Troubled Tottenham plunged deeper into relegation danger as Micky van de Ven's moment of madness triggered a damaging 3-1 defeat against Crystal Palace on Thursday.
Oil prices pushed higher while US and European stocks dropped on Thursday as investors tracked developments on the sixth day of the Middle East war.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, a self-declared opponent of "undefined wars" and regime change, is now going on the offensive against critics of President Donald Trump's attack on Iran, while unapologetically backing the conflict.
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Jacob Bethell is going to have "a hell of a career" with England, said captain Harry Brook, after the left-hander's brilliant 105 on Thursday almost took his side to a record chase against India in the T20 World Cup semi-final.
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Lionel Messi's Inter Miami will face Mexican sides Atletico San Luis, Monterrey and Leon on the first phase of the 2026 Leagues Cup, which will feature matches in Mexico for the first time.
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India clung on to beat England by seven runs in a thrilling T20 World Cup semi-final in Mumbai on Thursday, despite Jacob Bethell's superb 105 that put Harry Brook's side within a whisker of pulling off a record chase.
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Conservative Anglican bishops opposed to the Church of England appointing a woman as its head for the first time said Thursday they had created a new body to lead them.
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Sri Lanka has offloaded crew of an Iranian navy vessel and assumed countrol of it, the South Asian nation's president said Thursday, a day after a deadly US submarine attack on another ship.
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Iran's players sang the national anthem and saluted before their defeat to Australia in the Women's Asia Cup on Thursday, after staying silent before their opening game.
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India clung on to beat England by seven runs in a thrilling T20 World Cup semi-final in Mumbai on Thursday, despite Jacob Bethell's superb 105.
Around 20,000 seafarers and 15,000 cruise ship passengers are stuck in the Gulf because of the Middle East war, the UN's International Maritime Organization told AFP on Thursday.
Italy coach Gonzalo Quesada has recalled powerful centre Juan Ignacio Brex for the visit of England in the Six Nations this weekend while Alessandro Garbisi will line up alongside his brother Paolo at half-back.
A French policeman who shot and killed a teenager at point-blank range in 2023 outside Paris, sparking nationwide protests, will stand trial for violence that led to death, an appeals court said Thursday.
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Oil prices pushed higher while stocks dropped on Thursday as investors tracked developments on the sixth day of the Middle East war.
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Fewer commercial flights were cancelled Thursday in the Middle East despite continued military strikes, with more than 100 flights taking off from the United Arab Emirates, according to a specialist data firm.
Ukraine and Russia each freed 200 prisoners of war on Thursday, the first part of an exchange that will see them swap 500 people each in total, officials said.
The Middle East war has forced the World Health Organization to suspend operations at its global emergency logistics hub in Dubai, the UN agency's chief said Thursday.
Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison sought Thursday to calm fears over the future of CNN, pledging to protect the news network's editorial independence as his company closes in on a landmark takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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