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Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:13:16 GMT
Ex-Manchester Utd star Lingard announces South Korea exit
The 32-year-old made the shock switch to the K League in February last year and made over 60 appearances for FC Seoul, but failed to win any silverware. His last game for the club will be at home to Melbourne City in the AFC Champions League on Dec...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:31:16 GMT
McIlroy survives as Min Woo Lee surges into Australian Open hunt
The vast crowds were out for McIlroy but Lee showed why he is a PGA Tour winner as he sank a nine-iron on his second shot from 176 metres at the par-4 10th at Royal Melbourne to help him to a 65. It took him to eight-under par and one off the co-le...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:03:13 GMT
German factory orders rise more than expected
New orders increased 1.5 percent month-on-month, boosted by big orders for transport equipment, according to preliminary figures from statistics agency Destatis. Analysts surveyed by financial data firm FactSet had forecast a rise of just 0.5 perce...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:31:15 GMT
Flooding kills two as Vietnam hit by dozens of landslides
South-central Vietnam has been lashed by weeks of heavy rain, submerging hundreds of thousands of homes in coastal tourism hotspots and causing deadly landslides in mountainous regions. Downpours inundated thousands more homes in Lam Dong province ...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:27:18 GMT
Italy to open Europe's first marine sanctuary for dolphins
"We must develop a new model for managing dolphins in a natural but supervised environment," Carmelo Fanizza, head of the San Paolo Dolphin Refuge, told AFP. Located off the coast of Taranto in the southern Italian region of Puglia, the sanctuary s...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:25:17 GMT
Hope's resistance keeps West Indies alive in New Zealand Test
Hope was 116 not out and Greaves 55 with the pair putting on 140 for the fifth wicket after the West Indies were in dire straits at 72-4. New Zealand need six more wickets with the new ball six overs away while the West Indies, set a mammoth 531-r...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:15:28 GMT
Nigerian nightlife finds a new extravagance: cabaret
Nigeria might be going through its worst economic crisis in a generation, but in Lagos, the party hasn't stopped. Patrons at The Library, where fake banknotes rained down on the stage, were being treated to both dinner and a show as cabaret takes t...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:41:20 GMT
Tanzania tourism suffers after election killings
The election on October 29 erupted into days of violent protests over allegations that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had rigged the vote. Police responded by shooting dead more than 1,000 people, according to the opposition, though the government h...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:29:15 GMT
Yo-de-lay-UNESCO? Swiss hope for yodel heritage listing
As bound up with the myth of the Swiss mountain idyll as chocolate, Heidi and William Tell, yodelling will be examined for inclusion on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list when the UN culture body convenes from December 8 to 13. Switzerland ...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:27:12 GMT
Softbank's Son says super AI could make humans like fish, win Nobel Prize
Meeting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Seoul, Son, whose SoftBank is a major backer of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, described a future in which an advanced AI surpasses humans by a magnitude of 10,000. "The difference between the human brain and ...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:22:46 GMT
2026 FIFA World Cup draw set for Friday in Washington
The 2026 World Cup draws nearer. The draw for the tournament will take place this Friday in Washington, with notable attendees including US President Donald Trump. The 48 teams will be divided into 12 groups of four and will then have six months to ...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:13:22 GMT
Australia edge ominously within 106 runs of England in second Ashes Test
At the break in front of a big Gabba crowd urging them on in Brisbane, Australia were 228-3 after the visitors succumbed for 334 in their first innings on the back of Joe Root's epic unbeaten 138. Steve Smith was not-out 24 and Cameron Green on 22 ...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:13:21 GMT
Georgia's street dogs stir affection, fear, national debate
In the streets of the Georgian capital, such scenes are part of daily life: community-fed "yard dogs", yellow municipal tags on their ears, lounge outside bakeries, metro entrances and school gates. The free-roaming canines stir both affection and ...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:01:20 GMT
Survivors pick up pieces in flood-hit Indonesia as more rain predicted
Indonesia has borne the brunt of the disaster, with its toll rising to 846 dead and 547 missing, authorities said. Many are in the island of Sumatra's northern Aceh province where more than 800,000 people have also been displaced. Sri Lanka has repo...

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:59:11 GMT
Gibbs runs for three TDs as Lions down Cowboys to boost NFL playoff bid
The reigning NFC North champion Lions had dropped three of their prior five games to fall to third in the division behind the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, who face off on Sunday. But they improved to 8-5 to bolster their playoff bid as the ...

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