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Marco Bezzecchi was fastest in opening practice for the Thailand MotoGP on Friday with championship rivals Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia second and third respectively.

Britain's King Charles deflected calls to atone for his country's colonial past Friday, as a summit of Commonwealth allies turned into a factious debate about the legacy of slavery and empire.

Quarterback Matthew Stafford threw for 279 yards and four touchdowns Thursday to pilot the Rams to a 30-20 NFL victory over Minnesota in Los Angeles, handing the Vikings just their second defeat of the season.

More than 150 Rohingya refugees including women and children have been rescued off the coast of Indonesia after their boat languished at sea for days, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.

Iranian photographer Tannaz was on her way to Tehran's airport when European sanctions on flag carrier Iran Air forced her to return home, unable to make it to work in Paris.

Survivors of one of Thailand's most notorious massacres Friday joined the families of 78 victims who suffocated to death in army trucks to voice anger that those responsible will never be brought to justice.

Japanese shares fell but Chinese markets gained in a disjointed start to Asian trade on Friday, after Wall Street cheered strong results from electric car giant Tesla.

Stung in their midweek Champions League fixtures in Spain, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund face tricky away fixtures as they return to the Bundesliga this weekend.

La Liga leaders Barcelona visit rivals Real Madrid in a mouthwatering Clasico on Saturday, aiming to strike a significant blow in the Spanish title race.

Injury-hit Arsenal have little room for error when Premier League leaders Liverpool visit the Emirates on Sunday despite losing just once so far this season.

Struggling 14-time champions Stade Francais welcome Clermont in the French Top 14 on Saturday low on confidence due to their worst start to a season in five years.

Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets.

The United States, buoyed by goals from teenagers Alyssa Thompson and Jaedyn Shaw, beat Iceland 3-1 on Thursday in a friendly match billed as a celebration of their Paris Olympics women's football gold -- and a step on the road to the 2027 World Cup.

President Joe Biden said Thursday he will issue a formal apology for the treatment of Native American children who were forcibly removed from their families by the US government and put into an abusive boarding school system.

The most eagerly anticipated World Series showdown in decades gets under way here Friday as the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the New York Yankees in what promises to be a baseball blockbuster for the ages.

Voters in Latin America's most stable democracy, Uruguay, go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election pitting a left-wing history teacher against a conservative veterinarian and a bodybuilding lawyer.

The Amish people of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, are a throwback to another era, with their quiet farm life, horse-drawn carriages and rejection of modern technology.

Las Vegas may be America's playground but for those who live and work in Sin City, high costs make life difficult, and that single issue will be decisive when they vote for a new US president in November.

"Drill, baby, drill" versus championing green energy: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris offer starkly opposing visions on climate, with the outcome of the US presidential race poised to shape the planet's warming trajectory.

The Awa of Colombia are an Indigenous people who have been threatened by armed groups in the country's southwestern rainforests for decades, but insist on protecting the environment they say they are "connected" to.

An unexpected schism among American youth could decide the US presidential election, with young women largely leaning left to back Kamala Harris, but many men turning right to rally behind Donald Trump, according to polls.

Kamala Harris held a star-studded rally Thursday in swing state Georgia, where former US president Barack Obama and rock legend Bruce Springsteen joined her final push for voters ahead of November's nail-biter election.

New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge is looking forward to testing himself against "the best player" in baseball when he comes up against Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Friday's titanic World Series opener.

French ministers have raised the idea of charging tourists to enter Paris' world-famous Notre-Dame cathedral when it opens in December after a five-year restoration, a proposal that drew a rebuke from the city's diocese on Thursday.

Shohei Ohtani will put years of disappointment behind him when he makes his long-awaited first appearance in a World Series in the Los Angeles Dodgers' blockbuster showdown with the New York Yankees on Friday.

Khalijah Musa was just 12 years old when her brother Sari was stuffed into a Thai army truck, hands bound, joining a pile of arrested protesters who all suffocated to death.

Veteran David Warner's lifetime ban on any leadership role within Australian cricket imposed after a 2018 ball-tampering scandal was lifted Friday.

Bruce Springsteen took the stage Thursday at Kamala Harris's star-studded campaign rally in swing state Georgia, with the rock legend warning that White House hopeful Donald Trump aims to be an "American tyrant."

Lyle and Erik Menendez, the two brothers whose grisly 1989 murder of their wealthy parents was the subject of a recent Netflix series, could be released from prison after a US prosecutor said Thursday he would ask a judge to look again at their sentences.

Tottenham teenager Mikey Moore was compared to Brazilian ace Neymar after a standout role in the 1-0 win over AZ Alkmaar in the Europa League on Thursday with Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou admitting it will difficult to "keep the lid" on expectations.

In a Russian forest, the Grigoryeva sisters had found a comforting refuge in their old wooden house, their "izba".

Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag admitted his team lacked a "killing" instinct in their Europa League 1-1 draw at Jose Mourinho's Fenerbahce on Thursday as Tottenham made it three wins from three with a 1-0 win at home to AZ.