2008 Olympic Games

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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Tiger Slam tops among storylines of last decade - PGA Tour

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  We don’t yet know the impact of golf truly going global with the decision to include it in the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, but it certainly can’t be a bad thing, no matter the format. Exposing the game to golf-starved nations of the world is ultimately Continue .. Jim Shea paused for more than a moment, almost ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• IOC sanctions five athletes who competed in Beijing - WebWire

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced sanctions against five athletes who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for having committed anti-doping violations. These five athletes tested positive for mirCERA© (CERA), a Continue ..
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chinese commerce minister sees brilliant future of China-Africa trade co-op - Xinhua

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  Chinese commerce minister sees brilliant future of China-Africa trade co-op - Xinhua BBC News Chinese commerce minister sees brilliant future of China-Africa trade co-op Xinhua During the three years after the Beijing summit, Chen said, China provided assistance in a number of ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses

  
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  A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no p
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• Gold, Silver Celebrate China’s 60th - NumisMaster.com

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  NumisMaster.com Gold, Silver Celebrate Chinas 60th NumisMaster.com Between them burns the flame of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Behind celebratory fireworks erupt over Beijing . Mintage is 6888. … Continue….. iAfrica.com De Villiers Beijing boost ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• China’s Green Investment - Energy and Capital (blog)

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  China’s Green Investment - Energy and Capital (blog) Chinas Green Investment Energy and Capital (blog) … A. DeHaemer Anyone who has been to Beijing , or watched the 2008 Olympic Games, knows that China suffers under a large, black cloud of soot and smog . … and more » ...
  6 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
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• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
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• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
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