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Venus Williams and Roger Federer go into Wimbledon seeking singles title number six at the All England Club and casting aside any thoughts of retirement. Venus is third seed behind world number one Dinara Safina and her sister Serena, but is bidding for a hat-trick on her favorite grass
Rafael Nadal has not given up on defending his Wimbledon crown and will travel to London next week as he battles persistent knee problems. The world number one has undergone two days of medical tests in Barcelona amid fears he would be forced to miss the grass court grand slam.
Roger Federer says he has no intention of hanging up his tennis racket any time soon and has targeted the 2012 London Olympics which will be held on the grass of Wimbledon.
Quentin Tarantino didn’t give himself any breaks while making his latest film "Inglourious Basterds," which premiered at Cannes this week. The 46 year-old director transformed the WWII wartime-thriller-cum-spaghetti-western from script to finished product in just eight months, he told CNN’s The Screening Room, so that it would be ready to show at the prestigious film festival
Michael Phelps — the Olympic gold-medal swimmer who jumped into hot water over a photo of him holding a bong — has returned to competition for the first time since the Beijing Olympics. Suspended for three months from organized competitive swimming after a photo of him holding a bong — a device commonly used to smoke marijuana — surfaced in February, Phelps dived back into the public eye at the Charlotte UltraSwim in North Carolina, a meet that runs from Thursday to Sunday
Liu Yan, regarded as China’s top classical dancer, was to give the performance of a lifetime: She was to dance a solo at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
"Global declines in press freedom" persisted last year, with setbacks highlighted in Israel, Italy, Taiwan, Hong Kong and elsewhere across the world, an annual survey said Friday.
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