The Dutch inventor of hit wooden construction game Kapla, which has entertained children and inspired architects for four decades, has died at the age of 80, his wife told AFP.
Benfica coach Jose Mourinho insisted he is capable of saying no to Real Madrid president Florentino Perez as he played down rumours of a return to the Spanish giants on Monday.
The whole terrace on top of St Peter's Basilica will soon be open to the public, complete with a cafe, the Vatican said on Monday, as part of a plan to mark the 400th anniversary of the building's completion.
- Meillard extends Swiss Olympic stranglehold while Gu aims for gold
- Meillard extends Swiss Olympic strangehold while Gu aims for gold
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Loic Meillard won the Swiss men's team their fourth Olympic gold in the five alpine skiing events in Bormio when he streaked to victory in the slalom on Monday.
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France's government accused the hard left Monday of being partly responsible for the killing of a far-right activist last week.
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Will Jacks scored the fastest T20 World Cup fifty for England as they posted 202-7 on Monday in their must-win Group C clash against Italy in Kolkata.
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European stock markets and the dollar advanced Monday following a subdued showing for Asian equities ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday and after Japan reported lacklustre economic growth.
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Liverpool manager Arne Slot praised Egypt captain Mohamed Salah after his penalty sealed a 3-0 FA Cup victory over Brighton at the weekend.
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King Liu, the founder of Taiwanese bicycle maker Giant and a self-described "missionary" for cycling culture, died on Monday at the age of 91, the company said.
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Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov fired three ministers Monday seen as close to the dismissed former head of his security services, as he clears the political decks ahead of elections.
Norway's Atle Lie McGrath topped times in an attritional first leg of the men's Olympic slalom in Bormio on Monday which saw Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen among the casualties.
Greenland's capital Nuuk registered its warmest ever January -- beating a record that stood for 109 years -- as temperatures soared across the Arctic island's west coast, the Danish Meteorological Institute said Monday.
South Africa qualified for the T20 World Cup Super Eights on Monday without playing as Afghanistan's win over the United Arab Emirates was enough to send them through from Group D.
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Flooding and fierce winds have pushed Madagascar's death toll from Cyclone Gezani to 59, with more than a dozen people still unaccounted for, the country's disaster agency said on Monday.
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Chinese tech giant ByteDance said it was taking steps to "strengthen current safeguards" after Hollywood heavyweights accused its new AI video model of copyright infringement.
Steve Smith has been added to Australia's T20 World Cup squad to fill the place left vacant by Josh Hazlewood and looks likely to play in their must-win match against Sri Lanka later Monday.
Australian police have recovered a trove of stolen Egyptian artefacts and charged a 52-year-old man with a nighttime smash-and-grab at a museum.
India is scrambling to defend a new trade deal with the United States that critics have branded as a surrender to Washington, as countries navigate the fallout from President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.
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