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McDonald’s pulls AI Christmas ad in Netherlands
AFP, Published on 11/12/2025
» THE HAGUE - The restaurant chain McDonald’s has pulled an AI-generated Christmas commercial in the Netherlands after it was widely criticised online.
2025 Tour de France adds Montmartre suspense
AFP, Published on 21/05/2025
» PARIS - The Tour de France will make three circuits of the historic Paris district of Montmartre on its last stage this year in what organisers said Wednesday would add a competitive finale to the world's greatest bike race.
Track, BMX, road, mountain all rub shoulders at cycling's world championships
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» GLASGOW - Remco Evenepoel is among the stars assembling for the world cycling championships in Scotland with 13 disciplines including road races, BMX, mountain biking and track racing on the menu from Thursday.
Amsterdam unveils its largest bike garage. It's underwater
AFP, Published on 26/01/2023
» AMSTERDAM - Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first of its largest-ever bicycle parking complexes, built underwater in a pioneering engineering project.
Van der Poel admits wrong in teen hotel pranksters assault
AFP, Published on 28/09/2022
» BRUSSELS - Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel expressed regret on Tuesday after his world championships in Australia were scuppered by a late night altercation with pranksters landed him in a police station.
Cyclists in Australia on alert for swooping magpies
AFP, Published on 17/09/2022
» WOLLONGONG, Australia: Riders are bracing for an unusual threat at the world cycling championships in Australia this week — swooping magpies.
Australia win historic cricket gold at Commonwealths as athletics wraps up
AFP, Published on 08/08/2022
» BIRMINGHAM (UNITED KINGDOM) - Australia won the first women's cricket gold medal in Commonwealth Games history on Sunday as Scotland's Laura Muir captured the 1500m title on the final night of athletics.
France on alert as forest fires rage in scorching southwest Europe
AFP, Published on 18/07/2022
» PARIS: France was on high alert on Monday as the peak of a punishing heatwave gripped the country, while wildfires raging in parts of southwest Europe showed no sign of abating.
Pogacar, Copenhagen buzzing ahead of Tour de France opener
AFP, Published on 01/07/2022
» COPENHAGEN - Fans and riders were buzzing with excitement as the Tour de France's Grand Depart arrived on Friday while globally over a billion television spectators are also expected to tune in over the 21 days.
Kyiv seeks evacuation of Azovstal fighters, first war crimes trial begins
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» KYIV: Ukraine was seeking to evacuate the last soldiers holed up at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol on Wednesday, its president said, as the first war crimes trial of a Russian soldier since the invasion began was set to get under way in Kyiv.