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Italy marks 30th anniversary of murder of anti-mafia judge Falcone
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» ROME: Thirty years ago, the Sicilian mafia killed judge Giovanni Falcone with a bomb so powerful it was registered by experts monitoring volcanic tremors from Etna on the other side of the island.
'King of streets': Last skateboarder on Ukraine front
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» KRAMATORSK (UKRAINE) - The baby-faced teenager in baggy shorts races his skateboard past the bombed burger joint and hit Peace Square just as air raid sirens rolled over the Ukrainian front.
Father of teen shot by US police demands jail terms
AFP, Published on 29/12/2021
» LOS ANGELES - The father of teenager accidentally shot dead by US police in a department store, demanded jail time Tuesday for the officers involved in her killing.
Spanish orchestra makes music from recycled junk
AFP, Published on 24/12/2021
» MADRID - Cristina Vazquez, a Roma teen who grew up in a Madrid shantytown, never imagined herself playing the violin.
McLaughlin lights up Tokyo track as Brown bids to become youngest Olympic champ
AFP, Published on 04/08/2021
» TOKYO - Sydney McLaughlin obliterated her own world record to win women's 400m hurdles gold on Wednesday as skateboard star Sky Brown stayed on track to become the youngest Olympic champion in history.
Japan's Nishiya, 13, first women's Olympic skateboard champion
AFP, Published on 26/07/2021
» TOKYO - Japan's Momiji Nishiya became one of the youngest individual Olympic champions in history when she won the inaugural women's skateboarding gold at the age of 13 years and 330 days on Monday.
Japan's Nishiya, 13, wins inaugural women's Olympic skateboard gold
AFP, Published on 26/07/2021
» TOKYO - Japan's Momiji Nishiya became one of the youngest individual Olympic champions in history when she won the inaugural women's skateboarding gold at the age of 13 years and 330 days on Monday.
Skateboarders hope Olympic gold changes minds in 'strict' Japan
AFP, Published on 26/07/2021
» TOKYO - At the Tokyo park where skateboarding's first Olympic gold medallist, Yuto Horigome, learned to grind, ollie and kick-flip as a child, the sport is now banned.
Sex sells: China farm region becomes 'lingerie capital'
AFP, Published on 25/04/2021
» GUANYUN (CHINA) - Americans like their lingerie to be risque, Europeans prefer it more classy, and Chinese remain a bit shy but are opening up. But the biggest order of all came from North Korea.
Bangkok coffin-maker kickflips his caskets into skateboards
AFP, Published on 24/03/2021
» From a final resting place for the dead to a gnarly way to land a trick; a coffin-maker is affixing Buddhist emblems to the dismantled walls of his caskets, and transforming them into skateboards.