NFL Week 5 Highlights and Scores

" The Giants are showing no signs of a letdown following their Super Bowl season. The defending champions improved to 4-and-0 with a 44-6 thrashing of visiting Seattle. It's the team's best start since 1990, when they went 13-and-3 and won the NFL title. Eli Manning threw...

Japanese Elephant Better at Math than American Students

Yup, it's true. It really is true."The elephant's memory is legendary, but in a large, gray surprise to science, the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for math as well Under carefully controlled experimental conditions — essentially...

Russian troops raid Georgian town; scores dead

"Russian tanks rumbled into the separatist province of South Ossetia and Russian aircraft bombed a Georgian town Saturday, a major escalation of the conflict that has left hundreds of civilians dead and some areas in...

Georgia reports new air attack near capital

" Fighting raged in South Ossetia for a second day Saturday as Russia sent hundreds of tanks and troops into the separatist province and dropped bombs on Georgia that left scores of civilians dead or wounded.Georgia,...

AP Georgia proposes cease fire in S Ossetia

" Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to declare a cease fire in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Saakashvili, speaking at a news conference Saturday, also proposed that the warring parties be separated. Georgia's Security...

Beijing puts on a show for the world

"China commandeered the world stage Friday, celebrating its first-time role as Olympic host with a stunning display of pageantry and pyrotechnics to open a Summer Games unrivaled for its mix of problems and promise. China welcomed scores of world leaders to an opening...

War is over - but WW2 Bombs continue to be found...

As a foreigner in Berlin, these articles never cease to amaze me.  By some estimates - British and American Bombers dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Germany during WW2.  As the city of Berlin (and...

IOC agrees to Internet blocking at the Games

Would any one of us go for this? I don't think so. "The Chinese government confirmed Wednesday what journalists arriving at the lavishly outfitted media center here had suspected: Contrary to previous assurances by Olympic and government officials, the Internet would be...

Bombings kill 43 in Baghdad, Kirkuk

Gunmen ambushed Shiite pilgrims in the a Sunni town south of Baghdad Monday. The pilgrims were marching to a major shrine there for a religious holiday.The area is a former stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq and was touted as one of the success stories of the US military surge,...

Somethingawful Indeed: Frontrunner in Hockey Night Song Contest

The frontrunner in the contest for the new Hockey Night in Canada song is a compilation of animal noises and banging sounds. Sort of like a K-Fed song. This creation ("song" is perhaps overstepping it) has been...

Reaching out from death row

Scores of California's most notorious convicts have pen-pal postings and personalized Web pages. Civil libertarians applaud the development as the exercise of free speech; victims' rights advocates say"Prisoners are barred from direct computer access that officials say could...

Good 'Golden Tomatoes', Bad 'Golden Raspberries'

In the spirit of annual best and worst lists, announcements have been made for the most dazzling and the most 'razzling' flicks of 2007.The annual Golden Tomato Awards are handed out to the highest-rated films of the...

Bush to attend Olympic ceremony

Despite worldwide condemnation of China over its human rights abuses US President George W Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.  "US President George W Bush will attend the opening...

Euro 2008: Spain 0-0 Italy, Spain win 4-2 on Penalties

Spain win, and deservedly so, a poor game but Spain were the better team. So now a meeting with Russia, a pretty mixed bag in the last four."Spain beat Italy 4-2 on penalties to reach the semi-finals of Euro 2008...

Euro 2008: Croatia 1-1 Turkey (1-3 pens)

All the excitement happened in the last few minutes, Croatia had it in the bag in the last few minutes of extra time, Turkey equalises seconds later to take it to penalties, and win easily 3 penalties to 1. So a...

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