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USA vs. Finland: USA ahead by 4-0 in the first period!

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: USA vs. Finland: In the 1st semi-finals of Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Ice Hockey, USA is now ahead by 4-0 in the first period!

This is possibly the sharpest the USA has looked so far, even more so than in the early hours in the Canada game. And now the Americans are back on the power play with 12:58 remaining. Toni Lydman whistled for boarding Brown in the Finnish zone.

Kane walked in, gathered his own rebound and sends a backhander; it was the 4th goal of the match.

That’s 4 U.S. goals in just over 10 minutes against a team with a good defensive rep. That will do it for Miikka Kiprusoff. In comes Niklas Backstrom of the Minnesota Wild.

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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Canada Hockey Celebration is a mess!

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Canada Hockey Celebration is a mess! Canada women’s hockey team has fetched the Gold medal defeating USA in the final match.

But now it is being said that the Canada Hockey Celebration is a mess. In the meantime, Hockey Canada makes an apology Friday for the women’s hockey team’s on-ice celebration.

The Canadian team has landed into controversy following the partying with alcohol and all created into a mess. Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) spokesman Steve Keogh said the organization didn’t give the drinks or cigars for the nearly hour-long celebration.

As said by the reports, the celebration also has been criticized since 18-year-old forward Marie-Philip Poulin was taking part in the post-game activities. It is illegal for anyone below 19 to drink alcohol in British Columbia (BC).

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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Curling Women's bronze medal game, China vs. Switzerland

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: The Curling Women's Bronze medal game, China vs. Switzerland is going on right now. The game will come to a decision who would receive the bronze medal in Women's Curling. The gold as well as silver champions for the event will be decided in the Curling Women's Gold medal game and that will begin today at 3:00 PM between Canada and Sweden.

The Chinese team at the Curling Women's Bronze medal game includes Jinli Liu, Yan Zhou, Qingshuang Yue, Yin Liu and Bingyu Wang. In the 5 rounds until now, they’ve scored 3, 0,2,0,1, leading the game 6-4.

The Switzerland Curling team includes Mirjam Ott, Carmen Schaefer, Carmen Keung, Janine Greiner and Irene Schori. Until now, their scores have been 0, 1,0,3,0.

The live coverage of the Chine versus Switzerland Curling Women's Bronze medal game is available on television and many websites which are streaming the match. The game began at 9:00 AM.

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Todd Lodwick comeback, US hero in Vancouver Olympics

The USA team, consisting of Spillane, Todd Lodwick, Billy Demong and Brett Camerota won the 1st ever medal in the final Nordic combined event at Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and team USA won the silver medal in the final Nordic combined event.

The Nordic Combined saw the Austrian team winning the gold, after finishing the event in 48 minutes and 55.6 seconds. In the meantime, the Germans had to be satisfied with the bronze medal.

In 86 years at the Winter Olympics, this is the 1st time the United States Nordic Combined Ski Team clinched a silver medal. It was the 1st medal for American Nordic Combined athletes. Previous week, Johnny Spillane won the silver medal in the Steamboat Springs event and became the 1st American who won the medal in this event.

The American team of Spillane, Todd Lodwick, Billy Demong and Brett Camerota ended the event in 49 minutes just 5.2 seconds in excess of the gold medalist Austria.

Multiple attacks in kabul killed 18

The Indians are supposed to have contained an army officer working at the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul & Nawab Khan, a noted tabla player who was there for a cultural programme.

The Taliban declared responsibility for the multiple attacks. 1 of these was a bomb explosion outer an apartment block that housed many Indians, more military men is working at the hospital. In another attack, suicide bombers stormed a guesthouse frequented by Britons & Americans. A 90-minute firefight among security forces & extra insurgents followed. An Italian embassy officer & 2 Afghan policeperson were among the dead.

Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsiblility for the assaults on behalf of the Taliban spokesman, said 5 insurgents, with 2 suicide bombers, had aimed “where the foreign people are staying”.

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Tacoma teacher killed outer at school

A man supposedly lovesick with a 30-year-old special education teacher gunshot & killed the woman outer a Tacoma elementary school teacher this morning, police told. The first shooting happened about 7:30 a.m. at Birney Elementary School.

Witnesses said to police the gunman, who lived in Ellensburg, reached the school nearly 2 hours before the teacher & gunshot her when she & a female colleague after arrived. No children were at the school at shooting.

