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“Tropic Thunder,” Ben Stiller’s extravaganza of a Hollywood satire, couldn’t be any more “inside-baseball” if it contained references to the infield fly rule and Rule 5 draft picks.

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An activist group says up to eight pro-Tibet protesters have been detained by Chinese police near an Olympics venue.

Rights group Students for a Free Tibet says two of their members hung a banner that said Free Tibet in the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park near the National Stadium in Beijing.

The group says another five or six members handcuffed themselves to each other and bicycles at ...

BEIJING (AP) - An activist group says up to eight pro-Tibet protesters have been detained by police near an Olympics venue.

Rights group Students for a Free Tibet says 2 of their members hung a banner that said "Free Tibet" in the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park near the National Stadium.

The group says another five or six members handcuffed themselves together and to bicycles at the fr...

Foreign archaeologists who have been working on archaeological excavations in Turkey for many years have started to make Turkish culture a part of their lives.

British couple Geoffrey and Fran�oise Summers have been working on excavations in the central Anatolian city of Yozgat's Sorgun district. Their children, Natali, 18, and Pamela, 16, were born in Turkey, and are very happy with the...

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Fredericton Liberal MP Andy Scott said when he was first elected in 1993 his office dealt with two or three immigration cases a year.

"We are estimating this year we will do probably 140," he said in an interview Tuesday. "We are doing on average seven new files a week.

Doug Motty, ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama linked the level of a country's development to the way women are treated in an interview to appear in the US edition of the monthly woman's magazine Marie-Claire.

"The best indicator of how a country is going to develop is how it treats its women and whether it educates its girls," Obama told Marie-Claire. The undate...

TORONTO, Aug. 13 /CNW/ - Organizers of the Sobey Art Award presented byScotiabank today announced that starting in 2008 each of the four runners upfor the Award will receive a prize of $5,000. This increase is an addition ofthe $50,000 presented to the winner of the Sobey Art Award. The Exhibition of shortlisted artists for the 2008 Sobey Art Awardpresented by Scotiabank will be open to the pub...

Up to eight Tibet activists who staged a protest Wednesday nearthe main Olympics venue and a British television journalist who wasnearby were detained by police, a rights group and a TV producersaid.

The New York-based Students for a Free Tibet said two of theirmembers hung a banner that said "Free Tibet" on a bridgein the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, south of the NationalStadium.

A...

An International Olympic Committee official on Wednesday defended the last-minute decision to pull a 7-year-old singer out of the Opening Ceremonies last Friday in favor of a cuter 9-year-old, who lip-synched a song sung by the girl deemed not cute enough.

As word spread that a China government official ordered the switch during a live rehearsal before the Opening Ceremonies, insisting th...

Senator Gerald J. Comeau, on behalf of the Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women and Minister for La Francophonie, today announced funding for the Carrefour de l'Isle Saint-Jean.

Funding of $15,000 will help commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Deportation of the Acadians from Prince Edward Island. This event will take place from August 15 ...

URUMQI, China (AP) — China said Wednesday that some evidence suggests terrorist groups may have been involved in a series of attacks in the Muslim territory of Xinjiang, far from the Olympics in Beijing.

Since the assaults began nine days ago, killing 31 people, authorities have been playing down the possible connection with terror groups that may be operating in Xinjiang, a sprawl...

You should hate these people, really, these smug American yuppies chatting gaily about golf, tennis and boating over red wine on a sun-splashed Spanish afternoon.

You're also free to abhor the painters, poets and musicians who populate Barcelona and spend their bohemian days idly debating the merits of love and art - when they're not wrapped up in making them both, that is.

Someho...

This movie-within-a-movie is certainly his most ambitious production as a director and it contains some of the biggest belly laughs of his career. But while it blends comedy and action sequences far more skillfully and seamlessly than this summer’s “Pineapple Express,” which shifted from one genre to the other, the endeavor winds up feeling overwrought and repetitive.

Stiller produc...

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A political strategist tied to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal is helping raise money for John McCain, urging his fellow Georgia Republicans to attend a fundraiser for the presidential candidate in Atlanta.

Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coalition, touted himself as a member of McCain's "Victory 2008 Team" in an e-mail that solicited ...

Art-Speak's Overnight Art partners with Izzy's Frozen Yogurt & Ice Cream for "meet the artists" event Sept. 6

In celebration of its summer-long Overnight Art event, Art-Speak will hold a "Meet the Artist" event on Saturday, Sept. 6 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. During this time, the six Overnight Art artists will be stationed by their outdoor art pieces to answer questions from the public.

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The cartoon images have shown Russia as an angry bear, stretching out a claw to maul Georgia. Russia is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The story has all the ingredients for a good conspiracy theory: a killer germ created in a secret government lab, a government on the brink of war, a murder investigation with unanswered questions and a suspect who committed suicide before he could be charged.

The Justice Department considers the 2001 anthrax attacks solved, but for skeptics and conspiracy theoris...

VANCOUVER — Mothers who want to bond with their newborn babies will no longer be able to do that in a British Columbia jail.

Corrections B.C. has cancelled a plan that allowed pregnant inmates to keep their babies with them while they served time. Now, babies born to jailed moms will go to a relative or be placed in foster care.

The change, apparently for safety reasons, ange...

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South African Tourism and the Hoxton Apprentice have given ten chefs the chance to learn about African cuisine.

The Northwest of England has a reputation as a hotbed of sport, but 2008 is set to be a year to remember.

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