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Tibetans stage march on 51st anniversary of Tibetan uprising
Hundreds of Tibetans-in-exile along with foreign tourists marched in Dharamshala to mark the 51st anniversary of the uprising against the Chinese rule on Wednesday (March...


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Bollywood music, Indian classical dance liven up wintry Beijing
Beijing came alive this weekend with blazing Bollywood music; film and classical Indian dances mostly by Chinese artists at an Indian consumer show...
PCB imposes life term ban on Yousuf, Younis, slaps hefty fine on others
Acting on the recommendations of the inquiry committee probing the disastrous tour Down Under, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday imposed a life term ban on captain Mohammed Yousuf and experienced middle-order batsman Younis Khan and slapped hefty fines on various players, holding them responsible for the team's pathetic...
2-second Video Causes Headache For Abc News
FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, a 2010 Toyota Corolla is shown at Toyota dealership in San Francisco. For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into...
Conan Chooses Teen's Tweets
Sarah Killen, left, and fiancé John Slowik Jr., at their home in Conway Township, Mich. on Wednesday. Conan O'Brien decided last week to pick Killen as the only person he would follow on...
Report: Time For Next Stage Of Sustainable Business
BOSTON--Corporate America needs to track its use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow if it wants to keep pace with social concern about climate change and other...
Robert Morris Wins Northeast, Earns Big Dance Bid
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Quinnipiac Off Dance Card
D allas Green deflected a potential game-winning shot then sank two free throws with seven seconds left as Robert Morris beat Quinnipiac, 52-20, last night in Hamden, Conn., for its second straight...
In Mixed Martial Arts, Hitting The Head Can Hurt The Fist
Despite WEC's run of bad luck, hand injuries aren't the most common in mixed martial arts. Nor are hands necessarily more likely to break in MMA than in boxing. A survey of 2009 medical suspensions...
'wonderland' Star Wasikowska Is A Wildflower In Acting World
Australian actress Mia Wasikowska, who plays the heroine in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, says she won't consider changing her complicated Polish last...
Utah State Not Taking Any Chances In Big Dance Bid
Logan » Heading into today's matchup against Boise State (15-16) in a Western Athletic Tournament quarterfinal, Utah State is 25-6 on the season, a winner of the conference by three games and...
Sagan Speeds To Paris-nice Third Stage
Italian Liquigas cycling team's Slovakia's Peter Sagan celebrates on the finish line at the end of the 155 km third stage of the 2010 Paris-Nice cycling race run between Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche and...
School Dance Off After Lesbian Request
A US school in has called off the annual senior dance after a lesbian student demanded she be allowed to bring her girlfriend.The American Civil Liberties Union had demanded that the Itawamba County...
Business Diary: Free Cinema Tickets For Suffering Bankers
At last, someone who is prepared to show bankers some kindness. The Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square is showing Michael Moore's documentary Capitalism: A Love Story next week and is so...
N.y. City Opera Goes 20th Century In Abbreviated 2010-11 Season
NEW YORK -- The New York premieres of Bernstein's “A Quiet Place” and Stephen Schwartz's “Seance on a Wet Afternoon,” the world stage premiere of John Zorn's “La Machine de l'etre” and...
Israeli Novel, Russian Poem Collection Win Prizes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation. Gail Hareven's novel "The Confessions of Noa Weber" won...
Performing Arts Companies Brace For Hst
Ottawa's performing arts venues are trying to help patrons save money in anticipation of the harmonized sales tax, which will make theatre and concert tickets more expensive. For more than 20 years,...
Books Of The Times: James Hynes’s ‘next’: A Job Interview To End All Interviews
Kevin Quinn, the protagonist of James Hynes’s “Next,” is first seen on an airplane that is making its descent into Austin, Tex. He’s wondering whether one of those...
The Mouse That Roared: Turning To The Internet To Catch A Favorite Tv Show
watch television — sometimes plenty of it — but don’t own a cable box. Those who belong to this crowd are only too happy to remind you that they can watch most of what you watch,...
Parties Gear Up For Two-stage Budget In Election Year
This month’s predicted Budget statement may be the first of two this year if the polls have got it right, advisers warn.Should there be a power shift after the general election, expected in...
Classy Sagan Wins Stage
By Julien Pretot Aurillac, France - Slovakian prodigy Peter Sagan claimed a shortened third stage of the Paris-Nice race on Wednesday while Alberto Contador showed in a nervy finale he had...
D-cinema Group Secures $660 Million
Exhibition's Big Three have their money. Digital Cinema Implementation Partners said Wednesday that its $660 million loan syndication had closed. Led by JPMorgan Chase, the funding will be used...
