 Matos facing Lifetime Ban after kicking referee | |
Aug 25, 2008 - 8:00 AM - by Oninuva | 
BEIJING -- Cuba's Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend that he be banned for life.
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0 Replies | 43 Views | | Men's 4x200 Freestyle Relay: Phelps leads the team. | |
Aug 13, 2008 - 7:21 AM - by Oninuva |
BEIJING, August 13) -- The US Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle team, led out by the indomitable Michael Phelps, smashed the world record on the way to winning the gold medal on Wednesday.
The triumph keeps alive Phelps' dream of gathering a record eight golds at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The win also brings Phelps his 11th career Olympic gold to date.
The US team of Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay led for the entire race and stretched the world... [Read More] | |
0 Replies | 83 Views | | Moon-Walker claims of Alien Contact | |
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:56 PM - by Oninuva |
FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'
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0 Replies | 168 Views | | Abortion given to wrong woman | |
Jul 20, 2008 - 12:03 AM - by HolyPaladin | 
A woman was given a chemical abortion tablet by mistake after a nurse mixed up two patients with the same first name, a misconduct hearing has heard.
Ann Downer gave the drug to a woman who had gone into the clinic for an initial consultation.
When staff realised what had happened the distraught woman, named only as patient A, was called back to the clinic in pain and doctors subsequently advised her to undergo a surgical abortion.
Miss Downer, 44, should... [Read More] | |
0 Replies | 131 Views |  Pupil gets marks for swearing on English exam paper | |
Jun 30, 2008 - 11:21 AM - by jillcash | 
Pupil gains marks for exam expletive
LONDON (Reuters) - A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.
The pupil, who wrote "f--- off" after being asked in an English... [Read More] | |
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