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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.
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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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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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Novak Djokovic's upcoming defence of his Australian Open title was plunged into disarray 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 to gain ranking ground this week on Roger Federer, who...
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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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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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Brazilian comedians gave symbolic "bad luck presents" to British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, who is seeking the world championship title Sunday in Sao Paulo.
Hamilton's rival for the title is Brasilian Felipe Massa, so many of his compatriots are hoping for a "miracle" at the season-ender on the Interlagos...
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 Although we are still one day away from Apple’s official announcement on the iPhone 3.0, rumors kept rolling. Digg founder Kevin Rose said during the South by Southwest festival held in Austin, Texas, that he had confirmation of one particular feature in the update, namely the copy-paste ability.According to him, users will be able to...
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 Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform – ASP lets customers have their data centre applications run in Microsoft data centres. The company joins Amazon and Google in offering cloud computing services and cites IDC, which says cloud computing will grow 16 percent a year through to 2012. Cloud computing helps users buy less storage, meaning...
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 In order to combat software piracy, the Microsoft Corporation is sending millions of computer users a software update that turns their screen black, nagging them to switch to legitimate copies of Windows. This measure mostly affects China’s computer users. The update does not prevent people from continuing to use their machines, but some...
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 Making a full switch to renewable energy is not an easy task, yet there is one country that is willing to take on this challenge, and make it real within the next decade: the Maldives. According to its president, Mohamed Nasheed, the country will become world’s first carbon-neutral nation.The announcement came amid more warning from...
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Four types of Jurassic dinosaurs left more than a thousand
footprints and tail-drag marks at a remote site in northern Arizona, a new study revealed. Researchers
also mentioned that probably around 190 million years ago, during the Jurassic
period, this area was an oasis surrounded by a vast desert. Even if the
footprints are...
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 The pessimists’ prediction will not be fulfilled after all for Apple. Steve Jobs told the media that the fourth-quarter earnings didn’t quite hit the target, but with iPhone and Mac sales strong, the founder of the company is sure that Apple can ride out a downturn. Apple reported $7.9 billion in sales, below the estimate of analysts,...
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 Francis S. Collins, leader of the National Human Genome
Research Institute since 1993, will resign on August 1 to follow other
professional opportunities, the institute announced. The doctor led the work on
sequencing the human genome and made efforts for a new law, signed just last
week, hindering discrimination based on genetic...
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 The announcement of the new iPod shuffle was accompanied by talks of the new ear buds, as expected. Just thinking about it, not having other choice except Apple headphones is not exactly nice, but some product manufacturers have already began working on this apparently.However, as much as we would want to see other options for the iPod...
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 MIT scientists may have found a solution to a problem that has been bugging us for quite some time now: battery recharging. We all hate doing it, since it take hours to do so, and we often don’t have the time for it, or remember to do it in the last minute.But, where there’s a will there’s a way! The MIT engineers have been working on...
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The Bluetooth specialist Alpin
has announced this week the release of a new headset, Jawbone 2, a
revolutionary model from every point of view. This new powerful product on the
market, which is believed to reach 120 million units worldwide by 2009,
contains a few advantages over its opponents.
The special headset is two...
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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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 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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Konami Corp., the Japanese creator of the “Dance
Dance Revolution” music video game claims that Rock Band developer Harmonix and
its US
publisher assistants Viacom and MTV violated its music video game in making “Rock
Band.”
So Konami sued Viacom Inc.’s Harmonix
studio, demanding cash compensation and an order that would block...
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 Michael Jackson, the 49-year-old pop singer is on the way of
losing the famous Neverland Valley Ranch in California. The property will be sold on
March 19 unless Jackson
pays a $25 million balance, according to Reuters. The singer has defaulted on a
massive home loan and as a result he is in danger of losing his...
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Washington - As if the financial news wasn't bad enough.
Scientists meeting in Chicago reported about how fast greenhouse gases are rising and how eating less beef and more chicken would help reduce global warming.
But there were also bright spots at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science gathering...
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela said Wednesday Barack Obama's election to the White House was a triumph for hope.
In a letter of congratulation to the president-elect, Mandela, 90, said: "Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a...
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Two elderly California women received life
sentences Tuesday for murdering two homeless men to cash in on life
insurance policies, the Los Angeles Times reported. A Los
Angeles judge sentenced Helen Golay, 77, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, to
life without the possibility of parole. The women had been convicted of
murder and...
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According to Los Angeles Times, President Bush nominated on
Monday a top logistics officer to be the first female four-star general in U.S.
history.
Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody is going to become the head of the
Army Materiel Command and will be responsible with supplying the Army with its
equipment.
Defense Secretary Robert M....
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 The proposed United States Airlines Flight 93 memorial was
criticized by some opponents who said the design included Islamic symbols.
The temporary memorial is located on a hillside 500 yards from
the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked in the
September 11, 2001 attacks, in Stonycreek...
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 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4,
1968, in a room from Lorraine Motel, in Memphis,
Tennessee. He was one of the
crucial leaders of the American civil rights movement. His name is related to
The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956), a political and social protest campaign
started in 1955 in Montgomery,
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 Bill Clinton was the original "comeback kid" in New Hampshire. Now, Hillary Clinton has done it too.
Rebounding from an opening loss to black candidate Barack Obama,
the former first lady righted her White House bid with a poll-defying
primary victory Tuesday in a small state that carries a lot of early
weight in the...
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 According to health authorities, lack of vitamin D has been
blamed for everything from weakened bones to rickets, but now a study has
revealed it increases the risk of a heart attack.
The research, conducted in the United States, could have
major implications for Scotland – a country keen to shake off its "sick
man of...
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 After 16 long years, Sci Fi Channel has decided to change its name … at least on paper.The NBC Universal-owned cable network is expected to become SyFy starting with June, as the new moniker represents part of an extensive rebranding campaign that has been planned for over a year now. The change marks an advancement that also comprises a...
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 American television journalist and lawyer, best known for his role as the moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Prees” Sunday talk show, Tim Russert collapsed at the offices of WRC-TV, which houses the Washington, D.C. bureau of NBC News where he was the Bureau Chief, while prerecording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” He was...
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 “I Want to Believe,” the new “X-Files” movie title, is a
well-known phrase for fans of the series because this was the slogan on an UFO
poster that hung in the basement office where FBI special agents Fox Mulder,
played by David Duchovny, and Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson, worked.
“It’s a natural title,” Carter told the...
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 The drama of the high-career woman in the search of a
pleasant personal life made its debut with the popular TV series “Sex And The
City.”
HBO’s series made career with the theme of powerful women,
addicted to designer shoes, who always find consolation in discussions with
their girlfriends and will remain an authority in this...
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 If you hear the name of the new ABC’s TV movie, you might
want to watch it because of some authority it contains: “Oprah Winfrey
Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day.” Now you understand that the
authority was Oprah and hence the temptation to at least take a look.
However, we were taught not to judge a book by its cover...
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Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo is one of the best-known critics of China's communist power apparatus, a battle he has been waging for the past two decades.
Despite all the efforts by the state security organs to intimidate him, for the past two decades the author has over and again spoken out for political reforms,...
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One of the few positive stories coming out of war- torn Iraq in recent years has been the success of their national football teams.
Since 2003, when the country sent an under-23 team to the Asian Cup and managed to qualify for the quarter-finals, Iraqi teams have been grabbing their fair share of international headlines.
In 2004,...
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Few international football tournaments have had such a troubled history as the Confederations Cup.
Considered arguably the second most important competition staged by the sport's governing body FIFA, the Confederations Cup has seen teams declining to participate and tragically, it has seen the only death of a player on the field of...
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Taiwan's former vice president Lien Chan Monday headed to Peru for the November 22 leaders' summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, becoming the highest-ranking envoy from the island to attend the annual event.
Leading a 13-member delegation of foreign and economic affairs experts and officials, Lien was to stop...
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Gilles Simon put himself into position for a possible spot in the semi-finals of the Masters Cup with a Friday victory, but will have to await the fate of Roger Federer.
The French debutant pounded alternate Radek Stepanek 6-1, 6-4 in 65 minutes, breaking three times and never in danger against the Czech who filled in at the last...
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Title holder Roger Federer fell to a 4-6, 6-4, 6- 3 defeat in his opening Red group match at the Masters Cup on Monday as Gilles Simon turned the tables for victory. It was the second straight year that the Swiss got off to a surprisingly poor start at the season-ending event he has won four of the last five years.
The victory in...
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Andy Roddick earned a 6-3, 7-5 Paris Masters win over Gilles Simon on Thursday to secure the sixth place in the season-ending Masters Cup, in China for a third consecutive year.
The American joined Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Nikolay Davydenko in the field for the wrap-up in Shanghai which begins a...
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Taiwan announced Wednesday it will send former vice president Lien Chan to the November 22 leaders' summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
The announcement was seen as a breakthrough in the island's relations with China, which for years has opposed allowing any prominent Taiwan leader to attend the event,...
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His name was familiar to US President George W Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao months before he won the EU's Sakharov prize for human rights, yet just a few years ago China's most prominent dissident was a largely unknown activist for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Hu Jia's international reputation grew while he...
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Prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into a speech made by the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in which he attacked the government's policy regarding the Kurdish issue, the Anadolu news agency reported.
"The policy of denial, assimilation and eradication has affected people. Only the Kurds...
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Prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into a speech made by the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in which he attacked the government's policy regarding the Kurdish issue, the Anadolu news agency reported.
"The policy of denial, assimilation and eradication has affected people. Only the Kurds...
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A senior China official was heckled by pro-independence activists Monday during an academic seminar in the southern Taiwan county of Tainan, forcing him to cancel all public activities organized by his local host.
"Get out, get out of Taiwan," shouted dozens of activists, who rallied outside Tainan University of Art to...
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Lewis Hamilton made a statement of strength on Friday as the world championship leader dominated both free practice sessions for the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix.
The Briton Hamilton drove his McLaren-Mercedes around the 5.451-kilometres course in 1 minute 35.630 seconds in the morning session.
He was also unbeatable in the...
