A minute's silence was held ahead of Australia against India at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday as the sport mourned the teenage Australian player who died after being hit by a ball.
Vinicius Junior will face no disciplinary action for his Clasico substitution outburst, Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso revealed on Friday.
King Charles III's historic decision to strip his brother Andrew of his royal titles and effectively exile him won widespread backing Friday, but failed to calm calls for further action and greater oversight of the monarchy.
Liverpool manager Arne Slot said his side must not make a habit of losing games they should win after six defeats in their last seven games plunged the Premier League champions into crisis.
Top seed Belinda Bencic pulled out of the Hong Kong Open quarter-finals on Friday as the Tokyo Olympic champion became the latest in a long line of players to suffer a late-season injury.
President Xi Jinping on Friday invited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to China, in the first formal talks between the nations' leaders since 2017, before also holding first discussions with Japan's new premier.
China and the United States should build "trust" in order to co-exist, Beijing's defence minister said on Friday, but cautioned Washington about its "words and deeds" on Taiwan.
India's newest cricket star Jemimah Rodrigues overcame anxiety and tears to lead her country into the women's World Cup final with a sublime century against Australia.
Asian stock markets presented a mixed bag on Friday, with falls in China and gains in Japan and South Korea coming after better-than-expected earnings reports from US tech behemoths Apple and Amazon.
China and Canada's leaders opened on Friday their first formal talks since 2017, with Xi Jinping meeting Prime Minister Mark Carney in South Korea, Chinese state media reported.
US President Donald Trump's surprise directive to begin nuclear weapons testing provoked global criticism on Friday, as it raised the specter of renewed superpower tensions.
US tech giant Nvidia said on Friday it will supply 260,000 of its most cutting-edge chips to South Korea, as CEO Jensen Huang met President Lee Jae Myung and the heads of Korea's biggest companies on the sidelines of the APEC summit.
"God, God, God, protect them," chanted two herders, their eyes following a dozen camels rushing toward acacia trees, oblivious to the dry riverbed in northern Kenya where it hasn't rained since April.
Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across west Africa.
Emmanuel knows only too well the allure of illegal gold prospecting in the protected Comoe National Park for the many young without prospects in Ivory Coast's troubled northeast.
When Lawan Mustafa's wife, nine months pregnant, woke up bleeding in the middle of the night, she looked at her husband and warned him: don't go to the hospital.
Forest ranger Daouda Bamba is in no doubt about who the apex predator is in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, ravaged by war and unrest between 2002 and 2011.
India's stunning World Cup semi-final win over Australia was described Friday as the greatest day in the history of women's cricket in the country, with Jemimah Rodrigues hailed for her "innings of a lifetime".
US President Donald Trump may have hoped for an impromptu talk with his old friend Kim Jong Un during a recent trip to Asia, but analysts say the increasingly emboldened North Korean despot had few good reasons to join the photo-op.
In a bustling Bangkok market, hundreds of wholesale vendors have been selling black clothing since dawn -- several with hefty discounts -- in honour of Thailand's late former queen.
Players wore black armbands and held a minute's silence as tributes poured in Friday for the Australian teenager whose death touched the cricket world.
The death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose Thursday to nearly 50 people, officials said, after the ferocious storm devastated Caribbean islands and was bearing down on Bermuda.
Lamar Jackson made a triumphant return after missing three games with a right hamstring injury, leading the Baltimore Ravens to a 28-6 NFL victory at Miami on Thursday.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander delivered another dominant performance as the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder remained perfect in the young NBA season with a 127-108 victory Thursday over the Washington Wizards.
For the longest time Andrew was shielded by Queen Elizabeth II's steadfast protection. But her death in 2022 left him exposed, as he hurtled towards his downfall.
Real Madrid may have beaten Barcelona in last weekend's Clasico but the game exposed problems in both camps, from the difficulties in dealing with Vinicius to the concerning recent form of the Catalans.
Promoted to the top flight of French football at the end of last season in the wake of a takeover by the super-rich Arnault family, Paris FC do not yet quite look ready to mix it with Ligue 1's big guns.
Bayer Leverkusen will resume their recent Bundesliga rivalry at Bayern Munich on Saturday but are almost completely unrecognisable from the side who struck fear into the hearts of the Bavarian giants in past seasons.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping was expected to meet Canada and Japan's new prime ministers for the first time on Friday, a day after agreeing to a trade war ceasefire with US President Donald Trump.
Wallaby boss Joe Schmidt has insisted Tane Edmed needs time to develop as the fly-half prepares to face England at Twickenham on Saturday.
Liverpool face an in-form Aston Villa as the Premier League champions look to arrest their remarkable collapse on Saturday, while Arsenal aim to surge further clear in the title race.
Ireland coach Andy Farrell says his team's clash with New Zealand in Chicago on Saturday marks the start of the long build-up to the 2027 World Cup as he returns to the helm of the Six Nations giants.
