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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.
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".
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.
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.
Anna Nurmukhambetova, 69kg category weight-lifter, lifted a combined total of 251 kilograms at London Olympics.
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.
Ivan Dychko, Kazakhstan +91-kilogram weight league boxer, has advanced to the Olympic quarterfinals in London.
Alexandre Vinokourov, London Olympic champion of the men’s road race, came 23rd in the individual time trial on August 1.
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.
Kazakhstan sport authorities have promised to find a fiance for weight-lifter Maiya Maneza as a bonus for her London Olympic victory.
Top five countries by number of tourists visiting Kazakhstan are France, Italy, Great Britain, Russia and India.
Kazakhstan weight-lifter Zulfiya Chinshanlo was going to eat up all the food at the Olympic village’s canteen after her victory.
Kazakhstan Daniyar Yeleussinov has reached the 1/8 finals of the London Olympics by winning over American Jamel Herring.
Alexandre Vinokourov is going to bring the bicycle he rode at the Olympics back to Astana, Kazakhstan, and put it up for auction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Popular British football (soccer) team Manchester United announced Monday that it hopes to earn over $300 million in its proposed IPO on Wall Street.
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