FIFA President Gianni Infantino faces the most significant political crisis of his tenure after FIFA’s proposal to sell a stake in the World Cup triggered widespread rejection from confederations. UEFA has withdrawn confidence in his leadership, marking a turning point for the global governing body that Infantino promised to reform nearly a decade ago.
The number of people missing in Nepal and China leaped to more than 2,400 Friday, underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept away villages and killed hundreds.
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On the day Norway's king died, Andreas Leknessund grabbed the country's fourth-ever Vuelta stage victory after he broke away with seven kilometres to go and battled uphill to the line.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party on Friday upbraided a far-right cabinet member for refusing to run on a joint slate with another ultranationalist, warning a split vote risked tanking their coalition in upcoming elections.
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Michael Carrick said Carlos Baleba will be unable to make his Manchester United debut for around three weeks due to an ankle injury, but is excited by the Cameroonian's "massive potential".
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Stocks rose on Friday ahead of a keenly awaited speech by US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh as investors seek clues about the outlook for interest rates amid stubbornly high inflation in the world's biggest economy.
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Turkish attacker Kenan Yildiz will undergo an operation on his foot after picking up an injury during Juventus's opening match of the Serie A season, club affairs officer Giorgio Chiellini said Friday.
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To survivors of the Srebrenica massacre, the death of former Bosnian Serb military leader and war criminal Ratko Mladic changes little about his legacy.
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Canadian superstar Celine Dion arrived in Paris on Friday two weeks ahead of the first of her sold-out comeback concerts in the French capital.
Two men bought tickets to enter Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) before smashing a display case, grabbing a 200-carat platinum and diamond necklace and walking away, police said Friday.
The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster has left an "enormous" level of trauma, the Red Cross said Friday, with early estimates suggesting 93,000 people may have been affected.
Asian Games organisers said Friday that all participants at next month's event would have a place to stay after numbers ballooned to more than 17,000, raising fears of a bed shortage.
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Thousands of people gathered outside Norway's royal palace to pay their respects to King Harald, who died Friday aged 89 after a reign of three and a half decades.
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Josh Tongue shone with both bat and ball to put England on top of the second Test against Pakistan at Lord's on Friday.
The Beznau nuclear power plant in Switzerland, which was shut down multiple times over the last two months due to summer heatwaves, is fully operational again, Swiss energy company Axpo said Friday.
UEFA's intention to launch a legal suit accusing FIFA president Gianni Infantino of "criminal mismanagement" is a "massive escalation" of their feud, a former marketing director of the International Olympic Committee told AFP.
English duo Bournemouth and Sunderland were both handed a glamour tie against AC Milan among their eight matches in the Europa League as the draw for this season's league phase took place on Friday.
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