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Olympic legend Carl Lewis on Mitt Romney: ‘Some Americans shouldn’t leave the country’
Mitt Romney has been rebuked by the US Olympic legend Carl Lewis after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee questioned whether London was fully prepared for the Olympic Games. As Romney was mocked on US television and by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, in front of a crowd of 60,000 people,…
Man who tweeted airport bomb joke wins appeal
Paul Chambers, who was found guilty of sending a menacing tweet, has won his high court challenge against his conviction. Outside the court, Chambers, 27, said he felt “relieved and vindicated”, adding: “It’s ridiculous it ever got so far.” He had tweeted in frustration when he discovered that Robin Hood…
French researchers on the verge of ‘functional cure’ for AIDS
A small group of patients with HIV in France have been able to stop taking Aids drugs without any resurgence of the virus in their bodies, giving scientists new hope that a “functional cure” for HIV may be possible. The Visconti cohort, as the 14 French patients are being called,…
Indian rail is world’s largest ‘open toilet’
A top Indian minister has proposed projects worth $130 million project to rid India of the scourge of open defecation and clean up a rail system he described as the world’s “largest open toilet”, reports said on Friday. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh told a meeting in New Delhi on…
Bolt prepared to run four events in London
Jamaican track star Usain Bolt could win four track golds at the Olympics after admitting he may run the 4×400 metres relay. The 25-year-old comes into the London Games as the defending champion in the 100 and 200m as well as the 4x100m relay. But he hasn’t ruled out the…
Hungarian Nazi’s original trial documents found
Original documents from the 1948 Nazi war crimes trial in absentia of Laszlo Csatary, now under house arrest in Hungary, have been found in Slovakia, a historian there was quoted as saying on Friday. “The National Memory Institute (UPN) archives in Bratislava possess a legal dossier from the death sentence…
Philippine massacre witnesses live in fear
Hired assassins are stalking witnesses to a Philippine massacre in which a political warlord allegedly led the slaughter of 57 people, victims’ relatives and a rights group said almost two years into a complex trial. Three witnesses and three relatives of others who planned to testify have been killed in…
Chevron ordered to pay $19 billion in environment damages
Chevron has been ordered to pay more than $19 billion in environmental damages, $1 billion more than originally decided, after an Ecuadoran court adjusted the amount on appeal, a source said. “Due to an involuntary calculation error, the reparations now amount to $19,021,552,000,” said a court source in the northeastern…
Syria rebels brace for ‘mother of all battles’
Syrian rebel forces were bracing Friday for the “mother of all” battles in Aleppo, as Washington warned the army could be preparing to carry out a massacre in the country’s second city. Waves of troop reinforcements have been pouring into the northern city — Syria’s commercial capital — and a…
Legally blind archer sets first world record
Legally blind South Korean archer Im Dong-Hyun set the first world record of the London Olympics on Friday in the men’s preliminary round held at the Lord’s cricket ground. Im scored 699 points from 72 arrows to beat his own record of 696 set in May this year. The 26-year-old…
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