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Paraguay's Almiron sent off under new FIFA 'mouth-covering' rule

Ancelotti hails 'complete game' as Brazil sink Haiti at World Cup

Tunisia ask how Sweden World Cup star Ayari slipped its net

Scotland remain bullish despite Morocco World Cup setback

USA down Australia to reach World Cup knockout rounds, Brazil swat Haiti

Brazil cruise past Haiti to re-ignite World Cup campaign

Australia detects first case of contagious H5 bird flu

Scheffler career Slam chances blowing in Shinnecock winds

Iran's treatment at World Cup 'a dark point' for football: official

McIlroy seven back but likes his chances at US Open

Nagelsmann eyes same German lineup against I. Coast after Curacao trouncing

Unexpected economic twist

AI and the Future of Wealth

Beijing's new Taiwan playbook

Russia’s dollar pivot

Adobe down 40%: Kodak moment?

Boomers: Selfish or Scapegoats?

Fentanyl trade unravels

Israel riled by US-Iran pact

Robinson rocks New Zealand again as rain frustrates England at Lord's

Ollie Robinson continued to prove a thorn in New Zealand's side, taking two quick wickets, as England moved closer to victory in the first Test during what little play was possible at Lord's on Saturday.

Seixas eyes 'progress' test before Tour de France debut

French cyclist Paul Seixas begins the Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes on Sunday targeting a key test as deals with growing expectations ahead of his first Tour de France.

Teenager Antonelli claims Monaco pole for Mercedes after 'magic lap'

Kimi Antonelli produced a "magic lap" to edge Max Verstappen in the dying seconds of Saturday's qualifying and claim pole for the Monaco Grand Prix.

Police, protesters clash in Bolivia at road blockade

Police and anti-government protesters clashed Saturday in the Santa Cruz area of eastern Bolivia, as authorities attempted to clear a road blocked by rural workers demanding President Rodrigo Paz's resignation.

Bernadette Chirac, France's dedicated and determined ex-first lady

Bernadette Chirac, who has died aged 93, stood by her late husband, former French president Jacques Chirac, during 12 years as first lady, but also forged her own, more discreet, political career.

Christmas Day lights up Epsom Derby as O'Brien makes more history

Aidan O'Brien became the first trainer to win four successive Epsom Derbies when Christmas Day eased to victory on Saturday.

Iran World Cup team heads to Mexico as US visa row erupts

Iran's World Cup squad left Turkey for Mexico on Saturday, taking off under the shadow of a bitter diplomatic row between Tehran and Washington after the US refused to issue visas for some of the team's support squad.

Antonelli takes pole for Monaco F1 Grand Prix

World championship leading teenager Kimi Antonelli continued his remarkable run of successes on Saturday by claiming pole position for Mercedes ahead of four-time champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.

Turkey probes billionaire businessman, 95 over Kurdish woman joke

Prosecutors on Saturday opened a probe into a 95-year-old billionaire and honorary head of Koc Holdings, Turkey's biggest conglomerate, over a joke about a Kurdish woman widely denounced as sexist and racist.

From Siberia to French Open title, Andreeva lives 'dream'

Mirra Andreeva has already come a long way from the heart of Siberia, but on Saturday she fulfilled her "dream", aged just 19, when she beat Maja Chwalinska in the French Open women's final.

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