The New York Mets have signed Bo Bichette to a blockbuster contract after missing out on high-profile target Kyle Tucker to the Los Angeles Dodgers, US media reported Friday.
Michael Carrick believes the allure around Manchester United has survived years of declining fortunes on the field as he begins his short-term stint as manager at Old Trafford.
Estonian Niina Petrokina became European figure skating champion for the second consecutive time after a magnificent free programme in Sheffield on Friday.
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Sports
Ousmane Dembele scored twice as champions Paris Saint-Germain climbed top of Ligue 1 on Friday with a dominant 3-0 win over Lille at a rainy Parc des Princes.
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French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Friday inched closer to forcing his budget bill through parliament without a vote while desperately seeking a way to avoid being toppled by parliament as a result.
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OpenAI announced Thursday it will begin testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, as the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot seeks to increase revenue to cover its soaring costs.
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Russian annual inflation fell sharply in 2025, data from the state statistics agency showed on Friday, as central bank efforts to tame price growth appeared to bear fruit.
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India's Washington Sundar has been ruled out of the upcoming T20 series against New Zealand after being diagnosed with a "side strain", the country’s cricket board said late on Friday.
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Economy
US President Donald Trump said Friday he may impose trade tariffs on countries that don't support his plans to take over Greenland, part of the territory of NATO ally Denmark.
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A top UK police chief who oversaw a contentious decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans from a Birmingham match retired on Friday after public pressure for him to step down.
The smell of rubber is everywhere as the ageing machine press coughs up a tray full of ice hockey pucks that will hit the Olympic ice in February.
A court in Kyiv released former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on bail on Friday pending a trial to determine whether she paid members of Ukraine's parliament to sway their voting.
France's top court ruled Friday it was too late to try a man who confessed to a murder decades after his victim disappeared, a judgment that could affect other "cold case" investigations.
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Sports
Anthony Joshua has returned to the gym for "mental strength therapy", just weeks after a car crash which killed two of the former world heavyweight champion's close friends.
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French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was on Friday desperately planning how to survive a likely no-confidence vote if he forces a budget into law without parliament's approval.
A bipartisan US Congress delegation began a visit to Copenhagen on Friday to voice support for Denmark and Greenland after US President Donald Trump threatened to take over the Arctic island, an autonomous Danish territory.
A US bipartisan congressional delegation kicked off a visit to Copenhagen on Friday to express support for Denmark and Greenland after President Donald Trump's threats to take over the Arctic island.
The protest movement in Iran has subsided after a crackdown that has killed thousands under an internet blackout, monitors said Friday, one week after the start of the biggest protests in years challenging the Islamic republic's theocratic system.
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