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Snowboard veteran James targets 2030 Games after Olympic heartbreak
Snowboard veteran James targets 2030 Games after Olympic heartbreak

Australian snowboard veteran Scotty James says he intends to compete at a sixth Winter Olympics in 2030 after falling agonisingly short in his quest to win a first gold medal in Friday's men's halfpipe competition.

February 13, 2026

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Costa Rica digs up mastodon, giant sloth bones in major archaeological find
Costa Rica digs up mastodon, giant sloth bones in major archaeological find

Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.

February 13, 2026

Ukrainian skeleton racer Heraskevych loses appeal against Olympic ban
Ukrainian skeleton racer Heraskevych loses appeal against Olympic ban

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych on Friday lost his appeal against his disqualification from the Winter Olympics for wearing a helmet adorned with pictures of Ukrainian war dead.

February 13, 2026

Japan's Totsuka wins Olympic halfpipe thriller to deny James elusive gold
Japan's Totsuka wins Olympic halfpipe thriller to deny James elusive gold

Japanese snowboarder Yuto Totsuka won a gripping men's halfpipe final on Friday, shattering Australian snowboard veteran Scotty James's dreams of an elusive gold medal in his fifth Winter Games.

February 13, 2026

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WHO sets out concerns over US vaccine trial in G.Bissau
WHO sets out concerns over US vaccine trial in G.Bissau

The World Health Organization on Friday voiced serious concerns over a planned US-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial on newborn babies in junta-run Guinea-Bissau, questioning it on scientific and ethical grounds.

February 13, 2026

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International crew en route to space station
International crew en route to space station

Four astronauts were on their way to the International Space Station Friday after they successfully embarked on their research mission to the orbiting laboratory.

February 13, 2026