Title-chasing Bagnaia fastest in opening Malaysia MotoGP practice
Francesco Bagnaia was easily fastest in opening practice for the potentially decisive Malaysian MotoGP at Sepang on Friday, with title rival Jorge Martin sixth.
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TikTok bandits terrorise, transfix Pakistan riverlands
With a showman's flair and an outlaw's moustache, the Pakistani gangster dials the hotline on his own most wanted notice -- taunting the authorities who put a bounty on his head.
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Morant fires Grizzlies in win over Bucks, Rockets hold off Mavs
Ja Morant's 12th career triple-double fired the Memphis Grizzlies to a 122-99 NBA victory over the reeling Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday as Houston edged the Dallas Mavericks.
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'Waiting in vain': year on from pledge, world clings to fossil fuels
One year after world leaders issued the landmark call for a global move away from fossil fuels, nations are failing to turn that promise into action, say climate diplomats, campaigners and policy experts.
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Shelf-sharing seeks to save bookstores in Japan
"I'm holding an illustrated book of cheeses," says a delighted Tomoyo Ozumi, a customer at a growing kind of bookshop in Japan where anyone wanting to sell their tomes can rent a shelf.
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Filipinos brave crowds, flooding for All Saints' Day cemetery visits
Devout Filipinos clutching candles and flowers poured into cemeteries across the heavily Catholic Philippines on Friday to pay tribute to loved ones on All Saints' Day.
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Japan cyclists risk jail for using a mobile
Cyclists using a mobile phone while riding in Japan could face up to six months in jail under strict new rules that entered into force Friday.
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Summit to save nature enters final day with disagreement on funding
The world's biggest nature conservation conference enters its final day in Colombia Friday with negotiators at odds over how best to fund plans to "halt and reverse" species loss.
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Fright night: NY marks Halloween parade with political edge
New York's Halloween parade brought out the ghouls and ghosts of the Big Apple on Thursday, with a subversive political theme on show in many costumes days before America picks its next president.
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North Korea says test-fire 'perfected' new solid-fuel ICBM
North Korea's latest weapons test "perfected" its newest and most advanced solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, state media said Friday, as global criticism mounts over Pyongyang's purported deployment of troops to Russia.
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