A historic day in Washington as Barack Obama makes his inauguration speech. Take Away English has the details.

Happy Niu Year. But why have we spelt the word 'new' as 'niu'? Find the answer here in Take Away English.

King Henry VIII is remembered as a bloodthirsty womaniser but Take Away English reveals his softer side.

We report on Britain's success at the Oscars and asks if this will affect the future of British film.

Some people like to read something more unusual than magazines or books. Take Away English reports.

Do you recognise the man in the picture? Take Away English reports on a painting ignored for centuries.

It lasts 12 weeks and is watched by millions of people on TV. We report on the ultimate job interview.

Have you ever joined a social network? Take Away English reports on this online phenomenon.

There's a new face grabbing the headlines in the White House in Washington, and it's not Barack Obama.

Two Chinese snooker stars have battled it out at the World Championship in England. But who won?

What type of films do you like? Read about the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in this week's Take Away English.

Britain is bracing itself for an invasion of needles after acupuncture is recommended for treating back pain.

The Pacers dealt the No. 2 pick in the 1984 draft for one season of Tom Owens

The Pacers didn't have their starting point guard for the last three games before the NBA went on hiatus, but he's able to play if/when it restarts.

Source: The Pacers will listen to the government and follow its lead before bringing players back

The punching bag in The Last Dance documentary about the final season of the champion Bulls is GM Jerry Krause, who got his start from Slick Leonard.

Michael Jordan after his first title on 'The Last Dance': 'At last I fit somewhere in the category of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson'

Turner: 'It was a rough path for a couple of weeks'

The Adidas move was expected; each side alleges the other is at fault

Reggie Miller's 8 points in 8.9 seconds: What were the odds? We do the math.

What Miller did may have been the greatest one-man comeback in the history of the NBA.

Indiana Pacers are coming off a second straight season with 48 regular-season wins and a first-round playoff loss

Pacers coach Nate McMillan is hoping to be in the final days of a stay-at-home order, and he's letting players know they need to be ready to return.

Pacers Gaming kicks off NBA 2K League season on ESPN2

Indiana Pacers TV announcers Chris Denari and Quinn Buckner are among those up for honors

'Last Dance' brings back memories of tough 90's NBA for Pacers coach Nate McMillan

Mike Storen, the Pacers' first general manager, former ABA commissioner and the father of ESPN broadcaster Hannah Storm, died Thursday. He was 84.

He's interesting, he's intelligent and he's back. The Teacher returns with his hilarious lessons.

After a long summer for soccer-starved fans, Chelsea beat Man United in the Community Shield.

It's taken over forty years to produce but now the world's first historical thesaurus is ready to be published.

Better internet access in eastern and southern Africa should mean good news for businesses in the region.

British people hoping to move house during the recession have a new money lender to turn to: the Bank of China.

She is the youngest woman to row solo across the Indian Ocean. Find out more in this week's Media English.

What do you do when you get sick? In the UK you go to your GP unless it is an emergency. But what is a GP?

Many young Brits dream about going to drama school. How do they make this happen? Where do they begin?

Hear how people are making changes to their lifestyle to adapt to the current economic trend.

How good are you at writing speeches? Take Away English discusses useful speechwriting techniques.

Take Away English reports on the total solar eclipse? Did you witness this extremely rare event?

Do you think you could make your living from magic like Harry Potter? Why not become a professional witch?

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Here is an interesting interview of Thomas Owadenko that Loic Le Meur just uploaded on his blog. Thomas is the CEO of the new travel 2.0 site called Trivop. [vpod.tv loiclemeur/200710] Trivop.com is a very good example of a good use of web 2.0 in the travel industry. It is a platform of video reviews of hotels [...]

We are now quite familiar with customer-written hotel reviews; we also know about the trendy use of video reviews of hotels but what about reviews of flights?! Yesterday I stumbled upon an incredible amateur video that made it to the top #20 of the most watched video of Youtube. The statistics speak for themselves: Views: 76,062 Comments: 468 Favorited: [...]

Two days ago Mario Hidalgo, CEO of the Spanish airline “Hola Airlines“ , announced that Hola Airlines (Baleares Link Express SL) has been obliged by the US government to stop its operations in Cuba . The US Government threatened Hola Airlines via Boeing to end the service of maintenance of the Boeing aircraft belonging to the [...]

Surprisingly the Spanish online travel market is not saturated by the emergence of aggregation and comparison engines; there is still space for newcomer(s) to enter this segment of the online travel industry. That’s what Minube.com (that literally means “My Cloud” in Spanish) did today by launching this new flight/hotel aggregator “Minube”. Minube.com referred itself as being [...]

Wandering around the internet, I was searching for 2 different things at the same time: a hotel for a romantic weekend getaway (with our lovely dog!) and a new apartment to rent. I suddenly asked myself: “Why not renting a vacation home instead of booking the usual same type of hotels (those few hotels that [...]

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LaVall Jordan on transfers: 'We'd rather have nobody than the wrong guy.'

Butler basketball's Willie Veasley is back in Horizon League as new UIC assistant coach

The Bulldogs reached the title game with a 52-50 victory over Michigan State