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Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," who terrorized Americans from 1978 to 1995 with his sporadic, anonymous bombing campaign, has died in prison, US authorities said.

Each day at dawn, Manoel Reboucas launches his small motor boat into the sea off Copacabana, a reminder of the century-old fishing collective established here long before it became Rio de Janeiro's most famous beach.

European champions La Rochelle beat Bordeaux-Begles 24-13 in the second semi-final of the Top 14 playoffs on Saturday and will face Toulouse in the final next week.

Exhausted but happy, four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest were reunited with their relatives Saturday, in a happy ending to a nerve-racking saga that gripped the nation.

Virat Kohli defied Australia on Saturday to give India hope of an extraordinary win in the World Test Championship final at The Oval.

Lithuania's capital was flooded with pink food, decor, and colourful outfits on Saturday, as residents celebrated the Baltic nation's love for a cold beetroot dish commonly known as "pink soup".

She is a bashful Rafael Nadal fan and a lover of the driving, hard rock of Led Zeppelin and Guns N' Roses who maintains a teenage debt to Taylor Swift.

Iga Swiatek battled past Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 to win her third French Open title on Saturday and become the first woman to successfully defend the Roland Garros title since 2007.

Kateryna Krupich and her two children climbed into the attic of a three-storey house, watching with horror as waters from a destroyed dam in southern Ukraine swallowed up the floors below them.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that counteroffensive action was underway as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Kyiv and accused Russia over flooding from the breached Kakhovka dam.

With oil tankers docking from Mexico and Russia in recent days, Cuba could see its severe fuel shortage ease for the near future.

Australia all-rounder Cameron Green took his second sensational catch of the match as India lost Shubman Gill in their pursuit of a record-breaking target to win the World Test Championship final at The Oval on Saturday.

Sixteen southern white rhinoceroses have been released into DR Congo's Garamba national park, officials said on Saturday, reintroducing an endangered species that was decimated by poaching.

NBA legend LeBron James performed the starting honours to get the 24 Hours of Le Mans underway on Saturday.

Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard won the seventh and penultimate stage of the Criterium du Dauphine to consolidate his overall lead on Saturday.

World champion Francesco Bagnaia shrugged off tricky Tuscan conditions to win his home Italian MotoGP sprint race at Mugello on Saturday.

Alex Carey made an unbeaten 66 as Australia set India a daunting 444 to win the World Test Championship final at The Oval on Saturday.

Clive Barker, the most successful post-isolation coach of South Africa, died on Saturday after a long battle with dementia, a family statement said. He was 78.

Japan's Tokito Oda defeated top-ranked Alfie Hewett of Britain 6-1, 6-4 in the French Open wheelchair final to become the sport's youngest Grand Slam champion on Saturday.

In a move that many hailed as a salve for the historic wounds between Europe and Africa, Germany last December returned 22 artefacts, looted during the colonial era, to what is now Nigeria.

Hundreds of jubilant fans greeted Lionel Messi as he arrived on Saturday in Beijing, where his World Cup-winning Argentina will face Australia in a friendly match next week.

Munster lock Jean Kleyn will be included in the South Africa squad for the Rugby Championship next month if an application for a change of national team status succeeds.

Ravindra Jadeja took his third wicket of the innings but Australia remained in command of the World Test Championship final against India at The Oval on Saturday.

Residents reported a welcome lull in fighting in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday after a 24-hour ceasefire between two warring generals took effect, but few believed it would hold.

CAF Champions League facts and figures before second leg of final between Wydad Casablanca of Morocco and Al Ahly of Egypt at the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca on Sunday:

Umesh Yadav dismissed Australia's Marnus Labuschagne for his overnight score before Ravindra Jadeja struck again for India in the World Test Championship final at The Oval.

Ukraine's energy sector is under attack.

Novak Djokovic on Sunday faces Casper Ruud in his seventh final at Roland Garros.

World champion Francesco Bagnaia set a new track record to seal pole position for the Italian MotoGP at Mugello on Saturday.

For 40 days after their plane crashed, four Indigenous children were lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest.

Novak Djokovic admits "history is hovering" over him as he takes on Casper Ruud in the French Open final on Sunday with a men's record 23rd Grand Slam title tantalisingly close.

David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking for interesting shapes when he stumbled onto one unlike any other in November.