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Jean-Philippe Mateta scored twice as hosts France came from behind to beat Egypt 3-1 after extra time on Monday and set up an Olympic men's football final showdown with Spain, who edged Morocco 2-1.

US President Joe Biden held crisis talks on Monday on a potential Iranian counterattack on Israel as his administration said it was working around the clock to avoid all-out war in the Middle East.

A key Tunisian opposition figure and potential candidate for the upcoming presidential election jailed since October was sentenced to two years in prison late Monday night, according to local media.

At least four people were killed as Tropical Storm Debby drenched Florida on Monday, threatening southeastern US states with heavy rainfall and catastrophic flooding.

Jean-Philippe Mateta scored twice and Michael Olise added a third as France came from behind to beat Egypt 3-1 after extra time on Monday and set up an Olympic men's football final showdown with Spain.

A rocket attack on a base in Iraq wounded multiple US personnel on Monday, officials said, adding to already heightened regional tensions over an expected Iranian counterattack on Israel.

Armand Duplantis soared over his rivals in clinching back-to-back Olympic pole vault crowns on Monday with a new world record as Keely Hodgkinson won Britain's first gold of the Paris Games on the track with a sensational 800m final victory.

Armand Duplantis fulfilled a childhood dream as he broke his own pole vault world record in retaining his Olympic crown on Monday but Simone Biles showed she is human after all.

Britain's Keely Hodgkinson said becoming women's Olympic 800m champion on Monday after a succession of silver medals in major finals was a "life changer".

Five US states sent an open letter Monday to Elon Musk, urging him to fix his social media platform X's AI chatbot after it shared misinformation about the upcoming presidential election.

Reigning US Open champion Coco Gauff will be the top seed at this week's WTA Toronto event, a hardcourt tuneup for the year's last Grand Slam showdown, in New York.

Global markets were a sea of red Monday, with Japan's Nikkei suffering an historic drop and New York falling hard in a pullback attributed to economic unease and fallout from recent monetary policy shifts.

Jannik Sinner will test his form after a month of illness which culminated in the bronchitis that forced him to skip the Paris Olympics.

Sweden's Armand Duplantis cemented his place in pole vaulting history by defending his Olympic crown in world record-setting style on Monday to underline his total dominance in the discipline.

Armand Duplantis soared over his rivals in clinching back-to-back Olympic pole vault crowns on Monday with a new world record as Keely Hodgkinson won Britain's first gold of the Paris Games on the track with a sensational 800m final victory.

Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record in retaining his Olympic crown on Monday but Simone Biles showed she is human after all as she ended her Paris Games.

Everton striker Youssef Chermiti has been ruled out of the start of the Premier League season after undergoing minor surgery on a foot injury, the club announced on Monday.

Sweden's Armand Duplantis improved his own world record en route to retaining his Olympic pole vault title in Paris on Monday.

Keely Hodgkinson has a habit of being late but on Monday the British runner was right on time as she was crowned 800 metres Olympic champion -- a remarkable achievement given at one point in her life she could not walk.

American Valarie Allman defended her women's Olympic discus throw title in Paris on Monday.

A US judge on Monday handed Google a major legal blow, ruling in a closely-watched anti-trust case that it has a monopoly with its dominant search engine.

Stefanos Tsitsipas called withdrawing from the ATP Montreal Masters a "normal" move from Olympic champion Novak Djokovic and silver medalist Carlos Alcaraz.

Britain's Keely Hodgkinson produced a thrilling gun-to-tape run to win women's Olympic 800m gold in Paris on Monday.

Kenya's Beatrice Chebet produced a masterful display of tactical running to win gold in the Olympic women's 5,000m on Monday to end defending champion Sifan Hassan's dream of a long-distance treble.

The United Nations said Monday that nine employees of its agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) "may have been involved" in the October 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas, which sparked war in Gaza, and have been fired.

Venezuelan opposition leaders Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia and Maria Corina Machado on Monday asked the military and police officers to "take the side of the people" after the disputed reelection of Nicolas Maduro.

In the not-too-distant past, Greenland lived up to its name.

Andrew Flintoff wants to stay involved with cricket coaching following his stint this season with the Northern Superchargers in the English domestic game's Hundred competition.

The ongoing global stock sell-off has fueled calls for the US Federal Reserve to lower interest rates swiftly and decisively, with some analysts now calling for it to make an emergency cut before its September rate decision.

Emma Finucane spearheaded Britain to the first track cycling gold of the Paris Olympics in the women's team sprint on Monday, with the world record shattered five times in the session.

Rare errors proved costly for Simone Biles as the US gymnastics superstar failed to add to her gold haul on Monday at the Paris Olympics, where triathletes plunged into the River Seine.

Michael Cheika said on Monday he hopes to turn a one-year contract with Leicester into a longstanding arrangement as the Australian coach looks to revive the Tigers' fortunes.