School has been closed at Birney for today, & school district officials are discussing whether to cancel Monday classes too. Authorities also abandon a day-care center near the site of the second shooting. No one away from the gunman was injured there.

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Teen Killed by Driver in Los Angels

LOS ANGELES - Police told a teenage girl has been killed by a hit & run driver in west Los Angeles.

Police spokesperson says the 13- to 15-year-old girl was struck Friday morning by a black Mercedes car at a junction in Brentwood. She was later on marked dead at UCLA Medical Center. The driver seems that stopped after the accident but then left

Police spokesperson said police are looking for information about the driver. Police say extra information will be released afterward.

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The LG's new Watch Phone : India

This fashionable phone comes by scratch-proof tempered glass, 3G If you are a watch freak & also come about to be a fan of ultra rare gadgets, this may just interest you. The LG GD910 watch phone appears like a normal watch - but for the truth that it can double up as your mobile phone when required.

The GD910 LG's hottest watch phone has been introduced in India. It is quite slim at just 13.9mm & packs in 3G & Video calling capabilities too. The phone is quite stylish & the front fascia is covered by scratch-proof tempered glass.

It is also having a Bluetooth headset. The LG watch phone can be all yours for Rs. 49,990 which makes it wonderful expensive - even for an ultra sci-fi style gadget like this.

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Karun Chandhok set to race in F-1

New Delhi: Karun Chandhok is all set to turn into only the 2nd driver in India's motorsport history to race in Formula 1. The GP2 driver has supposedly signed an agreement with Campos Meta to drive for them for the 2010 season opening next month.

Chandhok will be entering the sport following Narain Karthikeyan contributed in 19 races for Jordan in 2005. The man all set to become India's 2nd driver in Formula 1 is 26 years old & was born in Chennai.

He prepared his racing debut in the year 2000 when he won the Indian National Racing Championship with a record breaking 7 race victories. After a winning season in the Asian Formula Championship during 2001 - Chandhok was rewarded the most promising Asian driver of the year.

It was in 2007 that he goes in the big league & signed up with Durango for the GP2 series, considered the feeder sequence to Formula 1. In 2008 he switched teams & moved to iSport International where he joined Brunno Senna & the 2 are all set to renew that joint venture with Campos Meta this season.

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Lindsey Vonn will race in slalom as scheduled

Lindsey Vonn will race in Friday's Olympic slalom, in spite of her broken right pinkie, the USA Ski Team said Thursday. Team spokesman Doug Haney wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Thursday that Lindsay Vonn will vie in the final women's Alpine event of the Vancouver Games.

"She's had way worse than that [injury]. She will be fine," USA team coach Jim Tracy told Reuters on Wednesday.

Also on the USA roster are Sarah Schleper of Vail, Colorado; Hailey Duke of Boise, Idaho; and Megan McJames of Park City, Utah. Julia Mancuso previously opted out of the slalom.

Lindsay Vonn, who lives and trains in Vail, injured her finger in a crash during the first run of the giant slalom Wednesday, and the USA Olympic Committee said afterward that day she hadn't decided whether to race the slalom. Lindsay Vonn won gold in downhill also bronze in super-G at these Olympics.

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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Canada vs. Russia Hockey

Vancouver: Canada vs. Russia: In the Olympic men’s hockey playoff quarterfinals Canada is leading by 7-3 vs. Russia.

At the moment, Russia’s Konstantin Korneyev called for interference. Canada is on a power play.

Hockey experts say that with Russia’s firepower it is still feasible for a comeback, but it looks ridiculous.

Russia looks more possessed later than switching goalies to backup Ilya Bryzgalov and its 6-2 with 13 minutes to play in the 2nd.

A goal or 2 this period and then it is a game. Unless of course the Russian defense does not tighten up.

USA Against Switzerland Score Is 2-0: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: In the Ice Hockey match the team USA has taken over Switzerland by 2-0.

Now, the Team USA would be playing for Gold medal. The Americans dominated the entire game and at last defeated the Swiss team.

The Switzerland team was weak from the beginning of the match and played quite defensive. But the USA team was in attacking mode.

And lastly they took over Swiss and won the match by 2-0.

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Host star destroy extra-solar planet: Astronomers

BEIJING: A newly discovered extra-solar planet, which is almost double of Jupiter's volume, is being distorted & damaged by its host star, giving an exclusive chance to astronomers to examine how a planet go into final stage of its life.

