PARIS (AP) — In the basement of a sports complex in Paris, dozens of breakers, or break dancers, gathered almost every weeknight in July to freestyle, practicing classic moves like the windmill, freezes and headspins to the soundtrack of steady breakbeats from a playlist called “100% Flow.” They warmed up with footwork – “toprocking” –
PARIS (AP) — China’s Zheng Siwei and Huang Ya Qiong won mixed doubles badminton gold at the Paris Olympics on Friday in the sport’s first final at the Games. They beat South Korea’s Kim Won-ho and Jeong Na-eun 21-8, 21-11 for the title. Zheng and Huang, silver medalists at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, went
Ekonomija | 02.08.2024 | access_time 10:40 Narodna banka Srbije (NBS) je tokom prošle godine zbog “povećane globalne neizvesnosti”, na međubankarskom tržištu kupila rekordnu količinu evra kako bi održala stabilnost srpske valute, piše u petak ekonomski portal Nova ekonimija. “U 2023. godini NBS je intervenisala neto kupovinom deviza u iznosu od 3,9 milijardi evra, što je
WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly confirmed famine at one of the sprawling camps for war-displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region is growing uncontrolled as the country’s combatants block aid , and it threatens to grow bigger and deadlier than the world’s last major famine 13 years ago, U.S. officials warned on Friday. The U.S. Agency
The funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard was held in Doha on Friday after his shock assassination in Tehran on Wednesday. The funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard was held in Doha on Friday after his shock assassination in Tehran on Wednesday. Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]
Conservationists are celebrating the recent birth of an onager foal, one of the rarest animals on Earth, at Chester Zoo. Experts say the birth will shine a spotlight on ‘overlooked’ equid species of which there are no more than 600 left in the wild. Chester is a leading part of a European-wide conservation breeding programme
PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek used a towel to wipe tears from her eyes at the Paris Olympics after earning a bronze for Poland’s first tennis medal at any Summer Games by beating Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-1 on Friday. The match took just 59 minutes, and Swiatek played much more cleanly than
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team had a 23-point lead over Serbia with seven seconds remaining in its opening contest at the Paris Games earlier this week. Had this been the Golden State Warriors with such a lead in the final moments, Stephen Curry would have simply let time expire. Here
PARIS (AP) — The United States was eliminated from the Olympic men’s soccer tournament on Friday after a 4-0 loss to Morocco in the quarterfinals. Soufiane Rahimi, Ilias Akhomach, Achraf Hakimi and Mehdi Maouhoub scored the goals at Parc des Princes that ended U.S. hopes of a medal at the Paris Games. Morocco, which enjoyed
PARIS (AP) — Canadian figure skaters will not join the United States and Japan on the podium at the Paris Olympics next week when team event medals finally are awarded from the 2022 Beijing Winter Games marred by a Russian doping case. Nor will there be Russian skaters on the bronze-medal step on Wednesday, despite
