PARIS (Reuters) -Zambia are expected to take part in the Paris Paralympics despite being omitted from the opening ceremony after they failed to confirm that they were travelling to the Games, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on Thursday.
Manny Pacquiao will face Errol Spence Jr. on Aug. 21, according to social media announcements from both boxers on Friday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris 2024 Paralympics are heading towards record tickets sale as the global event continues its growth 12 years after getting a huge boost in London, although challenges remain, organisers said on Friday.
It’s the beginning of polar bear season in Churchill, a tiny town on a spit of land jutting into Hudson Bay, and keeping tourists safe from hungry and sometimes fierce bears is an essential job for Van Nest and many others.
LONDON (Reuters) - A pair of 18-year-olds gave Tottenham Hotspur fans reason to believe in a bright future on Wednesday as Lucas Bergvall and Archie Gray shone in a 1-0 victory over Liverpool in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final.
The painted angels - with round childlike faces and wings - once were among the defining features of Old North Church when they were painted around 1730.
The increasing pervasiveness of working online with a laptop means that employees often enjoy greater flexibility and employers can attract talent that might otherwise be out of reach.
Today, the company is still trying to mitigate the fallout from the app debacle and salvage its reputation as a powerhouse in the audio industry offering an array of portable, high-quality wireless speakers.
The message is clear: Paralympians are not participating. They are competing.
People perceive food depictions in AI-generated images as tastier than real food in photographs, according to scientists at the University of Oxford, who fear this budding technology could one day be used to sell unhealthy food.
PARIS (Reuters) -Canada were deducted six points in the Olympic women's soccer tournament and their head coach Bev Priestman banned for a year, global governing body FIFA said on Saturday, following a drone spying scandal that has tainted their gold medal defence.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man was charged with a terrorism offence on Thursday after walking into a politician's electorate office with plans to kill him, the authorities and local media said.
Quinto is banned from the Toronto bistro for behaving 'like an entitled child'.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on Sunday that the well-being and mental health of two newly arrived Afghan athletes are its top priority, and the pair will not be speaking to media during the Paralympic Games.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Some athletes have already started being vaccinated against COVID-19, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday, ahead of the release of new guidelines that he says will show that Tokyo Games organisers are in a much better position than the public believes.
Massage therapists can help ease the pain of hospice patients, but very few specialise in this area.
IT SEEMS a match made in heaven: Reddit’s rambunctious army of retail investors eager to take on the financial elites, and the world of silver “bugs”, hard-core metal bulls, many of whom have long argued the price was being suppressed by powerful forces.
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (AFP): A two-year break from boxing has left Philippine legend Manny Pacquiao "hungry" to get back in the ring for what could be the last fight of his storied career -- and a warm-up for a presidential rumble.
MALAYSIA is blessed with a variety of delicious cuisines. And Malaysians are known for our very unique greeting, "Dah makan?"