(CNN) Some mega-adorable pictures of a set of grandparents wearing matching outfits were posted to Twitter last night, and we honestly can't get enough.
"I never expected a tweet of my grandparents to go viral," Anthony Garguila,17, told CNN.
Fran and Ed Garguila, Anthony's grandparents, have been married for a whopping 52 years, and they have become known for their coordinated outfits.
my grandparents have been married for 52 years and they match outfits every day. pic.twitter.com/79nCaNuTuD
"It's amazing," Anthony said.
So... they've been matching for 52 YEARS?
Well, not exactly. But enough to win the "Most Endearing Couple of the Year" award.
The Garguilas - Ed, 76, and Fran, 74 -- started square dancing several years ago, and decided to wear matching outfits when they danced. And it just became... a thing.
Especially after they showed up to one of Anthony's singing performances last year in Florida — sporting bright orange shirts. Not only were THEY matching, but they brought their whole square dancing crew along wearing bright orange.
Anthony loved it.
"Everybody looks forward to what they're going to wear," Rich Garguila, the couple's son, told CNN.
That includes Anthony, who gets an exclusive preview every morning...
"I wake up to text messages saying, 'Good morning! We hope you have a good day!' — along with the "outfit of the day."
His personal favorite is the "bumble bee outfit" -- the one where the Garguilas wore opposing yellow and black pants and shirts.
The "bumblebee outfit"
"It's the cutest thing ever," he said.
It's also indicative of the kind of people they are in general.
Can you EVEN!?
Anthony says, "they are the best... my grandfather is 75-years-old and texts me every morning."
"They personify being grandparents and being a couple," Rich Garguila told CNN.
This morning, after Anthony's tweet blew up overnight, he texted his grandparents: "You're an internet sensation."
They even matched when they renewed their vows two years ago
"Directly after that, they sent me their morning photo," he said.
The text read, "Good morning from your famous grandparents."

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Story highlights Louise Vincent says the societal approach to addiction must change
"That's what would have saved my daughter," she says
She advocates for the use of the opioid-blocking drug naloxone
(CNN) In March, Louise Vincent was forced to live every parent's worst nightmare. Her daughter Selena died after a drug overdose. She was 19.
Yet despite Vincent's grief, it's not heroin that she blames for Selena's death.
"Drug policy is really what's killing people. That's what would have saved my daughter," Vincent told CNN.
Vincent, 39, a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, knows well the everyday horror of drug addiction. She used heroin herself in her 20s, though she's been clean for more than a decade.
Since then, she's worked as a specialist in "harm reduction," an approach to treating addicts and supporting their recovery. It can be broadly classified, Vincent says, as "working with people who are actively using and providing them with strategies and choices."
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Story highlights Ryder Cup starts on September 30 at Hazeltine
Tiger Woods selected as vice-captain for US
(CNN) He may no longer be the force he once was but Team USA is hoping Tiger Woods can help it hunt down Europe's top golfers at next month's Ryder Cup.
The 14-time major winner will line up as one of Davis Love III's vice-captains at Hazeltine next month with the US aiming to win the tournament for the first time in four attempts.
Love says that Woods, who has not played competitively for a year after undergoing multiple back surgeries , could be the ace in the pack going into the showdown which starts September 29.
And Love, who took charge of the team which lost out at Medinah four years ago, says Woods has all the attributes and skills to establish himself as team captain in the coming years.
"Tiger was on the Task Force, he'll be a future Captain, so he's got to be a part of the decision-making process of this whole new, Ryder Cup committee," Love told tournament's official website
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(CNN) As Barbra Streisand proved earlier this week, when she calls, her famous friends answer. And on Thursday, she recruited "30 Rock" actor Alec Baldwin for some musical backup on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon."
The two teamed up for a performance of the Broadway standard "The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened," a duet that also happens to be featured on Streisand's new album, "Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway."
And Baldwin wasn't the only one to share the stage with the legendary singer.
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The bizarre duo bickered about walls and wigs in a brief duet of a modified version of "Anything You Can Do."
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(CNN) Once again, history is on the line for Serena Williams at the US Open.
But, as Williams is trying to protect her No. 1 ranking and chase an Open era record 23rd grand slam title, the final tennis major of 2016 could also provide the perfect setting for a new generation of American players eager to be cast as her potential successor.
With the 34-year-old Williams no longer dominating, and struggling with a shoulder injury that derailed her Olympics campaign, 21-year-old Madison Keys sees her as an inspiration.
"The biggest thing that I'm always very impressed with is her fire, she's No. 1 in the world, she's won all these grand slams, but she always wants more," Keys told CNN ahead of the New York tournament, where she will be the eighth seed when the two-week event starts Monday.
"I don't think very many people have that characteristic, and seeing that so much is probably one of the biggest reasons why she's done what she's done," said Keys, who just like Williams has a hugely powerful serve and aggressive game style.
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After Roberta Vinci pulled one of the greatest upsets of all time by ending Williams' historic quest to win the first "calendar slam" since 1988 in last September's semifinals, the US Open was won by fellow Italian Flavia Pennetta, who promptly announced her retirement.
Williams during her loss to Vinci at last year's U.S. Open.
Williams then lost in January's Australian Open final to Germany's Angelique Kerber -- who will be guaranteed the No. 1 ranking if she wins the title on September 10 -- while Spain's Garbine Muguruza outplayed her in the final at Roland Garros.
Williams, who turns 35 next month, then pulled out of this month's US Open warmup event in Cincinnati, citing a shoulder injury.
She will begin her bid for history against Russian Ekaterina Makarova in a rematch of their 2014 semifinal, which Williams won before lifting the US Open trophy for the sixth time, equaling Evert's Open-era record.
Her older sister Venus -- one of Keys' childhood idols -- is seeded sixth. The two-time US Open champ -- a quarterfinalist last year -- faces Ukraine's Kateryna Kozlova first up.
Right mindset
Keys is in the other half of the draw to the Williams duo, and faces fellow American Alison Riske in the first round.
Although she has always had immense talent, Keys believes she has finally found the right mindset to be a contender for a grand slam title.
Ever since she broke through in 2015, reaching the Australian Open semifinals and Wimbledon quarterfinals, Keys has been widely touted as "the next Serena."
Williams declared herself " a fan" of Keys after beating her in last year's Melbourne semis, saying: "It was an honor for me to play someone who will be ranked No. 1 in the future."
But thanks to Thomas Hogstedt, a Swede who turned Maria Sharapova into a French Open champion, Keys has found the right consistency to become a top-10 tennis player.
"He's really helped me mostly on things that are on the practice court -- having a very focused and intense practice where there is really no lapses in focus," Keys, who has reached the fourth round in all three slams this year, told CNN.
"My practice may only be one hour, 15 minutes, but it's very high intensity, very focused and we get a lot done. That is shifting over to my match play, where I feel I used to have two or three games of bad decisions, or loss of focus. And now, instead of three games, it's maybe two points."
Keys' big serve is well-suited to grass courts, where she's won two career titles.
Youngest top-10 member
At the age of nine, the Rock Island, Illinois native moved to Florida with her family to train at the academy run by 18-time grand slam winner Chris Evert and her brother John, who became her coach.
After winning several prestigious junior events, Keys turned pro in 2009 and became the youngest player since Martina Hingis in 1994 to win a main draw WTA match at an event in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida aged 14. By 2013, she made the top 50.
Keys was guided by former Wimbledon winner Lindsay Davenport during her breakout season in 2015. After brief spells with former U.S. tennis pro Jesse Levine and former top-ranked Mats Wilander at the start of 2016, Keys started working with Hogstedt in April. Having struggled with injuries in the past, she now also travels with renowned fitness trainer Scott Byrnes.
The changes have paid off.
Known for an aggressive playing style built around one of the most powerful serves in the women's game, Keys won a grass-court event in Birmingham, England in June to become the first American woman to reach the top 10 of the women's tour since Serena Williams in 1999. At 21, she's also the youngest member of the elite group.
Other highlights included reaching the final on clay in Rome, where she lost to Serena, and on hard court in Montreal, where she was beaten by former No. 2 Simona Halep. At the Rio Olympics, Keys played for the bronze medal.
Although she lost out to two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova, Keys called her first Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro "one of the coolest experiences of my life."
In between her tennis commitments, she watched the swimming and saw Simone Biles excel in the gymnastics arena.
Backed by a tennis legend
Chris Evert has been so impressed with Keys' progress that she tipped her as one of the main challengers for Williams alongside more established names such as second-ranked Kerber, third-ranked Muguruza and No. 5 Halep, a semifinalist in New York last year.
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"You really have to make that mental and emotional commitment to the game," Evert said in a conference call for tennis writers organized by U.S. broadcaster ESPN this week. "I think that's what Madison Keys is learning right now. She's made more of a commitment to tennis. She could still be better."
If Keys keeps the right mindset, Evert adds, anything is possible.
"I'm a Madison Keys fan because of her power on her serve and her ground strokes," she said. "And if she could ever get it all together and believe and trust herself and play her 'A Game,' she could be a threat."

