COLOMBES, France (AP) — Olympians come in all shapes and sizes. Rarely do they come deliberately amputated. Australia field hockey player Matthew Dawson took his determination to compete in the Paris Olympics to another level by amputating part of a finger to ensure he’s able to take part. The 30-year-old Dawson severely injured the ring
A wildfire that has tripled in size in one day, becoming California’s largest of the year even as other blazes scorched the Pacific Northwest, was started by a burning car, authorities said. They arrested a man who was seen pushing the blazing car into a gully. The man was seen pushing the car in Bidwell
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — No chairs. Missing blackboards. A lack of bathrooms. Schools in Haiti’s capital and beyond are crumbling as gang violence deepens poverty and disrupts basic government services as the state education system faces a $23 million deficit. “The country needs help,” said Yasmine Sherif, executive director of the UNICEF fund Education Cannot
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A van carrying some 50 migrants overturned on Friday in southwestern Serbia, injuring more than 30, the country’s state television reported. The incident happened on the road between the eastern town of Pirot, near the border with Bulgaria, and Nis, in southern Serbia, the report said. No other details were immediately
TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (AP) — The search for the perfect wave has been a part of surfing culture for decades, with surfers traveling from location to location in their quest for the best swells. But with the development of surf forecasting— the prediction of wave swell behavior and breaking— that search has gotten much easier. This
PARIS (AP) — Naomi Osaka is back at Roland Garros , a place that marked such a significant moment in her life — a moment of vulnerability, yes, and, in a way, of triumph, even if not in a traditional, “What was the score?” sense. Osaka spent time away from tennis in recent years, first
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Search teams were still digging at the site of deadly mudslides in southern Ethiopia on Friday, as the death toll rose to 257, according to the U.N. humanitarian office. Heavy rain triggered deadly slides on Sunday and Monday in a remote part of the country. The U.N. humanitarian office, known
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — There is no indication that a big cargo of industrial fuel oil stored in a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak, the Philippine coast guard said Friday, and plans are being firmed up to try to siphon off the highly toxic shipment to prevent
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Charaideo Moidam royal burial complex and shrines, built by northeast India’s Ahom dynasty, has been inscribed as a new World Heritage Site, the United Nations’ cultural agency said on Friday. UNESCO experts, who are deliberating on a list of sites nominated for the World Heritage Site tag, announced the decision
Današnju sednicu obeležio je ministar poljoprivrede Aleksandar Martinović koji je skoro 15 minuta iznosio svoje viđenje uzroka sukoba Srba i Bošnjaka početkom 1990-ih u BiH. Martinovićevo izlaganje kojim je navodno odgovorio na pitanje poslanika SDA Sandžaka Ahmedina Škrijelja o odnosu države prema Bošnjacima u Sandžaku, u par navrata su prekinuli poslanici opozicije udaranjem u klupe, da