Royal Opera To Stage Anna Nicole Story
The Royal Opera will next year premiere a work about the life of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007. The new opera, by British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and writer Richard...
Usa Swimming Sectionals, Minneapolis: Distance Freestyle Center Stage
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 10. THE first night of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Minneapolis, Minn., featured distance freestyle swimming.Black Hawk's Bailey...
Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights To Release National Debut 'pardon Me,' April 27 On F-stop/atlantic Records; Jtnl Is Added To Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Line-up And Is Scheduled To Make Their Late Night Debut On "jimmy Kimmel Live!"
NASHVILLE, TN--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - F-Stop/Atlantic recording artist Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights will release their national debut "PARDON ME" on April 27. The band will...
Standard Parking Lands $2.6m Denver Performing Arts Complex Contract
said Wednesday it recently won the contract to provide parking management services for the city of Denver at the Denver Performing Arts Complex (DPAC). The $2.643 million DPAC contract runs through...
Lepage Double Bill Heads To Toronto
Eonnagata combines exotic techniques — in this case drawn from Japan's Kabuki theatre tradition — in a visual spectacle. The work is created and performed by Lepage, French ballerina Sylvie...
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Breakthrough Puts Bc Cancer Agency Research On World Stage
B.C. Cancer Agency researchers Dr. Randy Gascoyne, left, and Dr. Joseph Connors. The New England Journal of Medicine is saying research as the Hodgkin’s lymphoma “breakthrough we have been...
Greeks Stage Fresh General Strike
Greece is expected to grind to a halt for the second time in a month as hundreds of thousands of state and private workers stage a general strike.The stoppage is in protest at the country's austerity...
Stage Set For Anna Nicole: The Opera
THE life of Playboy centrefold Anna Nicole Smith is to be turned into an opera. The production, co-written by a creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera, will be staged at the Royal Opera House, London,...
Archive And Historical Society Exhibition For Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead performed the last of their more than 2,300 concerts in 1995 and thus belong increasingly to history, not the present. Two related events make that reality clear: a new exhibition about...
Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works By Cunningham, Forsythe And Marin At The Joyce Theater
The Lyon Opera Ballet, which opened its weeklong season at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, is presenting two works by internationally celebrated living...
‘the Nose,’ And The Eye And The Ear, At Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera last week. As well as alchemy involving at least three genres, the new production bridges three centuries. It has been directed and co-designed by the South African...
Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-winning Works By Lutoslawski, Kurtag And Currier
University of Louisville has administered the annual Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, a prize that carries a large purse — the last one was $200,000 — and ample prestige. To...
Film: Yvan Attal At Rendez-vous With French Cinema
Not until he is kidnapped while on his way to work, held for ransom with a 50 million euro asking price and a severed finger is delivered to his family, do the sins of the spoiled corporate honcho in...
Theater Review | 'girls In Trouble': Jonathan Reynolds Views Abortion From Kennedy Era To Now
Laments over a lack of ideological balance in the theater never have seemed to me to be of great concern. The supposed liberal uniformity of our plays is often overstated, and the rules of drama are...
Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber’s Centenary Celebrated At Morgan Library & Museum
Samuel Barber realized the power of his potent Adagio immediately after composing it as the second movement of his Op. 11 String Quartet (the precursor to his version for string orchestra). He then...
Snooki Slept Here. Your Turn.
MTV recently announced that the “Jersey Shore” cast would not return to Seaside Heights, but head to Miami instead. Well, for those wanting to relive the antics of DJ Pauly D and Co. a...
A Futures Site Coming To Bet On Movie Ticket Sales
Think that this spring’s “Robin Hood” movie will be a blockbuster at the box office? Next week you will be able to put your money on...
Does Seacrest Need A Lesson In Fashion Reporting?
Ryan Seacrest , 35, let down the fourth estate — or at least the fashion slice of it — when he failed to ask that question while interviewing many of the arriving celebrities on...
Random | Theatre Review
Genuine punch ... Seroca Davis in Random. Photograph: Johan Persson It is hard to think of a more suitably potent play than Debbie Tucker Green's 2008 knife-crime monologue with which to christen...
Digital Cinema Implementation Partners Invests $660m In Digital Upgrade
. said Wednesday it had completed $660 million in financing to upgrade almost 14,000 theater screens to digital projection systems. In a release, New...
Agriculture key to Nigeria growth plans: Acting leader
Agriculture and manufacturing will make a greater contribution to Nigeria's economic growth in the coming years at it seeks to reduce its dependence on crude oil, Acting President Goodluck...