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Hong Kong superstar Ka Ying Rising lost his first race in 22 starts Saturday after being stunned by Tempted on a soft track at the world's richest turf race, The Everest, in Sydney.

As Americans begin casting their ballots in the midterm elections, the prominent "No Kings" anti-Trump movement is organizing thousands of rallies Saturday to get voters fired up.

Pakistan's finance minister on Saturday told AFP the country had so far withstood the shock from skyrocketing energy prices due to the Iran war, but that attacks on infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were "worrying" for the country's longer-term economic outlook.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that waived sweeping US sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia's energy revenues, marking a new low in Washington's ties with war-torn Ukraine.

Japan has registered a record number of foreigners living in the country this year despite growing anti-immigration sentiment, as the country grapples with problems caused by an ageing and shrinking population.

It had been decades since sharks last patrolled the reef off the coast of Fiji's Naidiri Village, but they returned this year following a community-led effort to protect the fishery and plant thousands of corals.

Coconut farmer Sombat Chuekrod travelled more than 200 kilometres to join hundreds on the streets of Bangkok on Friday demanding that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank change how they deal with the developing world.

North Korea has tested a "new-type" precision-guided torpedo system that uses artificial intelligence for target detection and guidance, state media reported Saturday, as the nuclear-armed country steps up weapons testing.

Game four of baseball's American League Championship Series between the Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays has been postponed until Saturday, Major League Baseball said.

Chinese-made cars filmed sensitive information during a Norwegian military exercise, including access codes at secure sites and officials' comings and goings, raising concerns about the risks posed by connected vehicles.

Seeing what looked like a brown blob in a tree while driving through Siberia's Irkutsk region, 36-year-old Daria Tyurneva pulled over, curious to get a better look.

The start of the Cleveland Guardians' home playoff game against the Tampa Bay Rays was delayed after rain pounded Cleveland on Friday, but officials still hoped to get the game underway.

The teenage gunman who shot dead three children and a teacher in an Oregon school was a former special needs student there, officials said Friday, as they praised the heroism of people who helped to shorten the rampage.

New Zealand suffered a setback ahead of the second Bledisloe Cup Test against Australia in Sydney on Saturday with Jordie Barrett ruled out injured.

The teenager suspected of carrying out a murderous rampage at an Oregon elementary school came off as "withdrawn," according to neighbors who lived in the building where the young man resided with his mother.

All seven candidates to lead the United Nations received a vote of "discourage," effectively a veto, from a permanent UN Security Council member in the latest informal poll, a diplomat said Friday.

Europe's club rugby competitions made a sombre start Friday with a minute's silence for Lions player Hyron Andrews who was found dead in his hotel room earlier.

The UN's IPCC climate panel failed after a week of tough talks to reach an agreement on when to release its next report on global warming, the senior French envoy at the talks said Friday.

Brandon Figueroa lost his World Boxing Association featherweight title on the scales Friday when the American failed to make weight for Saturday's bout against Japan's Tomoki Kameda, organizers said.

President Emmanuel Macron called for calm on the eve of nationwide cost-of-living protests Saturday that authorities fear could lead to a violent escalation of weeks of student demonstrations.

The Nasdaq tumbled more than two percent Friday as a rebound in tech shares sputtered amid angst over AI investments, while most European and Asian exchanges had solid trading sessions.

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 40 years, according to figures released Friday, in welcome news for leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva days before a presidential runoff.

Protesters clashed with police in Albania’s capital for the fourth day Friday as Prime Minister Edi Rama blamed "foreign hands" for mounting unrest.

The US budget deficit grew to almost $2 trillion over the past year, government data showed Friday, reaching its highest level since 2021 despite President Donald Trump's promises to cut public spending.

The Los Angeles Dodgers entered Major League Baseball's 2026 season as red-hot favorites to complete a hat-trick of World Series titles.

Kristen Vanetsky and her family moved to Bend, Oregon, after a shooting in their New Mexico neighborhood, choosing Silver Rail elementary for her grandson because they considered it safer.

Promoted French Ligue 1 club Troyes announced on Friday that it has sacked sporting director Jocelyn Blanchard "with immediate effect" amid an investigation into allegations of sexist behaviour.

The "hero" who shot dead a teenage gunman after he had already killed three children and a teacher at an elementary school in the US state of Oregon was named Friday by his brother.

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was pushed out Friday after less than a week in the high-profile job, following a series of blunders that added to distractions for her embattled boss President Donald Trump.

Embattled new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia looked unlikely to survive after President Donald Trump said Friday that she should "reconsider" her position, given her shaky performance less than a week into the high-profile job.

The European Union has pledged to help Ukraine with its dependence on Starlink satellite communications to support battlefield operations, but the bloc is a long way from being able to match the US-owned system.

US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the armed bystander who shot dead a teenage gunman at an Oregon elementary school as a "great hero," saying the situation could have been "much worse."