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At 32, Venezuelan Victor Manuel Atencio had finally had it: The crisis roiling his country, he felt, had ruined all his hopes for the future.

The 'Klassieker' between bitter rivals Ajax and Feyenoord was abandoned Sunday after fans lobbed flares on the pitch in Amsterdam, with violence later erupting outside the stadium in the latest unrest to blight Dutch football.

Paris Saint-Germain suffered a blow on Sunday as Kylian Mbappe was forced off injured in the first half of the French champions' Ligue 1 game against Marseille.

A sleepy Bavarian village on Sunday gave the green light to BMW's plan to build a huge battery factory there, removing a key obstacle for the German automobile giant on its drive towards electromobility.

Scotland coach Gregor Townsend hailed his team for bagging a bonus-point 45-17 victory over Tonga on Sunday that kept up their hopes of advancing to the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

Fly-half Handre Pollard, back from injury and called up to the South Africa World Cup squad last week, is likely to play in their final pool game against Tonga, director of rugby Rassie Erasmus said on Sunday.

Fly-half Handre Pollard, back from injury and called up to the South Africa World Cup squad last week, is likely to play in their final pool game against Tonga, director of rugby Rassie Erasmus said on Sunday.

Jurgen Klopp said Darwin Nunez has made "massive" improvements in his second season at Liverpool after the Uruguayan's stunning goal helped the Reds to a 3-1 win over West Ham on Sunday.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday lost a tight mayoral race where the party had been tipped to secure the office of city mayor for the first time.

Mauricio Pochettino admitted struggling Chelsea need to "grow up" after their troubled season hit a new low with a 1-0 defeat against Aston Villa on Sunday.

Newcastle came close to matching the Premier League's record margin of victory as they thrashed Sheffield United 8-0 at Bramall Lane on Sunday.

The standoff between gunmen and Kosovo authorities at a monastery near the border with Serbia ended Sunday night, authorities in Pristina said, following a police operation to regain control of the area.

Scotland sealed a bonus-point 45-17 victory over Tonga in Nice on Sunday to keep their hopes of making the World Cup quarter-finals alive.

Newcastle thrashed Sheffield United 8-0 to shrug off their slow start to the Premier League season on Sunday, as Son Heung-min's double earned Tottenham a point from a pulsating 2-2 draw against Arsenal.

NFL officials are exploring the possibility of playing regular-season games in Brazil and Spain as soon as next season, NFL executive vice president Peter O'Reilly said in an ESPN report Sunday.

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou joked he will have to develop "armless defenders" after Cristian Romero's handball conceded a controversial penalty in Sunday's 2-2 draw against north London rivals Arsenal.

The North American box office hit a 2023 low this weekend, with top film "The Nun II" estimated to take in a paltry $8.4 million, industry watchers said Sunday.

Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill hit attacking centuries to help India thrash Australia by 99 runs in a rain-hit one-day international on Sunday to clinch the series 2-0.

Hitmaker Usher will headline the Super Bowl halftime show in February, he and the NFL announced Sunday.

Spanish star Carlota Ciganda was the home heroine on Sunday as she birdied the 16th and 17th holes to beat Nelly Korda of the United States and secure the point that ensured Europe retained the Solheim Cup.

Victor Boniface’s fine start to life in the Bundesliga continued as Bayer Leverkusen kept the heat on leaders Bayern Munich with a resounding 4-1 win over Heidenheim on Sunday.

A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

Son Heung-min's double earned Tottenham a point from a pulsating 2-2 draw against Arsenal, as Liverpool moved into second in the Premier League with a 3-1 win over West Ham on Sunday.

Nagorno-Karabakh pensioner Svetlana Isakhanyan walked into her new life in Armenia wearing green slippers and carrying only a handbag with a passport.

The Dutch 'Klassieker' between bitter rivals Ajax and Feyenoord was abandoned Sunday after several flares were thrown on the pitch, with Feyenoord 3-0 ahead ten minutes into the second half.

Tottenham came from behind twice to rescue a pulsating 2-2 draw against Arsenal thanks to Son Heung-min's double in Sunday's north London derby.

China won the first gold medal of the Hangzhou Asian Games and then cleaned up in the swimming events on Sunday, breaking several records in the process.

President Joe Biden is set to host leaders of Pacific island nations with an aim of countering China's ever-growing influence, proffering goodies ranging from an American football experience to shiny new embassies.

Ethnic Armenian refugees began to leave Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday for the first time since Azerbaijan launched an offensive designed to seize control of the breakaway territory and perhaps end a three-decade-old conflict.

Olympic champions Zhang Yufei and Wang Shun powered to gold on Sunday as hosts China won all seven races on the opening night of swimming at the Asian Games, smashing a slew of Asian records.

Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer hit brisk centuries as India posted a mammoth 399-5 in the second one-day international against Australia on Sunday.

ESports' inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed to be a mixed-sex competition, just eight are women.