Luciano Pavarotti dies at 71
reuters.com:
Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti has died after a long battle with cancer.
The great tenor known as "Big Luciano" helped bring opera to the masses and performed to vast stadium audiences round the world.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Finland wins the Eurovison Dance Contest
Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen from Finland have won the first edition of the Eurovision Dance Contest.
The complete results:
Finland - 132 points (video)
Ukraine - 121 points
Ireland - 95 points
Poland - 84 points
Austria - 74 points
Portugal - 74 points
Russia - 72 points
Germany - 59 points
Denmark - 38 points
Spain - 38 points
Lithuania - 35 points
Netherlands - 34 points
Greece - 31 points
Sweden - 23 points
United Kingdom - 18 points
Switzerland - 0 points
Congratulations Finland!
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Greek fire drama
reuters.com
Trapped villagers are airlifted to safety while protesters demonstrate against the government's handling of the forest fires.
The demonstrators say they are angry at the government's response to Greece's worst forest fires in decades and they say the arsonists being blamed for starting many of the blazes have been allowed to get away.
Beauty Queens 2nd at the Ohrid Fest International
oikotimes.com reports:
Beauty Queens come 2nd at Ohrid Fest International 2007.
The song "Ja Mogu" ended up in 2nd place behind Montenegrin singer Bojan Marovic who won the competition with "Mi Ne Mozemo Vise".
3rd place went to Adrijan Gadza from Macedonia with "Sam se Lazam".
Bulgaria selects song for JESC on 29th September
Bulgaria is one of the newcomers in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this year.
The first Bulgarian national selections for the junior contest were presented in Sofia on Friday. Bulgarian broadcaster BNT will hold the national final on Saturday 29th September, the same night as Ukraine and Belgium.
source:belgovision.com
Line up completed for London Eurodance
oikotimes.com reports:
This is the line up for the contest as we will see it next Saturday at 21:00 CET live from London, United Kingdom:
01. Switzerland - Denise Biellmann & Sven Ninnemann
02. Russia - Mariya Sittel & Vladislav Borodinov
03. Netherlands - Alexandra Matteman & Redmond Valk
04. United Kingdom - Camilla Dallerup & Brendan Cole
05. Austria - Andy & Kelly Kainz
06. Germany - Wolke Hegenbarth & Oliver Seefeldt
07. Greece - Rannia Koliou & Spyros Pavlides
08. Lithuania - Gabriele Valiukaite & Gintaras Svistunavicius
09. Spain - Amagoya Benlloch and Abraham Martinez
10. Ireland - Mick Donegan & Nicola Byrne
11. Poland - Katarzyna Cichopek & Marcin Hakiel
12. Denmark - Mette Elkjaer & David Jorgensen
13. Portugal - Sonia Araujo & Ricardo Silva
14. Ukraine - Ilya Sidorenko & Yuliya Okropiridze
15. Sweden - Martin Lidberg & Cecilia Ehrling
16. Finland - Jussi Vaananen & Katja Koukkula
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