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Djokovic claims he was 'poisoned' before deportation
AFP, Published on 10/01/2025
» PARIS — Novak Djokovic has claimed that he was "poisoned" by lead and mercury in his food while he was briefly held in Melbourne in 2022 before being deported on the eve of the Australian Open.
Snack bars out, salmon in: US revamps 'healthy' food labels
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» WASHINGTON - The United States has redefined what qualifies as "healthy" food for the first time in 30 years, striking items like white bread from the list while welcoming nutrient-rich options such as eggs and salmon, officials said Thursday.
'Appetite for drumsticks': First prey found in a tyrannosaur stomach
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» PARIS - Prey has been discovered inside the stomach of a tyrannosaur skeleton for the first time, scientists said Friday, revealing that the mighty dinosaurs had an "appetite for drumsticks" when they were young.
One dead in Kenya as fresh opposition protests turn violent
AFP, Published on 28/03/2023
» NAIROBI - A young man was shot dead in Kenya on Monday, a hospital said, as anti-government protests turned increasingly violent, with police firing tear gas at opposition leader Raila Odinga's convoy and his supporters, and looters going on the rampage.
Kenya police chief bans new opposition protests
AFP, Published on 26/03/2023
» NAIROBI - Kenya's police chief announced a ban on fresh opposition demonstrations called for Monday, after protests last week degenerated into riots.
Kenyans vent anger over economic crisis
AFP, Published on 23/03/2023
» NAIROBI: Hempstone Monari's taxi business was just getting going when the wheels fell off his financial future and a Kenyan bank auctioned off his car over the non-payment of a $9,900 loan.
To strengthen ties, ancient Maya gifted neighbors a spider monkey
AFP, Published on 22/11/2022
» WASHINGTON - Seventeen hundred years ago, a female spider monkey was presented as a treasured gift -- and later brutally sacrificed -- to strengthen ties between two major powers of pre-Hispanic America, according to a new study.
Daily tests, cardboard beds: 24 hours at Tokyo's Olympic Village
AFP, Published on 13/07/2021
» TOKYO: For athletes competing at the Tokyo Games, the Olympic Village will be almost all they see, with strict coronavirus rules preventing them from leaving the compound except to train and compete.
Red wine to Bluetooth: Connectivity becomes precious commodity in sports science
AFP, Published on 06/11/2020
» PARIS - When the Greek runner Spiros Louis lit the flame under the Olympic ideal by winning the first marathon in the 1896 Olympics, he did it fuelled on a traditional Mediterranean diet.
Research tracks how pterosaurs mastered the primeval skies
AFP, Published on 29/10/2020
» PARIS: By the time they were wiped out alongside their dinosaur cousins, most winged pterosaurs had evolved from awkwardly airborne creatures to lords of the primeval skies, according to new research published Wednesday.