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Removing 'camouflage,' Brazil football referee comes out
AFP, Published on 12/08/2022
» BELO HORIZONTE (BRAZIL) - Growing up, he never liked football, but Igor Benevenuto played it anyway to avoid being teased with homophobic jokes -- something all too common in his hometown in southeastern Brazil.
Sunak or Truss to be Britain's next PM
AFP, Published on 21/07/2022
» LONDON - Conservative rivals Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, offering competing answers to Britain's multiple crises, will duel in the coming weeks to become the next prime minister after the party's lawmakers held a concluding vote Wednesday.
Tiger makes final preparations for epic Masters return
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» AUGUSTA (UNITED STATES) - Tiger Woods has talked the talk, now he'll have to walk the walk as he chases a record-tying sixth Masters title only 14 months after suffering severe leg injuries in a car crash.
Tiger-mania builds as Woods practices well at Augusta
AFP, Published on 05/04/2022
» AUGUSTA (UNITED STATES) - Tiger Woods practiced before thousands of supportive spectators on Monday at Augusta National ahead of the 86th Masters, where he hopes to make his first start since a car crash 14 months ago left him with severe right leg injuries.
City of centenarians points the way for China's ageing future
AFP, Published on 12/05/2021
» RUGAO, China: Gu Bin leans over a desk as he carefully adds strokes to the Chinese character for "fortune", before signing off in a flourish with his age -- 104.
Bloodshed continues in Myanmar, troops open fire on protesters
Reuters, Published on 07/04/2021
» Myanmar troops stormed an anti-coup protest camp on Wednesday, a resident said, in a pre-dawn operation that local media said killed and wounded several demonstrators, as activists defied a bloody crackdown and internet blockade by the ruling junta.
China's luxury shoppers call in the tidy teams
AFP, Published on 09/11/2020
» BEIJING: The discovery of a Burberry jacket she does not recall buying proved to Chen Rui that she was right to have brought in experts to manage her out-of-control luxury wardrobe.
Missile strikes hit Azerbaijan cities after shelling of Armenia separatist capital
AFP, Published on 17/10/2020
» GANJA (AZERBAIJAN) - A missile strike levelled a row of homes in Azerbaijan's second city of Ganja Saturday, killing and badly injuring people in their sleep in a sharp escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Ivory Coast PM and presidential candidate Coulibaly dies aged 61
AFP, Published on 09/07/2020
» ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died Wednesday after attending a cabinet meeting, just three months before presidential elections that he was due to contest. He was 61.
US Olympic swim champion, a rape survivor, fights abuse in sport
AFP, Published on 05/03/2020
» NEW YORK - Three years after the trauma of being raped by a stranger while jogging outside a university campus, American swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar lit up the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles by winning three gold medals and a silver.