Thursday, 11 February 2021

Australian Open: Djokovic faces American Fritz in 3rd round

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A quick look at the Australian Open:

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Top-ranked Novak Djokovic takes on American Taylor Fritz in one of the high-intensity matches set on the Australian Open's fifth day. In what should be an entertaining encounter between two young Canadians, No. 11 Denis Shapovalov ...
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The Gubble opens: G League's bubble season begins

For the G League Ignite, it was a beginning.

For Jeremy Lin, it may be a new beginning.

The G League season has finally started, opening Wednesday inside a bubble at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and utilizing much of the same buildings and amenities that the ...
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Hustler founder and First Amendment battler Larry Flynt dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Larry Flynt, who turned his raunchy Hustler magazine into an empire while fighting numerous First Amendment court battles and flaying politicians with stunts such as a Donald Trump assassination Christmas card, has died. He was 78.

Flynt, who had been in declining health, died Wednesday at ...
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Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Police in Europe bust gang hijacking celeb phones, arrest 10

LONDON (AP) - Police have arrested 10 people in the U.K., Belgium and Malta for allegedly hijacking mobile phones belonging to U.S. celebrities including internet influencers, sports stars and musicians to steal personal information and millions in cryptocurrency, authorities said.

The European Union police agency Europol said Wednesday that the ...
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R&A has 'cautious optimism' that British Open will go ahead

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) - British Open organizers said Wednesday they have "cautious optimism" that golf's oldest major will go ahead at Royal St. George's in July.

The event was canceled last year - for the first time since 1945 - because of the coronavirus pandemic, with the R&A effectively ...
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Famed medieval Bayeux Tapestry goes online - every thread

PARIS (AP) - The world-famous medieval Bayeux Tapestry may be off-limits to visitors because of the coronavirus pandemic, but its keepers have put a digital version online so the public can enjoy its fabled cloth from the safety of home.

At nearly 70 meters (77 yards) long, users may have ...
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8 sentenced to death in Bangladesh for killing publisher

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A special tribunal in Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday sentenced to death eight Islamic militants for the 2015 killing of a publisher of books on secularism and atheism.

Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Majibur Rahman announced the verdicts in a packed courtroom in the presence of six ...
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