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Convicts get a chance to serve God

Monday March 15 2010

Convicts in Georgia can now serve their time working for the Georgian Orthodox Church.

Georgians panicked by invasion spoof

Monday March 15 2010

Millions of Georgians wrongly thought their country was being invaded after a spoof prime-time news broadcast showed Russian tanks heading towards the capital Tbilisi and said the president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had been killed.

Winter Olympics: Bobsleigh pair eager to rise above row

Tuesday February 23 2010

IRELAND'S women's bobsleigh team will finally get to push off in Canada in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Irish team chief: 'Bobsleigh death track is too fast'

Monday February 15 2010

THE leader of Ireland's Winter Olympics team believes the ice track on which her sister will compete in the bobsleigh event is "simply too fast".

Olympics: Vancouver ceremony strikes fittingly sombre note

Sunday February 14 2010

The Winter Olympics? Me neither. It's hard enough getting worked up about a summer Olympics in this day and age.

Russian military doctrine 'does not reflect reality'

Sunday February 07 2010

NATO said yesterday that a new Russian military doctrine identifying Nato expansion as a threat did not reflect the real world and undermined efforts to improve ties between the western military alliance and Moscow.

Melua 'fine' after diving fright

Thursday December 03 2009

Singer Katie Melua is "absolutely fine" after her breathing apparatus failed while she was diving, a spokeswoman for the star has said.

from armenia to galway, i love the tootin' flute...

Saturday November 14 2009

Shoes off, radio on, the weekend supplements strewn around me, it was the whirling flute that caught my ear. The tune was familiar, as attractive as ever, but there was something unusual about it. Leading the orchestra with its exuberant flights into the upper register, punctuated by a subtle shift into the calm of a lilting counterpoint, this was music that suited the woodwind to a tee. But I still couldn't place it.

conductor scores perfect 10 for his mentoring skills

Saturday October 03 2009

Every artistic arena has its stars, and they come from all the various areas of activity. In soccer, we love a number 10; but Pele, Maradona, or even Wayne Rooney wouldn't get by if there wasn't a significant defender or a top goalkeeper involved as well. So it is in music. From James Galway on the flute to Maxim Vengerov on the violin, from Alfred Brendel -- recently retired from public performance on the piano -- to the sublime cello-playing of Yo-Yo Ma, they've been the musical equivalent of the players whose replica shirts have sold the best. Music, unlike football, does not depend upon men alone. If I was compiling a league table, I'd be in difficulty. Helene Grimaud is one of my favourite pianists. I could listen all day to Anne Gastinel on her cello, and nobody has brought more to the Mozart violin concertos than Anne-Sophie Mutter. But just like in sport the great performers need a manager, for want of a better word, and that's where Valery Gergiev fits in.

Putin eyes up Kremlin again

Saturday September 12 2009

Vladimir Putin has given his strongest hint yet that he is considering a return to the Kremlin, a move that could allow the Russian leader to stay in power until 2024.

Lippi feeling strain ahead of precarious Georgia test

Saturday September 05 2009

World champions Italy come into tonight's match against Georgia in Tiblisi as a team whose search for an identity is just as important as the points that would help the Azzurri along the road to the World Cup finals in South Africa next summer.