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5 niche sports you didn't know you could bet on
AOL· 2 hours agoSports betting in the United States has exploded into a nearly $10 billion market in the six years since it became legal outside of Nevada. The three major professional leagues ...
Yousofi named in gender-equal Afghanistan team
BBC via Yahoo Canada Sports· 6 hours agoKimia Yousofi will represent "the stolen dreams and aspirations" of Afghanistan's women after being named in the nation's six-person team for the Paris...
France's Hernandez brothers had a dream - but injury denied them again
New York Times· 10 hours agoInjury has prevented the brothers from playing together at a major tournament, just as it did in...
From challenges to innovations, what lessons can Brisbane learn from the Paris Olympics?
The Conversation· 12 hours agoGames should see a return to normalcy. Athletes will be able to mix in the city rather than stay locked down in the Olympic Village. The City of Lights promises plenty to ...
No man left behind: The archeologist pushing Canada to find soldiers’ remains – before it’s too late
The Globe and Mail· 18 hours agoFrom one side of the excavation site comes the sustained thudding of a pickaxe, clanging off stones...
Giannis Antetokounmpo leads Greece men's basketball team to first Olympics since 2008
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Canada Sports· 22 hours agoWhat group is Greece in? Greece...A in the Olympics, which includes Australia, Canada and Spain. ...
First Nations superhero ‘Condoman’ was a world leader in HIV prevention. Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood...
The Conversation· 1 day agoWhen HIV arrived on Australian shores in the early 1980s, politicians and healthcare workers worried the virus would run rampant in remote Aboriginal...This didn’t happen ...
Lithuanians unite in global anthem sing-along, from Ukraine frontline to Pacific
StreetInsider· 2 days agoThe tradition, launched in 2009 to mark 1,000 years of history, unites...diaspora, estimated in hundreds of thousands. Almost half of Lithuanians sang in 2009 in at least 56 places around the ...
China sees foreign visitor numbers more than double after lifting visa rules for many travellers
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance Canada· 4 days agoChina's visa-free policy appears to be succeeding in its aim of attracting more visitors as the number of foreigners entering the country more than doubled in the first six ...
This country has a national happiness index. But what is it really like to live there?
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoPhotos of the king are omnipresent in the country’s Buddhist temples, placed alongside...houses,...