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By Elvira Pollina and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Interviewed after his shock Olympic sprint triumph, Italy's Marcell Jacobs thanked his mental coach, and it was not the first time he had indicated t...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Combining AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine with a second dose from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna's jab provides "good protection", Denmark's State Serum Institute said on Mond...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nobody could blame French gymnast Samir Ait Said for feeling that the Olympics Games are cursed for him. Forced by a triple leg fracture to sit out the 2012 London Games, which he wa...

August 2, 2021 Q: In a poll of 30,000 Americans, nearly 70% said they like doing this year round. What is it? A: Eating ice-cream

By Martin Petty TOKYO (Reuters) - New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard made history on Monday by becoming the first openly transgender athlete to compete at an Olympic Games, but she suffered disappointment w...

UPDATE — Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley has identified the motorcycle rider who died after a crash Monday morning as 20-year-old Samuel Rodgers, of Mason County. The Tazewell County Sher...

By Yuki Nitta and Rozanna Latiff TOKYO (Reuters) - Chinese teenager Wang Zongyuan finished first in the preliminary competition for the men's 3 metre springboard diving on Monday, but three-time Olymp...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam reported 7,455 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, down from 8,620 cases on Sunday. Most of the new infections were in epicentre Ho Chi Minh City and neighbouring Binh Duong p...

By Tina Bellon and Akanksha Rana (Reuters) - Ride hailing companies Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc promised Wall Street they would be back on the road to profitability and growth by the time they ...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will respond promptly to any threat against its security, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday, after the United States, Israel and Britain blamed Tehran...