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  • Badminton becomes a victim of Chinas bird flu outbreak

    Badminton has become an indirect victim of bird flu that has been affecting the country, given that the extensive slaughtering of infected ducks has created a shortage of feathers, an essential raw material for the birdies used in the sport, media reports said. Many cases of H7N9 bird flu have been detected at farms in the eastern Chinese provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi and Fujian, which are the ...

  • Ravi Shankar Prasad urges PM to articulate concern of people to Premier Li

    Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday urged Dr. Manmohan Singh to firmly articulate the concern of the people and the country, including the opposition, he said this, in wake of Premier Li of China's arrival in New Delhi to discuss issues pertaining both the countries and to enhance bilateral ties. He said: "Surely, there can be business relationship, but the ...

  • Kirani James outpaces rivals to win in Shanghai

    World and Olympic champion Kirani James powered to victory against his main rivals from London 2012 Olympics in the 400 metres at Shanghai's Diamond League meet. The Grenadian quarter miler raced ahead on the final bend to edge 2008 Olympic champion, the USA's Lashawn Merritt, into second place Saturday, reports Xinhua. Luguelin Santos of the Dominican Republic, the silver medallist from last ...

  • 4G to debut in Shanghai next month

    4G services, which provide mobile users with internet access up to 50 times faster than the current 3G network, will be launched in Shanghai next month when the China Mobile company begins large-scale trials. The fourth generation of mobile phone mobile communication technology standards orm 4G provides users with high-speed internet access on devices such as phones, data cards and MiFi ...

  • Isinbayeva wins comeback meet in Shanghai

    Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva won her first competition of the season by jumping 4.70 metres at the Diamond League meeting here. The 30-year-old skipped the winter season after a tough Olympic year in which she won bronze, and is using the event in China to prepare for the Moscow World Athletics Championships in August. The Russian posted the winning height - well below her world ...


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School for Scoundrels

School for Scoundrels

In recent years, Billy Bob Thornton has been banking his career on playing a series of amusingly likable jerks, most notably (and hilariously) in Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa (2003) and then again in Richard Linklater's limp 2005 remake of Bad News Bears, where he reimagined ... ...

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  • Girl witnesses fathers suicide after he kills his girlfriend in Shanghai

    A 5-year-old girl witnessed her father commit suicide Monday after he killed his girlfriend in their high-rise apartment in Putuo district, a neighborhood committee staff member said Tuesday. "The daughter returned home and opened the door to find her father's girlfriend lying in a pool of blood. She then saw her father jump off the high-rise right in front of her eyes," the ...

  • North Koreas relationship with China in jeopardy as row over fishing boat hijack rumbles on

    China says it is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner publicised the plight of its 16 crew in an online account saying they were seized by gun-wielding North Koreans earlier this month and held for ...

  • Hang Seng Shanghai open higher

    (28 mins ago) Stocks in Hong Kong opened 1.3 percent higher following a three-day weekend, reflecting a bullish mood on Wall Street, which ended last week at another all-time high. The benchmark Hang Seng Index was up 301.11 points to 23,383.79 in the first few minutes of trade. Shares in Shanghai were up slightly in early trading due to buying of property stocks, dealers said. The benchmark ...

  • Chen Guangcheng pressures the EU on secret human rights talks with China

    The European Union must go public with the results of human rights talks with China’s leaders, and publish its own list of people known to be suffering repression and persecution, Chen Guangcheng, the exiled Chinese dissident has ...

  • Seoul deploys Spike missiles to protect Yellow Sea islands

    Seoul deploys Spike missiles to protect Yellow Sea islands . MAY 20, 2013 03:06. . The South Korean military said on Sunday that it recently deployed on Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong islands in the Yellow Sea Spike missiles from Israel that can be used for precision strikes at North ...

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