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The Chicago Bulls' home game against the Miami Heat on Thursday was postponed at the 11th hour because of an unplayable court.

Arsenal winger Gabriel Martinelli said he had apologised to Conor Bradley for shoving the Liverpool defender off the pitch when badly injured in a 0-0 Premier League draw.

Venezuela on Thursday began releasing a "large number" of political prisoners, including several foreigners, in an apparent concession to the United States after its ouster of ruler Nicolas Maduro.

Tens of thousands of Philippine Catholics twirled white cloths and chanted "Viva, viva" as a historic statue of Jesus Christ was paraded through the streets of Manila on Friday in the nation's biggest annual religious event.

Inspired by playmaker Alberto Moleiro, Villarreal are aiming high in La Liga after humiliating early failures in cup competitions this season.

Liam Rosenior's first match as Chelsea manager comes laced with giant-killing danger as he takes the Blues to second-tier Charlton in the FA Cup third round.

Over the whine of buzzsaws and the steady whir of sanders, hundreds of Vietnamese workers in a factory outside Ho Chi Minh City hustle to fill orders for high-end furniture.

Syria's defence ministry announced a ceasefire in Aleppo on Friday after days of deadly clashes between the army and Kurdish fighters forced thousands of civilians to flee.

New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four years, the government conservation department said.

Ashes hero Mitchell Starc insists age is just a number after Australia's 4-1 thumping of England, but the future of the "Dad's Army" is uncertain with a core of players in their mid-30s.

A few years ago, Hu Anyan was speeding through the streets of Beijing on a three-wheel motorbike loaded with packages, one of millions of delivery drivers working for China's online retail giants.

Protesters clashed with law enforcement in Minneapolis Thursday after the fatal shooting of a US woman further deepened the divide over President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal forces to crackdown on illegal immigration.

As devices from toys to cars get smarter at the Consumer Electronics Show, gadget makers are grappling with a shortage of memory and storage needed for them to work.

Hollywood's awards season kicks into high gear on Sunday at the Golden Globes gala, with the politically charged "One Battle After Another" expected to solidify its status as the film to beat, two months ahead of the Oscars.

Bushfires threatened dozens of rural towns in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside.

US President Donald Trump will meet the heads of major US oil companies on Friday, aiming to convince them to support his plans in Venezuela, a country whose energy resources he says he expects to control for years to come.

Nick Kyrgios ruled out playing singles at the Australian Open on Friday, focusing only on doubles with five-set matches "a different beast".

Swiss mining and commodity trading group Glencore said Friday it was in merger talks with British-Australian rival Rio Tinto to create a global resources giant.

This news release constitutes a "designated news release" for the purposes of the Company's amended and restated prospectus supplement dated November 18, 2025, to its short form base shelf prospectus dated May 15, 2025.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / Matador Technologies Inc. ("Matador" or the "Company"), the publicly traded Bitcoin ecosystem company, announces that it has granted an aggregate of 631,818 restricted share units (the "RSUs") to certain officers and consultants of the Company pursuant to its Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / Sun Peak Metals Corp. (the "Company" or "Sun Peak") (TSXV:PEAK)(OTCQB:SUNPF) reports that the board of directors of Sun Peak granted a total of 6,575,000 incentive stock options of the capital stock of the Company to directors, officers, employees and consultants exercisable for up to a five year period at an exercise price of $0.38, being the closing share price on January 8, 2026, pursuant to the Company's shareholder approved stock option plan.

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KELOWNA, BC / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / Avant Brands Inc. (TSX:AVNT)(OTCQX:AVTBF)(FRA:1BU0) ("Avant" or the "Company"), a leading producer of innovative and award-winning cannabis products, announces that its board of directors (the "Board") has approved the adoption of a shareholder rights plan (the "Shareholder Rights Plan"), pursuant to a shareholder rights plan agreement entered into with Computershare Investor Services Inc., as rights agent, dated and effective January 9, 2026.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / Rektron Group Inc. (CSE:REK.U)(FRA:F75) ("Rektron" or the "Company"), a global commodity trading group with subsidiaries that specialise in trading energy, metals, and energy transition commodities, announces that the High Court of Justice delivered a judgment ordering the winding up of 61 Merchant Group Limited ("61 Merchant Group") and 37 AQ Merchants Limited ("37 AQ Merchants"), effective January 7, 2026.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / Bolt Metals Corp. ("Bolt" or the "Company") (TSXV:BOLT)(OTC:PCRCF)(FSE:A3D8AK), a North American mineral acquisition and exploration company, is pleased to announce that further to the Company's news release disseminated on December 1, 2025, announcing a non-brokered private placement of up to 12,903,225 special warrants of the Company (each, a "Special Warrant") at a price of $0.31 per special warrant for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $4,000,000 (the "Offering"), the Company has received significant interest in the Offering. As a result of this interest, the Company intends to upsize the Offering up to 19,354,838special warrants at a price of $0.31 per special warrant, for aggregate gross proceeds from up to $4,000,000 to up to $6,000,000.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / Sintana Energy Inc. (TSX-V:SEI)(AIM:SEI)(OTCQX:SEUSF) ("Sintana" or the "Company") provides, at the request of the TSX Venture Exchange, the following details regarding the requirements of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101") in connection with the Company's previously completed acquisition of Challenger Energy Group plc ("Challenger") by way of scheme of arrangement that became effective on December 16, 2025 (the "Transaction").

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / A leading U.S. precious metals dealer has teamed up with the nation's leading sound money groups to award eight new students with more than $10,000 in scholarship funding.

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / Bocana Resources Corp. (TSXV:BOCA)(Frankfurt:VC1) ("Bocana" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update to its current activities with our funding/tokenization platform partner Arizore Ltd. ("Arizore") and a brief update on the Arizona and Colorado projects.

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / January 9, 2026 / CANEX Metals Inc. ("CANEX" or the "Company") (TSXV:CANX) is pleased to announce significant support for its Offer (the "Offer") to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Gold Basin Resources Corporation ("Gold Basin") (TSX.V:GXX) and has extended the Offer deadline to January 19th, 2026, as Gold Basin's lack of a transfer agent has resulted in challenges and delays for shareholders of Gold Basin ("Gold Basin Shareholders") to deposit to the Offer.

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Bushfires threatened dozens of rural towns in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside.

NASA crewmembers at the International Space Station will return to Earth within days after an astronaut suffered a health issue, the US space agency said Thursday, the first such medical evacuation in the orbital lab's history.