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Miss SA 2026 Finale: Venue Change, Broadcast Details and New Strategic Focus

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Kuwaitis Elected to Senior Leadership Roles at ALECSO

BingX: Major Announcement of Far-Reaching Significance

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Swiggy Leases 2.62 Lakh Sq Ft Office Space in Bengaluru for ₹241 Crore

UCLA Stays Unbeaten With Ty Dieffenbach's Heroic Return Against Illinois

Fisheries Commission Lowers Chesapeake Bay Menhaden Cap Amid Conservation Concerns

Caltech Honors Hiroo Kanamori on His 90th Birthday

Judge Denies Peltola Campaign’s Request for Alaska Absentee Ballot Data

Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice Lobbied Bank of England on Crypto After Major Donations

Rocky Fans Break Guinness World Record at Philadelphia Museum Steps

Ukraine sends ground robots

Lyman's surrender crisis

Pakistan’s Taliban dilemma

Venezuela and the Qatar Fund

At 17, Pele conquered the world

Pele burst onto the global stage at just 17 with dazzling goals as Brazil won the World Cup for the first time in Sweden in 1958.

Pele, Maradona, Messi: Who is the greatest of all time?

When FIFA declared Pele and Diego Maradona jointly the players of the 20th century, and effectively the best of all time, they side-stepped but did not resolve a heated debate that has grown more complicated as Lionel Messi has dominated the 21st century.

Pele -- Who said what

Brazilian football legend Pele, who died on Thursday at the age of 82, is widely considered the greatest footballer of all time.

Pele, eternal king of the beautiful game

Pele was the best-loved footballer of his or any other generation, the eternal master of the beautiful game.

Brazilian football legend Pele has died: family

Brazilian football icon Pele, widely regarded as the greatest player of all time and a three-time World Cup winner who masterminded the "beautiful game," has died at the age of 82, his family said Thursday.

Exiled Afghan MP says Taliban 'erasing' women

A former Afghan woman MP who fled to Britain after the Taliban takeover in 2021 on Thursday called on the world to hold the Taliban accountable for its attempt to erase women from public life.

Pele fans search Brazilian football legend's hometown for souvenirs

The deteriorating health of sports legend Pele has rekindled curiosity about the quiet town of Tres Coracoes in southeastern Brazil, where the football prodigy was born 82 years ago.

Granerud wins Four Hills opener as Kobayashi flops

Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud won ski jumping's Four Hills opening round on Thursday as defending champion Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan flopped in 15th place.

Panther rescued in Ukraine, finds refuge in France

Kiara, a six-month-old black panther born in war-torn Ukraine and victim of exotic animal trafficking, has found a new home at a wildlife refuge in France.

Ex-pope Benedict is 'lucid', condition stable: Vatican

Former pope Benedict XVI is "lucid and alert" and his condition remains serious but stable, the Vatican said Thursday, the day after revealing the 95-year-old's health had deteriorated.

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