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Judge rules US ex-cardinal not competent to stand trial for sexual abuse
AFP, Published on 31/08/2023
» NEW YORK - A Boston judge ruled Wednesday that former top US Catholic official Theodore McCarrick was cognitively unable to stand trial for sexually assaulting a teenage boy five decades ago.
Young Tongans dream of the rugby meal ticket
AFP, Published on 30/08/2023
» NUKU'ALOFA (TONGA) - On the rocky foreshore of Popua, the poorest area of the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa, a group of girls and boys are tossing around a rugby ball.
UK child-killer nurse facing life sentence
AFP, Published on 21/08/2023
» LONDON - A British nurse will be sentenced on Monday for murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others while they were in her care.
British nurse guilty of murdering seven babies
AFP, Published on 18/08/2023
» LONDON: A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK's most prolific killer of children.
Boks inspire Soweto surge in South African rugby
AFP, Published on 15/08/2023
» SOWETO (SOUTH AFRICA) - When Siya Kolisi lifted the Webb Ellis Cup in Tokyo in 2019, he inspired a nation.
From East to West to southern trap, 50 years of hip-hop
AFP, Published on 12/08/2023
» NEW YORK - Five decades after a Bronx block party ushered in hip-hop's 'Big Bang' moment, the culture-shifting genre is celebrating its 50th birthday Friday.
Empty seats, discarded shoes remain after Pakistan bomb kills 54
AFP, Published on 01/08/2023
» KHAR (PAKISTAN) - Blood-stained chairs, scattered ball bearings and shoes shed by the dead, wounded and panicked bore testimony Monday to the carnage caused by a suicide bombing at a Pakistan political event.
China's young avoid tying the knot
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» It has been a brutal three years for China's young adults. Their unemployment rate is soaring amid a wave of corporate layoffs. Draconian coronavirus restrictions are over, but not the sense of uncertainty about the future they created.
West leaves a legacy in Kabul
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/07/2023
» There's a glimmer of the old Kabul hiding in the new one -- if you know where to look.
UK probes special forces' actions in Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» LONDON: Britain's defence minister on Wednesday said that allegations of unlawful killings in Afghanistan being examined by an independent inquiry relate to UK special forces.