ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's only Olympic skier wheels down a suburban Addis Ababa street on his roller skis, expertly weaving around six donkeys and drawing stares from locals more used to watching runners train. Robel Teklemariam went to the Turin Winter Olympics four years ago and came 84th out of about 100 cross-country skiers. Now the man whose dreadlocks ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - American Bernard Lagat made a blistering kick to crush the U.S. record in his first indoor 5,000 meters, finishing in 13:11.50 at the 15th Boston Indoor Games Saturday. Ethiopia's double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba was 20 seconds off the world record in the women's 5,000m but her 14:44.53 was ...

Bernard Lagat shattered the American record in the indoor 5,000 meters at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on Saturday night, holding off a charge by Ethiopia's Dejen Gebremeskel with his trademark kick. Lagat's time of 13 minutes, 11.50 seconds beat the previous mark by almost ...

Officials on Tuesday sought to determine why an Ethiopian airliner veered off course on takeoff from Beirut before crashing at sea, as rescuers searched for the black boxes and additional victims. Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi told AFP the pilot of the ill-fated plane had initially acknowledged control tower instructions before the jet suddenly went off in a different direction. "He ...