An international team of astronomers has initiated that a massive planet 'WASP-12b', which was discovered in 2008, is being unclear & destroyed by its host star. "This is the 1st time that astronomers are witnessing the ongoing trouble & death march of a planet".

WASP-12b is 1 of the most enigmatic of 400-plus planets that have been established outside our solar system over the earlier period 15 years. It orbits a star, in the constellation Auriga, roughly similar in mass to our sun, told lead author Shu-lin Li from the National Astronomical Observatories of China.

It’s also bigger than astrophysical models would predict. Its mass is calculated to be nearly 50 % larger than Jupiter's & 80 % larger than Jupiter's volume. It is also abnormally hot, with a daytime temperature of more than 2500°C.

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USA Against Canada Women’s Hockey Final Match In Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: USA against Canada Women’s Hockey Final match! Today, the final match of ice hockey Event for women is scheduled. Battling it out for the gold is women’s team from USA and Canada.

In the ice hockey event for men’s, semi-finals take place tomorrow. The 4 teams playing in the semi-finals are USA against Finland and Canada against Slovakia.

Therefore, there are chances the same teams that are clashing in the finals of women’s ice hockey might make it to the finals of the men’s ice hockey event.

Let us see whether hosts Canada can overpower Slovakia and USA can beat Finland.

Emergency no faults in Auckland

Emergency services are familiarity difficulties with the 111 scheme, with some callers unable to reach police. Police told the problem appeared to be confined to the Auckland area, & Telecom was working on the trouble. The 111 system went down at around 3.30am says report.

Telecom spokesman Mark Watts told the problem may be irregular & some 111 callers may be able to get through. He told Telecom was taking the trouble very seriously & trying to fix the problem as soon as possible.

This trouble was not related to the network but affected callers on all networks on landlines & mobiles. The callers have been receiving a range of responses with an engaged signal & no signal at all.

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Discovery on Tap for Rollout to Pad

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery now is attached to its external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters atop the mobile launcher platform in the Vehicle Assembly Building.

Engineers are preparing the shuttle for its rollout to Launch Pad 39A, which is scheduled for March 2 at 12:01 a.m. EST. The STS-131 astronauts are conducting a deorbit integrated simulation today at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Discovery's crew will head to Kennedy early next month to participate in the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT, and related prelaunch training.

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Old cosmetics! Say ‘NO’

Cosmetics owned by more women could be up to 4 years out of date, a research has exposed. It cautioned that reluctance to pitch gone old products was unsafe.

Research gives that eye shadow, blusher, lipstick, lip gloss, eyebrow pencils & perfume were often well past their use-by date, putting women's health at danger. Sara Stern, cosmetics' director at Debenhams that agreed out the study, told: "Reluctance to throw away old products is a dangerous business."

"We wouldn't be uncertain to chuck out moldy or bacteria-ridden food & the same standards must apply to lotions & potions. Confidently this call to action will push women to have ruthless spring dirt free of their cosmetics collections," she said.

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9 Russian neo-Nazis in prison 23 years

MOSCOW – A Russian court has judgment 9 ultranationalists to up to 23 years in jail for a sequence of hate-motivated killings.

The Moscow City Court said in a report Thursday that 12 frequently underage neo-Nazis who called themselves "White Wolves" have been accused with 11 murders & 1 assault since April 2007.

It said juries originate 9 of them guilty of 6 murders & 1 assault. The group was formed on Adolf Hitler's birthday to "exterminate" non-Russians. Its members fatally stabbed Central Asians & further non-Slavs with dark skin or Asian characteristics. They often videotaped the attacks & posted them online.

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Vancouver 2010 Olympic cross-country 4X10 Relay: Sweden wins gold

Sweden's men's cross-country team took the gold in the 4X10 relay Wednesday in 1:45:05.4, defeating Czech Republic and France, who took silver and gold respectively. Canada completed the race in 7th position. Canada's Devon Kershaw completed the first leg placing 10th before handing off to his ally Alex Harvey at the Whistler Olympic Park Cross Country skiing stadium Wednesday.

Kershaw completed 28.2 seconds after the pace set by Finland's Sami Jauho Jaervi. The French and Swedish relay teams completed the first leg in 2nd and 3rd place, respectively. Alex Harvey finished the second leg in 9th place prior to handing off to teammate Ivan Babikov.

