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COLOMBO (AFP) – Inflation in crisis-hit Sri Lanka dipped marginally for the first time in 12 months but prices were still an eye-watering 66 per cent higher than a year ago, official data showed yesterday. The island nation of 22 million people has suffered months of extreme economic hardship with severe shortages of essentials including […]
Jake Coyle NEW YORK (AP) – A normal morning scene. Breakfast on the kitchen table. A newspaper rustles. A backpack is packed. The mother asks her teenage daughter if she’ll be home later. “It’s Tuesday, so, um, I’m going to go to dad’s.” The look of concern on the mother’s face, and the tone of […]
Mauricio Savarese SAO PAULO (AP) – Four years ago, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reputation and political future were in tatters. After an unlikely rise from poverty to union leader to Brazil’s presidency, the man universally known as Lula had landed in prison. On Sunday – in yet another twist – Brazilian voters chose him […]
LONDON (AFP) – Reiss Nelson was the unlikely hero as Arsenal retook top spot in the Premier League with a 5-0 thrashing of Nottingham Forest on Sunday. Nelson was introduced for the first time in the Premier League this season after Bukayo Saka was forced off with a concerning injury for England boss Gareth Southgate […]
Lindsey Bahr AP – If one were to rank the most difficult adolescent age, 11 may not be the first but it is certainly up there. It is just a horribly, hilariously awkward moment of still being very much a kid but with an agonisingly heightened awareness of all those teenage things that are just […]