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Record in Sexton's sights, Tonga await ex-All Black impact
AFP, Published on 15/09/2023
» NANTES (FRANCE) - Ireland will hope to beat Tonga and come through injury-free on Saturday in their Pool B match giving themselves the perfect boost ahead of their Rugby World Cup meeting with defending champions South Africa.
Weeds grow at London's Chelsea Flower Show
AFP, Published on 22/05/2023
» LONDON - Nettles, dandelions, brambles: weeds -- once considered a scourge -- are taking pride of place at London's Chelsea Flower Show as gardeners concern themselves more than ever with biodiversity and sustainable development.
Fake 'fact-checks' seek to obscure Russian role in war
AFP, Published on 16/02/2023
» WASHINGTON - A Russian missile smashed a Ukrainian apartment complex, killing dozens. Pro-Russian propagandists offered a slick counter-narrative that shifted the blame away from Moscow -- using pseudo fact-checking as a tool of disinformation.
Myanmar monk militia: Buddhist clergy backing junta
Reuters, Published on 08/12/2022
» YANGON: In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: "What's our spirit like?"
How New Delhi is fixing its schools
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/08/2022
» Pradeep Paswan used to skip school for weeks, sometimes months. His classrooms with tin ceilings were baking hot in the summer. The bathrooms were filthy.
A museum for recovered treasures
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 31/07/2022
» Last month, Italian officials inaugurated a new museum here whose title sets a lofty agenda: the Museo dell'Arte Salvata, or the Museum of Rescued Art.
Curtain set to fall on Beijing Olympics after tears, doping and Gu
AFP, Published on 20/02/2022
» BEIJING: A Beijing Winter Olympics beset by concerns about rights and Covid in the build-up and tarnished by a Russian doping scandal once underway were set to close on Sunday.
New republic Barbados names 'Diamond' Rihanna national hero
AFP, Published on 30/11/2021
» BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: As Barbados became the world's newest republic, its prime minister's first act was to officially declare the island's most famous citizen, Rihanna, a national hero.
Coral bleaching impacts 98% of Great Barrier Reef: study
AFP, Published on 04/11/2021
» BRISBANE (AUSTRALIA) - Coral bleaching has affected 98 percent of Australia's Great Barrier Reef since 1998, leaving just a fraction of the world's largest reef system untouched, according to a study published Friday.
AFP among winners of Covering Climate Now awards
AFP, Published on 07/10/2021
» NEW YORK - Covering Climate Now, a global media project devoted to reporting on global warming, on Wednesday honored Agence France-Presse among the winners of its first journalism award.