England take on world champions Australia in the first Test of the long-awaited best-of-three Rugby League Ashes series in Wembley on Saturday keen to banish a repeat of agonising late defeats.
Just seven rounds into the Bundesliga season, a Harry Kane-powered Bayern Munich are already threatening to pull away from the chasing pack.
Liverpool must halt their three-game Premier League losing streak with Saturday's visit to Brentford to remain in touch with Arsenal and in-form Manchester City.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky heads to London Friday for a meeting of its key backers, where Britain's prime minister has said he will call on Europe to deliver more long-range missiles.
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Bosnia and Hercegovina attacker Riad Bajic scored the winner as AEK Larnaca stunned Crystal Palace 1-0 in the UEFA Conference League on Thursday.
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Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said Thursday it was expanding its use of Google cloud computing and specialized chips in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars.
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Oscar Piastri confirmed on Thursday that both he and McLaren team-mate Lando Norris will start this weekend's Mexico City Grand Prix with a "clean slate" following their collision in Texas.
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Sean Dyche got off to a winning start as Nottingham Forest boss thanks to two penalties to beat Porto 2-0 in the Europa League, while Aston Villa were stunned 2-1 by Go Ahead Eagles on Thursday.
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EU leaders Thursday tasked the European Commission to move ahead with options for funding Ukraine for two more years, leaving the door open for a mammoth loan using frozen Russian assets, diplomats told AFP.
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French driver Isack Hadjar remained coy on Thursday when he sought to laugh off rumours he is set to join Red Bull next year, instead confirming he knows he will be remaining in Formula One.
Jannik Sinner was made to work by Flavio Cobolli before the top seed mastered his fellow Italian to reach the quarter-finals in Vienna on Thursday.
Germany's largest LGBTQ club SchwuZ announced on Thursday the venerable Berlin institution's lights will turn off for good on November 1, making it the latest casualty of the German capital's nightlife recession.
Colombia's leftist president ramped up denunciations of Donald Trump's anti-drug air strikes and swatted aside US threats to freeze hundreds of millions of dollars in aid Thursday.
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Toronto Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage will become the second-youngest pitcher in history to start a World Series opener when he lines up against Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.
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US military strikes that Washington claims have targeted "narco-terrorists" ferrying drugs to American soil are having little to no impact on Latin America's bustling narcotics trade, experts say.
Formula One's ruling body on Thursday confirmed it had suffered a cyber security breach in which personal details of drivers including four-time world champion Max Verstappen were exposed by hackers.
Trinidadian Rishi Samaroo's relatives are adamant: he was a fisherman, not a drug trafficker as the United States claimed after it destroyed his boat in Caribbean waters.
Aston Villa's perfect Europa League start came undone in a shock 2-1 defeat to Go Ahead Eagles on Thursday as new Rangers boss Danny Rohl suffered a humbling 3-0 defeat to Brann in his first game in charge.
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