Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has said her family’s flat has been destroyed in a Russian aerial strike on the Black Sea port of Odesa. “This is what the ‘Russian world’ looks like. A direct hit by a Kalibr cruise missile,” she wrote on social media, showing a photo of a burning multi-storey residential building.
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Pursuing her dream of becoming a world tennis champion, teenage athlete Maristella Torrecampo and her father took a grueling 13-hour bus from their sleepy hillside hometown for her final match in Manila. The 14-year-old girl’s mother and four siblings were unable to watch her play; Their crowdfunded budget was only enough for two round-trip bus