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The 11th stage of the Dakar Rally from the Chilean town of Copiapo to Fiambala in Argentina Wednesday has been cancelled due to poor weather conditions.
The competitors will now drive the 680-kilometre-long route that reaches an altitude of 4,700 metres but will not race their vehicles.
Tuesday's 10th stage, which was won by race...
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Canadian liberal opposition leader Stephane Dione said late Monday he is ready to resign as soon as a successor is found, as his party accused him of having failed to successfully counter the ruling Conservative Party.
Dion failed to prevent Prime Minister Stephen Harper from forcing Canada's parliament into a seven-week recess to...
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 Lance Armstrong, a retired American professional
road racing cyclist, the only individual to win the Tour de France seven times,
joined efforts with four former U.S.
surgeons general on Wednesday to raise awareness to fight cancer.
Armstrong, a testicular cancer survivor, addressed
the media at the National Call to Action on...
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 On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp proudly announced that its Xbox 360 managed to go past the 10 million unit mark in the U.S. before Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii and Sony Corp's PS3."History has shown us that the first company to reach 10 million in console sales wins the generation battle," Don Mattrick, a Microsoft senior vice president,...
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 Google and The X Prize Foundation
announced yesterday the ten top finalists to register for the race towards winning
the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize. The ten international groups that
remained in the battle will compete to land on the Moon a privately funded
robotic craft, which will also have to roam the Moon’s surface for at...
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 A team of paleontologists recently discovered
the fossils of two new meat-eating species of dinosaur. They called the two
ancient animals Kryptops palaios, which means “old hidden face”, and
Eocarcharia dinops, or “fierce-eyed dawn shark”, respectively. They chose these
strange names for the recently uncovered new species because the...
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Medicines manufactured by German conglomerate Bayer that combine aspirin with dietary supplements in order to help patient fight osteoporosis and high cholesterol are being sold illicitly and could jeopardize consumers’ health, federal regulators said.The drugmakers of Bayer Aspirin with Heart Advantage and Bayer Women's Low Dose Aspirin...
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 A new study that
sustains the idea that autism does not develop in children vaccinated with thimerosal
vaccines, due to be published in the February issue of Pediatrics, was released
earlier on Wednesday, to put an end to the controversies surrounding the new
ABC drama “Eli Stone”.
The opening episode of
the series...
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 Senate president Therese Murray proposed that all gifts and
freebies that pharmaceutical companies give to doctors should be totally
banned. If adopted, this decision would make Massachusetts the first state in
the country to ban these gifts outright.
The measure is part of a new healthcare reform that Murray
initiated. The...
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 Just about two week before
Valentine’s Day, a child’s heart stopped. A life was taken without anybody’s
fault. In fact, everybody did what they could to help Marquis Popp, the
13-year-old teenager that passed away on Saturday. They even gave him a new
heart, but it seems that sometimes man’s power is simply useless. The boy...
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 A new study that can change the treatment for cardiovascular disease showed that statin drugs can really lower the risk of heart attacks and even strokes in patients who apparently feel well. The researchers tracked 18,000 people who had normal cholesterol and found out that the drugs also helped for lowering the risk of heart diseases...
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 In an attempt to stop Merck & Co Inc's latest bid to
sell a cholesterol-lowering drug without a prescription, a U.S. advisory panel
urged the government on Thursday to reject the proposition.
The committee voted 10-2, with one abstention, against
recommending over-the-counter sales of Merck's cholesterol fighter Mevacor.
Most...
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After sparking outrage among Israel's Arab citizens, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni clarified Friday her remark that the solution for their national aspirations lay in the future Palestinian state.
Livni told Israel Radio that she had not been hinting at "transferring" or "moving" Israel's Arab citizens to...
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The Likud, the hardline opposition party currently tipped by opinion polls to win Israel's upcoming elections, was choosing its list of candidates Monday.
Some 99,000 registered members of the party of hawkish former premier Benjamin Netanyahu are eligible to vote nationwide at polling stations which opened at 10 am (0800 GMT) for 11...
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The body of South African singer and anti-apartheid icon, Miriam Makeba, arrived back in her native Johannesburg Wednesday, three days after her death in Italy.
Makeba, 76, who was known affectionately as Mama Africa, suffered a heart attack shortly after a performance on Sunday evening in southern Italy in support of a campaign...
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Nigerians were jubilant Wednesday after Barack Obama was declared the 44th president of the United States of America.
Many Nigerians stayed glued to their television sets to monitor the election.
The moment Obama was announced to have won Ohio and Pennsylvania, cheering erupted in beer parlours and homes across Africa's most...
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Hundreds of businesses around Zimbabwe were readying Friday to open their doors to sell goods in foreign currency as the country's own currency accelerated in its crash towards oblivion.
The central bank Thursday granted special licences to 570 retail and wholesale businesses, oil companies and service stations to charge in hard...
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Hassan is a 36-year-old Egyptian waiter who earns 500 Egyptian pounds (93 US dollars) a month. His fiancée Heba is a university student, who works as a salesgirl on the side. She uses half the 400 pounds she earns to save for their wedding.
Hassan and Heba's tale - of saving long and hard with meagre wages to scrape together enough to...
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party deputy leader Kgalema Motlanthe will be the party's candidate to replace President Thabo Mbeki until elections next year, the ANC confirmed Tuesday.
"It has been confirmed that Kgalema (Motlanthe) is the candidate for president," party spokesman Ishmael Mnisi...
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Prosecutors in South Africa said Wednesday they would seek leave to appeal a court's ruling last week that corruption and fraud charges against African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma were invalid.
The National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) refusal to drop the case against Zuma is likely to add to tensions between supporters...
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The judge hearing an application by South
Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma to
have corruption charges against him thrown out reserved judgement
Tuesday in the case.
Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Chris Nicholson said that given
the complexity of the case he would reserve judgement in...
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Hundreds of supporters of the leader of South
Africa's ruling party, Jacob Zuma, braved cold and wet conditions to
show their support for the 66-year-old presidential hopeful ahead of a court hearing to decide the validity of corruption charges against him.
The gathering Sunday night came ahead of Zuma's appeal Monday to the
High...
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South Africa's ruling African National
Congress on Monday accused the state of persecuting party leader Jacob
Zuma by charging him with corruption and demanded that the case be
dropped.
Speaking outside the High Court in the southern city of
Pietermaritzburg, where hundreds of Zuma supporters demonstrated ahead
of a key hearing in...
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South African police discovered the bodies of
two people who appeared to have fled crisis-torn Zimbabwe, reports said
Thursday The decayed bodies were discovered in a field near the city of Musina at the weekend. It was unclear what they died of.
A police spokesman said that in some cases people who flee Zimbabwe
often die...
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 Zimbabwe’s
opposition faction accused the government’s military on Monday of planning to
assassinate Morgan Tsvangirai, their presidential candidate.
As a result of the suspicion, the leader of the Movement for
Democratic Change delayed his return in Zimbabwe and simultaneously the
start of his campaign. The...
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 Voters across Zimbabwe held Saturday their
national elections, which include the presidential, parliamentary, senate and
local elections. Zimbabweans cast their ballots in order to decide whether
President Robert Mugabe should keep his function, after he caused the country’s
economic collapse. Mugabe is facing with the biggest...
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 The talks between the two rival sides
continue in Kenya,
despite the fact that the most important peace mediator Cyril Ramaphosa
withdrew from the discussions. Kenya Red Cross announced Tuesday that the death
toll reached more than 1,000 since the elections of December 27, CNN.com
reports.
More than 350,000 people...
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 Kenya's opposition said Tuesday it had filed a complaint with the
International Criminal Court in The Hague against President Mwai
Kibaki, his cabinet and police officials, accusing them of crimes
against humanity during the post-election period.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which charges that last
month's elections were...
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 At least ten people were killed as fresh violence erupted in Kenya,
with angry mobs torching dozens of houses in chaos that has plagued the
East African nation since allegedly flawed elections last month, local
media reported Monday.
The violence comes a day before former United Nations secretary
general Kofi Annan is set to...
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 Kenya's embattled opposition seemed to lose some steam Friday during
the final day of a series of protests and said it would alter its
tactics to bring down President Mwai Kibaki - which it charges stole
his election win last month - by targeting the economy.
In a stark contrast to its determination to keep on with the...
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 Men, women and children bearing machetes and clubs chanted opposition
slogans in the slums of the Kenyan capital Nairobi Thursday as a second
day of protests over disputed presidential election polls got violently
underway.
Protestors in Mathare shantytown, unable to break a police barrier
to reach the downtown rally called by the...
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 Tensions bubbled to the surface in the Kenyan parliament Tuesday as the
house reopened for the first time since disputed presidential polls set
off a political stalemate and ignited violence around the country that
has killed nearly 600.
The opening session continued into evening as members voted in a
speaker and were set to be...
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 Kenya's electoral commission will go before the courts this week to
have the results of the country's controversial presidential elections
reviewed, a Kenyan newspaper reported Sunday.
The ballot papers were being guarded around the clock by police,
the Sunday Nation quoted the commission's vice-chairman Kihara Muttu...
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 Kenyan opposition politicians called off what was called a
"million-man" rally Thursday to protest allegedly flawed polls which
have sparked mass rioting and violence that continued as supporters
tried to reach the gathering.
As disgruntled Kenyans fought police and condemned the so-called
flawed poll results that...
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 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner Sunday amid reignited
violence around the country after a tight, tense race was marred by
allegations of fraud.
As Kibaki's supporters celebrated in the capital Nairobi,
pro-opposition protesters countrywide took to the streets charging the
vote was rigged.
Leaders had appealed...
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 Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga demanded Sunday the
incumbent concede defeat and asked that all votes be recounted to
ensure there were no instances of rigging in what has shaped up to be
the East African nation's closest polls.
Incumbent Mwai Kibaki trails Odinga with 38,000 votes with only 19
constituencies left to...
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 Kenyans headed to the polls Thursday in the country's closest-ever
elections that provoked fears of fraud and violence in a country known
for relative stability, but were generally calm with only minor
violations.
