Akshay Bhatia on Friday joined Ryo Hisatsune at the top of the PGA Tour Pebble Beach Pro-Am leaderboard on 15-under par, with a resurgent Rickie Fowler hot on their heels.
US star Ilia Malinin suffered the biggest upset of the Winter Olympics on Friday as the overwhelming favourite for the men's figure skating title fell twice to finish off the podium, with Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan taking a surprise gold.
Top seed Taylor Fritz captured the last five points in a deciding tie-breaker to defeat fellow American Sebastian Korda and advance to the ATP Dallas Open semi-finals on Friday.
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Politics
Peru's Congress will debate a motion to impeach interim president Jose Jeri next week, the head of the legislature said Friday, after the opposition garnered the 78 signatures needed to launch the proceedings.
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Matt Weston claimed Great Britain's first medal at the Winter Olympics on Friday by winning the men's skeleton -- the event from which Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych had been disqualified.
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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal civil rights charges stemming from his coverage of an immigration protest in Minnesota.
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A film about legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans that focuses on one of the most traumatic periods of his often torturous life got its premiere Friday at the Berlin Film Festival.
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A fire broke out Friday at a refinery in Cuba's capital, threatening to compound the island nation's struggles as it faces what amounts to a US oil blockade.
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Culture
Between two air-raid alerts, the Kyiv Classic Orchestra on Friday gave travellers at the city's main railway station an hour-long concert, to raise spirits during the war with Russia.
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Rennes, four days after firing coach Habib Beye, stunned Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 on Friday, snapping the defending champions' seven-match winning run in Ligue 1.
Japanese snowboarder Yuto Totsuka won a gripping men's halfpipe final on Friday, shattering Australian snowboard veteran Scotty James's dreams of an elusive gold medal in his fifth Winter Games.
Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy said Friday she was withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival over jury president Wim Wenders's comments that cinema should "stay out of politics" when he was asked about Gaza.
Conflicts are deliberately being turned into wars against civilians with drones and other technology and countries are flouting international law with impunity, the Red Cross chief said Friday.
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Politics
German leader Friedrich Merz called Friday for "a new transatlantic partnership" between the United States and Europe, as he rallied officials at a top security conference under heavy pressure from US President Donald Trump.
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Peruvian prosecutors said Friday they had begun investigating interim president Jose Jeri on suspicion of influence peddling over his role in the irregular hiring of nine women in his administration.
Victoria Mboko advanced to the second WTA 1000 final of her career and secured her top-10 debut in next week's world rankings with a commanding 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jelena Ostapenko at the Qatar Open on Friday.
A grief-stricken community in northern Canada will mourn with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday, who is headed to the remote town of Tumbler Ridge to honor victims of a mass shooting.
US President Donald Trump said Friday he planned to visit Venezuela and reiterated satisfaction with its interim leader, as his administration authorized five major oil companies to operate in the country.
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