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By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – The United States and top-ranked Spain opened their FIBA Basketball World Cup campaigns with landslide wins as only one of eight group games was a close-run affair on Saturday. Second-ranked Team USA started their quest for a record sixth basketball World Cup crown by overcoming a slow start against New Zealand to win 99-72 in Manila. “The whole second unit really came in […]

By Mitch Phillips BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The United States women’s 4×400 metres relay team, who have won seven of the last eight World Championships and the last seven Olympic golds, were disqualified from Saturday’s semi-finals after a botched baton changeover. The U.S. were trailing Britain after three legs when Alexis Holmes initially failed to collect the baton from Quanera Hayes and by the time she got hold of it she […]

A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it. When the camera shutter blinked inside an Atlanta jail on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former president of the United States, for the first time in history, under arrest and captured in the […]

By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Three Ukrainian military pilots including a “mega talent” who yearned to fly F-16s were killed on Friday when two L-39 combat training aircraft collided over a region west of Kyiv on Friday, the air force said on Saturday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is counting on swift training of crews to fly up to 61 F-16 fighter jets promised by his Western allies, said in his […]

By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Three Ukrainian military pilots including a “mega talent” who yearned to fly F-16s were killed on Friday when two L-39 combat training aircraft collided over a region west of Kyiv on Friday, the air force said on Saturday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is counting on swift training of crews to fly up to 61 F-16 fighter jets promised by his Western allies, said in his […]

By Mitch Phillips BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The United States won both 4×100 relays at the World Championships on Saturday as their individual superstars Noah Lyles and Sha’Carrie Richardson ran anchor legs to complete triple medal weeks. Lyles added the relay gold to his sprint double while Richardson had earlier claimed 100m gold and bronze in the 200 metres. It was a glorious end to the night for the sport’s superpower after […]

By Mitch Phillips BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The United States won both 4×100 relays at the World Championships on Saturday as their individual superstars Noah Lyles and Sha’Carrie Richardson ran anchor legs to complete triple medal weeks. Lyles added the relay gold to his sprint double while Richardson had earlier claimed 100m gold and bronze in the 200 metres. It was a glorious end to the night for the sport’s superpower after […]

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -American Chase Ealey successfully defended her women’s shot put crown at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, winning her second successive gold medal while China’s Gong Lijiao won a record eighth straight individual medal. Ealey, who was competing with a new technique, produced her season-best throw in her fifth attempt to win the gold with a 20.43 metres effort while Canada’s Sarah Mitton took the silver with 20.08. […]

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -American Chase Ealey successfully defended her women’s shot put crown at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, winning her second successive gold medal while China’s Gong Lijiao won a record eighth straight individual medal. Ealey, who was competing with a new technique, produced her season-best throw in her fifth attempt to win the gold with a 20.43 metres effort while Canada’s Sarah Mitton took the silver with 20.08. […]