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The All England Club is appealing a fine levied by the WTA women’s professional tennis tour for banning Russian and Belarusian players from tournaments in Britain because of the war in Ukraine.

An international effort is underway to evacuate members of Afghanistan's girls national soccer team and their families over fears of reprisal by the Taliban.

More than 300 schoolgirls kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in Jangabe after been freed on Tuesday. Anxious and angry parents who were reunited with the girls after six days of waiting grabbed their daughters and left after shots rang out. The girls, aged 10 and up, had been abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state and were released Tuesday after negotiations. Following the kidnappings, the Zamfara state government announced a curfew, which remains in force. In December, 344 students were abducted from the Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State.

On her seventh studio album, Kristin Chenoweth is bringing together musics most influential and favorite female singers, from Barbra Streisand to Linda Ronstadt. One such record is I Will Always Love You, originally written and recorded by Dolly Parton and famously covered by Whitney Houston for The Bodyguard soundtrack. Now, Chenoweth is offering her take on the 1973 song with a new, stripped down rendition that features Parton herself -- and ET has the exclusive debut. I really wanted to pay homage to all the women singers who have influenced me over the years, Chenoweth explains. I wanted to make something that men could also enjoy, but this is by the girls and for the girls.