In this paper, the proposed LIPED (LIfe Profile based Event Detection) employs the concept of life profiles to predict the activeness of event for effective event detection. A group of events with similar activeness patterns shares a life profile, modeled by a hidden Markov model. Considering the burst-anddiverse property of events, LIPED identifies the activeness status of event. As a result, LIPED balances the clustering precision and recall to achieve better F1 scores than other well known approaches evaluated on the official TDT1 corpus. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Clustering, H.2.8 [Database Applications]: Data mining, G.3 [Probability and Statistics]: Time series analysis. General Terms Algorithms, Experimentation, Performance Keywords Event Detection, Life Profiles, Hidden Markov Models, Clustering.