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Mexican pair Abraham Ancer and Carlos Ortiz joined Sam Horsfield in a three-way share of the lead at LIV Golf's Adelaide stop on Saturday, with major champion Jon Rahm lurking four shots off the pace.

A pair of tourists admire the shimmering Mediterranean from their horse-drawn carriage on the seaside promenade in Spain's southern port of Malaga -- a postcard image whose days are numbered.

In the hustle and bustle of Yaounde, Quartier Mozart is a unique artists' refuge, which its creator hopes will free Cameroonians from the "self-censorship" they say is fuelled by the political status quo.

Lebanese authorities are set to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday after a deputy commander with the UN peacekeeping force in the country was injured during an attack on a convoy taking him to the airport.

Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tonnes of nuclear debris, 14 years after the facility was hit by a devastating tsunami.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he sought "security guarantees" as he met with the US vice president on Friday to discuss the Trump administration's efforts to broker a truce deal with Moscow.

San Antonio Spurs rookie Stephon Castle scored 12 points to lead Team C to a 25-14 come-from-behind victory over Team G-League in the Rising Stars final on Friday and into the All-Star Game proper.

The escalating conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo will dominate an African Union summit opening Saturday, with the DRC president absent after Rwandan-backed forces seized a second major city on his territory.

OpenAI's board chairman on Friday said it has unanimously rejected an Elon Musk-led offer to buy the hot artificial intelligence company for $97.4 billion.

Gaza militants are due to release three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for 369 Palestinians in Israeli custody, the sixth swap of a truce that came close to collapse this week.

The National Park Service has scrubbed references to transgender and queer people from the website of a monument to the 1969 Stonewall riots, a foundational moment in the struggle for LGBTQ rights, igniting protests in New York City on Friday.

NSW Waratahs coach Dan McKellar has lauded his side's "belief in each other" after a battling come-from-behind win over the Otago Highlanders kick-started their Super Rugby season.

Davis Thompson closed with a birdie to seize a one-stroke lead over top-ranked Scottie Scheffler with Rory McIlroy three adrift after Friday's second round of the PGA Genesis Invitational.

A woman who accused hip-hop stars Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jay-Z of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 dropped her civil lawsuit on Friday, court records showed.

Hitmen on Friday gunned down an Ecuadoran colonel in charge of anti-drug operations in a city hard-hit by the narco crime that has plunged this once-peaceful South American country into violence.

Pep Guardiola has taunted Premier League leaders Liverpool over their failure to match Manchester City's record 100-point tally.

Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca saved two match points in defeating Mariano Navone at the Argentina Open on Friday to become the youngest ATP clay-court semi-finalist since Carlos Alcaraz four years ago.

Pole vault king Armand Duplantis kick-started his 2025 season by clearing 6.10 metres in Berlin on Friday, describing his winning effort as a way "to shake off the rust".

Brighton defeated hapless Chelsea 3-0 as Japan forward Kaoru Mitoma produced a contender for Premier League goal of the season and Yankuba Minteh bagged a brace on Friday.

Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter, dealing a blow to public health efforts as fears rise over bird flu.

A UN peacekeeping force vehicle in Lebanon was torched Friday as supporters of militant group Hezbollah blocked the road to Beirut airport in protest, with UNIFIL reporting one commander wounded in the incident.

Mudslides blocked roads around Los Angeles on Friday after heavy rain pounded areas burned by last month's wildfires, sending denuded hillsides tumbling.

An Argentine court has issued arrest warrants for the head of Myanmar's military junta and former officials including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi over alleged "genocide and crimes against humanity" targeting the Rohingya minority group.

Faulty instruments and communication problems may have caused a passenger jet and army helicopter to collide in the worst US air disaster in two decades, flight safety investigators said Friday.

All Natalia has for Valentine's Day is the grave of her husband, Vassyl, a Ukrainian soldier killed at the front and now buried in the western city of Lviv.

Hundreds of thousands of Philadelphia Eagles fans lined the streets on Friday to celebrate the team's Super Bowl 59 victory over Kansas City with a parade that ended at the iconic "Rocky" statue.

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian sources said.

Daniil Medvedev reached his first semi-final of the year at the Marseille Open on Friday by defeating Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff in straight sets.

Elfyn Evans conquered the driving snow of Rally Sweden on Friday to edge ahead of a group of five drivers separated by less than 10 seconds.

Israel said Friday it had received the names of three hostages to be freed by militants in exchange for Palestinian prisoners this weekend, after a crisis in the ceasefire threatened to plunge Gaza back into war.

US Vice President JD Vance pledged Friday that Washington sought to secure a "lasting" peace as he held a first meeting with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss Donald Trump's push for a deal with Moscow.

Paris is naming part of an avenue after Alexei Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader who died in an Arctic prison colony in murky circumstances, the city council has said.