While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Sept 9
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Jannik Sinner held aloft his arms in celebration after breaking Taylor Fritz to clinch the title.
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Tennis: Sinner beats Fritz to win US Open men’s championship
Italian Jannik Sinner beat American 12th seed Taylor Fritz 6-3 6-4 7-5 in the US Open men’s final on Sept 8.
Sinner held aloft his arms in celebration after breaking Fritz to clinch the title and cheers rang around Arthur Ashe Stadium, even though home fans had hoped to see Fritz end a 21-year US men’s Grand Slam drought.
Sinner was under a cloud of controversy at the start of the tournament after revelations that he tested positive twice for an anabolic agent in March but avoided a ban when an independent tribunal accepted his claim that the positive tests were the result of an unintentional contamination.
Worldwide protests held over Indian trainee medic’s rape and death
via REUTERS
Thousands of diaspora Indians were protesting in more than 130 cities across 25 countries on Sept 8, organisers said, to demand justice after last month’s rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a hospital in the city of Kolkata.
The protests started in large and small groups across Japan, Australia, Taiwan and Singapore, before spreading to cities in several European countries. Sixty were planned in the US.
They added to ongoing protests around India after the Aug 9 killing of the 31-year-old postgraduate student of chest medicine.
Philippines arrests celebrity pastor accused of sex crimes
AFP
An influential evangelist preacher from the Philippines accused of sex trafficking and sexual abuse has been arrested, authorities said on Sept 8.
Apollo Quiboloy, self-proclaimed “owner of the universe” and “appointed son of god”, is wanted on charges of child and sexual abuse and related allegations of human trafficking. He has denied wrongdoing.
“Apollo Quiboloy has been caught,” Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. said on his Facebook page, without specifying how or where he had been.
Eight-year-old found dead in Turkey after national search effort
AFP
The body of an eight-year-old girl who had been missing in Turkey for 19 days has been found after an enormous manhunt, the interior minister said on Sept 8.
The body of Narin Guran was found in a bag in a river in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, around one kilometre from the village where she lived with her family, Diyarbakir governor Murat Zorluoglu told reporters.
“Unfortunately, the lifeless body of Narin, who went missing in the village of Tavsantepe... has been found,” Turkish interior minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Olympic kitefoil medallist Maximilian Maeder back to winning ways in Austria
The Straits Times
A new four-year Olympic cycle begins with new equipment for Singapore kitefoiler Maximilian Maeder, yet some things remain the same.
The teenager dominated the competition to claim the KiteFoil World Series Austria title on Sept 8, four days before he turns 18.
His training partner, Croatia’s Martin Dolenc clinched silver, while Frenchman Benoit Gomez took the bronze and German Florian Gruber finished fourth in the grand final. Home favourite and surprise Olympic champion Valentin Bontus placed seventh.
