The uber-plush Burgenstock resort perched high above Switzerland's Lake Lucerne provides the dramatic setting for Friday's planned signing of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding to end nearly four months of war.
Rory McIlroy is getting better treatment from Long Island golf fans at the US Open than he did at last year's Ryder Cup and adds he's confident Shinnecock will not lose the course.
Tiago Splitter was named the new head coach of the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday after guiding Portland to the NBA playoffs last season as an interim coach.
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It's game over for fans of discontinued video games after the EU admitted defeat on Tuesday and said it cannot stop publishers making them unplayable.
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Oil prices dropped below $80 a barrel Tuesday on optimism over the promised reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, easing inflation pressures on global economies even though traders are eyeing the risk of Iranian "service fees" on ships transiting the strait.
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New Zealand have picked Henry Nicholls to replace retired star Kane Williamson in the second Test against England on Wednesday.
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England defender Tino Livramento has been ruled out of the World Cup after suffering a calf injury and replaced by Trevoh Chalobah on the eve of the team's opening match against Croatia.
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A military mission set up by France and Britain to help re-open the Strait of Hormuz is ready to deploy, following the announcement of a US-Iran deal to end the Middle East war.
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India will prepare contingency plans to help farmers weather potential low rainfall linked to the El Nino weather system, agriculture officials said Tuesday.
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Joe Root says he is taking the England captaincy on a "game-by-game basis" after replacing the exiled Ben Stokes for this week's second Test against New Zealand.
World number one Scottie Scheffler will play alongside defending champion JJ Spaun and reigning US Amateur champion Mason Howell in Thursday's first round of the US Open, organizers announced Tuesday.
The deadly Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo has yet to peak and could take a year to contain, the Red Cross warned Tuesday, amid mounting warnings of dangerous gaps in the response.
Nigerian authorities have arrested at least eight people in recent weeks for spreading false information on social media, as officials threaten tougher penalties following a wave of misinformation linked to a recent school kidnapping.
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The EU parliament Tuesday passed a ban on marketing plant-based foods as "steak" or "bacon" -- though veggie "burgers" will get to stay on European menus.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday handed President Donald Trump a German national team football jersey in honour of his birthday and the World Cup, pointedly adding "we're on the same team."
Lionel Messi's Argentina and Kylian Mbappe's France, the two teams who contested a thrilling World Cup final four years ago, roar into the 2026 tournament on Tuesday.
G7 leaders agreed on Tuesday to intensify pressure on Russia to end more than four years of war against Ukraine, with US President Donald Trump saying Moscow should "make a deal".
It could take around two years to repair Kyiv's Dormition Cathedral and its surrounding monastery complex after they were damaged in a Russian attack, its director said Tuesday.
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