Defense lawyers for music mogul Sean Combs on Friday cross-examined his ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura for a second day at his sex trafficking trial, seeking to poke holes in her testimony and portray her as erratic.
Two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was outshone by fellow Jamaican Tia Clayton at the Doha Diamond League meeting on Friday.
Spanish climber Juan Ayuso won stage seven of the Giro d'Italia on Friday as Primoz Roglic took the overall lead on a day where the principal contenders all turned up.
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Series leader Oscar Piastri led team-mate Lando Norris to another McLaren 1-2 in Friday's second free practice at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, the pair having taken the same positions earlier in opening practice.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday blamed "Russian hackers" for a cyberattack that knocked his ruling party's website offline ahead of a presidential vote this weekend.
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An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center.
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Lawyers for 252 Venezuelans deported by US President Donald Trump's administration and imprisoned in El Salvador for two months alleged Friday that the migrants are victims of physical and emotional "torture."
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The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on Friday appealed the dismissal of its president Ednaldo Rodrigues to the Supreme Court, a day after a lower court invalidated his employment contract over suspicions of forgery.
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World Press Photo said Friday it removed US-Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut's name as the person credited for one of history's most iconic pictures, the Vietnam War image "Napalm Girl", amid doubts over its authorship.
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Arne Slot refused to comment on Liverpool's reported pursuit of Bayer Leverkusen defender Jeremie Frimpong, but the Reds boss is already working on plans to make the Premier League champions even stronger next season.
Russia and Ukraine agreed a large-scale prisoner exchange, said they would trade ideas on a possible ceasefire and discussed a potential meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in their first direct talks in over three years on Friday.
Gulf Arab leaders were "starving for love" -- so US President Donald Trump showered them with near endless praise during a tour filled with bromance and billion-dollar deals this week.
Kneeling to greet Italy's Giorgia Meloni and gripping France's Emmanuel Macron in a bro hug, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama hosted Europe's leaders Friday with his showman's panache undampened by torrential rain.
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Mikel Arteta said Friday he has no regrets over Arsenal's season despite missing out on silverware again and wants to finish as the "best of the rest" in the Premier League.
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Everton boss David Moyes said an emotional farewell to the club's Goodison Park home will be worth it for a "bigger and better" future in a new 53,000-capacity stadium.
Fabricated documents, deepfakes and unsubstantiated claims: Romania's pro-European presidential candidate Nicusor Dan has been targeted by an online disinformation campaign that has intensified ahead of Sunday's run-off, analysts interviewed by AFP said.
Pep Guardiola said winning the FA Cup would still be signficant for Manchester City, even if victory in Saturday's final will not mask a disappointing season by their own high standards.
Global stock markets struggled for direction on Friday as they sought to hold onto weekly gains fuelled by the China-US trade war hiatus.
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