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Jannik Sinner moved to within one win of reclaiming the world number one ranking with a 6-0, 6-1 dismantling of an ailing Alexander Zverev in the Paris Masters semi-finals on Saturday, setting up a final clash with Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Rising star Henry Pollock came off the bench to score a key try as England began their quest for an unbeaten Autumn Nations Series campaign with a 25-7 win over a lacklustre Australia at a rainswept Twickenham on Saturday.

Villarreal continued their strong start to the La Liga season by thrashing Rayo Vallecano 4-0 to climb above Barcelona into second place provisionally on Saturday.

Jannik Sinner moved to within one win of reclaiming the world number one ranking with a 6-0, 6-1 dismantling of Alexander Zverev in the Paris Masters semi-finals on Saturday, setting up a final clash with Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Rising star Henry Pollock came off the bench to score a key try as England began their quest for an unbeaten Autumn Nations Series campaign with a 25-7 win over a lacklustre Australia at a rainswept Twickenham on Saturday.

Ukraine has deployed special forces to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, where Russia has been mounting an intense assault, Kyiv's top military commander said Saturday.

Arsenal brushed Burnley aside 2-0 on Saturday to open up a seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League as struggling Nottingham Forest held in-form Manchester United to a 2-2 draw.

Rising star Henry Pollock came off the bench to score a key try as England began their quest for an unbeaten Autumn Nations Series campaign with a 25-7 win over a lacklustre Australia at Twickenham on Saturday.

Viktor Gyokeres ended his Premier League goal drought as leaders Arsenal beat Burnley 2-0 to move seven points clear at the top on Saturday.

A woman arrested this week along with four other suspects over the unprecedented jewel heist at the Louvre was charged and remanded in custody on Saturday.

RB Leipzig's teenage forward Yan Diomande scored one goal and forced another as his side beat Stuttgart 3-1 at home on Saturday to move to two points behind Bayern Munich.

Felix Auger-Aliassime held his nerve to beat in-form Kazakh Alexander Bublik on Saturday and reach the second Masters final of his career in Paris, where he will face either Jannik Sinner or Alexander Zverev.

Villarreal continued their strong start to the season by thrashing Rayo Vallecano 4-0 to climb above Barcelona into second place in La Liga provisionally on Saturday.

A woman arrested this week along with four other suspects over the unprecedented jewel heist at the Louvre on Saturday appeared before a magistrate who will decide whether to detain her.

The United States will not send any top officials to the COP30 climate talks in Brazil later this month, a White House official said Saturday, as President Donald Trump instead works to boost fossil fuels.

Winning the ODI World Cup could be a turning point for the women's game in cricket-crazy India, captain Harmanpreet Kaur said on Saturday, and encourage more girls to take the field.

What lies ahead for Andrew, the younger brother of Britain's King Charles III, who was stripped of his title of prince on Thursday and will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?

Tens of thousands of Serbians on Saturday marked the first anniversary of a deadly railway station roof collapse in Novi Sad, observing 16 minutes of silence for the 16 victims in the country's second-largest city.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan condemned protests around the election in which she was declared winner on Saturday with almost 98 percent of the vote, while the opposition said hundreds have been killed by security forces.

Patrick Vieira is no longer in charge of Genoa, Serie A's bottom club said on Saturday, as Italian media report that the France and Arsenal icon stepped down after a dreadful start to the season.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a landslide election victory, results showed Saturday, after key candidates were jailed or barred from a vote that has triggered days of violent protests.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung hosted Xi Jinping for their first meeting on Saturday as the Chinese head of state took centre stage and reforged old ties at an Asian summit from which US leader Donald Trump was largely absent.

Blair Tickner and Zakary Foulkes made decisive contributions with bat and ball to secure a tense two-wicket win for New Zealand over England on Saturday and a clean sweep of the three-match ODI series.

At 84, George Clinton is a funk legend, ubiquitous hip-hop sample source, father of psychedelic Afrofuturism... and now, a painter with a show opening in Paris.

Sheltering from the pitiless sun under large blue umbrellas, several dozen young Nigerian women sporting colourful dresses paraded to the rhythm of drums in a mass wedding on Friday -- an annual rite held in western Nigeria.

Canadian premier Mark Carney on Saturday called his talks with China's leader Xi Jinping a "turning point" in restoring their battered ties, adding he raised tricky topics with Beijing like foreign interference.

Two machines resembling robotic vacuum cleaners sped around a ring colliding, shooting sparks and catching fire, as Iranian engineering students watched from behind plexiglass.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping met South Korean counterpart Lee Jae Myung on Saturday, after taking centre stage at an Asian summit in the wake of US leader Donald Trump's departure.

The Maldives began implementing a smoking ban Saturday on anyone born after January 2007, becoming the only nation with a generational prohibition on tobacco, the Health Ministry said.

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old.

India batsman Shreyas Iyer has been discharged from hospital after lacerating his spleen when falling heavily in a one-day clash against Australia, cricket officials said Saturday.

Tens of thousands of people are expected on Saturday in Serbia's second largest city Novi Sad to commemorate victims of a railway station collapse a year ago that triggered mass protests.

The impact of tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump "has been less than expected" in Latin America, the head of the region's development bank told AFP in an interview.

Bangladesh's dock workers escalated a strike on Saturday at the country's biggest port, Chattogram, protesting plans by the interim government to lease operating licences to a foreign company.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a landslide election victory, official results showed Saturday, after key candidates were jailed or barred from a vote that has triggered days of violent protests.

Jaylen Brown scored 32 points and the Boston Celtics knocked Philadelphia from the ranks of the unbeaten 109-108 on Friday as the NBA Cup in-season tournament began.

The defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers and title-hungry Toronto Blue Jays vowed to be ready for the first World Series game seven since 2019 on Saturday.

Taiwan can't afford to hike its defence budget to more than three percent of GDP, the new leader of the democratic island's biggest opposition party told AFP, which could derail the government's spending plans.

China said Saturday it will exempt some Nexperia chips from an export ban that was imposed over a row with Dutch officials and has alarmed European businesses.