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Tantrums and tactics turned Lukaku's Chelsea dream into a nightmare
AFP, Published on 24/06/2022
» LONDON - Romelu Lukaku arrived at Chelsea heralding his move as a dream come true, but less than a year later the Belgian striker is set to rejoin Inter Milan as one of the most expensive flops in Premier League history.
A son of a slave reflects on his American story
AFP, Published on 15/08/2020
» WASHINGTON - At 88, Dan Smith has witnessed some of the defining moments in America's fraught battle for racial equality.
Equal pay in football? Norway still far from the goal
AFP, Published on 11/06/2019
» OSLO - Guro puts in 60 to 70-hour weeks, half her time spent on football and the other half at her job, but that's just the way it is if you're a woman football player in Norway.
S.Africa bids emotional farewell to 'Mama Winnie' Mandela
AFP, Published on 11/04/2018
» SOWETO (SOUTH AFRICA) - Thousands of mourners flocked Wednesday to the heart of South Africa's sprawling Soweto township, a centre of anti-apartheid resistance, to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela's former wife and struggle hero Winnie Mandela.
Sudan's 'sister coach' takes love of football to field
AFP, Published on 03/04/2018
» GADAREF (SUDAN) - In Sudan, where a women's national football team remains a distant dream, Salma al-Majidi knew the only way to take part in her beloved sport was to coach... and that the players had to be men.
Winnie Mandela: South Africa's flawed heroine
AFP, Published on 02/04/2018
» JOHANNESBURG - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's marriage to Nelson Mandela and her anti-apartheid activism ensured many South Africans saw her as "the mother of the nation", but her past was littered with dark controversies.
Love, rage, silence: secret lives of Afghanistan's female poets
AFP, Published on 17/02/2016
» KANDAHAR (AFGHANISTAN) - With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.
Phillip Hughes, talented young cricket batsman loved by all
AFP, Published on 27/11/2014
» SYDNEY - He was a country boy whose love for the "Baggy Green" took him all the way from a rural Australian town to the bright lights of international cricket when he made his Test debut aged just 20 in South Africa.
Real's headline catch Rodriguez unveiled to huge crowd at Bernabeu
AFP, Published on 22/07/2014
» Colombia's World Cup revelation James Rodriguez was unveiled as Real Madrid's latest headline signing in front of tens of thousands of fans at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday.
Januzaj signs five-year Man United deal
AFP, Published on 19/10/2013
» Manchester United's teenage starlet Adnan Januzaj has signed a new five-year contract with the club, the English Premier League champions announced on Saturday.