kicks off – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:30:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png kicks off – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 10 bold predictions for World Cup 2014 https://www.theinfostride.com/10-bold-predictions-for-world-cup-2014/ Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:10:34 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=47962 Fortune favors the bold, the old Latin proverb says.  Only fools try to predict a World Cup final, a more modern proverb counters.  So let's be bold fools together, shall we?  Here are 10 predictions for the World Cup, which kicks off today with…

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]]> Brazil braces for World Cup carnival https://www.theinfostride.com/brazil-braces-for-world-cup-carnival/ Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:39:52 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=47856 Brazil kicks off the World Cup Thursday hoping to unite the football-mad country after a chaotic seven-year build-up plagued by violent protests. The 32-team extravaganza gets under way in the teeming mega-city of Sao Paulo, where the host nation's…

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]]> #FIFA: Probe exposes World Cup match-fix mess https://www.theinfostride.com/fifa-probe-exposes-world-cup-match-fix-mess/ Sun, 01 Jun 2014 05:55:19 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=45872 A confidential FIFA report raises concerns about World Cup match-fixing vulnerabilities just 12 days before the global football showdown kicks off in Brazil, the New York Times reported Saturday. The newspaper obtained a copy of the 44-page internal…

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]]> ‘Grace of Monaco’ serves up controversy on Cannes Film Festival opening https://www.theinfostride.com/grace-of-monaco-serves-up-controversy-on-cannes-film-festival-opening/ Wed, 14 May 2014 08:05:58 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=42541 It has been savaged as 'shameful' before it even comes out, but filmmakers behind "Grace of Monaco" are hoping to put all that behind them Wednesday when the movie kicks off the Cannes Film Festival. Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman and French director…

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]]> Japan kicks off first whale hunt since UN court ruling https://www.theinfostride.com/japan-kicks-off-first-whale-hunt-since-un-court-ruling/ Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:30:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=38524 A Japanese whaling fleet left port Saturday under tight security, marking the first hunt since the UN's top court last month ordered Tokyo to stop killing whales in the Antarctic. Four ships departed from the northeastern fishing town of Ayukawa to…

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]]> Sparkling Sydney kicks off global 2014 party https://www.theinfostride.com/sparkling-sydney-kicks-off-global-2014-party/ Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:45:26 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=7175 Sydney kicked off New Year celebrations with a dazzling fireworks display, the first in a wave of pyrotechnics to usher in 2014 from Hong Kong to world record-chasing Dubai. Seven tonnes of explosives lit up Australia's biggest city, with fireworks…

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