Showing 1 - 10 of 36
Massive black hole ‘waking up’ in Virgo constellation
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» PARIS - A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the constellation Virgo is “waking up”, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said on Friday.
New abnormal begins for east DR Congo's looted Goma after siege
AFP, Published on 31/01/2025
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - Strewn with rubble from mortar and artillery fire, the eastern DR Congo city of Goma awoke on Thursday to a new abnormal -- hiding from bandits and counting the dead.
At Asian weddings, cash is king
New York Times, Published on 12/08/2023
» SEOUL: When I received a wedding invitation from my friends Jiyeon Kim and Olof Norlander this year, I knew exactly where I would pick up their wedding present: the bank.
World scout jamboree evacuated as typhoon approaches
AFP, Published on 08/08/2023
» BUAN, South Korea - Tens of thousands of scouts were being evacuated from their problem-plagued South Korean campsite on Tuesday ahead of a typhoon, as the scout chief said the challenges were unprecedented in a century of global jamborees.
Djokovic on brink of Wimbledon quarters as Rybakina advances
AFP, Published on 10/07/2023
» LONDON - Novak Djokovic was on the brink of his 14th Wimbledon quarter-final on Monday as Spanish sensation Carlos Alcaraz prepared for a testing battle against Matteo Berrettini.
'Unabomber,' whose attacks terrorized US, dies in prison
AFP, Published on 11/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," who terrorized Americans from 1978 to 1995 with his sporadic, anonymous bombing campaign, died in prison Saturday, US authorities said.
New Zealand avoid Pakistan whitewash despite Iftikhar run blitz
AFP, Published on 08/05/2023
» KARACHI - Henry Shipley and Rachin Ravindra shared six wickets as New Zealand beat Pakistan by 47 runs in the fifth and final one-day international in Karachi on Sunday.
In east Ukraine, holding the line, waiting to attack
AFP, Published on 15/04/2023
» KRAMATORSK (UKRAINE) - In a muddied trench under fire from Russian forces 200 metres away, Ukrainian servicemen injured while holding the line near the bloodiest battle of Moscow's invasion face a precarious extraction.
Australia end England women's 30-game unbeaten run
AFP, Published on 12/04/2023
» LONDON - Australia upset England women 2-0 in a friendly at Brentford on Tuesday, to end the Lionesses' 30-match unbeaten streak.
Germany hand US women first home defeat in five years
AFP, Published on 11/11/2022
» MIAMI - Paulina Krumbiegel scored in the 89th minute to lift Germany to a 2-1 victory over the United States on Thursday, handing the women's World Cup champions a first home defeat in more than five years.