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Sabalenka to Andreeva: Five women to watch at the Australian Open

Sabalenka eyes Australian Open hat-trick but Swiatek, Gauff lurk

Asian markets mostly rise after tech-fuelled Wall St rally

Ex-England skipper Vaughan backs shake-up 'to keep Test cricket relevant'

US records its first human death from bird flu

France to remember Charlie Hebdo attacks 10 years on

'Comeback' queen Demi Moore 'has always been here,' says director

Homes talk and tables walk at AI dominated CES

Kyrgios set for Davis Cup return after five years

Golden Globes ratings edge up past 10 million

USA striker Vazquez joins Austin in club record deal

Embiid pours in 50 points to lead 76ers over Magic, Nets edge Wizards

Philadelphia center Joel Embiid matched his career high with 50 points to lead the 76ers to a 123-110 NBA victory over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday.

Teen Tauson says room to improve after upsetting Kontaveit

Danish teenager Clara Tauson played the match of her life Thursday to send Estonian sixth seed Anett Kontaveit tumbling out of the Australian Open, but said she had plenty of room for improvement.

Snow falls on Chinese capital as two-week Olympics countdown starts

Beijing was hit by a blanket of snow Thursday, as the Winter Olympics countdown clocked two weeks until the Chinese capital hosts the sporting extravaganza.

Happy tennis couple Monfils and Svitolina thrive on married life

Flamboyant Frenchman Gael Monfils says his "caring" wife Elina Svitolina has been a stabilising influence and having her on tour has helped his game immensely.

Third seed Muguruza stunned in second round by 'dinosaur' Cornet

French veteran Alize Cornet described herself as "a bit of a dinosaur" after she sent world number three and 2020 finalist Garbine Muguruza crashing out of the Australian Open in the second round Thursday, upsetting the Spaniard 6-3, 6-3.

Ex-pope Benedict under scrutiny in German child abuse probe

A potentially explosive report into the handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church will on Thursday be published in Germany, with former pope Benedict XVI among those in the spotlight.

Natural immunity more potent than vaccines during US Delta wave: study

During America's last surge of the coronavirus driven by the Delta variant, people who were unvaccinated but survived Covid were better protected than those who were vaccinated and not previously infected, a new study said Wednesday.

'Yellowstone': from 'red state' to 'every state' TV hit

With its gun-totin' heroes, elegiac shots of rodeo horses and disparaging jokes about Californians, "Yellowstone" might appear to be a television show aimed squarely at America's conservative heartland.

US Covid doc: We are 'burned out'

Exhausted and overwhelmed by the influx of mostly unvaccinated Covid patients, Dr James Samuel Pope, an intensive care physician at Hartford Hospital in the US state of Connecticut, hopes the Omicron wave of the pandemic will be the last.

Women barred from front seat of trucks in Ugandan city

A traders association in northern Uganda has banned women from riding up front in trucks after deciding that short skirts and bare thighs could be distracting drivers and causing accidents.

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