Thursday, May 17, 2012 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- Dubai Marathon champion and world leader Ayele Abshero and recently-minted national women’s record holder Tiki Gelana will lead Ethiopia’s strong Marathon squad for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The selection, which is made based on the finishing times of athletes in 2012, sees many high-profile stars including...
15 May 2012 22:06 Jennifer Lopez Fell In Love With Ethiopian Twin Babies The Ethiopian twins who play Jennifer Lopez’s adopted baby in newmovie What To Expect When You’Re Expecting were orphans fighting for life just eight months before they hit the big screen with the star. Lopez fell in love with the lucky African babies,...
May 14, 2012(Mainichi Japan PRAGUE (AP) — Deressa Chimsa of Ethiopia won the Prague International Marathon on Sunday and Agnes Kiprop of Kenya dominated the women’s race. Chimsa pulled away about 10 kilometers from the end to finish the race in 2 hours, 6 minutes and 25 seconds in the second fastest time on...
Monday, May 14, 2012 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Newcomers Buze Driba and Muktar Endris were among the impressive winners in the women’s and men’s 5000m as the 41st Ethiopian Athletics Championships (May 9th-13th 2012) came to a close on Sunday (13) at the Addis Ababa stadium. Despite the absence of Ethiopia’s more illustrious track...
May 12, 2012 5:22 PM BOSTON — The largest independent college of contemporary music in the world has awarded honorarydegrees to the Eagles and Grammy Award-winning country singer Alison Krauss at a ceremony in Boston. The city’s Berklee College of Music also has honored influential Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke, an alumnus. The artists were honored...
MAY 7, 2012 Having lived in Calgary for five years, Kenyan native Bernard Onsare has adjusted to temperatures cold enough to flash freeze a lithe, no-body-fat African runner. So, he had to chuckle a little when Ethiopian Gezahgn Eshetu, making his first visit to Canada, showed up for the start of Sunday morning’s BMO...
MAY 7, 2012 8:03 AM Gezahgn Eshetu of Ethiopia broke the finish line ribbon at Sunday’s BMO Vancouver Marathon to claim his first North American title Sunday. Eshetu, 28, won the 42.2-kilometre race with with a time of two hours, 21 minutes, 50 seconds. Last year’s winner, Benard Onsare of Kenya came in second...
April 29, 2012 5:00 PM ET Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd performs at Coachella. R&B singer maintains mystique while selling out two NYC shows Abel Tesfaye, otherwise known as the Weeknd, has built his career upon a detached mystique, hardly showing his face, giving nary an interview and releasing music online capriciously. Last night...
April 29 2012 at 03:50pm Ethiopians Shami Dawit, pictured, and Seboka Diriba Tola broke local marathon records in winning the men’s races in Hamburg and Dusseldorf. Hamburg – Ethiopians Shami Dawit and Seboka Diriba Tola broke local marathon records in winning the men’s races in Hamburg and Dusseldorf Sunday. Dawit posted 2 hours 5...
Runners from 12 countries to compete in 1,500 and 800 metres Olympic qualifiers at Police Officers Club Published: 00:03 April 26, 2012 Dubai: Around 40 top athletes from 12 countries, including the UAE, will attempt to qualify for this summer’s London Olympics at the Asian Athletic Federation (AAF) Permit Meeting to be held at...
The Ethiopian journey to Israel as revealed in the pages of the ‘Post’ in the 1930s and ’40s. A year and a half after Israel’s declaration of independence, Dr. Jacob Weinstein, a Jewish Agency official and immigration expert, returned home to Israel from a brief trip to Ethiopia. Previously he had been tasked with...
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