INDIAN WELLS, United States, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – France’s Kristina Mladenovic defeated former world number one Caroline Wozniacki 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 on Thursday to reach the semi-finals of the Indian Wells WTA hard court tournament. The 26th-ranked Mladenovic, who is projected to break into the top 20 in the world for the first time by reaching […]
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Tennis: Mladenovic downs Wozniacki to reach Indian Wells semi-finals
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First fluorescent frog found in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – The first naturally fluorescent frog was discovered recently in Argentina — almost by chance, a member of the team of researchers told AFP Thursday. Argentine and Brazilian scientists at the Bernardino Rivadaiva Natural Sciences Museum made the discovery while studying the metabolic origin of pigments in a tree-frog species common to […]
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Japan launches latest North Korea spy satellite
TOKYO, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Japan launched a new spy satellite on Friday, the country’s space agency said, as the region grows increasingly uneasy over North Korea’s quickening missile programme. The Radar 5 unit was carried into space on Japan’s mainstay H-2A rocket from a launch site in the country’s southwest. It is meant to replace an […]
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Cricket: South Africa 218-6, trail New Zealand by 50
WELLINGTON, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – South Africa were 218 for six at tea in reply to New Zealand’s first innings 268 on day two of the second Test in Wellington on Friday. Quinton de Kock was not out 63 with Temba Bavuma on 61 in an unbeaten 124-run partnership. For New Zealand, Colin de Grandhomme has three […]
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Christie’s pulls Iraq painting from Dubai auction over ownership row
DUBAI, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Christie’s said Thursday it was pulling a painting by Iraqi artist Faeq Hassan from an auction later this week in Dubai because of a “dispute over ownership”. “As per Christie’s protocol we would not offer works of art when there might be a dispute over title of ownership,” Alexandra Kindermann, senior communications […]
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Tennis: Vesnina vanquishes Venus to reach Indian Wells semis
INDIAN WELLS, United States, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams slumped to a three-set defeat at the hands of Russian Elena Vesnina Thursday in the quarter-finals of the WTA Indian Wells tournament. Williams, runner-up to her sister Serena at the Australian Open in January, gave away too much ground with a lethargic start […]