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Olympics: US NBA stars deliver win for the ages Carmelo Anthony says the US Olympic team of NBA stars was not trying to send a message to the original Dream Team when it scored the most points in a game in Olympic history in routing Nigeria 156-73.
03 August 2012
London tourism rates plunge during Olympics The London 2012 Olympics appears to be deterring tourists from the capital's centre after warnings of travel chaos and overpriced hotel rooms.
03 August 2012
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
China's Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang. ©REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad 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
A screenshot from Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" 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
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
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
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
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
Olympics: The Skype could be the limit for US golden boy Jose Ramirez is seen as the man who can finally deliver the United States Olympic lightweight gold 20 years after the great Oscar de la Hoya did in Barcelona and on Sunday he did little to discourage that notion.
31 July 2012
Olympics: More gold for China as records tumble in pool China surged clear at the top of the Olympic medals table on Sunday, as two world records fell in the pool on a night when France stunned swimming's superpowers to take a dramatic relay gold.
30 July 2012
Olympics: Vinokourov stuns Britons in road race Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan claimed an unexpected but deserved win in the men's Olympic road race Saturday, wrecking Mark Cavendish's hopes of delivering a first gold of the Games for the hosts.
30 July 2012
Olympics: Record-setting Chinshanlo from Kazakhstan wins -53kg class Kazakhstan's Zulfiya Chinshanlo set a world record in the clean and jerk as she powered to Olympic gold in the women's -53kg class.
30 July 2012
Olympics: Medals up for grabs as London Games open Medals are up for grabs in cycling and swimming on Saturday after a spectacular opening ceremony to the London Olympics was watched by more than one billion TV viewers.
28 July 2012
America misses out on live London Olympic ceremony A billion people across the globe turned on their TVs to watch the opening ceremony of the London Olympics live Friday, but very few of them were in US.
28 July 2012
Olympics: Chinese doctor reveals state-sponsored doping Chinese Olympians were subjected to a state-sponsored doping regime in the 1980s and 1990s, a retired chief medical supervisor revealed to Australian media on Friday.
27 July 2012
Romney, in London, criticizes Olympic prep US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made some undiplomatic criticism of London's preparations for the Olympic Games on Wednesday, expressing concern about Britain's readiness to host the event.
27 July 2012
British finance minister George Osborne. ©REUTERS/Paul Hackett British finance minister fighting for survival: press British finance minister George Osborne must urgently form a plan to rectify the country's recession-hit economy after it shrank alarmingly in the second quarter.
27 July 2012
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