Dozens of Heads of State and PMs will attend the opening ceremony. The 29th edition of the Olympic Summer Games, the most important sports competition in the world, will start today in Beijing under the ?One world, one dream? slogan. Romania will be represented by 102 athletes.

Given his privileged background, Kamol Sukosol Clapp could have taken things a lot easier, but he's the self-made type, always preferring to forge his own path.

05 August 2008 By Alexander Osipovich, Matt Siegel / Staff Writers Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author who shook the foundations of Soviet rule with his monumental work "The Gulag Archipelago," died late Sunday in his Moscow region home, his son said. He was 89 years old.

Russians braved torrential rain yesterday as they queued to pay their last respects to Nobel Prize-winning writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

04 August 2008 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author who shook the foundations of Soviet rule with his monumental work "The Gulag Archipelago," has died at age 89, his son said Monday.