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Ugandan Olympic athlete dies after being severely burned by her partner over a land dispute
BY EVELYNE MUSAMBI, Associated Press Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after ...China wins the first gold medal of the 2024 Olympics in mixed team air rifle ...
China has won the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, but its athletes were nowhere near Paris. The Olympic shooting range, ...Five killed in South Africa’s Cape Town amid taxi strike
Five people have been killed in the South African city of Cape Town as a strike by mini-bus taxi drivers that began ...Brazil football legend Pele dies aged 82
Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern ...Argentina wins the 2022 World Cup
Argentina won the World Cup on Sunday after beating defending champions France 4-2 on penalties, following a dramatic 3-3 draw after extra ...World Cup gets underway with stakes high for host Qatar
Qatar’s ruler opened the World Cup on Sunday with a call for people of all races and orientations to put aside their ...Thousands of workers evicted in Qatar’s capital ahead of World Cup
Qatar has emptied apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the same areas in the centre of the capital Doha where ...Indonesia authorities say 174 dead after soccer melee, stampede
Brazilians are voting on Sunday in the first round of their country’s most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula ...Thousands revive Sydney’s famous road race after COVID hiatus
More than 60,000 people thronged Sydney’s streets on Sunday for an annual road running event and mass party that returned for the ...Qatar to re-install Zidane statue that sparked backlash
Qatar plans to re-install a sculpture immortalising French-Algerian soccer player Zinedine Zidane’s head butt during the 2006 World Cup final, which had ...