Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole next week after serving one year of his five-year jail term for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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LONDON - Practitioners of the card game bridge have lost a battle at Britain's High Court to have their pastime recognised as a sport.
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's Prince Carl Philip and his wife Princess Sofia, a former reality show starlet, are expecting their first child in April.
LONDON - Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns named Lou Vincent and Daryl Tuffey as people he match-fixed with, but said Daniel Vettori and Jacob Oram wouldn't have "had the balls" to do it, a court has been told.
MANCHESTER - A 16-year-old British girl who downloaded bomb-making recipes has told the sentencing judge she deeply regrets her actions and wants to prove she's "not a terrorist".
DOHA - A tearful Baher Mohamed, one of three Al Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt, has called for the release of all reporters unlawfully jailed as he made an emotional return to Qatar.
ATHENS - Seven migrants, four of them children, have drowned near the Greek island of Lesbos after their boat collided with a Greek rescue vessel, the coastguard said.
