No swimming costumes for APEC leaders photo
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The 21 Asia-Pacific leaders gathering this week in Sydney, a city renowned for its beach lifestyle, can stop pulling in their stomachs -- they will not be forced to wear swimming costumes for the official photograph.
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PYONGYANG, November 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Kim Jong Ilâs portraits were removed from some state offices frequented by foreigners at the initiative of the leadership of the country, an informed source in the Russian embassy in Pyongyang told Tass.
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The first APEC protest was staged in Sydney on Tuesday, hours before U.S. President George W. Bush was due to arrive for a summit of 21 Asia-Pacific leaders, but police and media far outnumbered activists.
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Jason Lezak, fastest man in the world  this year, and Ian Crocker were eliminated in the heats of the  100 meters freestyle on Tuesday, leaving the United States  without an Olympic finalist in the event for the first time,  barring the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games and an open-water duel  between an Austrian and a Hungarian in 1896.
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U.S. House officials, in rebuffing efforts by Florida investigators to access former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's congressional computers, said they found no sexually explicit photos
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A Sports Illustrated spokesman has confirmed that the swimsuit issue was withheld from about 21,000 subscribers identified as âlibraries or classrooms.â
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North Korea has denied reports that portraits of its unpredictable leader have been removed from some public spaces. The reported removals have sparked speculation about changes in the power
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No black helicopters here, says printer outfit
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Business & money: Fashion label Tommy Hilfiger has abandoned plans for a Â£1.5bn stock market float in Amsterdam
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A rickshaw passes a picture of King Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Monineath outside the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photo: AP.
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Animated footage promoting the logo for  the 2012 London Olympic Games was removed from the organizers&#39;  Web site on Tuesday amid concern it could trigger epileptic  fits.
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Japanese officials, arriving in Washington on Thursday for a historic meeting between the Group of Seven (G7) nations and China, distanced themselves from US demands for a review of China&#39;s currency policy.
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Leaders at an Asia-Pacific summit appeared deadlocked on Thursday over what their "Sydney declaration" on climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions should say.
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The controversial new logo for the 2012 Olympic Games has been removed from the organisers&#39; website after a warning that the moving images could trigger epileptic seizures.
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Blog: Press photographers aren't happy with a new NFL rule that will require them to wear vests with Canon and Reebok logos.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- FINA, the swimming&#39;s world governing body, has rejected protest from national federations of Britain and Austria over American Aaron Peirsol&#39;s reinstatement after he was disqualified in the 200m backstroke final at the ...
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Hong Kong's government has urged residents not to eat seafood from tsunami-affected areas as they may be tainted, but experts brushed off such fears on Wednesday, saying the effects of the catastrophe on fish were minimal.