Pair claim to break world record for watching 57 movies in 123 hours

A couple has supposedly set a new Guinness World Records for watching 57 movies in 123 hours. It will take two weeks to verify the record, but it was done in a plastic-glass house in Times Square."You may want to try...

City of the future: The giant glass pyramid that could house one million people

"With its sharp angles and its glass walls shimmering in the sunlight  it looks like a piece of modern art.But this innovative design is actually a blueprint for the city of the future - a giant glass pyramid...

Terror Suspect Had New York Target List

This story is another reminder of the constant threat the we face from extremists everyday, regardless of whether we are American or German. In the following story, Aafia Siddique, a 36 year old graduate of MIT, was...

London's Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth stays empty - for now

There are four plinths in Trafalgar Square and one of them has been empty for a while now. Many are saying that it is being left empty for when the Queen dies, but if a statue of her is placed there, it will most...

Security tightens more as Olympics get under way

"Security forces squeezed their grip on China a notch tighter Friday for the start of the Olympics, edging up restrictions in the capital and imposing much tougher ones in a restive Muslim area in the country's far west.The Beijing Games' glittering curtain raiser went off...

Londoners celebrate Beijing Olympics

The Trafalgar Square Festival in London, UK, is set to celebrate the beginning of Beijing Olympics but also the beginning of the countdown to London Olympic Games in 2012. The official handover of the Olympic torch...

Suspect Confesses to Killing Lil Kim Partygoer

"All didn't end well at Lil Kim's 34th birthday party. An employee at a New York karaoke bar where a B-day blowout for the rapper was held Sunday night has been arrested after confessing that he beat a 24-year-old woman to death on the roof of the club while the party was...

Free Tibet Demands in New York City

NEW YORK CITY - Aug 7, 2008 - Hundreds of Free Tibet Activists converged in Union Square today this time in a formal protest which included hundreds of candles forming the Olympic rings and the words "FREE TIBET"...

“3 Little Words Which Generated $$$ Millions in Sales”

"When you know the formula like I do - which took just 3 words to generate millions of dollars in sales for one product - which is also the same formula which sells your products and or services - don’t you wish...

Shanghai: racist rhetoric in building's Olympic security warning

From the blog at Shanghaiist.com comes an interesting glimpse into the culture of China's state security. Shanghaiist obtained an Olympic security document posted publicly in Tomorrow Square, the fifth-tallest building in Shanghai and the home of the Marriott hotel. The...

Canadians ponder cost of rush for dirty oil

Here we get a long and considered article on Canada's oil sand bonanza or environmental disaster depending on how you view it. Alberta as the new Kuwait. John Vidal's piece is a mixture of sound fact and comment and...

Hue Royal Pavilion to Be Restored

Thua Thien-Hue Province has approved a project to restore the Tu Phuong Vo Su (“peace in all directions”) Pavilion in the Royal Citadel in Hue "The Hue Relics Preservation Center will supervise the work with a...

Olympic networks win right to broadcast from Tiananmen Square

All TV networks planning to broadcast from the Beijing Olympics this summer received the rights today, after paying a rights-holders fee, to broadcast live from Tiananmen Square during the games."China's Olympic...

Voters go to polls in Lisbon referendum

"Voters go to polls in Lisbon referendumThe country's electorate today goes to the polls to vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum. Polling stations opened at 7am and will stay open until 10pm to encourage as many people as possible to vote."

Knife and gun crime march

"THOUSANDS of young people brought parts of central London to a standstill today with a noisy and colourful demonstration against knife and gun crime. Waving banners and singing, the protesters called for an end to the violence that has already claimed the lives of 16...

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