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South Africa fly-half Manie Libbok said on Tuesday that the competition for the Springboks number 10 shirt motivates all three contenders for the jersey.

Sudan's defence minister said on Tuesday that the army would press on with fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after the country's security and defence council met to discuss a US proposal for a ceasefire.

Survivors of a powerful earthquake that turned homes in Afghanistan into rubble are now wondering where they can they find shelter from pouring rain and the coming winter cold.

Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed he plans to retire "soon" as the Portugal and Al Nassr star prepares for a tearful end to his glittering career.

A standing wave in a Munich stream that has been a surfing magnet for more than four decades has vanished, leaving urban surfers high and dry.

With replicas of missiles on display and effigies of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu hanging from a crane, thousands of Iranians commemorated on Tuesday the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Tehran.

Coco Gauff claimed a much-needed 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jasmine Paolini to keep her WTA Finals title defence alive in Riyadh on Tuesday.

Asian e-commerce giant Shein Tuesday pledged to "cooperate fully" with French judicial authorities after an uproar over it selling childlike sex dolls, and said it was prepared to disclose the names of people who bought them.

New Yorkers looked set to elect a young Muslim leftist as mayor Tuesday as US voters cast judgment for the first time on Donald Trump's tumultuous second presidency in nationwide local elections.

The US government shutdown entered its 35th day on Tuesday, matching a record set during President Donald Trump's first term, as lawmakers voiced hope over progress behind the scenes to end the dispute.

Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures -- over 4,500 artefacts -- was displayed together for the first time since the young pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922.

More than 40 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as rains driven by Typhoon Kalmaegi flooded swathes of the central Philippines on Tuesday.

A mural featuring former Liverpool favourite Trent Alexander-Arnold has been vandalised just hours ahead of his return to Anfield with new team Real Madrid on Tuesday.

Aryna Sabalenka will play Nick Kyrgios on December 28 in Dubai in a "Battle of the Sexes" tennis showdown, organisers confirmed on Tuesday.

Wealth inequality is a global emergency that threatens democracy and social cohesion, experts warned Tuesday, urging G20 leaders meeting in South Africa this month to establish a panel to tackle the crisis.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday urged Hungarian leader Viktor Orban to stop blocking Kyiv's bid to join the EU, as Brussels backed advancing the war-torn country to the next step despite graft concerns.

Turkey's main opposition parties, lawyers and rights groups demanded the release of Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas on Tuesday following a binding European rights court ruling nine years after his imprisonment.

Stock markets fell Tuesday as investors weighed the recent tech rally on Wall Street against growing fears of an AI bubble and concerns over the US interest-rate outlook.

A UK judge on Tuesday cleared far-right activist Tommy Robinson of a terrorism offence after he refused to let police access his phone last year, in his latest high-profile criminal case.

National commitments to slash heat-trapping pollution would limit global warming up to 2.5C this century -- nowhere near enough to avoid devastating climate impacts despite a sweep of new pledges, the UN warned Tuesday.

US tech giant Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom said Tuesday a one-billion-euro ($1.1 billion) industrial artificial intelligence hub will soon be launched in Germany, Europe's latest bid to catch up in the global AI race.

Erling Haaland has warned opponents he is still not the finished article despite his phenomenal goalscoring record for Manchester City.

Former England football captain David Beckham on Tuesday received his knighthood from King Charles III at Windsor Castle, calling it his "proudest moment".

French writer Laurent Mauvignier on Tuesday won France's top literary award, the Goncourt, for a 750-page family saga spanning more than a century.

Pakistan on Tuesday welcomed jubilant Sikh pilgrims from India, in the first major crossing since deadly clashes in May closed the land border between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Dick Cheney, who became one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history as George W. Bush’s number two during 9/11 and catastrophic wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died Monday. He was 84.

Serie A strugglers Fiorentina dismissed coach Stefano Pioli on Tuesday with the club bottom of the table after a 10-match winless run to start the season.

Stock markets fell Tuesday as investors weighed the recent tech rally on Wall Street against growing fears of an AI bubble and concerns over the US interest-rate outlook.

Armed with his camera, Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra has spent years in the occupied West Bank documenting what he describes as the impunity Israelis enjoy in their mistreatment of Palestinians.

Shares in Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica fell sharply on Tuesday after it posted a net loss for the first nine months of the year and announced it would cut its dividend by half in 2026.

Days of ferocious snowstorms and an avalanche in Nepal's treacherous Himalayan peaks have killed nine people, including five Italian climbers, officials said Tuesday.

Czech cardinal Dominik Duka, who was accused of covering up clergy sex crimes, died aged 82 on Tuesday, the Prague Archbishopric said on Facebook.