Nepali rescuers on Monday retrieved 16 bodies from the mangled wreckage of a passenger plane strewn across a mountainside that crashed in the Himalayas with 22 people on board.
All-rounder Hardik Pandya is being tipped as a future India captain after leading an unfancied debut team to victory in the world's most valuable cricket tournament.
Markets rose Monday as investors rediscovered some verve after the release of healthy US data and as China eases some of its strict Covid curbs in Shanghai and Beijing, lifting hopes for the world's number two economy.
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Culture
To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France.
May 30, 2022
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France's sports ministry will host a meeting of security and football officials Monday following the chaos that marred the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, as Paris prepares to host the 2024 Olympics.
May 30, 2022
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi holds talks with leaders and top officials from ten Pacific Island states Monday, part of a regional diplomatic blitz that has stirred deep Western concern.
May 30, 2022
After weeks of explosive testimony, the jury is finally deliberating in the defamation case between actors Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard.
May 30, 2022
South Korean Ji Eun-hee won the LPGA Match-Play tournament on Sunday, defeating Japan's Ayaka Furue 3&2 in the championship match at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas.
May 30, 2022
Sports
Cricket Australia unveiled a bumper home fixture list on Monday with eight bilateral men's series against five different opponents either side of their defence of the T20 World Cup.
May 30, 2022
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Two former mayors -- a leftist and an independent outsider -- will fight it out for the Colombian presidency on June 19 after coming out tops in a first voting round Sunday.
Sam Burns rolled in a 38-foot birdie putt from off the green at the first playoff hole to beat world number one Scottie Scheffler at the Charles Schwab Challenge on Sunday.
Carlos Alcaraz claimed Sunday that it would "not be fair" if he has to play his French Open quarter-final on Tuesday night with Rafael Nadal pushing for a daytime slot for his blockbuster clash with Novak Djokovic.
Colombians clamoring for "change" gave a leftist ex-guerrilla a historic lead Sunday in a first round of presidential elections that will culminate in a runoff against a populist outsider in June.
May 29, 2022
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Rafael Nadal set up a blockbuster French Open quarter-final against world number one Novak Djokovic on Sunday when he defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime in a five-set fourth round epic and pledged to "fight until the end".
May 29, 2022
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Who said what on the eighth day of the 2022 French Open at Roland Garros on Sunday:
Silvio Berlusconi will return to Italian football's top table for the first time since selling AC Milan after his club Monza were promoted to Serie A on Sunday.
Spanish teenage sensation Carlos Alcaraz romped into his first French Open quarter-final on Sunday with a straight-sets win over Russian Karen Khachanov.
South Korean Ji Eun-hee pulled away late to beat American Andrea Lee 4&3 on Sunday to line up a title clash with Japan's Ayaka Furue at the LPGA Match-Play in Las Vegas.
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