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Michael Olise had a hand in four goals and Harry Kane scored again as Bayern Munich ran riot to win 5-0 at Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

Liverpool moved to the top of the Premier League with a resounding 3-0 win over Bournemouth as Manchester United were held to a disappointing 0-0 draw by Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Two-time major winner Jon Rahm withdrew from the LIV Golf Team Championship on Saturday with severe flu symptoms, with American John Catlin replacing the Legion XIII captain in the event.

Liverpool boss Arne Slot said the superb strike that reduced Darwin Nunez to tears came as a big surprise in Saturday's 3-0 win against Bournemouth.

Lando Norris took pole position in a dramatic qualifying Saturday for the Singapore Grand Prix, then said it would be "pretty cool" to battle Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in Sunday's race.

US President Joe Biden met with the leaders of Japan, India and Australia to discuss the challenges a rising China poses to their countries, ahead of a farewell summit in his Delaware hometown on Saturday.

Juventus and Napoli played out a goalless draw on Saturday as two teams tipped to challenge for the Serie A title cancelled each other out on Antonio Conte's return to his old stomping ground.

Carlos Alcaraz hit out at the tennis calendar on Saturday, claiming the schedule is "going to kill us".

Australia were indebted to Alex Carey as they beat England by 68 runs in the second one-day international at Headingley on Saturday to go 2-0 up in a five-match series.

Carlos Sainz crashed and Charles Leclerc failed to register a lap time in final qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix Saturday leaving Ferrari "on the back foot" for Sunday's race.

As Milan Fashion Week nears its end, fashionistas are eagerly awaiting Bottega Veneta's Saturday show -- as are investors seeing the brand's sales rise each year.

From behind a metal fence set up by security forces in southern Beirut on Saturday, local residents watched and waited as emergency personnel dug through debris, and the body count rose.

Max Verstappen staged a one-man protest at the Singapore Grand Prix Saturday against his "ridiculous" punishment for swearing in an earlier session this week.

Sri Lanka imposed a night curfew across the country Saturday despite a peaceful presidential election that is effectively a referendum on an unpopular IMF bailout.

Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany called Michael Olise "a special talent" after the forward's two-goal, two-assist performance in Saturday's 5-0 win at Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga.

Liverpool moved to the top of the Premier League with a resounding 3-0 win over Bournemouth as Tottenham eased the pressure on Ange Postecoglou by beating Brentford 3-1 on Saturday.

Israel pounded southern Lebanon Saturday, raising fears of all-out war a day after an Israeli strike on Beirut left senior Hezbollah commanders among the 37 people Lebanese officials said were killed.

France's Thomas Ramos scored 15 points as Toulouse maintained their unbeaten start to the French Top 14 season by beating Montpellier 20-11 on Saturday.

The death toll in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has climbed to 384, with 89 people missing, the junta said on Saturday.

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca revealed co-owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali were "all happy" after they celebrated Saturday's 3-0 win at West Ham despite reports of a power struggle between the pair.

Michael Olise had a hand in four goals and Harry Kane scored again as Bayern Munich ran riot to win 5-0 at Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

France's Thomas Ramos scored 15 points as Toulouse maintained their unbeaten start to the French Top 14 season by beating Montpellier 20-11 on Saturday.

McLaren's Lando Norris beat Red Bull's Max Verstappen to pole position Saturday for the Singapore Grand Prix in a dramatic qualifying session red-flagged when Carlos Sainz crashed.

Australia were indebted to Alex Carey's dashing 74 for taking them to 270 all out in the second one-day international against England at Headingley on Saturday.

Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, which has been exchanging fire with Israel for months, on Saturday announced that two commanders of its elite operations unit had been killed by an Israeli strike on Beirut, which authorities said left 37 people dead.

The Danube peaked at a 10-year high in a heavily fortified Budapest on Saturday with the water reaching the steps of parliament, after deadly Storm Boris lashed Europe.

Francesco Bagnaia won an exciting sprint race at the Emilia-Romagna MotoGP on Saturday to cut championship rival Jorge Martin's lead at the top of the riders' standings.

Nicolas Jackson fired Chelsea to a 3-0 win against West Ham as the Senegal striker repaid his manager's faith with a decisive double at the London Stadium on Saturday.

Fiji retained the Pacific Nations Cup with a sizzling second-half performance in a 41-17 win over Japan in Saturday's final in Osaka.

Russia's top seed Daria Kasatkina will face Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia in Sunday's Korea Open final after both came through their semi-finals in straight sets.

Unusually heavy snowfall caused major disruption on South Africa’s roads Saturday with people still stranded at midday after spending the night stuck in their vehicles.

A legal team representing women alleging rape and sexual assault by the late Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed said on Saturday it received over 150 new enquiries, including from women accusing the former Harrods owner.