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(CNN) Human rights concerns will be on the agenda when US President Barack Obama meets controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte for the first time next week.
The two leaders will talk on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Laos, starting on September 6. It will be their first meeting since Duterte took power in June.
"We absolutely expect (President Obama) will raise concerns about some of the recent statements from the president of the Philippines," White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told media when asked whether Duterte's controversial remarks about vigilante killings, journalists and women would be on the agenda.
Duterte apologized to the Pope after cursing him for the traffic he caused during a 2015 Papal visit to the Philippines.
Duterte apologized to the Pope after cursing him for the traffic he caused during a 2015 Papal visit to the Philippines.
Although he later denied the accusations, the former Davao City mayor admitted his links to the alleged Davao death squad in a May 2015 broadcast of his local television talk show.
Although he later denied the accusations, the former Davao City mayor admitted his links to the alleged Davao death squad in a May 2015 broadcast of his local television talk show.
At a CNN Philippines Townhall event in February 2016, Duterte, admitted that he had three girlfriends and a common-law wife. His marriage to Elizabeth Zimmerman was annulled due to his womanizing, but he denied this meant he objectified women.
At a CNN Philippines Townhall event in February 2016, Duterte, admitted that he had three girlfriends and a common-law wife. His marriage to Elizabeth Zimmerman was annulled due to his womanizing, but he denied this meant he objectified women.
He also lashed out at the womens' group that filed a complaint against him before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR).
He also lashed out at the womens' group that filed a complaint against him before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR).
Foreign diplomats weighing in on Rodrigo Duterte's controversial remarks did not sit well with the then-mayor.
Foreign diplomats weighing in on Rodrigo Duterte's controversial remarks did not sit well with the then-mayor.
Duterte made international headlines in April 2016 with his inflammatory comments on the 1989 rape and murder of an Australian missionary that took place in Davao City.
Duterte made international headlines in April 2016 with his inflammatory comments on the 1989 rape and murder of an Australian missionary that took place in Davao City.
During the third and last presidential debate, Duterte had said that he would plant a Philippine flag in disputed territories should China refuse to recognize a favorable ruling for the Philippines.
During the third and last presidential debate, Duterte had said that he would plant a Philippine flag in disputed territories should China refuse to recognize a favorable ruling for the Philippines.
Speaking at a press conference to unveil his new cabinet on May 31 2016, Rodrigo Duterte said journalists killed on the job in the Philippines were often corrupt.
Speaking at a press conference to unveil his new cabinet on May 31 2016, Rodrigo Duterte said journalists killed on the job in the Philippines were often corrupt.
The Philippines president-elect effectively said he supported vigilantism against drug dealers and criminals in a nationally televised speech in June 2016.
The Philippines president-elect effectively said he supported vigilantism against drug dealers and criminals in a nationally televised speech in June 2016.
As he addressed troops at the country's Armed Forces Central Command Headquarters on August 5, Duterte recounted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to the country, saying in Tagalog that he was feuding with U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg.
As he addressed troops at the country's Armed Forces Central Command Headquarters on August 5, Duterte recounted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to the country, saying in Tagalog that he was feuding with U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg.
Rhodes said Obama regularly brought up issues around human rights offenses with treaty allies such as the Philippines.
Since Duterte took office, more than 1,900 people have died, including at least 700 in police operations as part of the president's hardline war on drugs.
"Double your efforts. Triple them, if need be. We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financier, and the last pusher have surrendered or put behind bars -- or below the ground, if they so wish," Duterte said during his State of the Nation speech on July 25.
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Obama and Duterte will also discuss the ongoing maritime disputes in the South China Sea, a source of tension between the Philippines, China and Vietnam, Rhodes said.

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(CNN) One of the most inspiring stories of Rio 2016 is reaching its emotional end.
Fiji is preparing for the departure of Ben Ryan, the English rugby coach who rediscovered his love of the game in a tropical paradise and helped the tiny Pacific Island nation overcome tragedy and win its first gold Olympic medal.
Last week he was awarded the country's highest honor, being made a Companion of the Order of Fiji by its president Jioji Konrote.
On Monday the 44-year-old was given three acres of land by the people of Serua province, and bestowed with the Fijian name Ratu Peni Raiyani Latianara, an honorary chief title.
Coach @benjaminryan gifted 3 acres of land and the name Ratu Peni Raiyani Latianara by the people of #Serua #Fiji pic.twitter.com/RfLnXnxA0s — Fiji 7s Team (@Fiji7sTeam) August 29, 2016
"The land now belongs to him and his family and all his descendants, and he can do anything he wants with the land now, it is his now," Ratu Kini Vitukawalu, one of the chiefs of Vunibau village, was quoted as saying by Fiji's Newswire agency.
"And because he has claimed to be one of us, it is only fitting that he has land too to forever tie him to Serua."
Photos: Island nation celebrates historic achievement Photos: Island nation celebrates historic achievement Thousands of Fijians turned out to greet the men's rugby sevens team which returned home with Olympic gold. Hide Caption 1 of 6 Photos: Island nation celebrates historic achievement The Fijian government has declared a national holiday on August 22, to celebrate the country's first ever Olympic medal. Hide Caption 2 of 6 Photos: Island nation celebrates historic achievement Fiji had not won an Olympic medal before its rugby side struck gold at Rio 2016. The triumph was one of the highlights of the Games. Hide Caption 3 of 6 Photos: Island nation celebrates historic achievement Fiji won the 2015/16 world sevens series and defeated Great Britain 43-7 in the Olympic final. Hide Caption 4 of 6 Photos: Island nation celebrates historic achievement Fiji's players brought their expansive and flowing game to Brazil where the sport gained popularity with fans. It was the first time rugby sevens had been included at the Olympics. Hide Caption 5 of 6 Photos: Island nation celebrates historic achievement Captain Osea Kolinisau was one of the outstanding players of the tournament. He played a key role in leading Fiji to its first historic gold. Hide Caption 6 of 6
Ryan, who came to Fiji in 2013 with his wife Natalie, said Serua had played a key role in resurrecting the fortunes of sevens in Fiji, where the shortened rugby format is an integral part of community life.
"I love every part of Fiji but this part in particular, Serua," he said at the ceremony. "Serua will always be our vale (home). I will be back soon, it will always be a place in my heart and I would just like to say a big vinaka vakalevu (thank you).
"This small piece of land is what we have constantly spoke about when we were in the world series, because this is where the work was done and this is where the minds were forged and this is where the players were selected."
I was lost for words yesterday when I was awarded The companion of the order of Fiji. Vinaka Fiji 🇫🇯 pic.twitter.com/AGWZoQB3eW — Ben Ryan Fiji 7s (@benjaminryan) August 22, 2016
The team thrashed Great Britain 43-7 in the final to earn Fiji's first medal of any kind at the Summer Games.
The victory brought ecstatic celebrations in a country still dealing with the devastating effects of February's Cyclone Winstone, which killed more than 40 people and left many homeless.
Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands Rugby coach Ben Ryan has become something of a celebrity in his adopted country Fiji, where he is mobbed wherever he goes. Hide Caption 1 of 9 Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands Ryan, formerly coach of the England sevens team, describes Fijian supporters as the best in the world. Hide Caption 2 of 9 Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands But he has given up going out for dinner with his wife as he estimates he'll have to pose for about 50 photographs on a night out. Hide Caption 3 of 9 Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands Fijian rugby fans have taken him to their hearts as he tries to deliver Olympic gold this year. Hide Caption 4 of 9 Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands The shadow of August's Rio Games looms large as the Pacific Island nation bids to win the first medal of any kind in its Olympic history. Hide Caption 5 of 9 Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands Fiji topped the rankings after winning the 2014-15 Sevens World Series, sealing qualification for Rio 2016. Hide Caption 6 of 9 Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands The team successfully defended its title after reaching the quarterfinals of the 2015-16 season finale in London, and received a heroes' welcome back home in Suva. Hide Caption 7 of 9 Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands Ryan had grown disillusioned with the game in England, but he thanks Fiji for reviving his love for rugby. Hide Caption 8 of 9 Photos: An Englishman in the Pacific Islands However, he has aspirations of getting into the 15-a-side setup after Rio and a possible return to the UK with his wife Natalie. Hide Caption 9 of 9
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Ryan said before the Olympics that it would likely be his last tournament in charge of Fiji, with his contract due to expire next month.
He told the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation that he has received "over 20 offers" including one from the Japanese Rugby Union, which would include coaching the national 15s and sevens teams plus its Sunwolves franchise in the Super Rugby competition.
Japan, which finished a surprise fourth at the Olympics in the men's competition after losing to Fiji in the semifinals, will host the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Ryan had previously been coach of England's sevens team, and took it to the 2013 World Cup final in his final tournament in charge.

