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NATO troops watch Games with weapons at hand
After 30 years of war, the London Olympics are a distant dreamworld for most Afghans -- and even the 130,000 NATO-led troops from 50 countries watch the television broadcasts with weapons close at hand.
03 August 2012
Olympics: China's Yu quits badminton after scandal
One of the star Chinese badminton players disqualified from the Olympics for throwing a match has announced she is quitting the sport, saying her dreams had been "heartlessly shattered".
02 August 2012
Madonna airs 1944 Warsaw Uprising clip amid concert row
Madonna aired a World War II-era newsreel on the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw Uprising at the top of her gig in the city marking the day 68 years ago when the bloody insurrection was launched.
02 August 2012
Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' tops British list of best films
Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" has climbed to the top of the British Film Institute's poll of the greatest films ever made, dislodging "Citizen Kane" for the first time in 50 years.
02 August 2012
Weightlifting: Kazakhstan weight-lifter Nurmukhambetova came fifth at Olympics
Anna Nurmukhambetova, 69kg category weight-lifter, lifted a combined total of 251 kilograms at London Olympics.
02 August 2012
Olympics: Ye's Aussie mentor says doping claims wrong
An Australian mentor of Chinese swimming sensation Ye Shiwen has slammed claims her Olympic achievements were fuelled by drugs, saying he was "100 percent certain" the teenager was clean.
02 August 2012
Boxing: Kazakhstan super heavyweight boxer reached quarterfinals of Olympics
Ivan Dychko, Kazakhstan +91-kilogram weight league boxer, has advanced to the Olympic quarterfinals in London.
02 August 2012
Cycling: Vinokourov failed to win second Olympic medal
Alexandre Vinokourov, London Olympic champion of the men’s road race, came 23rd in the individual time trial on August 1.
02 August 2012
Olympics: S. Korea media, netizens lament "disgrace"
South Korean newspapers and netizens were generally scathing Thursday about their country's involvement in the Olympic badminton scandal, with one paper terming the affair a national embarrassment.
02 August 2012
Maiya Maneza promised a fiance for her Olympic victory
Kazakhstan sport authorities have promised to find a fiance for weight-lifter Maiya Maneza as a bonus for her London Olympic victory.
02 August 2012
Kazakhstan is mostly visited by French and Italian tourists
Top five countries by number of tourists visiting Kazakhstan are France, Italy, Great Britain, Russia and India.
02 August 2012
Chinshanlo promised a kilo of ice-cream for Olympic gold
Kazakhstan weight-lifter Zulfiya Chinshanlo was going to eat up all the food at the Olympic village’s canteen after her victory.
02 August 2012
Boxing: Kazakhstan boxer Yeleussinov advanced to 1/8 finals at Olympics
Kazakhstan Daniyar Yeleussinov has reached the 1/8 finals of the London Olympics by winning over American Jamel Herring.
01 August 2012
Cycling: Vinokourov will auction out his Olympic gold-winning bicycle
Alexandre Vinokourov is going to bring the bicycle he rode at the Olympics back to Astana, Kazakhstan, and put it up for auction.
01 August 2012
New vigour in quest for Higgs boson
Heartened by a glimpse of what may be the Higgs boson, scientists at the CERN physics lab are smashing particles with new vigour in a quest to understand why matter has mass and other riddles of the natural universe.
01 August 2012
Olympics: Japan shocked by judo medal failures
Japan's judo coaches have admitted their Olympic Games team has performed below expectations after claiming just one gold medal over the first four days of competition.
01 August 2012
Fiji dumps Queen's birthday holiday
Fiji's military regime has dumped Queen Elizabeth II's official birthday from its list of annual public holidays, saying it is no longer relevant to the former British colony.
01 August 2012
Olympics: China to probe match throwing claim - Xinhua
China's Olympic delegation has launched an investigation into allegations its star badminton players threw a match, state media said Wednesday, in the latest controversy to strike the Chinese team.
01 August 2012
Climate change prompts French ski area to mull downsize
A modest ski area in the French Alps is ready to unbolt its chairlifts and rope off slopes as the local mayor concludes that climate change means the trails ahead will be rocky.
01 August 2012
Manchester United eyes over $300m in Wall Street IPO
Popular British football (soccer) team Manchester United announced Monday that it hopes to earn over $300 million in its proposed IPO on Wall Street.
31 July 2012
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