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French Open Fans Hope For Federer-Nadal Final

In Paris, a new chapter in one of sport's greatest rivalries begins this weekend at the French Open. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have switched positions at the top of men's tennis. The transition from Federer, the former No. 1, to Nadal, the current top dog, has featured epic matches and displays of raw emotion.

A child receives the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Fairfax County Government Center in Annandale, Va., in November 2021. A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended Wednesday that the agency expand authorization of COVID-19 vaccines to children as young as 6-months-old.

Advisers to the FDA back COVID vaccines for the youngest children

A committee of experts voted unanimously to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6-months-old.

This image taken by NASA's Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the rover — its main science target, Mount Sharp.

NASA Releases First Full-Resolution Photographs From Mars Curiosity

After a nail-biter of a landing, the real science begins now.

Rohingya refugees gather in the "no man's land" behind Myanmar's barbed-wire-lined border in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state, in 2018. Some 700,000 refugees fled into Bangladesh following a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military in 2017.

Nearly 71 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide As Of 2018, U.N. Report Says

The record number headlined the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' annual "Global Trends" report published Wednesday, just a day before World Refugee Day.

Japan's Naomi Osaka returns the ball to Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games women's singles third round tennis match on Tuesday.

Japanese Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Bounced Out Of Tokyo Olympics

Osaka has been the face of these Olympics and was chosen to light the cauldron in the opening ceremony. She easily won her first two tennis matches but lost in the third round.

Sofia (Danielle Brooks) and Celie (Fantasia Barrino) in the 2023 film reincarnation of <em>The Color Purple.</em>

'The Color Purple' is the biggest Christmas Day opening since 2009

The Color Purple is now the second-biggest Christmas Day opening in history — $18 million on day one of its release.

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