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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

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

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

Florida massacre defendant's attorneys to remain for now

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A judge ordered the public defenders representing the former student charged with the Florida high school massacre to stay on his case Wednesday while she determines if he rema...

May 03, 2019

Barr, Mueller trade barbs as Russia probe rift goes public

WASHINGTON - Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller's team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pu...

May 03, 2019

Assange refuses extradition to US; long legal fight expected

LONDON - A defiant Julian Assange told a London court Thursday he will fight extradition to the United States to face charges of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer, arguing that his work as W...

May 03, 2019

Agitators, tear gas cloud May Day march in Paris

PARIS - Clusters of anarchists and yellow vest protesters disrupted a May Day march in Paris by setting fires and antagonizing riot police squads at the beginning and end, punctuating the route walked...

May 03, 2019