October 6th, 2011
Après une première saison qui a réuni plus d’un million de téléspectateurs par semaine, l’émission de téléréalité basée sur le poker fait son grand retour chaque lundi à partir du 10 octobre à 23h sur NRJ12, pendant 10 semaines. Cette année, première nouveauté, une émission quotidienne permettra aussi de suivre l’aventure La Maison du Bluff [...]
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March 2nd, 2011
Milano, 22 febbraio 2011 – Si è conclusa nella notte la nona tappa del PokerStars.it Italian Poker Tour Season 2, il più grande torneo itinerante di poker sportivo texas hold’em tutto italiano organizzato da PokerStars.it in collaborazione con PaganoEvents. La tappa maltese dell’IPT, andata in scena al Casinò Portomaso, ha visto presentarsi al via 237 [...]
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October 29th, 2010
U.S. officials say that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a fairly new arm of the umbrella terrorist organization, is behind an apparent plot to send explosive devices to U.S. destinations via cargo planes.
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June 8th, 2009
Over the last four decades, American artist Bruce Nauman has been hugely influential on artists all around the world.
Now, Nauman is the subject of this year’s American pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Of the 33 Naumans on view at the Biennale, there’s only one that captures Nauman at his most disruptive. First shown in 1993, [...]
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June 8th, 2009
The Korean Central News Agency said Monday that the court found the two women guilty of committing an unspecified “grave crime” and illegally crossing into North Korea.
Last Thursday, North Korean state media announced the start of the trial of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for the U.S. media company Current TV.
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January 20th, 2009
As the early numbers pour in, the inauguration of President Barack Obama is shaping up to be a Web video event like no other.
On Jan. 20 CNN.com Live served more than 18.8 million live video streams globally from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, at which time Obama had been sworn in and had delivered [...]
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June 11th, 2008
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to secure a seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, officials said Wednesday.
Brin’s seat will be on a future orbital space flight, Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures Ltd., said at a news conference.
In a statement, Brin credits Space Adventures with helping “open the space frontier to [...]
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September 9th, 2007
Six years after orchestrating the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history, Osama bin Laden resurfaced yesterday in a videotape in which he brags about altering the course of U.S. history and warns that the only way to end the war in Iraq is for Americans to convert to Islam.The 25-minute message marked the first time [...]
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August 28th, 2007
Antonopoulou, 76, cries as she leans on a wall in the gutted remains of her home in the village of Platanos, next to Ancient Olympia in southwestern Greece on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007. Antonopoulou lost 15 of her 20 goat and her house in a massive blaze that swept through the area, forcing the [...]
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August 28th, 2007
Bo Diddley, 78, listens as he is honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts at a ceremony on Feb. 16, 2007, in Jackson, Miss. The 78-year-old singer-guitarist was hospitalized in stable condition after suffering a heart attack, his publicist said Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007.
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August 13th, 2007
An explosion derailed a Russian train travelling between Moscow and St Petersburg on Monday, injuring dozens of passengers, officials said.
Russian Railways said in a statement the blast was caused by “outside action”, suggesting it may not have been a technical fault. No other details were given.
Interfax news agency quoted law enforcement sources as saying a [...]
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