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With just the Chinese and Brazilian Grand Prix races remaining last season, McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton had an advantage of 12 points over his closest rivals.
He threw away his commanding lead in the last two races however, when he bizarrely decided not to change from intermediate tyres and slipped off the track and retired...
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Timo Glock of Germany led the way for home team Toyota in Friday's free practice for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix.
Glock clocked 1 minute 18.383 seconds in the day's second session on the 4.563-kilometres course at the foot of Mount Fuji.
The Singapore GP winner Fernando Alonso came second in a Renault in 1:18.424, followed...
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Guatemala and Taiwan on Wednesday agreed to strengthen bilateral ties by expanding trade and increasing exchange visits.
President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala on his four-day visit to Taiwan was expected to discuss bilateral relations with President Ma Ying-jeou and attend Taiwan's National Day celebrations.
"Cooperation from...
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Second seed Andy Roddick bore down on a second Asian title in as many weeks, earning a revenge win over Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of the Japan Open on Friday.
The American, who laid down a modest seven aces, said that his quarter-final loss to the Serb in Washington last summer may have been in the back of his...
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Juan Del Potro moved into closer contention Friday for a place in tennis' year-end final as the Argentine continued his hot streak with a 6-1, 7-5 knockout of top seed David Ferrer to reach the semi-finals of the Japan Open.
Del Potro, who turned 20 last week, won his 28th match from his past 29 starts, claiming four titles and a...
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Juan Del Potro moved into closer contention Friday for a place in the year-end final as the Argentine continued his hot streak with a 6-1, 7-5 knockout of top seed David Ferrer to reach the semi-finals of the Japan Open.
Del Potro, who turned 20 last week, won his 28th match from his past 29 starts, claiming four titles and a US...
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An Indian court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Hollywood studio giant Warner Bros against the makers of a Bollywood film called Hari Puttar, news reports said.
Warner Bros, which hold rights to the blockbuster Harry Potter films, alleged copyright violation - saying the title of the Indian film was too similar.
Justice...
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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.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win the slow-paced race in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds. Victory came a week after she won the 10,000m gold.
As in the 10,000m, Elvan...
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Iranian Hadi Saei on Friday managed to successfully defend his men's 80kg taekwondo title as he won gold at the Beijing Olympics after defeating Italy's Mauro Sarmiento in the final.
There was also taekwondo gold for South Korea as Hwang Kyungseon took gold in the women's under 67kg division with a victory over Canadian Karine...
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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.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win the slow-paced race in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds. Victory came a week after she won the 10,000m gold.
As in the 10,000m, Elvan...
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World and European champion Ramazan Sahin of Turkey just managed to live up to expectations Wednesday when he took Olympic gold in the men's 66-kilogram freestyle wrestling category while Russia's Buvaysa Saytiev successfuly defended his 74kg title.
Sahin narrowly overcame Ukraine's Andriy Stadnik 6-5 in a tough gold-medal match while...
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The list of royals in the Beijing Olympics is set to grow late Wednesday when Pele, is expected in the Chinese capital to promote Rio de Janeiro's candidacy to host the 2016 Games.
Carlos Roberto Osorio, executive secretary of the Rio 2016 committee, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Tuesday that the king of football's, visit is the...
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Taiwan said Friday it has changed tact in its United Nations membership bid by seeking to access special organizations of the global body instead.
"The motion raised by our allies this year is to urge the UN assembly to propose that its special organizations accept the meaningful participation of Taiwan and its 23 million people...
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The Olympic showcase sport of athletics finally gets underway on Friday - with the 100 metres dash and 110m hurdles the most anticipated events.
World record holder Usain Bolt (9.72 seconds), former record holder Asafa Powell (9.74) and world champion Tyson Gay (9.77) form a formidable trio set to battle for gold on Saturday in what...
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China remained on course a sweep of Olympic diving gold medals when Lin Yue and Huo Liang were unstoppable in the men's 10 metres platform synchronized event at the Beijing Games.
The world champions Lin and Huo claimed the gold with 468.18 points, with Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein on silver with 450.42 points and Russians Gleb...
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Taiwan's state-run post office on Monday
reverted to its original name, which includes the politically sensitive
word 'China,' a term the island's previous pro-independence government
had sought to ditch. In a bid to highlight the island's self-rule and cut its historic links with China,
former president Chen Shui-bian had ordered...
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The High Court in Bangladesh has upheld the
declaration of a public holiday on August 15 commemorating the killing
of the country's founding president, Sheikh Mujib ur Rahman, by rebel
troops, Justice Ministry officials said Monday. Mujib's
family members, including his wife and three sons, were also gunned
down by the soldiers...
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Members of the recently formed constituent assembly prepare to
formally abolish Nepal's
240-year-old monarchy. The meeting they will have on Wednesday is
expected to convert the country into a republic. According to a partial estimation, the measure will be adopted
by the 601-member assembly, most of them being Maoists or members...
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 Pakistan’s military announced Friday it had successfully test- fired a ballistic
missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads and striking targets in
neighboring India, which is also a nuclear power.
The test firing of the Shaheen-1 or Hatf-IV missile with a
range of 435 miles from an undisclosed location was conducted by a...
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 23-year-old Zhang Zilin, who holds the title Miss China, has
won the Miss World pageant, with Miss Angola and Miss Mexico the top
runners-up.
The 57th Miss World contest was held at Sanya, a tourist
resort in southern China's Hainan province, with the final round of judging
Saturday. The program included messages aimed at...
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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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The race for the Spanish league title has already become something of a one-horse race, so well are Barcelona playing -and so far are they ahead.
Lionel Messi and company are 11 points ahead of Valencia, 12 ahead of Real Madrid and Sevilla, and 13 ahead of Atletico Madrid and Deportivo Coruna.
Therefore, the talk in Spain now about...
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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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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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Their standing in the Serie A may not show it clearly, but champions Inter Milan are facing some unexpected problems in a defence package that was crucial for them in the successes of the past seasons.
The five goals conceded in the last two games, a 3-2 win over tail-enders Reggina and a 3-3 draw at Cypriot side Anorthosis, sent bad...
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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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Brazilian football legend Pele made clear his scepticism as to the likelihood that Diego Maradona might be successful as coach of Argentina's senior team.
"Great stars, great players do not usually make good coaches. And sometimes a footballer that was not so brilliant in his career becomes a great coach," Pele noted, in...
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It's not the standings you would expect five games into the season, but the presence of Lazio at the top of the Serie A comes as no surprise given their great showings on the pitch.
The Rome side lead on 12 points with a massive 13-6 goal difference and have delighted their fans with a team of young players led by new Argentinian...
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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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Title holders Inter Milan lead the Serie A standings as they go into a classic city derby with struggling but recovering AC Milan that late Sunday closes the Serie A weekend.
Inter, on 10 points after four games, celebrated their 100th unbeaten home game in the latest mid-week round, but struggled to beat promoted guests Lecce...
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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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Europe's top coaches have praised Juventus Turin for their brilliant start to the season and named them top rivals of champions Inter Milan for the Serie A title.
La Gazzetta dello Sport reported on Tuesday that the favourable remarks came during a meeting of national team coaches organized by the continental body UEFA in...
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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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Ahead of Manchester United's European Super Cup clash with Zenit St Petersburg Friday, midfielder Darren Fletcher has warned that Russian sides could soon be challenging English dominance in the Champions League.
The annual fixture between the Champions League winners and the UEFA Cup champions is generally disregarded by English...
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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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Some of Europe's biggest teams will be seeking to secure passage into the lucrative group stage of the Champions League in the return legs of the third qualifying round on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Spanish and Italian giants Barcelona and Juventus look well placed to advance after comfortable 4-0 wins at home two weeks ago.
Barcelona,...
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Angel Di Maria scored the only goal of the game Saturday as Argentina successfully defended their Olympic football title, beating Nigeria 1-0 in the gold medal match played in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium.
A near capacity crowd of 89,000 saw Benfica's Di Maria latch onto a defence-splitting pass from Barcelona star Lionel Messi on 58...
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Belgium defeated Belgium 3-0 in Shanghai Friday with a brace from Jo and one from Diego to win the consolation of a bronze medal in the men's football tournament at the Olympics.
Werder Bremen midfielder Diego opened the scoring in the 27th minute from a pass by Rafinha.
Jo headed a second for the Brazilians shortly before...
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Schalke 04 will be looking to follow up last weekend's bright start to the Bundesliga with a victory at Werder Bremen in a meeting between two title aspirants on Saturday.
Meanwhile title holders Bayern Munich face a tough trip to Borussia Dortmund as they seek a first league win for new coach Juergen Klinsmann.
Schalke travel to...
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Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko appears close to rejoining his former team AC Milan after two unconvincing seasons at Chelsea, repubblica.it reported Wednesday.
Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi and his Chelsea counterpart Roman Abramovich are said to have reached an agreement earlier this week to transfer the footballer on a loan...
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Two recent European champions in Liverpool and Spanish giants Barcelona face tricky opponents as they attempt to negotiate their way safely through the last qualifying stage of the Champions League in first leg matches on Wednesday.
Barcelona, who won the title in 2006, come up against Polish champions Wisla Krakow while Liverpool,...
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German Cup holders Bayern Munich begin the defence of their title with a visit to third-division Rot-Weiss Erfurt on Sunday in a first competitive test under new coach Juergen Klinsmann.
The former Germany coach and Bayern striker will be keen to see some improvement after his first weeks in charge have produced anything but the form...
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 The joy of the advance of the Oregon team during the game against the Arizona State has vanished when quarterback Dennis Dixon went down with a knee injury. Star QB Dixon threw four touchdown passes that helped Oregon win by 32 to 23 over Sun Devils (No. 4 BCS, No. 6 AP), just before suffering the injury on an 11-yard run at the...
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Liberec, Czech Republic - Lindsey Van of the United States made ski history on Friday when she won the first world title on offer in women's ski-jumping.
Placed fourth after the first round with 89 metres, Van, 24, soared the day's longest jump of 97m in the second round to win with 243.0 points.
First-round leader Ulrike Graessler...
