Thick smog over Beijing concerns Olympians (CTV.ca)
Cloud-seeding may not be a permanent solution to Beijing's notorious smog problem, but it shows that China is trying nearly anything possible to clean the air for the 2008 Summer Games....more...National Sport News RSS Feed (Croydon Guardian)
Andrei Arshavin's move to Tottenham is being held up by Zenit St Petersburg's financial demands, according to the player's agent....more... Olympic OVERHAUL (Sun-Sentinel)
Beijing cleans up image ? and sensibilities ? for coming-out party With a price tag of $43 billion, the Summer Games that will open Friday in Beijing are the most expensive in Olympic history. The transformation, however, goes far beyond the eye-popping architecture. The Chinese government also has been trying to create a new, improved population to go along with its spiffed-up capital city. ......more... UK-World Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Beijing bathes in blue skies as pollution falls...more... Thick smog over Beijing concerns Olympians (CTV.ca)
A farmer wearing a military jacket fires shells from a double-barrelled 37-mm anti-aircraft gun into the sky over Beijing, aiming at clouds drifting toward the Bird's Nest stadium. The shells contain silver iodide -- a chemical that makes clouds weep....more... Reliving history with The Herald (The Herald)
In January 1783, as the birth of America brought the decline of the city's lucrative tobacco trade and an end to its first phase of imperial expansion, the first issue of a newspaper called The Glasgow Advertiser was published....more... Foreigners get the boot from Malaysian teams: report (TODAYonline)
Malaysian national football team poses for a group photograph before a match in Kuala Lumpur, in 2007. Malaysia will not allow any foreigners to ply their trade in the domestic league from next season in a drastic attempt to improve the quality of young homegrown players, a news report said Sunday....more... Mayor: Buy American (Macomb Daily)
Political appointees of Warren Mayor James Fouts may get a new job requirement that has nothing to do with their skills or workload....more... World Champion Gibilisco considers pulling out of Games (TSN)
ROME - Former pole vault world champion Giuseppe Gibilisco is considering pulling out of the Beijing Games because he believes his coach is focusing too much on reigning woman's Olympic champion, Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia....more... |