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Quick, agile, adept with both feet and laserlike with his headers, he helped Brazil win three World Cup titles December 29, 2022 at 1:58 p.m. EST Pelé in 1969. (AP) He was hailed as the king of soccer, but it was Pelé’s other nickname — the Pérola Negra, or Black Pearl — that best evoked […]

Comment on this story Comment On a rainy fall afternoon in 1977, at a stuffed stadium in New Jersey’s Meadowlands, boxing legend Muhammad Ali joined dignitaries from entertainment and political circles to watch Pelé end his soccer career. From the VIP section, Ali watched the Brazilian treasure play half the game for the New York […]

Comment on this story Comment Temperatures in Europe will close out 2022 much like they started — and where they spent a lot of the year — with record warmth overtaking much of the continent. Widespread areas of record-challenging temperatures are set to expand into Central and Eastern Europe through the holiday weekend and into […]

TORONTO — One of eight teenage girls charged with killing a 59-year-old man in downtown Toronto earlier this month was granted bail by an Ontario judge Thursday. Toronto police say three 13-year-olds, three 14-year-olds, and two 16-year-olds swarmed and stabbed the man on Dec. 18. He later died at a hospital. Canadian authorities can’t release […]

(LONDON) — Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81. Westwood’s eponymous fashion house announced her death on social media platforms, saying she died peacefully. A cause was not disclosed. “Vivienne continued to do the things she loved, up until the last moment, designing, […]

Comment on this story Comment American military personnel, together with local forces in Iraq and Syria, killed nearly 700 suspected members of the Islamic State in 2022, officials said Thursday, highlighting an aggressive counterterrorism campaign that quietly endures five years after a U.S.-led coalition destroyed the militant group’s caliphate. U.S. forces conducted 108 joint operations […]

Comment on this story Comment TORONTO — Ian Tyson, the Canadian folk singer who wrote the modern standard “Four Strong Winds” as one half of Ian & Sylvia and helped influence such future superstars as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, died Thursday at age 89. The native of Victoria, British Columbia, died at his ranch […]

Comment on this story Comment NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s federal police said Thursday that its members have entered the Tigray region’s capital Mekele for the first time in more than a year, under last month’s peace deal between the federal government and Tigray leaders. The peace agreement ended the conflict between federal and regional forces […]

Vivienne Westwood, the influential British fashion designer who helped clothe the 1970s punk movement and remained a style icon for half a century, died Dec. 29 in the Clapham section of London. She was 81. Her death was announced in a statement by her namesake fashion house, which did not cite a cause. Ms. Westwood […]

One day in 2003, Oscar White Muscarella, an archaeologist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, took a stroll through his workplace. Wearing a blue seersucker suit spiffed up by a paisley ascot, he pointed at a display of ancient Greek art. “Looted,” he told a Village Voice reporter. His assessment of a glass case of […]