The opening practices for the first MotoGP race in Brazil in over two decades turned into a damp squib on Friday after rain delayed the start of both sessions and then returned to send riders back into the pits.
US newcomer Jordan Anthony announced himself on the global stage by scorching to gold in the men's 60m at the world indoor championships in Torun, Poland, on Friday.
A coroner said Friday she "cannot be satisfied" that former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton intended to take his own life, with the inquest into his death hearing how he had made significant future plans.
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Politics
Former Costa Rican security minister Celso Gamboa was extradited on Friday to the United States where he faces drug trafficking charges, authorities in the Central American nation said.
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RECENT NEWS
Mikel Arteta has urged his Arsenal team to "bring it home" as he prepares for Sunday's League Cup final against Manchester City, desperate to shed the Gunners' tag as nearly men.
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Audi, who are just two races into their Formula One journey, have parted company with team principal Jonathan Wheatley "with immediate effect", the German team announced on Friday.
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Tottenham interim boss Igor Tudor hopes the club's medical staff can deliver some "nice surprises" over the next few weeks as he gears up for Sunday's relegation tussle with Nottingham Forest.
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Mikel Arteta said Sunday's League Cup final against Manchester City would be a defining moment for Arsenal as they seek to shed their tag of "nearly men".
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Weather
A record early heat wave striking the west of the United States on Friday is a one-in-500-years type event and all but certainly the result of human-caused climate change, experts say.
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Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique said Friday that the prospect of a Champions League quarter-final against Liverpool brought back "beautiful memories" of last year's encounter between the sides which his team won on penalties.
France hooker Peato Mauvaka said on Friday his Toulouse and Test team-mate Romain Ntamack will want to prove his worth against Matthieu Jalibert this weekend when the two fly-halves come face to face in a titanic French Top 14 tussle in Bordeaux.
US President Donald Trump on Friday branded NATO allies "cowards" for not heeding his demand for military assistance against Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz shipping route.
A French jihadist was sentenced to life in jail on Friday for involvement in Islamic State group atrocities against Iraq's Yazidi minority, the first case in France to tackle the issue.
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Culture
Chuck Norris, the US martial artist and Hollywood action star most famous for his role in "Walker, Texas Ranger," has died, his family said Friday. He was 86.
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Liverpool on Friday condemned racist abuse directed towards defender Ibrahima Konate as "dehumanising, cowardly and rooted in hate".
Far from the Middle East war, fallout from oil disruptions is reverberating across the world, unsettling lives from Lagos to Manila as people adjust to fuel price hikes and gas shortages.
German auto industry exports to China plunged by a third last year as the country's manufacturers face fierce local competition, a study showed Friday, underscoring the sector's deepening crisis.
Seafarers stuck in the Gulf say they are rationing food and water and anxiously hoping supplies will get through Iran's blockade in the war that has stranded them for three weeks.
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