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Eurovision in Athens on Saturday night The 51st Eurovision song contest will be held at OAKA's Olympic indoor hall in Athens on Saturday night and will be broadcast live at 10 p.m. by state-run NET television station. Thousands of specators saw the rehearsals at the indoor hall and applauded all the participants, especially Greece's Anna Vissi who will sing "Everything". The ten countries which qualified in Thursday night's semi-final were Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lithuania, Finland, Ukraine, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey and Armenia. Cyprus and Belgium, among others, were knocked out of the competition. The ten best...

Go to this link to see photos of how Islam deals with kids who steal bread. This is gruesome so be advised that it may make you sick at heart and stomach. Link http://www.haber3.com/haber.php?haber_id=102544 12 Mayýs 2006 17:42 Malum Ýran nükleer enerji meselesinden ötürü gündemden hiç düþmediðinden, bu görüntülere ilgi daha da büyük oluyor. Ancak bu arada, adamýn elinde mikrofon olmasýndan, çocuðun hiç direnmemesinden, kolunun altýndaki bezden ve þeriat kulallarýna göre elin kesilmesi gerekirken ezilmesinden þüphelenen birkaç kiþi konunun üzerinde duruyor. Önce Ýnternet'te basit bir arama yaparak ayný çocuðun baþýný iki elinin fotograflarda imzasý olan gazete ve fotografçýya ulaþýlýyor.Ýranlý fotografçý...

Quotes from early reviews of "The DaVinci Code" at Cannes:"CANNES, France - "The Da Vinci Code" drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs Tuesday from arguably the world's toughest movie crowd: critics at the Cannes Film Festival.""One especially melodramatic line uttered by Hanks drew prolonged laughter and some catcalls, and the audience continued to titter for much of the film's remainder. Some people walked out during the movie's closing minutes, though there were fewer departures than many Cannes movies provoke among harsh critics. When the credits rolled, there were a few whistles and...

Hillary Clinton may be the preferred leader of the free world, but her husband still rules the globe. Michael Gawenda reports. THERE are few truly magical moments in politics in the United States and in recent times, such moments, rare as they have been, have all involved Bill Clinton. The man whose presidency at the end was mired in a tawdry sex scandal has transcended the bitter divisions of American politics to emerge, in retirement, as the best-loved politician in the country. Perhaps even the world. Everywhere he goes - and he seems to go everywhere - the Clinton magic...

I get angrier everytime I watch this. Almost 2,200,000 views on Youtube.com

“Inconceivable” was Unpardonable ! In an effort to placate my wife – who insists : “ You never want to watch the shows I watch !” – I watched the new drama (or whatever it is) called “ Inconceivable”. The setting is an upscale, cutting-edge fertility clinic ; and the viewer is introduced to surrogate mothers who change their minds (thankfully before impregnation) , couples seeking eugenically superior “designer babies” , and a clinic worker who is surreptitiously changing the label on a specimen. There is a lawsuit – filed by a couple who are unhappy with the baby the...

Swaziland (Reuters) -- More than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become the king of Swaziland's 13th wife Monday in a ceremony that critics say ill befits a country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS rate. King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, is due to attend the annual Reed Dance ceremony, which he has used since 1999 to pluck new brides from thousands of dancing girls dressed in little more than beads and traditional skirts. Clad in short beaded skirts and colorful tasseled scarves and carrying machetes, the girls sang tributes to the king while marching around the royal stadium...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

What is the worst gift you have ever received? This morning I opened mine...a white porcelain mouthwash dispenser. It was bad enough having one in the family, but my parents were lucky enough to get their own. My Worst Gift

Sex is "fulfilling," masturbation is "difficult to resist" and Mary Magdalene "had something of a dodgy past". A new "youth Bible" which talks frankly about pornography and lust has been condemned by traditionalists for "dumbing down the message of salvation". The Contemporary English Version Youth Bible, jointly published by The Bible Society and Collins - which also publishes more traditional versions of The Bible - is written in modern idiom and includes a number of extra passages penned by contemporary authors on "youth issues". The passage on pornography advises teenagers "to avoid the top shelf of the newsagents, [and] pray...

THE KEY to understanding Bill Clinton is to realise that he is a classical narcissist — a person who has no internalised self-image and must derive his feelings about who he is from the views and opinions of those around him. Perpetually in search of human mirrors who can reflect back to him a positive image of himself, he has chosen an occupation replete with men and women who are characterised by this disorder. Only in Hollywood and the theatre are more narcissists to be found than in politics. Indeed, Mr Clinton chose politics as his profession because it offered...

Alabama Woman Wins Worst Writing Award Thu Jul 17, 9:45 AM ET By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. - A lizard lover from Alabama won an annual contest celebrating bad writing with a ghastly simile comparing doomed romance to processed cheese. Mariann Simms of Wetumpka, Ala., won $250 in the 22nd Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a parody honoring the writer of the worst beginning to an imaginary novel. "They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white, the orange probably being...

Cannabis poses a greater threat to health than tobacco, lung experts have warned. The warning comes on the day that Home Secretary David Blunkett is due to make a Commons statement about the future of government drug policy. Many young people are simply not aware that smoking cannabis may put them at increased risk of respiratory cancers and infections . Dame Helena Shovelton: The Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended that cannabis is downgraded from a class B drug to class C. This would mean that possession would lead to a caution, rather than arrest. The British Lung Foundation is...

No, this is awful! I don't know where anything is anymore! Where are the sidebars? I used to go straight to them to find out what was going on.