Alex Harvey crossed the 20 km mark 52 seconds after Sweden's pace-setting time of 55.53.1 minutes. The Czech Republic and France completed the second leg in the number 2 and 3 spots, respectively.

Ivan Babikov finished the third leg in 7th before handing off to teammate George Grey. Ivan Babikov crossed the 30 km mark 50.3 seconds after Anders Soedergren of the pace-setting Swedish team. France and the Czech Republic completed the third leg in 2nd and 3rd place, respectively.

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Ice hockey player severely injured

Lubos Bartecko, a Slovakian ice hockey player has suffered a serious head injury, after being struck in the playoffs yesterday. In the 1st period of play Lubos Bartecko collapsed to the ice after being hit by Ole Kristian Tollefsen (Norway).

It seems as though on being struck by Tollefsen’s elbow, Bartecko’s helmet came off and one more Norwegian player Tore Vikingstad ran into him. Unluckily he then had no protection for his head when he plummeted into the ice.

When Lubos Bartecko raised his head from the ice momentarily, a pool of blood could be obviously seen. He then lay still and was stretchered away. The game had to be stopped so that the blood blemish could be scoured from the ice.

Lubos Bartecko, aged 33 spent five seasons in the NHL between 1997 and 2003, and was also in the Slovakian team that won the world championship in the year 2002.

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Men’s Curling Great Britain VS Sweden Tie Breaker Game

Day 12 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Men’s Curling Game end up having Great Britain tied to Sweden for the qualification for the semi finals. Both have five wins and four losses.

The tie breaker game would decide who would advance to the semi finals joining Canada, Norway and Switzerland.

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Figure Skating

Last Day there was extremely interesting and hot results from Figure Skating of Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

Yu-Na-Kim won this Figure Skating. She placed at the first position. Yu-Na-Kim set new Record by getting 78.50 Points.

Mao Asada came on the second position in Figure Skating. Her Points were 73.78.

She came from Japan with Akiko Suzuki and Miki Ando and they’re the pride of Japan.

Jaonnie Rochette placed at the third position by getting 71.36 points for her gorgeous and breathtaking performance.

USA versus Switzerland Live Score Update: Vancouver 2010 Olympics

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: USA vs. Switzerland: In Day 12 of sporting action at 21st Winter Olympics commences, the 1st quarterfinal of the men’s ice hockey event will take place.

Team USA that has been on rest for 2 days now are all ready to take on Switzerland who have just managed a victory over Belarus.

USA and Switzerland had clashed previously as well this Olympics in their Group matches. USA had proved their superiority over the Swiss team in their previous meet.

At present, it remains to be seen whether team USA armed with the likes of Ryan Miller Bobby Ryan, Ryan Malone manage to seal their position as the leading team in the game until now into the Olympics.

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Actor Charlie Sheen go into rehab

Actor Charlie Sheen has go into rehab & will be taking a break from filming his well-liked TV series, 2 & a Half Men, his publicist has told.

It approaches 2 months after the 44-year-old was in prison following a fight with his wife, Brooke Mueller, at their residence in Aspen, Colorado on Christmas day. He was later on charged with beating & threatening her & is due to come back to court on 15^th March. Mueller is as well in rehab seeking treatment, her lawyer told.

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Police charge man over Malaysian murder; Aus

SYDNEY – An Indonesian-born man on Wednesday over the kill of a driver for the Malaysian consulate who was beaten by a hammer & stabbed outside his Sydney home. Police originally idea the attack on Mohd Shah Saemin, 43, who died in capital Leichhardt late on Sunday, stemmed from a road rage happening moments earlier.

Indonesian-born Hazairin Iskandar, 55, whose wife had supposedly worked with Saemin, was in prison on Wednesday & charged with his murder, police told. Officers were still hunting a 2nd man mixed up in the attack.

The attack incited Malaysia's foreign minister to call for a detailed police investigation to ensure the event wasa genuine road rage case & not a case of race-based hate crime".

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5 killed in Kashmir fight

India says 5 of its soldiers have been killed in fights with militants in Indian-administered Kashmir. Fight began early on Tuesday morning in the Chinkipora locale in Sopore city.

