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China wants this coming-out party to be the greatest show ever held, but fake fireworks, lip-synching, and fielding pubescent girl gymnasts by faking their ages (and whatever else they are doing to dominate the medals) cast China’s whole Olympics...
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Nato foreign ministers have said there will be “no business as usual” with Russia, as they urged Moscow to pull its troops out of Georgia immediately.
The declaration followed emergency talks in Brussels about the conflict with Georgia over...
A silent revolution” — that is how the Pakistani media on Tuesday described the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf whose “belief that he alone was a saint and all others villains” proved his undoing.
Pakistan’s...
Leaders of Pakistan’s ruling coalition met Tuesday to discuss a replacement for President Pervez Musharraf and begin tackling both rising Islamic militancy and a spiralling economic crisis.
Musharraf’s televised announcement on Monday that...
Weightlifter Monika Devi, who was forced to give the Beijing Olypics a miss due to bungled dope test, has threatened not to take part in any national or international event until the officials who “wrongly accused” her of failing the test...
The rust showed but Achanta Sharath Kamal eventually dusted away the cobwebs and prevailed 4-2 over Alfredo Carneros of Spain to labour into the second round of men’s singles table tennis event of the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday.
Rafael Nadal from Spain plays against Fernando Gonzalez from Chile during the men’s singles final tennis match at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre in Beijing. Nadal has replaced Roger Federer as the new world number one in the ATP rankings.
India’s Akhil Kumar failed to make it to the semi-finals in the 54kg bantamweight class in the Olympics boxing competition. He was beaten by Republic of Moldova’s Veaceslav Gojan 10-3 in the quarter-final in Beijing .
Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan shared six wickets as Sri Lanka thrashed India in the first one-day international in Dambulla.
New sensation Mendis (3-21) and fellow tweaker Muralitharan (3-37) helped bowl out the tourists for a lowly 146.
Michael Phelps has a new accolade.
“He is the icon of the games,” International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Thursday.
The American swimmer has won five gold medals, setting five world records in the process, so far at...
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