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Four-time champion Roglic to ride Vuelta after training crash

Bayern's Musiala returns to training after on-field collapse

Beleaguered FIFA chief Infantino rids himself of critic Lamour

China's Baidu, betting on AI, posts fifth straight quarterly revenue drop

Kane confirms Bayern extension talks set to start

German farmers warn of drought toll on grain harvest

Pant fastest to 100 sixes as India set Sri Lanka 372 to win first Test

Pakistan Supreme Court orders ex-PM Khan moved from jail to hospital

Firefighters push to 'encircle' Belgian wildfire

Crude extends gains, most stocks drop as Mideast hopes dim

ISS to host first spacewalk by Frenchwoman

Rift deepens as Asia football chief hits back at Qatar in Infantino saga

Philippine student killed in livestreamed school shooting

India extend lead to 294 in first Sri Lanka Test

Argentina parliament approves IMF deal for $45 billion debt

Argentina's Senate on Thursday gave final approval to an agreement with the International Monetary Fund that restructures a $45 billion debt, clearing the country's short-term financial horizon but leaving a serious inflationary challenge.

Asian traders take breather, Hong Kong slips after huge surge

Asian equities were mixed Friday as investors took a breather from a strong rally, with Hong Kong giving up some of the colossal gains fuelled by China's support pledge, while unease over the Ukraine war helped oil extend a recovery.

'Living legend' Zlatan Ibrahimovic comes to the silver screen

Even though he's still an active player, a new film premiering Friday is attempting to tell the story of Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic by focusing on the star's childhood growing up in a poor part of the city of Malmo.

Unwed and unwanted, Chinese single mothers fight for rights

Li Meng is a devoted mother trying to support her two-year-old daughter, but in the eyes of Chinese society and the state, she is almost a second-class citizen.

Oscar spotlight shines on India's rural women journalists

An all-women team of smartphone-toting, low-caste reporters who chronicle India's hardscrabble heartland may give the cinema-mad country its first Oscar-winning film, after their own story became a critically lauded documentary.

Pogacar tests cycling superpowers at Milan-San Remo

Tadej Pogacar is again the man to beat as the peloton rolls towards Milan-San Remo wondering whether anyone can topple the crown prince of cycling.

Frying pan to fire: Ethiopians trapped in war-torn Yemen

Mother-of-two Zoubiba Mohamed fled Ethiopia seeking a better life only to be ensnared by Yemen's bitter civil war, and now ekes out an existence in a squalid refugee camp.

Australia sues Facebook owner Meta over scam ads

Australia announced Friday it is suing Facebook owner Meta over scam adverts for cryptocurrency schemes that falsely claimed to be endorsed by prominent figures.

Japan's prices are finally rising, but will it last?

From rice balls to nappies, prices are rising in Japan. But unlike inflation seen in many other places, the increases are long-sought but also unlikely to last, analysts say.

In Yemen's civil war, decaying hospitals on life support

Five-year-old Amina Nasser hugs her toys in a decrepit cancer ward in Yemen, her life in the hands of a healthcare system pushed to the brink of collapse by grinding conflict.

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