Indian boundary guards in Kashmir told they came in fire from Pakistan on Wednesday, a claim deprived by Islamabad. The 2 nuclear-armed neighbors are due to convene for talks in Delhi on Thursday - the 1st formal discussions since the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The Kashmir argument has been at the centre of decades of hostility among India & Pakistan & the cause of 2 of their 3 wars while independence from British rule in 1947.

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Sudan free 57 Darfur rebels

KHARTOUM- Sudan released 57 affiliates of the rebel Justice & Equality Movement on Wednesday, President Omar al-Beshir told, a day after Khartoum & the JEM indication a ceasefire accord.

The prisoners put free represented half of the group's members in jail, AbdelBasit Sabdarat told outside the Kober prison on the border of Khartoum.

"We have presently at liberty 50 percent of those detained" in connection with a rebel attack on Khartoum's twin town of Omdurman in May 08, Beshir told during a speech in El-Fasher, the center of Northern Darfur situation.

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Drone assault kills 4 militant in Pak

Islamabad, Pakistan- A drone assault in Pakistan's northwest tribal area killed 4 supposed militants Wednesday. The strike took place in a town near the city of Miranshah in North Waziristan, officials told.

The assault destroyed a car & a compound, told the officials who did not want to be identified as they are not authorized to speak to the media. North Waziristan is 1 of the 7 districts in Pakistan's tribal area along the Afghan limit.

The US is the only kingdom in the area known to have the ability to launch missiles from drones, which are controlled distantly. U.S. officials normally do not comment on supposed drone strikes, which have caused tension among Pakistan & the US in the past.

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Bedfordshire tarn murder fatality suffering for money

A "susceptible" man was kept as a slave & suffering for his benefit money before his headless body was discarded in a Bedfordshire lake, a court has heard. The decapitated dead body of 26-year old Michael Gilbert was recovering in the Blue Lagoon in Arlesey previous May.

James Watt, 27, is accused of murder & familial killing. Brother Robert Watt, 20, faces the same charges. Luton Crown Court heard Mr Gilbert was compulsory to sleep handcuffed to a bed to stop him escaping.

The Watt brothers, of Chertsey Close, Luton, deny murdering Mr Gilbert on or concerning 21 January last year. The prosecution told the victim had suffered years of fighting before being killed, his body dismembered & head cut off.

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Fascinating people for February 23, 2010

The terrorism suspect, a former Colorado airport shuttle driver from Afghanistan, pleaded at fault Monday to conspiring to detonate explosives in the US. In a look before a federal judge, Zazi admitted his role in the scheme, saying, "In spring 2008, I conspired with others to join the Taliban, to fight beside with the Taliban next to the US." He told, "We were recruited to al Qaeda in its place."

He pleaded guilty to 3 counts: conspiring to use weapons of set destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country & provide material hold to a terrorist organization. Sentencing is put for June 25.

Zazi was in prison in September in an alleged plot to put up & detonate bombs in New York concerning the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Although at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, he had planning with al Qaeda about targets with the New York City subway system, Zazi told in court Monday.

Federal officials have told the conspiracy involving Zazi represents the serious terrorism plot while 9/11 & the investigation is intense & continuing.

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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Medals: USA tops the list!

Vancouver 2010 Medals: USA is ahead with 24 medals in Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The medal counts include 7 Gold, 7 Silver and 7 Bronze.

Meanwhile, Germany is on the 2nd position in the list with a medal count of 21 (7 Gold, 9 Silver and 5 Bronze).At the same time, Norway is on 3rd position with 14 medals (6 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze).Russian Federation is on the 4th position with 10 medals (2 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze).

At the same time, Canada has managed to grab 5th position with 9 medals (4 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze).

Nokia to release Nokia Software Updater 20.0.019

Nokia is releasing an exclusive Nokia Software Updater 20.0.019. It is considered to be the software that comes with enhanced touch screen scrolling as well as it has Ovi maps 3.01 with 3-D maps. Nokia Software Updater is a windows application that is liable for updating device of a user from his PC.

This beta release of the Nokia Software Updater won’t be able to load any pre-release of Nokia device software. In case you try to do this, after installation you will get a message: “No software updates available”, which means that no latest version is found for a particular device. It is also a key to check if mobile service provider accepted the latest Nokia device software.

In order to check a new software update, you must do the following: visit to My Nokia subscribe by means of email or SMS, & you will be able to get software notifications.

