Australia's Raygun 'sorry' about Olympic backlash
Australia's "Raygun" has apologised for the backlash that her widely ridiculed Paris Olympics performance brought to the broader breakdancing community.
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Tiafoe sets up all-American US Open semi-final
Frances Tiafoe set up an all-American US Open semi-final against Taylor Fritz on Tuesday, guaranteeing a home player in the men's final for the first time in 18 years.
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US Paralympic star Frech wants to take stigma out of disability
Ezra Frech's dream is to become the most successful Paralympian in history and with two golds at the age of 19 he is well on his way -- but his goal is to use his high profile to "de-stigmatise" disability.
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Goncin, the Canadian Paralympian making calipers for disabled kids
Canadian wheelchair basketballer Nikola Goncin helped his country into the semi-finals at the Paris Paralympics on Tuesday but in his day job the Bosnia-born star makes orthotic devices for disabled and injured children.
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Young Chinese women hire female cosplayers to play dream men
During her final years of high school, Chinese teenager Xu Yunting found an unusual way to make some pocket money -- transforming herself into male video game characters and taking their female devotees on dates.
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Medals and mobs: China's 'toxic' sports fans face crackdown
Crowds descended on the home of 17-year-old Chinese diver Quan Hongchan after she won two golds at the Paris Olympics while gymnast Zhang Boheng hid in a Beijing airport toilet to escape overzealous throngs of fans.
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Russian strike kills 51 in Ukrainian city
At least 51 people were killed and hundreds wounded Tuesday in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Poltava, authorities said, in one of the single deadliest bombardments of the two-and-a-half-year war.
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The holy city in India where thousands go to die
Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their one-way pilgrimage to death will deliver everlasting peace.
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Asian markets plunge with Wall St after Nvidia rout, weak US data
Tech firms led a plunge across Asian markets Wednesday after a rout on Wall Street fuelled by a collapse in chip titan Nvidia and disappointing data on US factory activity that revived recession fears.
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Coal generates less than 50% of Australian electricity for first time
Coal generated less than 50 percent of Australia's electricity in the last week of August, dropping to a record low as renewable production surged, data showed Wednesday.
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