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(CNN) When Lucy, the world's most well-known fossil, was discovered sticking out of a shallow Ethiopian stream bed in 1974, she provided new insight about life for early human ancestors 3.18 million years ago. The image of her skeleton -- which is estimated to be 40% complete and considered the best representation of her species, Australopithecus afarensis -- became iconic.
But how did she come to rest in that shallow stream? Lucy just might be considered one of the world's oldest cold cases.
Forty-two years after the discovery, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin now believe that she was found in proximity to where she died.
"When we think about any of the fossils that we work on, we know in every instance that that came from an individual who was born, they grew up, and then they died," said John W. Kappelman, a professor of anthropology and lead author of a new study on Lucy. "But it's rarely the case that the skeleton actually preserves evidence of how an individual died. What we're proposing here is the first hypothesis that's out there, and we've had her for 42 years now, about how she died. I am not aware that anyone else has ever [done that]."
The original fossil and CT scans of fractures to her skeleton paint a more vivid portrait of what happened in Lucy's final moments, and although it was probably swift, it wasn't without pain. The new study that proposes the hypothesis reads like a coroner's report, making Lucy's stone-like bones seem more lifelike than ever.
What happened to Lucy?
Lucy was small, about 3½ feet tall and 60 pounds. Analysis of her skeleton and teeth shows she had reached maturity, but not unlike chimpanzees, her species matured young. Kappelman estimates she was 15 or 16 years old.
Given her size, predators such as hyenas, jackals and saber-toothed cats would have posed a threat to Lucy. So Lucy most likely turned to the trees, Kappelman said. It's possible she scaled them only from time to time for safety or that she nested in them every night. Based on data on the nesting habits of chimps, an average of 46 feet above the ground makes them feel safe.
She stood up straight, with feet, knees and hips that are similar to ours. If you saw her walking from afar, you would think Lucy was human by her silhouette. But up close, she had a small head, a brain comparable in size to a chimpanzee's, longer arms and hair covering her body.
Bridging the gap between humans and chimps, Lucy had slightly curved fingers and toes, with mobile ankles and shoulders that provided more overhead range of movement. Even with those abilities, she would have been better at walking than climbing.
Perhaps Lucy was spooked by a predator, or perhaps she was asleep or settling in for the night. Maybe she spied some fruit and wanted to forage. Either way, this is what Kappelman believes happened next.
A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis.
From 46 feet in the air, Lucy fell out of her tree, fully conscious. She fell toward the ground rapidly at 35 mph and hit feet-first, sending an impact punching through her body that created fractures in her ankles, knees, hip and shoulder. Internal organs were probably punctured by this "hydraulic ram effect." Lucy pitched forward and instinctively put out her arms to break the fall, creating fractures in the bone there as well. It would probably be her final conscious act.
She twisted to her right, landing primarily on that side. That twist fractured her neck and tilted her head. Unconscious, broken and bleeding, she lay on the stream bed. If there was water present at the time, it gently moved the body a short distance along, naturally carrying her to a final resting place since members of her own species didn't.
A diagram of Lucy's fall from a tree, showing the overlay of her skeleton.
Writing a death certificate for a fossil
Lucy's skeleton is represented by elements of her skull, upper limb, hand, axial skeleton, pelvis, lower limb and foot. Previously, researchers believed any damage or fractures within her bones simply happened over time as she became fossilized. The discovery of Lucy's skeleton has often been heralded as something of a miracle because as Kappelman points out, the geologic record isn't kind to bones over the years and it's difficult for them to last long enough to reach us.
But not all the fractures happened after death, Kappelman said. Using their High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility, the researchers scanned her entire skeleton to look deeper within the bone. Previous CT scans were more medical, with less resolution, and weren't able to penetrate the rocky nature of the skeleton.
There are clean breaks, and there are also intact tiny bone slivers. Had those occurred once the bone was dry and exposed to the elements, they would have broken off and dispersed.
Lucy's humerus fractures also bear the unique signature that orthopedic surgeons associate with falling injuries in the elderly or those who fall from great heights. In both cases, the patients instinctively stretch out their arms to break the fall. Kappelman consulted with nine orthopedic surgeons, and they all agreed on the fracture signature.
Overall, the fractures and bone-to-bone impact associated with her death prove to be severe, and Lucy had to have fallen from a great height to receive such trauma. This also indicates that while Lucy had the ability to reach great heights, she may not have been an adept climber simply due to her features.
"The point we argue is that it may well be the evolution of these traits for bipedalism [walking upright] that compromised her ability to climb as safely and efficiently in the trees, and that may have meant that her species was more subject to a higher frequency of falls," Kappelman said. Researchers have found other fossils of her species with similar fractures, suggesting more falls.
As a professor of anthropology, Kappelman also received training in human anatomy and went through medical and surgical rounds. He and his team regarded falling as one hypothesis and researched other causes, such as a seizure, a flood, a lightning strike or even a violent animal. But none of these matched as well with the fractures.
"We've done what we thought we could do in evaluating alternative hypotheses," he said. "This is most consistent and common with the impact from a fall. This hypothesis is more or less being tested every day in thousands of ERs everywhere when people have these injuries."
John Kappelman with 3D printouts of Lucy's skeleton.
The Ethiopian government has also granted permission for 3-D files of the bone scans to be released to the public on Monday, so anyone can download them, look at the data and form their own hypothesis of what happened to Lucy.
After 30 years of working with fossils, Kappelman was eager to scan Lucy's iconic bones, but he wasn't prepared for how he would feel after discerning her cause of death when he looked over her skeleton laid out on his desk. Falling is easy to imagine for anyone, and he could picture the progression of her injuries as she plummeted to her death and lay at the bottom of the tree.
"It really hit me for the first time," he said. "Here she was in her death, reaching her arms out to try instinctively just to break her fall. It was at that moment that these broken bits of bone that I've taught for 30 years became a living individual. And it gave me this feeling of empathy, because I could identify with this.
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"It's like putting yourself there at someone's death and being able to picture that, almost as if understanding that drops us into a time machine and we fly back through 3 million years so we're there observing how this little individual died. It was in understanding her death that she became alive for me."

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Hong Kong (CNN) What do you feed a hungry ghost?
If you live in parts of Asia, dim sum, noodles and even iPhones -- all carefully constructed from paper -- may do the trick.
The Hungry Ghost Festival , a month-long ancient tradition that pays respect to the spirits of the dead, is celebrated across many parts of Chinese Asia on the seventh month of the lunar calendar.
During the festival, ghosts are believed to return to Earth to haunt the living and people burn paper money and food -- as well as incense -- to pay respect to their ancestors and soothe wandering spirits.
Throughout the month, many communities host celebrations, hand out rice to people in need and stage traditional Chinese operas on temporary bamboo stages for people -- both the living and the dead -- to enjoy.
The underworld celebration reaches its peak with the Yu Lan Ji festival held in many parts of China, Singapore and Malaysia on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month -- in 2016 that's August 17.
Houses, cars and other luxury items are increasingly popular offerings.
On this night, the ghosts that have been roaming the Earth for two weeks are believed to be hungry, so people burn food, money and even luxury goods to make sure their ancestors, and any lonely spirits without a family, are cared for.
These paper items are often beautifully presented and constructed in minute detail.
Bowls of individual dim sum, crafted from paper of course, are carefully garnished and presented with accompaniments.
Luxury goods like iPhones, houses, designer handbags and flashy cars have also become increasingly popular in recent years.
CNN spoke to a Hong Kong resident to find out what the event means to him.
Calvin Wong, a university professor, has been celebrating the Hungry Ghost Festival since childhood.
CNN: What are you buying?
I'm buying luxury handbags.
I also bought some smartphones, jewelry, and iPhones.
Who are the items for?
They're for my ancestors -- parents -- sorry, I mean for my grandparents.
My parents are alive.
Can you explain the symbolism behind some of these items?
The lotus means purity, and bamboo means long life.
Some of these Chinese objects mean good fortune, and the birds are for longevity as well.
They are both for the deceased and for living people.
These airplanes, houses, yacht, iPhones are all recent trends.
I didn't have these when I was young.
What do you do during this month of the festival? What other traditions do you practice?
Well, we burn incense on the street.
And there are basically two reasons: For the ancestors who passed away, and also for anonymous spirits who had no siblings or children.
That's why Chinese people burn things for them to give comfort to the wandering spirits.
For many in Hong Kong, it's about keeping old traditions alive.
In my family, we also get fresh leaves, like Lotus leaves, to wash our body to purify ourselves after visiting spiritual ceremonies and funerals.
We don't want those wandering spirits to follow us back home.
What's the meaning of this festival? What traditions are usually practiced? What's your earliest memory?
The first reason [we celebrate this festival] is to pay respect to the ancestors and another reason is to provide charity for wandering spirits.
I guess I've been doing this since I was a child, five to six years old.
I used to do this with my grandparents. They passed away 10 years ago.
There are lots of interesting memories about the Hungry Ghost Festival.
For example, I remember going to see lots of Chinese operas and they usually serve free congee [a type of rice porridge] and fruit as charity.
And my parents used to buy candies for me.
You are actually supposed to leave the first row empty on the first night of the opera performance because that's for the ghosts.
What would you like in the afterlife?
A pint of beer would be nice.
And they really should burn me a bank.
The entire bank.
HSBC headquarters would be wonderful!


