Estonia's Anett Kontaveit climbed to a career-high sixth in the WTA rankings released on Monday a day after her victory in St. Petersburg.
Japan beer giant Kirin became on Monday the latest foreign company to announce it was leaving Myanmar in the wake of a coup last year and a military crackdown on dissent.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lands in Kyiv on Monday before visiting Moscow to try to head off a "very critical" threat of a Russian invasion that would spark the worst crisis in Europe since the Cold War.
- French ice dancers Papadakis and Cizeron win 'unreal' first Olympic gold
- How Valieva's Olympic doping controversy erupted
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Asian and European markets sank and oil prices rallied Monday after the United States warned Russia could attack Ukraine within days as diplomatic efforts to prevent a war appeared to fail, while fears over inflation were also keeping traders on edge.
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Hong Kong's health facilities have been overloaded by an "onslaught" of Covid-19 infections, its leader said, as a rise in Omicron cases threatens to bring down the city's "zero-Covid" policy.
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The Cincinnati Bengals' run to the Super Bowl had been this season's best Cinderella story.
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New Zealand's Margaux Hackett is right at home hurtling through the air at the Beijing Olympics -- but then she is the daughter of the man who pioneered bungee jumping and took her first plunge aged just four.
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Canadian-born Kaillie Humphries said her Olympic gold for her adopted USA has a special place in her heart after storming to victory Monday in the inaugural women's monobob event to end Germany's domination of the Winter Games ice track.
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French figure skaters Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron won their first Olympic gold in ice dancing Monday in Beijing, breaking their own world record again in the process.
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As Paris Saint-Germain prepare to face Real Madrid in the Champions League, the French club hope a victory in the tie could yet help convince Kylian Mbappe to stay rather than move to the Spanish capital.
Cooper Kupp said hours of hard work alongside Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford finally paid off on Sunday after the duo combined to sink the Cincinnati Bengals.
Russian figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva will learn Monday if she can compete again at the Beijing Olympics when sport's top court gives its decision on a doping test she failed in December.
Vultures roam the sand in the Brazilian resort town of Atafona amid the ruins of the latest houses destroyed by the sea, whose relentless rise has turned the local coastline into an apocalyptic landscape.
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French figure skaters Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron won their first Olympic gold in ice dancing Monday in Beijing, breaking their own world record again in the process.
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The IOC said Monday the medals for the Beijing Olympics figure skating team competition would "probably not" be awarded during the Games, regardless of the decision about the doping test of Kamila Valieva.
Vietnam will lift coronavirus restrictions on international flights for fully vaccinated passengers from Tuesday, the country's aviation authority said in a statement.
Californian-born Eileen Gu, the face of the Beijing Games after winning freestyle skiing gold for China last week, held her nerve to qualify for the slopestyle final Monday -- then dashed off to practise.
Cambodia is powering up its new National Internet Gateway, a move activists say will allow the government to further silence the country's embattled opposition voices.
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