US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, a senior official said on Friday.
Hillary Clinton delivered a ringing call for Democratic Party unity on Tuesday, promising to work for Barack Obama.
United States Democrats on Monday worked to unite the party for its convention to nominate presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency unveiled details of the voluntary pilot programme it hopes will improve the accuracy of doping tests. The programme will profile the body chemistry of 12 participating athletes using a series of blood and urine tests, and those measurements will be used as a baseline for subsequent tests.
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/ 26 September 2007
The head of African miner Randgold Resources on Tuesday said net profit in its third and fourth quarters should be in line with the first-quarter level, citing higher bullion prices. Randgold, whose gold mines are mostly based in West Africa, posted first-quarter net profit of ,7-million.
Mother Teresa’s hidden faith struggle, laid bare in a new book that shows she felt alone and separated from God, is forcing a re-examination of one of the world’s best-known religious figures. Roman Catholic scholars argue that her struggles make her more accessible and her work all the more remarkable.
A former amateur mountain bike racer from Boulder, Colorado, has accused Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen of trying to trick him into carrying illicit doping materials into Italy five years ago. Whitney Richards said Rasmussen asked him to carry a pair of cycling shoes in March 2002 when Richards was moving to Italy.
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/ 3 November 2006
A top leader of the powerful United States evangelical movement and outspoken opponent of gay marriage with close White House links has stepped down from his positions following allegations he paid for sex with a male prostitute. Ted Haggard had been president of the 30-million-strong National Association of Evangelicals.
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/ 28 September 2006
A gunman who held two girls hostage and shot one of them at a Colorado high school on Wednesday was killed by police who stormed the classroom building where he was barricaded, police said. The man shot and critically wounded one of the two students he had held hostage at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, state police spokesperson Lance Clem said.
Justin Gatlin said on Friday he has ”no idea how any banned substance got into my body,” and restated his plan to appeal the eight-year ban from track he received earlier this week after acknowledging he tested positive for doping. The Olympic and world champion in the 100m reiterated his disdain for cheating in a sport that has been wracked with doping issues.
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/ 23 September 2005
It sounds like a great idea: Let’s just blast hurricanes like Rita and Katrina out of the sky before they hurt more people. Or, at least weaken the storms and steer them away from cities. Atmospheric scientists say it’s wishful thinking that we could destroy or even influence something as huge and powerful as a hurricane.
South Africa’s Retief Goosen scored 32 points to capture his first PGA Tour title this year by winning the International. After rain postponed Thursday’s first round, 63 players were to take the course for the final two rounds on Sunday. There normally was a second cut where the field is reduced to the top 36 players and ties, but in an effort to play 36 holes, there was no third-round cut.
The religious groups that had pleaded with government officials to keep a severely brain-damaged woman alive in Florida are now vowing to push for stricter legal standards when it comes to denying life-sustaining measures to ailing patients. They believe Schiavo’s death could spark off a moral tsunami engulfing other families in similar situations.
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/ 21 February 2005
Hunter S Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularised a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself on Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67. ”Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family,” Juan Thompson said in a statement.
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/ 16 September 2004
More than 130 years after Alfred Packer ate his five companions to survive a Colorado winter, a museum curator is making a case that the notorious cannibal was innocent of murder. Packer was convicted of murdering the five men — all prospectors he was guiding — but always insisted he had killed only one of them.
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/ 16 February 2004
As Clela Rorex sits back and watches the national debate unfold over same-sex marriage, she smiles. She’s seen it all before. After all, the former Boulder County clerk and recorder issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples back in 1975.
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/ 25 October 2003
A geomagnetic storm spawned by a giant eruption of gas on the sun has reached the Earth’s upper atmosphere, interfering with high-frequency airline communications but causing no major problems so far. Power companies were taking precautions to avoid voltage problems and blackouts.
Coal seam fires that can burn underground for centuries pose a major threat to the environment and human health, experts say. Once under way they can be impossible to put out, raging for decades or even centuries.
The US Forest Service said on Sunday it has arrested one of its own for setting one of several wildfires that have ravaged the western state of Colorado for the past several days, forcing thousands to flee their homes.
With little ceremony, firefighters stopped the spread of the largest wildfire in Colorado’s history that at one point crept within a few kilometres of the city’s southern suburbs.
ARMGold, a South African gold miner that went public in Johannesburg in May, intends to float an offering of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) early next year, Executive Chairman Patrice Motsepe said Wednesday.