High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article contains a summary of the top four finishers in the various e-Sports (competitive video gaming) world championships in the 2006 season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 ISSF World Cup was the twenty-third annual edition of the ISSF World Cup in the Olympic shooting events, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Four qualification competitions were held in each event, spanning from March to June, and the best shooters qualified for the ISSF World Cup Final, which was carried out in September in Minsk for the shotgun events, and in November in Bangkok for the other events. Apart from those who qualified through the 2008 World Cup competitions, the defending champions and all medalists from the 2008 Summer Olympics were also invited to the final. The host countries were also granted special wild cards.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 ISSF World Cup Final in shotgun events was held on 27–30 September in Minsk, Belarus. It was the last major worldwide shotgun competition in 2008, and the next-to-last part of the 2008 ISSF World Cup, to be concluded with the rifle and pistol finals in Bangkok a month later.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 ISSF World Cup is the twenty-fourth annual edition of the ISSF World Cup in the Olympic shooting events, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Four qualification competitions are held in each event, spanning from April to June, and the best shooters will qualify for the ISSF World Cup Final, which will take place in China in October. The shotgun finals were originally scheduled for Istanbul, but were later moved to the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field, while the rifle and pistol events will be held at a range in Wuxi. Apart from those who qualify through the 2009 World Cup competitions, the defending champions and the reigning Olympic champions will also be...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 ISSF World Cup Final in rifle and pistol events is scheduled to be held 26–28 October 2009 in Wuxi, China, as the conclusion of the 2009 World Cup season. It will be the first time the final is held in China.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Aksu bombing was a bombing in Aksu, Xinjiang, People`s Republic of China that resulted in at least seven deaths and fourteen injuries when a Uyghur man detonated explosives in a crowd of police and paramilitary guards at about 10:30 on 19 August, using a three-wheeled vehicle. The assailant targeted police officers in the area, and most of the victims were also Uyghurs. Xinhua news agency reported that 6 people were involved in the attack, and 2 had died; the other four were detained by police.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 3 to 28 May 2010. The President of the Review Conference is Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan of the Philippines.UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used the opening of the conference to note that "sixty five years later, the world still lives under the nuclear shadow".
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 50th ISSF World Shooting Championships was held in Munich, Germany from July 29, 2010 to August 10, 2010.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held in Washington, D.C., on April 12 and 13, 2010. The Summit focused on how to better safeguard weapons-grade plutonium and uranium to prevent nuclear terrorism.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 NHL Winter Classic, known as the 2010 NHL Winter Classic presented by Bridgestone via corporate sponsorship, was the third edition of the NHL Winter Classic, an annual outdoor ice hockey game held by the National Hockey League (NHL), played on January 1, 2010, as a regular season game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, between the Boston Bruins (the home team) and the Philadelphia Flyers. The Bruins won the game 2–1 in overtime. With the victory, the Bruins became the first home team to win a Winter Classic. After the game, the roster of the United States men`s hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics was released, which included Bruins` goaltender Tim Thomas.