Month: February 2023

PHOENIX (AP) — From Super Bowl opening night to the night before the big game, the party was on all week long. The frenzy was back in full force this year after COVID-19 restrictions limited the wild, zany atmosphere that surrounds the most-anticipated and most-hyped week on the sports calendar. More than 6,000 media members from 24 countries were accredited to provide coverage of the Kansas City Chiefs vs. the Philadelphia Eagles and related events onsite in Arizona, per the NFL. Officials estimated 100,000 visitors were passing through the area surrounding the downtown convention center where the NFL set up its Super Bowl Experience, an interactive theme park. That doesn’t count the hundreds of thousands of people who came out for the WM Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, 20 miles from down...

VIENNA (AP) — Austria has come under heavy criticism for granting visas that will allow sanctioned Russian lawmakers to attend a Vienna meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The issue highlights the delicate balancing act the European country has engaged in while trying to maintain its longstanding position of military neutrality during the war in Ukraine. The Austrian government has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago but also stressed the need to maintain diplomatic relations with Moscow. Austria hosts several U.N. agencies and international organizations such as the OSCE, which was established during the Cold War as a forum for dialogue between East and West. Russia is one of the 57 nations in North America, Europe and Asia that parti...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes shook off an ankle injury, turned back into a magician and pulled out another comeback on the biggest stage to help the Kansas City Chiefs win their second Super Bowl in four years. Mahomes threw two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter and scrambled 26 yards on the go-ahead drive before Harrison Butker kicked a 27-yard field goal with 8 seconds left to give the Chiefs a 38-35 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday night. Mahomes and Hurts excelled in the first Super Bowl matchup featuring two Black starting QBs. But Mahomes, the two-time AP NFL MVP, turned it up in the second half after reaggravating a sprained right ankle. Chiefs coach Andy Reid, who couldn’t win the big game in Philadelphia, beat his former team to earn his second ring...

Specialist divers searching a river for an English woman who vanished while walking her dog have ended their mission with no answers, saying she was "categorically not" in the area of the river police believe she fell in. Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen walking her dog by the Wyre River in St Michael's on Wyre, in Lancashire, on January 27. Her phone, which was connected to a work call, and her dog leash, were found on a steep bank overlooking the river. READ MORE: Legendary pop song composer Burt Bacharach dies at 94 Police have said they believe Bulley fell into the river in unsuspicious circumstances. But divers searching the area of the Wyre it was believed Bulley fell into have found no trace of her, the BBC has reported. "We've done very thoroug...

Melbourne mum and hairdresser Gillian Jenkins was in the salon cutting a client's hair when she suddenly felt her hand go numb. "I walked over to the basin and I was thinking, 'This isn't normal'," the 34-year-old said. "Then my arm went numb, and my leg and my face. I started freaking out." READ MORE: Woman loses $37k to catfish posing as Aussie actor But, almost as quickly as it came, the strange episode passed. Within minutes, Jenkins said she felt fine. On the advice of a colleague, Jenkins saw a GP at a local medical centre, who did a blood test that didn't show up anything out of the ordinary. But, a week and a half later on Boxing Day, almost exactly the same thing happened again. "I was out having lunch with a girlfriend and I went c...

The appearance of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's daughter alongside her father during a military parade this week has fuelled speculation the girl is being groomed as his eventual successor. The girl – believed to be Kim's second child, Ju-ae, who is aged about nine – on Wednesday watched with Kim as massive intercontinental ballistic missiles were paraded through Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung square in a military parade. Earlier on Tuesday, she joined the North Korean leader and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, during a visit to a military barracks and subsequent banquet to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army, state media reported. READ MORE: North Korean troops encouraged by Kim Jong-un and his daughter North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, second from...