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Seven-time Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky cruised to victory in the women's 400m freestyle Thursday, her second win in as many nights at the Pro Swim series meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Bullfighting will make a comeback in Mexico City this month after a legal tussle led to a more than one-year suspension at the world's largest bullring, organizers announced Thursday.

Lionel Messi's Inter Miami face a globe-trotting pre-season schedule, travelling almost 25,000 miles to play seven friendlies in five countries but coach Gerardo Martino is confident they can handle the workload.

A posthumous autobiography of Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of US rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley, will be released in October, her daughter and publishers announced Thursday, almost a year to the day after her death.

Wall Street stocks largely shrugged off a disappointing US inflation report Thursday, while Japan's Nikkei finished above 35,000 for the first time since 1990.

Guatemala's highest court issued an order Thursday shielding vice president-elect Karin Herrera from arrest amid rumors she could be detained in a move that would derail her inauguration and that of president-elect Bernardo Arevalo this weekend.

Donovan Mitchell scored a season-high 45 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers over the Brooklyn Nets 111-102 in an NBA regular-season game on Thursday at Paris.

Whether dreaming of an artificial friend available around the clock, lifting off from traffic jams or doing without your cat's dead bird "gifts," CES inventors have no shortage of imagination.

Robert Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal's second-half strikes earned Barcelona a 2-0 win over Osasuna on Thursday and set up a Spanish Super Cup final Clasico rematch.

Argentina's annual inflation surged beyond 200 percent in 2023, the statistics agency said Thursday, as the country grapples with an economic crisis new President Javier Milei has vowed to address by slashing state spending.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on partners to provide decisive political and military support during a visit Thursday to his staunch Baltic allies, as other backers waver on aid.

Italy's Lucrezia Beccari and Matteo Guarise created a major surprise on Thursday by clinching pairs gold at the European Figure Skating Championships performing to music from "Cats".

Music icon Elton John has put a variety of personal items up for auction at Christie's in New York, including monogrammed silver leather platform boots, a grand piano and a triptych by street artist Banksy.

The past 12 months marked a grim year of suppression of human rights, with world leaders ignoring violations in Sudan and Gaza, and against marginalized groups like the Uyghurs, a monitor said Thursday.

Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, Detroit's former star passer, finds himself trying to deny rival Jared Goff and the long-suffering Lions their first NFL playoff victory since 1991.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday replaced his foreign minister but maintained other key figures in their posts, in a reshuffle that tilted his cabinet to the right and leaves all the top ministries in the hands of men.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Thursday it is launching a safety probe into Boeing following last week's near-catastrophic incident on an Alaska Airlines-operated 737 MAX.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday replaced his foreign minister but maintained other key figures in their posts in a reshuffle that tilted his cabinet to the right and left all top ministries in the hands of men.

Iran's navy seized a ship off Oman to retaliate for the "theft" of its oil from the same tanker last year by the United States, state media said Thursday.

Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo and Los Angeles Lakers playmaker LeBron James remained the top vote-getters in updated fan balloting returns for next month's NBA All-Star Game revealed on Thursday.

Donald Trump ignored warnings from the judge in his New York civil fraud trial Thursday and turned closing arguments into an election campaign attack, claiming that prosecutors are out to stop his political comeback.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Warsaw Thursday to protest reforms by the pro-EU Polish government as the country suffers post-election turmoil.

Ecuador's armed forces were engaged in a brutal standoff with organized crime Thursday, deploying more than 22,400 soldiers to put down a campaign of terror waged by gangs that has claimed 16 lives.

Major League Soccer and Apple TV+ have hired the producers of Formula One's Netflix hit "Drive to Survive" to create a new docuseries on the North American league.

Top Kenyan and Ugandan athletes were among the mourners at the funeral in Kenya on Thursday of Ugandan Olympic distance runner Benjamin Kiplagat.

The Pentagon's independent inspector general will investigate US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's failure to report his hospitalization to the rest of the government, a memo released Thursday said.

In 2023, the world's oceans took up an enormous amount of excess heat, enough to "boil away billions of Olympic-sized swimming pools," according to an annual report published Thursday.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called for more European weapons production and warned that any pause in the conflict would only benefit Russia.

Bill Belichick, the NFL mastermind who has guided the New England Patriots to a record six Super Bowl titles as head coach, parted ways with the team on Thursday after 24 seasons.

All-rounder Shivam Dube defied bitterly cold weather to hit an unbeaten half-century and take one wicket as India eased to a comfortable win over Afghanistan in the first Twenty20 international on Thursday.

Carlos Sainz benefited from race leader Yazeed Al-Rajhi's title-ending crash and Stephane Peterhansel breaking down in the desert, to take the provisional lead after the first part of the Dakar Rally sixth stage on Thursday.