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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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 Canadian Stephen Ames has won the Children's Miracle Network Classic that took place at Disney and which he had played until the last hole, on Sunday.Ames won his last PGA Tour 17 months ago, at The Players Championship last year, where he made a double bogey and still blew away the toughest field in golf by six shots at the TPC...
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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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 After a close match between opposition candidate Ernest Bai
Koroma, former minority leader in parliament and Solomon Berewa, Sierra
Leone's Vice President and candidate of the hitherto ruling Sierra Leone
People's Party for Presidential elections (SLPP), Koroma has won his second
poll and is to be the future President of Sierra...
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 A study by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggests
that better communication between terminally ill patients and their physicians leads
to lower costs and better care at the end of life.
The study was published in the March Issue of Archives of
Internal Medicine under the title “Health Care Costs in the Last Week...
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 According to a research, it seems
that certain carbon nanotubes can cause major health problems whenever are
inhaled. This may pose at risk the lives of many people, the most exposed being
the workers in nano factories. The range of people being affected is huge,
since this element is used nowadays in wide varieties of consumer...
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 A new study by scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that altering a single gene can tweak the amount of body fat in mice and fruit flies. Apparently, tweaking the gene could also work in humans. The researchers published their work in the journal Cell Metabolism under the title "Adipose Is a...
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 According to information provided by a "reliable source" to Shacknews, LucasArts plans laying off as much as 100 employees, as well as ceasing internal development, once Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is launched.The company has already terminated 75-100 work contracts, including those of two executives: Shawn Storc, producer...
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 Toyota Motor Corp on Monday said it expects a marginal revenue increase in the hugely competitive US market in 2008.
The Japanese automaker, which could replace General Motors Co as
the world's largest automaker when total 2007 sales are released later
this month, also unveiled its new 2009 Venza model, a crossover between
a sedan...
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 Toyota Motor Corp said Tuesday that it plans to increase its production
in 2008 by 5 per cent to nearly 10 million cars, which would cause it
to leap ahead of General Motors Corp as the world's largest automaker.
Japan's leading carmaker said that thanks to rising demand in
China, the Mideast, Russia and other growth markets, it...
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 United States' largest provider of business information and the largest title insurance company, The First American Corporation, announced it is to cut 1,300 jobs during the third quarter mostly in its core title insurance business, as a result of the slumping housing market. First American already cut another 600 jobs last quarter. The...
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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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 Putting an end to the controversy started by Amazon's new ebook reader Kindle 2 over its text-to-speech function, which violates copyright, the online retail giant announced it plans to modify the Kindle 2 so that authors, publishers or any holders to a novel's rights can choose whether to turn on the feature, which takes written text...
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T-Mobile began shipping the G1 Android today, the first
production Android-based device and the carrier’s first full-touchscreen phone
set to battle with iPhone. The product went on sale Tuesday evening in San Francisco, ahead of the start of sales across the U.S. The G1 was
made by T-Mobile in collaboration with Google and...
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 Sony has unveiled a new plan for
its last-generation video gaming console PlayStation 2. Although PS2 is old, it
appears that it sill sells very well on the gaming market, so that its
Japan-based company has thought of making it even more attractive in front of
its fans. Sony has announced its decision to bring out a limited edition...
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 SanDisk Corp. is the second
largest company from the United
States that is
selling MP3 players and it has today introduced its brand new Sansa Clip
device. The new product is a very small MP3 player that features many new
improvements for such a device.
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Pyeongchang, South Korea - Ole Einar Bjoerndalen won his third gold medal at the biathlon world championships with victory in the 20-kilometre individual race in Pyeongchang on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old Norwegian crossed the line 14.1 seconds ahead of Christoph Stephan of Germany, with Jakov Fak of Croatia clinching...
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The 2008 Formula One season reaches its thrilling conclusion with the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos this weekend when Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes and Ferrari's Felipe Massa battle it out for the drivers' world championship crown.
Hamilton needs just a fifth place finish to ensure he goes into the record books as the...
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Ayumi Tanimoto of Japan successfully defended her Olympic title Tuesday when she beat France's Lucie Decosse in the final of the women's 63-kilo judo event at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium.
Tanimoto secured Olympic gold by ippon with 3 minutes 34 seconds remaining.
In the first bronze medal match,...
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Reigning world and Olympic
champion Jeremy Wariner was upset by LaShawn Merritt Thursday in the
final of the 400-metre of the US Olympic track and field trials in
Eugene, Oregon.
Merritt finished in 44 seconds while a few strides behind Warnier
finished in 44.20 seconds. Merritt also beat Wariner at a June 1 Golden
League race in...
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Ireland's Padraig Harrington successfully defended his British Open title at Royal Birkdale Sunday as a final round one under par 69 secured a total of 283 and a four shot victory over England's Ian Poulter.Poulter set a target of 287 after also shooting a 69 and although Harrington suffered a slight wobble at the end of his outward...
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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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 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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 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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 After the start things looked really good for Asafa Powell, the world record-holder. The Jamaican reacted fourth at the sound of the gun and managed to gain a slight advantage over his main rivals, American Tyson Gay and Derrick Atkins of The Bahamas, at the 50-metre mark and looked on his way to win the world 100m title.But the day...
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 Tiger Woods decided not to participate at The Barclays in the Westchester Country Club in Harrison next week motivating his decision with the fatigue accumulated from back-to-back victories at the Bridgestone Invitational and PGA, his 13th major title."My body is spent and I need a short break," World’s No.1 golf player...
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 Just two days after he won his 13th major title, Tiger Woods announced he planes to design his first US golf course. The location of the future course is The Cliffs planned community in the western North Carolina mountains, the world’s best golfer announced Tuesday.Woods also stated his intention of designing “a handful of very unique...
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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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Portimao, Portugal - Fernando Alonso has not yet made his debut at the wheel of the new Renault R29, but he already predicted Monday that the upcoming Formula 1 season is likely to be very exciting.
"This championship should be the most open and the hardest-fought of all we have had so far," the Spaniard said in Portimao, in...
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Carlos Sainz' dream of the Dakar Rally title ended on Thursday when the Spaniard was forced to withdraw in leading position, reportedly after a crash, making American Mark Miller the new frontrunner.
The official Dakar website said that the VW Touareg driver Sainz and his French co-pilot Michel Perin were taken by helicopter to a...
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Carlos Sainz' dream of the Dakar Rally title ended on Thursday when the Spaniard was forced to withdraw in leading position, reportedly after a crash, making American Mark Miller the new frontrunner.
The official Dakar website said that the VW Touareg driver Sainz and his French co-pilot Michel Perin were taken by helicopter to a...
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Local hero Felipe Massa had a perfect start into the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix weekend when he beat world championship rival Lewis Hamilton for first place in the opening practice session on Friday.
Massa clocked 1 minute 12.305 seconds in his Ferrari for the 4.309-kilometres lap on the Sao Paulo course.
The Briton Hamilton...
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Lewis Hamilton is just one step away from being crowned Formula One's youngest ever world drivers' champion in only his second season in the sport.
The McLaren-Mercedes driver goes goes into Sunday's final race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, holding a seven- point lead over Ferrari's Felipe Massa and needs just...
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Ferrari's Felipe Massa believes all the pressure is on title rival Lewis Hamilton ahead of the final Formula One race of the season, Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos.
The McLaren-Mercedes driver Hamilton holds a seven-point lead over Massa following his victory in Shanghai on October 19 and will be crowned the youngest F1...
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Although Lewis Hamilton is still hoping that an appeal will reinstate him as the winner of the Belgium Grand Prix, he is looking forward to gaining revenge in Ferrari's backyard by winning Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.
The McLaren-Mercedes driver won last Sunday's race at Spa but was later handed a 25-second penalty which demoted him...
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The decision to strip Lewis Hamilton of his victory at the Belgian Grand Prix has been greeted by a mixture of bemusement and cynicism in Britain.
Meanwhile one Italian media report said the race stewards decision to penalise the McLaren-Mercedes driver, thus gifting the race to Ferrari's Felipe Massa, was justified.
Italian media...
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 Ferrari managed to win its third consecutive Formula One title, as Kimi Raikkonen won the Spanish Grand Pix on Sunday at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.Raikkonen, who is also the defending world champion, crossed the finish line 3.228 seconds ahead of his teammate, Felipe Massa, and grabbed his career 17th victory and the second...
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 In a modest ceremony on Sunday Ferrari unveiled its Formula One car for the 2008 season, which has suffered some aerodynamics changes, hoping that it would be able to win the drivers and teams' world championship titles that it had scooped up last year.The F2008 got back its number one on its nose, as Kimi Raikkonen managed to win the...
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 After his one- off appearances for Team Force India, the well- known driver Ralf Schumacher hinted on Thursday that he might put an end to his Formula One career.The German driver left the Toyota team at the end of the season and is since then without a team. But he had a hard day at Jerez when he was testing for Team Force...
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 The British driver of McLaren-Mercedes missed the chance to win
the title in the Formula One driver's championship after he failed to finish
the race in the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.
The winner was Ferrari’s driver Kimi Raikkonen, who had a
time of 1 hour 37 minutes and 58.395 seconds.
Defending world champion Fernando...
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 Ferrari's Felipe Massa emerged victorious at the Turkish formula one Grand Prix and was closely followed by his Ferarri team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who crossed the finish line 2.2sec after Massa. McLaren Mercedes’ Fernando Alonso completed the podium.Britain's Lewis Hamilton had to settle for the fifth place, and now his title lead over...
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 Before shifting to Formula one, Sebastien Bourdais has some unfinished business in the Champ Car World Series and he began to take care of them by winning the Road America, a track that gave him a lot of problems in the three previous tries.Bourdais won in stile as he led 51 of the 53 laps in the one-hour, 40-minute timed race on Road...
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 Sebastien Bourdais, the biggest star on the Champ Car series, announced on Friday that he will shift to Formula One after this season where he will join the Italian team of Scuderia Toro Rosso, which is dismissing its current drivers. “It's been a long time coming," the 28-year-old Frenchman said. "I'm very satisfied that,...
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 FIA’s governing body stated that McLaren will not suffer any immediate sanction for having confidential Ferrari technical data in their possession due to "insufficient evidence". However, McLaren could face future sanctions if evidence they had used the information to influence the world championships will occur. "We...
