Ferns fend off Canada to retain Olympic rugby Sevens Crown on August 1, 2024Stacy Waaka dived into the corner to clinch back-to-back Olympic women´s rugby sevens titles for New Zealand with a 19-12 win over Canada on Tuesday in front of more than 60,000 spectators at Stade de France. The Canadians were coming off upset wins over host France in the quarterfinals and 2016 champion Australia in the […]
Djokovic beats rival Nadal at the Paris Olympics in their 60th head-to-head match on July 31, 2024Novak Djokovic, who won, and Rafael Nadal, who lost, met at the net and hugged after playing at the Paris Olympics in the 60th – and quite possibly last – installment of a record-breaking and often riveting rivalry between two tennis greats who share a mutual respect if not a close friendship. This 6-1, 6-4 […]
China makes it 2 for 2 in Olympic diving, leaving Britain’s Tom Daley with a silver on July 31, 2024With Tom Daley out of the way, China is another step closer to an unprecedented sweep at the Olympic diving pool. Lian Junjie and Yang Hao breezed to victory in the synchronized 10-meter platform Monday to give the Big Red Machine its second straight gold medal of the Paris Games. The three-time reigning world champions […]
Canadian Summer McIntosh wins gold in 400-meter IM on July 31, 2024Canadian phenom Summer McIntosh claimed the first gold medal of her just-burgeoning career Monday night with a dominating victory in the 400-meter individual medley at the Paris Olympics. The 17-year-old McIntosh collected her first medal of any color on the opening night of swimming, taking a silver in the 400 freestyle behind Ariarne Titmus – […]
Japan surges past China for men’s gymnastics team gold on July 31, 2024The Japanese men’s gymnastics team claimed Olympic gold with an epic comeback over its top rival. With China looking poised to claim its first Olympic title in 12 years with one rotation to go, Japan surged ahead to win the Paris Olympics men´s team competition Monday after an intense and nail-biting duel. The Japanese overtook […]
PM’s hospital exit turns into shootout in Haiti on July 31, 2024Security officers had to fire shots Monday to cover Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille’s exit from a hospital in Port-au-Prince on Monday, the prime minister’s office said. Conille was visiting Haiti´s largest hospital with the head of the national police, Normil Rameu, and some journalists when gunshots were heard outside the building, it said. The […]
Trump and Harris enter 99-day sprint to decide an election on July 30, 2024Barely a week ago, a sense of inevitability hung over the U.S. presidential election. Donald Trump’s allies gleefully predicted a landslide victory during a Republican National Convention that felt more like a coronation for a nominee who had just survived an assassination attempt and was promising to unite the country. Democrats, desperate and listless, feared […]
Technology’s grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines on July 29, 2024“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective software program that was supposed to help […]
12 killed by mudslide in China on July 29, 2024At least 12 people were killed after a mudslide hit a homestay house in a tourist area in southeastern China on Sunday as heavy rains from what remained of a tropical storm drenched the region, state media said. Elsewhere in China, a delivery person on a scooter was killed Saturday after being hit by a […]
What it feels like when Earth’s temperatures soar to record highs on July 28, 2024In the unrelenting heat of Morocco´s Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour needed refuge too, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin who was in a room without air conditioning. On Wednesday, there were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellal´s main hospital as temperatures spiked to 48.3 degrees […]