Most polling stations closed down around 5 p.m. (1400 GMT) except
for a couple in Kibera, East Africa's largest slum,...
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 The tense wait for the unveiling of the next leader of South Africa's
ruling African National Congress (ANC) began after voting ended Tuesday
in a tight contest between incumbent President Thabo Mbeki and ANC
deputy leader Jacob Zuma.
Zuma was expected to quash Mbeki's controversial bid for a third
five-year term at the party helm...
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 The mood was ebullient Saturday among supporters of the man tipped to
oust Thabo Mbeki as leader of South Africa's ruling African National
Congress (ANC), as party members poured into the northern city of
Polokwane to pick their president for the next five years.
Cattle herders leaning on their sticks watched as dozens of...
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Kim Ledger, father of dead Australian actor Heath Ledger, Monday described his son's posthumous Golden Globe award as "bitter-sweet."
Ledger, who was 28 when he died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in New York a year ago, won the award for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight.
"I was just so elated,...
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Dominik Hrbaty and Dominika Cibulkova clinched a third Hopman Cup title for the Slovak Republic as they swept Russia 2-0 in the Friday final.
Hrbaty finished off a six-hour tie as Marat Safin sent a return out, with the 31-year-old Slovak earning a 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) victory.
That scoreline, added to Cibulkova's opening...
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Dominik Hrbaty and Dominika Cibulkova led the Slovak Republic to a third Hopman Cup title on Friday with a storming 2-0 victory over Russia.
It marked the second honour at the team competition for veteran Hrbaty, who outlasted longtime friend and rival Marat Safin 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3).
Teenaged Cibulkova began the win with an...
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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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Top seed Ana Ivanovic on Monday needed to escape a first set that lasted one hour on the way to a struggling 6-4, 6-2 win over Czech teenager Petra Kvitova at the Brisbane International.
The Serb top seed and defending French Open winner found herself in a battle. "I had to fight for each point (but) it was good in the first...
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Jelena Dokic will have to fight to keep her tennis dream alive after losing to a Brisbane teenager Tuesday in the wild card playoffs for next month's Australian Open.
Former world number four Dokic lost on the second day of play at Melbourne Park, falling to Monica Wejnert 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
"She's probably the highest...
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An Australian on Tuesday bet 50,000 Australian dollars (40,000 US
dollars) on Barack Obama winning the November US presidential election.
"Until the last week, the money was fairly evenly split between
McCain and Obama, but it has been all one-way traffic this week, with
punters jumping off the McCain train," Sportingbet...
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 New Zealand police believe thieves who stole nine Victoria Cross medals
- the highest award for military gallantry in the British Commonwealth
- are planning to sell them for millions of dollars on the black
market, according to reports on Monday.
But the medals, stolen in an early morning raid on the New Zealand
Army Museum on...
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 Opinion polls Saturday showed Kevin Rudd's Labor Party maintaining its
clear lead over Prime Minister John Howard's ruling coalition with just
a week to go before Australia's November 24 general election.
Support for Labor is steady at 54 per cent with the conservatives
on 46 per cent, according to an opinion poll in The...
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Zagreb - A large crowd braved the cold and falling snow for hours in central Zagreb Sunday evening, expecting to celebrate after the handball world championship final, but instead had to watch Croatia lose to France 24:19.
"Nation on its knees," the Internet portal Index said, reflecting the deflation of a euphoric balloon...
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For six decades, China tried in vain to recover Taiwan with military force and political rhetoric. Now it has changed its tactics, by sending Taiwan a pair of giant pandas to win over the hearts of Taiwan people.
The tactic has worked even before the two panda bears arrived in Taipei Tuesday. In the past month, news about the two...
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When the Utah Jazz visited the red-hot Boston Celtics, they were concerned with Boston's "Big Three." Instead, they were victimized by "The Other One."
Rajon Rondo had a career-high 25 points, nine rebounds and eight assists Monday night as the Celtics won their 15th-straight game, a 100-91 victory over the...
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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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Spanish giants Atletico Madrid announced on Monday that they would travel to Marseille, for Tuesday's Champions League clash against Olympique just hours ahead of the kickoff.
Like most European teams, Atletico normally travel the day before the game, in order to get used to the city, the stadium and the weather.
This time,...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Bayer Leverkusen downed Schalke 2-1 to stay top of the Bundesliga on Saturday, while Bayern Munich lost ground after conceding two late goals at Borussia Moenchengladbach to draw 2-2.
Hoffenheim meanwhile stayed level on 28 points with Leverkusen at the top after edging Wolfsburg 3-2.
Bayern were left three points...
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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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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners in Thursday's first-round first-leg matches.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup).
After being...
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Surprise package Hoffenheim will be aiming to keep their place at the top of the Bundesliga when they visit Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.
The newly-promoted village club are the only side with maximum points following two victories without conceding a goal, and Leverkusen coach Bruno Labbadia warns that the good start is no...
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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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A United Nations investigative team has found that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in a US-led coalition air raid in western Afghanistan last week, the top UN envoy in the country said Tuesday.
The team "found convincing evidence, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses and others that some 90 civilians were...
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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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It's probably just as well that defending light welterweight champion Manus Boonjumnong intends turning professional after the Olympic Games because the talented Thai boxer certainly seems to need a bigger stage.
Manus was already assured of becoming the first Thai athlete in history to win medals at consecutive Games before his...
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Germany beat Japan 2-0 on Thursday to win the bronze medal in the Olympic women's football competition.
Substitute Fatmire Bajramaj scored both goals in the second half for the world champions, who were eliminated in the semi-finals by Brazil.
Japan did most of the early attacking but were kept at bay by German goalkeeper Nadine...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to visit Myanmar in December to discuss the country's political stalemate, his special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari disclosed Wednesday.
"Ban Ki-moon plans to come to Myanmar in the last week of December but this time the trip will be focused on politics," said Nyan Win, the...
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This day in Olympic history: August 12.
1984 - Carlos Lopes wins the marathon for Portugal at the Los Angeles Games. It was his country's first-ever Olympic gold medal and he won it in an Olympic record time of two hours nine minutes and 21 seconds.
Lopes had originally wanted to become a footballer, but his father did not like the...
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Though Austria's Social Democrats were set to choose Werner Faymann as their candidate for Chancellor in the upcoming general elections, he still has to prove he can emerge from the second row to become a leading man.
The popular, but not yet widely known transport minister took over the party leadership from Chancellor Alfred...
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Roger Federer will begin
resuscitating his summer after last week's Canadian crash out, as the
opening day of the Cincinnati Masters was hit by a pair of late injury
defections on Monday. The Swiss superstar learned the name of
his opening opponent in Tuesday's second round, as US player Robby
Ginepri overcame Swedish veteran...
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the 144th day of 2008 with 222 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, the father of modern systematic botany, in 1707; Austrian physician...
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 Burma’s
state said 22,000 people were killed by Saturday’s cyclone, the Press
Association reports. According to the state television, 10,000 died in the town
of Bogalay, in the country's Irrawaddy
delta.
Burma
foreign minister Nyan Win had told diplomats in Rangoon that thousands of people died when
Cyclone Nargis struck and...
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the 126th day of 2008 with 240 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1813; German political theorist Karl Marx in 1818; hatmaker John...
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 According to recent news reports, Russia and India signed a
deal to jointly build a multipurpose transport plane Monday as President
Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrapped up a visit that
highlighted deepening military and economic ties between the two nations.
It was unclear, however, whether the two sides were...
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 A new study discovered that the men who consider the women’s only job to stay at home and take care of the house, earn more. Even if they might be considered “out of fashion,” these men’s ideas could increase their family’s income much more than ordinary.They will earn more than the men who think more modern nowadays and consider the...
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 As AIDS is a global pandemic, killing millions of people, measures have to be taken in order to decrease the number of deaths. In the short-term, in an effort to reach the target, governments must carry on expanding the employ of the methods currently at people’s disposal. Abstinence and faithfulness campaigns, condoms, and male...
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 Parkinson's patients received brain stimulation, they had
trouble making hard decisions. However, when the stimulation was turned off,
patients responded like the healthy individuals in the control study.
Parkinson's disease is caused by the degradation of nerve
cells in the brain that produce dopamine, a signaling chemical that...
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 Things seem to have started to
change for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, as the company’s CEO Steve Jobs has announced
today that third-party applications will soon be coming for the controversial mobile
phone This announcement comes in a period of time when the iPhone has
transformed from the once popular gadget into a controversial device,...
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 Apple’s ultimate marketing
strategy appears to be simply cutting the prices. After the surprising move
from the 5th of September when the popular company has announced an
unexpected price drop of $200 for its ultimate gadget, the iPhone, Apple is
being rumored of planning to drop also the prices of the TV episodes it sells
through...
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 The new “Miss Bimbo” Web site was launched in the UK last month and
it has already attracted numerous children players. It is specially designed
for girls and here they are given a naked virtual character to look after or to
see it as their own reflection. “Bimbo” dollars are the reward for a good-looking
female character, dressed in...
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 Four years after all the major record labels have teamed up with Pepsi in order to offer 100 million free songs through Apple’s iTunes, the miracle happens again, as Pepsi and Amazon are collaborating for Pepsi Stuff, which is a massive collect-and-get program where consumers can download the most DRM-free MP3 music available...
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 Japan's largest provider of mobile phone services, NTT DoCoMo, might incorporate some of Google’s functions and applications into its i-mode network service, according to the Nikkei business daily on Tuesday.DoCoMo users can expect beginning with the next spring to be able to access Google searches, email, scheduling and photo-saving...
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 When two people are fighting, the
third one will win! Could this be the case of the already famous legal war
involving Mark E. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook? Could be, but it will
probably take some time for the judges to decide who is right and who is wrong
in the lawsuit against the youngest millionaire of Internet.
So,...
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 Former long time partners NBC
Universal and Apple have started for some time a public war that makes
everybody curious about what will happen next. However, the most recent hit
that has reminded us of the two battling companies has taken place on Thursday,
when some source from “The New York Times” has
happened to speak about NBC...
