For much of the last century Belfast's dockyards dominated global shipbuilding but now the harbour that built Titanic is the launchpad for some of the world's biggest TV and film releases.
As Sudan's economic crisis drags on, grocer Hassan Omar keeps busy cleaning packaged food items that have been gathering dust for months as his dwindling customer base make fewer purchases.
Tunisia holds the second round of elections for a toothless parliament on Sunday, with voters preoccupied by economic woes and turnout seen as crucial in the politically divided nation.
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Sports
Reigning world champions Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier reclaimed the US Figure Skating pairs crown on Saturday, a year after missing the national championships over Covid concerns.
January 29, 2023
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Racing 92's Scotland fly-half Finn Russell kicked an 80th minute penalty to claim a 39-36 win over La Rochelle in the French Top 14 on Saturday a week before the start of the Six Nations.
January 28, 2023
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Lens missed the chance to go level on points with Paris Saint-Germain at the top of Ligue 1 on Saturday as they needed a late equaliser from substitute Adrien Thomasson to draw 1-1 at Troyes, while Marseille had to come from behind to draw with Monaco.
January 28, 2023
Casemiro scored twice as Manchester United turned on the style to beat 10-man Reading 3-1 and reach the FA Cup fifth round on Saturday as Tottenham forward Son Heung-min ended his recent goal drought.
January 28, 2023
Lautaro Martinez shot Inter Milan into second place in Serie A with both goals in Saturday's 2-1 win at winless Cremonese, while Atalanta cruised past Sampdoria 2-0 and into the Champions League spots.
January 28, 2023
Culture
Swiss artist and writer Martin Panchaud won the Fauve d'Or for the best album of the year at France's prestigious Angouleme International Comics Festival on Saturday.
January 28, 2023
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Novak Djokovic will be strong favourite to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Australian Open final on Sunday and equal Rafael Nadal's haul of 22 Grand Slam crowns.
Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann said on Saturday his team were in a "results crisis" ahead of next month's Champions League last 16 first leg with Paris Saint Germain.
At least 24 people died Saturday when a bus carrying 60 passengers, including an unknown number of Haitians, plunged over a cliff in northwestern Peru, police said.
Son Heung-min ended a barren run in front of goal by scoring twice as Tottenham beat Preston 3-0, while Leeds and Leicester also advanced to the FA Cup fifth round on Saturday.
January 28, 2023
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Peru's embattled president Dina Boluarte on Saturday urged lawmakers to find a way of a deepening political crisis by agreeing to snap elections in December, just hours after Congress voted against the idea.
January 28, 2023
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Bayern Munich saw their lead in the Bundesliga cut to just one point on Saturday after Randal Kolo Muani's equaliser held the German champions to a 1-1 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou Saturday in support of the ruling junta, days after France confirmed its special forces there would withdraw, an AFP journalist saw.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed "strong" and rapid action on Saturday following two attacks in annexed east Jerusalem carried out by Palestinians, one of which killed seven people outside a synagogue.
The shocking death of Tyre Nichols after a police beating has reopened anguished debate across the United States about police violence, fueling a sense that the huge, nationwide demonstrations of 2020 have done little to solve the problem.
January 28, 2023
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