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Defending champion Mathieu van der Poel goes into Sunday's muddy, cobbled Paris-Roubaix bike race sceptical over new safety measures in a week when several of the sport's biggest stars were hospitalised.

Holders La Rochelle edged into the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup on Saturday, beating the Stormers 22-21 in Cape Town after Manie Libbok missed a last-gasp conversion for the South African side.

Bayern Munich sporting director Christoph Freund guaranteed coach Thomas Tuchel would be in the dugout for Tuesday's Champions League game at Arsenal despite Saturday's 3-2 loss to Heidenheim.

Manchester City pulled level with Liverpool at the top of the Premier League on Saturday after beating Crystal Palace 4-2 as Everton secured a vital win in their bid to avoid relegation.

A diamond-covered edition of Truman Capote's seminal novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is on sale for $1.5 million to mark the centenary of the author's birth.

Virat Kohli struck the first century of this year's Indian Premier League as he steered Royal Challengers Bengaluru to 183-3 against Rajasthan Royals on Saturday.

World champion Lotte Kopecky won a six-rider dash for the line to claim the women's Paris-Roubaix cobbled classic on Saturday in a nail-biting finale.

Bayer Leverkusen are just three points from a first Bundesliga title after a 1-0 win at Union Berlin on Saturday, with Bayern Munich letting a two-goal lead slip in a 3-2 loss at Heidenheim.

In the suburbs of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, lucrative strawberry farming is supplanting traditional crops like cabbage and lettuce and has become a top export to neighbouring countries.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained twice by Dutch police on Saturday after she and a group of marchers blocked a main road in The Hague to protest against fossil fuel subsidies.

AC Milan strolled past 10-man Lecce 3-0 on Saturday to consolidate second place in Serie A and take another step towards Champions League qualification.

Caitlin Clark aims to crown her historic college basketball career with a national championship on Sunday when her University of Iowa team takes on South Carolina in the climax to March Madness.

Novak Djokovic admitted on Saturday that he is not expecting too much from his clay game heading into Sunday's start of the Monte Carlo Masters.

Kevin De Bruyne brought up his century of goals for Manchester City by scoring twice in a 4-2 win at Crystal Palace that moved the champions level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by Dutch police on Saturday after she and a group of marchers blocked a main road in The Hague to protest against fossil fuel subsidies.

American, Israeli and Hamas negotiators are expected in Cairo over the weekend in a renewed push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in a war that reaches the half-year mark on Sunday.

Ineos all-rounder Tom Pidcock made a surprise appearance on the start list for the cobbled classic Paris-Roubaix on Saturday despite a nasty fall ahead of the Tour of the Basque Country last week.

Fiji's men are the reigning two-time Olympic rugby sevens champions and when they play, the Pacific island country comes to a standstill and crime there plummets.

Israel's army said on Saturday its troops recovered the body of a hostage abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7 attack on southern Israeli communities.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc said he was out of answers after finishing a disappointing eighth in qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday.

Sitting in a steamy kitchen, Ukrainian soldier Anton was ready to go on a new rotation to defend Chasiv Yar, a strategic town for troops fighting for control of the eastern Donbas region.

American and Israeli negotiators are expected in Cairo over the weekend for a renewed push to reach a ceasefire-hostage deal in a war that reaches the half-year mark on Sunday.

Pakistan's prime minister has ordered at least five senior police officials be punished for negligence after a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers at a major dam site last month, the country's information minister said Saturday.

ACT Brumbies prop James Slipper became the most capped Australian in Super Rugby history on Saturday when he played in his 178th match.

The United States and China have agreed to hold "intensive exchanges on balanced growth", the US Treasury Department said in a statement, after two days of talks between Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Guangzhou.

Triple world champion Max Verstappen grabbed pole position for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix, edging out Sergio Perez in qualifying for a Red Bull one-two.

Ecuadoran authorities stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas, who was taking refuge there, prompting Mexico to sever diplomatic ties after the "violation of international law".

Thousands of people protested in Morocco's commercial capital Casablanca late on Friday against "massacres" in the Gaza Strip and against the country's normalisation of ties with Israel.

Slovaks voted Saturday to choose a new president with the outcome determining whether the EU and NATO member shifts further towards Russia amid deep divisions over the war in Ukraine.

Slovaks voted Saturday to choose a new president with the outcome determining whether the EU and NATO member shifts further towards Russia amid deep divisions over the war in Ukraine.

As technology and science advance at breakneck speed, a Swiss group is already looking beyond AI to the next big potential technological disrupters.

Taiwan rescue helicopters flew sorties Saturday to pluck tourists to safety after a massive earthquake cut off roads and blocked tunnels, leaving hundreds stranded for days in the mountains.