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They Ran an Olympic Marathon 12 Weeks Ago. Now They’re Back at It in New York.
A handful of runners are trying the quadrennial feat of competing in the Olympic marathon and then racing in the New York version.Sports - The New York Times - 6 days ago -
Standout boxing nation at Paris Olympics joins new body aiming to keep the sport at 2028 Games
The most successful boxing nation at the Paris Olympics has joined the new governing body that aims to keep the sport in the 2028 Los Angeles Games after years of turmoil outside the ringSports - ABC News - 4 days ago -
Olympic medalist suspended in doping investigation
Olympic silver medalist race walker Koki Ikeda of Japan has been provisionally banned for suspected blood dopingSports - ABC News - November 1 -
Navy apologies for destroying Alaska Native village in 1882
The U.S. Navy issued an apology Saturday for destroying an Alaska Native village nearly 150 years ago. The 1882 attack in Angoon killed six children and caused such dire food shortages that ...Top stories - CBS News - October 26 -
Village homes for commuters near a station – in pictures
From a renovated farmhouse to a period home, all have easy access to rail links to towns and cities Continue reading...World - The Guardian - November 1 -
Center Parcs plans first Scottish holiday village
The project, near Hawick, promises an investment of £350m and could create 1,200 jobs.Top stories - BBC News - 3 days ago -
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Olympic snowboarder wanted by FBI for cocaine distribution and murder
Ryan Wedding, 43, accused of running cocaine ring Wedding competed for Canada at 2002 Winter Games A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring ...World - The Guardian - October 17 -
Broken-leg Olympic marathon star resumes training
Rose Harvey completed the race in Paris despite running most of it with a fractured femur.Top stories - BBC News - October 21 -
Comcast tops earnings estimates as Olympics propel the company
Comcast beat third-quarter earnings estimates as the Summer Olympics in Paris boosted NBCUniversal’s revenue and Peacock’s subscriber count.Business - CNBC - October 31 -
Australian breaker Raygun retires from sport after Olympic backlash
Rachael Gunn said the level of scrutiny around her performance made it difficult to keep competing.Top stories - BBC News - 2 days ago -
Controversial Australian Olympic breaker Rachael Gunn retires from competition
Australian breaker Rachael Gunn has told a Sydney radio station that she plans to retire from competition just three months after her unconventional routine at the Paris Olympics led to her being ...Sports - ABC News - 2 days ago -
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Russia says it captured a southern Ukraine village in a push before winter comes
Russia says it has captured the village of Levadne in southern Ukraine as it probes for weaknesses along the war’s roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line before winter arrivesWorld - ABC News - October 14 -
Israel widens Lebanon campaign with air strike on northern village
Attack on Christian-majority area follows targeting of Israeli army base by HizbollahBusiness - Financial Times - October 14 -
Israel Destroys Nearly All of a Lebanese Village, Photos and Videos Show
About two dozen buildings were demolished in the village, which The Times identified as Mhaibib, just over a mile from Israel’s northern border.World - The New York Times - October 18 -
Welsh village becomes UK area where everyone has ultrafast broadband
Before the changes, one resident said it was quicker to send a postcard than message.Top stories - BBC News - October 19 -
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India’s start-ups look to villages to drive next leg of growth
Indian start-ups are shifting their focus to rural consumers, hoping to tap into a new wave of growth.Top stories - BBC News - October 21 -
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Villagers are wary of plans to dam a river to ensure Panama Canal's water supply
The Panama Canal Authority is reaching out to communities that could be impacted if the Indio River is dammed to make a new reservoir ensuring the water supply needed to operate the Panama CanalWorld - ABC News - October 23 -
‘Pole of Cold’: life in the coldest inhabited village on Earth – photo essay
The Siberian republic of Sakha in the Russian far east is one the coldest inhabited regions in the world. The photojournalist Natalya Saprunova spent almost two months documenting the daily lives ...World - The Guardian - October 25 -
Navy issues apology for destroying Alaska Native village in 1882
The attack on Angoon was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867.Top stories - CBS News - October 26 -
'Outnumbered by puppets': Depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for sense of life
With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan have come up with a novel plan to make it less lonely — replacing people with puppets.Top stories - NBC News - October 27 -
In England’s Most Haunted Village, Halloween Means Screams and Skeptics
Pluckley is said to count at least 12 spirits among its 1,000 residents. Come October, ghost hunters arrive in droves to a place where even nonbelievers concede they’ve had eerie encounters.Top stories - The New York Times - October 28 -
Solar power to the people: how the sun is bringing light – and TV – to Amazon villages
Their fuel resources have long been plundered by others, while national grids have failed to connect them. Now, solar panels could give more than electricity to Indigenous people. At dusk, Piyulaga ...World - The Guardian - October 29 -
Village in India where Harris is ‘daughter of the land’ on edge as US election looms
Billboards with Harris’s face wishing her good luck erected across sleepy village and daily prayers held at local temple. Kamala Harris may never have visited Thulasendrapuram, a sleepy village ...World - The Guardian - October 31 -
As data center industry booms, an English village becomes a battleground
The English village of Abbots Langley has become a flashpoint in a British battle over data centersTech - ABC News - 6 days ago -
Crashing waves in a hilltop village, a night of terror from Spain's floods
Irene Cuevas says she has the roar of the waves produced by a flash flood burned into her memoryWorld - ABC News - 6 days ago -
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Eye Opener: Rescue crews evacuate Indonesian villagers after volcano erupts
Rescue crews in Indonesia are scrambling to evacuate villagers after a volcano erupted multiple times, sending massive ash clouds into the sky. Meanwhile, a bombing at a Pakistan train station has ...Top stories - CBS News - 14 minutes ago -
A Canadian former Olympic snowboarder is wanted in a US drug trafficking case
A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that authorities say shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four peopleSports - ABC News - October 17 -
Ex-Olympic snowboarder charged with ordering killings in cocaine ring out of LA
Ryan Wedding, an ex-Olympic snowboarder, is facing federal charges alongside 15 other defendants in what prosecutors have described as a cocaine trafficking ring that ran stash houses in Los ...Top stories - CBS News - October 17 -
Former Olympic snowboarder accused of running large drug trafficking group
Ryan Wedding, 43, a former Olympian from Canada who now resides in Mexico, is among 16 people charged in a federal indictment.Top stories - ABC News - October 17
