Bastianini fastest on last day of Malaysia MotoGP test
Italian speedster Enea Bastianini was fastest on day two of the MotoGP pre-season test Sunday, clocking a new lap record at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.
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Morocco mourns 'little Rayan' after daring well rescue bid fails
Morocco was in shock Sunday after emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well in a tragic end to a five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and the world.
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Cyclone Batsirai weakens after displacing thousands in Madagascar
Cyclone Batsirai weakened overnight but not before pummelling Madagascar and displacing 27,000 people in a country still reeling from a deadly tropical storm weeks earlier.
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'He's come!' Hanyu mania hits Beijing Games as skater finally arrives
Japanese figure skating idol Yuzuru Hanyu finally arrived in Beijing on Sunday to start his quest for a third Olympic gold, his team said, whipping his Chinese fans into a social media frenzy.
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Gu makes Olympic debut carrying China's freestyle ski hopes
Californian-born Eileen Gu, one of the faces of the Beijing Games, makes her Olympic debut Monday under the flag of host nation China.
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Land of the panda running out of Beijing Olympic pandas
The land of the panda failed to produce enough panda souvenirs for the Beijing Winter Olympics, a red-faced Chinese official admitted on Sunday.
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Georgian luger races in Beijing in memory of cousin killed at 2010 Games
Saba Kumaritashvili says he was inspired to race in the luge at the Beijing Olympics by the death of his cousin in the same sport at the 2010 Winter Games.
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UN praises 'positive' talks with Yemen sides on ageing oil tanker
The UN's humanitarian coordinator for war-torn Yemen said he held constructive talks with government officials and Huthi rebels over dealing with the threat posed by a rusting oil tanker abandoned offshore.
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Elizabeth II marks Platinum Jubilee with 'Queen Camilla' announcement
Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday became the first British monarch to reign for seven decades, expressing her "sincere wish" for Camilla, the wife of her heir Prince Charles, to ultimately be known as Queen Consort.
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Pandas running out fast at China's Winter Olympics
The land of the panda failed to produce enough panda souvenirs for the Beijing Winter Olympics, an official admitted on Sunday.
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