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MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command.
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President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has signed a series of energy co-operation deals with China.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Beijing Tuesday to meet with top Chinese officials and to discuss the possibility of buying weapons, state-run media...
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Yea, we made it at last. Two sparkling gold medals, and another record broken, belatedly though, at the on-going Olympics from the Women’s Shot Put (F54) and the...
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HOW quickly would Usain Bolt have run the 100 metres at the Beijing Olympics if he hadn’t slowed in celebration before the finish line? A team of physicists have...
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Following is a selection of the top 10 moments from the Beijing Olympics:
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Jeremy Wariner wears sunglasses at night. Dayron Robles sports a chain so thick that Mr. T thinks it’s ostentatious. Gail Devers used to run sprints with her...
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It’s enough to make even weather-obsessed Brits forget the dismal summer. They’ve stopped talking, too, about the housing crisis. Even the start of another...
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Sushil Kumar and Vijender Kumar gave Indian sport a double delight Wednesday.
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Michael Phelps made history yesterday after winning his eighth Olympic gold in Beijing. Mark Spitz said, “I was the equivalent of the first man on the Moon. He’s...
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I don’t know about you but I’ve been spending a lot of time enjoying the Michael Phelps Show, er, Summer Olympics this week.
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Indian boxer Akhil Kumar gave the country the best Independence Day gift stunning world champion Sergey Vodapoyanov of Russia to enter the quarterfinals of the...
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Another section of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony has been exposed as faked - the children supposedly representing the country’s 56 ethnic groups were in...
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Chinese strongwoman Liu Chunhong broke three world records to retain her Olympic title in the women’s 69kg category on Wednesday at the Beijing Olympics
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With the Olympics in Beijing in full course there has been more violence reported in the western region of Xinjiang: three security guards were killed and a fourth...
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Abhinav Bindra’s solitary gold medal at Beijing has ended an Olympic gold-medal drought for India. He is the only Indian to win an individual gold—the last time...
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Abhinav Bindra’s historic gold medal at the Beijing Olympics continues to earn applause and incentives for the ace shooter, who will be conferred with a medal and...
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Lessons learnt during the preparations for the Beijing Olympics that opens on Friday can help promote more green initiatives for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New...
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Congratulating Abhinav Bindra’s gold winning feat in the 10 M air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics, former Olympian T C Yohannan said India had chances of...
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Zookeepers in Jerusalem fit disabled tortoise with set of wheels
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In an era where change is measured in nano-seconds, for million of mobility-impaired people in the world, little has changed since the 19th century. They remain...
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ONCE the undisputed King of Pop, here frail MICHAEL JACKSON is reduced to using a wheelchair as he approaches his half century.
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A single mother kept her young son in a wheelchair for five years because she feared he would become independent and leave her, a court heard yesterday.
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USA’s Jim Pierce, of North Syracyse, N.Y., prepares to throw a rock while facing Germany in the bronze medal game at the 2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Vancouver, British Columbia., on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009.
