The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation's Asian members have
launched an Asia MMA Federation as it continues to target Olympic
recognition, despite the Olympic Council of Asia insisting it will not
recognise a regional body.
On some nights, when her dorm room in Lisbon turns dark and the church bells stop ringing, the young trumpet player thinks about the distant afternoon when her uncle took her to the graveyard to gather stones.
The students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music fled after the Taliban seized power. Now they are trying to remake their school, and their dreams, in Portugal.