Wales star Halfpenny set to join Super Rugby champions Crusaders
Welsh back Leigh Halfpenny is set to join defending Super Rugby Pacific champions Canterbury Crusaders for the 2024 season, a source close to the Christchurch-based club told AFP on Thursday.
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Solar mini-grids offer clean-power hope to rural Africa
Working as a nurse in her rural Nigerian village, Andat Datau faced more than her share of challenges. But delivering babies by torchlight was always hard.
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Texas Rangers capture first World Series title
The Texas Rangers captured the World Series for the first time in the team's 63-year history on Wednesday, defeating Arizona 5-0 to complete a historic playoff championship run.
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Nuggets mauled by Timberwolves, Celtics stay unbeaten
The defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets crashed to their first defeat of the season in an upset 110-89 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday, while Boston extended their unbeaten start with a brutal thrashing of Indiana.
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Bank of England set to hold interest rate
The Bank of England was expected Thursday to keep its interest rate on hold for a second successive meeting, as Britain battles stubbornly high inflation and weak economic growth.
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Five not-so-famous things about The Beatles
One of the world's most famous music bands, The Beatles, are back 53 years after they broke up with a "new" record to be released Thursday.
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New Beatles single 'Now and Then' set for release
A new Beatles song produced with a little help from artificial intelligence and including the vocals of John Lennon will be released on Thursday, more than four decades after it was originally recorded as a demo.
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Flags at half-mast in Beijing as China mourns late premier
Flags flew at half-mast in Beijing on Thursday as China prepared for the funeral of late ex-premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat who was once tipped as the country's future leader but was eclipsed by Xi Jinping.
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Italy's dormant bobsleigh track ready for troubled 2026 Winter Olympics
The Cesena Torinese bobsleigh track has been dormant for over a decade since being built for the 2006 Winter Olympics but is ready to come to the aid of the troubled Milan-Cortina edition in just under two years' time.
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Hernandez double fires Columbus in 2-0 MLS playoff win
Cucho Hernandez scored twice as Columbus Crew defeated Atlanta United 2-0 in the opening game of their best-of-three MLS Eastern Conference playoff series on Wednesday.
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