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Liberec, Czech Republic - France led the way after ski-jumping in the world championship Nordic combined team event on Thursday in which the fancied United States met disaster and title holders Finland had to swallow a major handicap.
The first US jumper, normal hill bronze medallist Bill Demong, was disqualified as he forgot his bib....
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Paris - The hoped-for return of Maria Sharapova has now likely been pushed back to the Indian Wells event in early March in California after the injured former number 1 Russian withdrew from next week's indoor tournament in Paris.
Sharapova missed her Australian Open title defence and has played only one match since Wimbledon in...
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Title holder Lewis Hamilton will be the man to beat as Ferrari drivers Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen set their sights on the 2009 Formula One world title.
But Brazil's Massa vowed on Thursday at Ferrari's annual winter retreat in the Alps that he will give the McLaren driver Hamilton another big fight.
"The most important...
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Maria Riesch of Germany has the class to rule women's alpine skiing, the nation's most famous skier, Rosi Mittermaier, said in an interview published on Tuesday.
"I believe that Maria can dominate skiing for years," Mittermaier told Munich's Abendzeitung daily.
"Maria is a phenomenon and a stroke of luck, a unique...
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Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez slammed Sir Alex Ferguson on Friday, accusing the Manchester United manager of being the only one who can criticise referees without punishment.
The Spaniard, whose side sit three points clear at the top of the table, said Ferguson was wrong to criticise the fixture list, which, he said, actually...
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Dinara Safina and big brother Marat Safin polished their sibling act to stay in the chase for the Hopman Cup final with a 2-0 win over Taiwan Wednesday night.
The nation fights for a place in the Friday title match-up with a face-off against France on Thursday.
Safina, third in the world, began the run to success as she mounted a...
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Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl soared to a stunning Four Hills ski-jumping triumph when he again left the pre-tournament favourites in his wake to clinch the title on Tuesday.
Loitzl had the 25,000-strong home crowd in Bischofshofen in raptures with huge jumps of 142.5 metres and 141.5 metres to complete a hat-trick of victories in the...
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Finnish women skiers Aino Kaisa Saarinen and Virpi Kuitunen are favourites in this season's Tour de Ski in the absence of Swedish title holder Charlotte Kalla, while the men's race appears wide open.
Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic has not been as dominant as last year which raises doubts whether he can defend his title at the third...
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Germany may host the world athletics championships in 2009 but apart from the Berlin event the situation in the nation's sports is as bleak as the economic forecasts.
The former sports power lacks stars in major sports ranging from football to athletics and swimming. In addition, there is an almost frightening disappearance of events...
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Albert Costa was on Thursday named as the new captain of Spain's Davis Cup team, replacing Emilo Sanchez Vicario who resigned after leading his country to the 2008 title 3-1 over Argentina last month in Mar del Plata.
Costa was favourite to take over the post and receives a one-year contract. Spain begin the defence of their Davis...
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The 2009 Vuelta will start outside of Spain for the first time in 12 years and for only the second time in its history, race organizers confirmed Wednesday in Madrid.
Next year's Tour of Spain will begin on August 29 with an individual time trial on the Dutch motorcycle racing circuit of Assen, followed by three further stages in the...
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German football has enjoyed a successful year despite the lost Euro 2008 final and some problems off the field, German football federation (DFB) supremo Theo Zwanziger said on Monday.
"We have had great sports highlights," said Zwanziger.
The men's national team reached the Euro 2008 final in Vienna which it lost to 1-0...
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Bayern Munich host TSG Hoffenheim in one of the most highly anticipated matches in recent Bundesliga history on Friday night.
Newcomers Hoffenheim have taken the league by storm with stylish football and can assure themselves of the unofficial winter title through the winter break if they win at the record and reigning champions...
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TSG Hoffenheim are playing almost perfect football going into Friday's Bundesliga topper at Bayern Munich, according to their sponsor Dietmar Hopp.
But Hopp, 68, a German billionaire co-founder of software giants SAP and former striker at the club, won't be on hand for the hyped game as he is on holiday in Florida.
Tensions between...
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TSG Hoffenheim are playing almost perfect football going into Friday's Bundesliga topper at Bayern Munich, according to their sponsor Dietmar Hopp.
But Hopp, 68, a German billionaire co-founder of software giants SAP and former striker at the club, won't be on hand for the hyped game as he is on holiday in Florida.
Tensions...
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Zimbabwean prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday he was confident of an end to the political impasse holding up the formation of a government of national unity.
Speaking after talks with German officials, he said this would come after issues relating to the definition of the prime minister's powers and the...
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Both teams are hoping that the weekend Davis Cup final between host Argentina and a Spain missing Rafael Nadal will not erupt in violence or bad behavior from the partisan South American crowd.
Sparks have already flown at the indoor hard court venue when a short circuit caused a minor electrical fire as Juan Del Potro and Argentine...
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Spain are keen to show the world that their triumph at Euro 2008 was no flash in the pan.
That's why they are desperate to do well in next June's Confederations Cup, the draw for which will be held on 22 November in Johannesburg, South Africa.
This will be Spain's first participation in the elite tournament, now in its eighth...
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Age seems to have become a problem for Juventus star Alessandro Del Piero, whose impressive form was not enough to grant him a spot in Marcello Lippi's squad as the world champions Wednesday visit Greece for a friendly in Athens.
Lippi decided to leave home the 34-year-old striker despite the three memorable goals he scored as Juve...
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Jelena Jankovic topped the year-ending women's tennis rankings issued on Monday by the WTA, with Venus Williams climbing into sixth place courtesy of her title at the 2008 finale in Doha.
Jankovic, who was stopped in the Doha semis by Williams, tops the final list with 4,710 points. She was assured of the 2008 top spot ahead of the...
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Former world champion Fernando Alonso has renewed his contract at Renault until 2010, the French Formula One team announced on Wednesday.
Team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr was given another one-year contract.
The Spaniard Alonso hopes to relive his glory of the past at the team for which he won the world title in 2005 and 2006. He spent...
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Tottenham Hotspur hope to carry their rising Premier League form into the UEFA Cup on Thursday while Aston Villa seek a second win and Manchester City seek a good start into the competition.
Spurs were humbled 2-0 at Udinese in their opening group D match two weeks ago but now hope to rise from last place with a victory against Dinamo...
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Newly-crowned world champion Lewis Hamilton is looking to win at least two more Formula One drivers' titles but the McLaren-Mercedes driver feels Michael Schumacher's tally of seven remains out of his reach.
"I don't plan on winning seven world championships - that's a little bit much for me, I think. Michael can keep that...
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Wladimir Klitschko will defend his IBF and WBO heavyweight titles against former champion Hasim Rahman in Mannheim, Germany, on December 13.
Confirming the fight on his website, Klitschko said: "Hasim Rahman is a very strong and experienced opponent who I definitely won't be underestimating."
Rahman, who will be 36 when...
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Lewis Hamilton's coronation as the youngest champion in the history of Formula following a nail-biting finale in the Brazilian Grand Prix has left racing audiences throughout the world crying out for more.
In an action-packed race Sunday, Hamilton exorcised the ghosts of a year earlier, when he threw away a 17-point lead in the final...
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The highly respected French weekly L'Express on Monday protested the Moroccan government's ban of its latest issue on the grounds that it insulted the Islamic religion.
L'Express assistant editor-in-chief Christian Makarian said he "could not understand" last Friday's decision by the Moroccan information minister to...
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Several leading Italian clubs are interested in signing Bayern Munich's Bastian Schweinsteiger, but club manager Uli Hoeness said Thursday he was confident of keeping the midfielder at the German champions.
The 24-year-old Germany international's current contract expires at the end of the season and Hoeness said Inter Milan, AC Milan...
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Roger Federer is keeping focus as he heads into the business end of the ATP season, with solid performances laying the groundwork for what he hopes in a return to world-class wins in 2009.
The Swiss claimed his home Swiss Indoors in Basle for the third time at the weekend before making a late confirmation of his entry into the Paris...
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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...
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The back-pain drama which has limited Marcos Baghdatis to just 24 ATP starts this season came back to haunt the Cypriot as he was forced to retire for the third time in four matches on Monday at the Paris Masters.
The 2006 Australian Open finalist has struggled in the 2008 season with ankle and back problems. But after completing a...
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Novak Djokovic may be dipping his toes into management at age 21 after his father and uncle purchased the cash-short Dutch Open tournament with plans to move it to Belgrade for Serbia's first ATP event from next season.
"We bought the licence to have a tournament in Serbia next year so this is our big goal," said the world...
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Surprising table toppers SV Hamburg are looking towards defending their Bundesliga lead against challengers Schalke 04 on Sunday in a top of the table clash.
The team from northern Germany has a three point lead over surprise rookies Hoffenheim, who lead Stuttgart on goal difference.
Hamburg coach Martin Jol will be without fellow...
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Gilles Simon continued the Madrid misery for James Blake on Tuesday as he kept the American without a career win in the Spanish capital after a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 defeat in the second round of the Masters.
In addition to five losses in Madrid, Blake was also embarrassed last April in a Barcelona debut. The loss leaves him trailing even...
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Japan's Kei Nishikori reached his first ATP quarter-final since a February title win as he defeated Slovak veteran Dominik Hrbaty 6-1, 1-6, 7-5 on Thursday at the Stockholm Open.
The 18-year-old winner, ranked 77th after rising more than 200 ranking places this season, heads into a Friday clash with Croatian Mario Ancic at the...
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Spain's victorious Euro 2008 players have received a considerable increase in their title bonus, Spanish media reported on Wednesday.
The Marca sports daily said that the players and the Spanish football federation (RFEF) agreed that each player would receive 500,000 euros (678,000 dollars) - up 286,000 euros from the previously...
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Former cycling professional Jan Ullrich said Friday that he believes seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong could win another title.
The 37-year-old American announced a short while ago that he was coming out of retirement to join the Astana team and compete in next year's Tour de France.
Ullrich, who won the Tour in 1997...