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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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Los Angeles - Kobe Bryant lit up the Garden like no other.
Bryant exploded for a modern Madison Square Garden record 61 points on Monday night, carrying the short-handed LA Lakers past the New York Knicks for a 126-117 victory.
"It's a blessing to do what you love and to have moments like this," said Bryant, who reached...
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Chen Yanying made Olympic weightlifting history on Monday when she became the first woman to win successive gold medals in one event, the lighweight division at the Beijing Games.
The world record holder Chen, 29, had 106 kilos in the snatch and and 138kg in the clean and jerk for an Olympic record total of 244kg.
Marina Shayinova...
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Four world records tumbled in a remarkable second day of Olympic swimming Monday as American superstar Michael Phelps' attempt to win an unprecedented eight gold medals stayed on track. In shooting, Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever Olympic gold medal in an individual event, while Japan's women toppled China's top-seeded 2004...
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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 trials are going to take place in New York’s last 25 miles of Central Park, on Saturday morning, being expected that they would have around 200.000 spectators.The specialists have declared that Central Park is a challenging place to run, due to its undulating terrain. In order to settle the team for the Olympic...
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 Canada took a big step forward in its way to acomplish the dream of qualifying for the Beijing Olympics in men’s basketball after they defeated the U.S. Virgin Islands 93-83 in the FIBA Americas Championship. Juan Mendez of Montreal led the Canadians in scoring with 22 points, Philadelphia 76ers centre Samuel Dalembert added 15 points...
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 George Clooney returned to "ER" in a long-awaited appearance that gave the TV show its highest viewership ratings in two years as the show nears its final emergency.Although barely promoted by NBC, the episode in which Clooney's starred boosted "ER" by 11% to a Nielsen preliminary 3.9 rating for the 18-49 demographic....
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 Good guys don’t last. At least on “American Idol.”Jorge Nunez, the sociable and easygoing 20-year-old college student from Carolina, Puerto Rico, and Jasmine Murray, the harmonious 16-year-old high school student from Starkville, Miss., were the first couple of finalists dismissed on Wednesday from the popular Fox talent show.Jasmine...
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Ellen DeGeneres has won her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy
for best talk show host a Hollywood ceremony,
on Friday night, at the 35th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The comic and
presenter outranked US TV veteran Regis Philbin in the same category, as well
as Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg, both hosts of The View show. She...
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 Personal life continues to follow a silent road beyond the stage. Far from the sparkling light of reflectors, in the sauna of her Idol apartment, Kristy Lee Cook's boyfriend gave her an engagement ring, a little present to make her remember her first elimination round as a finalist which was a lucky one. Reporters found out details about...
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 The music industry has a new favorite, young Miley Cyrus.
She’s popular among preteens, teens and parents, and she’s also becoming one of
the paps’ favorites. Miley has earned huge success with the “Hannah Montana”
show, her 3-D movie and performed impeccably at her sold-out concert-tour.
Besides all these accomplishments, Miley...
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 The popular fashion reality show, “Project Runway,” is
heading for Lifetime Television saying ‘buh-bye!’ to NBC Universal and its
Bravo cable network. The announcement of the departure was made on Monday, the
same day in which NBC Universal filed suit against “Project Runway’s” producer,
The Weinstein Co. in New
York State Supreme...
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 Tuesday was the night when the first two couples were
eliminated from the “Dancing With the Stars” competition. Magician Penn
Jillette and tennis champ Monica Seles along with their partners were the first
to leave ABC’s sixth season of the show. However, this was the first-ever
double elimination.
According to The Associated...
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 “American Idol” is still victorious when it comes to
ratings. According to national estimates from Nielsen, Idol scored first
Wednesday being the highest-watched show at the crucial 9 o’clock hour. The show had 27.13 million
viewers and a 10.3 rating/26 in 18-49, surpassing NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” and
also CBS’ “Big Brother” which...
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 David Hernandez, one of the contestants that fight to win
the “American Idol” show was found out to not have a very decent past. The
24-year-old Glendale, Ariz.
Resident used to be a stripper in Dick’s Cabaret in Phoenix, according to USA Today. However, the
producers of “American Idol” have decided not to judge the young man's racy...
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 The names of the 14 stars that are going to take part at the "Celebrity Apprentice" have been made public by NBC on Monday, after almost a month since they were introduced to members of the press, which had to sworn secrecy, in a door closed news conference.Trace Adkins, Nadia Comaneci and Gene Simmons, who already has his own...
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 Wednesdays at 10 p.m. we get to see the next designers whose
works we will worship in the future. Or at least this is what the contestants of
the Bravo reality show hope.
Project Runaway returns with the forth season, fresher and
stronger, with a mixture of contestants coming from various domains. The most
outstanding fields in...
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 Out of the four contestants left on the show, Terry Fator impressed the most with his performances and was crowned the winner of “America's Got Talent” second season. Beating up stiff competition from singers Cas Haley and Julienne Irwin and beatbox extraordinaire Antoinette "Butterscotch" Clinton, Fator bagged the million...
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 It was about time we saw David Duchovny return to television series after last time seeing him in “X-Files.”Although he will always be known to the public as FBI agent Fox Mulder, in his new show “Californication,” premiering tonight at 10:30, not to be mistaken with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ album of the same name, Duchovny plays Hank...
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 The software company SCO Group
Inc. has been involved in so many lawsuits, than it should barely have any time
for creating and developing its products! However, on the 10th of
August 2007, one of SCO Group’s battles has been finalized. At least for the
moment, the case of SCO v. Novell has reached to an end thanks to Judge...
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Pamela Jelimo of Kenya won't be able to seek another million-dollar jackpot as the 800 metres is not among the disciplines confirmed on Thursday for the elite Golden League athletics series in 2009.
The ruling body IAAF said in a statement that Golden league disciplines next year are the men's 100 metres, 400m, 3,000m/5,000m, 110m...
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The 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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Chen Ruolin claimed victory in the final of the women's 10-metre platform Thursday to pick up China's seventh Olympic diving gold out of seven at the Beijing Games.
Chen secured the win with a total of 447.70 points with silver going to Canada's Emily Heymans, who amassed 437.05. Xin Wang also took bronze for China with 429.90 points.
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American swimmers scored a hat-trick of victories and set three world records at the Beijing Olympics on Friday as superstar Michael Phelps took his tally of gold medals to six.
Germany's Britta Steffen broke the US domination with a remarkable comeback in the women's 100 metres freestyle to give her country its first Olympic swimming...
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Amid great political and military tension between Russia and Georgia, two Brazilian-born women took Georgia to a 2-1 victory over Russian in the beach volleyball competition at the Beijing Olympics.
Andrezza Chagaz, 31 and Cristine Santanna are naturalized as Georgian in order to have a greater chance of development in their...
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Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland and American Kristin Armstrong added Olympic road racing time trial gold medals to world titles won earlier in their cycling career on Wednesday.
The two-time reigning world champion Cancellara underlined his supremacy in the race against the clock with a big win on the hilly 47.5-kilometres between...
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When a bloodied South
African captain John Smit received the William Webb Ellis Cup from
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday following his side's 15-6
victory against the defending champions England, it opened a door for
South Africa that goes far beyond just the sport.
South African coach Jake White said that winning the...
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Lewis Hamilton's victory at
a rain- soaked Silverstone has set up an even tighter battle for the
Formula One drivers' championship as it goes into the second half of
the season.
Britain's Hamilton joins Ferrari drivers Kimi Raikkonen of Finland
and Felipe Massa of Brazil on 48 points with nine of the 18 races
remaining following...
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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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Australia's bratty world-champion cricket team is learning that winning is not everything.
After not giving visitors India a sporting chance of evening the
score after two games and allowing the four-match series to continue in
a competitive manner, the team has fallen foul of its own fans.
Many sympathize with the Indians in...
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 Tiger Woods won his sixth consecutive tournament worldwide and 63 on tour on Sunday, as he managed to race down Stewart Cink 8 and 7 in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson, Arizona.Woods is now the fourth player on the all- time PGA Tour win list, going past Arnold Palmer and trailing Ben Hogan by only one."Just to...
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 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 Bode Miller claimed victory in the men's downhill over the legendary Lauberhorn last weekend, he says that he is confident that he would continue winning this weekend in Kitzbuehel. "I really want to win this race," said the 30-year-old ahead of Saturday's downhill at the famous Austrian resort. "A year ago, I came...
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 Jean-Baptiste Grange of France put in a scintillating second run to win
the men's slalom in Wengen Saturday and register his third World Cup
win of the season.
Grange, who also claimed victory in Friday's super-combined event
at the Swiss venue, clocked a combined total of 1 minute 34.81 seconds
for his two runs.
Sweden's Jens...
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 Bode Miller of the United States won his first World Cup race of the
alpine ski season with a faultless downhill run at Bormio, Italy on
Saturday.
It was the 26th career World Cup win for Miller who won gold medals
in super-g and downhill in Bormio in the 2005 world championships.
Miller, 30, had the speed and the staying power...
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 Denise Karbon of Italy registered her third win of the Alpine World Cup
season Friday when the 27-year-old claimed victory in the women's giant
slalom in Lienz.
Karbon had times of 1 minute 00.88 seconds and 1:01.85 minutes in her two runs for a winning time of 2:02.73 minutes.
American Julia Mancuso came second with a combined...
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 Lindsey Vonn won a women's World Cup downhill ski race on Friday, while Anja Paerson retired and lost the World Cup lead.The US star Vonn stepped on the North American podium in her ninth win in her professional career and her second win of the season, with 1 minute 32.00 seconds ahead of Canda's Kelly Vanderbeek (1:32.36) and another...
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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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 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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 “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” is the first adaptation for the big screen of Walt Disney’s TV franchise. In its first three days, the romantic musical won $42 million and surpassed ABBA-themed romance “Mamma Mia!” from July, which gained only $27.8 million. “Saw V” was also after the “High School Musical 3” in the box office, with...
