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A roller coaster in Japan has been shut down until further notice after four passengers reported injuries on the ride. ( read original story ...)

Around 1.6 million doses of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine has been withdrawn from use in Japan due to contamination, the Nikkei said, citing a health ministry announcement on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Yoshihide Suga moved closer to being re-elected ruling party leader and remaining prime minister as a powerful faction backed him, even as a record wave of Covid-19 infections pushed his ... ( read original story ...)

Canadian Olympic cyclist Kelsey Mitchell turned heads during the Games, and continued doing so even as she was leaving Tokyo. The 27-year-old recently posted a video of alarms going off as she walked ... ( read original story ...)

Questions abound as Naomi Osaka prepares to mount a title defence at the U.S. Open following a series of lacklustre performances since she returned to the game after stepping away to focus on her ... ( read original story ...)

Dame Sarah Storey got Great Britain’s Paralympic Games in Tokyo off to the perfect start as she retained her gold in the C5 3000m individual pursuit. The 43-year-old, who smashed her own ... ( read original story ...)

Competition in Para Powerlifting at the Tokyo Paralympics starts on Thursday morning with Adesokan taking the first go in the 48kg category. ( read original story ...)

Abbas Karimi, who was born without arms, has gone from living in camps in Turkey to realizing his dream of competing internationally. ( read original story ...)

Stockwell is returning to represent Team USA, competing in the Paratriathlon in the Tokyo Paralympics this Friday. Her journey began 17 years ago. ( read original story ...)

Canada opened the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on Wednesday with two bronze medals courtesy of Para cyclist Keely Shaw (Midale, SK) and Para swimmer Aurélie Rivard (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC), and a ... ( read original story ...)

It’s been a tremendous summer of sport already but even the end of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics does not mean that the sporting summer of fun is over as now the Paralympics 2020 are underway. The games, ... ( read original story ...)

Kadeena Cox hopes to inspire a future generation of black cyclists by showing the sport is not just for “white, middle-class males”. ( read original story ...)

Here is some info from Ohio State – improving lives through excellence in research, education and patient care. ( read original story ...)

The talks are set for Friday and were confirmed less than a week after reports said Japan and Taiwan's ruling parties were hoping to hold a bilateral dialogue. ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says that Japan plans to prioritize the safe evacuation of Japanese citizens and embassy staff out of Afghanistan using Self-Defense Force aircraft. ( read original story ...)

Japan is set to expand a state of emergency to eight more prefectures; five people in Auckland who received jabs may have got a dose of saline solution ... ( read original story ...)