| |   73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest
| A 73-year-old Japanese has made history by becoming the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, topping a record, she herself set a decade ago. | Tamae Watanabe, set foot on top of ...
The Little Icon
The Delhi I grew up in was just a quiet town with big wide roads and little traffic. You could play a full game of cricket on the street without a car disturbing you. In the early 1980s, the total number of car...
G-8 leaders put focus on European financial crisis
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Feature Report: Legitimizing Global Tyranny: How Theorizing Snake-Oil Salesmen Sell World Government
Share | Jurriaan Maessen | ExplosiveReports | Gideon Rachman’s 2008 article titled ‘And now for a world government’ and, more recently, Scientific American- editor Gary Stix’s piece Effective World Gove...
18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has Just Gone From Bad To Worse
Share | With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates. European banks are having their credit ratings downgraded in waves, bond yields are soaring and billions of euros are being pulled out of...
Kobe leads Lakers past Thunder in 99-96 thriller
| LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant's perfection at the free-throw line was big for the desperate Lakers. His poise in the fourth quarter was even bigger, and it got Los Angeles back into its second-round series ...
Manulife, Metlife submit bids for ING Asia sale: sources
| HONG KONG (Reuters) - Manulife Financial Corp <MFC.TO> and Metlife <MET.N> are among the companies that have submitted first round bids for ING's entire Asia life insurance business, sources said ...
Mara's marathon aim
| Four years since finishing sixth in the Olympic marathon in Beijing, Team GB hopeful Mara Yamauchi is confident she can reproduce the goods on the streets of London in her second Olympic appearance this Augus...
G8 leaders to discuss eurozone crisis, Syria, Iran
Washington: Leaders of the world's eight most powerful economies are set to discuss the eurozone crisis, apart from key international issues like Iran, Syria, Myanmar and North Korea at their crucial summit at ...
SpaceX Launch of First Unmanned Craft to ISS Is Aborted
| A mission to send the first unmanned commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station was aborted at liftoff today after a computer detected an engine problem. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp....
Get Ready to Shake, Rattle and Glow -- The Worst is Yet to Come at ...
| It's been over a year since the most powerful 9.0 earthquake in Japan's history struck and a monstrous tsunami reached an astonishing height of 133 feet, severely damaging the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. I p...
Russians Thrash Thais at Volleyball Qualifer
| MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's women's volleyball team took a small step towards the London Olympics on Saturday, crushing Thailand by three sets to nil in the first match of the qualification tourna...
Kobe scores 36, leads Lakers past Thunder in 99-96 thriller to cut series deficit to 2-1
| LOS ANGELES - With their Game 2 collapse still fresh in their minds, the Los Angeles Lakers avoided a sequel with the only game plan they're confident will work against the younger, faster Oklahoma City Thund...
Haile still going strong
| It was suggested by his manager earlier this year that Haile Gebrselassie - regarded by many as the world's greatest ever distance-runner - should use his 2012 racing campaign as a way of winding down his ill...
Kobe relishes challenge of inspiring Lakers, deciphering Thunder
By Ken Berger | CBSSports.com NBA Insider Follow Ken | LOS ANGELES -- The clock wound down inside three minutes to go, the "2" in front being the grim reaper for the Lakers. It was two nights ago when Kobe Brya...
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