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 Kevin Smith is a true influence for the new generation of film makers. After he made “Clerks,” he is now coming back with a new comedy named “Zack and Miri Make a Porno.” Smith chose Seth Rogen to play Zack, a slacker who makes a skin brush together with his best friend as to earn some cash.When Smith started to make the movie, Rogen was...
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 “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” remained on top during this weekend at the box office. The movie went ahead Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe with “Body of Lies,” which won only $13.1 million. The movie is a terrorism thriller that has the two great actors in the main roles, but this didn’t help them win against the picture talking about...
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 Even though he passed away five months ago, the name of Heath Ledger is
still on everybody’s lips these days. And not because of the way he died, but
because of the way he acted.
“The Dark Knight” will debut in theaters in two weeks and
film critics can’t get enough praising Ledger’s final performance as The Joker.
All the...
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 It appears that Friday the 13th was not unlucky at all for Marvel and Universal’s Edward Norton starrer “The Incredible Hulk,” which had a strong debute, grossing an estimated $21 million from 3,505 theaters to place No. 1, Variety reports.Superhero film “The Incredible Hulk” is based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. Edward...
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 The former “LA Law” and “NYPD Blue” star has
joined the cast of Showtime’s drama series “Dexter.” He will play a powerful
lawyer on the third season of “Dexter” which begins in the fall. Smits will
appear in ten of the 12 episodes approved for the show’s third season.
Jimmy Smits will portray Miguel Prado, “an
ambitious,...
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 Gamble to win! So did the movie “21,”whose premiere reached
the top of box-office this weekend according to studio estimates Sunday. The Las Vegas gambling comedy
managed to displace Dr. Seuss’ “Horton Hears a Who!” which had previously
occupied the first place for two weeks in a row. “21” had ticket returns worth
$23.7 million,...
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 This week-end moviegoers have the opportunity to indulge
themselves in a romantic comedy with the release of “Run, Fatboy, Run.” At
least theoretically.
Based on the script co-written by Michael Ian Black and
Simon Pegg (who is also the protagonist), “Friends” star David Schwimmer
(remember Ross?) makes his directorial debut,...
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 The Sony Pictures film “21”, which opens in theaters on March
28, might be the leader of the box-office charts this weekend with ticket sales
of at least $20 million, the Washington Post reports.
“21” is a fact-base story about the game of Blackjack at
Vegas. Six students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...
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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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The rap icon, Christopher Wallace, also known as Biggie Smalls
or as The Notorious B.I.G., will be played by rapper Jamal Woolard in the new
movie released by Fox Searchlight, called “Notorious.” The movie will be
concentrated on Biggie Smalls’ life, who died in March 9, 1997 aged 24, killed
by an unknown assailant in a drive-by...
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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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 Movie fans that loved “Transformers” will be pleased to
discover that Hasbro and Universal Pictures stroke a six-year deal to initiate
at least another four feature movies based on Hasbro’s famous game and toy brands.
The range of offers among which they have the possibility to
choose from will be between Monopoly, Ouija, Clue,...
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 Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country For Old Men" has another award in its basket and gained by now what seems to be unstoppable momentum for the upcoming Academy Awards. The movie has won the top prize in sound mixing at the 44th annual Cinema Audio Society awards on Saturday. Oh, and the best contemporary film at the 12th annual...
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 No Country for Old Men, Joel and
Ethan Coen’s drama, received the Hollywood
producers’ top prize on Saturday; this award is another proof that Coen
brothers’ movie is a front-runner in the race to the Oscars.
Only a few days ago, the movie’s
directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, were also named the year’s Best Directors by
the DGA...
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 And this week’s box office first position goes to Tyler Perry’s “Why Did I Get Married?” recording $21.5 million in revenue, winning the battle after direct competition with “The Game Plan” that earned $11.5 million and “Michael Clayton” and “We Own The Night”, too busy to win the third place, with an estimated $ 11 million.Tyler Perry,...
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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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 As it usually happens with any new product, Netflix’s Roku, announced on Tuesday, brought about both positive and negative opinions. While some still prefer Apple TV, others were willing to give it a try and they appear to be rather satisfied with it. The $99 Netflix Player gives customers access to more than 10,000 movies and TV...
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 On Tuesday, a new set-top made by Roku was announced by Netflix. The $99 Netflix Player gives customers access to more than 10,000 movies and TV series. As Roku's vice president of consumer products, Tim Twerdahl said, the Netflix Player represents the first stage of Roku's plan to implement its "Internet to the TV strategy,"...
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 Following Warner Bros’ announcement on Friday that it would back the Blu-Ray Disc format as the high-definition video standard, the group standing beside the HD-DVD format announced the cancellation of its planned party Sunday night at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).The decision was seen as a sign that the Blu-Ray format has won the...
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 Although the upcoming wireless spectrum
auction, headed by the United
States’ Federal Communications Commission,
is very expected by everyone, Google has found the necessary time for showing
once again its power and ability in making business. So, although large or less
large companies are eager to compete one against each other...
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 Kevin J. Martin’s new rules
haven’t come into action yet, but if so, the world of the United States’ telecom will be
revolutionized. Secondly, Google Inc. and other high-tech companies will score
an important victory over the broadband providers, as much of the companies’
demands have been incorporated in Federal Communications...
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The suddenly slumping Boston Celtics have lost their way and some of their swagger.
China's Yao Ming scored 26 points, Von Wafer drilled the go-ahead three-pointer with 44 seconds left and the Houston Rockets sent the the Celtics to their third straight loss, with an 89-85 victory on Wednesday night.
The stumbling Rockets (22-15)...
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The new US Congress was sworn in Tuesday with stronger Democratic majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate that are expected to help president-elect Barack Obama push through his legislative agenda.
But the first day of the 111th Congress was overshadowed by controversy, as the Senate refused to seat Roland...
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The San Antonio Spurs turned up their trademark defense down the stretch to turn back another opponent.
Tim Duncan had 19 points with nine rebounds, and Argentine Manu Ginobili blocked Dwyane Wade's shot in the final minutes as the Spurs beat the Miami Heat 91-84 on Monday night en route to their eighth win in the last nine...
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The San Antonio Spurs turned up their trademark defense down the stretch to turn back another opponent.
Tim Duncan had 19 points with nine rebounds, and Argentine Manu Ginobili blocked Dwyane Wade's shot in the final minutes as the Spurs beat the Miami Heat 91-84 on Monday night en route to their eighth win in the last nine...
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One game after making history, the Boston Celtics' record-setting run is history.
Kobe Bryant scored 27 points and Spain's Pau Gasol had seven of his 20 in the final three minutes of a game-sealing 13-2 run on Thursday as the Lakers snapped the Celtics' franchise-best 19 game- winning streak, with an inspired 92-83 home-court...
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A culture of bribery and impunity flourished at German corporate giant Siemens AG over the past decade despite repeated warnings from outside and inside the firm, according to US court documents.
The details were released Monday as Siemens pleaded guilty in US District Court in Washington to a massive global corruption scandal...
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Dwyane Wade was good until the very last drop.
Wade poured in 41 points, including the game-sealing free throws with 6.1 seconds, carrying the Miami Heat to its season-high fourth straight victory, 100-96 over the pesky Charlotte Bobcats on Monday night.
"It's winning time," Wade said. "This is a good Charlotte...
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Sharpshooting Ray Allen was on fire and the Boston Celtics remained red hot.
Allen scored seven of his season-high 35 points in overtime, and the surging Celtics extended their winning streak to 12 games, with a 122-117 come-from-behind road victory over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday night.
"Ray's just on fire," Celtics...
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Rajon Rondo recorded his first career triple-double, and the Boston Celtics extracted a measure of revenge.
Rondo had 16 points, 13 rebounds and a personal-best 17 assists, as the Celtics rolled to their 10th consecutive victory, 114-96 over the visiting Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night.
"It's not easy to do," Rondo...
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Although Kevin Garnett missed the game on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics seemed to be just fine without their emotional leader.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points and fan favourite Brian Scalabrine, filling in for the suspended Garnett, fired in a game-sealing three- pointer with just over a minute left to play as the Celtics held off...
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The Houston Rockets picked up the win, but may have lost one of their All-Stars, indefinitely.
Argentina's Luis Scola scored a season-high 23 points, and the Rockets pulled away in the second half without injured Tracy McGrady to roll past the slumping Oklahoma City Thunder 100-89 on Monday night.
"Luis made big plays for us...
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Superman made an unexpected late appearance in Boston to rescue the reigning NBA Champions.
Paul Pierce poured in 22 of his 36 points in the final quarter, rallying the Celtics to a 94-87 victory over the visiting Toronto Raptors on Monday night.
"I like to play within the flow of the offence," said Pierce, who was icing...
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US president-elect Barack Obama's childhood years in Indonesia may provide him with a unique personal link to South-East Asia, but it remains to be seen how deep the old school ties go, analysts warn.
Obama, the first African-American to be elected president, can also claim to be the first US president to have spent almost four...
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Democrats increased their control of Congress in US elections Tuesday, picking up significant gains in the Senate and House of Representatives by capitalizing on a backlash against Republicans and President George W Bush.
The Democrats won three Senate seats vacated by retiring Republicans in Virginia, New Mexico and Colorado, while...
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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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Hours after losing Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess in a blockbuster trade, the Detroit Pistons went about their business as usual
Richard Hamilton scored 19 points and Rasheed Wallace had 15 to lead six teammates in double figures as the undefeated Pistons rolled to their third straight victory to start the season, by bashing the...
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As Chicago braced for a throng of 1 million people at a public park in anticipation of Democrat Barack Obama's victory Tuesday, Republicans Monday were wishing them bad weather and a cliff-hanger election.
"I hope the million or so people who are planning to gather in Chicago have a long, cold night," quipped Mitt Romney,...
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Google has reached a 125-million-dollar settlement of a class action lawsuit by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, which will drastically expand the availability of digitized books over the internet, the groups announced Tuesday.
The deal sets aside 45 million dollars for payment to authors and publishers...
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Greg Oden made a successful NBA debut with 13 points and five rebounds, as the Portland Trail Blazers buried the visiting Sacramento Kings, 110-81 Tuesday night in the pre-season opener for both clubs.
