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Serena Williams recently shared in a TikTok video that she experienced a health scare, requiring surgery to remove a cyst from her neck, which had grown to the size of a grapefruit.

The 43-year-old retired tennis star revealed that she first discovered the cyst last May.

Although initial tests confirmed that it was a benign cyst, Williams noticed that it continued to grow.

Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, she posted on Aug. 22 on Instagram, almost exactly a year after her last match as a tennis star.

Adira River Ohanian is the second child — and second daughter — for the 41-year-old Williams and her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Their first, Olympia, was born in 2017.

AFP - Naomi Osaka became the first Japanese to win a Grand Slam singles title on Saturday as her idol Serena Williams angrily imploded, calling the chair umpire in the US Open final "a thief".

Osaka, 20, triumphed 6-2, 6-4 in the match marred by Williams's second set outburst, the American enraged by umpire Carlos Ramos's warning for receiving coaching from her box.

Huge statues erected in recent years in the Macedonian capital of the ancient warrior kings Alexander the Great and Filip of Macedon - as well as that of Alexander's mother, Olympia - will be officially renamed and marked in honour of Greek-Macedonian friendship, the Macedonian government has announced.

Archaeologists working at Ancient Amphipolis, in northern Greece, on Wednesday announced the discovery of skeletal remains at the site’s innermost chamber, reviving speculation about the identity of the individual buried there.

The new archaeological museum of Skopje will display wax figures of Alexander the Great, his father Philip II, his mother Olympia, and other alleged Macedonians.

Among them will also be the Greek philosopher Aristotle, the Byzantine emperor Justinian, the Balkan folk hero Krali Marko and the Bulgarian king Samuil.