Quick-thinking train driver prevents potential tragedy

Pan Pacific Open: Elena Rybakina withdraws from Pan Pacific Open with injury just one day after securing year-end No 1 ranking

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TOKYO–Elena Rybakina withdrew from the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo with a neck injury on Friday, a day after she secured the year-end world number one ranking. The Moscow-born Kazakh was due to face Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in the quarter-finals, but instead she came onto the court to address the crowd and sign autographs. She said she would return for next month’s WTA Finals in Indian Wells. “I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming today, but unfortunately I won’t be able to play,”…

Russia strikes energy facilities in Kyiv, port infrastructure near Odesa, defence ministry says

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Russia said its forces struck energy infrastructure in and around Ukraine's capital on Friday as an aid ⁠convoy started ​moving overnight towards the beleaguered Russian-held town of Oleshky ​in southern…

Crows star pleads guilty to hitting pedestrian with car

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Crows star Josh Worrell has pleaded guilty to hitting a pedestrian with his car.

‘Recruited off the street’: The teenagers being groomed in Melbourne’s plague of arson attacks

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Crime figures are using social media, random approaches on the street, and even the funeral of a teenager killed in knife violence as recruiting grounds for arson foot soldiers.

Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta to close, citing pressure from ‘special services’

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Independent outlet, whose former editor won Nobel peace prize, says Russian authorities have forced it to…

Dislocations, explosions and big hits aplenty: Welcome to wheelchair rugby league

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