Returning Pinturault to skip Beaver Creek downhill
French skier Alexis Pinturault will not start the opening World Cup downhill of the season at Beaver Creek on Friday as he returns from an injury layoff, the French Ski Federation (FFS) confirmed.
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Australia on top in 2nd India Test after Starc takes six
Australia lost opener Usman Khawaja but took first day honours at the day-night second Test in Adelaide Friday after a Mitchell Starc onslaught saw India crumble to 180 all out.
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Reborn Goetze finds the 'fun' to get Frankfurt firing
A decade after his World Cup-winning goal in Brazil, Mario Goetze cuts a different figure to the cherub-faced assassin who was then on top of the football world.
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Pidcock signs for ambitious second-tier cycling team
Two-time Olympic champion Tom Pidcock announced on Friday he had signed for second-tier cycling team Q36.5 after his departure from Ineos Grenadiers.
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Leclerc 10-place grid penalty in Abu Dhabi hits Ferrari title hopes
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was hit with a 10-place grid penalty on Friday for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, compromising the Italian team's bid to capture the constructors' title.
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Leclerc on top but hit with grid penalty at Abu Dhabi practice
Charles Leclerc topped the times for Ferrari ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton, in his final race weekend with Mercedes, in Friday's opening practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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S. Africa deporting assassin of anti-apartheid leader to Poland
The man who killed South African anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani, who was released from prison on parole in 2022, is being deported to Poland, the government announced Friday.
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Impeachment looms ever closer for South Korean president
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday looked increasingly likely to be unseated after the head of his ruling party demanded he be stripped of office for briefly imposing martial law.
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Political storm clouds Macron's Notre Dame glory
"We can do it!" President Emmanuel Macron told France on the night of April 16, 2019, the day after the fire that ravaged Notre Dame, as he set a target of five years to rebuild the great mediaeval edifice in the heart of Paris to its former glory.
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Defiant Macron seeks new French PM and way out of crisis
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday was holding talks with French political leaders on the left and right as he seeks to name a new prime minister and find a way out of France's political crisis.
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