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Nepal's hydropower ambitions face climate reality check

Japanese anime actor fights TikTok over AI voice cloning

Power cuts, rubble: millions come home to find Sudan's capital unlivable

Curtain falls on the romance of India's single-screen cinemas

Internationals keep Presidents Cup lead with late fightbacks

Smells like teen spirit as US thrash Peru 4-1

Tuchel to 'keep pushing' England to reach Spain's level

Cavy chaos: Hundreds attend New Zealand's biggest guinea pig show

Alcaraz saves match points to keep Europe ahead in Laver Cup

Venezuela releases more political prisoners after opposition talks

Spain success driven by hunger to improve, says De La Fuente

England's best 'for a long time' despite Spain defeat, says Kane

Lyon collapse at Stade Francais to suffer first Top 14 loss

Powerful storm pummels northeast US with rain, high winds

Senegal votes for new president after years of crisis

The Senegalese go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president in a totally unpredictable race after three years of turmoil and political crisis.

Malinin nails six quadruple jumps to win men's figure skating world title

American Ilia Malinin produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men's free skate on Saturday to capture his first figure skating world title.

UK Labour party turns to Thatcher in courtship of right

Margaret Thatcher remains despised by many on the left of British politics, but the main Labour opposition seems comfortable citing her as it woos the right before this year's election.

National day of mourning in Russia after concert hall massacre

Russia will observe a national day of mourning on Sunday after a massacre in a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130 people, the deadliest attack in Europe to have been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

Under siege, Sudanese risk their lives to feed each other

Sameh Makki's soup kitchen is barely 100 metres from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan's war-torn streets, often through hails of bullets.

Sprinklers and drip irrigation help Iraqis beat drought

After four years of drought, Iraqi farmer Mohammed Sami was about to abandon his father's parched land, but then a water-saving irrigation system revived his crops and his hopes.

Alcaraz and Swiatek dominate in Miami but woes for Americans

Top seeds Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek cruised to straight set victories at the Miami Open on Saturday while the home nation suffered a series of early exits.

Filmstrip, Hungary's old-school projectors children love

Tablets and mobile phones may have to be prised from the fingers of children elsewhere, but in Hungary storytime can be all about a 100-year-old piece of tech -- filmstrip.

NASA touts space research in anti-cancer fight

Experiments in the weightless environment of space have led to "crazy progress" in the fight against cancer, NASA officials said at a recent event highlighting an important and personal initiative of US President Joe Biden.

Venezuela opposition leader slams 'maneuver' to block candidate

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, banned from standing in this summer's presidential election, denounced on Saturday what she called a "maneuver" by the government to block her chosen representative from registering as a candidate.

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Southeast Brazil battered by downpours, at least a dozen killed