Paper iPhones, designer handbags and flashy cars go up in smoke as people pay tribute to ancestors


Story highlights The woman was identified as Kerry Jane Wilson
She was kidnapped in late April
(CNN) An Australian aid worker who was abducted in Afghanistan in April has been freed, according to Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
The woman, who Bishop identified as Kerry Jane Wilson in a Monday news release, was taken by armed kidnappers at dawn from her home in Jalalabad late April
"I confirm that Kerry Jane Wilson, who was abducted in Afghanistan in April this year, has been released, and she is now safe and well," Bishop said.
"I am relieved for Kerry Jane, and her family with whom I have remained in close contact."

Australian woman freed after 4 months after kidnapping in Afghanistan


Kerry Jane Wilson, an Australian woman abducted in Afghanistan, has been freed.


(CNN) Welcome to the dark side of the universe. In a direct contrast with the beautifully bright Milky Way galaxy, a "dark twin" called Dragonfly 44 has been discovered 300 million light-years away in the Coma constellation, according to a new study .
But don't cue "Star Wars' " Imperial March theme music or Darth Vader breathing just yet (even if the closeup image looks like a slightly creepy emoji). Although it's massive and mysterious, Dragonfly 44 is really just misunderstood.
Dragonfly 44 went unnoticed until last year because, when regarding the darkness of space, this galaxy resembles a virtually indistinguishable blob. But by looking at it with some of the world's most powerful telescopes, including the Dragonfly telescope array designed and built by study authors Pieter van Dokkum and Roberto Abraham, researchers realized something else. It is named for the telescope that found it.
Dragonfly 44 is an incredibly large but diffuse and dim galaxy. Encircling its core is a halo made up of clusters of stars, much like what we see in the Milky Way. But this galaxy is only 0.1% stars. The Milky Way has more than a hundred times that. The researchers knew that something had to be holding those few stars in place.
"We knew as soon as we discovered the galaxy that it would be so tenuous if it was just made up of stars and no dark matter, that it would quickly disrupt and disappear," said van Dokkum, lead study author and Yale University astronomer.
A huge amount of gravity was working to hold those stars in place, and once researchers used star velocity to measure how much mass the galaxy contained, they realized that the other 99.9% is dark matter.
To put this in perspective, Dragonfly 44 is comparable in size to the Milky Way, which is 100,000 light-years wide. Mostly it is just unseen because it is cloaked in darkness.
"It's very exciting because we thought we had sort of figured out what the relationship is between galaxies and dark matter," van Dokkum said. "This discovery turns that on its head. Now, you can have a hundred times fewer stars in the galaxy with the same amount of dark matter as the Milky Way. That was entirely unexpected, and that means that there is something missing in our description of galaxy formations, and there are physics that we don't yet understand in that process."
This newly observed galaxy could hold the secrets to understanding dark matter, the hypothesized ingredient that makes up 90% of the universe. Given the fact that we know next to nothing about it, this find could open the door to our discovery and understanding of the mysterious building block.
"One of the things we are after are finding galaxies like this that are even closer to us, ideally 30 or 50 million light-years away so we could study them in detail," van Dokkum said. "We could be looking for the dark matter particle itself. Currently, people are looking at tiny dwarf galaxies that circle the Milky Way to search for the dark matter particle with X-ray and UV telescopes, but nothing has been found yet. These galaxies are a million times more massive, so we have a higher chance of detecting a dark matter signal if we find one close enough to us.
"But dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science. We don't even know if it is a particle or not. It's a bunch of steps from where we are now. For us, it's finding the best candidates. It would be incredibly exciting if it helps the search in that way."
The invention and building of the Dragonfly telescope came out of a dinner conversation between the two men, that led to a bet in 2011. It has grown from one lens in a parking lot to an array of 48 lenses with a coating that enables them to do special imaging of these faint galaxies.
Abraham, a professor of astronomy at the University of Toronto, is credited with putting the telescope together. Van Dokkum also has a background in photography, which enabled him to help with selecting the lenses.
As it happens, in his spare time, he uses his photography skills to capture images of the underappreciated dragonfly. He calls it a "strange confluence of work and hobby," considering the name of the galaxy and telescope.
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Using their Dragonfly telescope, van Dokkum and Abraham will continue their research by surveying a random large batch of the sky rather than targeting of particular galaxies or groups of galaxies, as they had been doing.
"We built this telescope to try to uncover what's out there," van Dokkum said. "What other things have we missed that are right above us?"

'Dark twin' of the Milky Way galaxy discovered


Welcome to the dark side of the universe. In a direct contrast with the beautifully bright Milky Way galaxy, a "dark twin" called Dragonfly 44 has been discovered 300 million light-years away in the Coma constellation, according to a new study.


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Story highlights Paget Brewster is coming back to "Criminal Minds" full time
The actress left the show in 2012 and was set to return as a guest star in the new season
The news comes just weeks after star Thomas Gibson was fired following an on-set altercation
(CNN) Paget Brewster's brief return to "Criminal Minds" will become an extended stay.
CBS has announced the former star has once again been made a series regular on the long-running procedural. She's expected to make her return to the show in the October 12 episode.
The news comes more than two weeks after the show fired Thomas Gibson following an on-set altercation. Gibson played agent Aaron Hotchner for 11 years.
Brewster played special agent Emily Prentiss on "Criminal Minds" from 2006-12. She returned for the 200th episode and was set for a multi-episode guest star arc in the upcoming season before the network and studio chose to expand her role.
"We're all so excited to have Paget with us full time," said executive producer Erica Messer in a statement. "The BAU family has definitely missed her, on screen and off. Having her back on set has been great, it's like she never left."
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Over 3,770 migrants died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in 2015. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station sails the seas, looking for survivors.
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Patrolling the world's deadliest migration route


Over 3,770 migrants died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in 2015. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station sails the seas, looking for survivors.


