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 Stars bring poker faces to Las Vegas for charityCelebrities turned out Wednesday to donate to Darfur charities - and to show their fellow stars just who the real card sharks were.
Fireworks, acrobats to highlight Olympics opening
Lavish fireworks, colorful dancing by ethnic groups and performances portraying 5,000 years of Chinese history are among the highlights of the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony, state media reported Wednesday.  Zimbabwe opposition leader hemmed in, options fewThe two paths of Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai are telling: Mugabe, newly sworn in as Zimbabwe's president again, is at a summit of African leaders while the opposition leader holes up in a Western embassy in Zimbabwe's capital.
Japan to send military mission to Sudan to help UN
Japan will send military personnel to Sudan to join U.N. peacekeeping operations in the country's first military dispatch to the African nation, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday.  France's Nicolas and Carla assume Europe's throneFrance's first lady sings in English and dreams in Italian, and the president's roots reach to Hungary and Greece. Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy could be a metaphor for a harmonious, borderless Europe.
Olympic trials scene reflects character of town
It was back in the 1960s when what has since been known as the "granola curtain" came ringing down around this quiet campus town, trapping within it a tradition of activism, political correctness, environmental concerns, easy outrage and today's "green" everything.
Mission work is central to Ohio congregation
It is not that Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church sits in the middle of a Midwestern cornfield that makes it notable. Nor even that its pastor preaches in jeans and sandals to a working-class congregation sipping coffee in shorts and T-shirts.
UN's envoy to Darfur Eliasson to resign
The top U.N. envoy to Darfur is resigning to make room for a new full-time chief negotiator, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
China: Media, organizations distorting Darfur
China's special envoy to Darfur accused some Western media and organizations of distorting Beijing's role in the war-torn Sudanese region, saying Thursday that China was actively working for a diplomatic solution.
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