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• Sports car sent to Britain from Gulf 'for service'

  - 2008-07-31

  LONDON AFP — A high-powered Lamborghini sports car was sent on a 6,500-mile (10,460-kilomtre) round-trip to Britain simply to have a service, sparking fury from environmentalists, The Sun newspaper said Thursday. The 190,000-pound (241,000-euro, 376,000-dollar) black and gold car was put on a regular Qatar Airways flight to London's...

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• Sun Jihai signs for Blades

  - 2008-07-02

  SHEFFIELD, England AFP — China international Sun Jihai has joined Sheffield United from Premier League side Manchester City, the English Championship club announced Wednesday. The 30-year-old defender will arrive at Bramall Lane on a free transfer on a two-year deal after reaching the end of his contract with City,...

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• Solar System is egg-shaped, scientists find

  - 2008-07-02

  PARIS AFP — Millions of textbooks depicting our Solar System as spherical have got it all wrong, according to studies of data sent back from deep space by NASA's venerable probe, Voyager 2. The Sun's zone of influence -- called the heliosphere -- turns out to be seriously asymmetrical,...

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• China's Liu Xiang in doubt for last pre-Games race -- coach

  - 2008-06-04

  BEIJING AFP — China's 110m hurdles world champion Liu Xiang is a doubt for Sunday's Prefontaine Classic in the United States, his last race before the Beijing Olympics, his coach said. Speaking in Eugene, Oregon, where the Chinese Olympic champion is training, coach Sun Haiping said that Liu had...

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• China in emergency vaccination drive in quake-hit areas

  - 2008-05-27

  BEIJING AFP — China said Tuesday it would provide mass emergency vaccinations in quake-hit areas to curb potential epidemics, but reported no major disease outbreaks so far. "By June 15, emergency inoculation of vulnerable people will be completed including vaccines against Hepatitis A and Encephalitis B," Sun Jiahai, a...

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• Hong Kong giant Sun Hung Kai ousts chairman after feud

  - 2008-05-26

  HONG KONG AFP — Hong Kong's largest property firm Sun Hung Kai said Tuesday it had ousted Walter Kwok as its chairman, replacing him with his 79-year-old mother after a high-profile feud at the family-run firm. "The board announces that Walter Kwok has ceased to be the chairman and...

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• Slow starting gun worries China's Liu: coach

  - 2008-05-25

  BEIJING AFP — China's world champion hurdler Liu Xiang false-started twice at a pre-Olympic event here last week because Chinese officials are too slow with the starting gun, his coach Sun Haiping said. "International race starters and Chinese race starters are not the same when it comes to firing...

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• Chairman of Hong Kong property giant loses legal battle

  - 2008-05-23

  HONG KONG AFP — The chairman of one of the world's largest property firms lost his legal battle against his brothers on Friday, the latest twist in a long-running feud that could result in his ouster. A High Court judge in Hong Kong turned down an application from Walter...

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• Sun screen lotion threatens coral: study

  - 2008-05-23

  PARIS AFP — Sun screen lotions used by beach-going tourists worldwide are a major cause of coral bleaching, according to a new study commissioned by the European Commission. In experiments, the cream-based ultra-violet UV filters -- used to protect skin from the harmful effects of sun exposure -- caused...

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• Olympic torch relay scaled down after China quake

  - 2008-05-13

  BEIJING AFP — The Beijing Olympic torch relay will be scaled down in the wake of the devastating earthquake that hit China, a spokesman for the Games organising committee BOCOG told AFP Tuesday. Committee spokesman Sun Weide said that, starting from Wednesday's leg in the eastern province of Jianxi,...

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