Santa Clara, Cuba (CNN) When Jet Blue flight 387 touches down in Cuba on Wednesday, it will be the first direct commercial flight between the US and the island in over a half-century.
The Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara, Cuba, flight is the latest symbol of the thawing of relations between the former Cold War adversaries, who restored diplomatic ties in 2015.
Until now, Santa Clara was most famous for being the site of the tomb of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine revolutionary who fought alongside Fidel Castro and was later killed with the help of the CIA while leading an insurrection in Bolivia.
Soon up to a maximum of 110 daily flights operated by such carriers as Jet Blue, American Airlines, Delta, Frontier, Southwest and Silver Airways are due to begin flying to the Communist-run island, according to the US Department of Transportation.
Although the Obama administration has eased restrictions on travel to Cuba, there is still a travel ban for Americans visiting the island.
Tourism to Cuba is still illegal, but there are now 12 categories of "authorized travel ."
Before US citizens can board flights to Cuba, they will need to sign an affidavit swearing their travel falls within the permitted categories, including educational, religious and humanitarian reasons.
With the relaxing of the travel ban, Cuba has seen a spike in US visitors: about 93,000, or nearly double from the year before, according to Cuban tourism officials.
Despite the increase, Cuban officials say the embargo, or the "blockade" as they refer to US sanctions, must be lifted before there is full freedom of travel between the two countries.
"This process of establishing regular flights is a positive step," said Eduardo Rodríguez, the Cuban Vice Minister of Transportation at a news conference on Monday in Havana."Although the restrictions of the blockade remain, which among other things impede United States citizens from traveling to our country as tourists."
Rodríguez said US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx would travel to the island on Wednesday to mark the historic occasion of the first direct commercial flight.
More than 50 years of no commercial flights
Until Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959, Cuba had been a favorite vacation spot for Americans in the Caribbean. But in 1961, after Castro declared his government to be in the Socialist camp, diplomatic relations were severed and direct commercial fight service disrupted.
"Castro cracks down on flights from Cuba," reads a UPI wire service headline from the era.
During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, US carriers were briefly banned from flying over the island and the Cuban military shot down a U2 spy plane, killing the pilot.
Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Photos: President Obama visits Cuba U.S. President Barack Obama attends a baseball game in Havana, Cuba, with his family and Cuban President Raul Castro, right, on Tuesday, March 22. The Cuban national team was playing an exhibition against Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays. Obama is the first U.S. President to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Hide Caption 1 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Tourists in a Havana antique shop watch Obama give a speech on March 22. Hide Caption 2 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama waves to the crowd before delivering his speech at the Grand Theater in Havana on March 22. In his speech, Obama urged Cubans to look to the future with hope, casting his historic visit as a moment to "bury the last remnants of the Cold War in the Americas." Hide Caption 3 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba First lady Michelle Obama and her daughter Malia stand with children of U.S. Embassy workers after dedicating a bench and two magnolia trees at a small park in Havana on March 22. Hide Caption 4 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba The Obamas pose with Castro before a state dinner in Havana on Monday, March 21. Hide Caption 5 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, speaks with Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel ahead of the state dinner on March 21. Hide Caption 6 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Castro tries to lift up Obama's arm at the end of a joint news conference on March 21. Hide Caption 7 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama meets with Castro in Havana on March 21. Hide Caption 8 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Michelle Obama speaks with Cuban girls during a Let Girls Learn roundtable in Havana on March 21. Hide Caption 9 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama lays a wreath at the Jose Marti monument in Havana's Revolution Square on March 21. "It is a great honor to pay tribute to Jose Marti, who gave his life for independence of his homeland," Obama wrote after he laid the wreath. "His passion for liberty, freedom, and self-determination lives on in the Cuban people today." Hide Caption 10 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Backdropped by a monument depicting revolutionary hero Che Guevara, Obama listens to the U.S. national anthem during the wreath-laying ceremony on March 21. Hide Caption 11 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama and Castro review troops before bilateral meetings on March 21. Hide Caption 12 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama walks up the stairs of the Palace of the Revolution on March 21. Hide Caption 13 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama and members of the first family take a walking tour of a Havana cathedral on Sunday, March 20. Hide Caption 14 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba The first family stops to look at a painting of Abraham Lincoln in the Museum of the City of Havana on March 20. Hide Caption 15 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama's convoy drives along the Malecon sea wall on March 20. Hide Caption 16 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba The President and first lady greet families of embassy personnel on March 20. Hide Caption 17 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama waves shortly after arriving at Jose Marti International Airport. Hide Caption 18 of 19 Photos: President Obama visits Cuba Obama and his family exit Air Force One on March 20. Hide Caption 19 of 19
For the decades that followed, the only US aircrafts that traveled to the island were the result of frequent hijackings.
In 2001, a change in US regulations allowed Cuban Americans to visit family on the island and for charter flights to begin to travel between the two countries.
Cuban officials say that since then they have coordinated closely with their American counterparts and are ready for the US carriers to return.
"In relation to aviation security, we have been working with the US government for about 15 years. This isn't new," said Alfredo Cordero, the president of the Cuban Civil Aviation Institute. "Cuba gives the maximum attention to this aspect of aviation security and we have achieved the training of personnel and the necessary resources to obtain the security that's required by the International Civil Aviation Organizations."
Concerns about security
But not everyone is celebrating the resumed flight service.
Rep. John Katko, a New York Republican, said the flights pose a risk to US security.
"TSA has not come close to doing a thorough security assessment of the airports in Cuba," he said, referring the Transportation Security Administration.
Katko and two other lawmakers introduced legislation earlier this summer in an effort to block the flights to Cuba until they felt certain Cuban airport security could effectively prevent terrorists from targeting US-bound flights.
They were unsuccessful in stopping the flights, but Katko told CNN he remains concerned about how the Cuban Civil Aviation authority will prevent insider threats, meaning airport workers who may conspire to target a US-bound aircraft.
"I just think its dangerous and, again, I'm not saying anything bad is going to happen, but we just got to do our due diligence and we are just not doing it," he said.
The TSA said the agency has inspected Cuban airports and found they comply with international standards.
In an email to CNN, agency spokesman Michael England said, "TSA has assessed eight of the ten airports and will complete the final two before flights commence at those locations."
When asked about the lack of high-tech screening machines, England responded, "Technology is only one element of a security system that is multi-layered and involves people, processes and technology. TSA has sent teams of TSA inspectors on a regular basis to Cuba to assess airports currently operating as last points of departure to ensure compliance with international standards" set out by the International aviation arm of the United Nations, ICAO.
Over the summer, Cuban airports adopted US security requirements like requiring passengers traveling to the US to remove their shoes and leave liquids at checkpoints.
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The agency said it would not say how Cuban airport workers would be vetted because "releasing this information publicly could pose a threat to aviation security."
For many Americans, though, the immediate concern is not security but seeing Cuba before the island emerges from the Cold War time warp of the last 50 years.
"Our friends had been here and said, why don't you come to Cuba before its too Westernized," said Gerry Hall, a New York educator who joined a "people-to-people" tour of the island in August.
"We wanted to come before you see McDonalds and Walmart and other US companies in Cuba," she said.


When Jet Blue flight 387 touches down in Cuba on Wednesday, it will be the first direct commercial flight between the US and the island in over a half-century.


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Story highlights Ortiz: "The man just kept saying, 'I just want to die'"
He was taken to a hospital for evaluation
(CNN) A New Jersey transit officer was faced with a difficult decision: Let go of the man lying on the tracks as a train barreled toward the station, or pull hard one last time and get them both to safety.
Officer Victor Ortiz is now being hailed as a hero for saving a suicidal man who refused to budge in the face of an oncoming train.
Ortiz was on his regular patrol of the Secaucus Junction terminal Friday morning when he received a call of a disturbance on a train.
"I waited for the train to come in and before the conductor could tell me what the problem was, the individual exited the train," Ortiz told CNN.
He said he asked the man to take a seat but instead "the man said, 'No, I'm not going to jail,' and then jumped down on to the track."
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(CNN) Baby simulator programs, designed to teach teenage girls how difficult it is to take care of a baby and deter them from getting pregnant, may actually backfire.
Girls who went through such programs were more likely to become pregnant or have an abortion, according to a study published in the journal Lancet
Researchers tracked girls in 57 schools in Western Australia, from ages 13 to 15 until 20, through hospital medical and abortion clinic records. Among the 2,800 girls who participated in the study from 2003 to 2006, 1,200 were randomly assigned to participate in baby simulator programs, while the rest underwent the standard pregnancy prevention curriculum.
The simulator program, called Virtual Infant Parenting , is an adaptation of the American Baby Think It Over program, created by Realityworks. The VIP program consists of workbooks, documentary viewing, four educational sessions and caring for interactive baby dolls over the weekend, from Friday afternoon to Monday morning.
The fake baby cries when it needs be fed, burped, rocked or changed and tracks mishandling and how well the doll is cared for. At the time of the study, each doll cost about $1,200 Australian, equivalent to about $900 US.
The study found that 8% of girls who cared for the model babies had given birth at least once by age 20, compared with only 4% of those who took the standard classes. Similarly, 9% of girls in the baby simulator group had at least one abortion, compared with 6% of the non-baby group.
This is the first long-term study to look at pregnancy outcomes of the program throughout girls' entire teenage years until they turn 20, said epidemiologist Sally Brinkman of the Telethon Kids Institute at the University of Western Australia and lead author of the study.
'Clearly, the program doesn't work'
The researchers took into account the girls' socioeconomic status, family type, prior sexual experience, prior baby-caring responsibility, level of psychological distress, smoking and alcohol use, and education, but the difference between the two groups remains significant.
"It is definitely more than just a trend," Brinkman said. "Clearly, the program doesn't work."
According to the study, schools in over 89 countries use the Realityworks baby simulator program, including the United States.
The president and CEO of Realityworks, Timm Boettcher, said the study recklessly associated its products with the Australian health agencies' adapted versions.
The study "was not a representation of our curriculum and simulator learning modality, but the researchers' 'adaptation' and is consequently not reflective of our product nor its efficacy," Boettcher said in a statement. "The RealCare Program, is a combination of curriculum and hands-on aids, and if they are being tested and judged for effectiveness should be judged in their entirety."
Brinkman said that although her study didn't involve as many educational sessions as Realityworks' programs, what the researchers did for the study is overall "very similar" to what Realityworks recommends. "I would be surprised to see a couple of more educational sessions would make a difference on the results," she said.
She and her colleagues have advocated for an end to the fake baby program, but some schools asked whether the program should be tweaked or the girls should have the fake babies for longer.
Brinkman is not sure whether such amendments would have an impact and compared the scenario to testing a drug. If research evidence has clearly pointed out adverse effects, "it's generally not a thing for people to say 'oh, they just need more of the drug.' "
Brinkman considers this a cautionary tale and hopes long-term studies can be conducted in the future to evaluate the effectiveness of educational programs before they are widely implemented and cost taxpayers' money.
'Maybe it wasn't that bad'
Due to the anonymous nature of the study, researchers were unable to pinpoint reasons why the program might not work as well as planned.
Brinkman suspects that a positive experience with taking care of a baby and getting attention from family and friends could be part of the reason. "It gives them confidence. ... they think, 'maybe it wasn't that bad. I could do this,' " she said.
Dr. Julie Quinlivan , one of the study's reviewers and a professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia, echoed Brinkman's thoughts in a comment in the Lancet (PDF). Leaving the father out of the pregnancy equation and the program not starting early enough are also possible contributing factors, she wrote.
The root causes of teenage pregnancy, Quinlivan noted in an email to CNN, include social, psychological and educational disadvantages. Since these factors are similar in developed countries like the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, the study's results are applicable in these countries, she said.
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"Future studies need to look at strategies that promote improvements in educational opportunities for vulnerable girls as a strategy to decrease teenage pregnancy," Quinlivan said.
"The more educational opportunities you provide vulnerable women with, the greater the likelihood they will find employment and have improved healthcare outcomes for themselves and their children, and the less likely they are to regard premature parenthood as a 'career path.' "

