Veteran batting great Virat Kohli and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will be in the spotlight as the T20 Indian Premier League spans the generations in the playoffs beginning on Tuesday.
Born to landless Indian farmers, Sunil Pooniya thought a job at sea would be his ticket out of poverty, instead his first voyage saw him diving into the ocean to escape a deadly attack driven by the Iran war.
As diplomacy intensifies on ending the Iran war, top US diplomat Marco Rubio was spending Monday not in negotiations but at India's world-famous monument to love, the Taj Mahal.
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Andrew Abdo has quit as chief executive of the Australia's National Rugby League and was named Monday as the the new CEO of Tennis Australia.
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The death toll rose to three Monday in the collapse of a building under construction near the Philippine capital, with 17 people still believed missing, authorities said.
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Lionel Messi was at the center of an injury scare just weeks before the start of the World Cup on Sunday after abruptly exiting Inter Miami's Major League Soccer clash against the Philadelphia Union.
May 25, 2026
Andrew Abdo has quit as chief executive of the National Rugby League and will take up a new role as head of Tennis Australia, according to media reports Monday.
May 25, 2026
Juiced-up athletes narrowly failed to "beat" world records in early contests at the first-ever Enhanced Games on Sunday in Las Vegas, despite using performance-enhancing drugs that have sparked health concerns.
May 25, 2026
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Pope Leo XIV will release on Monday his long-awaited manifesto on artificial intelligence (AI), a bid to address ethical and social challenges as the technology rapidly develops worldwide.
May 25, 2026
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Singapore's economy grew six percent year-on-year in the first quarter as demand skyrockets for artificial intelligence chips, balancing the fallout from the Middle East war, the government said Monday.
Lionel Messi exited Inter Miami's Major League Soccer match against Philadelphia Union with an apparent leg injury on Sunday just weeks before the start of the World Cup.
Mikel Arteta had barely wiped away the tears of joy that followed Arsenal's Premier League trophy presentation before he challenged his players to make more history by winning the Champions League.
Quiet and unassuming off the pitch, Jonathan David is already one of Canada's greatest footballers at just 26. Now, as the co‑hosts prepare for the World Cup, the forward hopes to make plenty of noise on the global stage.
May 25, 2026
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To avoid the punishing sun, Inas Gamal abandoned her ambitious plan of spending the days ahead of the hajj praying in Mecca's Grand Mosque and retreated to the comfort of an air-conditioned hotel room to perform her daytime prayers.
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While stars of the Spiderman franchise have trended younger over the years -- from Tobey Maguire to Andrew Garfield to Tom Holland -- the new series "Spider-Noir" starring Nicolas Cage explores a more mature version of the web-slinging superhero.
Heat, humidity and thunderstorms are synonymous with summer in many North American regions -- and in a few weeks they could also threaten the 2026 World Cup.
On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean and no bigger than a golf ball.
Juiced-up athletes kicked off the first-ever Enhanced Games on Sunday in Las Vegas, where early competitors failed to "beat" official world records despite using performance-enhancing drugs that have sparked health concerns.
May 25, 2026
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