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Olympic runner Semenya loses fight over testosterone rules
GENEVA - The sports world's highest court ruled Wednesday that Olympic champion Caster Semenya and other female runners like her with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce their l...
May 03, 2019
Olympic runner Semenya loses fight over testosterone rules
GENEVA - The sports world's highest court ruled Wednesday that Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and other female runners like her with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce t...
May 03, 2019
Devils legends Stevens and Daneyko together on TV
SECAUCUS, N.J. - The familiar red-and-black uniforms are gone, replaced by suits and ties, and lapel microphones and pens are in place instead of skates and sticks. On a nearby wall is a reminder of t...
May 03, 2019
Stan Wawrinka points out 'political chaos' enveloping tennis
Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka says there has been a "worrying decline in moral standards" in tennis as "politics have overshadowed the action on the courts." In a letter published Frida...
May 03, 2019
Strong cyclone lashes east India, impacts Asian subcontinent
KOLKATA, India - Cyclone Fani tore through India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 205 kilometres (127 miles) per hour and affecting weath...
May 03, 2019
Spinoff of ABC's 'black-ish' to focus on mixed-race issues
LOS ANGELES - A spinoff of the ABC sitcom "black-ish" will focus on a young Rainbow Johnson and her challenges growing up in the 1980s. ABC said Thursday that the new series, titled "mixed-ish," will ...
May 03, 2019
Central Ontario cottage country deals with more rain as flooding persists
When Dave Coon went to bed at his home in central Ontario's cottage country Monday night, the guest cabin on his waterfront property was "high and dry" - by Tuesday morning, however, that wa...
May 03, 2019
Cyprus police chief fired over serial killer case
NICOSIA, Cyprus - The president of Cyprus has fired the small island nation's police chief, saying botched missing person investigations might have allowed a self-confessed serial killer to claim more...
May 03, 2019
Historic Hawaii volcano eruption scarred landscape, lives
LEILANI ESTATES, Hawaii - A year after a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island rained lava and gases in one of its largest and most destructive eruptions in recorded history, people who lost their homes and ...
May 03, 2019
Trump depicted in Mueller report feared being called a fraud
WASHINGTON - The fear was persistent. As the Russia investigation heated up and threatened to shadow Donald Trump's presidency, he became increasingly concerned. But the portrait painted by special co...
May 03, 2019
