A man was shot to death at a firing range inside West Edmonton Mall on Sunday, the Canadian Press reports, and police are trying to figure out how. Three people have been killed at the firing range in just over a year. (That fact seems to offer support for Toronto's recent...
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In response to strong pressure from various world leaders, President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to pull Russian forces out of Georgia starting Monday, the AFP reports. The announcement contrasts sharply with an earlier report suggesting Russian forces were digging in Sunday...
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In The Blue Lotus, one of the Adventures of Tintin written and illustrated by Belgian writer Georges Remi (aka Hergé), Tintin, a young, European reporter/dog-owner turned adventurer, fights a gang of drug...
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Two planes collided in midair over Coventry on Sunday, killing five people. Wreckage from the crash streched several kilometres, but no one on the ground was injured. "Five people died today after two aircraft...
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A post by Dedric Lam of Shanghaiist highlights something completely unexpected: many Beijing businesses are suffering during the Olympics. Does this news undermine the argument (a favourite among proponents of the...
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Iran has launched its first domestically-produced satellite into orbit, Iranian state television reported Sunday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ensured the event would carry maximum political symbolism by...
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Critics say Obama Nation, Jerome Corsi's new book attacking the candidacy of Barack Obama, is full of factual errors to the point of being "unfit for publication." Media Matters has put together a list of the...
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has suggested he may force a fall election to shake up the deadlocked Canadian Parliament. Harper blamed Liberal leader Stephan Dion for stalling legislation in the House of Commons...
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Three star tennis players were eliminated from Olympic competition on Thursday. World number one ranked Roger Federer lost in straight sets to James Blake, Venus Williams was beaten by Li Na of China, and Serena...
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Upset with his third place finish in Greco-Roman wrestling, Ara Abrahamian of Sweden threw his bronze medal on the floor and punched an aluminium barricade as he walked out of the arena. For good measure, he also...
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A bus crashed into a van near the Olympic rowing venue on Wednesday, and two of the van's passengers died in hospital today. "Two of the people involved in a crash near the Olympic rowing venue have died,...
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Two Olympics jokes are apparently circulating in Beijing. The first one is lame, like something your dentist might tell you."Here’s the first joke: “At the closing ceremonies, International Olympic...
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A two square kilometer oil slick, apparently from a ship, is 30 miles away from the Olympic sailing venue of Qingdao, the Epoch Times reports. The oil is arriving just weeks after the venue's extreme algae festival."A two square kilometre oil slick has been discovered about...
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The NY Times's Olympic blog has an interesting post about the difficulty of translating the Chinese cheers heard at Beijing venues into other languages. As the post explains, a literal translation of a popular...
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Hua Huiqi, a prominent Chinese Christian activist and 'underground pastor,' escaped from Chinese police after being detained on his way to the Kuanjie Protestant Church in Beijing. Huiqi is now in hiding. "Human Rights in China says underground pastor and religious dissident...
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