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Urges immediate repeal

Israel's death penalty law perpetuates racial discrimination: UN watchdog

Sun Yang, 34, returned to competition in 2024 after a four-year ban

'Maliciously fabricated rumours'

Chinese swimmer Sun Yang reports cyberbullying to police

Mohamed Salah applauds the Liverpool fans after their 2-0 win against Brighton at Anfield

Departing superstar

Salah 'deserves big send-off', says Liverpool boss Slot

De Materialschued ass héich, nodeems d'Kierch Affer vun de Flame ginn ass

French border region

Church in Montenach destroyed as flames consume roof and bell tower

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele faces a risky vote of no-confidence

Government impasse

Solomon Islands leader to face no-confidence vote after appeal court loss

Japanese professional baseball umpire Takuto Kawakami was struck by a bat last month

Struck on the head

Japan baseball umpire hit by bat still unconscious two weeks on

Naoya Inoue (left) and Junto Nakatani will square off at the Tokyo Dome on Saturday

'In perfect shape'

Nakatani says won't be intimidated in sold-out Inoue title clash

An Afghan man picks poppy flowers on a hillside in the Jalayer Valley of Northern Afghanistan

Traditional symbolism

Afghans celebrate spring in bright red poppy fields

Iran's supreme leader Mojataba Khamenei has not been seen in puclic since being chosen to replace his late father last month, but a statement issued in his name defied Washington's naval blockade of Iran's ports

'Doomed to fail'

Iran activates air defences as Trump faces congressional deadline

Arsenal are three points clear of Manchester City in the Premier League title race

Extending their lead

Arsenal seek to ramp up heat on Man City in title race

Australian police have found a body believed to be that of a missing five-year-old Indigenous girl, referred to at her family's request as Kumanjayi Little Baby

Overnight confrontation

Clashes erupt in Australian town over death of Indigenous girl

The war in Iran has reshaped trade routes in the Gulf

Iran war redraws sea routes with Africa as the pivot

A villager collects cow dung from her stable near Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district. India is promoting biogas as a low-cost rural energy source

India's cows offer biogas alternative to Mideast energy crunch

Vienna will host the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest final

Flashy symbol of European integration

Eurovision: 70 years of geopolitics, patriotism, music and glitter

The bookmakers predict that a Finnish duo will win the 70th edition of Eurovision this year

Finland's 'Flamethrower' and 4 other Eurovision favourites

The mammoth trade deal between the EU and South American bloc Mercosur comes into force provisionally on May 1

Landmark trade agreement

Blockbuster EU-Mercosur trade deal enters into force

Japan's Kei Nishikori will retire at the end of the 2026 season

Japanese tennis trailblazer Nishikori to retire at end of season

The US Supreme Court's decision makes it far harder to challenge electoral maps that dilute minority voting power

Electoral map scramble

'Uncharted': US court ruling shakes up battle for Congress

James Hitchcock was among the inmates who spent the longest time on death row in the United States

Lethal injection

Florida executes man who spent nearly 50 years on death row

US President Donald Trump is a self-confessed fast food fan

After assassination attempts

Wear a bulletproof vest? I don't want to look fat, says Trump

Spears shot to fame in the late 1990s but has largely stepped back from the music scene

Early March arrest

Britney Spears formally charged with DUI in California

News that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will end its backing has raised doubts about the future of LIV Golf

PGA Tour golfers take wait-and-see approach amid LIV turmoil

Mattias Grafstrom, FIFA Deputy Secretary General, said high ticket prices for the 2026 World Cup reflect the reality of the market in North America

Anger over skyrocketing prices

FIFA to review ticket strategy for 2030 World Cup

Smoke from Israeli shelling on the village of Yohmor, seen from the southern Lebanese area of Marjeyoun

'Continuing Israeli violations'

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Former president Jair Bolsonaro, 71, was sentenced last year to 27 years behind bars for coup plotting over his attempt to cling onto power after losing 2022 elections to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Blow for Lula as Brazil MPs slash Bolsonaro prison term

FIFA President Gianni Infantino invited President of the Palestine Football Association Jibril Rajoub and Vice-President of Israel Football Association Basim Sheikh Suliman to stand alongside him, but Rajoub declined

Palestinian football chief slams Israeli official at FIFA meeting

Diana was one of the most famous people of the 20th century

Three-part series

New Princess Diana documentary promises her own words

Oil prices are at their highest levels since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022

Economic repercussions

Oil slumps after hitting peak, US indices reach new records

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