WHISTLER – A photographer caused a delay during a crucial moment of the women’s luge competition on Tuesday when he accidentally knelt on a switch that sent water spurting on to the track.
Germany’s bronze medallist Natalie Geisenberger was just about to push off for her fourth run down the Whistler course when a red warning [...]

TORONTO – For tech-savvy singles who are unlucky in love, shy or just looking for a new way to meet people, Flitter could be the answer.
Hundreds of singles attended the first Flitter parties across the Canada last week in the latest dating game which is a play on words of the microblogging site Twitter and [...]

The artists form a defensive wall with their bodies in front of a studio slated for demolition.
They wrap themselves in quilts to seal out the bitter winter winds as they stand in formation, ready to protect their turf.
The scene is part of the performance Resolution in 008 Art Zone. The area is the second stop [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Angelina Jolie visited earthquake victims in Haiti on Tuesday in her latest trip to help survivors of conflict and natural disaster as a goodwill envoy for a United Nations agency.
Jolie, 34, who has been a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR since early 2001, traveled to quake-shattered Port-au-Prince after visiting injured [...]

LOS ANGELES – Tom Cruise is starring in another impossible mission.
Paramount Pictures announced Tuesday that Cruise will be back in front of the camera for “Mission: Impossible IV,” due in theaters over Memorial Day weekend in 2011.
Cruise and “Mission: Impossible III” director J.J. Abrams previously agreed to produce a fourth movie in the action franchise. [...]

Jim Carrey says ”every day is Valentine’s Day” with his girlfriend Jenny McCarthy, who he has been dating for around four years.
Jim Carrey says “every day is Valentine’s Day” with girlfriend Jenny McCarthy.
The ‘Yes Man’ actor feels more comfortable in his four-year relationship with the former Playboy model than in any other romance he’s ever [...]

ROME: Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho faces a disciplinary hearing for his outburst after Sunday’s Milan derby, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) said on Tuesday.
Mourinho said that “everything was done for us not to win this match” after beating second-placed AC Milan 2-0 despite having two players sent off to go nine points clear at [...]

BEIJING: Several high-ranking officials of China’s soccer association have been detained amid probe into matchfixing in soccer games, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said Wednesday.
Nan Yong and Yang Yimin, vice chairmen of the Chinese Football Association, and Zhang Jianqiang, former director of the association’s referee committee, were detained according to the law, the MPS [...]

When Li Na smashed a forehand winner to wrap up a 2-hr-47-min quarterfinal tussle at the Australian Open yesterday, a new chapter of Chinese tennis history was written.
With a 2-6, 7-6(4), 7-5 upset of seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams, Li made it to the semifinals at Melbourne Park, a day after compatriot Zheng Jie’s [...]