I wanna talk about supporting Coventry City, the team Ive supported since I was a young boy at school. Coventry City are a team from the West Midlands near Birmingham where I grew up and just to give a bit of background on the club, it was founded ba

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Low-Lying Areas of New York City Suffer Flooding Sounds of sump pumps fill the air in low-lying areas of New York City. Don, a water systems professional in Brooklyn, has been on the job, pumping out basements since before dawn. He says the worst flo

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Paul Simon's 'Live in New York City' Chock Full of Fan Favorites Live In New York City, is a two CD/one DVD set that captures Simon, still rhymin, at 70. The disc live set opens with The Obvious Child, a song Simon hadnt played live on stage for year

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The Canadian City of Vancouver is set to deliver a formal apology later on this month for past discrimination against residents of Chinese heritage. On April 22, Mayor Gregor Robertson will deliver the apology in Chinatown to acknowledge the wrongdoi

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I'm moving to New York, she said. Will you come with me or not? She loved New York. She loved the subways. She loved the buses. She could walk or take a taxi anywhere. She didn't have to drive anywhere. No more driving, like in Los Angeles. She hated

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 27 December 2007 Voting is under way in Mombasa, Kenya's second city and its main port. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA, the situation has been largely calm, despite delays in the opening of some polling stations. The normally

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By Roger Hsu New York City 22 February 2007 watch Hello Deli report New York City is known for many famous landmarks: The Empire State building, the Statue of Liberty, and Times Square. Amid all the hustle and bustle of the city is another landmark

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Social Scientists Rethink Role of City Big cities are vibrant hubs for culture and industry, or dirty, congested, impersonal crime-ridden warrens. As the world population surpasses seven billion, economists, environmentalists and social scientists ar

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Alabama City Remembered for Climactic Battle of Civil Rights Movement Weeks after a hurricane delayed the dedication of a new national memorial to the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., President Obama will lead the ceremonies on Sunday

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New York City Studies Response to Rising Seas When Hurricane Sandy struck last October, New York got a taste of what its future could be. One Brooklyn youngster, Jerry Gonzalez, was in the midst of it. The water was up to half of the door, and then w

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Raqqa in Syria. For the past three years, it's been known as the defacto capital of the Islamic State. Coalition forces have begun a drive to force ISIS out of that city. And for years, ISIS has tried to make sure that wha

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By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 12 July 2007 New York has joined the growing list of cities urging Americans to stop buying bottled water.The city recently launched an advertising campaign asking people to trade their bottled water for ordinary tap w

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By Yi Suli Boston, Massachusetts 12 April 2007 Watch Dancing report The northeastern U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts, is a city rich in culture from its prominent professional theater companies to its world-renowned Boston Symphony Orchestra. Les

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By Phil Mercer Tamworth, Australia 15 January 2007 Australia's most-famous musical town, Tamworth, is beset by a dispute over the city council's decision to reject refugees from Sudan. City councilors have voted down a request by the Department of I

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Haitian Americans Unhappy With Haitian Government's Response To Earthquake Hundreds of thousands of people fled the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince after the city was devastated by an earthquake nearly one month ago. At least 35,000 headed north to

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By Kane Farabaugh New York City, NY 12 September 2006 watch NYC Sept 11 Anniversary Family and friends gathered in New York to honor loved ones Families and friends of 9/11 victims in New York gathered at the base of the World Trade Center site Mond

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Tanya: Weve been here for three days and Im still getting lost. Darren: Heres a map. These are the residential neighborhoods. See? This is where were staying. Tanya: I know, I know. But where were we today? The tour bus went down so many alleys that

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Priscilla Ahn,美国独立民谣女歌手,是韩美混血儿,清新脱俗的嗓音,属于那种四季不变的最舒服的音乐,放在耳边听来,柔柔的,让人心情不由自主变得美好。 Artist:Priscilla Ahn Song:City Lig

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At midday today, about 6,000 Maori and other supporters held a protest march in Queen St in Auckland, in the rain. The march was called a hikoi. The hikoi was organised by a young Maori man, Ngarimu Blair, who controlled the crowd to make sure that i

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The first high-speed rail line to a border city in northeast China is set to open in Jilin Province on Sunday. The new line is to link Jilin City with Hunchun, which is at the borders of North Korea and Russia. Local residents have come to the railwa

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