The centre Oden was the top overall pick in the 2007 draft, but his rookie season was delayed by one year due to right knee...
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US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Their discoveries were linked to describing the smallest building blocks in nature and nature's order, the academy...
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 With the help of actress Barbara Streisand, the leader of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, raised $9 million for his party and his presidential campaign on Tuesday night when he partied along with many Hollywood celebrities. The party split into two glamorous events. A reception and dinner which cost $28,500 each at the Greystone...
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Denver police arrested 31 protesters outside the Democratic presidential nominating convention on Tuesday, including 13 anti-abortion demonstrators.
Eighteen people including out-of-state residents were arrested by the Denver police, bringing to 135 the total number of arrests since Saturday, before the convention opened, police said...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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 According to Reuters, a federal appeals court on Monday upheld the dismissal of a libel trial by former Army scientist Steven Hatfill against The New York Times newspaper over a series of columns linking him to anthrax attacks that killed five Americans in 2001 and infected 17 others. Hatfill is a bioterrorism professional who...
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A nationwide alliance of immigrant rights and
community organizations on Thursday launched a new movement aimed at
registering more than one million Latino and Asian voters ahead of
November's presidential elections. The movement, called the
We Are America Alliance (WAAA), will reach out to voters in 13 states,
which also have the...
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Northrop Grumman and EADS remained confident
they will win the contract to build the next generation of US Air Force
refuelling tankers despite a Pentagon decision Wednesday to reopen the
competition.
Northrop and EADS had won the 35-billion-dollar contract in March to
build 179 aerial refuellers over rival Boeing, but the Pentagon...
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The Chicago City Council was busy for three hours today, deciding the final
approval of Chicago Children’s Museum. The plan for this $100 million museum,
which will lie from Navy Pier to Grant Park, gave birth to many controversies
between the council’s members. However, the vote passed with 33 to 16.
Opposition leader,...
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 Three weeks after being diagnosed with a malignant glioma, a
lethal type of brain tumor, 76-year-old Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, brother of J. F.
Kennedy, returned home yesterday following a risky 3 and ½-hour brain surgery, which
he suffered last Monday. The surgery, which took place at Duke Medical Centre
in Durham, North Carolina was...
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 There were no surprises Tuesday in Mississippi’s Democratic primary as Senator Barack Obama recorded a commanding victory over Senator Hillary Clinton, his main rival in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination to fight Republican John McCain for the White House seat. By wining the primary held in Mississippi, a state with plenty...
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 Senator Barack Obama has moved a step closer to clinching the Democratic Party nomination after he won the Wyoming caucuses and gained seven more delegates. The contest is still very tight as Senator Clinton revived her campaign by wining the primaries held in Ohio and Texas. Obama welcomed the seven Wyoming delegates, a state which...
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 Calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” was the fatal error for a Barack Obama foreign policy adviser. After using the word “monster” when referring to the rival Democratic presidential candidate in an interview with a British newspaper, Obama’s aid was forced to resign. Samantha Power, a foreign policy aide on the Illinois senator's White...
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 The new stand bearer of the Republican Party, Senator John McCain, flew from Dallas to Washington where he was greeted on Wednesday by President George W. Bush. The former Arizona lawmaker managed to win Bush’s endorsement in the presidential contest and also the financial help of the Republican National Committee.After lunching with Mr....
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 After recording win after win in primaries and forcing his main opponent to call it quits, Senator John McCain made a trip to the White House on Wednesday to get President Bush's endorsement for president.McCain clinched the GOP presidential nomination after wining Tuesday the primaries held by the states of Ohio, Texas, Vermont and...
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 New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Ohio and Texas primaries over Barack Obama, her Democratic rival in the presidential nomination contest, thus salvaging her campaign. Through these very important victories senator Clinton has put an end to Obama’s wining streak of eleven in a row. Clinton also won in Rhode Island, while...
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 The Democrat Party presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama, are fighting to win the still undecided voters of Oho and Texas as, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll, the contest between the two senators is still very tight. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has a good morale after wining eleven in a...
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 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Thursday
he is backing Republican candidate John McCain in the race for the White House.
McCain has shown he is "reaching across the aisle in
order to get things done," Schwarzenegger said during a news conference.
The GOP presidential hopeful has "crusaded to...
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 Rudolph W. Giuliani is going to drop out of the presidential
race after occupying a disappointing third place in Florida, finishing well
behind John McCain and Mitt Romney, reports said Wednesday.
Media reports revealed that Giuliani will abandon his
presidential bid and throw his support behind fellow Republican McCain.
NBC...
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 Former crime series actor Fred Thompson ended his presidential bid
Tuesday, dropping out of the Republican nomination race after his
campaign as a "true conservative" failed to catch fire.
Thompson, 65, bowed out after finishing a distant third in
Saturday's Republican primary in South Carolina behind Senator John
McCain...
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 US presidential contender Barack Obama urged Americans Sunday to
overcome lingering barriers for black citizens, evoking the spirit of
Martin Luther King at the church where the 1960s civil rights leader
preached.
Fresh from a defeat by Hillary Clinton in a Democratic Party
preference poll, Obama stopped by the Ebenezer Baptist...
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 Arizona Senator John McCain picked up key momentum Saturday in his bid
to become the Republican presidential nominee, but there was still no
clear frontrunner in the crowded centre-right pack.
McCain picked up 33 per cent of the vote in the first state in the
socially conservative South to weigh in on the presidential...
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 Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won the Nevada
caucuses on Saturday in the latest contest to represent each party
ahead this year's US presidential elections.
With 97 per cent of caucus sites reporting, Clinton led the
Democratic vote with 51 per cent over chief rival and fellow senator
Barack Obama, who had 45...
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 Favourite son Mitt Romney revived his bid for the Republican candidacy
for president Tuesday night, claiming victory in Michigan's primary
vote over his chief rival Senator John McCain.
Romney had 39 per cent of the centre-right Republican vote,
followed by 30 per cent for McCain, the Vietnam War veteran and one-
time prisoner of...
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 Polls opened in the Midwestern US state of Michigan Tuesday for the
latest presidential primary which will see only Republican candidates
battling for their party's nomination owing to a Democrat boycott of
the state.
Republican candidate and Michigan native Mitt Romney is seeking to
jump-start his bid for the party's nomination...
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 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, seeking to salvage his
bid for his party's nomination, stressed his local roots and business
credentials as he campaigned across Michigan ahead of the state's
Tuesday primary.
Romney, a wealthy businessman and former Massachusetts governor,
sank millions of dollars into the first...
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 Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama was endorsed Thursday by
fellow US Senator John Kerry, who lost the 2004 election to President
George W Bush.
Kerry portrayed Obama, 46, as an inspirational young leader who can
bridge ideological differences, defeat political cynicism and make a
decisive break with the Bush...
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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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 Senator Barack Obama has taken the lead in an opinion poll published in
Tuesday's Des Moines Register ahead of the Iowa state caucus to select
a candidate from the Democratic Party for this year's US presidential
election.
Obama can expect 32 per cent of the votes in the Iowa caucus, the
newspaper reported, while current favourite...
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 President George W Bush said Thursday that he is confident that the
Republican presidential nominee will win next year's election and that
his party will gain seats in Congress.
"I'm confident we'll hold the White House," Bush said. "And I'm
confident we can pick up seats in both the Senate" and the House...
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 Lawyers for prisoners in the war on terrorism appeared before the US
Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking the right for their clients to
challenge their detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the federal court
system.
The cases, Boumediene versus Bush and al-Odah versus the United
States, marked the third time in as many years...
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 Ron Goldman's family has won rights to the controversial unreleased book by O.J. Simpson, "If I Did It." However, the Goldmans want to rename the book "Confessions of a Double Murder." The rights were owned by a company, Lorraine Brooke Associates, which was run by Simpson's daughter Arnelle.The bankruptcy judge, A....
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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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London - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has dampened speculation that he is about to resign from his job, saying he is hoping to sign a new contract sooner rather than later.
The Spaniard, whose contract runs until the end of next season, was the subject of a flurry of betting activity on Wednesday, causing a number of bookmakers to...
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London - Didier Drogba hit out at former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and pledged his future to the club in newspaper interview on Friday.
The Ivory Coast forward has been much criticised for his poor form this season, and Scolari questioned his commitment shortly before his dismissal last week.
He has also been linked with...
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London - The Los Angeles Galaxy were considering on Thursday a plea from David Beckham to let him join AC Milan on a permanent basis.
The England midfielder joined the Italian giants on loan last month, and is due to return to the US on March 9.
But the 33 year old's form there has confounded critics who expected him to make the...
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Even the Prime Minster was moved as Portugal on Tuesday celebrated Cristiano Ronaldo's 2008 World Footballer honour.
Monday's announcement by the ruling body FIFA at a gala in Zurich delighted his home nation and England as well as the Manchester United winger Ronaldo is the first Premier League-based player to win the prestigious...
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David Beckham made a quiet debut for AC Milan as the Italians ran out winners on penalties in a friendly against German Bundesliga side SV Hamburg in Dubai on Tuesday.
Beckham, wearing the number 32 shirt, played the first 45 minutes on the right side of midfield in the Dubai Football Challenge.
Milan won 4-3 on penalties after the...
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David Beckham gave a hint of his marketing skills and image powers on his first Italian weekend, partly upstaging the Serie A's other football stars when he was presented as AC Milan's new arrival.
His new side's 5-1 win over Udinese in the last game of 2008 and the massive media coverage of his presentation Sunday evening were the...
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Three weeks ago, Sevilla tried to bring Barcelona down to earth - and were hammered 3-0 at home.
Two weeks ago, Valencia tried to do the same - and crashed 4-0 in the Camp Nou.
Last Saturday came the turn of Real Madrid - who lost 2-0 in the Catalan capital.
All of which has prompted the following question in Spain: is there any...
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Chelsea missed the chance to go top of the Premier League on Sunday, as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by West Ham United.
Craig Bellamy put West Ham ahead in the first half and although Nicolas Anelka levelled just after the break Chelsea were unable to find a winner.
For manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who had spent the...
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Sevilla jumped above Villarreal into third place in the Spanish Liga on Sunday with a somewhat fortunate 1-0 defeat of the "Yellow Submarine."
Sevilla were the beneficiaries of two crucial refereeing decisions. Just before half-time, Renato scored the only goal despite being offside when set up by Frederic Kanoute and...
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European Footballer of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo is one of five players shortlisted Friday for the 2008 FIFA World Player awards.
The newly-crowned Ballon d'Or winner will face competition from last year's winner Kaka of AC Milan while Barcelona pair Lionel Messi and Xavi and Liverpool striker Fernando Torres have also been nominated...
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Two straight defeats and the failure to secure first place in their Champions League qualification group have not dented the confidence of Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho.
"The true bad luck will be also for the first team of another group, who will have to tackle a team like Inter (in the tournament's knockout stage),"...
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Five teams are fighting for the last three places in the knockout stage of the Champions League when the last group matches take place on Wednesday and Thursday.
There is also plenty at stake for clubs now out of contention in the Champions League but seeking UEFA Cup participation as third-place finishers in their groups.
Roma,...
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Fiji embarrassed visiting New Zealand with a 2-0 win in Oceania's final World Cup qualifier on Wednesday night.
It was the New Zealanders' first defeat after five wins in the Oceania Nations Cup had already qualified them for the Confederations Cup in South Africa in June 2009 and a World Cup playoff against an Asian team later next...
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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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Spain manager Vicente del Bosque has won applause by calling up young strikers Fernando Llorente and Juan Mata for Wednesday's friendly against Chile.
Llorente, 23, is the tall and angular centre-forward for struggling Athletic Bilbao, strong in the air though not a natural goalscorer.
Mata, 20, in contrast, is small and...
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Liverpool moved clear at the top of the table, for a few hours at least, with a 2-0 win at Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League table.
Dirk Kuyt and Steven Gerrard scored the goals to put Liverpool three points clear of Chelsea, who play away to bottom side West Bromwich Albion later on Saturday.
Liverpool dominated the...
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Bayer Leverkusen downed Schalke 2-1 to stay top of the Bundesliga on Saturday, while Bayern Munich lost ground after conceding two late goals in a 2-2 draw at Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Hoffenheim meanwhile stayed second, level on 28 points with Leverkusen but with a slightly inferior goal difference after edging Wolfsburg...
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Bernd Schuster has reportedly been told by Real Madrid to win in Valladolid on Saturday or start packing his bags.
Madrid sports dailies AS and Marca said on Wednesday that Real have lost confidence in their controversial German coach after a shock cup elimination against third division side Union Irun the previous night.
Real beat...
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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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Not long ago 1899 Hoffenheim were campaigning in the German fifth division in front of a few dozen fans.
On Sunday a capacity crowd of 26,300 will be in the Carl-Benz- Stadion in Mannheim to see the club take on Bundesliga table-toppers SV Hamburg.
But what makes the story so remarkable is not that before the start of the season...
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Liverpool have three fresh injury doubts ahead of Sunday's top of the table meeting with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge,
Already without striker Fernando Torres, who suffered a hamstring injury while on international duty with Spain last week, they could also find themselves missing forward Robbie Keane and midfielders Steven Gerrard and...
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A good showing in the Champions League may have signalled the end of a bad run for struggling giants Juventus ahead of a city derby they play late Saturday with Torino.
The injury plagued black-whites beat guests Real Madrid 2-1 in mid-week despite a massive injury list that includes top-notch players like goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon,...
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Premier League club Aston Villa begin their UEFA Cup group phase campaign on Thursday against former Champions League winners Ajax Amsterdam.
With SV Hamburg, Slavia Prague and MSK Zilina the other teams in Group F, the teams will be all out to ensure that they get enough points to progress to the next round.
Villa are one of three...
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Midfielder Torsten Frings is the latest Germany player toying with retirement as coach Joachim Loew now longer guarantees anyone a place in the starting 11.
"I am really thoughtful, retiring is more and more on my mind," Frings told Friday's edition of the Bild daily.
The 31-year-old from Werder Bremen was a key player in...
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Raymond Domenech will remain France coach and is to lead the team to the 2010 World Cup, the French football federation FFF said on Wednesday.
The FFF president Jean-Pierre Escalettes said after a board meeting that Domenech can fulfil his contract until 2010.
Domenech came under fire after France's first-round exit at Euro 2008...
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Osasuna raised eyebrows across Spain on Monday by sacking coach Jose Angel Ziganda - and replacing him with former national manager Jose Antonio Camacho.
Camacho has still to sign a contract with Osasuna, but the digital versions of AS and Marca are claiming that he has already agreed to take over the struggling Pamplona...
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European champions Spain will be seeking to maintain their winning run, while losing Euro finalists Germany have a tough test when Russia are the visitors in World Cup qualifiers on Saturday.
Meanwhile France and Portugal are among teams under pressure after mixed starts to their World Cup campaign as they visit Romania and Sweden...
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It's hard to tell who is worst off from the prominent trio of AC Milan, Juventus and Roma in the early part of the Serie A season.
Neutral observers note that after six games the league is "thrilling and crazy," but fans of the three powerhouses are already rather frustrated and fear a season of suffering and dismal...
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It's hard to tell who is worst off from the prominent trio of AC Milan, Juventus and Roma in the early part of the Serie A season.
Neutral observers note that after six games the league is "thrilling and crazy," but fans of the three powerhouses are already rather frustrated and fear a season of suffering and dismal...
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Bayern Munich have lost their mythos of invincibility in German football after a stumbling start to the Bundesliga season, club president Franz Beckenbauer said.
Smaller teams are now losing their respect for the champions, who are only 11th in the table after two wins in seven matches, Beckenbauer wrote in his column for Bild...
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Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has rejected claims of possible match-fixing at last season's UEFA Cup semi-final involving Zenit St Petersburg and Bayern Munich.
"Do you think that such world and European champions like (Bayern players) Kahn, Klose, Ze Roberto and Lucio can be bought," Mutko was quoted as saying...
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Arsenal will be hoping to shake off their inconsistent start to the English Premier League season this weekend and regain top spot.
With joint leaders Chelsea and Liverpool, and third-placed Aston Villa all not in action until Sunday, Arsenal have the chance to move back to the top, for 24 hours at least.
To do that, they will have...
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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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SV Hamburg travel to Energie Cottbus hoping to defend their lead at the top of the Bundesliga while champions Bayern Munich play catch-up at home to Bochum in weekend league action.
Bayern are in midtable after their worst start to a Bundesliga season in 31 years, winning just two of their opening six games.
After back-to-back...
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Premier League clubs Tottenham and Everton face tough fights to keep their UEFA Cup hopes alive while former European champions Borussia Dortmund are in a perilous position in second leg matches of the first round on Thursday.
Of England's five-team contingent looking for a place in the 40-team group stage, Everton face the most...
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English champions Manchester United were hit by a double blow on Tuesday after Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney suffered injuries.
Scholes has a suspected medial ligament injury and could be out for up to two months, while United are waiting on the extent of Rooney's ankle problem.
"It's difficult to say how serious (Scholes's...
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Three months after taking over Inter Milan, star coach Jose Mourinho seems to have achieved better results in media exposure than in the performance of the Italian champions.
Inter's only truly convincing game was a 2-0 win away to Panathinaikos in the Champions League opening game, while a 1-0 defeat to AC Milan at the weekend topped...
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Romanians CFR Cluj and Cypriots Anorthosis Famagusta give home fans
their first taste of Champions League action when they will be out to
show Wednesday that their strong starts in the competition were not
down just to good fortune.
Cluj take on Chelsea having already upset Roma in a shock 2-1 victory in Italy in their opening...
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Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann prepares for Tuesday's Champions League clash against Olympique Lyon with the pressure already mounting on the former German national team boss.
The German champions have made their worst start to a Bundesliga season in 31 years, winning just two of their opening six games as Klinsmann's side...
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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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A senior Ukrainian official said his country would not disappoint in the wake of a Friday UEFA decision not to remove the former Soviet republic as a co-host of the Euro 2012 football championship.
"UEFA informed us that we should put more effort into infrastructure, and I can assure you this will be done in the very shortest...
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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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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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Saturday will be a red-letter day for Espanyol.
That is when they will hoping to remain on top of the Spanish Liga, by beating Getafe at home.
Espanyol are the only team to have won their first two league matches, thanks to two goals from Spain striker Luis Garcia.
"We just have to take this thing one step at a time,"...
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Italy's Minister of Interior Roberto Maroni has censured Catania's general manager Piero Lo Monaco for a verbal attack against Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho.
"I'm frankly amazed by the statements of certain Serie A managers, which sound like an instigation to violence," Maroni Tuesday was quoted as saying.
"I'm not...
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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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There seems to be no end to the bad news for coach Marcello Lippi, who has four players missing as the world champions Wednesday welcome Georgia for a second World Cup qualifier.
Midfielder Gennaro Gattuso hurt his wrist as he fell near the bench during a training game at the weekend, and joins an injured list already including...
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Vicente del Bosque, new national manager of European champions Spain, raised eyebrows on Friday afternoon by excluding Bojan Krkic from his squad for the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers.
Del Bosque justified leaving out the Barca starlet by saying that: "We are counting on him for the future, but the competition (for places) in...
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 After a few weeks of anticipation, Microsoft has finally
release the feature list of the Release Candidate version of Windows 7.
Although the Beta version of the Redmond giant’s newest operating system is
considered as very well put together, developers found several ways to improve
Win 7 in its way to the users’ computers.
The...
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 Adobe’s offensive to take over the Web with rich content applications built on its platforms reached another stage: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR-formerly known as Apollo) and Flex Builder are now available.Adobe Flex 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major...
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 Pop star Rihanna was going another romantic round with R&B singer boyfriend Chris Brown less than three weeks after he allegedly used her as a punching bag, it was reported Friday.The relationship apparently started warming up again after Brown called Rihanna last week to wish her a happy 21st birthday. Rihanna then reached out to...
