After a sensational Women's 5,000 metres in which Diane Roy of Canada grabbed Gold, heartbreak came as Roy was forced to hand back the coveted medal presented to her. Not Diane Roy's fault - there was a mass...
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The Georgian forces attack that initiated Russia to attack Georgia, the hatred for Georgian Russians is very deep. Georgia's forces where trained by the US, for what purposes one can only guess. US and Russian relationships are at there very lowest. Americans that wonder why...
Will Pakistan's Independence Day bring a rash of suicide bombings? Many long-time Now Public readers will recall that I provided extensive coverage of the assassination of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a...
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" A daily double. Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever with his 10th and 11th career gold medals — and five world records in five events at the Beijing Games....
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Why the rules in Canada is so complicated?? No family expected to have their children disabled. Disabled doesn't mean not perfect! "Paul Chapman, his wife Barbara-Anne and their children Jack, 16, and Lucy, seven,...
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"Posted by Teddy Kider, The Times-Picayune July 31, 2008 10:52PMCHUCK COOK / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Saints quarterback Drew Brees prepares for his eighth season and his third in New Orleans. (photo on site)...
Luck just doesn't feel the same in this GMO world."A 21-leaf clover discovered on June 3 by Iwate prefecture farmer Shigeo Obara has shattered the Guinness world record for most leaves on a clover stem (Trifolium...
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" Throughout history, intelligence has often been considered a quality unique to humans, but that conventional wisdom has been shattered over the years as research continues to turn up examples of animals, birds and fish that can develop vocabularies, communicate and even...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanada has some of the toughest hate laws in the world, unfortunately, we have most of the spineless judges in the world, who do not have the intestinal fortitude to...
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Judging how her husband is faring in prison, I am certain this Mother will get her Christmas Wish.q url="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/12/20/4733729-sun.html"]ST. THOMAS -- It would have been easier if...
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I've skipped my fair share of stones in my day, but I think my record stands at a mere 17 skips. 51 is just incredible!"Russell Byars, a 43-year-old engineer from Pennsylvania, shattered the previous world record...
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Russia known for it's Mafia Protectionist rackets with individual crime families controlling their own city block extracting payments from shop keepers. Some say it has grown to include major factories with non...
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Sidney Blumenthal is beyond credible. he is one of the very few professional reporters digging into why the American public is willing to go fascist for the benefit of corporate profits at the expense of...
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"We, at MAXINE, assume that this record is meant for a catagory that would exclude automobiles that run on pure Ethanol such are the cars that race in the IRL and Champ Car open-wheel automobile racing...
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More coming soon."MAPUTO , 23 March 2007 (IRIN) - A series of explosions at a military weapons depot in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, late on Thursday afternoon showered rockets and other ballistic debris into densely populated poor neighbourhoods, killing at least 76...