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The Tampa Bay Rays became only the third team in modern baseball history to start the season with 13 straight wins on Thursday after routing the Boston Red Sox 9-3.

Federico Gatti's first ever Juventus goal gave the Italian side a 1-0 win over Sporting Lisbon on Thursday and a solid chance of reaching the Europa League semi-finals.

Two late own goals gave Manchester United work to do to reach the Europa League semi-finals as Sevilla salvaged a 2-2 draw from the first leg of their quarter-final tie at Old Trafford on Thursday.

Federico Gatti's first ever Juventus goal gave the Italian side a 1-0 win over Sporting Lisbon on Thursday and a solid chance of reaching the Europa League semi-finals.

US stocks rallied and the dollar tumbled Thursday following better inflation data that added to hopes of a shift in Federal Reserve monetary policy.

The US Justice Department said Thursday that it will go to the Supreme Court to appeal restrictions imposed on a widely-used abortion pill in the latest round of an intensifying battle over reproductive rights.

FBI agents on Thursday arrested a 21-year-old national guardsman suspected of being behind a major leak of sensitive US government secrets -- including about the Ukraine war.

A strong United States team led by top-10 players Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff will target one of nine qualifying spots this weekend for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals.

Assistant referee Constantine Hatzidakis will face no further action from the English Football Association (FA) despite an elbow on Liverpool defender Andy Robertson.

FBI agents on Thursday arrested a young national guardsman suspected of being behind a major leak of sensitive US government secrets -- including about the Ukraine war.

Is the Tupperware era ending? The 77-year-old US company, known for its trademark plastic food storage containers, warned of "substantial doubt" about its ability to keep operating in light of its poor financial position, according to a recent regulatory filing.

Feyenoord took a step towards the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday with a 1-0 win over Roma in the first leg of the two teams' last eight clash.

Hundreds of thousands marched across France on Thursday against President Emmanuel Macron's pensions overhaul, but turnout fell during the final day of protests before a key court decision on the legislation.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday declared "I'm home" as he was feted on a visit to his ancestral homeland Ireland, whose story he said proved the triumph of hope over despair.

Pop diva Celine Dion announced the release of new music on Thursday -- her first since revealing last year that she was suffering from a rare neurological disorder that was affecting her singing.

Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder is close to a deal to sell the NFL franchise to an investment group led by Josh Harris and including former NBA star Magic Johnson, NFL Network reported on Thursday.

Novak Djokovic was knocked out in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters by Lorenzo Musetti in three sets on Thursday after the world number one struggled badly on serve.

The European Union is willing to proceed "as fast as possible" on a critical minerals deal with the United States, a top bloc official said Thursday, as both sides work to end a spat over Washington's ambitious green incentive plan.

A fugitive rapist and murderer who left a burnt corpse in his cell during a daring jailbreak has returned to prison in South Africa after fleeing to Tanzania, officials said Thursday.

Oscar-winning US actor Jamie Foxx has been hospitalized with an unspecified medical complication but is in recovery, his family says.

It is perhaps no accident that a trove of sensitive US documents reportedly ended up in a chat room on Discord, one of a small group of platforms that are widely seen by experts as natural haunts for online renegades.

Irish rally driver Craig Breen was killed in an accident on Thursday while driving his Hyundai in a pre-event test for next weekend's Croatia Rally, his team said.

The investigation into the leak of a cache of sensitive US documents is "getting close," President Joe Biden said Thursday, as US media honed in on a young national guardsman as the possible source of the security breach.

Pointing to persistently strong flying demand, Delta Air Lines offered a bullish spring season forecast Thursday as it reported a loss in the first quarter.

The NFL is introducing a new helmet specifically designed for protecting quarterbacks from concussions suffered when they hit the ground, the league said on Thursday.

French President Emmanuel Macron's recent trip to Beijing was billed as a chance to showcase European unity and persuade Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help rein in Russian aggression.

The US Justice Department said Thursday that it will go to the Supreme Court to appeal restrictions imposed on a widely-used abortion pill in the latest round of an intensifying battle over reproductive rights.

Mifepristone, a drug widely used in the United States to induce abortion in women pregnant for 10 weeks or less, has become a target of the country's anti-abortion movement.

Norway on Thursday announced the expulsion of 15 "intelligence officers" working at the Russian embassy in Oslo, further straining relations between the neighbouring countries.

The launch of the European Space Agency's JUICE mission, which aims to discover whether Jupiter's icy moons are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, was postponed on Thursday for 24 hours due to bad weather.

Countries must do more to avert the costly consequences of growing global trade fragmentation, and help avert a "second Cold War," the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) managing director said Thursday.

The European Union's central data regulator said on Thursday it was forming a task force to help countries deal with wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, ramping up the pressure on its US maker OpenAI.