Shreyas Iyer scored a maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) hundred to keep Punjab Kings' hopes alive with a seven-wicket victory over Lucknow Super Giants on Saturday.
Ewa Pajor and Salma Paralluelo scored twice each in the second half as Barcelona thrashed a stunned Lyon 4-0 in the Women's Champions League final on Saturday to win the European title for the fourth time.
Bordeaux-Begles head coach Yannick Bru said on Saturday he wanted his side to show their "true faces" as they aim for French Top 14 glory after defending the Champions Cup.
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Sports
Hull City were promoted to the Premier League in dramatic fashion as Oli McBurnie's last-gasp strike sealed a 1-0 win over Middlesbrough in Saturday's Championship play-off final, bringing an end to the 'spygate' controversy that overshadowed world football's richest match.
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French men's No.1 Arthur Fils withdrew Saturday from Roland Garros saying he was in pain from an injury that forced him out of the Italian Open earlier this month.
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Winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey scored two tries and captain Maxime Lucu bagged 21 points as Bordeaux-Begles defended their Champions Cup crown with a 41-19 hammering of Leinster in Bilbao on Saturday.
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Emma Navarro beat Victoria Mboko on Saturday to win her first title in over a year at the Strasbourg Open.
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Jonas Vingegaard took charge of the Giro d'Italia by winning Saturday's key 14th stage, showing his power in the mountains to snatch the overall lead from Afonso Eulalio.
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Culture
A tense family drama set against the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is among the favourites for top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, which will be awarded at a star-packed ceremony later Saturday.
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England batsman Jacob Bethell has ended his season with Indian Premier League side Royal Challengers Bengaluru after suffering a finger injury.
The death toll from a Ukrainian strike on a college and its dormitory in a Russian-occupied town in eastern Ukraine has risen to 18, Russian officials said on Saturday.
The French Open gets under way on Sunday, with Jannik Sinner an overwhelming favourite to lift the men's title for the first time and Coco Gauff defending her women's crown.
Representatives of the world's top tennis players, who are campaigning to receive a larger share of Grand Slam prize money, and the organisers of the French Open have engaged in a constructive meeting over the issue, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said Saturday.
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Sports
Alison dos Santos again outgunned Karsten Warholm, while Shericka Jackson and Masai Russell shined at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China, on Saturday.
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French authorities suspended the European Union's new digital border check system at Britain's Port of Dover on Saturday, as traffic piled up at the UK ferry terminal at the start of the long weekend.
A court in Portugal on Saturday remanded in custody a French woman and her partner accused of abandoning her two young boys -- aged four and five -- on a roadside in the south of the country.
A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 90 people, state media reported on Saturday, the country's biggest mining disaster in 17 years.
Pope Leo XIV will visit Italy's "Land of Fires" on Saturday, where for decades the mafia has illegally dumped and burned toxic rubbish, poisoning both people and their land.
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