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Haile Gebrselassie bettered his world record on Sunday to complete a title hat-trick at the Berlin Marathon.
The Ethiopian Gebrselassie, 35, clocked 2 hours 3 minutes 59 seconds for the 42.195-kilometres distance, taking 27 seconds off the record 2:04:26 he ran for the Berlin victory in 2007.
Gebrselassie also won the race in the...
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France star Franck Ribery is set to make his comeback after injury as Bayern Munich take on Werder Bremen on Saturday in a clash between last season's Bundesliga champions and runners-up.
Title-holders Bayern go into a match at the Allianz Arena which coincides with the start of the annual Oktoberfest beer festival and follows a 1-0...
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Serie A giants Roma and AC Milan are under fire for a poor start to the season that has seen them them lose ground to the other favourites Inter Milan and Juventus.
Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti is said to have had a rather tense meeting with the club management after suffering a second defeat last weekend, a 2-0 away to Genoa, which...
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Germany has nominated a true-life film about the 1970s Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang for an Oscar as best foreign movie of the year, its film export board said Tuesday, just hours before the VIP premiere of the movie in Munich.
Launched under the German title Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, the movie describes the rise and fall of a group...
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Turkish prosecutors may open their own inquiry into a scandal currently before a German court where an Islamic charity allegedly siphoned off donations, Hurriyet newspaper reported on Thursday.
There have been claims in Turkey that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was a beneficiary of the alleged scam.
Three former...
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Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was held hostage for six years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was Wednesday awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize, regarded as the Spanish equivalent of the Nobel.
Betancourt, who was rescued in a spectacular operation in July, was granted the award...
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The Astana team said Tuesday US cycling legend Lance Armstrong would be welcome if he wanted to come out of retirement for another attempt to win the Tour de France.
According to US magazine VeloNews on its website Monday, Armstrong plans to come out of retirement and enter five tour races in 2009, including the Tour de France.
The...
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The Italian Serie A begins this weekend with two mouthwatering ties highlighting the first of its 38 rounds of games.
Fiorentina and Juventus, last season's third and fourth teams, close the weekend late Sunday in Florence after second-placed Roma and Napoli renew their rivalry in the capital.
Juve secured their Champions League...
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A Serbian Muslim political leader welcomed a decision by a Belgrade publisher to withdraw the translation of a controversial book by an American author on Islam's prophet Mohammed.
Publisher Beobook said Saturday it was pulling the title Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, from the shelves following protests by the Islamic community and...
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German Cup holders Bayern Munich begin the defence of their title with a visit to third-division Rot-Weiss Erfurt on Sunday in a first competitive test under new coach Juergen Klinsmann.
The former Germany coach and Bayern striker will be keen to see some improvement after his first weeks in charge have produced anything but the form...
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 Albert Hofmann, the Swiss inventor who discovered the hallucinogenic
drug lysergic acid diethylamide-25 (LSD), died of a heart attack at his home in
Basel at the
age of 102.
For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his
invention. “I produced the substance as a medicine. ... It's not my fault if
people...
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 Newspaper “Moskovski Korrespondent,” which reported that President Vladimir Putin divorced his wife in order to marry former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva was closed by its publishers on Friday, just hours after Putin denied the allegations. “In what you said, there is not one word of truth,” he declared, quoted by Reuters.
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 Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband was discharged from
King Edward VII’s Hospital in London
after being admitted Thursday with a heavy cold. Buckingham Palace
said that the 86-year-old royal was released from hospital today at 1:30 p.m.
and that he is due to return to Windsor Castle where he will continue his
recovery....
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 Controversial former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland, aged 64, after a long illness.
Fischer, the US national who won the chess title in 1972 against
then-reigning champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, had lived in
Iceland since 2005.
Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverisson said he died Thursday in...
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 Joe Girardi declined Baltimore Orioles’ offer to become their next manager on Thursday, according to a report on MLB.com Thursday.Oriole’s officials including officials including chief operating officer Andy MacPhail, executive vice president Mike Flanagan, general counsel Russell Smouse and Lou Angelos, an attorney and the son of...
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 After they dismissed Sam Perlozzo, Baltimore Orioles officials including chief operating officer Andy MacPhail, executive vice president Mike Flanagan, general counsel Russell Smouse and Lou Angelos, an attorney and the son of Orioles owner Peter Angelos met with Joe Girardi for discussions about his future position at the club’s...
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 Thanks to an appreciating ruble and the rising housing costs Moscow is estimated as world’s most expensive city, a “title” that the Russian capital won for the second straight time after this year’s survey.The city of New York served as the base city for the survey which estimated that Moscow is approximately 35 per cent more expensive,...
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Hanoi - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito met with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet Tuesday as local press reported Japanese aid to Vietnam may resume this spring.
Naruhito met with Triet at Vietnam's Presidential Palace after laying a wreath at the tomb of former Communist leader Ho Chi Minh Tuesday morning. In the afternoon...
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TSG Hoffenheim added a "playing ugly" attitude to their flair to earn a 1-1 draw on Sunday against Schalke 04, a result good enough to see the newcomers go into the winter break top of the Bundesliga standings ahead of champions Bayern Munich.
Selim Teber's curling free-kick in the 72nd minute cancelled out Schalke's lead in...
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The Auckland ATP tournament has won a power struggle with the elite AAMI Classic at Kooyong club over the appearance of Latvian Ernests Gulbis next month.
The 20-year-old's handlers may have somehow double-booked their man into two events during the same January week in two different countries.
With the stalemate threatening,...
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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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Bayern Munich bosses are remaining calm as the Bundesliga champions look for a first league win under new coach Juergen Klinsmann, chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
"We have complete patience. We are convinced that we have the right man in Juergen Klinsmann and that we are on the right road," he told Bavarian...
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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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Bayern Munich expect new coach Juergen Klinsmann to deliver a 22nd German league title when the Bundesliga season begins for the league and cup winners at home to SV Hamburg on Friday.
Bayern start the Bundesliga's 46th season as clear favourites but the change of coach from the experienced Ottmar Hitzfeld to 44-year-old Klinsmann,...
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Venus Williams may be heading into tennis orbit after winning her fifth Wimbledon title.
'It puts you in the stratosphere, to be honest, just because of what
this tournament means,' said the American who came third time lucky
against her younger sister Serena in the weekend title match at the All
England club. 'If I'd had...
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 According to a local publication released today, Yasuo Fukuda
is being backed up to run for Prime Minister by a majority of lawmakers from Japan's
ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The race is tight as Fukuda is running against former
foreign minister Taro Aso in next Sunday's election for the party's presidency
vacated by...
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The 165th day of 2007 with 200 to follow.
Today is Flag Day in the United States.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's...
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Moscow - Former world number one Maria Sharapova remains sidelined in the wake of shoulder surgery last year, the Sport Express paper said on Wednesday.
The report said that the Russian tennis player has cancelled her appearance at next week's indoor tournament in Paris and will also miss the following week's event in...
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Melbourne, Australia - Serena Williams set the stage on Friday for what she hopes is a multiple-title performance at the Australian Open as she and sister Venus won the women's doubles crown.
The Americans defeated Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova and Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-3, 6-3 for their eight major trophy together. It took...
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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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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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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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Rafael Nadal of Spain tops the men's final tennis rankings of the year released Monday, while Serb Novak Djokovic moves closer to number two Roger Federer of Switzerland.
Djokovic, who won the Masters Cup title in Shanghai at the weekend, has now climbed to within just 10 points of Federer.
ATP top 10 as of November 17 (previous...
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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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Ailing Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer head the men's tennis rankings going into next week's season-ending Masters Cup while Jo-Wilfried Tsonga shot to a career-high number seven in the ATP rankings issued on Monday.
Spain's Nadal is assured of the year-ending top spot and has 6,675 points. Former leader Federer of Switzerland has...
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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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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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Holder David Nalbandian had to fight past stubborn opponent Tomas Berdych at the Madrid Masters on Wednesday while American qualifier Robby Ginepri stunned fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko.
Argentine seventh seed Nalbandian was playing his first match since lifting the Stockholm title at the weekend in a rampaging start to an indoor...
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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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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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French players continued to dominate proceedings at the Thailand Open, with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils lining up a semi-final clash through Friday victories.
But 74th-ranked Nicolas Mahut failed to join the party, losing 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 to Czech third seed Tomas Berdych.
Top seed Novak Djokovic was attempting to put the...
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French players continued to dominate proceedings at the Thailand Open, with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils lining up a semi-final clash through Friday victories.
But 74th-ranked Nicolas Mahut failed to join the party, losing 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 to Czech third seed Tomas Berdych.
Top seed Novak Djokovic was attempting to put 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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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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Roger Federer continued his horror season, crashing out at the Beijing Olympics to James 6-4 7-6 (7-2) after a rain-hit quarter-final match on Thursday.
The Swiss, who has not won a major title in a year, had been counting on the Games to help revitalise is season, He will now have to swallow disappointment again and aim for the US...
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Andy Roddick's plague of
injuries this season continued Tuesday as the sixth seed pulled out
just moments before an opening match at the Cincinnati Masters.
The US player, who won the Ohio title in 2003, less than a month before
claiming his only Grand Slam trophy at the US Open, has been bothered
since May by a shoulder problem. ...
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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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 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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 Andy Roddick, who is now ranked as the sixth player of the world, will play against Jurgen Melzer on Friday in Austria, as he will try to defend the United States’ Davis Cup title.The US team this year is the same group that won the Davis Cup last year, with James Blake and world leader doubles team, which consists in the twin brothers...
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 Serbia’s wonder boy Novak Djokovic managed to beat the odds and won his first Grand Slam title, the Australian Open.The 20-year-old Djokovic defeated unseeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga after three nerve-wracking hours. The Frenchman outclassed top-ranked players like Rafael Nadal, Richard Gasquet, Andy Murray and Mikhail Youzhny on his way to...
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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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 Maria Sharapova continues her race for the Australian Open title
with a crushing victory over Jelena Jankovic in the tournament’s semifinals.
After outclassing Justine Henin in the quarterfinals and
ending her 32-match winning streak, Sharapova had to face another top-ranked
opponent.
