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Six highs and lows from the 2026 Winter Olympics alpine skiing

Six highs and lows from the 2026 Winter Olympics alpine skiing

US star Mikaela Shiffrin fittingly brought the curtain down on the alpine skiing programme at the Winter Olympics with a long-awaited gold in the women's slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Wednesday. AFP Sport looks at six highs and lows from two weeks of action in

Greece to claim Nazi atrocity photos found on Ebay: minister

Greece to claim Nazi atrocity photos found on Ebay: minister

Greece will claim a World War II photo trove posted for sale online believed to show for the first time one of Nazi Germany's worst atrocities in the country, the culture ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said the photographs appeared to show "the last moments" of

US energy chief says IEA must 'drop' focus on climate change

US energy chief says IEA must 'drop' focus on climate change

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urged the International Energy Agency on Wednesday to abandon its work on climate change and focus instead on its founding mission. Wright threatened last year to pull the United States out of the IEA -- which was founded to coordinate responses to major disruptions of supplies

Shiffrin remembers deceased dad after Olympic slalom gold

Shiffrin remembers deceased dad after Olympic slalom gold

Mikaela Shiffrin's thoughts turned to her deceased father after she ended her long wait for a third Olympic gold by winning the slalom in Cortina on Wednesday. The American star was clearly overcome with emotion after roaring to victory, dropping to the snow as fans hailed two near-

Curling's air of gentility melts amid cheating row

Curling's air of gentility melts amid cheating row

The genteel Olympic sport of curling has attracted a cult following, but one of its leading lights says the spirit of the sport is "dead" after cheating claims at the Milan-Cortina Games. Curling returned to the Olympic programme at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and has been

'Utterly absurd': Kosovo ex-president denies war crimes as trial closes

'Utterly absurd': Kosovo ex-president denies war crimes as trial closes

Kosovo's former president and guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci called the war crimes charges against him "entirely untrue and utterly absurd" Wednesday on the final day of his marathon trial in The Hague. More than five years since Thaci handed himself in to face charges of war

Japan's Takaichi formally reappointed as PM following election victory

Japan's Takaichi formally reappointed as PM following election victory

Japan's Sanae Takaichi was formally reappointed as prime minister on Wednesday, 10 days after her historic landslide election victory. Takaichi, 64, became Japan's first woman premier in October and won a two-thirds majority for her party in the snap lower house elections on February 8.