He visits a Russian farm to look at the country's ambitions to be an agricultural superpower, checks out the Star City astronaut training center, meets with seven-foot boxing world champion-turned-movie star Nikolai Valuev and talks along the way with entrepreneurs and environmentalists working to make the city of Sochi home to green Olympics in 2014.
Mumbaikars of all stripes eat very well, from the panipuri (fried savoury snacks) sold in khau gullies (lanes filled with food stalls) to the world-class cuisine at five-star restaurants.
Singapore will give first-class passengers no ordinary bland flight cabin, but a plush wood-and-leather affair that it has designed after studying how the world's five-star hotels do it.
The bouts were part of a three-day boxing festival in Cardiff that culminates on Sunday with the World Boxing Confederation's star-studded Night of Champions.
Her position as a world-music star gives her an important platform for her activism: She's been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF for nearly 10 years, and has her own foundation to support higher education for girls in Africa.
Federer -- the man Murray is hoping to eclipse in the world rankings -- as well as Spanish star Rafael Nadal, who won the Indian Wells title on his comeback from injury, have both chosen not to play at the Miami Masters.
During his baseball career, Schilling was a six-time All-Star selection, three-time World Series champion and 2001 World Series MVP.
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Ratings, at least for national games that include marquee events like the World Series and All-Star Game, have been flat for years.
In 2006 Fox inked a new deal with MLB which allowed the newtork to maintain its exclusive rights to the World Series and All-Star game through 2013.
Already a world-wide sports star, he became a crossover phenomenon with the release of the 2002 comedy film "Bend It Like Beckham, " in which a British-born Indian girl dreams of playing with her hero.
Star Wars, and EA hopes that fan interest in a wide open, well-scripted world in the Star Wars universe will propel it to success.
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In the Middle East category, Egyptian-based Moroccan singer Samira Said, who is a star throughout the Arabic-speaking world, was triumphant.
Using the All-Star game to determine home-field for the World Series was a cheap stunt with short-term vision.
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Dubai, home of the extravagant, also has the world's only 7-star hotel, the Burj Al Arab.
Interleague play, begun in 1995, has already watered down the excitement of the World Series and the All-Star Game.
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Nashville has one of the best hotels for a city its size in the world, the Forbes 5-Star, AAA 5-Diamond Hermitage, in the heart of downtown.
For a moment you could be star-struck with World Cup winners and British Lions in the team, and when you stand back and look at it, it is a massive deal.
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Kingfisher, the world's only Skytrax Five Star-ranked domestic airline (now also with flights to and from London, Dubai, Hong, Bangkok, Kathmandu and Singapore) makes life easy for those who do not have time to take India's scenic, but time-consuming trains.
Vivendi Entertainment and A Squared Entertainment, Warren Buffett has become his own animated star character, whose world-recognizable image and cautionary, sage voice of finance is now captured on the screen in a new animated series, Secret Millionaires Club Volume One, offering tips to kids on making investing an enjoyable activity.
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Partnering with Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment and A Squared Entertainment, Warren Buffett has become his own animated star character, whose world-recognizable image and cautionary, sage voice of finance is now captured on the screen in a new animated series, Secret Millionaires Club Volume One, offering tips to kids on making investing an enjoyable activity.
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Organisers of Wales Rally GB - the British round of the FIA World Rally Championship - described him as a "rising star".
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Kemal Dervis, an ex-World Bank official and former finance minister, is a star turn for the RPP - and their only hope of defeating Tayyip Erdogan.
Some people want a McDonald's world and others want a AAA Michelin star-rated restaurant.
By age 26, Larkin was already a world champion, three-time All Star and recipient of three Silver Slugger awards.
Each is very difficult to address even on its own, while at the same time keeping up a punishing rock-star schedule the world demands of modern Popes.
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One such cove is home to El Bulli -- the three-Michelin-star restaurant run by Catalan super chef Ferran Adria -- voted the world's best restaurant a record five times.
Last year he became the first player to win the MVP award in both the all-star game and the World Series.
In Dubai, you will find the tallest building in the world, the first-ever seven-star hotel and the biggest indoor ski slope.
He remains the lone player to have a two-homer performance in an All-Star game and a World Series game.
The Hotel Arctic is the most northerly 4-star hotel in the world.
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