World's Tallest Man Saves China Dolphins
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BEIJING - The world's tallest man saved two dolphins in northeast China by reaching inside of them with his 3-foot arms to remove plastic they had swallowed, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.
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Liu Xiang became the first man from China to win an Olympic athletics gold medal here Friday after scorching to victory in the menâs 110 metres hurdles with a world record-equalling time.
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An Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin that was dumped into a small lagoon by the Asian tsunami was returned to the Andaman Sea on Wednesday after three rescue attempts &#151; a rare story of survival 10 days after the massive disaster.
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Weighing in at 150 pounds or more, the all-time biggest bird couldn't just hop into the air and fly away, researchers say.
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French President Jacques Chirac has inaugurated a new bridge, hailed as the tallest in the world. The bridge, celebrated as a work of art and an object of French national pride, is 1,125 feet high, making it taller than the Eiffel Tower.
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Dorset sanctuary saves 88 monkeys from confinement in world's biggest rescue mission of its kind
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France's Alain Robert, renowned for climbing the world's tallest buildings, wasn't going to let 15 days in a Chinese jail deter him from an attempt at scaling China's tallest building.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man jumped into the lions&#39; enclosure at the Taipei Zoo and shouted &quot;Jesus will save you&quot; before being bitten Wednesday.
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Move over Rover, let Flipper take over. News from New Zealand suggests man&#39;s best friend is in fact the bottlenose dolphin. It emerged yesterday that four swimmers were saved from a great white shark by a
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Sun sets on 'Pornographic Summer' A Chinese web pornographer who founded the country's "largest pornography website" has been sentenced to life imprisonment, Reuters reports.â¦
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A frame grab from video shows a lion attacking a man who jumped into the animal&#39;s enclosure and shouted &quot;Jesus will save you&quot; Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004, at the Taipei Zoo, in Taipei, Taiwan.
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world was inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac in southern France -- a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists at 270 metres (885 feet) above the valley of the river Tarn.
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 13 -- For millions of years, the Chinese river dolphin  basked in the waters of the mighty Yangtze, a gray phantom more than six feet long with a sharp snout and tiny eyes. The endearing creature, which the Chinese call baiji, was the stuff of legend, a goddess to some, and the...
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An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.
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MILLAU, France  - As air force jets screamed overhead, French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world&#39;s tallest bridge, a stunning masterpiece of engineering that will carry drivers 270 metres (885 feet) above ground.
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Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building since July, has also become the tallest free-standing structure on earth, reaching 1,822 feet, the developers said.
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A lifeguard and group of children were saved from a potential shark attack by a pod of circling dolphins which formed a protective shield, the swimmers claim.