Today's featured article Bradley Wiggins The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the race , one of cycling's Grand Tours . The 21 race stages , including the prologue , covered 3,496.9 km (2,173 mi), from the Belgian city of Liège on 30 June to the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July. Bradley Wiggins (pictured) from Team Sky won the overall general classification , becoming the first British rider to win the Tour. Wiggins's teammate Chris Froome placed second, and Vincenzo Nibali ( Liquigas–Cannondale ) was third. Wiggins maintained leadership of the race after stage seven, the first mountainous stage. The points classification was won by Nibali's teammate Peter Sagan , who won three stages, as did André Greipel of Lotto–Belisol and Team Sky rider Mark Cavendish . Team Europcar 's ...
Fatima Abubakar who is one of the daughters of the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Saad Abubakar, graduated from a UK university last Thursday July 20th. Her father and the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II attended her graduation.
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has instructed law enforcement officers to shoot and kill drug traffickers to deal with a narcotics emergency facing the country. "Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country and resist arrest. Shoot them because we indeed are in a narcotics emergency position now," Widodo said in a speech delivered at an event held by one of Indonesia's political parties late on Friday.
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