The next is to type a key *#0000# into your phone’s home screen or you can go to Device manager. Then you have to Select Options & then check for updates. It is key to follow the on-screen prompts before you update is not finished.

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Evgeni Plushenko at Men’s Figure Skating competition in Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Plushenko is the defending champion at the Men’s Figure Skating competition this year at 21st Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

In the short program of the competition Plushenko just outdid his competitors by performing a quad that not a lot of figure skaters had attempted to show case.

Figure skater Evan Lysacek from United States was not quite amused with the Russian’s performance and said it truly didn’t bother him.

However, Evan Lysacek will have his fair chance to even points with Plushenko when the long program of the event takes place. So, let us see who grabs the medal in the Men’s Figure Skating competition.

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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Ice Dancing Olympics 2010 Results

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Ice Dancing Olympics 2010 Results – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir’s stunning ice dance number won the gold medal Tuesday, toppling the Russian reigning world champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin and the United States dance couple, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, won the silver medal.

“North America has really come into its own in terms of ice dance,” Meryl Davis said. “This Olympics is a little bit of a turning point again. It is really exciting to be a part of it.”

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir scored an overall score of 221.57. Virtue and Moir’s program was tender and sensual. Their gentle, slow start showcased their excellent skating skills, their edges so quiet and smooth they appeared to be on top of the ice.

Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin’s routine was very theatrical and highly entertaining. But ice dance has moved way beyond the theater it was ten years ago. The sport now need good, old-fashioned skating skills, power as well as innovation, and Domnina and Shabalin didn’t quite have it.

USA versus Canada: Miracle on Ice in Vancouver 2010

It is being called Miracle on Ice as it was the 1st victory on Canadians by States in last 50 years.

An average of 10.6 million Television viewers in Canada watched the Sunday night’s USA-Canada hockey game.

It has turn out to be the most-watched sports program in Canadian television history. The average spectator was 59 percent higher than the number of Canadians who watched Super Bowl XLIV.

GOES-P Mission

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-P represents a continuation of the newest generation of environmental satellites built by Boeing for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the technical guidance and project management of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

GOES satellites provide the familiar weather pictures seen on United States television newscasts every day. The GOES imaging and sounding instruments (built by ITT) feature flexible scans for small-scale area viewing in regions of the visible and infrared spectrum allowing meteorologists to improve short-term forecasts. GOES provides nearly continuous imaging and sounding, which allow forecasters to better measure changes in atmospheric temperature and moisture distributions and hence increase the accuracy of their forecasts.

GOES environmental information is used for a host of applications, including weather monitoring and prediction models, ocean temperatures and moisture locations, climate studies, cryosphere (ice, snow, glaciers) detection and extent, land temperatures and crop conditions, and hazards detection.

The GOES-O & P Imagers have improved resolution. The finer spatial resolution allows an improved cloud-top product, better information on atmospheric motion and volcanic ash detection. GOES-P continues the improved image navigation and registration, additional power and fuel lifetime capability, space weather, solar x-ray imaging, search and rescue, and communication services as provided on GOES-13 and GOES-14.

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Fire leave vacant near Dunedin

Some residents in the Taieri region northwest of Dunedin have been vacated as firefighters tackle a forest blaze. Helicopters with monsoon buckets are being used to brawl the fire in the Mt Allan forestry block.

It began about 3.30pm, probably ignited by logging equipment, Wenita Forest Products Ltd chief executive Dave Cormack said. Forestry contractors left the area instantly as the fire quickly increase over 30 hectares. Some houses nearby were leaved and the Taieri Gorge train trip was held up.

A rural fire spokesman said firefighters were receiving control of 1 side of the blaze & trying to control the other side which had been admired by westerly winds.

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Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010 Medal Count: United States still on the lead!

UPDATE as of February 22, 2010:

USA is again back on the lead on the medal count tally with 24 medals (7 Gold, 7 Silver and 10 Bronze). USA is followed by Germany with 18 medals (6 Gold, 7 Silver and 5 Bronze), Norway with 12 medals (5 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze), Korea with 9 medals (4 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze), and host country Canada with 9 medals (4 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze). There are a total of 150 medals awarded and 108 medals remaining to be awarded. Standby as we give the latest medal count tally on the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010.

Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010: Women’s US curling take 2 losses

At Vancouver 2010 the US women’s curling team has suffered 2 defeats dealing a heavy blow to their game plans. They were beaten 9-2 by Canada on Sunday morning, then went on to be defeated in the evening to the Swedes by 9-3.

