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Added on the 03/12/2022 21:25:19 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A motorcade carrying football legend Pele's body leaves the hospital where he died, in Sao Paulo, and heads to Vila Belmiro stadium -- Santos home field -- where the memorial service for 'King of Football' will take place. IMAGES
"Eternal king Pele" reads a banner hung by fans of the legendary Brazilian footballer outside the Albert-Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo where the athlete had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer since late 2021. IMAGES
The Torch Doha next to Khalifa International Stadium, which hosts the last-16 World Cup match between the Netherlands and the United States, displays an image of Pele as the Brazilian football legend, in fragile health in recent years, was hospitalized Tuesday in Sao Paulo. IMAGES
British junior hospital doctors resume strike action which will last for five days, just one week before the country's general election in which the state of the publicly funded National Health Service is a major issue. The doctors have been asking for 35 percent "pay restoration" as a starting position amid a cost-of-living crisis. Labour's health spokesman Wes Streeting has said any Labour government would not meet the 35 percent demand but that there is "space for a discussion". IMAGES
Doctors form a picket line outside the University College Hospital in Londonas England's hospital doctors begin their longest strike action yet in a move that health bosses fear will pile pressure on services at the busiest time of year. Six more days of industrial action are planned from January 3. IMAGES