Baby simulators not effective in preventing pregnancies, study says


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Story highlights Allegations of corruption and bribery levied Kenyan officials
Kenyans call for resignation of Minister of sports
Reports that uniforms for opening ceremony were misappropriated
Nairobi (CNN) The Olympic Games may be over, but the drama continues for Kenyan athletics. Amid allegations ranging from disorganization to corruption and bribery by Kenyan officials during the Rio Olympics, Kenyan athletics faces another controversy to add to the list.
On Saturday, police raided the offices of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya to find dozens of boxes of team uniforms made by Nike, clothing intended for athletes to wear during the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, according to reports by AFP. Officials are now investigating the incident and several Olympic officials have been arrested and questioned over the misappropriated clothing. The police and Ministry of Sports have refused to comment about the case.
The Kenyan team's appearance had raised eyebrows when the team wore mismatched clothing during the opening ceremony. Athletes complained they did not receive adequate kit. Local media alleged some officials may have stolen and then sold the gear.
Wonder where the athletes gear went?random people on the streets seen wearing the them @NikeRunning @citizentvkenya pic.twitter.com/2RR491TVBR — Hon wesley korir (@weskorir) August 28, 2016
Kenya is home to many of the world's fastest long-distance runners. Yet despite its best Olympic showing in history, with 13 medals and 15th place overall, Kenya's Rio achievements are now competing for attention with its officials' Olympic-sized mismanagement.

Olympic Games drama continues for Kenya athletics


The Olympic Games may be over, but the drama continues for Kenyan athletics, with allegations ranging from disorganization to corruption.


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Story highlights A 62-year-old man is arrested after allegedly filling a lubricant dispenser with acid
Hydrochloric acid can cause severe burns, ulcers and scarring
(CNN) A 62-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly filled a lubricant dispenser with hydrochloric acid at a gay club in Australia.
The man is said to have entered Sydney's Aarows , a gay and bisexual social club, on Saturday where he tampered with the dispenser.
Police said following a number of similar incidents, several items in the room had been fitted with anti-tampering alarms which would alert security officers.
After being detained, the man was taken to a local police station where he was charged with offenses including administering poison that is intended to injure, cause distress or pain.
When hydrochloric acid comes into contact with the skin, it can cause severe burns, ulcers and scarring. It's typically used by industry to produce batteries, photo-flash bulbs and fireworks.
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(CNN) Less than 24 hours after Marxist FARC rebels in Colombia put a permanent ceasefire into effect, President Juan Manuel Santos tells CNN the peace deal is "the most comprehensive" possible.
"If you compare it to other peace agreements throughout the recent history, you will find that this is the most comprehensive and the most complete. We did not leave any detail out," he told Christiane Amanpour
The ceasefire came into effect at midnight Sunday, after 52 years of war between the government of Colombia and the FARC.
"Today, more than ever, we regret so much death and pain caused by the war," FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, known by his nom de guerre "Timochenko," said in Havana on Sunday.
"Today, more than ever, we want to embrace as compatriots and begin to work together for a new Colombia. The war has ended."
The conflict has claimed an estimated 220,000 lives and displaced nearly 7 million people from their homes.
The deal is not without controversy. It includes the condition that any rebel or government soldier who confesses to or is found guilty of a war crime will face a period of "restricted movement," but not jail.
President Santos, left, shakes hands with FARC Leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri in Havana, as Cuban President Raul Castro looks on.
That has many critics outraged, including former President Alvaro Uribe Velez, whose father was killed by the FARC.
In a video posted to his Twitter account Sunday, he criticized President Santos.
VPte VargasLl Si al Plebiscito,con reservas,se confrontará con FARC en elecciones 2018.Santos: Acuerdo inmodificablehttps://t.co/AxjR7siiMI — Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@AlvaroUribeVel) August 28, 2016
"To this terrorist group, they also give impunity, and political legitimacy to all its actors, including those responsible for massacres [and] the most severe offenses, and crimes against humanity," Uribe said. "The government has also accepted all of the FARC's agenda."
Speaking with Amanpour, Santos called that "simply a lie."
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"There's no impunity. The most responsible [for] crimes against humanity will be investigated, judged, and condemned."
"But they will be condemned in a transitional justice, which is the justice that the world has created to allow armed conflicts to reach peace. And that's what we are applying."
The object, he said, is to get an armed group to completely change its tack and enter the political fray.
"That's the whole purpose of this exercise -- to force the FARC to lay down their arms, to accept our constitution, to accept our laws, to accept our institutions, and to continue their political objectives but without violence."
Members of the FARC rebel group at a camp in the Magdalena Medio region, Antioquia department, Colombia in February 2016.
Despite the ceasefire, the peace deal is not yet final. That is contingent on a national referendum, to be held in October.
Santos was confident it would be approved.
Colombians, he said, "know that a perfect peace is impossible. But a good peace, like the one we just negotiated -- that's the best thing for every Colombian and for the world."
He was surprised, he told Amanpour, how supportive the victims of the war were.
"What they say is that they don't want other people to suffer what they suffered."
Should everything go according to plan, Santos said, he intends to gift the FARC leader the white dove pin he has worn on his lapel since the beginning of negotiations in 2012.

