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Bethell spins England to 3-0 sweep over Sri Lanka in World Cup warm-up

Nagelsmann backs Ter Stegen for World Cup despite 'cruel' injury

EU must be 'less naive' in COP climate talks: French ministry

Air India inspects Boeing 787 fuel switches after grounding

Vonn says will defy injury and hunt for medals at Olympics

France summons Musk, raids X offices as deepfake backlash grows

Four out of every 10 cancer cases are preventable: WHO

Sex was consensual, Norway crown princess's son tells rape trial

Eswatini minister slammed for reported threat to expel LGBTQ pupils

Pfizer shares drop on quarterly loss

Norway's Kilde withdraws from Winter Olympics

FIFA president Infantino defends giving peace prize to Trump

FIFA chief Gianni Infantino defended his controversial decision to award a peace prize to United States president Donald Trump as he dismissed calls for a World Cup boycott.

Borthwick backs Itoje to get 'big roar' off the bench against Wales

Steve Borthwick backed Maro Itoje to make a "massive impact" when the mourning England captain comes off the bench against Wales in his side's Six Nations opener on Saturday.

Twenty-one friends from Belgian village win €123mn jackpot

A group of 21 friends from a Belgian village won a 123-million-euro ($145 million) EuroMillions jackpot on Friday, quickly becoming the talk of the town.

Mateta move to Milan scuppered by medical concerns: source

Jean-Philippe Mateta's potential deadline-day move to AC Milan from Crystal Palace has fallen through for medical reasons, a source told AFP on Monday, confirming Italian media reports.

Late-January US snowstorm wasn't historically exceptional: NOAA

Despite its deadly impacts, the recent winter storm that battered much of the United States was not historically exceptional, official data showed Monday.

Punctuality at Germany's crisis-hit railway slumps

Punctuality at Germany's much-maligned state railway Deutsche Bahn slumped even further in January, the company said Monday, adding to the network's woes.

Italian biathlete Passler suspended after pre-Olympics doping test

Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler has failed a doping test and was on Monday provisionally suspended from competing at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

Europe observatory hails plan to abandon light-polluting Chile project

Europe's ESO star-gazing organisation on Monday welcomed plans to call off building a massive green energy project in the Chilean desert which threatened to spoil its telescopes' view of the darkest skies on Earth.

Oil slides, gold loses lustre as Iran threat recedes

Oil and gold prices fell as concerns eased over US monetary policy and the chances of an American attack on Iran, while stock markets pushed higher.

Russian captain found guilty in fatal North Sea crash

The Russian captain of a cargo ship that hit an anchored oil tanker in the North Sea last year was on Monday found guilty by a UK court of killing a crew member.

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