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Sooriyabandara, Mendis lead Sri Lanka fightback after follow-on

With ropes and chants, thousands move Japanese castle

Nepal floods at China border kill 8, cause 'major casualties' in Tibet

Zurich Diamond League: five events to watch

France eases cow diets as cheesemakers sweat

'Black smoke' chokes Pakistan maternity ward as hospital fire kills 14 infants

America unites in mourning for Dolly Parton

French flight attendant wins landmark breast cancer ruling

Meta and US states discuss settlement in landmark social media trial: report

Sri Lanka 83-2 after India enforce follow-on in second Test

Fire haze threatens health of millions in Indonesia, ministry warns

Pakistan hospital fire kills 14 infants

Senegal-made sickle cell treatment raises hopes, reduces costs

Iceland to vote on resuming EU talks in close referendum

North Korea to 'bring joy' to Kim with 100 athletes at Asian Games

North Korea will send about 100 athletes to compete across 14 sports at the Asian Games in Japan next month, a senior official said, aiming to "bring joy to Marshal Kim Jong Un".

'Our patron saint': Tennesseans mourn local hero Dolly Parton

With Dolly Parton's "Jolene" filling the night air, fans of the late country music icon laid flowers at a Tennessee statue of the singer who changed their US state forever.

Australian police hunt thieves in $250,000 oyster heist

Australian police said Wednesday they were on the hunt for thieves who made off with hundreds of thousands of oysters.

England bid to banish booze woes as Pakistan seek self-respect

England will aim to put their latest drinking drama behind them when they face Pakistan in the second Test at Lord's starting on Thursday.

High quality, low risk: record number of Japanese in Premier League

A record number of Japanese players are in the Premier League this season, with clubs attracted by their proven quality, value for money and the "very little risk" involved in signing them.

Asian Games chiefs hold talks as participant numbers balloon

Japanese Asian Games organisers said Wednesday they were holding "regular discussions" with Asian Olympic chiefs after a report claimed they had asked for the ballooning number of participants to be scaled back.

Too small for fries: drought shrinks Belgian potatoes

Mathieu Comijn inspected rows of potatoes in a field of cracked earth and browned leaves, pulling from the ground tubers barely the size of ping-pong balls.

Pakistan's girls fight for their place in the boxing ring

Sweat trickling down her face, aspiring teenage boxer Hoorain Zahra works on a punch combination, eager to follow in the footsteps of her idol Aliya Soomro.

Drought-hit Danube gives way to fossil hunt in Bulgaria

Volunteers scanned the dried-up bank of the Danube in northern Bulgaria, close to where receding waters laid bare mammoth bones last month, hoping to find more fossilised fragments exposed by Europe's parching drought.

Five things to know about Anthropic ahead of Wall Street debut

Anthropic, the OpenAI rival that bet everything on computer coding, is expected to go public within weeks in a listing that could eclipse SpaceX's record Wall Street debut in June.

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