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Jorge Messi, the father and agent of Lionel Messi, has died aged 68, the eight-time Ballon d'Or winner's childhood club Newell's Old Boys announced on Saturday.

Swimming star Leon Marchand has cut back on the events he will compete in at the European championships starting Monday because of a lingering thigh injury.

Michael Johnson said he had "nights where I didn't sleep" during the collapse of his Grand Slam Track (GST) athletics circuit as he insisted a payment made to him just days before its season was cut short had been entirely legitimate.

Bruno Guimaraes said he wanted to "make history" at Arsenal after joining the Premier League champions from top-flight rivals Newcastle for a reported fee of £75 million ($101.2 million) on Saturday.

MotoGP world championship leader Jorge Martin set a new lap record on his way to pole position for both Saturday's sprint race and Sunday's British Grand Prix.

Defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot has been forced to withdraw from the Tour de France Femmes before Saturday's penultimate stage because of illness.

A drone that entered Bulgaria on Saturday exploded near the Romanian border and the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline there, which links Turkey to Ukraine, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev announced.

Australia got new coach Les Kiss off to a winning start on Saturday with a nail-biting 35-32 victory over Japan that was full of twists and turns in sweltering Osaka.

Premier League champions Arsenal have completed the signing of Newcastle captain Bruno Guimaraes for a reported fee of £75 million ($101.2 million), the two clubs announced Saturday.

For years, Oleksiy Yukov walked the boundary between the living and the dead as he led a group of volunteers retrieving corpses in the most dangerous parts of Ukraine's front.

Atletico Madrid will not allow forward Julian Alvarez to leave the club during the current transfer window despite interest from Barcelona, coach Diego Simeone said Saturday.

The family-car market is crowded with promises of space, safety and everyday versatility, yet a year-long assessment of child-seat compatibility has exposed how few new vehicles turn those promises into consistently effortless real-world use. Among 56 model-year 2025 and 2026 vehicles examined across SUVs, saloons, minivans, pick-up trucks, hybrids and electric cars, only the 2025 Mercedes-Benz GLS580 and the 2026 Volkswagen Tiguan achieved the highest grade in every category.

Ford has attached a name, a price and a firmer timetable to the vehicle that could determine whether its second attempt at mass-market electric mobility succeeds. The Ford Fathom will be the first model built on the company’s Universal Electric Vehicle Platform, with pre-orders due to open in early 2027 and customer deliveries scheduled for the autumn of that year.

Australia’s new-car market has crossed a decisive threshold. Chinese manufacturers are no longer peripheral challengers attempting to win over a limited group of price-conscious motorists. They have become one of the principal forces shaping vehicle prices, equipment levels, electrification and consumer expectations across the country.

A rare woman in the top echelons of football, the head of Norway's federation Lise Klaveness has been a thorn in FIFA's side for years.

The next wave of electric vehicles is no longer defined by one spectacular statistic. From sub-€20,000 city cars to long-range saloons, seven-seat family models and electric performance flagships, the market is developing the breadth required to challenge combustion cars on their own terms.

Europe’s battery-electric car market moved from steady expansion to genuine acceleration in the first half of 2026. Registrations rose far faster than the wider new-car market, and June pushed the technology beyond a quarter of all new cars sold. Yet the same figures reveal a continent divided between mature electric markets, rapidly scaling mass markets and countries where battery power remains a marginal choice.

For decades, the upper reaches of the global motor industry changed slowly. Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors, Ford and the large European and Asian alliances traded places, but the basic hierarchy remained familiar. The first half of 2026 has broken that pattern. BYD, Geely and Chery all entered the world’s ten largest automotive groups by market share at the same time, turning what had once been described as a future threat into a present commercial reality.

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche was confirmed as US attorney general on Saturday after Senate Republicans shrugged off Democratic concerns over politicization of the Justice Department.

President Volodymyr Zelensky was making his first official visit to Serbia -- a rare European country still closely aligned with Moscow -- on Saturday as Ukraine seeks to bolster international support in the face of intensifying Russian strikes.

An international academic conference on Tibet due to take place in Nepal this month has been pushed online, organisers said Saturday, calling it a "worrying development".

President Volodymyr Zelensky was making his first official visit to Serbia -- a rare European country still closely aligned with Moscow -- on Saturday as Ukraine seeks to bolster international support in the face of intensifying Russian strikes.

A tiny greenish, noctural frog that thrives in coffee plantations has been discovered in the Costa Rica's central Pacific region, where it also faces risks from agrochemicals used in farming.

Ben Shelton threw down eight aces and produced three love games in the second set in dominating Zizou Bergs 6-3, 6-2 on Friday in reaching the fourth round of the ATP Montreal Masters.

Two weeks after youth-led protests forced India's education minister to resign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is grappling with the fallout from one of its toughest political challenges in years.

Palestinian Christians call themselves "living stones" and say they have lived continuously in the Holy Land for the last 2,000 years. Maybe not for much longer, believes Reverend Mitri Raheb.

Sensing frustration among many Russians towards the Ukraine war, Russia's liberal Yabloko party is hoping to use parliamentary elections this September to raise its profile, casting itself as the only opposition group in favour of a ceasefire.

Star batsman Travis Head has won Australia's top cricketing honour for the second year in a row, edging Alex Carey to claim the Allan Border Medal.

Faced with another summer when wildfires have scorched millions of hectares of land and blankets of smoke have disrupted daily life nationwide, Canada is trying to limit the annual devastation.

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella vowed to restore order and eradicate "narco-terrorists" in a fiery first speech as leader on Friday.

The death of NBA Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke was ruled an accident due to "the effects of heroin and cocaine," the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner announced on Friday.

Beleaguered FIFA president Gianni Infantino has received some much-needed support after over a week of scathing criticism revolving around the now shelved private investment plan but there was again a call Friday for him to resign.