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Sri Lanka's javelin champ returns to 'broken' welcome

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Lake Energy Secures $80 Million for U.S. Renewable Energy Expansion

'We unleashed the beast': the world's fears and hopes about AI

Huge Van Gogh collection reunited for first time since 1984

Carragher sees Manchester City’s winning start as challenge to Arsenal

Stocks drop, oil climbs and Treasury yields hit 19-year high

Oasis fans weigh ticket costs and reunion memories ahead of 2027 tour

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Asian Games cruise ship arrives as accommodation complaints grow

EastEnders previews Kat’s grief after Zoe’s death

Giggs names Odegaard as favourite Arsenal player after strong start

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Hospitality leaders ask Burnham to halve VAT amid rising costs

Paris Olympics torch relay will involve 10,000 runners

There will be 10,000 torchbearers to carry the Olympic flame as it passes through some 60 French departments ahead of the 2024 Games, Paris Olympic organisers announced on Tuesday.

Crime-ridden S.Africa records three murders per hour

Almost three people were murdered every hour in South Africa during the first three months of the year, according to police statistics released on Tuesday.

Swiatek starts French Open bid as Djokovic defiant in Kosovo row

Iga Swiatek begins her bid to become the first woman in 16 years to successfully defend the French Open title on Tuesday as Novak Djokovic remained defiant after controversially weighing in on the Kosovo crisis.

Ugandan activists call for sanctions after tough anti-gay law passed

Ugandan activists called on foreign donors to impose sanctions on rights abusers after President Yoweri Museveni signed an anti-gay law described as among the world's harshest.

Austrian actor Peter Simonischek dies aged 76

Austrian actor Peter Simonischek, who played a whimsical patriarch in the prize-winning film "Toni Erdmann", died overnight in Vienna aged 76, a spokeswoman for the Austrian Federal Theatres said Tuesday.

Brooks back in Wales squad for first time since cancer recovery

David Brooks has been recalled to the Wales squad for the first time since his cancer diagnosis.

Norway fund to reject all-male boards in Japanese firms

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, will from now on vote against the nomination of all-male boards in Japanese companies, a senior fund official said Tuesday.

Field of dreams: Ugandan baseballer pitching for the big league

The baseball pitch is shared with grazing cows, but the rustic conditions are no distraction for Ugandan major league hopeful Dennis Kasumba.

Chinese mission with first civilian reaches space station

China sent three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, putting a civilian into orbit for the first time as it pursues plans to send a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030.