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Lily the baby elephant takes a dip

Sport

Hong Kong's swimming team breaks Asian Games record

It was a dream team result for Hong Kong’s women on day eight of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat.

Hungary

Daring swim across Danube in Budapest Urban Games

The Budapest Urban Games now includes a challenging swim across Danube for the first time this year. 263 participants dived in despite the strong currents and even whirlpools.

Spain

Watch: Spanish swimmer on his own for stand of solidarity with Barcelona attack victims

Fernando Álvarez puts solidarity before sport to honour the victims of the terror attacks in Catalonia.

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Chinese police make daring sea rescue

Police in China have risked their lives rescuing a swimmer in difficulty

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Olympian Michael Phelps swims with sharks

28 time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps swims with sharks off the coast of Cape Town

South Africa

Michael Phelps loses race against great white shark

Swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, yesterday 'raced' a great white shark and lost.

Hungary

World Aquatics Championships opening ceremony

World Aquatics Championships opening ceremony

France

No dogs, no alcohol, no veiled women

The rules state that women are only allowed to wear one-piece or two-piece bathing suits

North Korea

North Korea celebrates the anniversary of the late leader's birth with sports events

Sporting events have been held in Pyongyang to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the birth of the late leader, Kim John Il.

Switzerland

Mixed swimming obligatory for Muslim in Switzerland

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Muslim girls in Switzerland must attend mixed school swimming lessons.

USA

Watch: Stranded swimmers take a dip in the snow

A team of stranded US athletes have refused to let the poor weather dampen their spirits… by swimming in the snow!

Russia

Underwater Christmas Eve celebrations in subzero Lake Baikal

Russian divers stage a pre-New Year party underwater in Lake Baikal

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Bathing in relief

On the banks of the Tigris river, men sat and watched, smiling with relief as Iraqi policemen, soldiers and local youths bathed in muddy spring water in a town that was recaptured from Islamic State j

Sport

'Splashtacular' Stockholm swimrun stuns with three world records

The Swimrun World Championships through the Stockholm archipelago produced world records in all three categories this year.

France

France's battle with the burkini

Tremors along France’s most fragile social fault-line running between its identity as a secular state and the rights of its sizeable Muslim population are…

Business Series

Burkini sales boosted by ban, as controversy rages on

The controversy over the body-covering swimwear for Muslim women - the burkini - is creating a business opportunity for its inventor who says orders have jumped.

Sport

American swimmer Lochte loses sponsors over Rio behaviour

Ryan Lochte’s shinangans in Rio has landed the six -time olympic gold medallist in deep water.

World News

Lochte apologises but insists he did not lie

Disgraced US Swimmer Ryan Lochte has made an apology to the nation on American TV after his antics at the Rio Olympics.

Brazil

US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologises for making up Rio robbery story

Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has said sorry for fabricating a story about being robbed during the Rio Games by gunmen posing as police officers.