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 Over the past decade, the academy has chosen to divide its
awards among several big winners, but for "Slumdog Millionaire," the
academy was willing to break recent tradition. On Sunday night, there was a
general feeling of celebration because the movie turned out to be the big
winner at this year's Academy Awards ceremony....
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 Rihanna gathered a
circle of friends on Friday to celebrate her 21st birthday. Chris Brown, was
not on the guest list, but he had the nerve or the decency to call her to wish
her a happy birthday, according to an insider. The source also said that he
seems to be absolutely trying to get back into her good graces. He is...
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 Penelope Cruz won the best supporting actress Academy Award
on Sunday for her fiery, funny role of a woman in a three-way relationship with
her ex-husband and an American woman in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona, saying
it was a sign of changing times in American film for foreign actors.
The achievement made Cruz the first...
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 Over the past decade, the academy has chosen to divide its
awards among several big winners, but for "Slumdog Millionaire," the
academy was willing to break recent tradition. On Sunday night, there was a
general feeling of celebration because the movie turned out to be the big
winner at this year's Academy Awards ceremony....
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 Let’s face it: “Slumdog Millionaire” had an unbelievable
success. The Oscar front-runner movie continued to win award after award,
sweeping a few more pre-Oscar awards.
According to Variey, the American Society of Cinematographers
Award for feature film went to Anthony Dod Mantle, the movie’s director of
photography. “Slumdog”...
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 Wednesday was another special day for the Westminster Kennel
Club Winner, the Beagle called Uno. The 3-year-old dog took a victory lap for
another honor in Illinois,
the Chicago Tribune reports. Uno demonstrated that he is playful by jumping
around in circles with Aaron Wilkerson, his handler. As a result, when Gov. Pat
Quinn asked...
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 Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. also known as Will Smith is a
39-year-old two time Academy Award-nominated American actor and singer.
However, this year Smith hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar, but has received
the first Cadet Choice Movie Award from the U.S. Military Academy for his role
in “I Am Legend.”
The...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Saturday, June 2, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 12th degree Gemini
Moon.............. 29th degree Sagittarius
Mercury........... 5th degree Cancer
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 Last November, Microsoft and Novell stunned the open source world with an interoperability partnership that was supposed to ensure peaceful compatibility of Windows apps on SUSE and viceversa.No matter how strict or exigent the open sourcers started to become with other major Linux vendors after this unnatural union, despite the recent...
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Indian telecommunications majors Bharti Airtel Ltd and Vodafone Group PLC launched the third-generation Apple iPhone Friday across India, the world's fastest growing mobile phone market.
At 30,000 rupees (690 dollars), the iPhone 3G costs almost triple its price in the United States, where it is subsidized by telecommunications...
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 According to MTV’s Multiplayer blog, Microsoft is getting ready to launch a Wii Remote imitator for Xbox 360 by the end of 2008. The controller is to incorporate four face buttons, an analog stick, a speaker and a microphone. "They want the usual assortment of Halo, Gears, Forza, whatever, just in waggle form," MTV News was...
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 Since Microsoft made an unsolicited 44.6 billion dollars takeover bid on February 1, Yahoo is struggling to find an exit door, since the software giant began using all methods for reaching their aim.Despite the fact that the initial bid, an offer that now stands at 41.2 billion dollars, was immediately rejected by Yahoo’s board, leaded...
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 Nokia announced on Monday that it has won a patent case against the chipmaker Qualcomm, as a United Kingdom High Court ruled in favor of the world’s top mobile phone maker.The judge’s decision said that all the asserted GSM patent claims of Qualcomm in the trial that began in May, 2006, were invalid, which means that Nokia is not due to...
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 John Chambers, the Chairman and
CEO of Cisco Systems, has announced today that his company will invest the huge
amount of $16 billion in China,
in investment, manufacturing and education programs. The new investment
announced by Cisco includes also a $17.5 million amount which will be directed
towards the Alibaba.com Group, as part...
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 MasterCard Worldwide won in court against its bigger rival Visa International Service Association of San Francisco, California, USA. Manhattan federal judge Barbara Jones ordered VISA to stop charging a special fee that penalized debit card issuers for jumping to MasterCard.Judge Jones wrote in her argument that "because banks make...
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 Bidders for ABN Amro, one of Europe’s
largest banks, sharpen their knifes and prepare for a fierce battle after the
stake was raised by a consortium on Tuesday with more than ten billion euros.
The Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander SA from Spain
and Belgians Fortis NV formed an alliance and offered 71.1 billion euros for
the...
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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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 This year’s CMT Awards hosts were father and daughter Miley
and Billy Ray Cyrus. But this was essential information before the ceremony,
after it we focus on something else. That’s right, we want to know the big
winners of the Country Music Television Awards!
Kellie Pickler was Monday night’s queen, winning three
trophies at 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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 What’s better than winning an Oscar? Winning an Oscar and
then attending a fancy party along with other Hollywood
A-listers.
This year the most glamorous party – the exclusive Vanity
Fair party - was canceled, due to the ongoing writers’ strike. Even though
there have been hints that the parties are coming closer to striking...
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 Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp and Oscar winner Reese
Witherspoon were selected by the US public as their favourite movie
stars at a scaled-down People's Choice Awards.
The Hollywood writers strike caused the show's organizers to revamp
its format, changing it from a live show complete with Hollywood
glamour to a...
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 It has been a rich year if were talking about cinema animation,
and the Academy Awards shortlist on the category certainly is a subject of
debate.
The list might as well start with the last week’s launch
that gained $38 million, Seinfeld’s Bee Movie, a DreamWorks-Paramount
production that stands a good chance to become a hit or...
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 ABC has announced that Rosie O’Donnell will not return for a new season of “The View” and she won’t be around for the remaining three weeks either.
The TV network announced Friday that Rosie had asked for and been granted an early exit from her contract as host for “The View,” and as a result, will...
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Speaking to mourners on her slain husband's funeral on Friday, Cindy Winters, the wife of pastor Fred Winters, who was shot through the heart during last Sunday's service, urged members of the First Baptist Church of Maryville to reject hate and to take comfort in their faith."On Sunday, my husband didn't die. He simply got a...
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 Chris Brown, who was rumored to have been doing a little more than just jet skiing this weekend, has actually been laying low. Despite reports that surfaced over the weekend saying he was out partying at the Gansevoort South hotel with Reggie Bush and Khloe Kardashian on Saturday night, it was a case of mistaken identity. Several...
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 Blake Fielder-Civil was arrested last year because he had attacked a pub’s landlord in 2006. After the incident, Amy Winehouse’s husband also tried to cover up his misdeed but he was finally caught red handed by the police. Fielder-Civil, also a former video assistant, was released on Wednesday.He and singer Amy Winehouse got married in...
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 Julianne Hough was taken to the hospital after “Dancing with the Stars” show, because she had some serious stomach trouble. Hough, 20, is a professional dancer who performed together with actor Cody Linley in the dancing competition aired on ABC. On Tuesday, after the show ended, she was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.The...
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 Beyonce Knowles gets a new album out for her fans! Her Columbia Records label, which is a unit of Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment Inc., said on Monday that the R&B singer releases her third solo album on November 18. The label added that the album is Beyonce’s "most personal, reflective and revelatory collection...
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 “Piece of me” is in the run for Best Female Music Video. Will she win? Or should we better ask: Has she gained her popularity back as to win a trophy? We will see her show live on September 7 when other pop-stars will compete in the annual Video Music Awards in Hollywood. The show will be placed at Paramount Studios in the famous and...
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 Oscar winner Tatum O’Neal has pleaded
guilty to disorderly conduct following her arrest in New
York, Manhattan,
on June 1, for buying crack cocaine. The 44-year-old actress was arrested after
she was seen making a purchase from a suspended drug dealer, Alan Garcia, 33.
The actress was initially charged with criminal possession of a...
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 Yoko Ono had sued the producers of “Expelled:
No Intelligence Allowed,” a movie focused on the concept of Darwinian
evolution, saying they used the song “Imagine” without her permission.
Jon Lennon’s widow, her son Sean Ono
Lennon, and Julian Lennon, the singer’s son from his first marriage, along with
privately held publisher...
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 Robert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist, who rose
to fame in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, died Monday
of heart failure, as it was announced Tuesday by Jennifer Joy, his
representative at PaceWildenstein gallery in New York. He was 82.
His unique artistic style, which mixes odd articles...
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 A Los Angeles
judge extended a restraining order against Britney Spears’ former manager Sam
Lufti until July 31, under an agreement between lawyers for both sides, BBC
News reports. The restraining order was originally put in place in February.
According to Britney Spears’ attorney, Vivian Thoreen,
extending the order was “in...
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 It appears that Oscar winning actor Sean Penn and his wife
actress Robin Wright Penn withdrawn their divorce petition filed in December on
Tuesday, according to a court document posted on TMZ.com, Reuters reports. Reps
for the couple could not be immediately available for comment.
Robin Wright Penn filed the paperwork on...
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 Kid Rock has returned to the battle field with peace
thoughts and charity goals.
The artist, who has pleaded not guilty to a battery charge
stemming from a fight that took place at a Waffle House the last fall, took
part in a fundraiser at another suburban Atlanta Waffle House.
The entertainer
flexed his muscles this time...
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 Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff ruled on
Tuesday that Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter is the sole heir to her estate,
according to Reuters. Furthermore the judge established that the fortune will
be administrated by the deceased model’s companion, Howard K. Stern and Larry
Birkhead, Dannielynn’s biological...
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 Enough with the embarrassment for Sean Young! Her continuous
erratic behavior stems from alcohol and the resolution of her problem bears a
name: rehabilitation.
Most probably her decision to enter rehab was generated by
her outburst at this week-end’s Directors Guild of America Awards that has been
highly hyped by the media. No...
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 Who thought beauty was ingenuous was obviously wrong. And
even who believed that law students obey the laws was wrong, too.
Kumari Fulbright, beauty queen and a law student at University of Arizona risks to win pageants only in
prisons many years, accused of kidnapping, assaulting, robbing and threatening
with a handgun a former...
