Rising skiing star Matilde Lorenzi, 19, dies from her injuries after crash during training in Italy

A 19-year-old rising star of Italian downhill skiing has died after a fall during a training session, authorities in the country announced Tuesday. “Matilde Lorenzi has left us,” said the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI). “President Flavio Roda has no words to express the tragedy suffered by the FISI, its coaches, its athletes and Matilde’s

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China’s space station gets new crew as Beijing advances President Xi’s “space dream”

Three Chinese astronauts, including the country’s only woman spaceflight engineer, entered the Tiangong space station Wednesday morning following an early morning launch into orbit. The Shenzhou-19 mission took off with its trio of space explorers from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, state news agency Xinhua and state broadcaster CCTV reported. Among the

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