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Djokovic wins Cincy title to complete Masters matched set

Mason, OH (AFP) -- Novak Djokovic ended a career-long jinx, lifting the trophy in Cincinnati at last to complete a matched set of Masters 1000 titles. Djokovic, who came up empty in five prior Cinci...

[Newsmaker] Multiple quakes rock Indonesia's Lombok island, five dead

LOMBOK ISLAND (AFP) -- Multiple earthquakes -- including a powerful and shallow 6.9-magnitude tremor -- have rocked the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, killing at least five people and setting o...

August 20, 2018
World News
Park has share of clubhouse lead at rain-hit Indy golf

Park Sung-hyun took advantage of an early tee time to shoot her best round of 2018 on Friday and grab a share of the clubhouse lead during the LPGA Tour's Indy Championship. The South Korean fired a...

August 18, 2018
Golf
Japan must do more for WWII 'comfort women': UN experts

Japan should do more for victims of wartime sexual slavery, UN rights experts said at a hearing on Friday, insisting Tokyo had yet to provide full redress and reparations. Mainstream historians say ...

August 18, 2018
World News
Son's Asian Games hopes rocked by minnows Malaysia

Son Heung-min's hopes of avoiding military service by securing Asian Games gold suffered a blow Friday as South Korea were stunned 2-1 by minnows Malaysia. (Yonhap) The Tottenham Hotspur forward ca...

August 18, 2018
Soccer
Women accused of assassinating Kim Jong Nam face key court ruling

Two women accused of assassinating the half-brother of North Korea's leader in a brazen hit that shocked the world face a key court ruling Thursday, with their families hopeful they will be acquitted...

August 15, 2018
World News
Suspected terror attack injures pedestrians outside UK parliament

LONDON, (AFP) -- A car crashed into barriers outside Britain‘s Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday, injuring a “number of pedestrians” yards from where five people were kille...

August 14, 2018
International
At least 100 security forces killed in fight for Afghan city: minister

At least 100 security forces have been killed in the ongoing struggle to push the Taliban from the embattled Afghan city of Ghazni, a government minister said Monday, four days after the fighting beg...

August 13, 2018
World News
Tiger wakes up echoes with best major final round

ST. LOUIS (AFP) -- Now Tiger Woods is back. The 14-time major winner fired his lowest final round in a major, a six-under par-64, Sunday to finish second at the PGA Championship -- and a career once...

August 13, 2018
Golf
Investors sue Tesla's Musk over go-private tweets

Two investors filed suit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the electric car company after he tweeted he wanted to take the firm private, causing the share price to inflate and short-selling investors t...

August 12, 2018
World Business
'Suicidal' airport worker steals, crashes empty plane from Seattle airport

SEATAC, Washington (AFP) -- A 29-year-old "suicidal" airport worker who commandeered an empty plane from Seattle's main airport and took it on an hour-long flight chased by F-15 fighter jets before c...

August 12, 2018
World News
Nationwide probe after Tokyo med school excludes women

TOKYO - Japan Friday launched an unprecedented probe into gender discrimination at all the nation's medical universities after a Tokyo medical school admitted altering the entrance test results of fe...

August 10, 2018
World News
Four killed in shooting in Canadian town: police

MONTREAL - Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting in the eastern Canadian town of Fredericton, police said. Police urged people in the area of the shooting to remain in their homes, describ...

August 10, 2018
World News
Yemen in shock after Saudi-led strike on bus kills 29 children

DAHYAN, Yemen - The remains of victims and children's clothing were strewn across a market in northern Yemen on Friday, as the US and UN called for an investigation into an air strike the previous da...

August 10, 2018
World News
Drive to curb salt intake should focus on China: study

Salt consumption exceeds national and World Health Organization guidelines in most countries, but only the highest-sodium diets, such as in China, are linked to clear health risks, researchers said F...

August 10, 2018
World News

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