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Newcastle coasted to a 3-0 win over sorry Leicester on Monday to step up their Champions League charge and condemn the Foxes to an eighth straight Premier League defeat without scoring.

Napoli let Serie A leaders Inter Milan off the hook on Monday after being held to a 1-1 draw at Champion League chasers Bologna, who missed the chance to move into third place.

The writer behind Robert De Niro classics "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver" is being sued by his former assistant for sexual harassment and assault.

The US Supreme Court on Monday paused a lower court order demanding that the Trump administration repatriate a Salvadoran migrant who was wrongfully deported last month.

Top-ranked defending champion Scottie Scheffler and world number two Rory McIlroy will take a swing at golf history in this week's 89th Masters.

Xander Schauffele says it's nice to lurk under the radar at the 89th Masters after struggling with a rib injury -- even while he chases a third victory in four majors.

President Donald Trump said the United States would start direct, high-level talks with Iran over its nuclear program on Saturday, in a shock announcement during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Some 8,000 Indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest and the Pacific converged on Brazil's capital Monday to demand an equal say as politicians when the country hosts this year's UN climate conference.

Shuttered storefronts lined empty streets in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Monday during a general strike by Palestinians demanding an end to the Gaza war.

Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods will partner with Augusta National Golf Club on a municipal golf course design project and a new TGR Learning Lab school in the tournament's home town, Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said Monday.

Thibaut Courtois has declared himself he "fully fit" for the first leg of Real Madrid's Champions League quarter-final against Arsenal on Tuesday.

Monday's opening practice round for the 89th Masters golf tournament was suspended for the day by Augusta National Golf Club after spectators were evacuated from the course due to inclement weather.

Former Germany forward Jurgen Klinsmann said Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane should be considered among the favourites for the next Ballon d'Or.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru survived a batting blitz from Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya to win a thriller by 12 runs on Monday in the IPL and spoil Jasprit Bumrah's return from an injury.

Daniil Medvedev navigated his way into the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Monday, eventually seeing off former world number eight Karen Khachanov 7-5, 4-6, 6-4.

Montpellier axed coach Jean-Louis Gasset on Monday after five months in the job as a run of nine straight defeats leaves the club bottom of Ligue 1 and facing relegation.

American-Palestinian Muhammad Rabee feels abandoned by the United States, he told AFP on Monday, a day after Israeli forces killed his 14-year-old son during a family visit in the occupied West Bank.

The leaders of France, Egypt and Jordan on Monday said the Palestinian Authority must head post-war governance in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, becoming the first foreign leader to personally plead for a reprieve from stinging US tariffs that have shaken the world.

A lucky visitor will soon become the first ever to sleep overnight at Britain's National Gallery, after the 200-year-old museum launched a competition on Monday to mark the reopening of a wing housing celebrated European paintings.

Latvian Transport Minister Atis Svinka said on Monday that Riga-based carrier airBaltic had parted ways with its German-born longtime CEO Martin Gauss.

German police officers found themselves face-to-face with two zebras, six monkeys and several other exotic animals after stopping a van on the Dutch border, the force said on Monday.

With markets nosediving over Donald Trump's trade war, the protectionist US president is hearing the first rumblings of discontent among his normally steadfast backers in Congress and big business.

US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened new tariffs of 50 percent on China, ratcheting up a trade war even as a dramatic selloff in global markets gathered pace.

An unconventional Belgian prince on Monday lost a legal battle to claim social security benefits on top of his royal allowance, with a court ruling his claim -- the first of its kind in the country's nearly 200-year history -- "unfounded".

EU states Monday rallied behind a push to avert an all-out trade war through negotiations with US President Donald Trump's administration -- although divisions flared on reaching for a trade "bazooka" should they fail.

A French court on Monday detained an alleged member of Romania's royal family who is wanted at home on charges of influence peddling, a judicial source said.

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has said "progress" has been made in talks over a much-discussed new deal to keep him at Anfield.

UK leader Keir Starmer vowed Monday to "shelter British business from the storm" of global economic disruption as he loosened electric vehicle targets for carmakers impacted by US President Donald Trump's tariffs.

Clem Burke, the longtime drummer for the pioneering New Wave band Blondie, has died, the band announced Monday. He was 70 years old.

Borussia Dortmund centre-back Nico Schlotterbeck will not play again this season after tearing the meniscus in his left knee, the club said on Monday.

Mikel Arteta has no doubt that Arsenal can upset Real Madrid on the "biggest night" of his career in the Champions League quarter-finals.