Family members spent Christmas morning on Sunday with Pele at the Sao Paulo hospital where the legendary footballer is battling worsening cancer as well as kidney and heart problems, according to a social media post by his daughter.
Church bells and chanting rang throughout Ukraine's capital as Orthodox Christians attended Christmas services on Sunday, a defiant break from Russian religious leaders who will mark the holiday in two weeks.
Tottenham Hotspur boss Antonio Conte suggested on Sunday that he might rest his World Cup players in the game at Brentford on Boxing Day that marks the Premier League's return.
Politics
Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for an end to the "senseless" war in Ukraine, in his traditional Christmas Day message broadcast around the world.
December 25, 2022
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Top UN, NGO officials to meet over Taliban ban on women staff
Education
December 25, 2022
Dak Prescott threw for 347 yards and three touchdowns to spark the Dallas Cowboys over NFL-best Philadelphia 40-34 on Saturday, keeping the Eagles from clinching a top playoff seeding.
December 25, 2022
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Australian seamer Scott Boland will play the Boxing Day second Test against South Africa in Melbourne with an "underdone" Josh Hazlewood again missing out, captain Pat Cummins said Sunday.
December 25, 2022
Undisputed world super-welterweight boxing champion Jermell Charlo suffered a broken left hand in training and his January showdown with unbeaten Australian Tim Tszyu has been postponed, promoters announced Saturday.
December 24, 2022
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers ordered all national and international NGOs to stop their women employees from working after "serious complaints" about their dress code, the economy ministry said on Saturday.
December 24, 2022
Boulevard
More than 1,000 soldiers surrounded a district in El Salvador's capital on Saturday as part of President Nayib Bukele's war on gangs, the second such operation this month in the Central American country.
December 24, 2022
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Four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry, sidelined since suffering a partially dislocated left shoulder, will be out for at least another two weeks, the reigning champion Golden State Warriors said Saturday.
Buffalo clinched a third consecutive division title and the Baltimore Ravens secured an NFL playoff berth on a Saturday where most games were played in severely cold conditions.
DR Congo's army called an M23 rebel withdrawal from a strategic town near the eastern city of Goma a "sham" on Saturday, saying the militia is reinforcing its positions elsewhere.
A group of armed renegades who refused to sign a 2016 peace accord in Colombia have declared a unilateral ceasefire until the new year, the country's peace commissioner tweeted Saturday.
December 24, 2022
Culture
Prince Harry and wife Meghan on Saturday accused The Sun of a "PR stunt" after the British tabloid apologised and said it regretted publishing a much-criticised column about the couple.
December 24, 2022
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Maxi Jazz, the lead singer of the British electronic band Faithless, has died at the age of 65, the group announced on Saturday.
Family members visited the legendary Pele on Saturday at the Sao Paulo hospital where he is suffering from worsening cancer as well as kidney and heart problems, according to a social media post by his daughter.
A French man suspected of killing three people in a "racist" attack at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris has been transferred to a psychiatric unit, prosecutors said, as police and demonstrators clashed in the French capital.
More than 1,000 soldiers surrounded a district in El Salvador's capital on Saturday as part of President Nayib Bukele's war on gangs, the second such operation this month in the Central American country.
December 24, 2022
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- Taliban order NGOs to stop women employees from working over 'hijab'
- Wigglesworth wins first game as Leicester boss
- Salvadoran troops encircle second community in gangs crackdown
- Stade Francais hammer 'shameful' Racing in Top 14 Paris derby
- Zelensky blasts Russian 'terror' after deadly Kherson shelling
- Deadly winter blizzard leaves US in pre-Christmas deep freeze
- Taliban ban women from working in national, international NGOs