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New 'Life is Strange' debuts as LGBTQ video games take off
AFP, Published on 10/09/2021
» BRUSSELS: With a bisexual protagonist who wields a mysterious superpower, the new instalment of "Life is Strange" is the latest in a growing array of video games that place LGBTQ characters in the spotlight.
This is going to hurt: Top 10 Covid scams
AFP, Published on 21/08/2021
» PARIS - From the sophisticated to downright strange, the pandemic has set off a wave of scams around the world from bogus doses and fake vaccine passes to criminal cremations.
Swiss voters may get last word on 'inclusive' writing
AFP, Published on 12/08/2021
» GENEVA - Ensuring gender neutrality in writing is a tricky business, and nowhere more so than in Switzerland which uses four languages and may soon put the issue to the popular vote.
Kigchoge marathon masterclass as delayed Tokyo Olympics set to close
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» TOKYO - Marathon world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge stormed to gold in one of the standout performances at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, with the curtain set to fall on the highly unusual Games.
Transgender lifter Hubbard retires after Olympic debut
AFP, Published on 04/08/2021
» TOKYO: Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has announced she will retire in the wake of her groundbreaking appearance at the Tokyo Olympics this week.
Transgender Olympian Hubbard hailed as debate rages
AFP, Published on 03/08/2021
» TOKYO: New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has been hailed as a transgender pioneer after her short-lived Olympic debut but Games chiefs continue to wrestle with the thorny issues raised by her historic appearance.
Weightlifter Hubbard becomes first trans woman at Olympics
AFP, Published on 02/08/2021
» TOKYO: Pioneering weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympic Games Monday, but her Tokyo dream was cut short when she crashed out of her final early.
Puerto Rico win first Olympics athletics gold, Belarusian sprinter 'safe'
AFP, Published on 02/08/2021
» TOKYO - Hurdler Jasmine Camacho-Quinn claimed Puerto Rico's first Olympics athletics gold on Monday but Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya was absent from the women's 200m after claiming her country had forced her to leave the Games.
Transgender weightlifter in Olympic debut as Games hot up
AFP, Published on 02/08/2021
» TOKYO - Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard takes centre stage at the Tokyo Games on Monday and Ethiopia-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan faces a daunting day on the athletics track in her ambitious pursuit of an Olympic treble.
Pandemic-hit Tokyo Olympics open in low-key ceremony without fans
AFP, Published on 23/07/2021
» TOKYO: The Tokyo Olympics were declared open in an eerily empty stadium on Friday after defying a year's pandemic delay and lingering coronavirus threats that will make them perhaps the most unusual Games in history.