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Israel launched air strikes before dawn on Friday in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, saying it was targeting Hamas in retaliation for several dozen rockets fired at Israel from both territories.

From Covid-19 to monkey pox, Mers, Ebola, avian flu, Zika and HIV, diseases transmitted from animals to humans have multiplied in recent years, raising fears of new pandemics.

Luz Maria Collazo was Cuba's first black model, a virtuoso of modern dance and star of the film "Soy Cuba" (I am Cuba) -- a flop in its time now considered a classic.

If you've ever fancied yourself as a disco legend -- and, let's be honest, who hasn't? -- this could be your chance, as John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" suit goes up for auction.

As night fell in Mexico's Yucatan jungle, veterinarian Omar Garcia extracted blood and fluids from a bat as part of an investigation aimed at preventing the next potential pandemic.

Venezuela has launched an anti-corruption probe of state oil firm PDVSA and other related government bodies that has seen 51 people arrested, including top government officials.

Fresh from knocking Bayern Munich out of the German Cup, Freiburg will hope to again spoil the party against the same opponents on Saturday, this time at home.

Unai Emery is finally winning admirers in the Premier League after revitalising Aston Villa just five months into his redemptive return to English football.

Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier is under increasing pressure going into Saturday's game away at his former club Nice as the Ligue 1 leaders look to arrest their slump.

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted years of luxury travel trips from a billionaire Republican, according to a report Thursday, including yachting in New Zealand and private jet flights across the globe.

Arsenal face a test of their Premier League title credentials against Liverpool this weekend as the scramble to avoid relegation intensifies.

Viktor Hovland wore a shocking pink and white polo shirt for Thursday's opening round of the 87th Masters, but his game was simply electrifying.

Augusta National is a golf club more famed for it's strict rules and firm commitment to tradition and etiquette than openness and innovation, but on Thursday the Masters broke new ground with Rory McIlroy talking live on television during his round.

Nearly a million young children in Africa's Sahel region will face severe acute malnutrition this year amid high food prices, conflict and climate change, UNICEF warned Friday.

LIV Golf's Brooks Koepka, finally feeling healthy two years after knee surgery, birdied three of the last four holes Thursday to grab a share of the opening-round lead at the Masters.

An ice storm that battered eastern Canada left two dead and some million people without electricity on Thursday, as fallen trees blocked roads and downed power lines.

Norway's Viktor Hovland, Spain's Jon Rahm and American Brooks Koepka shared the first-round lead at the Masters on Thursday after taking advantages of easier-than-usual conditions to card seven-under par 65s.

Spain's Jon Rahm said he had drawn on the memories of his late compatriot Seve Ballesteros after he recovered from a double bogey on the first hole to take a share of the first-round lead at the Masters on Thursday.

Israel launched air strikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip late Thursday after vowing retaliation for a barrage of cross-border rockets fired from Lebanon, which it blamed on Palestinian groups.

Norway's Viktor Hovland, Spain's Jon Rahm and American Brooks Koepka shared the clubhouse in the first round of the Masters on Thursday after taking advantages of easier-than-usual conditions to card seven-under par rounds of 65.

The Dutch football federation said on Thursday matches would be abandoned if there was a repeat of incidents which halted Ajax's Dutch Cup semi-final at Feyenoord when a player was injured by a lighter thrown from the stands.

England beat Brazil 4-2 in a dramatic penalty shootout to win the first-ever Women's Finalissima at Wembley on Thursday between the European champions and the winners of the Copa America Femenina.

Fares Chaibi scored late as Toulouse beat second-tier Annecy 2-1 on Thursday to reach the French Cup final.

Stock markets were mixed on Thursday, on the eve of a long Easter holiday and key US jobs data that could provide clues about whether the world's biggest economy is headed towards recession.

Norway's Viktor Hovland and Spain's Jon Rahm shared the early clubhouse in the first round of the Masters on Thursday after taking advantages of easier-than-usual conditions at Augusta National to card seven-under par rounds of 65.

Tiger Woods battled through constant leg pain to fire a two-over par 74 in Thursday's opening round of the 87th Masters, his worst 18-hole start at Augusta National since 2005.

A supertanker bought by the United Nations to remove oil from a ship abandoned off war-ravaged Yemen's coast departed China on Thursday, the UN announced, calling it a "significant" step in efforts to prevent a major spill.

Israel accused Palestinian groups of firing a barrage of cross-border rockets from Lebanon Thursday, just over a day after clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians inside Islam's third-holiest site.

Thomas Pieters never expected he might be banned from playing his home-nation DP World Tour event when he jumped to the LIV Golf League, but fears that's what could now happen.

The White House on Thursday released a long-awaited review of the US exit from Afghanistan, laying blame on Donald Trump and a huge intelligence failure, but defending overall US conduct of the traumatic operation.

The families of four children killed at a Brazilian preschool held emotional funerals for them Thursday, a day after an attacker murdered them with a hatchet in a crime that has shocked the nation.

Fred Couples reeled off four birdies in six holes on the back nine at age 63 to make a thrilling run up the leaderboard in Thursday's opening round of the Masters.