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US charges nine in art, sports memorabilia theft conspiracy
AFP, Published on 16/06/2023
» NEW YORK - An Andy Warhol silkscreen, Jackson Pollock painting and World Series rings awarded to baseball legend Yogi Berra -- those were just a few of the high-value items US prosecutors charged nine people Thursday with stealing.
'A legend': Ukraine bids farewell to boxing coach killed by Russian missile
AFP, Published on 18/01/2023
» DNIPRO (UKRAINE) - Hundreds of people packed a local sports academy in Dnipro Tuesday to pay their respects to boxing coach Mykhaylo Korenovsky, who was killed when a Russian missile hit an apartment block last weekend.
Philippines presidential hopeful Pacquiao says he was 'naive' drug user
AFP, Published on 23/11/2021
» MANILA: Philippines presidential hopeful Manny Pacquiao says he was "naive" and ignorant of the law when he took crystal meth in his youth, but argues offenders today know drugs are illegal and should be punished.
Pacquiao makes Philippines presidential run official
Reuters, Published on 01/10/2021
» MANILA: Newly retired boxing icon Manny Pacquiao was the first to file his candidacy for the presidency of the Philippines at the start of registration for thousands of political posts in what is expected to be a hotly contested election in May next year.
Manny Pacquiao quits boxing with presidency in sights
AFP, Published on 29/09/2021
» MANILA - Philippine boxing legend and 2022 presidential hopeful Manny Pacquiao said on Wednesday that he is hanging up his gloves after a glittering decades-long career in the ring.
China gives 1-billionth Covid shot as Brazil toll tops 0.5m
AFP, Published on 20/06/2021
» China on Sunday announced it had administered its one-billionth shot in the world's biggest coronavirus inoculation drive as Brazil's death toll from the pandemic passed 500,000.
Mission Impossible? Enable and Dettori bid for Arc immortality
AFP, Published on 03/10/2020
» PARIS - Enable, ridden by Frankie Dettori, will bid on Sunday to achieve what the Italian jockey labels the "impossible" and become the first horse to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe three times.
Staggering and punching, but sober: China's 'drunken boxers'
AFP, Published on 28/08/2020
» SHANGHAI - Liu Xuliang lunges menacingly as if spoiling for a fight after too many drinks. But he is in fact stone-cold sober and an expert in an ancient Chinese martial art known as drunken boxing.
Wilder, Fury bulk up for heavyweight showdown
AFP, Published on 22/02/2020
» LAS VEGAS - American boxer Deontay Wilder will be at a career high weight, but will still be 42 pounds lighter than Tyson Fury for their much-anticipated heavyweight rematch at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
Romanian boxer inspires girls to knock out poverty
AFP, Published on 20/02/2020
» BUZAU (ROMANIA) - Steluta Duta was a teenaged orphan living on the streets when, one cold January day in 2002, she stepped through the door of a boxing gym in the town of Buzau and embarked on her unlikely path to becoming an elite athlete.