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Teen stars hail Serena as inspirational game changer

Teen stars hail Serena as inspirational game changer

Teen stars Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu hailed Serena Williams as an inspiration and a game-changing tennis legend on Tuesday, hours after the 23-time Grand Slam champion revealed impending retirement plans.

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New US strategy to make monkeypox vaccine go further

New US strategy to make monkeypox vaccine go further

US health authorities on Tuesday authorized a new procedure for injecting the monkeypox vaccine that should make it possible to inoculate more people with the same amount of the drug, at a time when doses are running short in the country.

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Osaka retires in Toronto opener with back pain

Osaka retires in Toronto opener with back pain

Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka retired from her opening match on Tuesday at the WTA Toronto Masters with lower back pain, raising injury concerns with the US Open looming.

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Benfica, Kyiv, Eindhoven and Rangers into Champions League play-offs

Benfica, Kyiv, Eindhoven and Rangers into Champions League play-offs

Two-time former champions Benfica will play Ukraine's Dynamo Kyiv while Ruud van Nistelrooy's PSV Eindhoven will face Glasgow Rangers after they all qualified for the final Champions League qualifying play-off round on Tuesday.

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US teen Gauff says Serena 'can inspire many more generations'

US teen Gauff says Serena 'can inspire many more generations'

US teen star Coco Gauff, inspired to play tennis by Serena Williams, said Tuesday she was shocked to hear about the impending retirement plans of the 23-time Grand Slam champion.

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FBI raid on Trump's home ignites political firestorm

FBI raid on Trump's home ignites political firestorm

Top Republican leaders flung their support behind former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday after an extraordinary FBI raid on his palatial Florida residence sparked a political firestorm in an already bitterly divided country.

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US stocks sink with all eyes on consumer price data

US stocks sink with all eyes on consumer price data

With all eyes on back-to-back inflation data coming this week, Wall Street stocks tumbled again on Tuesday as earnings warnings tanked tech shares.

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France launches rescue op for beluga astray in Seine

France launches rescue op for beluga astray in Seine

French marine experts launched an ambitious operation Tuesday to rescue an ailing beluga whale that swam up the Seine river, to return it to the sea, an AFP journalist at the scene reported.

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Raducanu rolled in Montreal first round

Raducanu rolled in Montreal first round

Reigning US Open champion Emma Raducanu on Britain exited on Tuesday in the first round of the WTA Toronto Masters, losing 7-6 (7/0), 6-2 to Italy's Camila Giorgi.

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Two miners rescued in Dominican Republic after 10 days underground

Two miners rescued in Dominican Republic after 10 days underground

Two miners were rescued in the Dominican Republic Tuesday, seemingly unharmed, after 10 days trapped underground and a massive operation, with support from Canada, to free them.

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