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Duplantis pulls out of Diamond League finals

Edgar Davids art thief misses sentencing after being 'knocked out by luggage'

Defending champ Sabalenka, Pegula lead way into US Open fourth round

Russia hits HQ of Ukraine's security services in daylight attack

Pegula rallies to reach US Open fourth round

UK hard-right party rallies behind leader after new donation scandal

Defending champ Sabalenka leads way into US Open fourth round

Nigeria's Dangote refinery looks to raise $1.6 bn in IPO

Bayeux Tapestry 'virtually unchanged', UK museum says, after France spots broken threads

Portugal extends talks to privatise national carrier TAP

More than 120 killed in Yemen's worst clashes in years: sources

Brazil great Formiga says 2027 World Cup will 'change players' lives'

Germany hunts climate activist suspected of power grid sabotage

Job growth, but surging diesel prices - Trump's midterms mixed bag

UK's Truss tells booing MPs she's no 'quitter'

British Prime Minister Liz Truss insisted she would not quit on Wednesday as she faced questions from booing MPs at her first Question Time session since abandoning her disastrous tax-slashing economic policies.

European football model 'unsustainable', says new CEO of Super League promoter

The new CEO of the company promoting the Super League, German businessman Bernd Reichart, says European football must hold talks to reshape its future and warns it is "becoming unsustainable" under the current system.

Trump to testify in defamation case against rape accuser

Former US president Donald Trump is expected to testify Wednesday in a defamation case pitting him against a prominent American columnist who says he raped her in the 1990s.

Stocks stumble as inflation concerns offset positive earnings

Major stock markets stumbled Wednesday, as lingering concerns over sky-high inflation offset positive earnings.

HRW calls for sanctions on Ethiopia to protect civilians

Human Rights Watch called Wednesday for targeted sanctions and an arms embargo against Ethiopia to help protect civilians as the country's brutal war in Tigray intensifies.

Pakistan warns India that Asia Cup no-show could 'split' cricket

Pakistani cricket authorities hinted Wednesday they may pull out of next year's World Cup in India, a day after officials there said they would not send a team to the 2023 Asia Cup in Pakistan.

Kremlin proxies flee Kherson as Ukraine advances

Pro-Kremlin officials were pulling out of the key southern Ukraine city of Kherson on Wednesday, as Kyiv's forces advanced on territory in Russian hands since the war's earliest days.

Chad floods leave victims in despair

One of the poorest and most arid states in the world, the landlocked nation of Chad has been hit by exceptional floods that have affected hundreds of thousands of lives.

Football icon Shevchenko feels pain and pride in Ukraine's resilience

Ukrainian football legend Andriy Shevchenko has admitted in an interview with AFP he cried when he "saw children running through a field strewn with missile craters" in Irpin, a commuter town outside Kyiv which was liberated from Russian control.