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Vonn breaks leg as crashes out in brutal end to Olympic dream
AFP, Published on 09/02/2026
» MILAN (ITALY) - Lindsey Vonn broke her leg as she crashed out of the Winter Olympics downhill on Sunday to brutally end the American skiing great's improbable dream of a medal.
Vonn crashes out of Winter Olympics, ending medal dream
AFP, Published on 08/02/2026
» CORTINA D'AMPEZZO (ITALY) - Lindsey Vonn crashed out of the Winter Olympics downhill on Sunday, ending the American skiing great's improbable dream of winning a medal despite competing with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.
Mexico's macabre Island of the Dolls inspires Tim Burton and Lady Gaga
AFP, Published on 15/09/2025
» XOCHIMILCO (MEXICO) - On the Island of the Dolls in Mexico City, hundreds of plastic toys wearing little more than rags hang from trees, their glass eyes staring down at visitors.
Open mic catches Xi and Putin discussing immortality
AFP, Published on 04/09/2025
» BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality as they chatted before Beijing’s massive military parade this week, in comments picked up by state media microphones.
'Organs failing': Russian activist's poisoning ordeal
AFP, Published on 03/10/2023
» PARIS - When Natalia Arno stands up for any length of time, her right side goes numb, as do her back and her face.
Chinese livestreamers flock outdoors for late-night tips
AFP, Published on 23/02/2023
» GUILIN (CHINA) - In the dead of night on a bridge in southern China, around two dozen livestreamers sat crooning and chatting into microphones, their identical ring lights spaced a few metres apart in glowing rows.
Ancient river delta bolsters search for signs of life on Mars
AFP, Published on 08/10/2021
» PARIS: Images from Mars reveal how water helped shape the Red Planet's landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will guide the search for evidence of ancient life, a study said Thursday.
Iberian lynx claws back from brink of extinction
AFP, Published on 28/07/2021
» DOñANA NATIONAL PARK, Spain: At a nature reserve in southern Spain, four baby Iberian lynxes sleep peacefully beside their mother, part of a captive breeding programme that has brought the species back from the brink of extinction.
After virus closures, Shakespeare returns... outside
AFP, Published on 14/07/2021
» STRATFORD-UPON-AVON (UNITED KINGDOM) - Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company has returned to the stage after an enforced 18-month absence due to the coronavirus pandemic -- at a specially built open-air theatre in the bard's home town.
Apple doubles down on privacy in new iPhone software
AFP, Published on 08/06/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: Apple on Monday said it is ramping up privacy and expanding features in new iPhone operating software to be released later this year.