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Yahoo reveals new hack, this time a billion-plus users
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» WASHINGTON - Yahoo said personal data from over a billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013 -- twice as big as another breach disclosed just three months ago.
Cricket great Kohli offers vision of India future
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» SYDNEY - Virat Kohli joined the greats with three double-centuries as India dominated Test cricket in a year where 'homeless' Pakistan soared and dived and Australia grappled with crisis.
AFP reviews notable sports deaths in 2016
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» PARIS - AFP Sport review of notable sports deaths of the year:
US Fed on verge of interest rate hike
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» WASHINGTON - The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday was widely expected to increase interest rates for only the second time in a decade when it wraps up a two-day meeting, the central bank's first since Donald Trump's election victory.
Rival football fans unite after Istanbul attacks
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» ISTANBUL - Thousands of football fans came out in a show of solidarity on Wednesday for an emotionally-charged first match after twin bombings outside the Istanbul stadium of top Turkish team Besiktas.
Hartley banned for six weeks, cleared for Six Nations
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» LONDON - England captain Dylan Hartley will be available to skipper the Six Nations Grand Slam titleholders for their opening game after receiving a six-week ban on Wednesday.
France's Gignac ends goal drought after hypnotism
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» MEXICO CITY - French forward Andre-Pierre Gignac had gone two months without a goal for his Mexican club Tigres of Monterrey when he got an assist from an unlikely source: A hypnotist.
Fortunes to be made, lost in China's football 'Wild West'
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» HONG KONG - Heavy Chinese investment is reshaping the landscape of world football but fortunes could be lost as well as made in an environment that remains "a bit Wild West".
Dollar surges, most markets sink on Fed rate call
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» HONG KONG - The US dollar surged against its peers on Thursday and most Asian markets tumbled after the Federal Reserve indicated it will likely embark on a steeper path of interest rate hikes over the next year.
Irish village gears up to party for local hero Trump
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» DOONBEG (IRELAND) - On a windswept coastline in western Ireland, a sleepy hamlet is preparing one hell of an inauguration party on January 20 when billionaire tycoon and local investor Donald Trump becomes US president.