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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won her second gold of the world chanmpionships in Tokyo on Sunday, anchoring the USA team to a dominant victory in the 4x400 metres relay.

Marlen Reusser made a golden breakthrough on Sunday as she claimed the women's time trial at the cycling World Championships in Kigali.

Iga Swiatek battled back from a disastrous start to win the Korea Open on Sunday, beating Russia's Ekaterina Alexandrova 1-6, 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 in the final.

American Cole Hocker sprinted to victory in the men's 5,000m at the world championships in Tokyo on Sunday.

Kenya's Lilian Odira overhauled Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson to win the women's 800 metres title at the world championships in Tokyo on Sunday.

Kenyans Sabastian Sawe and Rosemary Wanjiru won the men's and women's editions of the Berlin Marathon on Sunday, both breaking through for the first time in the German capital.

Britain was set Sunday to recognise a Palestinian state with a landmark announcement due from Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as several nations were poised to follow at UN talks to pressure Israel over the Gaza war.

South Korea's An Se-young secured her second straight China Masters badminton title on Sunday, the Olympic champion cruising to victory in a superb performance against home hero Han Yue.

An Afghan government defence official said Sunday that a deal over Bagram air base was "not possible", after US President Donald Trump said he wanted the former US base back.

Kenya's Sabastian Sawe won the Berlin Marathon for the first time on Sunday, narrowly missing a personal best in just his third marathon attempt.

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe joked Sunday that one more record from Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis would see track and field's governing body lose its Christmas party.

Guineans began casting ballots Sunday on a draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the junta leader who seized power four years ago to run for president, in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said gene testing for women athletes had been a "largely successful operation" at the world championships in Tokyo, vowing that the process was here to stay.

Three rebel nuns in their 80s have taken back their Austrian convent after fleeing from their care home, with supporters flocking to the nunnery Saturday in a show of solidarity.

The Philippines and Taiwan ordered evacuations Sunday ahead of possible flooding and landslides as Super Typhoon Ragasa approached, gaining strength on its way to an eventual collision with southern China.

Hundreds of anti-government protesters clashed with police in the Peruvian capital Lima on Saturday, throwing stones and sticks as officers fired tear gas on the demonstrators, AFP journalists reported.

American Taylor Fritz shocked world number one Carlos Alcaraz 6-3, 6-2 as Team World won all three singles matches at the Laver Cup on Saturday to power into the lead in the global tennis event.

Joji Nasova scored two tries and Fiji captured a second consecutive Pacific Nations Cup men's rugby title on Sunday by defeating Japan 33-27 at Salt Lake City.

Stepping through the gates of India's Mayo College is like journeying back 150 years. Yet, the school that was once reserved for princes now educates a new elite.

After losing his arms in an ordnance explosion, Syrian teenager Mohammed Hasram was fitted with prosthetic limbs funded by Saudi Arabia, which is leveraging major investments and aid to gain influence over Damascus.

Paris Saint-Germain star Ousmane Dembele is tipped to hold off Barcelona sensation Lamine Yamal and win the men's Ballon d'Or on Monday, while Aitana Bonmati's chances of claiming a third straight women's prize hang in the balance.

Four years after the military seized power, Guineans will finally vote Sunday on a new draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the country's junta leader to run for president, in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.

Thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in Manila to express their anger over a ballooning scandal involving bogus flood-control projects believed to have cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

Cal Raleigh smashed his 57th home run of the year to break the Seattle Mariners record for homers in a season in a 6-4 victory at Houston on Saturday.

Close to a small fishing port in southwestern Japan, the slim white turbines of the country's first commercial-scale floating wind farm glimmer offshore, months before a key project in Tokyo's green-energy strategy begins.

A crowd roar "like having tinnitus" at Tokyo's National Stadium has made up for Japan's muted performances at their home world athletics championships, four years after empty stands greeted the pandemic-troubled Olympics there.

Superstar Lionel Messi scored two superb goals and created another as Inter Miami beat DC United 3-2 on Saturday to inch closer to an MLS Cup playoff berth.

Beneath the old-world exterior of a tailor's on London's famed Savile Row, the workshop where the magic happens is more youthful than ever as aspiring coatmakers vie for competitive apprenticeships.

Venezuela on Saturday organized a day of military training for civilians in response to the US deployment in the Caribbean, and amid new threats from President Donald Trump.

The Statue of Liberty makes a cameo in the Metropolitan Opera's season opener, invoking a time when New York stood as a beacon of hope for Jews desperately fleeing Nazism.

The morning sun shines on lush vines as harvesters pick grapes. The hillside vineyard looks like it could be in Italy but lies near Berlin, where climate change has transformed winemaking.

A deal for the Chinese parent company of popular video-sharing app TikTok to sell its US operations would see the creation of a board dominated by Americans, the White House said Saturday.