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Roger Goodell, who has served as the NFL's commissioner since 2006, has been given a three-year contract extension through March 2027, the league compensation committee announced Wednesday.

Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott admitted his team's catching has hit rock bottom after they dropped five chances in their 149-run defeat by New Zealand in the World Cup on Wednesday.

France's justice minister vowed Wednesday to crack down on "the little jokers" behind a flurry of false bomb alerts that caused chaos at airports and tourist sites on Wednesday.

Argentina head coach Michael Cheika said he and his players want to "have no regrets" once the final whistle goes on their Rugby World Cup semi-final with New Zealand on Friday.

UK police on Wednesday charged Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg with a public order offence, following her detention at a protest outside an annual gathering of energy industry figures in London.

The conflict between Hamas and Israel is both an opportunity and a risk for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been mired in pressing his invasion of Ukraine for the past 19 months.

New Zealand coach Ian Foster made two changes and one positional switch to his starting XV to play Argentina in the Rugby World Cup semi-final on Friday, including recalling winger Mark Tele'a.

New Zealand handed giant-killing Afghanistan a brutal reality check on Wednesday when they exploited a disastrous fielding performance to romp to a 149-run victory at the Cricket World Cup.

Jenni Hermoso was on Wednesday included in the Spain women's squad for the first time since the scandal over the unsolicited kiss former federation president Luis Rubiales gave her following the Women's World Cup final in Australia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday the long-range missiles Washington had supplied Kyiv would only prolong the country's agony, hours after Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky said they had already proved their worth.

Oil prices rallied and global stocks mostly fell Wednesday on fears that the Israel-Hamas conflict could spill over into a regional war after a strike at a Gaza hospital dealt a blow to President Joe Biden's diplomatic drive.

Breaching the global warming limits of the world's climate goals could see the melting of Greenland's ice sheet add more than a metre to rising sea levels, according to new research on Wednesday.

Uganda said Wednesday it was hunting down gunmen who killed a honeymooning couple and their safari guide in one of the country's famed national parks in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

Israelis living in border communities near the Gaza Strip are bracing for a long and hard war with Hamas -- some heeding evacuation calls but others staying put.

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah has returned to France, her university said Wednesday, after being held for four-and-a-half years in Iran in a case that added to tensions between Paris and Tehran.

The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Wednesday calling for a "humanitarian pause" in the raging Israel-Hamas conflict as the text did not respect Israel's right to defend itself, the US ambassador said.

Austria's former chancellor Sebastian Kurz insisted he was innocent as he went on trial on Wednesday for allegedly giving false testimony to an inquiry probing wide-ranging corruption scandals that have rocked the country.

Thousands rallied across the Arab and Muslim world on Wednesday to protest the deaths of hundreds of people in a strike on a Gaza hospital that they blame on Israel, despite its denials.

The Belgian and Swedish prime ministers on Wednesday called for better border controls and more coordinated powers in the European Union to expel irregular migrants, after an attack in Brussels left two people dead.

Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha accepts his side will face a "scary" India when they take on the in-form World Cup hosts in Pune on Thursday.

Deforestation for rubber cultivation has been "substantially underestimated", and is two to three times higher than generally assumed, a new study said Wednesday.

Contemporary artists are paying tribute to writer Oscar Wilde with a series of works displayed in the Paris hotel where he died at only 46.

Jenni Hermoso was on Wednesday included in Spain's women's team for the first time since the scandal over the unsolicited kiss former federation president Luis Rubiales gave her at the Women's World Cup final in Australia.

Georgia ruling party lawmakers failed to get enough votes to remove the country's pro-EU President Salome Zurabishvili Wednesday, after she accused the government of undermining Tbilisi's EU membership bid.

You snooze, you lose? Swedish researchers said Wednesday that might not be the case, after their study even saw some benefits for those struggling with morning drowsiness.

The European Central Bank moved closer to creating a "digital euro" Wednesday by greenlighting the next stage in the project, even as questions persist about the potential benefits and risks.

Barcelona has dragged itself out of a difficult financial situation, the Catalan club's vice-president Eduard Romeu reported on Wednesday.

The US Treasury announced sanctions on 10 Hamas members, operatives and financial facilitators Wednesday, as conflict rages after the militant group's surprise attack on Israel.

Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan is to have a fitness test just hours before Thursday's World Cup match against in-form tournament hosts India in Pune.

After almost 20 years as a coaching double-act, the end is rapidly approaching for the South African World Cup management team of Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to fight anti-Semitism on German soil, after attackers hurled two Molotov cocktails at a Jewish synagogue in Berlin early Wednesday.

Russia's central bank halted the circulation of a new 1,000 ruble note Wednesday after Orthodox priests complained that the image of a church dome lacked a cross, even though it does not have one in real life.