Rafael Nadal bade an emotional farewell to his home fans after losing to Jiri Lehecka on his final appearance at the Madrid Open. The great Spaniard is playing his final season on tour and had battled into the fourth round but young Czech Lehecka proved too strong, winning 7-5 6-4 to dash the hopes of a […]
A crowd of people, some crying, gathered at a rain-soaked amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to a beloved giant panda before her departure to China. Fu Bao has been a major attraction at the Everland theme park near Seoul since she was born there in 2020 to pandas Ai Bao and Le […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A crowd of people, some weeping, gathered at a rain-soaked amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to a beloved giant panda before her departure to China on Wednesday. Fu Bao has been a major attraction at the Everland theme park near Seoul since she was born there in […]
(Reuters) – The wife of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has thanked the many thousands of Russians who have queued for hours to visit her husband’s grave. “Many people wonder why Alexei fought so hard and never gave up. For your sake. For the beautiful, brave and honest people who now come […]
Mar. 1—TAYLOR, N.D. — Nestled amidst the Western prairies of North Dakota sits the unassuming town of Taylor, where the winds sweep across fields of golden wheat and dreams seem as vast as the horizon. It’s here that the story of Thomas Laurence Larsen takes root, where a spirit of hard work would form and […]
Thousands of mourners gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday, two weeks after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. Crowds faced a heavy police presence as they thronged the church where Navalny’s funeral was held, and the cemetery in a snowy suburb where he was finally […]
“If Lewis were to leave,” pondered George Russell as he addressed the prospect of Hamilton joining Ferrari. “That would put Mercedes in a tricky spot. It would almost look like he’s lost faith in the team.” Russell was speaking in an episode of Netflix’s newly-released Drive to Survive series – a chapter the Mercedes’ PR […]
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral in the northern Italian city of Turin on Saturday of Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, the only son of Italy’s last king, who died last week aged 86. Among those present in the city’s main cathedral were Prince Albert of Monaco and Spain’s former Queen Sofia, while small groups of […]
GREEN BAY – It was an emotional 6 p.m. newscast on WBAY-TV on Tuesday as the station bid farewell to anchor and reporter Sarah Thomsen. Anchors Cami Rapson and Bill Jartz told viewers their colleague’s 20-year career at the station was ending as she continues therapy to recover from a severe concussion sustained in a car crash more than a year and a half […]
SLIM, Japan’s historic moon lander, is officially powered down in preparation for a brutal, likely fatal lunar nighttime lasting around 14.5 days. Before drifting off to what very probably will be a permanent slumber, however, the small craft beamed back a few final glimpses of its new home to mission control at the Japanese space […]
While Republican voters in New Hampshire head to the polls to choose between Donald Trump, R-The Literal Worst, and Nikki Haley, R-Meh, Ron DeSantis is heading home to Florida to feel deeply embarrassed. That’s exactly what the governor – an unlikable bully from the jump – deserves after ending one of the most laughably inept […]
Franz Beckenbauer was described as a “role model for many generations” as Bayern Munich paid an emotional final farewell to their club great in a memorial service at the Allianz Arena on Friday. Former West Germany captain and manager Beckenbauer died on January 7 at the age of 78, prompting tributes throughout the world of […]