The team had to accept defeat and conceded to the Canadian team later than the seventh end. Against the Swedish team they were enforced to admit they were beaten after the ninth end. In the Swedish match the teams were drawn 1-1 after 3 ends but the Swedes made it trouble-free for themselves after that winning 3- points ends in both the sixth and ninth.

Meanwhile Canada went on in their evening match to lose their first round-robin game. The game went on to extra ends and resulted in a victory for China at 6-5. China’s scores have now risen in the round-robin sessions to 5-2.

Other match results were Germany vs. Japan 7-6, Switzerland vs. Great Britain 10-6, Denmark vs. Germany 6-5 and Japan vs. Russia 12-9 after extra ends.

Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010: Russian ice dance creates controversy

AFTER THEY kicked up many furore, world ice dance champions Oskana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin don’t appear to have changed their costumes for the ice dance event that will be held later on in the afternoon.

The 2 had outraged many when they were seen in Aboriginal themed costumes and while lots of asked that their aboriginal themed dance number be changed, they showed up in alike costumes for the Sunday morning practice.

Russians Oskana Domnina as well as Maxim Shabalin was seen in flesh colored bodysuits as an alternative of the original brown ones and the white markings on these have been toned down as compared to previous. However, Maxim Shabalin was still seen wearing a loin cloth over the costume, which is both for him and Oskana Domnina are still covered in white ropes and leaves.

A few Australian Aboriginal leaders were outraged at their Aboriginal themed costumes and had criticized their ice dance performance, saying that their steps were not genuine, the costumes were gaudy and it was blatant cultural theft. They had also asked that the costumes should be changed. Some are suggesting that the ice dance pair may change into different costumes for the ice dance performance this afternoon.

Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010: Michael Schmid wins ski cross gold

SWISS SKIER Michael Schmid earned his very first Olympic gold medal today, winning the men's Ski cross competition and consolidating his previous claim of top qualifier. He had won all 4 man races in the new sport.

Michael Schmid beat 3 other riders as he led the majority of the way. Austrian Andreas Matt was in the 2nd position, whereas Norway skier Audun Groenvold took the bronze medal in the event.

The Canadian entry to the ski cross final, Christopher Delbosco came 4th. The Canadian had crashed on his second to last jump and was not capable to finish the event. This crash again pointed out the level of safety at the Vancouver Olympics venue Cypress Mountain. There have been 7 crashes in the 16 events that have taken place here.

Ski Cross made its first appearance as an Olympic event this year, at the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010. The event is a freestyle skiing version of the snowboard cross.

Vancouver Winter Olympics: United States - Canada Men's Curling, latest update

Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010: The United States and Canada Men's Round Robin Session 10 Curling event has started at the Vancouver Olympic Centre, in the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010. United States' performance in the Men's Curling event has not extremely been good until now.

The Men's Curling game among United States and Canada, is expected to be a tough one. The Canadian team will try to take vengeance of yesterday's loss in the hockey event against US. In that ice hockey game, United States men's hockey team offends Canada by 5-3.

The United States versus Canada Men's Curling game is being telecast live from 9 AM PST and 12 PM EST. Live Streaming of this event can also be seen in various sites all over US and Canada. Latest update about this game is that US is leading over Canada by 1-0 points until now at the end of LSFE 1 at Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010.

Two Shuttles, 2 Crews on the Move

This morning, crews at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida had two space shuttles on the move. Following Endeavour's post-landing return to its hangar in the Orbiter Processing Facility, space shuttle Discovery was moved from its hangar to the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building. The transfer paves the way for Discovery's roll to the launch pad on Mar. 2.

Discovery's astronauts were on hand for the move, having flown in this morning from their home base at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The astronauts, who will fly Discovery on the STS-131 mission that is slated for April, will inspect equipment they will use during their mission.

Following last night's landing, Shuttle Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses said that space shuttle Endeavour's landing capped off a flawless mission. "The crew did an outstanding job," Moses said, referring to the complex task of installing Tranquility and its seven-windowed cupola to the International Space Station. "The landing today went as smooth as you can hope for - by the numbers."

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Anti-retrovirals curb HIV spread

Anti-retroviral treatments (ARVs) & universal checking could stop the spread of Aids in South Africa within 5 years, a top scientist says.

