Global Champions Tour: New York to host nail-biting finale

Global Champions Tour: New York to host nail-biting finale

Global Champions Tour: New York to host nail-biting finale

 

 

Global Champions Tour: New York to host nail-biting finale. After months of exhilarating action across a host of major cities, the Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) reaches its dramatic conclusion this weekend in an unmissable showdown in New York.

Only one point separates this season’s top two riders with Belgian Pieter Devos inching ahead of reigning champion Ben Maher in the tightest title race of the tournament’s history.
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FIFA ‘assured’ women in Iran can attend soccer matches

FIFA ‘assured’ women in Iran can attend soccer matches

FIFA ‘assured’ women in Iran can attend soccer matches

 

 

FIFA ‘assured’ women in Iran can attend soccer matches. Women in Iran will be allowed to attend men’s soccer matches beginning with a World Cup qualifier next month, according to FIFA.

Football’s world governing body has long been concerned by the issue and its president Gianni Infantino spoke to Iranian officials following the death of Sahar Khodayari,
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American drowns after proposing to his girlfriend underwater in Tanzania

American drowns after proposing to his girlfriend underwater in Tanzania

American drowns after proposing to his girlfriend underwater in Tanzania

 

 

A Louisiana man has drowned after proposing to his girlfriend underwater while the couple was vacationing in Tanzania.

Steven Weber and Kenesha Antoine were staying in Pemba Island, CNN affiliate WBRZ reports, in a wooden cabin with a bedroom submerged in the ocean off the east coast of Africa. Weber proposed Thursday by swimming underwater and holding a handwritten note against the bedroom windows,
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Angel Di Maria piles the pressure on Zinedine Zidane as Real loses at PSG

Angel Di Maria piles the pressure on Zinedine Zidane as Real loses at PSG

Angel Di Maria piles the pressure on Zinedine Zidane as Real loses at PSG

 

 

Angel Di Maria piles the pressure on Zinedine Zidane as Real loses at PSG. There was a time when Zinedine Zidane could do no wrong. That time feels an age ago.

Dressed in black and likely boasting a mood to match, Zidane watched on as his Real Madrid side succumbed to a 3-0 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain in its opening Champions League game on Wednesday.
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Frankfurt motor show hit by huge climate protests

Frankfurt motor show hit by huge climate protests

Frankfurt motor show hit by huge climate protests

 

 

Thousands of climate protesters descended onto the streets of Frankfurt Saturday to protest against the role of Germany’s car industry in climate change and the destruction of the environment.

The march paraded past Frankfurt’s annual motor show (IAA), one of the largest in the world, with protesters calling for an end to combustion engines and a transfer towards emissions-free vehicles.
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What you need to know about Apple’s iPhone 11 event

What you need to know about Apple’s iPhone 11 event

What you need to know about Apple’s iPhone 11 event

 

 

What you need to know about Apple’s iPhone 11 event. Despite a year of slumping iPhone sales, Apple chose to largely stick to its smartphone playbook with new models announced at a closely watched press event on Tuesday.

Apple (AAPL) unveiled two high-end iPhones — the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max —
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Israel and Hezbollah exchange border fire for first time in years

Israel and Hezbollah exchange border fire for first time in years

Israel and Hezbollah exchange border fire for first time in years

 

 

Israel and Hezbollah exchange border fire for first time in years. The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has attacked an Israeli army base and a nearby military vehicle as tensions remain high along the border between Israel and Lebanon.

Israel says there were no casualties in the attack, and says it responded with artillery strikes on nearby Hezbollah positions,
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As the Amazon fires rage members of this indigenous community brace for their world to change

As the Amazon fires rage members of this indigenous community brace for their world to change

As the Amazon fires rage, members of this indigenous community brace for their world to change

 

 

As the Amazon fires rage members of this indigenous community brace for their world to change. An orange hue greets dusk in the Campos Amazonicos. It is then, as the sun’s punishing glare ends, that the firefighters can comfortably approach the flames hurtling across the parched savanna.

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