American hedge fund Pershing Square, led by the activist investor Bill Ackman, announced Tuesday that it had offered to buy Universal Music Group in a merger, saying it believed the music giant was undervalued by stock markets.
A French high-speed train crashed into a truck carrying military equipment in northern France on Tuesday, killing the driver of the TGV and critically injuring two people, officials said.
Manchester United defender Harry Maguire is set to remain at Old Trafford for at least another season after signing a new one-year contract.
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On Algeria's sparkling Mediterranean coast, the city of Annaba is teeming with excitement as the one-time home of Saint Augustine readies for the country's first visit by a Catholic pontiff.
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Antoine Griezmann's Barcelona story ended in the depths of misery but as he returns to Camp Nou in the Champions League quarter-finals, the French forward is desperate to close out his time with Atletico Madrid on the greatest of highs.
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When Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool last met in the Champions League a year ago, the Anfield outfit were marching towards the Premier League title and were described as "an almost perfect team" by the French club's coach Luis Enrique.
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The Orlando Magic kept up their bid for an automatic playoff berth with an 123-107 upset over the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons on Monday.
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Little-known lunar craters, a solar eclipse and meteor strikes: the Artemis II astronauts wrapped their lunar flyby and began their journey back to Earth late Monday, bringing with them rich celestial observations scientists hope will open doors.
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Politics
A Cambodian refugee long-settled in the United States, ex-convict Pheap Rom, remains bewildered at how he wound up behind bars in the African nation of Eswatini for months after being swept up in Donald Trump's deportation blitz.
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One of Australia's most-decorated soldiers was arrested Tuesday for allegedly murdering unarmed prisoners while serving in Afghanistan, police and local media said following a sweeping war crimes probe.
Oil prices rose Tuesday while equities were mixed as investors assessed Donald Trump's latest deadline for Iran to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz or be "decimated".
Sprint king Kyle Chalmers has urged new 50m freestyle world record holder Cameron McEvoy to rejoin Australia's relay team in a bid to upstage the United States at the 2028 Olympics.
Taiwan's main opposition leader will travel to China on Tuesday for a rare visit aimed at building cross-strait "peace", but the government warns Beijing will seek to stop US arms sales to the democratic island.
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Australian former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis said on Tuesday he loved his wife and never wanted to hurt her in his first public comments since receiving a suspended sentence over her death.
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US Vice President JD Vance flew to Hungary Monday night to deliver Donald Trump's support to his ally, nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, ahead of tightly contested parliamentary elections.
A former right-hand man to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is to go on trial Tuesday in a graft case that threatens the Socialist-led minority government.
Iran freed a Japanese national held since January, Tokyo said Tuesday, with Kyodo News reporting that the person was believed to be the Tehran bureau chief of broadcaster NHK.
AI-generated singers routinely rank among the top-streamed country music artists in the United States -- a trend that for now is limited to a genre that industry observers fear is becoming too formulaic.
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