But Thursday’s match was easier than...
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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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 The two favourites for the title at the Australian Open, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic kneeled their opponents on Thursday in the third round of the tournament.Federer rolled over Fabrice Santoro, taking out the flashy French danger man safely with a no-nonsense 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 win. Meanwhile, Djokovic hammered Italian Simone Bolelli by...
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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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 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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 Lindsay Davenport showed her fantastic post- maternity shape as she won the ASB Classic on Saturday, defeating Aravane Rezai with 6- 2, 6-2 in her power demonstration ahead this month's Australian Open.Only six months after giving birth to a son, Jagger, the 31-year- old mother showed everybody would question that her past plan to leave...
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 The United States team won the fifth title at the Hopman Cup on Friday, as it defeated the Serbian team, which was exhausted after struggling towards the final while suffering injuries.Serena Williams and Mardy Fish ended a week of victories with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 doubles victory over Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic, concluding...
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 The US broke a 12-year drought with a Davis Cup title win on Saturday
as the Bryan brothers completed a 3-0 sweep of Russia in the final.
Bob and Mike Bryan won their 13th career match against just one
loss in the competition, with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Nikolay
Davydenko and Igor Andreev.
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 Andy Roddick and James Blake put the US into 2-0 command of the Davis
Cup final against Russia Friday with a pair of opening-day singles
victories.
A win in doubles Saturday - when the world-number-one American
Bryan brothers take to the court against a listed Russian side of
Nikolay Davydenko and Igor Andreev - could seal the...
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 Andy Roddick expects a wave of support from boisterous American fans as
he opens the US-Russia Davis Cup final on Friday against surprise
starter Dmitry Tursunov.
Roddick will get the chance to put the hosts into the lead after
the draw made Thursday and the American expects a sellout crowd to
immediately become a factor in the...
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 Roger Federer has won his second straight trophy at the Masters Cup, as he defeated David Ferrer 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, on Sunday.The victory brought the Swiss player his 53rd title of his controversial career and the eighth title of this season, including three of the four Grand Slams, bringing him eight million dollars.The player that started...
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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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 World’s top tennis players, Swiss Roger Federer and Belgian Justine Henin were named as the top seeds for the U.S. Open on Monday. The tournament is set to begin in New York next week.Federer, who just won his 50th career title at the Cincinnati Open, is looking forward to winning his fourth consecutive title at Flushing Meadows, while...
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 World’s No.1 tennis player Roger Federer reached another milestone in his sparkling career. The Swiss won his 50th career title after beating 6-1, 6-4 James Blake in the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters in Mason, Ohio.The 26-year-old became the fifth-youngest player in history to reach 50, and only the ninth overall in the...
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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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 Maria Sharapova got past a struggling first set won after tiebreak (7-5) against Greece’s Eleni Daniilidou to make her way to the third round of the East West Bank Classic on Wednesday.After a remarkable display of tennis skills in the first set Daniilidou capitulated in the second and retired at the score of 3-1 due to breathing...
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 Anna Chakvetadze provided Venus Williams’ first loss at San Diego Classic since 1999 on Friday to set up an all-Russian semi-final with fellow-countrywoman Maria Sharapova, who destroyed India's Sania Mirza 6-2 6-1.The Russian, who is seeking her third title in just as many weeks, beat the Wimbledon champion 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/3),...
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 Sania Mirza produced the upset by eliminating eighth seed
Sybille Bammer 6-2 5-7 6-3 to reach the final of the Stanford Classic on
Saturday.
The 20-year-old Indian, who’s only Tour title came in Hyderabad in 2005, disposed
of the Austrian under the hot sun in two hours and 14 minutes.
"It was about mental strength,"...
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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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 Venus Williams overwhelmed young Marion Bartoli 6-4 6-1 on the Central Court and won her fourth title at Wimbledon. Bartoli gained respect this year in London after trampling tough adversaries like Jelena Jankovic, Michaella Krajicek and world number one Justine Henin. It seemed Venus was next on her list and started Saturday’s final...
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 Former Wimbledon champion Roger Federer has beaten French 12th seed Richard Gasquet 7-5 6-3 6-4 to secure his place in the final, where he will meat his old arch-rival Rafael Nadal.The Spaniard, who lost to Federer last year, secured his place in the final act of the competition by defeating the number four Novak Djokovic retired while...
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 Justine Henin was the one that survived the major clash with Serena Williams to reach the semi-finals. The American fought magnificently despite her calf injury she dramatically injured against Daniela Hantuchova on Monday.Henin won the only break point of the first set and continued with a clinical serve to close it 6-4. Williams came...
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Los Angeles - At some point during the 58th NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Kobe Bryant will have one of his current Los Angeles Lakers teammates alongside him in Spanish star Pau Gasol.
He will also have one of his former Lakers teammates alongside him in Shaquille O'Neal.
Bryant and O'Neal, the argumentative duo which led the Lakers...
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 Kobe Bryant scored a game high 39 points, three times more than any other of his teammates, for the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, leading his team to the National Basketball Association finals for the first time since 2004 with a 100-92 victory over the defending champion San Antonio Spurs.The Lakers succeeded to claim the...
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 The Boston Celtics have managed to finish the road trip through Texas, making a 3-0 triangle of winning games, over San Antonio on Monday, while ending Houston’s 22 games winning streak on Tuesday and, finally, defeating the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night. After completing the NBA Texas teams triangle, the Celtics proved everybody...
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 Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett each scored 18 points on Wednesday night, leading the Boston Celtics to their tenth straight victory, the longest winning streak in more than two decades, with a 111-82 decision over the Seattle Sonics.This is the longest string since March 11- April 4, 1986, when Boston won 14 consecutive games and was on the...
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 The Boston Celtics reportedly began talks with future Hall of Famer and former Indiana Pacers guard Reggie Miller about recruiting him to their cause of winning the franchise’s 17th NBA title. Miller confirmed the fact that he was approached by Celtics officials and underlined that he’s enthusiastic about the offer. This could be his...
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 Greg Oden, the first overall pick in the last draft, will begin his journey as a professional player in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers against none other than the defending champions San Antonio Spurs. That is the opener of the 2007-08 season according to the schedule, which the NBA unveiled Thursday. On the same day, October 30,...
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 The Boston Celtics made a major move on Tuesday in their attempt put the franchise on its track to glory by acquiring 10-times All-Star Kevin Garnett from the Minnesota Timberwolves.Garnett, the 2004 league MVP, also thinks this move it’s a decisive one and that, after spending his first 12 years in the league with the Timberwolves, his...
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 Portland Trail Blazers took Greg Oden, the 7ft center from Ohio State, with the first pick in the National Basketball Association draft on Thursday. The 19-year-old Oden led his former team – Buckeyes – to its college basketball's title game for the first time in 45 years. He led the team in scoring (15.7 points per game), rebounding...
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 The San Antonio Spurs and their fans celebrated the team's fourth NBA championship filling the banks of San Antonio's famed River Walk with black, white and especially the gold of the team's championship trophy."I'm so happy - I feel very blessed and it's a privilege to play with a great team," said French point guard Tony...
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 Kobe Bryant posted Sunday on his website, kb24.com, a statement according to which the Lakers and he just don’t share the same vision, continuing the series of inconsistent comments about his eventual departing with the LA team.''When you love something as much as I love the Lakers, it's hard to even imagine thinking about being...
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 Many think San Antonio isn’t pretty at all. In fact, nobody can deny that, it’s true. But the fact that the Spurs don’t care at all about being pretty is also true. They weren’t after the Best Looking title after all. The only attribute they eagerly strived for was Most Likely to Succeed.The San Antonio Spurs won over the Cleveland...
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 The Detroit Pistons have no intention to fire coach Flip Saunders despite the fact that through the past two seasons the team disappointed.Joe Dumars, Pistons’ president of basketball operations, stated on Monday that the club doesn’t plan major changes for the following season. "Just because we haven't gotten to the finals, it...
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 After last night’s 103-92 Game 2 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, the San Antonio Spurs are halfway to their fourth title.The Texans’ game was superior in all aspects, until relaxing in the last quarter as they were cruising with a 29-point second-half lead when Cleveland outscored the Spurs 25-6 over the first seven minutes of the...
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 Billy Donovan is officially out of the Orlando Magic deal, but his wavering could be costly for both sides involved. The Magic finally let Donovan out of the $5.5 million annual deal late Wednesday nightafter days ago rumors broke he was having second thoughts."I realized in less than 24 hours after signing a contract with the Magic...
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 After agreeing to a five-year, $27.5 million contract with the Orlando Magic on Thursday, coach Billy Donovan might not be done with the Florida Gators.FoxSports.com, citing two anonymous sources, reported Sunday night that Donovan was having second thoughts about coaching the NBA's Orlando Magic and he approached both sides in order to...
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 Some might still wonder whether last night’s game was a dream or not. Who would have thought after Game 2 of the series that the Cavaliers would manage to blow out the Pistons with four consecutive wins?Cleveland worked hard for their 98-82 Game 6 victory as well and clinched the Eastern Conference Championship. After an astonishing Game...
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 Billy Donovan was hired to coach the Orlando Magic on Thursday. The club confirmed his hiring on Thursday night and scheduled a news conference for Friday morning.The five-year agreement will earn Donovan $5.5 million per year an official in the NBA told The Associated Press. "Billy Donovan is a winner," Orlando’s GM Otis Smith...
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 The San Antonio Spurs won 109-84 Game 5 of the Western Conference finals against the Utah Jazz after a devastating first quarter 34-15 at the AT&T Center on Wednesday night."Our first quarter was unbelievable," said Tony Parker. "I can't remember, since I've been with the Spurs, shooting the ball like that. Our offense...
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 The British Football Association board has approved Fabio Capello as the new England manager, as it confirmed the fact that the Italian signed a four-and-a-half-year contract on Friday.The 61-year-old will effectively start taking charge of the team from January 7 and might take the English to the 2012 European Championship if the opt-...
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 According to the Italian media on Tuesday, Fabio Capello is very close to beginning a new phase in his successful career by becoming the coach of the English national team.La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that the English Football Association (FA) will name Capello officially this week, as he became the favourite for the English bench...
