Istanbul authorities on Wednesday closed metro trains, buses and Bosphorous ferries, paralysing Turkey's biggest city in a bid to prevent May Day demonstrations.
Atlanta Hawks guard Dyson Daniels, a 22-year-old Australian who led the NBA in steals, was voted the 2025 NBA Most Improved Player, the league announced on Wednesday.
Mexico City will host high-altitude Formula One races for at least three more years after a contract extension was signed Wednesday.
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Sports
Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi lavished praise on Barcelona's teenage winger Lamine Yamal after a thrilling 3-3 Champions League semi-final first leg draw on Wednesday.
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The United States and Ukraine said Wednesday they could sign a long-anticipated minerals deal within the day, after last-minute concerns from Kyiv as it seeks long-term US support.
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Contraction? What contraction? As far as US President Donald Trump and his cabinet were concerned on Wednesday all was well with the economy -- and with everything else.
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Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca has insisted "money does not win titles" ahead of Thursday's Conference League semi-final first leg against Djurgarden in Stockholm on Thursday.
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Mark Wood has accepted some of the comments made by his fellow England players to the media have been "a bit dumb".
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Economy
The US economy unexpectedly contracted in the first three months of the year on an import surge triggered by Donald Trump's tariff plans, although the president pinned the blame squarely on his predecessor.
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Caterpillar has trimmed corporate travel and other discretionary spending to offset a tariff hit, but has no plans to raise prices or overhaul supply chains, executives said Wednesday.
Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr crashed out of the Asian Champions League Elite semi-finals on Wednesday when they were beaten 3-2 by Japan's Kawasaki Frontale.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Tesla boss Elon Musk could stay working for the White House as long as he wanted but understood the tycoon wanted to get back to his businesses.
A hat-trick by Yuzvendra Chahal and skipper Shreyas Iyer's 72 helped Punjab Kings to a four-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings on Wednesday, officially ending their opponents' slim chances of reaching the playoffs.
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Culture
Pope Francis saw priests' embrace of the trappings of power as a "cancer" corroding the Roman Catholic Church, according to a best-selling Spanish author who travelled to Mongolia with the pontiff.
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One of Harvey Weinstein's accusers on Wednesday again told a New York court that he had raped her, five years after she testified in the first sexual assault trial of the disgraced Hollywood producer.
Formula One's high-octane show rolls into the Sunshine State this weekend for the sixth round of the 2025 season, the Miami Grand Prix, with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri holding a slender lead in the Drivers’ Championship.
The US economy unexpectedly contracted in the first three months of the year on an import surge triggered by Donald Trump's tariff plans, although the president pinned the blame squarely on his predecessor.
Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell missed Punjab Kings' IPL match on Wednesday with a fractured finger and is likely to be out injured for the rest of the T20 tournament.
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