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The International Olympic Committee agreed Tuesday to allow Iraq to participate in the Beijing games, reversing itself after Baghdad pledged to ensure the independence of its national Olympics panel. The ...

London, July 30 (ANI): Female hockey players from Britain are to wear red contact lenses to beat the smog in Beijing during next month’’s Olympics. The pollution is likely to ...

Lausanne (Switzerland), July 30 (Xinhua) Iraq will compete at the Beijing Olympics in August after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) lifted the ban on the strife-torn nation. On Tuesday, the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Suggestions that some athletes would wear anti-pollution masks at the Beijing Olympics were exaggerated, mean reporting by the foreign media, China's Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. ...

Radcliffe's preperations were hampeed by a stress fracture of the femur suffered just over two months ago, casting doubt over the world record holder's participation at the Games. At the ...

SEATED at a rickety table, saltshaker poised above a bowl of delicate chicken-and-ginseng soup, the young Taiwanese woman considered a question: why not use soy sauce? Everything tastes different in ...

INDIANAPOLIS - Raj Bhavsar is finally on his way to the Olympics, thanks to Paul Hamm. Bhavsar was chosen to replace Hamm, who withdrew from the Beijing Games earlier Monday ...

It is ten days until the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing and Amnesty International is worried China will fail to deliver on human rights promises it made. Hurricanes ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) _ The International Olympic Committee agreed Tuesday to allow Iraq to participate in the Beijing games, reversing itself after Baghdad pledged to ensure the independence of its ...

BEIJING (AP) ― Just over a week before the Beijing Olympics, a militant Islamic group's claims of responsibility for bombings in China have fueled unease about security. The government has ...