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 What would be the world without Heather Mills? She would definitely
respond “less charity”, we would actually say “less entertainment”.
In the divorce dispute she is currently having with soon to
become ex-spouse Paul McCartney, Mills understood to clean the laundry in the
public eyes. So she began throwing dirt. The last time...
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 This year’s Nobel prize winner, Doris Lessing, has been
struggling (successfully!) for over 60 years to accomplish her work that
introspects serious matters, like social justice or gender roles, but was
oblivious that today was the big day. So she learnt that she became the most
significant personality of the year from a reporter...
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 After facing more ups and downs than the country side of Wales,
Britney Spears appears to want to make amends and really straighten out her
sinuous life.
So after a tumultuous past few weeks, Britney agrees to
compensate her ex-husband Kevin Federline with a multi-million dollar
arrangement in return for joint custody of...
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 Being dropped from a $1.7 million photo shoot isn’t precisely a good thing but the reason you’re dropped for, means definitely war. The father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby was reportedly ditched by the magazine after discovering potential proof Birkhead "tricked us all" when he won the paternity lawsuit following Smith’s death...
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 The pop singer’s lawyer, Laura Wasser, who was expected to help Britney in the custody battle with her ex husband, Kevin Federline, reportedly wants to drop the case. According to TMZ.com, Laura Wasser is about to resign as Britney’s attorney. Wasser, who has represented stars including Angelina Jolie and Nick Lachey, sealed the deal...
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 Television comedy talk-show host, comedian and producer James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel required an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday night in L.A., TMZ reports. His rep told them Jimmy "is resting comfortably and is looking forward to getting back to work.""The rest of this week's tapings of Jimmy Kimmel Live...
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 The legendary movie star feels he has gotten too old to play as he used to.
At 82, Paul Newman has decided to retire from his lifelong career in the movie industry. He told ABC’s “Good Morning, America” on Thursday: “I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to.
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Hamburg - American Serena Williams has regained the women's world number one tennis ranking after beating Dinara Safina in two sets in the final of the Australian Open on Saturday.
Williams heads the rankings published by the ruling body WTA on Monday by 282 points from Safina. Williams has 9,432 points, while the Russian stands on...
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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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Melbourne (dpa) - Jelena Dokic has again arrived in Australia determined to rescue her tennis, but this time bearing a conciliatory message to her adopted country.
The Serbia-born player, whose career has been a roller-coaster of success and dismal disappointment, has rolled back her harsh comments of a year ago, when the 25-year-old...
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Roger Federer will play only two tune-up events on clay in 2009, ahead of the only Grand Slam he has never won, the French Open.
The former world number one Federer said on his website that he will play at the Madrid and Rome 1000 Series (formerly Masters Series) events ahead of the May 24 French Open start in Paris.
Switzerland's...
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The triumph of two Serbs at the Shanghai Masters over the weekend, two players on top of global rankings and another two with the throne in sight at the close of the tennis season drove Belgrade newspapers deeper into euphoria on Monday.
"Shanghai fairy tale," "Serbia's pride," "Serbian Shanghai," and...
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Venus Williams' title at the WTA Championships on Sunday marked the end of a turbulent year in women's tennis which saw six changes at the number one position after Justine Henin's retirement.
The Belgian Henin was tipped to dominate 2008 after an amazing unbeaten second half of 2007, but her win streak came to an end at the...
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David Nalbandian defeated compatriot Juan Del Potro for the second week in a row, earning a 6-4, 6-0 victory in the third round of the Paris Masters on Thursday.
Nalbandian's victory over his 20-year-old rival also mathematically delayed Del Potro's chance of formally clinching a place in the Masters Cup.
Del Potro has been nursing...
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German Philipp Kohlschreiber dealt a likely fatal blow to the season-ending hopes of Spain's David Ferrer as he defeated the Spaniard 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday in the second round of the Paris Masters.
Ferrer, seeded fifth, will be unable to make the trip to Shanghai as a direct qualifier next week as his progress was halted while...
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Three-time Paris Masters champion Marat Safin floated the possibility of retirement after a 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) first- round disappointment on Monday at the hands of Juan Monaco
But the 28-year-old Russian's immediate hope of just seeing the back of another so-so ATP season may have been stronger than any desire to actually chuck in his...
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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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Officials took cover indoors as rain from an approaching typhoon dampened the Japan Open for a second day on Tuesday, with teenaged tennis hero Kei Nishikori securing an opening win under the roof.
The 18-year-old, who claimed his nation's first ATP title in 16 years when he won Delray Beach in February, took two hours to overcome...
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Top seed Novak Djokovic crushed Germany's Simon Stadler 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday in a runaway start as top seed at the Thailand Open.
The Serbian world number three champion wasted little time in revving up his game, taking the first set in just 22 minutes over the world number 141.
Djokovic was broken in the second game of the second...
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Nicolas Mahut stunned fifth seed Jarkko Nieminen, sending the Finn flying out to his earliest career exit at the Thailand Open 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Thursday.
The second-round ambush in one hour, 40 minutes put a third French player into the quarter-final after second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and number four Gael Monfils.
Nieminen was...
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Match-tough Finn Jarkko Nieminen schooled the kid brother of Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-0 in 46 minutes on Thursday in a harsh welcome to the teenager at the Thailand Open.
The 17-year-old Djokovic Jr, gained entry as a wild card thanks to the pull of his elder brother, the top seed playing the event for only the second time,
It was the...
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Reviving Roger Federer buried an Olympic demon from four years ago on Wednesday with a 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) defeat of Czech Tomas Berdych to reach the quarter-finals at the Beijing Games.
In Athens, the young Czech ended Federer's medal dream as he beat the number one in the second round.
This time, there was not chance of an upset with...
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Denis Gremelmayr got down
to his tennis business on Monday with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Fabio
Fognini at the Los Angeles Classic, after another turn in Germany's
Olympic tennis drama. Sixth seeded Mardy Fish joined the
German in advancing on a day of only four matches as he ended a run of
four losses in opening matches. The...
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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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 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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 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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 Maria Sharapova broke early in each set, turning in a sterling
performance to end the nearly seven-month win streak of Justine Henin
6-4, 6-0 for a place in the semi-finals of the Australian Open on
Tuesday.
The Russian fifth seed, two times a Grand Slam champion, handed
world number one Henin her first loss since Wimbledon. The...
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 Jelena Jankovic claimed her third career Grand Slam semi-final as she
dismantled petulant holder Serena Williams 6-3, 6-4 in a dazzling
display on Tuesday.
The smiling Serbian third seed has now reached the final four in
Melbourne, New York and Paris since 2006. Victory - marred by 10 breaks
of serve - boosted her record against...
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 Roger Federer gained momentum for a possible Australian Open trophy
hat-trick with a win over Tomas Tomas Berdych, 6-4, 7-6 (9-7), 6-3, on
Monday, while the home Grand Slam again ended in disappointment for
Lleyton Hewitt.
Less than 48 hours after being stretched to the five-set limit by
studious Serb Janko Tipsarevic, an avid...
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 Roger Federer underwent involuntary shock therapy at the hands of
dedicated Serb spoiler Janko Tipsarevic before finally emerging with a
6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-1), 5-7, 6-1, 10-8 win on Saturday at the Australian
Open.
Ill with stomach virus the week before the start, the world number
one came to the court this week without any...
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 Philipp Kohlschreiber survived a barrage of 42 aces with 104 winners as
he stunned sixth seed Andy Roddick in the third round of the Australian
Open in the early hours of Saturday, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (11-9), 6-7 (3-7),
8-6.
The German 29th seed clinched victory after 3 hours 53 minutes of
late-night play in the Rod Laver Arena when...
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 Justine Henin tackled the fear factor and Jelena Jankovic played
through fatigue Friday as seeds struggled into the fourth round of the
Australian Open.
Top seed Henin stretched her current winning streak to 32
matches but admitted that she plays in fear that the record run might
be broken.
She staved off that immediate...
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 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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 Lindsay Davenport became the leader of the richest tennis players with her first-round win at the Australian Open on Monday, which brought her career earnings to the amazing amount of 21.9 million dollars.The recent mother won in the match against the Italian Sara Errani with 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory that propelled her on the top of the...
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 After being kept from playing any of his tune- up matches at the Kooyong club a week before the Australian Open due to a stomach virus, Roger Federer managed to beat the sickness and is expecting a great performance in the Grand Slam that starts on Tuesday."I'm not sick very often, it just took me five days, a week," he said...
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 The 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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 As a result of her impressive return to the game after giving birth last summer, Linsday Davenport was named in the 2008 US Fed Cup team.The squad will play in the quarter- finals against Germany in February in La Jolla, California, near San Diego. This will be the first time Davenport will play on the United States’ territory since the...
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 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.
"It's difficult to...
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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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 Venus Williams surpassed Jelena Jankovic and is now set up to encounter Justine Henin in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. The 27-year-old American eventually came through after a tie-break, 4-6 6-1 7-6 (7-4), and will play the world number one Henin for a place in Saturday's final.Both Venus and Jelena Jankovic were very courteous at...
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 Sisters Venus and Serena Williams are maybe heading for playing each other in semifinals of the U.S. Open, which they both won in the past. No.12-seeded Venus Williams defeated No. 5 Ana Ivanovic, 6-4, 6-2 at the National Tennis Center yesterday. Her sis, No.8-seeded Serena, despite spraining ligaments in her left thumb at Wimbledon,...
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 Fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced into the third round of the U.S. Open with a struggling 6-3 4-6 6-0 victory over Camille Pin at Flushing Meadows. The Russian wasn’t in her best shape as she committed 34 unforced errors, while her opponent gave away only nine.The surprise women's singles champion at Flushing Meadows in 2004 took...
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There will be no Federer-Roddick final like last year at the U.S. Open. After yesterday’s draw that posibillity was rulled out, but the two will probably meet in the quarter finals. Nevertheless, the top seeded Swiss will have to work pretty hard to win his 51st careertitle , 12th grand slamm or his fourth US Open, as his path to it is...
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 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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