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A court in Moscow on Thursday fined Google for failing to store the data of users who are based in Russia in that country. A judge imposed a fine of 3 million roubles (40,000 dollars) on Google, the first time the company has faced a penalty of this kind in Russia. However, LinkedIn, an […]
KanyeWest has been living inside an Atlanta stadium while working on his new album. A representative for the performer said Monday that West planned to remain inside Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium while working to complete “Donda,” his 10th studio album. The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they […]
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka’s dreams of home Olympic gold were crushed by a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Marketa Vondrousova Tuesday as her return to action came to an abrupt end. Osaka, who lit the Olympic cauldron and was one of the faces of the Games, struggled in an error-strewn display that blew the […]
Nikita Nagornyy led the Russian team to men’s artistic gymnastics gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Defending champions Japan took silver and China the bronze. The Russians, competing under a neutral banner in Tokyo due to their doping suspension, last won the coveted men’s team title in 1996. The outcome of the […]
Popular Liberian-American actor and comedian, Michael Blackson, proposed to his Cambodian girlfriend, Rada, during a radio show. Michael, who is also of Ghanaian descent, popped the question during his interview on American radio show, The Breakfast Club on Thursday, July 22. Before the proposal, Michael revealed that they were in an open relationship and […]
Mourners were set to offer their final farewell to Haiti’s slain president Jovenel Moise under tight security on Friday, just over two weeks after his assassination rattled a country mired in poverty, corruption, and political instability. Moise, who was 53 when he was shot dead in his home in the early hours of July […]
A Ugandan athlete who went missing in Japan last week after failing to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics has been found in the Mie prefecture, local police said on Tuesday. Weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko was found in the town of Yokkaichi after being registered as missing from a team training camp in Izumisano some 170 […]
Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced the launch of a trial aimed at freeing its users from smartphones. In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook engineers said the new feature would allow for the hugely popular service be used on multiple “non-phone” devices without needing to connect to the smartphone app. “With this new […]
Australian Olympic basketball star Liz Cambage pulled out of the Tokyo Games Friday, citing a struggle with her mental health fuelled by the thought of “terrifying” isolation in the Olympic bubble. Cambage — a stalwart of Australian women’s Olympic basketball team, the Opals — said she could not confidently compete on the world stage […]
Pope Francis was discharged from a Rome hospital and returned home to the Vatican on Wednesday, 10 days after undergoing surgery to remove half his colon. Francis, 84, sat in the passenger seat of the Ford car, which left Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic around 10:45 a.m. (0845 GMT; 4:45 a.m. EDT). He made a stop […]
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