The Olympic torch was held aloft Monday at the Giant's Causeway, the spectacular coastal rock formation, the highlight of its journey across Northern Ireland. full story ![]()
The Sochi 2014 Organising Committee presented the designs for the Olympic torch and the uniforms to be worn on the relay of Olympic and Paralympic flame in Moscow on Monday.
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Russian astronauts will take an unlit Olympic torch on a space walk ahead of the country's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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The torch is expected to be carried into orbit by a crew led by Mikhail Tyurin and handed over to Yurchikhin's crew, who will return it to Earth on November 12, after a space walk with the torch is performed.
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England's largest local councils spent more than £6 million hosting the Olympic Torch for last year's Games, figures published on the one-year anniversary of the start of the relay show.
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Russian cosmonauts could take an unlit Olympic torch aboard the International Space Station as part of the relay route for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, expedition commander Fyodor Yurchikhin said on Wednesday.
rian.ru (1 month and 11 days ago)
Accuweather.com is predicting that the Northern Lights may be visible as far south as Pennsylvania tonight.Also called the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights are an electro-magnetic phenomena that paints the sky in pastel colors and usually can onl...
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- The Northern Ireland border village of Belcoo has never looked so good. And critics say that's just the problem....
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - The Northern Ireland border village of Belcoo has never looked so good. And critics say that's just the problem.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - The Northern Ireland border village of Belcoo has never looked so good. And critics say that's just the problem.
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ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is gambling that the remnants of the Irish Republican Army are too weak to trouble the world's most powerful leaders when they meet five miles from the scene of one of the worst killings in Northern Ireland's recent history.
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