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A tennis player was left red-faced after an umpire told him off for asking a ball girl to peel a banana for him.
World number 231 Elliot Benchetrit was taking a break on Saturday during his Australian Open qualifying match against Dmitry Popko when he was handed a banana by a ball girl.
The 21-year-old asked the girl to peel the banana, prompting a
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Write comment (92 Comments)Myanmar forces committed war crimes in the counterinsurgency that led more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee the country, an independent commission has found.
However, it said there was no evidence that genocide was planned or carried out.
The United Nations has previously described the events of 2017 as genocide, with claims that the Rohingya
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Write comment (92 Comments)Chinese authorities have confirmed a deadly virus that has infected more than 200 people in four countries can be transmitted via human-to-human contact.
The confirmation comes as airports around the world introduced temperature screening, with hundreds of millions of Chinese people travelling home and abroad for the Lunar New Year holiday.
China's
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Five people - including a child - have died after a pipe exploded and flooded a hotel in Russia with boiling water.
A five-year-old girl and her mother were reportedly among the victims following the incident at the Mini Hotel Caramel in Perm, more than 700 miles east of Moscow.
All of the victims were staying at the nine-room hotel, which is
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Write comment (95 Comments)Norway's coalition government is close to collapse after the anti-immigrant party propping it up said it will pull out over an Islamic State (IS) bride's repatriation from Syria.
The Progress Party's leader, who is also Norway's finance minister, will resign from the government and remove her party from the four-party coalition, robbing the prime
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Write comment (99 Comments)A Hawaii man who was facing eviction is believed to have stabbed his landlord and shot dead two police officers before the house he was living in was destroyed by fire.
Police responding to a call for help found a woman who had been stabbed in the leg and resident Jerry Hanel who then opened fire, killing officers Tiffany Enriquez and Kaulike
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