Bondi beach 'closed' as Sydney shores hit by 'tar balls'
Lifeguards declared Sydney's famed Bondi beach and several other strands closed Thursday, as more mysterious black "tar ball" globules washed up along the city's shores.
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Dodgers smash Mets to seize lead in MLB playoff series
Shohei Ohtani, Enrique Hernandez and Max Muncy smacked home runs to power the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Mets 8-0 on Wednesday, grabbing the lead in their Major League Baseball playoff series.
Read moreChina to almost double support for unfinished housing projects
China said Thursday it would boost credit available for unfinished housing projects to more than $500 billion as it unveiled another round of measures to shore up the sector and try to reignite the economy.
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King Charles heads to Australia, a nation shrugs
On the eve of King Charles III's landmark tour Down Under, many of his antipodean subjects are unaware or uninterested -- a sign, experts say, of a more diverse and less Anglo-centric Australia.
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China to boost credit for property market, renovate 1 mn homes
China said Thursday it would boost the credit available to the ailing property market and help renovate a million homes as it unveiled another round of measures to shore up the sector and try to reignite the economy.
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New York fight back to take 2-1 lead over Lynx in WNBA Finals
Sabrina Ionescu sank a stunning game-winning three-pointer with one second remaining as the New York Liberty overcame a 15-point deficit to win 80-77 at Minnesota and move within a victory of their first WNBA title.
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Family feud reignites over Singapore ex-PM's historic home
A bungalow where Singapore's early leaders spent long hours laying the country's foundations is under the spotlight as a bitter feud rages between former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's children.
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ECB set to cut rates again as inflation cools
European Central Bank policymakers meet on Thursday with fading price pressures and weaker economic activity in the eurozone nudging them towards making another cut to interest rates.
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Malinin, Sakamoto headline pre-Winter Olympics figure skating season
US figure skating star Ilia Malinin swings into action as the pre-Winter Olympic season kicks off on Friday with the first of the six-leg ISU Grand Prix series at Skate America in Texas.
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Prospective Paris FC takeover could transform French football landscape
France's capital city may finally be about to have a second major football club, and a challenger to Paris Saint-Germain, with a takeover of Paris FC by the country's richest family along with energy drinks giant Red Bull expected to be announced in the coming days.
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