NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Sikh journalist threw a shoe at India’s home minister during a news conference on Tuesday after getting angry with his reply to a question on 1984 riots in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed.
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Chinese go to extremes over Olympic Games
Liu Xianghui cycled over 1,300 km (800 miles) to Beijing towing his 98-year-old grandmother in a pedicab to fulfil her dream of attending the Olympics.
Reports of Chinese sports fans going to extremes to support the Olympics have been popping up in Chinese newspapers and websites since the start of the Games on August 8, making [...]
Chinese learn to party at Olympics beach volleyball
While the beach volleyballers tough it out in the sand, Tom Blaumauer and Chris McGee have faced an Olympic challenge of their own: how to encourage the Chinese to throw a Californian beach party.
Rock music, go-go-girls and rowdy singing in the stands have become as integral a part of beach volleyball [...]
Woman in Sexy Night-Gown
One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very Sexy nightie. ‘Tie me up,’ she purred, ‘and you can do anything you want.’ So he tied her up and went golfing.
Chinglish unlikely to vanish totally by ‘08 Olympics
Beijing is unlikely to be totally free of Chinglish signs by the 2008 Olympics, but the government is increasing efforts to improve the capital’s once lamentable English, a senior official said on Wednesday.
“You can’t talk in absolutes,” Liu Yang, deputy head of efforts to clean up Beijing’s pre-Olympic language problems, told a news conference.
“We’ll work [...]
Man, 91, challenges Jack LaLanne, 92
All of that Florida sun must be getting to Maine snowbird Roland Fortin. The 91-year-old has laid down a challenge to box fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who’s 92. Fortin, former “cut man” for retired boxing champ Joey Gamache, said the idea for the four-round bout was hatched at the Tropical Gym in Pompano Beach, where [...]
Britain targets giants for Olympic gold in 2012
Britain is targeting ‘exceptionally tall’ athletes to help the country meet its lofty gold medal target at the London 2012 Olympics.
A scheme launched this week by UK Sport and the English Institute of Sport is calling for ’sleeping giants’ to take up rowing, handball and volleyball in the hope that they can be fast-tracked into [...]