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Woods recovery 'not as fast as I'd like', no timetable for return

Woods recovery 'not as fast as I'd like', no timetable for return

Tiger Woods said Tuesday that recovery from his latest back surgery has not gone as quickly as he wanted, stating it was too soon to set a target date for a return to action.

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'Come and kill me': sick ants invite destruction to save colony

'Come and kill me': sick ants invite destruction to save colony

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

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Red Bull promote rookie Hadjar to partner Verstappen

Red Bull promote rookie Hadjar to partner Verstappen

French rookie Isack Hadjar will step up to the main Red Bull car next season to partner four-time world champion Max Verstappen, the Austrian Formula One team announced on Tuesday.

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Zelensky calls for peace, Putin defiant ahead of US-Russia talks

Zelensky calls for peace, Putin defiant ahead of US-Russia talks

Donald Trump's son-in-law and special envoy headed to the Kremlin Tuesday for high-stakes talks on Moscow's offensive in Ukraine, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for an end to the fighting and a "dignified peace".

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Mbappe more than his goals: Real Madrid coach Alonso

Mbappe more than his goals: Real Madrid coach Alonso

Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso said Tuesday French superstar Kylian Mbappe was vital to the team for more than just his prolific goalscoring.

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Sport court allows Russian, Belarusian skiers to qualify for Olympics

Sport court allows Russian, Belarusian skiers to qualify for Olympics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday opened the way for Russian and Belarusian skiers to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics by overturning a ban imposed by the international skiing body.

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Cyclone turns Sri Lanka's tea mountains into death valley

Cyclone turns Sri Lanka's tea mountains into death valley

In the mist-draped mountains of Sri Lanka's tea country, rescuers were still plucking bodies from the reddish-brown mud on Tuesday after last week's cyclone, the island's worst natural disaster in decades.

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Race to get aid to Asia flood survivors as death toll tops 1,300

Race to get aid to Asia flood survivors as death toll tops 1,300

Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked Tuesday to rush aid to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that has killed more than 1,300 people in four countries.

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IOC president calls for end to 'finger-pointing' in doping fight

IOC president calls for end to 'finger-pointing' in doping fight

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry and her World Anti-Doping Agency counterpart on Tuesday called for unity in the fight against performance-enhancing drugs following a fracture with the United States.

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Sport court allows Russian, Belarusian skiers to target Olympics

Sport court allows Russian, Belarusian skiers to target Olympics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday opened the way for Russian and Belarusian skiers to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics by overturning a ban imposed by the top skiing body.

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