AC Milan announced on Monday they had sacked coach Massimiliano Allegri and a host of senior club management after missing out on next season's Champions League.
Former French Open champion Stan Wawrinka bowed out of his 21st and final Roland Garros on Monday as he admitted saying goodbye to the clay-court Grand Slam was the hardest moment of his last year on tour.
AC Milan announced on Monday they had sacked coach Massimiliano Allegri and a host of senior club management after missing out on next season's Champions League.
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Sports
Tottenham midfielder James Maddison praised Roberto De Zerbi for using his passionate personality to save the club from the humiliation of relegation.
May 25, 2026
RECENT NEWS
France scrum-half Antoine Dupont and Italy full-back Ange Capuozzo have recovered from injuries to help Toulouse's French Top 14 bid, the record 24-time champions announced on Monday.
May 25, 2026
RECENT NEWS
Four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek and second seed Elena Rybakina both eased into the second round with comfortable wins at a sweltering Roland Garros on Monday, as Stan Wawrinka bade an emotional farewell to the tournament.
May 25, 2026
Former French Open champion Stan Wawrinka bowed out of his 21st and final Roland Garros on Monday with a four-set defeat to Jesper de Jong.
May 25, 2026
Locals at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo attacked the town hospital overnight, demanding the body of a religious leader who died from the virus, officials said on Monday.
May 25, 2026
Politics
Marco Rubio leads US foreign policy as diplomacy on Iran goes down to the wire, but he is also making time for cultural attractions as divergent as the Taj Mahal and the Village People.
May 25, 2026
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Britain broke its record on Monday for the hottest day in May, according to the national weather agency, with the mercury rising to 33.5C near London as the country baked in a sweltering heatwave.
Iran warned Monday that, while some progress had been made, it was not yet close to striking a deal with the United States to end the Middle East war, as US President Donald Trump also said he was in no hurry to sign.
Lamine Yamal is the star name in Spain's squad for the 2026 World Cup named by coach Luis de la Fuente on Monday, which also included Arsenal midfielder Mikel Merino after his recent return from injury.
South Africa wing Cheslin Kolbe has re-signed for his first club Stormers, nine years after leaving the Cape Town-based club.
May 25, 2026
Sports
Four-time champion Iga Swiatek powered into the French Open second round on Monday with a dominant straight-sets win over Australian teenager Emerson Jones.
May 25, 2026
RECENT NEWS
Oil prices dropped back below $100 a barrel on Monday and stock markets rallied as investors raised expectations of a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz following signs that Washington and Iran were edging closer to a deal.
Pope Leo XIV called Monday for the "disarming" of artificial intelligence in his long-awaited manifesto on the rapidly developing technology, and warned of "new forms of slavery" behind its rise.
The Swiss will vote next month on an initiative to cap the population at 10 million -- an anti-immigration proposal that is fracturing public opinion in the wealthy Alpine nation.
Oil prices fell and Asian stocks climbed on Monday over hopes a deal between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz could be brokered.
May 25, 2026
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