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Legendary Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez, the only athlete to have won five consecutive individual Olympic golds, called Thursday for Cuban sport to "open up" to the world to help it recover its lost glory.

A US judge on Thursday endorsed Anthropic's deal to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit over amassing a library of pirated books to train its artificial intelligence.

Pakistan head coach Mike Hesson called on his players to focus on cricket when they face India in the Asia Cup final on Sunday, after the previous two meetings between the sides caused tensions to run high.

US President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to stop Israel from annexing the West Bank as he presses to end the Gaza war, ahead of a high-stakes visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Denmark on Thursday said drone flights over its airports this week were part of "hybrid attacks" to create fear, adding it would acquire new capabilities to intercept such aircraft, as Russia denied involvement.

Headers from Robert Lewandowski and Ronald Araujo helped Barcelona make a 3-1 comeback victory at minnows Real Oviedo on Thursday in La Liga.

Aston Villa ended their winless run by beating Bologna 1-0 to open their Europa League campaign, while Rangers manager Russell Martin's job was placed into peril by a 1-0 home defeat to Genk on Thursday.

The UN Security Council will take up the dispute over Iran's nuclear program again Friday as China and Russia seek to give more time for diplomacy on the eve of new sanctions against Tehran.

Wall Street stocks retreated while the dollar rallied Thursday following stronger than expected US economic data that could delay Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.

Amazon agreed Thursday to pay $2.5 billion to settle allegations from a US regulator that it used deceptive practices to enroll consumers in Amazon Prime and made it difficult to cancel subscriptions.

German auto giant Volkswagen said Thursday it intended to appeal to the country's Federal Constitutional Court after losing a legal case linked to the "Dieselgate" scandal.

Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas of the United States will meet Europe's Jon Rahm and Tyrell Hatton in Friday's opening foursomes match at the Ryder Cup under pairings revealed Thursday.

Israel struck Sanaa on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 140, Yemen's Huthis said, a day after the rebels launched a drone attack on southern Israel.

Madagascar police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Thursday as protests in the capital Antananarivo over repeated water and electricity outages spiralled into chaos with looting and arson.

US sanctions on Serbia's largest oil producer, which is majority Russian-owned, will finally come into force on October 1, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday.

Argentina have retained Santiago Carreras at fly-half for a Rugby Championship penultimate round match against title-holders South Africa in Durban on Saturday.

Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were shot dead Thursday after gunmen opened fire on a school parking lot in northeastern Brazil, the state government said in a statement.

Denmark said Thursday drone flights over its airports this week were a "hybrid attack" to create fear, adding it would acquire new capabilities to intercept such aircraft, as Russia denied involvement.

Jalen Hurts and the Super Bowl champion Philadelpia Eagles will be out to buck history when they take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday in a battle of NFL unbeaten teams.

Pakistan will face India in the Asia Cup final for the first time after their bowlers made amends for poor batting to upstage Bangladesh in an 11-run victory on Thursday.

Canada captain Alex Tessier believes her side can "go all the way" by beating favourites England in Saturday's Women's Rugby World Cup final at an already sold-out Twickenham.

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the violence-wracked country said.

Rory McIlroy learned what it meant to be on Europe's Ryder Cup squad watching teammates cry in a locker room as a 21-year-old rookie in 2010.

Italian fashion house Prada juxtaposed military-style shirts with bell skirts and elegant evening gloves in a collection Thursday intended to shake up traditional notions of glamour.

Addressing the UN General Assembly, Ghanaian leader John Mahama said it was time to "dispense with the euphemisms and dog whistles and speak frankly" about Western leaders' push against migration.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil over the war in Ukraine, as Erdogan sought a long-awaited deal to buy US stealth fighter jets.

Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing footage of starfishes creeping across a huge chunk of TNT.

Violence-ravaged Haiti is a nation "at war," its leader Laurent Saint-Cyr warned at the United Nations on Thursday, as he appealed for help from the international community to defeat gangs that have overrun the Caribbean country.

Germany said Thursday it would step up its defences -- from drone warfare to outer space -- at a time of growing tensions between Russia and NATO while the Ukraine war grinds on.

A court on Thursday sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison over a scheme for the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 presidential run, a verdict that will make the rightwinger the first French postwar leader to serve jail time.

Bryson DeChambeau sees President Donald Trump as a motivational force for United States golfers in the 45th Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, where he longs to face Europe's Rory McIlroy.

Canada coach Kevin Rouet has named an unchanged side for the Women's Rugby World Cup final against England at Twickenham on Saturday.

Europe's golfers said Thursday they are prepared for taunts and insults from American hecklers and the appearance of US President Donald Trump when the 45th Ryder Cup tees off Friday.

As the storm warning for Super Typhoon Ragasa passed, Mark Cholewka returned to his stylish Hong Kong restaurant to be met by overturned tables and the pungent smell of seawater.

German industrial giant Bosch said Thursday it would cut 13,000 jobs, mostly in its auto unit, in the latest blow for the country's ailing car sector.

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday rejected any future role for Hamas and condemned antisemitism, as he appealed for full global support for a state in the face of Israeli annexation threats.

Rescuers in eastern Taiwan pulled a man in his nineties from his flooded home on Thursday, where he had been trapped for three days after a barrier lake burst during torrential rains brought by Super Typhoon Ragasa.

The United Nations told President Donald Trump it had launched a "thorough investigation" into what the US leader called "triple sabotage" during his visit to the organization's headquarters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Kremlin will become a target and Russian officials should check for bomb shelters if Moscow does not stop its invasion of his country, Axios reported Thursday.