Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk, now playing in Poland due to Russia's invasion, count on solid support from a unique set of fans: refugee children for whom each match is an escape and a source of national pride.
On a windswept hillside in a remote corner of northern England, a peatland restoration plan pooling public and private money is underway which proponents claim provides a model for climate change mitigation.
Europe is taking longer than planned to concoct an EU-wide food-labelling system after a colour-coded scheme created in France did not go down well in culinary rival Italy.
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Economy
Middle-aged Austrian police officer Uwe and hip young Chechen social worker Ahmad may look like an unlikely duo, but their TikTok videos have become a huge hit in Austria.
March 09, 2023
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Sri Lanka reached 209-3 at tea after being asked to bat on the first day of the first Test in Christchurch, despite New Zealand taking the wickets of Kusal Mendis and Dimuth Karunaratne to break a 137-run partnership.
March 09, 2023
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Once a semi-legal sharing site, Crunchyroll is now a streaming giant credited with helping Japanese anime transform from a nerdy subculture into a lucrative global industry poised to conquer new markets.
March 09, 2023
Three people have been arrested in Japan over unhygienic pranks at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant after footage of their antics -- dubbed "sushi terrorism" -- sparked outrage online.
March 09, 2023
Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz can replace Novak Djokovic with a victory at the Indian Wells ATP Masters, and the 19-year-old Spaniard says he'll give it all he's got.
March 09, 2023
Economy
A dusty logjam of trucks inches across a rut in the mountains splitting Pakistan and Afghanistan, teeming with a cargo of fruit and coal -- and paying the Taliban authorities for the privilege of passage.
March 09, 2023
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Asian traders shifted cautiously Thursday ahead of key US jobs data at the end of the week, after Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell warned it could ramp up its pace of interest rate hikes if the economy shows no sign of slowing.
Kevin Durant's long-awaited home debut for the Phoenix Suns was put on hold Wednesday after the NBA superstar suffered an ankle injury during warm-ups.
Tiger Woods's ex-girlfriend has filed a lawsuit seeking to be released from a nondisclosure agreement she says the golf superstar made her sign at the start of their relationship in 2017, court filings showed Wednesday.
As reports swirl around the recent kidnapping in Mexico of four Americans, two of whom were killed, one detail has drawn particular attention -- they had crossed the border for a medical procedure.
March 09, 2023
Politics
As he languishes in a cell in Bulgaria, Saudi dissident Abd al-Rahman al-Khalidi dreads one thing more than any other: being flown back to his home country.
March 09, 2023
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As a teenager, Shirley Kurata worked in the Aratani Theatre in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. On Sunday, the venue will host an Oscars watch party for her film "Everything Everywhere All at Once" -- and she could be one of the winners.
Joenia Wapichana is used to charting new territory: the first Indigenous woman to earn a law degree in Brazil, she was also the first elected to Congress.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will hold a cabinet meeting Thursday near the site of a deadly shipwreck, as a debate rages over whether the right-wing government's migration policies cost lives.
Squeezing his eyes shut, a man breaks into song while filming himself getting a vasectomy -- a TikTok trend helping dispel misinformation about the procedure whose demand has soared following US upheaval over abortion rights.
March 09, 2023
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