A jetliner crashed during takeoff Wednesday, killing some 153 people in Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years.
Just one day ahead of the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, The New York Times published an editorial, introducing the so-called Dalai Lama's new ideas on the Tibet issue.
Van der Meijden, diagnosed with leukemia in 2001, brought Dutchmen to tears with his 10-kilometer marathon swimming victory at Beijing Olympic Games Thursday.
Yao Ming (R) of China and team mates watch as their team loses to Lithuania during their men's quarter-final basketball game at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Aug. 20, 2008.
Van der Meijden, diagnosed with leukemia in 2001, brought Dutchmen to tears with his 10-kilometer marathon swimming victory at Beijing Olympic Games Thursday.
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Construction worker He Ping never imagined his son, who was very naughty as a child, would one day be an Olympic champion diver.
The sweaty shoe badminton gold medalist Lin Dan was wearing during his final match could be worth a small fortune.
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Enjoy the competition, play well and pray for your rivals. The sporting spirit of Emmons is the "tomorrow" that China is striding for.
At this moment the British delegation is placed third on the medal tally with 16 golds out of a total of 37 medals.
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A throng of journalists filled Beijing Normal University gymnasium on Tuesday to get up close and personal with basketball legends the Dream Team.
From one athlete hoping for victory to another who's got no less than eight under his belt!
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China's Zhang Wenxiu won her country a bronze medal with 74.32 meters in the women's hammer throw at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Chinese fans have seen something they might never have dreamed of: victorious Chinese weightlifters being interviewed in English.
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A visitor looks at court dresses of Qing Dynasty on display at the Palace Museum in Beijing, August 19, 2008.
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday paid a morale-boosting visit to the country's Paralympic athletes, urging them to "strive to become strong and fight for the best."
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A visitor looks at court dresses of Qing Dynasty on display at the Palace Museum in Beijing, August 19, 2008.
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A visitor looks at court dresses of Qing Dynasty on display at the Palace Museum in Beijing, August 19, 2008.
A picture showing three foreigners coming to the aid of a Chinese girl who fainted at Olympic opening ceremony has become the talk of China's online community.
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A visitor looks at court dresses of Qing Dynasty on display at the Palace Museum in Beijing, August 19, 2008.
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A visitor looks at court dresses of Qing Dynasty on display at the Palace Museum in Beijing, August 19, 2008.
A 97-year-old grandmother has travelled 2,400 kilometres (1,491 miles) by tricyle to watch the Chinese badminton team in action at the Beijing Olympics.
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A visitor looks at court dresses of Qing Dynasty on display at the Palace Museum in Beijing, August 19, 2008.
Urban workers' per capita salary averaged 12,964 yuan (US$1,878) in the first half of this year, up 18 percent year-on-year, China's National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
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US fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) raised its prices in China for the second time this year due to mounting commodity costs.
The US and China should continue to seek a mutual understanding to strengthen the nations' relationship, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has said.
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China CITIC Bank said its first-half profit rose 162.6 percent from a year earlier due to strong growth in net interest and fee income.
Chinese equities fell more than 3.6 percent on Thursday as investors took profits amid an absence of news about an anticipated government stimulus plan.
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Iron ore firm Golden West Resourcessaid Australian foreign investment regulators had cleared a proposal for China's Hunan Valin Steel Tube & Wire Co to buy 11.4 percent of the company.
YRC Logistics, a leading US transportation company, yesterday announced it has acquired a 65 percent stake in Shanghai Jiayu Logistics Co Ltd.
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A comprehensive plan on economic and social development is expected to lift the economy of China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Beijing hotels have performed well and reaped strong profit since the Olympic Games opened on August 8, according to global business advisory firm Deloitte.
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China on Wednesday approved a draft law on the management of electronic waste, aiming to reduce the pollution it causes.
The National Audit Office has beefed up its scrutiny of overseas State-owned assets with the establishment of a new department specializing in auditing the sector.
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Two-year-old house cat Yoda was born with four ears.
Spain's Interior Ministry says 45 people are dead after an airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport.
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Two-year-old house cat Yoda was born with four ears.
Intel Corp. and Yahoo Inc. unveiled a new project Wednesday to populate those screens with tiny programs called widgets.
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Two-year-old house cat Yoda was born with four ears.
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Two-year-old house cat Yoda was born with four ears.
A woman who grew to be 7 feet, 7 inches tall and was recognized as the world's tallest female died Wednesday, a friend said.
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Two-year-old house cat Yoda was born with four ears.
Dozens of policemen with nets took two hours trying to catch a rogue monkey that played an excited game of chase through rush hour crowds in a Tokyo train station Wednesday morning.
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Rumer Willis (R), one of the stars of the comedy film "The House Bunny", poses with her mother actress Demi Moore and Moore's husband Ashton Kutcher at the film's premiere in Los Angeles.
Performers answer the curtain call at "A Night for Piano in China" concert at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on August 19, 2008.
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Jessica Simpson is to promote a vitamin enriched beer. 'The Dukes of Hazzard' actress has agreed to be the face of Stampede Light Plus.
Kung-fu blockbuster "The Forbidden Kingdom" has given Chinese actress Li Bingbing not only a solid international following, but also a historic honor.
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The Toronto International Film Festival is promising a lighter touch this year.
James McAvoy and Emily Blunt might soon discover that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence -- if you're a garden gnome in love.
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Britney Spears is set to defy the wishes of her family - including dad Jamie, who is co-conservator of her estate, and ex-husband Kevin Federline - to appear in the proposed fly-on-the-wall MTV documentary.
Nicole Scherzinger says being famous is hard work.
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America Ferrera was named the Chevy Entertainer of the Year for her role in "Ugly Betty" at the 2008 ALMA Awards.
Chinese reality TV show The Disciple had its closing ceremony at the Great Wall late last month, when Jackie Chan chose 24-year-old Jack Tu as his protg. Tu's reward is to die for: He will accompany the action star to learn everything about international filmmaking and even get to star in Chan-produced films.
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Born in 1938 in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, Fan Zeng is a contemporary master of traditional Chinese painting and is especially skilled in figure painting.
An interactive cultural event titled Best Wishes to Beijing: Charm of Chinese Characters in the Olympic Village has attracted attention from athletes, coaches and other visitors from China and abroad.
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Hong Kong actress and singer Kelly Chen, who will marry her long time boyfriend Alex in October.
One of Hong Kong's leading entertainment couples, actors Tony Leung and Carina Lau, were married in Bhutan in a Buddhist-inspired ceremony.
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Michael Phelps has made all the headlines in the pool after going one better than Mark Spitz's record, now his girlfriend looks just as likely to be thrust into the spotlight.
Italy's Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that receive the government's quality assurance label may now be sold in boxes.
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A model displays a creation from Argentine designer Wanama during Buenos Aires Fashion Week, August 20 , 2008. Buenos Aires Fashion Week will run until August 23 .
Tennis player Maria Sharapova (C) holds a camera and smiles next to models during a promotional event in New York, August, 20 2008.
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Australian drag queens pose with a plastic banana at the Drag Industry DIVA Variety Awards in Sydney August 18, 2008.
Are you a fan of Woody Allen or action movies and want the world to know? Now you can have the images from your favorite film on a pair of trendy eyeglasses made by designer Zakarias Tipton.
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Phelps' father revealed
