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Familiar foes all set to top charts again
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 17/08/2025
» For all the things wrong about NCAA football nowadays -- Name and Image Licensing (which enables colleges to legally pay players), the transfer portal (creating player free agency) mega conferences, etc -- the governing body of American college ball finally got something right:
Historic Spanish mosque-cathedral reopens after blaze
AFP, Published on 09/08/2025
» MADRID - A fire at a historic mosque-turned-cathedral in Cordoba in southern Spain caused only “very localised damage”, the city’s mayor said Saturday as the site reopened to the public.
Fire extinguished, historic mosque-cathedral in southern Spain 'saved'
AFP, Published on 09/08/2025
» MADRID - A fire broke out in the historic mosque-turned-cathedral in Cordoba on Friday but the monument was saved as firefighters quickly contained and then extinguished it, the Spanish city's mayor said.
French PM to testify on child abuse scandal
AFP, Published on 14/05/2025
» PARIS - French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Wednesday faces one of the most delicate moments of his five months in office as he responds to questions from a parliamentary committee investigating claims of sexual abuse at a Catholic school.
Trump heads to Italy for pope’s funeral
AFP, Published on 25/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump headed to Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis, the unexpected first foreign trip of his second term in which he will face foreign leaders including Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.
French PM under growing pressure over Catholic school abuse claims
AFP, Published on 22/02/2025
» PAU (FRANCE) - France's prime minister was under increasing pressure Friday after a former teacher at a Catholic school claimed Francois Bayrou was aware of claims of sexual abuse there in the 1990s but did not act on them.
World leaders seek elusive AI common ground at Paris summit
AFP, Published on 11/02/2025
» PARIS — World leaders were set to hold formal talks in Paris on Tuesday on artificial intelligence (AI), seeking elusive common ground on a technology subject to a global race for promised economic benefits.
Tunisian on trial in France over deadly 2020 Nice church attack
AFP, Published on 10/02/2025
» PARIS - A Tunisian man goes on trial Monday for stabbing three people to death in a church in the southern French city of Nice in 2020 as part of a "terrorist" plot.
Macron pledges Louvre 'renaissance' after decay alarm
AFP, Published on 29/01/2025
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that the Louvre would be "redesigned, restored and enlarged" after the director of the world's most visited museum voiced alarm about dire conditions for visitors and its collections.
On Bourbon Street, a grim cleanup after deadly nightmare
AFP, Published on 03/01/2025
» NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans cleaning crews washed down Bourbon Street Thursday after authorities largely concluded their on-site investigation of a ghastly New Years attack as the iconic nightlife hub prepared to reopen.