Proposed women’s T20 league pleases Taylor
Captain of the West Indies women's team Stafanie Taylor believes it's great the recent announcement that the England and Wales Cricket Board is to...
Body of world-class climber may have been found 16 years later – reports CNN
(CNN) Sixteen years after Alex Lowe, a world-class climber, and David Bridges, a cameraman, were struck by an avalanche in a Tibetan mountain, their bodies...
Iraqi Shia protesters storm Baghdad parliament
Reprinted from BBC
Hundreds of Shia Muslim activists have stormed Iraq's parliament in Baghdad, in protest against continuing deadlock in approving a new cabinet.
Supporters of...
There’s a man hiding in this photo – can you spot him?
(CNN) How many times can you pull off the same disappearing act? An unlimited number of times -- if you're Chinese artist Liu...
Up in smoke: Kenya to torch US$170M worth of ivory
(CNN)- It's an overpowering display of the sheer size of Africa's poaching crisis. For the past week, several dozen men have circled a site...
Sir Viv defends Sammy, West Indies players amidst ICC criticisms
Former West Indies captain and one of two living national heroes, Sir Vivian Richards, has criticised the International Cricket Council (ICC) over its “reprimand” of...
Call to end rides after elephant’s death – in Cambodia
(BBC): Thousands of people have signed a petition against elephant-riding after an animal in Cambodia died after ferrying tourists to the famous Angkor Wat...
‘Dentist of horror’ jailed in France
(BBC) A Dutchman dubbed the "dentist of horror" has been sentenced to eight years in jail in France for mutilating the mouths of some...
Hillsborough: 96 soccer fans unlawfully killed, jury finds
(CNN) After more than two years, a British inquest into the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium tragedy in which 96 men, women and children...
U.S. Embassy worker, LGBT editor hacked to death in Bangladesh
(CNN) A U.S. Embassy worker and editor of Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine was among two men hacked to death Monday evening in Dhaka, officials say.
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