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".
Read more'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.
Read moreAustralian 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.
Read moreEngland 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.
Read moreHigh 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.
Read moreAsian 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.
Read moreToo 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.
Read morePakistan'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.
Read moreDrought-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.
Read moreFive 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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