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Undefeated boxing great Crawford announces retirement
AFP, Published on 17/12/2025
» LOS ANGELES - Undefeated world super middleweight champion Terence Crawford announced his retirement from boxing on Tuesday, hanging up his gloves three months after a career-defining victory over Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.
Five takeaways from Luigi Mangione evidence hearings
AFP, Published on 13/12/2025
» NEW YORK - Lawyers for the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive on a Manhattan street have been in court seeking to have key pieces of evidence ruled inadmissible at his trial.
Gloves off, Red run, vested interests: Singapore GP talking points
AFP, Published on 06/10/2025
» SINGAPORE - McLaren clinched the Formula One constructors title, but their drivers' tempers frayed in the heat of a Singapore Grand Prix won by the Mercedes of George Russell.
‘Raped, jailed, tortured, left to die’: the hell of being gay in Turkmenistan
AFP, Published on 18/09/2025
» WARSAW - Two men who escaped one of the world’s most secretive and repressive states have told AFP how they were tortured, beaten and raped in Turkmenistan for the “crime” of being gay.
Auction of world's largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate
AFP, Published on 13/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks fallen from the heavens.
‘Gloves are off’: Cancelled US TV host blasts Trump
AFP, Published on 22/07/2025
» NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert had an unflinching message for US President Donald Trump in his first broadcast since his “Late Show” was cancelled amid a political firestorm — “the gloves are off.”
'Rested' Pacquiao relishing boxing comeback at 46
AFP, Published on 04/06/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - Manny Pacquiao on Tuesday shrugged off concerns about his decision to return to boxing at the age of 46 as he prepares for next month's world welterweight title comeback against Mario Barrios.
French prosecutors urge 10-year terms for Kardashian robbers
AFP, Published on 21/05/2025
» PARIS - Prosecutors on Wednesday urged a French court to hand 10-year prison terms to the four men accused of robbing American superstar Kim Kardashian of some $10 million worth of jewellery at a Paris hotel.
Inside South Africa's wildlife CSI school helping to catch poachers
AFP, Published on 21/04/2025
» CAPE TOWN - The rhino lay frozen in the sand, its grey legs stiff, glassy eyes open, horn crudely sawed off.
The miracle babies who survived a concentration camp
AFP, Published on 15/04/2025
» PARIS - They were born in a hell on Earth and were never supposed to survive. But by some miracle a handful of babies born in the Ravensbruck concentration camp in northern Germany made it out alive.