with 3G technology and a 2 megapixel camera, will be made...
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 Although initially scheduled for June, Research In Motion Ltd. has delayed the launch of its latest Blackberry smartphone, code named "Meteor," for August. While the device will be the first phone to use the 3G technology for AT&T, another 3G Blackberry was released for a different type of wireless technology for Verizon...
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 In an announcement made today by MSN it was said that the SPOT Watches powered by the MSN Direct service would not come back, now that the product’s supplies have been depleted. According to Jon Canan, MSN Direct manager, there are no plans to replace the watch, in the immediate future at least, as the company is currently focusing on...
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 NetBlender is the company responsible for the application called "BD Touch" that is intended to enhance BD Live capabilities by enabling the two-way communication between the iPhone and Blu Ray disks. BD Touch features will work on any BD-Live enabled Blu-ray disc player, including Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3. BD features...
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 The resourcefulness of Internet and mobile phone companies is astounding. Mobile devices are continuously evolving and they have come a very long way from the simple function of call making. On Wednesday, Amazon.com introduced its new service called TextBuyIt, that gives customers with Amazon accounts the chance to find and buy a vast...
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The MediaFLO-based Mobile TV service from AT&T was
recently announced to be launched in May. It will feature two exclusive content
channels, one of which is Sony Pictures Television's PIX. Nonexclusive deals were
also made with ESPN, NBC, CBS and Nickelodeon.
Sony’s approach is in fact to show entire films and not to
go...
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 The Japanese officials announced on Wednesday that they began an inquiry regarding iPod nano devices, following the incidents in which the music player has sparked and burst into flames.One of the popular iPods nano has given off sparks while being recharged in Japan in January. The incident, which occurred at the Kanagawa Prefecture...
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 The LiMo Foundation seems a quite
successful idea, especially now, when its tough members have unveiled an
impressive number of even more amazing Linux-based mobile phones with the
occasion of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. On Monday, Motorola,
Samsung, NTT DoCoMO, LG Electronics, and others have all revealed Linux-based...
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 Israeli startup Modu unveiled
recently an innovative mobile phone that can be “dressed” and connected to
other compatible consumer electronics in order to enrich users’ experience. The
Israeli company’s new cell phone’s goal is to revolutionize the mobile
industry; the facts that Modu is the first cell phone that can be “dressed”...
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 LiveScribe revealed recently a
new interesting gadget, the so-called Pulse SmartPen. It sounds really great,
but what exactly does this cool gadget do?
LiveScribe’s Pulse SmartPen is
nothing else than a piece of high technology incorporated in a regular-sized
pen; thus, the writing tool is integrated with a microphone and...
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 The world’s largest mobile phone
making company, Nokia Corp., has launched on Wednesday the latest version of
its Linux-based Wi-Fi tablet device. But this version will be a brand new one
as it will come with a full keyboard too.
The N810 will be the Finnish
company’s third version of the Wi-Fi tablet and it is expected to hit the...
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 Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Kurt
Cobain, Freddie Mercury, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur and others and others… All
these magnificent artists have died too early! But although they barely reached
their forties, they all have been able to leave behind great, amazing legacies!
They are still popular among the elder people, but also among...
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 Because the demand for a
universal solution for the memory cards issue has become more than a necessity
today, Nokia Corp., Samsung, Sony Ericsson and other mobile phones
manufacturers have left behind their market rivalry and have joined forces for
creating a standard flash memory card that will work with different mobile
phones...
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 Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to
go to shopping only with your already beloved friend – the mobile phone? Not
saying that the credit card plastic-made item is hard to carry with you, but
having only your mobile phone with you when going for shopping could in fact strengthen
your relationship with the device. You two spend most of...
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 It seems that these are Nokia’s
days! After the company’s recent several announcements, everyone is talking
only about the Finnish mobile phone-maker’s new products and services, such as
the United States-compatible version for N95 or the brand new OVI web platform
and also about the company’s revived N-Gage game system.
However,...
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 In the recent period almost all
of the rumors that hit the market have been eventually right. But will this be
also gPhone’s case? It seems so, as more and more people and publications are
talking about the ultimate phone that Google is allegedly preparing for
release.
Engadget.com has written these
days that several trustworthy...
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 PlayStation 3 has been announced
by Sony Corp. to get equipped with a new external device that will allow it to
function also as a digital TV tuner and recorder. The new device for Sony’s
video game console is called PlayTV and it will allow the gamers to watch and
also record high-def TV broadcasts. PlayTV will also allow the users...
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 The Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute has been just announced of having created a new quite innovative
device. The project at which the institute has been working over for some time
is nothing else than an energy storage device. But although a battery is
something common and simple, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s...
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 Microsoft Corp. has announced at
the Comic-Con International 2007 that it is will reduce the price of its Xbox
360 HD DVD Player from $199 to $179, but only in the United States. The Xbox 360 HD DVD
Player will be available at the new price starting with the 1st of
August 2007.
Microsoft has also announced that
between the 1st...
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 That would be the ultimate
solution for the evil students to corrupt their university from the inside: to
buy many iPhones and to wait to see what’s happening. In the case of the Duke University
it will certainly work, although for other university the experiment hasn’t yet
taken place.
So, the Duke University’s
officials have...
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