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos: 'No impunity'


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Story highlights Brazilian police say Ryan Lochte charged with falsely reporting a crime
A teammate has already had to pay a five-figure fine to settle his legal trouble
Rio de Janeiro (CNN) US swimmer Ryan Lochte has been charged with falsely reporting a crime, Rio police said Thursday.
The department's chief has requested a letter be sent to Lochte explaining the legal process related to the charges, according to a statement.
The 12-time Olympic medalist will now be summoned to Rio, according to Tourist Support Special Precinct officials.
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Lochte can opt to send a lawyer and does not need to appear in court.
If convicted, Lochte, 32, could face between one to six months in jail, although the judge could choose to levy a fine instead. There would be no negotiations in that case, Clemente Braune, a commissioner with the Special Tourist Police in Rio, said Thursday.
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Story highlights 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit central Italy and rescuers are searching for survivors
At least 120 people have been killed; rescuers are struggling to reach some remote towns
(CNN) A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy early Wednesday morning, toppling buildings and killing at least 241 people.
Rescuers, aware that it's a race against time, continue to comb through the mountains of rubble hoping to find survivors who may be buried
"They know right now it's a race against time. They believe it's about 72 hours those people would be able to survive," CNN's Fred Pleitgen said.
More than 1,000 people have been displaced by the quake, and Italy's Civil Protection agency said no residents were allowed to sleep in the devastated town of Amatrice overnight.
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(CNN) Toronto police are investigating a suspicious package linked to the deaths of three people by crossbow on Thursday.
The assailant used bolts, a shorter and thicker version of an arrow, police spokesman Officer David Hopkinson said.
A 35-year-old man at the scene was treated for injuries and taken into custody. Police did not say what his connection to the victims might be.
The incident occurred about 1 p.m. in the Scarborough neighborhood. Officers responding to a call found all three victims dead.
About 90 minutes later, authorities heard from an unidentified caller about the package, Hopkinson said.
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Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's campaign manager said Sunday he will soon be courting black voters more directly, scheduling events in front of predominantly African-American audiences.
"Those events are actually being planned, and we're very excited about them," Kellyanne Conway told "Fox News Sunday," acknowledging that Trump so far hasn't yet held a rally in front of a largely black audience.
Such a move could help blunt criticism from figures like the head of the Democratic National Committee, who blasted Trump on Sunday for failing to reach out directly to black voters.
"Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community," DNC interim chairwoman Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
"He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done," she said. "He's not gone to historical black colleges -- Hillary Clinton (has). He's not met with the mothers of children who have been slain and killed from violence in the country as Hillary Clinton has done."
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(CNN) After a tumultuous few weeks, Hope Solo says she needs some time on her own.
The 35-year-old goalkeeper, who is serving a six-month suspension from the US women's national team following a contentious time at the Rio Olympics , has announced she will not be returning to her club team, the Seattle Reign, this season.
"Coming to terms with the fact I was fired from the US women's national team after 17 years of service has been devastating," Solo wrote on her social media accounts Tuesday.
"After careful consideration, I have decided to end my season with the Seattle Reign, an organization I love playing for," she added. "Mentally, I am not there yet."
With two Olympic gold medals and one World Cup title under her belt, Solo has long been acknowledged as the world's top female goalkeeper.
But the Washington native has also been a polarizing figure in the sports world for number of years. In the lead-up to the London 2012 Olympics, she admitted to going on the Today Show drunk after partying all night following her 2008 gold medal win in Beijing.
In 2014, Solo was arrested on domestic assault charges related to a drunken fight with her half-sister and her nephew (a local judge dismissed the charges on procedural grounds; a state appeals court reinstated them and trial is pending).
In 2015, Solo was suspended from the national side for 30 days after her husband was arrested and charged with driving the US Soccer team van under the influence (Solo was with him at the time).
Leading up to the Rio Olympics, she created a stir by posing under a bee net with insect repellent in hand, prompting cries of "Zika!" by local fans every time she touched the ball -- a reference to the virus that concerned many athletes ahead of the Games.
On the pitch, Solo was not at her best in Rio. She let a crucial goal slip through her legs against Colombia, before venting her frustration after crashing out to Sweden on penalty kicks.
Calling the Swedes "cowards" after the semifinal match appeared to be the last straw for US Soccer, which promptly suspended her for what it said was an accumulation of actions.
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Seattle plays in the 10-team National Women's Soccer League and has four regular season games left on its schedule. The team is in fifth place, one spot out of playoff contention.
Solo was granted personal leave from the Reign's last match, but has left her future with the team -- and her career -- in doubt. Solo cited the solid play of her understudy Haley Kopmeyer as one reason she felt comfortable with the move.
"I truly believe this decision is what's best for me and for the Reign organization," she said.
Reign coach and general manager Laura Harvey accepted her goalkeeper's decision with comments on the team's Twitter account.
"While disappointed that Hope will not return to Reign FC this season, we understand and respect her decision," she said.
Solo, whose contract with US Soccer was set to expire at the end of the year, will not be eligible for national team selection again until February.

Hope Solo will not return to Seattle Reign


Goalkeeper Hope Solo, who suspended from the US women's national team, announces she will not be returning to her club team, the Seattle Reign, this season.


