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Darkness fell over the last outpost of the Great Wall of China on Friday, where a rare total solar eclipse ended its journey across the earth, delighting skywatchers one week before the Olympics open in Beijing.
The stellar spectacle - when the moon...
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Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor have won their second consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball, playing through a steady rain to beat Wang Jie and Tian...
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Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor have won their second consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball, playing through a steady rain to beat Wang Jie and Tian...
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Xue Chen and Zhang Xi have won China’s first medal in beach volleyball, beating Brazilians Talita and Renata for the bronze.
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Sushil Kumar and Vijender Kumar gave Indian sport a double delight Wednesday.
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Shawn Johnson won the balance-beam gold Tuesday night in the final event of women’s gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Nastia Liukin took silver.
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There’s been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women’s gymnastics team recently. Rather than be too CNN, I...
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The American flag landed on the scorer’s table, launched by a family member with exceptional aim. Henry Cejudo grabbed it from his coach and draped it around his...
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Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later...
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The Beijing bishop appointed by China’s state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and...
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Swim demon Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal of the 2008 Olympics last night, his 14th overall. How does he do it? It’s that crazy 6′4
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Jamaican Usain Bolt set a new world record of 19.30 seconds in the Men’s 200m final to take the gold medal in this event on August 20 at the Beijing 2008 Olympic...
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Perched on a stool beside a roadside fruit stand piled high with melons and pears in farming country north of Shanghai, Meng Zhoucui conceded she’s not a big...
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 hit the border between China and Myanmar early on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.
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Former U.S. Olympic speedskater Joey Cheek, founder of a group of athletes called Team Darfur, had a visa for China revoked shortly before he was to embark for Beijing...
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The Beijing Olympics have left the world’s human rights groups frustrated and angry _ convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and...
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Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong’s successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died...
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Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong’s successor but was pushed aside by Deng Xiaoping as a prelude to reforms that launched an...
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The official Xinhua News Agency says former Chinese leader Hua Guofeng has died at the age of 87.
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Chinese stocks surged Wednesday in their biggest gain in nearly four months on speculation Beijing plans new economic stimulus measures and other policies aimed at...
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China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists’ names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves.
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The Great Wall of China is probably one of the most sustainable human constructions ever, without wasting natural resources and using pure human toil. Now China has...
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It may sound unbelievable but as per a report, the Great Wall of China might disappear in some twenty years from now. The report also confirms that the Great Wall is...
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On 07/07/07 in Lisbon, the names of New Seven Wonders of World announced and the 17th-century love monument ‘Taj Mahal’ has found its own place in the elite...
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Italian fashion designer brand Fendi will hold an altogether different fashion show. Owned by LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, the group has plans to have the fashion...
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Many tourists are driven by an uncontrolled urge to leave their mark on the monument or the walls of any place they have visited. In their desire to leave their mark ,...
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This masterpiece of human endeavor and UNESCO World Heritage Site is being pilfered for bricks and stones. Neglect is its second enemy where at many stretches, small...
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Along with the Great Wall of China, the London Eye, Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, and the sunset beaches of Antigua and Jamaica, Ickworth House has been listed...
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