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  Nicolas Sarkozy entered the Elysee Palace in 2007, boasting hyperactive energy and a vision to transform France, but lost office after just one term and the ex-president is now set to go to prison in a spectacular downfall. Embroiled in legal problems since losing the 2012 election, Sarkozy, 70, had already been convicted in […]

  Former NBA star Montrezl Harrell had his contract terminated by the Adelaide 36ers on Thursday after failing a doping test in China this year. The Australian club said they had “no option” but to part ways with the American power forward, who was drafted by the Houston Rockets and made his name with the […]

  A woman nicknamed “The Woman in Pink” after her body was found in Spain two decades ago has finally been identified, Interpol said Thursday. The case is the latest to be solved by the international police organisation’s cold cases campaign “Identify Me”, created in 2023 and tasked with identifying women who were found dead […]

  World number one Carlos Alcaraz is sweating on his fitness at the Japan Open after injuring his ankle in a 6-4, 6-2 opening win over Argentina’s Sebastian Baez on Thursday. US Open champion Alcaraz crumpled to the ground chasing a shot in the fifth game of the opening set in Tokyo and sat on […]

  Warriors, wizards, and other costumed characters flooded the streets of Malaga in southern Spain on Thursday for the opening of the first San Diego Comic-Con held outside the United States. Mirroring the famous California event, the four-day convention will feature blockbuster film presentations, prominent figures from the worlds of comics and video games, and […]

  The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine worth more than $600 million from a fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa, French authorities said on Thursday. The seizure by two navy ships on Monday followed a tip-off by anti-drug and maritime intelligence authorities and British police, authorities in France’s northwestern […]

  Top-selling carmaker Toyota opened its new high-tech village in Japan on Thursday, an experimental project to test autonomous driving and other futuristic developments. It is touted as a real-life setting in which to trial myriad inventions, from flying taxis to robot pets and drones that escort you home at night. Around 360 Toyota staff […]

Brazilian great Ronaldo has called on the Selecao’s Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti to restore Neymar to the squad for the World Cup in North America next year. Brazil’s record goalscorer with 79 goals from 128 matches, Neymar has not pulled on the yellow jersey since October 2023, when he suffered a serious knee injury. The […]

The discovery of body parts and skeletons strewn around an isolated village in coastal Kenya has stoked fears that a doomsday starvation cult, which claimed hundreds of lives, has survived despite a major police operation. (FILES) An officer of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) walks at the mass-grave site in Shakahola, outside the coastal […]

American rapper Snoop Dogg said he was “in love” with Australian Rules football on Thursday, ahead of his performance at the sport’s grand final. The 53-year-old will take to the stage at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, which will be jammed with up to 100,000 fans watching as Geelong face Brisbane. “I’ve been coming […]

  Seventeen African governments have endorsed reforms and action plans to expand electricity access under Mission 300, the World Bank has said. The World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group lead the initiative, which aims to connect 300 million Africans by 2030. The commitments were announced at the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum in New […]

Japanese police said Thursday they had arrested a 75-year-old woman who allegedly confessed to keeping the body of her daughter in a freezer for two decades. Investigators on Tuesday found the body of an adult woman in a deep freezer at the home of Keiko Mori in Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, said a local […]