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Kane to face old club Spurs for first time in Seoul

Markets rise as traders cheered by China property plan

Black farmers in Brazil changing views on coffee production

Iran's President Raisi declared dead in helicopter crash

Australia police arrest 554 in domestic violence crackdown

South Korea, Britain host AI summit with safety top of agenda

New president Lai vows to defend Taiwan's democracy

Forever fad: Rubik says his cube 'reminds us why we have hands'

Trump eyes witness stand as trial draws to a close

Ryanair annual profit jumps on higher demand, fares

High-priced Cummins, Starc face off as IPL enters playoffs

Russian Olympic doping scandal - how did we get here?

Russian teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva has failed a drugs test, as doping reared its head at the Beijing Winter Games on Friday.

Champions League tie will not decide Mbappe's future, says Pochettino

Paris Saint-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino does not believe Kylian Mbappe's future will be influenced by their Champions League last 16 tie with Real Madrid.

McDermott hits 53 as Sri Lanka restrict Australia to 149 for nine

Ben McDermott smacked 53 to top score as Australia put on 149 for nine in the opening Twenty20 clash against Sri Lanka in Sydney on Friday, with leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga taking three wickets.

How to be a TikTok music megastar

Tom Rosenthal is a 35-year-old singer-songwriter from London. He had already built a decent career over a decade, but when he joined TikTok in 2020 he said the impact was "seismic".

Double trouble: Fears of violence over Libya's 2 PMs

Libyans found themselves with two prime ministers on Friday, raising the spectre of renewed violence in a country where elites have ignored the wishes of citizens to choose their leaders, analysts say.

West Ham under pressure to drop Zouma as they battle for top four

West Ham manager David Moyes is in the spotlight ahead of his side's trip to Leicester on Sunday, with the build-up overshadowed by the fallout from a video showing defender Kurt Zouma physically abusing his cat.

NY Times pulls 'Singapore curry' video after backlash

The New York Times pulled a video Friday showing a Taiwan-based writer making a "Singaporean chicken curry" after furious critics in the city-state said it resembled sewage rather than a local dish.

UK economy rebounds by record 7.5% from pandemic in 2021

Britain's economy grew by a record 7.5 percent last year on easing Covid curbs after a pandemic-driven collapse, official data showed Friday, but analysts warned that sky-high inflation clouds the 2022 outlook.

Russia's Valieva - 'fragile little girl' in doping spotlight

Aged just 15, Russian prodigy Kamila Valieva came to Beijing favourite for figure skating Olympic gold. Now she is at the centre of a doping scandal that threatens to torpedo her fledgling career.

Shiffrin rebounds in Olympic super-G to banish demons

Mikaela Shiffrin admitted Friday to having had a recurring nightmare about bombing out of the Olympic super-G five gates into the race, just as she had done in her two opening events.

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Russian Olympic teen skater Valieva tested positive for banned drug