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Sat, 04 Jun 2022 05:56:11 GMT
Dutch port's rooftop walk shows post-climate future
An organisation in the port city of Rotterdam has built a skywalk linking the roofs of the downtown shopping area to show what the future might look like. From a village to food cultivation and rainwater storage areas, the "Rooftop Days" associatio...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 05:42:11 GMT
Benzema -- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly side of French football
The 34-year-old's talent on the pitch is indisputable. He has a swathe of league titles with both Lyon and Real Madrid as well as five Champions League trophies and is a serious contender for the next Ballon d'Or. Even seven-time laureate Lionel Me...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 04:00:17 GMT
Myanmar villagers accuse junta troops of burning spree
The Sagaing region has seen fierce fighting and bloody reprisals since the coup last year, with local "People's Defence Force" (PDF) members clashing regularly with junta troops. Analysts say the informal militia has surprised junta forces with its...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 03:58:11 GMT
Rangers top Lighting 3-2 for commanding lead in NHL East final
K'Andre Miller, Kaapo Kakko and Mika Zibanejad scored for the Rangers and goalie Igor Shesterkin stopped 29 shots as the Rangers notched their eighth straight home victory. They ended the Lightning's streak of 17 straight post-season victories foll...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 03:36:20 GMT
Queen's jubilee goes pop with a party
The "Platinum Party at the Palace" is the highlight of the third day of public events to mark the 96-year-old monarch's record-breaking 70 years on the throne. Motown legend Diana Ross is a star attraction at the event, to be held on a purpose-buil...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 03:34:11 GMT
Japanese man becomes world's oldest to sail solo across Pacific
Famed ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie's arrival in the Kii Strait off western Japan capped a two-month trip that started from a yacht harbour in San Francisco in March. It was only the latest seagoing achievement by the Japanese octogenarian, who i...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 03:02:09 GMT
Bomb kills two peacekeepers in Mali: UN
They were just the latest deaths in the centre of the country, which has since 2012 been wracked by a deadly jihadist insurgency. In a separate incident, six civilians were killed when a cart hit another explosive device a day earlier, a military o...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:58:12 GMT
Haney blasts Kambosos as 'not a true champion' after missing weight
Unbeaten American Haney, the long-time WBC title holder who holds a 27-0 record, hit the scales at 134.92 pounds (61.19 kg) for Sunday's blockbuster bout in Melbourne. But when Australian Kambosos, who holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts, stepped up h...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:26:11 GMT
Real Madrid's Benzema drops appeal over 'sex tape' sentence
Benzema was sentenced in November 2021 and fined 75,000 euros ($82,000) over the 2015 extortion attempt that shocked French football and saw him exiled from the French national team for five-and-a-half years. The Real Madrid star has finally droppe...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:16:25 GMT
China, Hong Kong scrub Tiananmen memories on anniversary
Discussion of the crackdown is highly sensitive to China's communist leadership. It has gone to exhaustive lengths to erase Tiananmen from collective memory, omitting it from history textbooks and censoring online discussion. On June 4, 1989, the ...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 01:46:11 GMT
Why US gun violence spikes in warm weather
The link has been written about for decades by criminologists, with more recent research drilling down on the precise relationship between temperature and crime rates. For those who have studied the question, there are common sense as well as poten...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 01:40:16 GMT
Biden faces cloud on summit to reset Latin America ties
Regional leaders will descend on Los Angeles starting Monday for the weeklong Summit of the Americas at a time when China, seen by the United States as a fast-emerging rival, has been making inroads in a zone Washington has historically considered i...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:12:13 GMT
Harigae, Lee share halfway lead in US Women's Open
Australia's Lee, chasing a second major title after her triumph at the Evian Championship last year, had four of her six birdies on the front nine and rebounded from her only bogey at 14 with birdies at 15 and 16 to join Harigae on nine-under-par 13...

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 22:52:12 GMT
Australia's Smith leads PGA Memorial by one
The 28-year-old world number three from Queensland, chasing his third win of the year, carded four birdies against one bogey to move to eight under overall for the tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin. Smith, who started the day in a six-way t...

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 22:44:12 GMT
Floods kill at least two in Cuba
Many residents in the region lost power and a man in Pinar del Rio province also was missing, Cuban officials said. "Strong, heavy rain and electrical storms have been affecting the western and central regions of Cuba with accumulations greater th...



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