Asian stocks were up on Friday, tracking big gains on Wall Street fuelled by strong tech earnings and mixed, but manageable, macroeconomic data.
Sweden's Linnea Johansson fired a superb seven-under par 64 on Thursday to grab the first-round lead in the LPGA LA Championship at Wilshire Country Club.
Women are a rare sight in Japanese politics, but 20-year-old Rinka Saito is determined to run for office one day because "you can't have true democracy without diversity".
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Draped in a colorful campaign banner and wearing an oversize "God, Guns and Trump" medallion around her neck, Angela Wilkinson insisted at a political rally that her hero will oust Joe Biden from the White House next year.
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The top two teams in Major League Soccer clash on Saturday when the New England Revolution host FC Cincinnati at Gillete Stadium.
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Three years after the Covid-19 pandemic canceled Major League Baseball's first planned regular-season games in Mexico City, the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants are finally set to play ball there.
April 27, 2023
Donald Trump vowed Thursday to "crush" Joe Biden in the 2024 election, warning in his first campaign stop since his successor entered the 2024 race that the United States will descend into "anarchy" if the Republican billionaire isn't returned to office.
April 27, 2023
The crucial semiconductor industry, that powers everything from personal computers, smartphones to fighter jets, suffered a dismal first quarter as demand plummeted for chips.
April 27, 2023
Sports
Tottenham fought back from 2-0 down to hold Manchester United to a 2-2 draw on Thursday as Newcastle closed in on Champions League football with a 4-1 thrashing of Everton.
April 27, 2023
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Sudanese fighter jets pounded paramilitaries in Khartoum on Thursday while deadly fighting and looting flared in Darfur, as the army and a rival force agreed to extend an existing ceasefire even as battles raged.
Son Heung-min's late equaliser completed a stirring Tottenham fightback from two goals down in their 2-2 draw against top-four rivals Manchester United on Thursday.
Wall Street stocks shook off recent weakness and powered higher on Thursday following strong results from Facebook parent Meta Platforms and mixed US economic data.
Lamar Jackson has agreed to terms on a five-year contract extension with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, ending months of uncertainty about how the 26-year-old quarterback's future would unfold.
April 27, 2023
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Australia's oldest coal-fired power plant will shut down Friday as the country, a once-notorious climate straggler, prepares for a seismic shift towards renewable energy.
April 27, 2023
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Newcastle moved another step closer to Champions League football next season and pushed Everton ever closer to the Championship with a 4-1 win at Goodison Park on Thursday.
New York's Central Park has a statue dedicated to him, and there's even been a movie about him: a sled dog named Balto. Now he is the focus of a DNA study, 90 years after he died, to see what made the pooch so famously tough.
Shares in Amazon leapt on Thursday after the online retail colossus reported it made a lot more money than expected in the first quarter of 2023.
An attorney for Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards vowed to "vigorously defend" the NBA standout from third-degree assault charges by Denver police, who say he swung a chair and injured two women.
April 27, 2023
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