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Unspoilt corner of Portugal fears arrival of high-end tourism
AFP, Published on 22/10/2025
» COMPORTA — Above the pine forests and dunes that stretch along the nearly deserted beaches of southwestern Portugal, cranes rise from building sites soon to be luxury hotels -- a sign of the region's contentious transformation into a playground for the wealthy.
England's 'outsiders' aim to break trophy drought at Women's Cricket World Cup
AFP, Published on 01/10/2025
» LONDON - England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt hopes her team of "outsiders" can thrive at the Women's Cricket World Cup as they seek to end a painful eight-year trophy drought.
'Call of Duty' to fire starting gun at Gamescom trade show
AFP, Published on 19/08/2025
» COLOGNE,Germany - Mega-selling first-person shooter franchise "Call of Duty" will blow open the Gamescom video games trade fair Tuesday, headlining a wave of new releases as the industry weathers a rough patch.
Rescue teams comb site of Air India crash that killed at least 265
AFP, Published on 13/06/2025
» AHMEDABAD (INDIA) - Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed the crash site Friday of a London-bound passenger jet which ploughed into a residential area of India's Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.
Hundreds of fungi species threatened with extinction: IUCN
AFP, Published on 27/03/2025
» PARIS - Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on Earth, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned Thursday.
Nine-year-old Thai tattooist makes his mark
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man's upper thigh.
Crisis-struck German maker of Playmobil toys cuts jobs
AFP, Published on 02/10/2023
» BERLIN - The crisis-hit German toy company behind Playmobil, the small plastic figures loved by children the world over, said on Monday that it was cutting 17 percent of its workforce.
USA's new Major League Cricket makes big hitting start
AFP, Published on 14/07/2023
» DALLAS - Major League Cricket got underway in Texas on Thursday, and the most serious attempt yet to establish a domestic competition in the United States provided all the ingredients of a modern Twenty20 league.
Major League Cricket aims for US breakthrough
AFP, Published on 12/07/2023
» MIAMI - The most ambitious attempt yet to establish professional cricket in the United States gets under way on Wednesday when wickets will be pitched for the start of the inaugural season of Major League Cricket.
US, allies consult but tread carefully as Russia crisis unfolds
AFP, Published on 25/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States and its allies held close consultations but publicly stayed on the sidelines Saturday as officials waited to see how the armed revolt by longtime Kremlin insider Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private Wagner army would play out.