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Sean Dyche insisted Everton will avoid relegation after a damaging 2-1 defeat against Bournemouth left them firmly mired in the fight for survival on Saturday.

Racing 92 overcame Clermont 26-10 to move to third in the French Top 14 table in their last game before Taylor Swift and the Olympics force the Parisians to leave home.

Ange Postecoglou saluted "tired" Tottenham star Son Heung-min after the South Korean's late strike clinched a crucial 2-1 win against Luton on Saturday.

Star striker Kylian Mbappe "can still change his mind" about leaving Paris Saint-Germain this summer, coach Luis Enrique said Saturday.

Marcus Smith pulled the strings for Harlequins while they withstood an impressive Bath recovery to win 40-36 on Saturday and so revive their hopes of an English Premiership play-off place.

An aid delivery in Gaza descended into chaos on Saturday with shots fired and a Red Crescent paramedic reporting five people killed, as almost six months of Israeli bombardment has left hundreds of thousands in the Palestinian territory in desperate need.

Quinton de Kock's fifty and a quickfire 42 by stand-in captain Nicholas Pooran helped Lucknow Super Giants beat Punjab Kings by 21 runs for their first IPL win this season on Saturday.

Monaco flew out of the traps at Metz on Saturday, scoring three goals in the opening quarter-hour as they moved up to second in Ligue 1.

France made it two wins out of two in the Women's Six Nations with a hard-fought 15-5 victory away to Scotland on Saturday.

Son Heung-min's late winner fired Tottenham into the Premier League's top four with a 2-1 win over Luton as Chelsea twice blew a lead against 10-man Burnley in a 2-2 draw on Saturday.

An exceptionally rare haze of Saharan dust cloaked Switzerland and southeastern France on Saturday, sparking health warnings as a yellow hue tinged the sky.

Last-gasp goals from Robert Andrich and Patrik Schick snatched Bayer Leverkusen victory from the jaws of defeat with a 2-1 home win over Hoffenheim on Saturday, continuing their push for a maiden league title.

A second vessel carrying aid to war-torn Gaza set sail from Cyprus on Saturday, an AFP correspondent reported, more than two weeks after the last shipment arrived by sea.

Cambridge won both the men's and women's University Boat Races on Saturday, with a member of the losing Oxford men's crew revealing afterwards that he and some of his crew-mates had been struck down by the E.coli virus just hours before taking the water.

Last-gasp goals from Robert Andrich and Patrik Schick snatched Bayer Leverkusen victory from the jaws of defeat with a 2-1 home win over Hoffenheim on Saturday.

Fly-half Joris Segonds kicked all Stade Francais' points as they stretched their lead at the summit of the French Top 14 on Saturday with a sluggish 12-10 win at struggling Montpellier.

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied in London on Saturday, in the latest demonstration in the British capital demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and more aid for the war-ravaged territory.

Somalia's parliament on Saturday unanimously approved proposals to overhaul the country's electoral system to reintroduce universal suffrage, a plan that has been criticised by some leading politicians.

Cambridge maintained their dominance of the women's University Boat Race on Saturday, defeating arch-rivals Oxford for the seventh successive year on London's River Thames.

Kalle Rovanpera seamlessly steered his Toyota over unforgiving terrain to maintain his grip on the Safari Rally Kenya on Saturday as his Welsh teammate Elfyn Evans had a day to forget.

Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo and Beatrice Chebet of Kenya successfully defended their world cross country titles in Belgrade on Saturday.

Newcastle staged a sensational fightback to beat West Ham as Harvey Barnes' late double sealed a dramatic 4-3 win at St James' Park on Saturday.

Napoli's Champions League hopes were left hanging by a thread after Saturday's 3-0 home humbling by Atalanta as the outgoing Serie A title holders showed support for Juan Jesus after a racism controversy.

A hostage drama in the Netherlands that lasted several hours ended without bloodshed on Saturday as all four hostages were freed and police took the suspect into custody.

A second vessel carrying aid to war-torn Gaza set sail from Cyprus on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said, more than two weeks after the last shipment arrived by sea.

Pop star Lizzo, who built her brand on being a poster girl for self-love but has been hit by employee harassment suits, said she is quitting, tired of being targeted for her looks and character.

Some 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip require evacuation for emergency care, with the war-torn Palestinian territory down to just 10 barely functioning hospitals, the head of the WHO said Saturday.

The Kremlin said Saturday that President Vladimir Putin was still pained by last week's massacre at a Moscow concert hall, even if this was not outwardly visible.

Pope Francis is expected to lead Easter services at the Vatican Saturday and Sunday after his last-minute cancelation of a major Good Friday procession revived questions about his health.

A hostage drama in the Netherlands that lasted several hours on Saturday ended without bloodshed as all hostages were freed and police took the suspect into custody.

Three of the hostages being held in a cafe in central Netherlands Saturday have been released, police said, but did not yet sound the all-clear.

Heavy clashes and explosions shook Gaza, witnesses said on Saturday, as the Red Crescent reported several people killed during the latest chaotic aid distribution in the territory's north, where famine looms.