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Fiorentina will return to European football for the first time in five years after beating Juventus 2-0 to qualify for next season's Conference League.

Lyon won the Women's Champions League on Saturday after beating Barcelona 3-1 to be crowned queens of Europe for a record-extending eighth time.

Kylian Mbappe said he was "very happy" to stay at Paris Saint-Germain after the club's president announced on Saturday the World Cup winner was rejecting Real Madrid to remain in France until 2025.

England centre Joe Marchant scored two tries as reigning champions Harlequins booked their place in the Premiership play-offs by staging yet another remarkable rally to beat Gloucester 28-24 at Twickenham on Saturday.

Swedish cult director Ruben Ostlund wowed the Cannes Film Festival with a rollercoaster movie about glamour, class, silly money and human nature on Saturday, involving the drunken delivery of quotes by Karl Marx and Ronald Reagan, and stomach-churning scenes of mass sea sickness.

New trenches, concrete blocks, sandbags and numerous checkpoints appear to be everywhere around Kharkiv, which has pushed back one Russian assault on Ukraine's second city, and is preparing to defend against another.

Asylum seekers in the dusty, violence-plagued Mexican border city of Reynosa were back to playing an uncertain waiting game Saturday, their dreams of entering the United States frustrated anew by a health rule imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Japan's bullet trains, dogs usually have to travel in a carrier, but on Saturday they could stretch their paws and enjoy the scenery on a special pet-friendly express.

Casper Ruud said Saturday it was unfair on grass-court specialists that they cannot earn ranking points at Wimbledon as the clay-court star looks to rack them up at the French Open.

Tiger Woods limped his way to the worst round of his incredible comeback from severe leg injuries, firing a nine-over par 79 in Saturday's third round of the PGA Championship.

England centre Joe Marchant scored two tries as reigning champions Harlequins booked their place in the Premiership play-offs by staging yet another remarkable rally to beat Gloucester 28-24 at Twickenham on Saturday.

Rangers won the Scottish Cup for the first time since 2009 as Saturday's 2-0 victory against Hearts erased the pain of their Europa League final defeat.

Centre-left leader Anthony Albanese claimed victory in Australia's general election Saturday, as voters angered by climate inaction pulled the plug on a decade of conservative rule.

Rangers won the Scottish Cup for the first time since 2009 as Saturday's 2-0 victory against Hearts erased the pain of their Europa League final defeat.

Kylian Mbappe has agreed in principle to turn down Real Madrid and stay at Paris Saint-Germain for another three years, AFP learned from a source close to the negotiations on Saturday.

A Japanese film-maker is shaking Cannes film audiences to the core with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanised to solve the challenge of a rapidly ageing population.

Kaizer Chiefs will miss out on African football next season after only drawing 2-2 with lowly Swallows in the South African Premiership on Saturday in Johannesburg.

A storm that swept through western Germany on Friday has killed at least one person and injured dozens, local authorities said Saturday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkey would not look "positively" on Sweden and Finland's NATO bids unless its terror-related concerns were addressed, despite broad support from other allies including the United States.

Series leader and pole-sitter Charles Leclerc is hoping Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz can help him beat Red Bull’s world champion Max Verstappen to stay in control of the title race in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix.

Britain's leading athletes Dina Asher-Smith and Keely Hodgkinson powered to victory to delight a home crowd at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham on Saturday.

Tiger Woods struggled to a six-over par start on his front nine in Saturday's third round of the PGA Championship, fading after a fight to reach the weekend despite his severe leg injuries.

Paris Saint-Germain's extension deal with Kylian Mbappe is "an insult to football," La Liga president Javier Tebas said Saturday after the player rejected an offer from Real Madrid.

Several thousand fans of former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito marked the 130th anniversary of his birth on Saturday in the Croatian village where he was born.

"Hold on to the rope, look at me," the instructor says, coaxing 28-year-old lawyer Iryna Gorobiyovska who is nervously about to abseil down a building.

Formula One's early season pacesetter Charles Leclerc survived intense pressure on Saturday to beat world champion Max Verstappen, who suffered a late loss of power, to pole position for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix.

Simon Yates won stage 14 of the Giro d'Italia on Saturday as Richard Carapaz claimed the overall lead following an action-packed 147 kilometres.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkey would not look "positively" on Sweden and Finland's NATO bids unless its terror-related concerns were addressed, despite broad support from other allies including the United States.

Ferrari's world championship leader Charles Leclerc grabbed pole for the Spanish Grand Prix ahead of Max Verstappen in qualifying at a sweltering Montmelo circuit on Saturday.

Tilda Swinton said Saturday that the world needs stories more than ever as her fantastical new fable "Three Thousand Years of Longing", from "Mad Max" creator George Miller, premiered at Cannes.

With five wins by knockout and another by unanimous decision, Cuban boxers made a triumphant comeback in their nation's first professional contest in six decades in Mexico.

British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith powered to victory in the 100m in front of a home crowd at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham on Saturday.