Real Betis kicked off their Spanish La Liga campaign with a 1-0 victory over last season's Copa del Rey winners Real Sociedad on Friday.
Major League Soccer fined Inter Miami's Argentine superstar Lionel Messi an undisclosed amount on Friday for slapping Philadelphia's Quinn Sullivan on the back of the neck in the clubs' 2-2 draw on Wednesday.
Algeria attacker Amine Gouiri scored twice in 20 minutes as Marseille beat Strasbourg 4-0 on Friday in the first game of the French Ligue 1 season.
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Sports
Sara Bejlek rallied to reach the semi-finals of the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters on Friday, beating Madison Keys 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5).
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One person died and three were wounded after a sword-wielding attacker entered a high school in the town of Fagersta in central Sweden Friday, police said, adding the suspect had been arrested.
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China is mulling a bid to host UN climate talks in 2028, two sources familiar with the matter told AFP Friday, as it seeks to burnish its reputation as a leader in the fight against global warming.
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Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones became the third Englishman to join Inter Milan in as many weeks on Friday.
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Joe Root said a new-look England pace quartet "don't really understand how good they are" after helping him launch his second stint as full-time Test captain with an innings and 103-run rout of a lacklustre Pakistan at Headingley on Friday.
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Economy
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz was forced to fire his economy minister on Friday after legislators voted to remove him for ducking questions about his handling of a severe economic crisis.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva urged US counterpart Donald Trump in a phone call on Friday to resolve their countries' trade dispute, saying US tariffs were imposed on "baseless" grounds.
Retired baseball star Alex Rodriguez said on Friday he is upping his investment in Minnesota's Timberwolves and Lynx basketball teams as part of an ownership change reportedly valuing the franchises at $4.5 billion.
Russian drones slammed into a busy shopping centre in eastern Ukraine Friday, killing 14 people in an attack condemned as "cynical and despicable" by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
A UK court ordered Prince Harry and six others Friday to pay an initial £9.5 million ($13 million) after they lost their long-running privacy case against the publisher of British tabloid the Daily Mail.
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Nature
Europe saw at least 30,000 excess deaths across a blistering summer of back-to-back heatwaves and drought which scientists have blamed on man-made climate change, according to provisional figures.
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The United States and Canada were back at the negotiating table Friday, with the clock ticking down to a midnight deadline when punishing new US tariffs kick in.
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz fired his economy minister on Friday after legislators voted to remove him for failing to appear before Congress to answer questions about his handling of a severe economic crisis.
President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States would temporarily allow a greater volume of foreign beef imports, in his latest bid to lower costs for American consumers as midterm elections approach.
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