French Spiderman

A daredevil climber known as the French Spiderman who has scaled skyscrapers around the globe was arrested recently as he tried to clamber up a Houston office building. Alain Robert, 43, dashed from a taxi to the 46-story Houston Center but was stopped just as he was starting his ascent. Police said a reporter had tipped them off to his plans. A tall officer was able to grab his ankles. He was about one or two steps from getting away.

Robert's Web site claims he has climbed some 70 buildings including the Eiffel Tower; the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; London's Canary Wharf Building; the Empire State Building in New York and Chicago's Sears Tower. Houston police charged Robert with criminal trespass.

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World's first statue of Lee

Bosnia's southern town of Mostar unveiled the world's first statue of Kung-Fu legend Bruce Lee, paying homage to a childhood hero of all its divided ethnic groups, says a Reuters report. The life-size bronze statue is situated in Mostar's central park, close to the former front line of Bosnia's 1992-95 civil war. Unveiled by its initiators, Veselin Gatalo and Nino Raspudic of Mostar's Urban Movement, the statue portrays the Chinese-American actor, who died 32 years ago, in a typical defensive fighting position.

This does not mean that Bruce Lee will unite us, because people are different and cannot be united and we will always be Muslims, Serbs or Croats, Gatalo said. But one thing we all have in common is Bruce Lee. Gatalo has said Lee a hero to teenagers all over Bosnia in the 1970s and 1980s epitomised justice, mastery and honesty, virtues the town had badly missed.

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Federer will shine in 2006?

At the end of the year, the delectable Swiss chocolate might have melted, but that doesn't take away the delicious fare that has been served, and will continue to be served. Roger Federer might have lost the Masters Cup final, but that is just about the only thing he has lost. The number of Grand Slams that he will pile up in the years to come continues to be a topic of discussion and will not alter by a slight increase in the number of people who have beaten him this year.

If it is true that he is unable to complete beautifully ruthless wins like he did last year, then it also true that he has won 11 titles in 2005. If it is true that his game has come down by a notch, then it is also true that he played the Shanghai Masters after being on crutches, and reached the final with a 6-0, 6-0 whitewash of Gaston Gaudio in the semifinal and even served for the match in the final. He is bruised, but not beaten.

The fact remains that 2005 has been a Federer year. It took supreme performances from Marat Safin (Australian Open semifinal), Rafael Nadal (French Open semifinal), Richard Gasquet (Monte Carlo Masters quarterfinal) and David Nalbandian (Masters Cup final) to take game, set and match against him. Such was his domination, that it was `Who beat Roger Federer?' rather than `Who did Roger Federer beat?' that grabbed headlines on most occasions.

Under the circumstances, can Federer be challenged in 2006? An occasional upset or two might happen but the list of serious contenders doesn't require more than a hand or two. Rafael Nadal, on clay and Marat Safin, if his mind is on the court and David Nalbandian at his best stand atop the list of pretenders. Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt are too one-dimensional and need to add more variety to their game.
A fresh and injury-free Roger Federer will continue to be the man to beat in 2006.

There are thoughts that men's tennis will benefit if Federer is beaten, even occasionally, to open up the game. But is that good for the game?. Despite claims of his domination making men's tennis predictable, there is no better sight in tennis, than Roger Federer in full flow. But for the sake of the game, may the best man win.

What happen on December?

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December 15

Sairthaar Vallapaaie Patel memory day
Romania’s King, Nero’s Birthday
Builder of Eiffel Tower, Alexander Kastave Eiffel birthday.
Founder Walt Disney Theme Park, Walt Disney Died in 1966.
Thomas Alva Edison gets protection for Phonographic in 1877.
To Produce Nylon in commercial, 1939.

December 16

India support Bangladesh to beat the War against Pakistan, in 1971.
Founder of Simponi music, Lutvik Von Piithaavan Birthday, 1770.
With the reason of no child, Napoleon diverse his wife Jospin in 1809.

December 17

Founder of different Chemical, Scientist Hempiri davi Birthday, 1778.
Struggle for South American freedom, Simon Bolivar Died, 1830.
In American continent, France gives freedom for 13-colony country’s, 1777.
Pakistan sign with India for ceasefire in 1971.

December 18

Portugal Colony’s Goa, Diu and Damn, joined with India in 1961.
Founder of FM Radio, Edwin Armstrong Birthday, 1890.
My favorite Hollywood Director Steven Spillberk Birthday, 1947.
America brought the rights of Panama Canal in 1903.
America’s first Atomic power station start in shipping port city, 1957.

December 19

Soviet Russian President Leonit Presnaiv Birthday, 1906.
Flight services started in between Moscow and London in 1957.
England and China signed for handover Hong Kong to China in 1997.

December 20

Russian great soldier Peter changed the New Year from September1 as January1 in 1699.
The Canada National railway constructed 50,000km railway line in 1919.

December 21

Russia’s Iron human, Josef Stalin Birthday, 1879
Famous Tennis player Christ Evairit Birthday, 1954
World’s first crossword contest was released in New York’s Vairilit Newspaper in 1923.
World first Full-length Cartoon movie Snow white and the seven towarips released, in 1937.
England announced Except National crime; other crimes should not give death sentence, 1964.

An ear in Patna

Indian Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s mind is bordering on depression since his Rashtriya Janata Dal’s defeat in the Bihar Assembly elections. Gone are his frequent one-liners to newsmen. The same applies to his zest and swagger. In Parliament, he leaves it to his minister of State, R.Velu, to answer most of the queries.

These days, Lalu is spending more time in the central hall, than in the House, a mobile phones glued to his ear. Who does he keep talking to? It seems he has made an arrangement with an RJD MLA in Patna (capital of Bihar), who sits in the Assembly and dials Lalu’s number so that the leader can know about the going-on first hand!

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