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 Iraq defeated Saudi Arabia 1-0 on Sunday to win its first ever Asian Cup title. The Saudis were attempting to become first four-times winners of the tournament, but the Iraqi team drawn together in ad-hoc circumstances from all parts of the Gulf, and with its players straddling the bitter and violent ethnic divides prevailed. "This...
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 As expected, David Beckham didn’t play in the Los Angeles Galaxy's SuperLiga match against Mexico’s Pachuca on Tuesday. The former captain of England’s national squad struggles with a lingering ankle injury and his new coach Frank Yallop says he needs more time to recover.Asked whether the 32-year-old midfielder would play in Galaxy’s...
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 Argentina moved within one victory of their sixth under-20 World Cup title last night after beating Chile 3-0 in a very tensioned semifinal which the Chilean side finished with just nine men on the field. After the final whistle things turned very ugly as the referees led by Jan-Hendrik Salver made a run for the tunnel and a major...
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 Although it played without its top players Brazil managed to come victorious out of a game against Argentine stars and win claim its eighth Copa America title and second straightWho would have guessed that Brazil will win it in the end after they lost in the opener against Mexico? One thing is for sure now – the Brazilians learned their...
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 After former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra acquired enough shares to take over Manchester City, Sven-Goran Eriksson has been named the club’s manager, the Premier League club said on Friday.The former England squad manager will be officially presented at a news conference later on Friday. The Swede agreed on three-year deal.The...
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 The United States did a good job of defending their CONCACAF Gold Cup in a pulsating match at Soldier Field in Chicago. The Americans won their fourth Gold Cup in style as they rallied from a 1-0 deficit to defeat Mexico, 2-1 in front of a capacity, mostly Mexico-supporting 50,000-plus crowd. Mexico took the lead a minute before the...
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 Bayern Munich's new superstar players, Italy striker Luca Toni and France midfielder Franck Ribery, will not join the Reds on their trip to Hong Kong according to Deutsche Press Agentur.Bayern’s management will allow the two new acquisitions to miss the start of training at the end of the month as well in order to let them get some rest...
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 David Beckham helped Real Madrid clinch their first Primera Liga title since 2003, finishing in style what he considered the toughest season in his of his 15-year professional career.Over the last 12 months Beckham lost his starting place in England’s squad and in Real’s as well, had to deal with injuries and was told in January he will...
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 The United States national soccer team will meet Panama on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the Gold Cup. The Americans won the previous edition of this tournament after a penalty-kick shootout against the above mentioned team.Panama might be the tougher obstacle for the U.S. team, who rolled over Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago and El...
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 Manchester United will start their next season hosting Reading, the surprise side of the last campaign, before the visit to Manchester City a week later as they will try to defend their Premier League title, according to the publication of next season's fixtures on Thursday.Runners up Chelsea also begin at home against promoted...
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 The United States won 2-0 over Trinidad & Tobago reaching the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals. The U.S. are at the top group B with six points from two games. Guatemala and El Salvador share the second spot with three points each and Trinidad & Tobago are bottom after losing their first two matches.Guatemala recorded their first...
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 The untitled new album of the Queens
hip-hop artist Nas sold 187,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen
SoundScan, making it the fifth Nas album to reach No.1. Nas’ album dethroned Lil
Wayne’s “Tha Carter III,” (Cash Money/Universal). Lil Wayne’s album sold 105,000
copies and slipped to No.2 with a 15% sales decrease....
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 Steven Page, singer and guitarist for the band Barenaked
Ladies was arrested in Fayetteville for cocaine possession, authorities said.
Page, 38, was arrested as he was visiting two women at their
apartment in Syracuse, and was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession
of a controlled substance.
According to the Associated...
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 It seems that rock band AC/DC teamed up exclusively with
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to sell their new album, which is expected to be released
in the fall, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters reports.
Veteran acts The Eagles and Garth Brooks
have also released exclusives with the retail giant. Most recently,...
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 A representative for Def Jam records has
confirmed that Nas has decided to change the title of his new album “N*gger” to
the self-titled “Nas,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
Contrary to reports, the rapper told
AllHipHop.com that the album will be untitled.
The Queens
hip-hop artist, born Nasir Jones, sparked controversy...
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 Death Cab for Cutie’s latest album, “Narrow Steps,” was
officially launched on May 12 in the U.K.
and on May 13 in the U.S.
The band explored its darker side, as “Narrow Steps” is more about the “Death”
than the “Cutie”, and it was described by the Rolling Stone as “strangely
compelling,” while MTV declared it was “unquestionably...
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 Italian lyric tenor Giuseppe di Stefano passed away on
Monday at his home in Santa Maria Hoe, north of Milan, Italy.
He was 86 years old.
His wife Monika Curth reported that the grand artist died in
his sleep. He had never made a full recovery from brain wounds sustained in a
robbery that took place at the family villa in Kenya...
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 Despite big sale boosts for the Grammy winners, Jack
Johnson’s album “Sleep Through the Static” remained the No.1 album in the
Billboard Chart for a second week, selling about 180,000 copies, Reuters
reports.
The Grammy winners Amy Winehouse and Herbie Hancock are in
top 5, after the post-Grammy Awards sales. Amy Winehouse...
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 “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks will accompany Alicia
Keys on her two-month North American tour.
The concert series will make its debut April 19 in Hampton, Va.,
promoting the Grammy-winning J album “As I Am,” signed by Alicia Keys. The two
will indulge audiences from 25 major US
cities, before wrapping up on June 18 New...
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 We don’t know whether the title of Mariah Carey’s next album suggests that
it is an attempt to bring music and science closer or to make her release more
scientific.
What we know, though, is that “E=MC2,“ which is the title
under which we will find her new material, will be launched on April 15. The
release, whose initial title...
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 The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has no doubt that she is the only one to deserve this title.
Franklin was offended when the young pop singer, Beyonce, referred to Tina Turner as “the queen” during Sunday’s Grammys. Beyonce recited an homage to music’s great female singers, with Franklin’s name second...
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 The troubled life of Britney
Spears. Although this sounds like a novel title, poor Britney Spears’ life is
really troubled and messy. The pop princess is no longer what she used to be: a
pop singer with lots of fans and more or less superficial songs.
Not surprisingly, Britney Spears’
life got a new turn on Thursday, when she was...
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 The rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers has sued Showtime Networks on Monday, charging it for using the name of “Californication” for a television series, as this was also the name of a band’s 1999 album and of a song on it.The band said that “Californication” is their signature album and single, it characterizes their career and it...
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 Led Zeppelin are as fashionable as the online era, now that they have announced that starting with November 13, their albums would be available digitally. The date is a double release for the band, apart from the revealed surprise, they are launching a double-CD compilation that reunites their best songs under the title “Mothership”.“We...
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 Britney Spears tackles music industry after four years of
pause with a new album called “Blackout”, under the signature of Jive Records,
a unit of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The release date is set for November 12
internationally and for November 13 in US.
The title of the her album expresses optimism and the
pleasure of...
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 Prominent contemporary musicians have come together to mark the 40th anniversary of Beatles' Sgt Pepper album. Those involved include Oasis, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Bryan Adams and The Magic Numbers and they are to release their own versions of songs from the epic album.An interesting technical feature of the new songs will be that...
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Los Angeles - The unlikely duo of former hard rocker Robert Plant and bluegrass queen Alison Krauss won five Grammys Sunday night, including the coveted album of the year for their collaboration Raising Sand. The duo also won Record of the Year for their haunting hit Please Read This Letter.
Coldplay won four awards, including...
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 Lindsey Evans was proclaimed Miss Teen for Louisiana State. But it seems that the young girl took too much advantage of her chance and got arrested this weekend. Evans, together with three other friends of hers, decided to take the dinner in a restaurant from Bossier City. We don’t know whether they enjoyed it, but they certainly left...
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 According to Esquire men magazine, actress Halle Berry is the Sexiest Woman Alive. Even if the 42-year-old actress has already a child, men all around the United States still consider her to be the sexiest woman they have ever seen. On Tuesday, an article from the magazine’s website showed Halle Berry in a parody of a 2000 cover...
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 The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “August:
Osage County,” the Tony winner for best play, including four other awards, “Rogers
and Hammerstein’s South Pacific,” which earned seven awards, “In the Heights,”
which won the award for best musical, “Boeing-Boeing,” the winner for best play
revival, “South-Pacific,” nominated for 11 Tony...
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 The Cannes
film festival will roll out the red carpet Wednesday, with “Dirty Harry” and “Indiana
Jones” leading this year’s line-up. Clint Eastwood, turning 78 this month,
makes a new try for Cannes’
Palme d'Or for best film with a drama set in the 1920s starring Angelina Jolie.
Also on the famed red carpet, but out of the...
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 Kids nowadays have the right to choose and they have been
doing it for 21 years at the Annual Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
This year was no exception and kids chose their favorites,
casting 88 million votes to express their opinion, breaking the last year’s
record number of 40 million.
The 21st annual edition of the awards...
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 While everyone is eager to see the outcome at the Academy
Awards ceremony, journalists were yearning to learn about their own awards.
We are now making reference to the Polk Awards, a means of
recognizing the excellence in journalism. The awards are administered by Long Island University and made their debut in 1949
in the...
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 Even though beagles have been preferred by a large number of
dog-lovers all throughout the time, they haven’t received the official
recognition they needed in 100 years.
Well, the black days have gone and this Tuesday’s night
winner at the Westminster Kennel Club was a beagle. The breed’s merits have
been acknowledged and Uno’s...
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Barack Obama won the spoken-word Grammy for his best-selling
audio book “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
This is the second Grammy award for Obama, who previously received the award in
2006, for the audio book “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir he first published
in 1995.
The senator was not...
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 The 13th annual edition of The Critics Choice Awards that
took place on Monday at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium brought a
light in the sullen cinematography field from which the Golden Globes Ceremony
is missing and the Oscars are still under question.
The ceremony usually offers an idea concerning the big Oscar
winners, as...
