Newcastle climbed into position to reach the Champions League last 16 by punishing PSV Eindhoven's defensive blunders for a 3-0 win at St James' Park on Wednesday.
Fermin Lopez's first-half brace and second-half goals by Dani Olmo and Robert Lewandowski earned Barcelona a 4-2 Champions League win at Slavia Prague on Wednesday.
Harry Kane scored twice in three second-half minutes as Bayern Munich saw off Union Saint-Gilloise 2-0 on Wednesday to reach the last 16 of the Champions League.
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Liverpool took a big step towards automatic qualification for the Champions League last 16 on Wednesday as Mohamed Salah returned in a 3-0 victory at Marseille.
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Trump says agreed 'framework' for US deal over Greenland
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A winter storm bringing very cold temperatures is expected to slam a massive stretch of the United States this week with more than 175 million people facing the prospect of power outages and travel disruptions.
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The United States said it launched an operation Wednesday that could move thousands of Islamic State group jihadists from Syria to Iraq, as Syrian and Kurdish-led forces traded accusations of breaching a fragile ceasefire.
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Dior designer Jonathan Anderson delivered his vision Wednesday of "today's aristocracy" in his second menswear show for the brand in Paris, mixing new gender-mixed creations with house symbols.
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Former England captain Jamie George has announced he will retire after completing the 2026-27 season with Saracens.
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Israel launched fresh strikes on what it said were Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon after raids earlier Wednesday killed two people, the latest violence despite a year-old ceasefire with the militant group.
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Ubisoft on Wednesday ended a months-long wait for details of a restructuring the French games giant hopes will power it up to face a competitive market -- at the price of a string of cancelled games and a new round of belt-tightening.
Opener Abhishek Sharma struck 84 off 35 balls to set up a convincing 48-run win for India in the first of five T20 internationals against New Zealand on Wednesday.
To muted applause and not a few stony faces, US President Donald Trump took the stage before hundreds of the world's rich and powerful Wednesday for the most anticipated speech of this year's Davos forum.
US President Donald Trump for the first time ruled out using force to take Greenland as he addressed world leaders in Davos Wednesday, but demanded "immediate negotiations" to acquire the island from Denmark.
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Economy
Stocks mostly steadied Wednesday as US President Donald Trump said in a much-anticipated speech at Davos that he would not use force to take control of Greenland, though he did demand "immediate negotiations" to take control of the Danish arctic territory.
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A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia.
Def Jam, the influential US record label, will launch a division in the "capital of Chinese hip-hop" Chengdu, its parent company Universal Music announced late Tuesday, in a vote of confidence for China's music scene.
IOC president Kirsty Coventry said the dispersed sites of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics had "added additional complexities" to the organisation of the Games that open on February 6.
Manchester City's players will refund ticket costs for fans who flew all the way to the Arctic Circle only to witness a humiliating 3-1 defeat to Bodo/Glimt in the Champions League.
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