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Mexico star Hernandez sorry for sexist comments
AFP, Published on 25/07/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Mexican football icon Javier Hernandez apologised on Thursday for making sexist remarks which led to him being sanctioned by Mexico's football federation and his club Guadalajara.
Police raid Spain football referee HQ over Barca graft probe
AFP, Published on 28/09/2023
» BARCELONA - Police on Thursday raided Spain's football refereeing headquarters as part of a probe into claims FC Barcelona paid for favourable decisions in a fresh blow for Spain's scandal-hit football association.
Messi future decision drawing near with Barca return hopes fading
AFP, Published on 02/06/2023
» BARCELONA: With Lionel Messi's time at Paris Saint-Germain drawing to a close, the Argentine forward will soon reveal his future -- but hopes of a romantic return to Barcelona are fading.
Investigation of top Mexican resort town wins reporting prize
AFP, Published on 04/05/2023
» MEXICO CITY - An investigation about the hidden side of the Caribbean resort town of Cancun on Wednesday won a prize honoring two journalists murdered in Mexico, one of the world's deadliest countries for the press.
Immigrants who give up and go home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023
» In August 2021, more than three decades after sneaking across the southern border as young adults to work and support their families in Mexico, Irma and Javier Hernandez checked in at LaGuardia Airport for a one-way flight from New York to Oaxaca. They were leaving behind four American children, stable jobs where they were valued employees and a country they had grown to love.
Orchestra reunites couple parted by war
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/08/2022
» After years of struggling to make a living as musicians in Ukraine, Yevgen Dovbysh and Anna Vikhrova felt they had finally built a stable life. They were husband-and-wife artists in the Odesa Philharmonic -- he plays the cello, she the violin -- sharing a love for Bach partitas and the music from Star Wars. They lived in an apartment on the banks of the Black Sea with their eight-year-old daughter, Daryna.
Breaking down barriers in ballet
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/08/2022
» On a sleepy summer morning recently, a group of about 50 dancers from New York City Ballet gathered inside a sunny rehearsal studio at the Lincoln Center and stretched.
Sounding a new note
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 31/07/2022
» On some nights, when her dorm room in Lisbon turns dark and the church bells stop ringing, the young trumpet player thinks about the distant afternoon when her uncle took her to the graveyard to gather stones.
Mexico hunts for missing children of 'Dirty War'
AFP, Published on 24/10/2021
» MEXICO CITY - Decades after his sister disappeared during the political repression of Mexico's "Dirty War," Roberto Martinez hopes to finally meet the child he believes she gave birth to while held captive.
Spain legalises euthanasia, assisted suicide
AFP, Published on 18/03/2021
» MADRID: Spain's parliament voted through a law legalising euthanasia Thursday, becoming one of the few nations to allow terminally-ill or gravely-injured patients to end their own suffering.