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Greeks count cost of wildfire ‘tragedy’ near Athens
AFP, Published on 09/08/2025
» PALAIA FOKAIA, Greece - In the municipality of Palaia Fokaia, an hour’s drive south of Athens, a typical bucolic Greek landscape of olive groves and hamlets was transformed by a raging Friday wildfire into a dystopia of blackened land and incinerated homes.
Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats
AFP, Published on 16/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine for scientists.
Ukrainian gunships rain rockets on Russian targets
AFP, Published on 11/03/2023
» HELICOPTER BASE, Ukraine: Three Mi-8 helicopter gunships rise up from a secret base in Ukraine and head at low altitude for the long-running battle for Bakhmut against Russian forces.
Funny old world: The week's offbeat news
AFP, Published on 06/01/2023
» PARIS: From thousands of little Ronaldos to the secret of skimming stones ... Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.
US drought exposes murky mob past of Las Vegas
AFP, Published on 04/07/2022
» LAS VEGAS: Mobsters who end up sleeping with the fishes are usually never seen again.
Britney Spears 'strongly opposed' to father as her sole guardian
AFP, Published on 20/08/2020
» LOS ANGELES: After more than a decade living under a conservatorship that sees her father steer her personal and professional matters, Britney Spears is seeking to significantly alter the terms of the arrangement.
Ghosn wants case dismissed over 'prosecutor misconduct'
AFP, Published on 24/10/2019
» TOKYO - Ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn on Thursday urged a Tokyo court to dismiss the case against him, accusing Japanese prosecutors of a "pervasive pattern of illegal misconduct".
High above Greenland glaciers, NASA looks into melting ocean ice
AFP, Published on 26/08/2019
» ON A NASA DC3 ABOVE GREENLAND (GREENLAND) - Skimming low over the gleaming white glaciers on Greenland's coast in a modified 1940s plane, three NASA scientists, led by an Elvis-impersonating oceanographer, waited to drop a probe into the water beneath them.
Kohlschreiber shocks top-ranked Djokovic in Indian Wells
AFP, Published on 13/03/2019
» INDIAN WELLS: Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber stunned Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday, claiming his first career win over a world No. 1 player to reach the fourth round of the ATP Indian Wells Masters.
Kohlschreiber stuns No. 1 Djokovic at Indian Wells
AFP, Published on 13/03/2019
» INDIAN WELLS: World number one Novak Djokvoic fell in straight sets to 39th-ranked Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany on Tuesday in the third round of the ATP Indian Wells Masters.