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A helicopter flies over a Kobe Bryant mural in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. Photograph: Getty Images
Kobe Bryant obituary: A transcendent, if enigmatic, superstar

Kobe Bryant, who has died aged 41 in a helicopter crash, was a basketball phenomenon - a transcendent, if enigmatic, superstar whose rare talent bridg(...)

Chief executive Kasper Rorsted said he was more worried about the prospects for a currency war between the United States and China, than about tariffs on Chinese-made shoes. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Adidas targets return to growth in Europe as US-China tensions mount

Adidas said supply shortages for North America will be fixed by the end of the year and the European market should return to growth after the German s(...)

Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Los Angeles Galaxy celebrates his goal against the Chicago Fire at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. Photograph: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
America at Large: LA a fitting stage for the travelling Ibrahimovic show

For the first seven minutes of his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week, Zlatan Ibrahimovic performed exactly the type of showbiz schtick he was(...)

Photo of male and female ligers (a liger is a cross-breed of a male lion and a female tiger)in South Korea. Photograph: Hkandy/Wikimedia Commons
Activists seek end to ‘inhumane’ breeding of frankencats
  • US
  • May 19, 2017, 15:35

A coalition of US conservation groups has launched an attempt to outlaw the breeding of so-called frankencats, where big cats such as tigers and lions(...)

Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson were named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2016 on Monday, according the NBA. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters
Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson headline 2016 Hall of Fame class

Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson were the biggest names of the 10 new faces to be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame on Monday. Iverson and O’Neal (...)

Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers stands on court during game two of the Western Conference Finals against the San Antonio Spurs in the 2008 NBA playoffs. Photograph: Getty Images
Kobe Bryant: dazzling, brash, egomaniacal, ugly, beautiful and jaw-dropping

Among the deluge of tributes to Kobe Bryant floating around cyberspace now is one tweeted by Shane Battier, one of the few defensive players capable o(...)

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The Lego Movie

Do you remember what you were doing when you first heard about The Lego Movie ? Harrumphing?(...)