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20 Feb

Naomi Osaka’s 6-4 6-3 win over Jennifer Brady in the Australian Open final gave the Japanese juggernaut her fourth Grand Slam crown, with her career still budding at the age of 23 reut.rs/3qzNNmK 1/4

Osaka joined Monica Seles and Roger Federer as winners in their first four Grand Slam finals.

‘I hope that I can have one grain of how their career has unfolded. But you can only wish and you can only just keep going down your own path,’ she said reut.rs/3qzNNmK 2/4

Having added a second Australian Open title to her two U.S. Open crowns, Osaka said she would rather ‘live in the moment’ than set ambitious targets for further Grand Slam glory reut.rs/37AcE2u 3/4

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19 Feb

It is official: The United States has rejoined the Paris climate agreement, reinvigorating the global fight against climate change reut.rs/3qvsF0Z

Scientists and foreign diplomats have welcomed the U.S. return to the treaty, which became official here 30 days after President Joe Biden ordered the move on his first day in office reut.rs/2OJ552H

Since nearly 200 countries signed the 2015 pact to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United States was the only country to exit. Former President Donald Trump took the step, claiming climate action would cost too much

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19 Feb

Sunday is traditionally a quiet day for Chuck Pryor's Houston funeral home, but on this Sunday in February, almost a year after the global pandemic reached Texas, the phone was still ringing reut.rs/3auR9Su 1/6

Pryor took the call: COVID-19 had taken yet another American life - pushing the nation's death toll closer to the half-million mark - and another grieving family required the services of the exhausted funeral director and his staff 2/6

The sheer number of coronavirus deaths has overwhelmed many U.S. funeral homes.

Some family-owned businesses have handled a crushing case load, with some seeing the same number of deaths in a couple of months as they would normally handle in a full year 3/6

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19 Feb

A head shorter than his peers, Fallou Diop quickly vanishes into the crowd of jockeys preparing for early morning drills in the western Senegalese village of Niaga reut.rs/2OTrA5h 1/7

When the racing begins, however, his crouched silhouette is far ahead of the field, aided by an effortless riding style. 'When I start riding I get a bit stressed, but after a moment, it's over,' Diop says 2/7

Diop is one of Senegal's most promising jockeys, having won the country's top racing prize when he was just 17.

He hopes to begin racing in France next year, realizing a dream coveted by some of Senegal's foremost riders 3/7

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19 Feb

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The messy business of sand mining explained: A 21st century construction boom is driving unregulated sand mining around the world - eroding rivers and coastlines, disrupting ecosystems and hurting livelihoods reut.rs/3dtcIou by @TmarcoH @SimonScarr and @katydaigle

Sand is the planet’s most mined material, with some 50 billion tons extracted from lakes, riverbeds, coastlines and deltas each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme

From Shanghai to Seattle, the world’s cities are built on sand - massive amounts of sand. It’s in the cement and concrete that make the bulk of most buildings. The glass in those buildings’ windows is made with sand, too. So is the tarmac laid onto the roads around them

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18 Feb

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A surge of Republicans quitting the party to renounce Trump could hurt moderates in next year’s primaries, adding a capstone to Trump’s legacy as president: A potentially lasting rightward push on the party reut.rs/3pyqusj

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More than 68,000 Republicans have left the party in recent weeks in Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, crucial states for Democrats’ hopes of keeping control of Congress in the mid-term elections in 2022, state voter data shows 2/4