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(CNN) A freshly made white chocolate and raspberry mix is carefully poured into a piping bag by chef Yasumasa Takagi, one of Japan's foremost patissiers.
After snipping the end of the bag, he squeezes the delicious pink paste into a tray of oblong, white plastic molds.
Surprisingly, Takagi isn't creating an elaborate confection for customers to his fashionable Tokyo cafe; this is something far more modest.
It's a KitKat.
Most of the world knows the KitKat as an ordinary coffee break snack made from wafers and milk chocolate.
In Japan, it's in a completely different league.
Here, gourmet versions, pioneered by Takagi, compete with a mind-boggling array of mass-produced flavors that to some palates might border on the bizarre.
Wasabi KitKat anyone?
How about lemon vinegar?
Or pumpkin pudding, green tea, Shinshu apple or adzuki bean sandwich?
It's a long way from the KitKat's humble origins in 1930s England.
Born in the northern city of York, the chocolate treat was relatively unknown globally until local manufacturer Rowntree was bought by Swiss food giant Nestle in the 1980s.
Winning formula
Even as it spread across the planet, success was never guaranteed in Japan -- a market notoriously difficult to break into for non-domestic brands.
So how has it become such a phenomenon?
That's down to some hard work and smart ideas from KitKat's Japanese marketing gurus in the western city of Kobe.
And also a lucky quirk of language.
KitKat sounds very similar to "kito kato," which in Japanese means "to surely win."
Chef Takagi mixes up new flavors in his kitchens.
It's a common phrase said to students sitting exams, particularly high-pressure university entrance tests.
Soon after they arrived in Japan, KitKats were being given by parents to their children and friends were giving them to each other with hand-written messages -- and not just around exam time.
"There was strong emotional bonding going on and the 'gifting emotion,'" says Ryoji Maki, marketing manager for KitKat in Japan.
Flavor riot
Rainbow of flavors: Japan's KitKat kaleidoscope.
He says Japan's gift-giving tradition and particular culinary habits -- prizing seasonal and regional products -- were tapped into.
But it wasn't until the early 2000s that KitKat in Japan began to show its true colors with a riotous expansion in flavors.
Consumers in Japan demand choice and novelty as much as they prize tradition.
According to Maki, about 2,000 new confectionery products are released each year in Japan, so it's not enough to just offer dark or milk chocolate variations.
To date there have been more than 300 different KitKat flavors.
Ingredients are sourced from regions across the country, often produced and sold to coincide with food seasons in limited edition boxes of KitKat minis.
Shizuoka prefecture provides the wasabi.
Okinawa gives up its purple potatoes and matcha green tea.
Other unlikely flavors are sakura (cherry blossom) and sake (non-alcoholic).
Taking the bars out of the shops and into Japan's eateries has also been another strategy.
Tie-ins have gone beyond straightforward desserts like cheesecake, resulting in curiosities like KitKat pizzas and "baking bars," designed to be cooked before eating.
Since 2012 KitKat has started to eclipse homegrown confectionery brands like Meiji.
Limited edition
Confectionery king: KitKat has become a best seller.
About four million KitKat minis (a smaller, two-finger version of the classic bar) roll out of the chocolate factory each day -- that's close to 1.5 billion each year.
And it doesn't stop there, which is where patisserie supremo Takagi comes in.
"After I gained training at various famous shops in France and Belgium, I thought that it was my mission to fill the gap between Western countries and Japan," says Takagi.
Initially approached about a collaboration with KitKat, he rejected it.
"I believed I couldn't create chocolate freely without ties," he says.
A decade of discussions and negotiations later, convinced he had free rein to experiment within his own high standards, Takagi agreed to open his kitchens to KitKat.
They now produce very limited edition high-quality KitKats, using couverture chocolate, that can only be found in his shops and eight of Japan's high-end department stores through KitKat "Chocolatory" concessions.
"Chocolatory" concessions around Japan sell the exotic bars under KitKat chandeliers.
The first opened in Tokyo in January 2014 and sold out of Chef Takagi's specialty bars in hours.
Since then he's been advocating for new flavors and pushing out new products, from the single-finger Sublime range to "special" flavors that include fruit or tea-infused minis.
Visitors to Japan can get their hands on Chef Takagi's current range from under KitKat chandeliers (yes, really) at the Chocolatory concessions.
Gift boxes in limited-edition flavors are on sale at major train stations and airports.
There are no concrete plans for export, but if Takagi is able to convince a global food giant operating in one of the most competitive markets in the world to change their approach, don't rule it out.
"What I would most like to achieve is to deliver Japanese KitKat Chocolatory with craftsmanship to the people around the world," he says.
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(CNN) The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has brought humiliation on itself by opting to ban Russia from participating in the 2016 Paralympic Games, according to the country's president Vladimir Putin.
Russia immediately appealed against the ban on its Paralympic athletes competing in Rio de Janeiro this month, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the IPC's decision
"I feel sorry for those who make such decisions as they cannot but understand that they are humiliating themselves," Putin said at an event in Moscow Thursday, according to Russia's state-run Tass news agency.
"The decision to suspend our Paralympians is beyond all boundaries of legal norms, moral principles and humanity.
"This is simply cynical to work frustration off on those who see sport as their sense to live, those who inspire with hope and belief millions of people with limited physical abilities."
Protest petition
When first announcing the ban, IPC president Philip Craven said the governing body had "enormous sympathy" for the athletes missing out on the Paralympics, but they had ultimately been failed by Russia's "medals-over-morals mentality."
Many in Russia disagree with Craven and the IPC, however, with a online petition labeling the ban "inhuman" and calling for Russian athletes to be allowed to compete in Rio independently. It has received 300,000 signatures of support.
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Several Russian disabled charities, including the All-Russian Society of Disabled People and the All-Russian Society of the Deaf, have also urged the IPC in an open letter to reconsider its stance.
Kseniya Alferova, who helped start the petition, says she feels Russian Paralympians have been let down by the IPC and CAS.
"I'm friends with a lot of Russian Paralympians and their first reaction (to the CAS decision) is that they don't even want to talk, because they are so shocked," Alferova told CNN.
"The athletes are very strong, and I think some of them will recover. But I'm afraid some of them will not.
"It's a very difficult step for them, because they didn't believe in anything. Now they do. Now they have families, they believe in the future. And this is taking the future from them."
While 118 of the 389-strong Russian team were banned from competing at this month's Rio Olympics due to the doping allegations, with individual federations given the responsibility for clearing athletes, the IPC implemented a blanket ban.
Alferova feels the Paralympians should have been handled differently.
"Everyone was sure the decision would be different," she said. "It has nothing to do with the country; it has to do with the people. The Paralympic Games are not countries, or politics -- it's people. It's not justice. It's not right."
No U-turn
The IPC has since responded to Alferova's petition, with spokesman Craig Spence stating that Russian Paralympians will not be allowed to compete independently from the Russian Paralympic Committee.
"Under the IPC's rules, one member is responsible for Russian athletes and that is the Russian Paralympic Committee," Spence said.
Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Long jumper Darya Klishina will be the only Russian track and field competing at Rio 2016. Hide Caption 1 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't But the International Olympic Committee has told doping whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova she can't compete at Rio. Hide Caption 2 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't The Russian Olympic team attended a farewell ceremony at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in July. Many of the country's athletes won't be at Rio 2016 as a result of the doping scandal that has overshadowed the Olympics. Hide Caption 3 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Russia's Olympic Committee (ROC) president Alexander Zhukov has denied allegations that there was a state-sponsored doping scandal before, during and after the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. Hide Caption 4 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Volleyball player Dmitrij Volkov checks in ahead of the Russian team's journey to Rio. Hide Caption 5 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Some of the athletes cleared to compete in Brazil gathered for a ceremony at the airport. Hide Caption 6 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Before departing for Rio the team attended a religious service at Assumption Cathedral at the Kremlin. Hide Caption 7 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Krill, left, blesses one of the athletes. Hide Caption 8 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Yelena Isinbayeva is one of Russia's most famous athletes, but she won't be at the Rio Games. The polevaulter is barred from competing due to the blanket ban the IAAF placed on Russian track and field athletes. She wiped away a tear after giving a speech during a reception for the team hosted by President Putin. Hide Caption 9 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Another athlete missing out is Sergey Shubenkov, who is the reigning 110-meter hurdles champion and would have been a strong medal contender in Rio. Instead, Shubenkov and other banned athletes took part in the Stars 2016 Tournament in Moscow, organized as an alternative for Russia's track and field team. Hide Caption 10 of 11 Photos: The Russians going to Rio ... and some who aren't Mariya Kuchina also competed at Moscow's Znamensky Brothers stadium. She won high jump gold at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing. Hide Caption 11 of 11
"It has been suspended due to its inability to fulfill its IPC membership responsibilities and obligations. If that member is suspended, then they cannot enter athletes into the Games."
Spence also echoed Craven's comments when adding that the athletes have been cheated out of a place at Rio by Russia's alleged doping violations.
"The athletes should be upset and angry with the officials behind this state-sponsored doping system in Russia," he told CNN.
"It is because of this system that the Russian Paralympic Committee is suspended. The system needs to change if the suspension is to be lifted."
Broken dreams
Ludmila Bubnova, who was due to be part of Russia's first women's wheelchair tennis Paralympics team, believes an "unfair decision" from the IPC has cost her that dream.
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"I couldn't believe it at first. I thought it was some sort of mistake," she told CNN. "I underwent doping tests so many times and was never caught up on anything. So why should I be banned from Paralympics if I don't dope?
"I think the decision was made with politics involved. It's an unfair decision. I believe that every athlete should be responsible for himself only. Why are you punishing innocent (people)?"
"My dream was to compete at the Paralympics. Sports means everything to me, I couldn't live without sport," Bubnova added. "We'll keep on training, we'll keep on fighting, we'll keep on playing -- it's life. Sport is our life."


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(CNN) Lewis Hamilton may have kept his powder dry in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix Friday, but the Mercedes driver will need all the pace he can muster to keep his title challenge on track this weekend.
Hamilton, who leads the F1 championship by 19 points following the summer break , was 13th fastest on a warm day at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
He will be forced to start from the back of the grid come Sunday, having exceeded the prescribed number of engine part changes cars are allowed in a season.
Hamilton was given a 30-place grid penalty on a day when local favorite Max Verstappen was fastest in qualifying.
The Briton has already overcome early season problems with form and his car to wipe out a 43-point deficit to Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg in the overall standings and revive his hopes of winning a fourth world title, and third in a row.
"In terms of winning, it's going to be very, very hard," Hamilton told reporters.
"But I'll do everything I can."
SPA GRID PENALTIES
Alonso - 35 places
Hamilton - 30 places
Ericsson - 10 places
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Mercedes had "not ruled out the possibility of (Hamilton) using even more fresh parts prior to Saturday's qualifying," the official F1 website said.
This would earn a further grid penalty, but Hamilton is already at the back of the 22-car field and the sanction cannot be carried over to the next race.
His car can thus be loaded with up with fresh equipment for the eight races left after Spa.
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Fernando Alonso is also set to start Sunday's race at the back of the grid for McLaren after he replaced his power unit with a fresh one following Friday's session in unexpected heatwave conditions.
Later, the Spaniard reiterated his frustrations over the current state of F1, saying he will wait to test a 2017 car before deciding on his future.
"In the last couple of years, in this turbo era, the cars are different to drive," the two-time world champion said.
"But I was lucky to drive the 2004-2005 car, and even in 2009, they were more extreme F1 cars. When I see a GP2 car is three seconds slower than FP1, I feel a bit sad.
"Next year, if the cars are fun to drive and exciting to drive, I will probably stay longer in F1. But if the cars still give me the feeling of the last few years, I will stop."
On the track, Rosberg was fastest in the first session of the day but Red Bull's Verstappen led the way in the afternoon session.
Born in Hasselt just 50 kilometers away from the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, the 18-year-old Dutchman drove the fastest qualifying lap with a time of one minute 48.085 seconds.
"I'm happy to be first in front of so many Dutch fans but it's still not qualifying and not the race so let's see," he said.
"When I went up to first position in the second practice the fans were all cheering me on with their flags. It definitely gives me a boost and motivates me a lot."
That allowed him to outpace Australian teammate Daniel Ricciardo by two-tenths as the Austrian outfit continued its resurgent form.
Nico Rosberg with the halo device fitted on his car at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Meanwhile, Rosberg was one of several drivers to trial the new halo head protection device Friday.
"The team have done a great job on the halo. It doesn't disturb me when driving," the German told reporters.
"I could go fast straight away and even set the best time of the session with it this morning, so I think that was a success."
"From a visibility point of view, it wasn't too bad," team boss Christian Horner told reporters at Spa after Ricciardo also tried the official three-pronged cockpit protection system. "There were some restrictions around the side, but it is a work in progress."

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Lewis Hamilton may have kept his powder dry in practice for the Belgian GP Friday, but the Mercedes driver will need all his pace to keep title challenge alive.