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"91% of working people are against", "let's block the country": a few thousand people demonstrate at the Place de la Concorde, in Paris, to protest against the pension reform and the triggering of article 49.3. IMAGES
Matthew McConaughey says his role as Rick Wershe Sr in 'White Boy Rick' is his "sad country song".
US cross-country skier Kikkan Randall, who is also the only mother on the team, became the first American athlete ever to receive a gold medal for Olympic cross-country skiing. On Wednesday, Randall won the Team Sprint Free Final race along with her partner Jessica Diggins, clocking the 7.5 km-long hilly track in 16.22.56. Randall is the only mother on the US team, as well as one of the first women to compete in five editions of the Olympic Games.
Russian winter athletes, including skeleton racer Olga Potylitsina, European skeleton champion Elena Nikitina, Skeleton racer Alexsandr Tretyakov, and cross-country skier Alexei Petukohv reacted to the news. On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in a press conference in Lausanne it would ban Russia from participating at the next Winter Olympics 2018, allowing clean Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag.
Stunned locals captured an enormous glowing ball flying through the night sky near the town of Salekhard in northern Siberia on Saturday. Residents from the Yamalo-Nenets region thought they could be witnessing an alien craft or UFO as the sphere changed colours in the sky. However, The mysterious object was soon revealed to be the traces of four Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles launched by the Russian military from Plesetsk Cosmodrome during military exercises.
Tom Hanks, who returns as Dr Robert Langdon in the Dan Brown adaptation 'Inferno', decries the embracing of ignorance at film's launch. Rollo Ross reports.