Dr Brian Williams says the cost of giving the drugs to almost 6 million HIV-positive patients in the state would be $2 to 3bn per year. Only about 30% get the life-saving drugs, he told, but early detection & treatment would avoid transmission.

This should be balancing to the search for an Aids vaccine. An effective vaccine, he told, was still a long way away. Dr Williams, a chief figure in the field of HIV research, is based at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modeling & Analysis in Stellenbosch.

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4 gone after Madeira flash floods kill 42

FUNCHAL, Madeira Islands— Rescue personnel dug throughout heaps of mud, boulders & debris on Sunday on the Portuguese island of Madeira, finding for victims buried by flash floods & mudslides that had before now killed at least 42 people in the popular tourist area.

More than 120 others were wounded & an unknown number were gone, possibly swept away or smothered, the authorities told, adding that the death toll could still rise. About 250 public were forced to flee their homes & go to shelters.

The storm was the nastiest to hit Madeira, an island in the Atlantic off northwest Africa, since 1993. It lashed the capital, Funchal, on Saturday & turned a few streets into raging fast-moving water of liquid brown dirt, water & debris.

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Hurt Locker triumphs “Avatar”at Baftas

Iraq war stage show “The Hurt Locker” has won 6 prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.

Kathryn Bigelow took the best director prize for the film, beating nominees that integrated her former husband, “Avatar” director Cameron. “The Hurt Locker” also won prizes for original screenplay, cinematography, editing & sound. “Avatar” picked up awards for making design & visual effects.

“Avatar” & “The Hurt Locker” both went into Sunday’s awards with nominations in 8 categories, with best picture. The awards, known as BAFTAs, are considered a vital indicator of likely Oscar success.

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Girl's slay sickens Bundaberg

A BUNDABERG couple is still in shock after putting their 8 year-old to bed only to have her battered, pyjama-clad body recovered in a drain.

A massive police hunt is currently under way, including a detailed examination of sexual offenders living in and around the village, only a few blocks north of the Central Business District.

Neighbours say they heard screaming, dogs barking & a common ruckus on Sunday night coming from close to the area where the child's body was found.Police were called soon before 6am after the girl's father raised the alarm, with some reports he ran from his home yelling that his child had been kidnapped.

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U.S. rocket Kills Taliban Leader's Brother

A younger brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, one of the Afghan Taliban commanders whose fighters focus on Kabul & eastern Afghanistan, was killed when a rocket fired by a CIA drone struck a car in which he was travelling, depending to a Pakistani intelligence officer & a local resident.

The drone strike occurred Thursday in North Waziristan, the foundation for the Haqqani network & for several Arab &Taliban militants who fight in Afghanistan & Pakistan. But Muhammad Haqqani, the youngest son of famed mujahedin leader Jalaluddin Haqqani & his first wife played no significance in the Taliban network, depending to the intelligence officer.

The CIA has under attack the Haqqani & its related networks in North Waziristan lengthily, particularly since a suicide bomber killed 7 CIA officers’ just crossways the border in Khost, Afghanistan, in late December. But this appears to be the 1st time a drone has effectively targeted 1 of Jalaluddin's sons. 1 of Jalaluddin's other sons was killed a few years ago in Afghanistan, the Pakistani intelligence officer said.

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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Britain’s women curlers beat world champions China

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Britain’s women curlers proved themselves as stronger as they beat world champions China in their opening match at 5-4.Eve Muirhead (Skipper), Jackie Lockhart, Kelly Wood and Lorna Evers managed to grasp the win.

At the 5th end, Britain stood at 3-1, but the Chinese women narrowed the gap to 3-2. But Eve Muirhead’s hammer sealed an additional point to bring back Britain to 4-2.

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games are being organized at Vancouver, Canada and British Columbia.

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Skier Maria Riesch’s gold medal in Women’s super-combined

Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Lindsey Vonn, a skier from United States made her mark in the 21st Winter Olympics in Vancouver by clinching the gold medal in Women’s downhill skiing event.

Lots of people were expecting her to continue the winning streak in the Women’s super combined event. But, luck did not seem to be on the American skier’s side.

Maria Riesch, Vonn’s counterpart from Germany, triumphed in winning the gold in the Women’s super combined event.In the same event one more American skier Julia Mancuso succeeded in gaining the silver medal and the Sweden skier Anja Pearson bagged the bronze medal.

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