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OPENING CEREMONY: China grabs global spotlight with spectacular opening

BEIJING _ China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it. At last playing its long-sought role as Olympic host, China opened the Summer Games in spectacular fashion with an extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry dramatizing its ascendance as a global power. BC-OLY--OPENING CEREMONY. Has moved. By David Crary.

PROTESTS: Anti-China demonstrations worldwide as games begin

LONDON _ A protester set himself on fire outside the Chinese Embassy in the Turkish capital and thousands of Tibetan exiles took to the streets in Nepal, as anti-China …