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 Oscar winning actresses Reese Witherspoon and Angelina Jolie can notch
up another accomplishment - they were named Friday as Hollywood's
highest earning actresses, with a pay range of between 15 million and
20 million dollars per movie.
The list, compiled by the Hollywood Reporter for its annual Women
in Entertainment review said...
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 Miss Japan Riyo Mori has become Miss Universe 2007, but the bigger buzz going on is about Miss USA Rachel Smith’s unfortunate night.
The Tennessee beauty queen slipped on the runway and fell flat on her bottom during the Miss Universe evening gown competition. Not only that, she was persistently booed by the Mexican audience....
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 With a little more than a few strings, a paper clip and some sticks, New Line Cinema will be developing the original science-oriented adventure series "MacGyver" into a feature film. The 1985-92 ABC series that made actor Richard Dean Anderson famous, and paved the way for his roles in "Stargate: Atlantis" and...
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 Daniel Craig plays James Bond in the new 007 movie: “Quantum of Solace.” The franchise reached its 22nd movie and its success doesn’t seem to shrink at all. Craig said that his character is still “too headstrong and doesn't always make the right decisions.” The movie is made by EON Productions and will be released in the UK on 31 October...
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 The Electronic Arts Inc has delayed the release of the latest Harry Potter video game until next summer. The game was expected to raise the earnings and revenue this fiscal year. The “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” game had to be postponed by EA since the movie with the same name was postponed from November 2008 by Warner Bros...
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 Movie fans welcomed Disney's animated picture “WALL-E” upon
its premiere Friday. The film was played in almost 4000 theaters and the profit
was estimated at $23.2 million on the first day.
Critics believe that “WALL-E” will take in approximately $60
million during the weekend.
The film portrays a futuristic story about robot...
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The Coen brothers’ spy comedy “Burn After Reading,” starring
Brad Pitt and George Clooney, will launch the Venice Film Festival on 27 August,
BBC News reports. It appears the movie’s plot focuses on the world of a CIA
agent whose memoirs fall into the hands of two gym employees. The film is the
brothers’ first since the...
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 Madonna wrote and produced a documentary about orphans in Malawi, entitled
“I Am Because We Are,” which is one of the favorites at Tribeca Film Festival.
The title refers to a word describing an African worldview –
ubuntu – which translates “I am because you are” and symbolizes the fact that
individuals need other people to be...
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Chris Carter, the mind behind “The X-Files,” hinted there might
be soon a third Hollywood movie installment
based on the cult TV series, EW.com reported. The creator appeared at the Comic
Con convention in New York
Friday, and mentioned this summer’s sequel to the original 1998 “X-Files” movie
could ultimately be part of a...
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 If you are in the mood for a romantic comedy, this week-end
opened another Judd Apatow-produced movie, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” And as
its title reveals, the film is focused on the struggles of a guy, Peter (Jason
Segel) to get over his former girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell).
Sarah is a beautiful TV actress and Peter...
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 For those who know and admire Norah Jones as a singer, or, better said, as Grammy Award-winning musician, her new role, as an actress – she confessed she dreamed about being an actress her entire childhood – should be a pleasant surprise. She never thought this was going to happen, but now, with “Blueberry Nights” she saw her dream come...
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 This week-end theatres welcomed a fantasy movie that will
charm both children and parents with the great adventures that it depicts.
“Nim’s Island,” as its
title highlights focuses on the story of a young girl living on a secluded
island. Nim, played by “Little Miss Sunshine” star, Abigail Breslin, lost her
mother at sea and is...
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 The horror-thriller film “The Ruins” is directed by Carter Smith and starring Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Laura Ramsey and Joe Anderson. The movie is adapted by Scott Smith from his best-selling novel of the same title and the story follows a group of four friends who must fight for survival after visiting a vine-covered...
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 A short film by a Dutch lawmaker that blames the Koran of
inciting violence caused the Muslims anger and protests worldwide. Iran
named the film as being “heinous” and demanded the European governments to stop
any further showing.
Geert Wilders’ 17-minute movie was posted on Thursday on his
Freedom Party’s Web site...
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 The hit 1990s television series “The X-Files” which considered
the presence of aliens on planet Earth and featured twisted government conspiracies,
is to make a comeback. The film will mark a return of David Duchovny as Fox
Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, two FBI agents who investigate the supernatural
and the...
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 “Autism: The Musical” is the title of the movie meant to
show the world what autism really means for both children and parents. Directed
by Tricia Regan, “Autism” will premiere tonight at 8 on HBO and will be
broadcast repeatedly until April 27. The idea comes from a parent of an autistic
child, Elaine Hall, mother of Neal.
To...
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 Vincent Gallo is going to play the main role in Francis Ford
Coppola’s family drama “Tetro.” Gallo is going to be joined by Javier Bardem
and by newcomer Alden Ehrenreich. According to the Hollywood Reporter the project
that costs less than $15 million is going to begin on March 31st in Buenos Aires. Moreover,
the movie is assumed to...
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 Seduction, adultery, murder and even incest are the
ingredients of the new film featuring the two young attractive actresses
Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman.
The royal drama “The Other Boleyn Girl” is, as Natalie
Portman told ABC News, “the story of an ambitious young woman trying to raise herself in power and...
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 Globalization is not felt only in the economic and social
field, but in the movie industry as well, as the Academy Awards ceremony last
night demonstrated.
We were accustomed that the leading artists at the Oscars to
be the US
talents. Well, it’s a stereotype we should get rid of, as the last night
ceremony acknowledged the...
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 Indie movies have their own Oscar and it bears the name of
Spirit Awards.
This year’s greatest movie based on a budget that hasn’t
outstripped the threshold of $20 million was the teen pregnancy comedy – drama
“Juno.” The movie earned the best feature title, but also its protagonist Ellen
Page and its screenwriter an...
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 The 28th annual Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as the Razzie
Awards, honored its winners Saturday, opening the Academy Awards weekend. This
year’s Razzies were announced at Santa
Monica’s Magicopolis center, one day before the Oscar
ceremony.
Among the “lucky winners” of the night, there were Lindsay
Lohan and Eddie...
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 Just before the Academy Awards, which is the most eagerly
awaited cinematographic event, another awarding ceremony took place. But not a
star-studded one.
This year’s stars of the Golden Raspberry Awards were
Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy, both of them being ‘winners’ of the worst
actors of 2007. But they haven’t avoided other...
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 As its title clearly suggests, “Vantage Point” is based on
the cinematographic technique of
alternative points of view.
Despite that fact that it brought remarkable recognition in
“Rashomon,” that combined brilliantly four perspectives on the same event, it
fails to earn director Pete Travis’ “Vantage Point” the same success. On...
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 Martin Lawrence, who starred in
blockbusters like “Bad Boys” with Will Smith, “Big Momma’s House,” “Wild Hogs”,
and his recent sitcom series “Martin,” is back with two new films: Universal's
“Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins,” which opens Friday, and the upcoming Disney...
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 One thing must be admitted: there was no Bond girl in the
Bond history that wasn’t breathtakingly sexy, picturesquely beautiful and
inexorably charming.
Each Bond girl’s mystery has been augmented probably also by
the fact that the actress chosen wasn’t extremely popular at that time. Ursula
Andress, Jane Seymour or Eva Green...
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Invoking culture and good taste, China makes another move in
augmenting censorship in domains where
liberty of expression is one of the most valued features: the Internet and
cinematography.
A nationwide
crackdown meant to curb the development of bad taste was announced by China's General
Administration of Press and...
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 At a first, shallow look, in the society where information
is quintessential, a movie tackling oil and land may seem obsolete.
But on a closer look, a movie that depicts the determination
of a man to discover more and more oil will never be old. Work, renouncement,
capitalism and determination are surely key-words that describe...
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 When it comes to children’s movies, the range is so wide that Zach Helm should have thought twice before initiating his directorial career with “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium.”Probably hoping some success resembling Roald Dahl's “Charlie and The Chocolate factory”, Helm promised wonder from the very title that isn’t that magical itself....
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 “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”
is the revival of a legend depicted by a Western movie that takes all the time
it needs to illustrate the entire details that play a quintessential role in
the course of action.
The plot creates no suspense, as the action is revealed from
the title, but it narrates...
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 Despite its title, Sony’s teen comedy "Superbad," did very good at the past weekend’s American Box Office, taking in $31.2 million.Proving that a no-name cast isn’t discouraging for moviegoers, "Superbad," which was produced by Judd Apatow, maintained the same pattern as Apatow’s previous films, "Knocked...
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 Taking in about $77.4 million at
the international box office from its first day of release, “Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix”
has continued its run during the weekend too. As expected, the movie has led
the weekend box office, as the movie’s total domestic gross to $140 million
since its opening Wednesday. The fifth...
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 Two-time Academy Award-winning American actor and director Kevin Spacey will reportedly reprise his role as Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor in the upcoming sequel to Superman Returns, which is set to come out under the title Superman: Man of Steel.Also, Variety reports that Spacey will also appear in "Telstar," Nick Moran's film...
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 Chinese film director and producer John Woo is set to team up with video game creator Warren Spector to bring the latter's "Ninja Gold" game to the bigscreen. They will release an ensemble movie-game, in which both Woo will lend his talent to the game's creation and viceversa. Fox Atomic, the nascent genre arm of 20th Century...
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 The defending Stanley Cup champs in almost four years, Anaheim Ducks, have lost in an outstanding game against the visiting Dallas Stars by 5-0.Starting the month with two victories, the Ducks started the game with their minds at the first place in the Pacific Division, but Dallas kicked off with two power play goals resulted from the...
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 Patrick Kane, who was selected by the Blackhawks with the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft and a month ago, signed a three-year contract with the Chicago club according to General Manager Dale Tallon’s statement. “The Blackhawks organization has treated my family and me in a first class manner and I’m looking forward to a...
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 The Ottawa Senators and goal keeper Ray Emery agreed on a three-year deal on Tuesday avoiding salary arbitration. The will earn Ray Emery about $9.5 million making him one of the highest paid goalies in the NHL, the Ottawa Sun wrote. The 24-year-old former restricted free agent will be paid $2.75 million next season, $3.25 million in... < | | | |
