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Madonna kicks off huge show before giddy fans in Rio

Enhanced Games chief says '50 to 100' Paris Olympians ready to sign up

Floods in southern Brazil kill 57, force 70,000 from homes

Edwards hits 43 to spark T-Wolves over Denver in NBA playoffs

Five assists for Messi, hat-trick for Suarez as Miami hit six

Lyles, Jacobs help USA, Italy qualify for Paris Olympic relays

Panama to vote in presidential election with eight contenders

McLaughlin-Levrone continues Olympic build-up

Mystik Dan wins 150th Kentucky Derby thriller

Floods in southern Brazil force 70,000 from homes

Giddy Rio braces for huge Madonna show on Copacabana beach

Honduras: Poor, violent and corrupt

Honduras, which inaugurated Xiomara Castro as its first-ever woman president Thursday, is a small country with idyllic beaches at the heart of Central America's "triangle of death," plagued by gangs, poverty and corruption.

US school board bans Holocaust graphic novel 'Maus'

A school board in Tennessee has added to a surge in book bans by conservatives with an order to remove the award-winning 1986 graphic novel on the Holocaust, "Maus," from local student libraries.

Syria Kurds hunt down jihadists after prison attack

Kurdish-led forces on Thursday found dozens of jihadists holed up in a Syrian prison during mop-up operations after recapturing the facility from Islamic State group fighters.

McDonald's profits rise as fast-food giant lifts prices carefully

Price increases helped McDonald's report higher profits Thursday as the fast-food giant navigates an inflationary environment that it argues advantages the Big Mac maker over its competitors.

Xiomara Castro becomes first woman president of Honduras

Leftist Xiomara Castro was sworn in Thursday as the first woman president of Honduras after seemingly resolving a rebellion in her own party that had challenged her authority.

Iran women in stadium for victory over Iraq

Iranian women were allowed to attend a national team football match for the first time in almost three years Thursday -- and cheered their side to victory.

Iran into World Cup final as Japan, South Korea move closer

Iran became the first team from Asia to qualify for the 2022 World Cup finals on Thursday with a 1-0 victory over Iraq as Japan and South Korea moved a step closer to Qatar.

'Big Ben' retires after 18 NFL years, two Super Bowl wins

Ben Roethlisberger, a two-time Super Bowl champion and one of the NFL's greatest quarterbacks, announced his retirement on Thursday after an 18-year career spent entirely with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Tests of HIV vaccine using mRNA technology have begun

Testing in humans of an HIV vaccine that uses messenger RNA technology has begun, the biotech firm Moderna and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said Thursday.

Web-tracking 'cookies' meant to protect privacy: inventor

The data-tracking "cookies" at the heart of concerns over online privacy were meant to shield people, rather than serve as cyber snoops, their inventor told AFP.

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