The Philippines’ Dave Apolinario fights Mexico’s Angel Ayala in a flyweight world title fight in Mexico City.—Photo from Angel Ayala’s Instagram MANILA, Philippines—Dave Apolinario failed to add to the list of current Filipino boxing champions on Saturday. In his first major world title fight, Apolinario was knocked out by home bet Angel Ayala in the … Read more
American track and field star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a new world record and claimed the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles final Thursday, repeating her win in Tokyo. American Anna Cockrell nabbed the silver in an upset over world champion Femke Bol of the Netherlands, who finished third for the bronze. McLaughlin-Levrone finished the race in … Read more
The 77th World Health Assembly (WHA)—the annual meeting of member states of the World Health Organization (WHO)—concluded on the 1st of June 2024. At this high-level meeting, after four days of intense negotiations (and many years of back-and-forth discussions preceding it) the Assembly made two major decisions. First, to adopt several amendments to the International … Read more