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England seek their own Bradman in bid for historic Ashes comeback

Decades after Bosman, football's transfer war rages on

Ukraine hails 'real progress' in Zelensky's talks with US envoys

Nobel winner Machado suffered vertebra fracture leaving Venezuela

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Stock market optimism returns after tech sell-off

Iran Nobel winner unwell after 'violent' arrest: supporters

Police suspect murder in deaths of Hollywood giant Rob Reiner and wife

'Angry' Louvre workers' strike shuts out thousands of tourists

EU faces key summit on using Russian assets for Ukraine

Maresca committed to Chelsea despite outburst

Trapped, starving and afraid in besieged Sudan city

Cambodia-Thailand border clashes enter second week

Renewed border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand entered a second week Sunday after Bangkok denied US President Donald Trump's claim that a truce had been agreed to halt the deadly fighting.

Gunman kills two, wounds nine at US university

A gunman killed two people and wounded nine others on Saturday at Brown University, plunging the eastern US campus into lockdown as hundreds of police hunted the suspect late into the night.

Green says no complacency as Australia aim to seal Ashes in Adelaide

All-rounder Cameron Green said Sunday there was no room for complacency in the third Test this week, conscious that Australia let England bounce back from 2-0 down in the last Ashes series.

Islamabad puts drivers on notice as smog crisis worsens

Truck driver Muhammad Afzal was not expecting to be stopped by police, let alone fined, as he drove into Islamabad this week because of the thick diesel fumes emanating from his exhaust pipe.

Higa becomes first Japanese golfer to win Asian Tour order of merit

Kazuki Higa made history as the first golfer from Japan to win the Asian Tour order of merit after finishing seventh at the season-ending Saudi Open.

Tokyo-bound United plane returns to Washington after engine fails

A United Airlines Boeing 777 bound for Tokyo had to turn back to Washington's Dulles International Airport on Saturday after an engine failed during takeoff, igniting a brush fire near the runway, officials said.

Deja vu? Trump accused of economic denial and physical decline

An aging president faces poor poll numbers and suspicions about his health but insists that America is thriving.

Vietnam's 'Sorrow of War' sells out after viral controversy

When "The Sorrow of War" was honoured by Vietnam's government as one of the 50 greatest works of literature and art since reunification, some conservative figures reacted with fury -- suggesting the novel's unvarnished depictions of the war diminished the victors' heroism.

China's smaller manufacturers look to catch the automation wave

In a light-filled workshop in eastern China, a robotic arm moved a partially assembled autonomous vehicle as workers calibrated its cameras, typical of the incremental automation being adopted even across smaller factories in the world's manufacturing powerhouse.