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Eight-time All-Star pitcher Max Scherzer of the Texas Rangers will miss the remainder of the Major League Baseball season with a low-grade muscle strain, the team announced on Wednesday.

The November auction of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the late Spanish painter's "Femme a la montre" from 1932, is expected to fetch at least $120 million, Sotheby's announced Wednesday.

Canada opened their title defence by downing Italy as Great Britain upset Australia on the second day of Davis Cup final group stage action on Wednesday.

Max Homa is eyeing a third straight title at the PGA Tour Fortinet Championship this week that he hopes could be a springboard to a dominant Ryder Cup performance.

Wall Street stock indices moved in opposite directions Wednesday after a mixed inflation report as European bourses dipped ahead of a European Central Bank decision.

Days after New York marked the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it opened a new arts center Wednesday in the last area of Ground Zero that had not yet been redeveloped.

Argentina recorded an inflation rate of 12.4 percent in August, the highest monthly change in over three decades in a country dogged by chronic economic instability, its statistics agency said Wednesday.

Ben Stokes struck the highest score by an England batsman in a one-day international on Wednesday, his 182 setting up a thrashing of New Zealand at The Oval as he sent a warning to the champions' World Cup rivals just weeks before they begin the defence of their 50-over title in India.

US Senator Richard Blumenthal issued a subpoena Wednesday to a US subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) to better understand the US PGA Tour-LIV Golf agreement and other investments.

Argentina recorded an inflation rate of 12.4 percent in August, the highest monthly change in over two decades in a country dogged by chronic economic instability, its statistics agency said Wednesday.

The United States on Wednesday signed an agreement with Bahrain to enhance defense and economic ties, a show of support for the Gulf monarchy that a decade ago faced an arms embargo.

UK police on Wednesday arrested three British-Pakistani relatives of a 10-year-old girl on suspicion of her murder, moments after the trio landed back in Britain following a month on the run in Pakistan.

The alleged bodies of two "non-human" beings were presented during a congressional hearing in Mexico, generating a mixture of surprise, disbelief and ridicule on social media on Wednesday.

Kim Jong Un told President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday he was sure Russia would win a "great victory" over its enemies, as Ukraine's Western allies warned of a possible Russian arms agreement with North Korea.

The parents of US reporter Evan Gershkovich said Wednesday they want world leaders due to gather at the United Nations next week to join in pressing for his release from prison in Russia.

The astronaut Frank Rubio broke the record for the longest in orbit mission by an American, spending more than 355 days aboard the International Space Station.

Argentine police have seized more than 200 Nazi publications and book covers and arrested the owner of a printing press run out of a home in suburban Buenos Aires, authorities said Wednesday.

New York Jets coach Robert Saleh isn't buying into speculation that 39-year-old NFL star quarterback Aaron Rodgers might retire after his season-ending torn Achilles tendon.

For two weeks America held its breath as fugitive Brazilian murderer Danelo Cavalcante dodged drones, helicopters and law enforcement from the FBI to Border Patrol, only to be cornered Wednesday by a police dog which subdued him with just a "minor bite wound."

A major retrospective opens in London this weekend into "Coco" Chanel, exploring her 60-year career that transformed women's wardrobes, and with new revelations about her troubled wartime past.

When Ron Leshem, executive producer of the Emmy-winning television series "Euphoria," was deciding where to premiere his new project, gritty Israeli juvenile prison drama "Bad Boy," he set his sights on the Toronto film festival.

An air taxi flew over Jerusalem on Wednesday as part of an Israeli experiment to develop a network of drones to offer transport services and ease traffic congestion.

Human activity and appetites have weakened Earth's resilience, pushing it far beyond the "safe operating space" that keeps the world liveable for most species, including our own, a landmark study said Wednesday.

A woman in a black and white dress struggled, pulling fiercely on a long electrical cable as she tried to stop the police in anti-riot gear from carrying it away.

Holders South Africa will have four scrum-halves in their matchday squad for this weekend's Rugby World Cup match with Romania in Bordeaux, SA Rugby announced on Wednesday.

Rugby World Cup organisers apologised to supporters on Wednesday for the problems they experienced in reaching the stadiums in Marseille and Bordeaux on the opening weekend.

NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell called upon the league Wednesday to replace artificial turf with natural grass fields in the wake of a season-ending injury to Aaron Rodgers.

Italian international Marco Verratti has signed for Qatari club Al Arabi, his new club and his former team, Paris Saint-Germain, announced on Wednesday.

UK authorities were on Wednesday awaiting the return of three British-Pakistani relatives of a 10-year-old girl found dead last month, after Pakistan police said they were on a plane back to the country.

An air raid on Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region killed at least 40 civilians Wednesday, according to a medical source, as the head of the UN mission to the country resigned.

Populations of European bumblebees are projected to fall drastically in the coming decades due to climate change and habitat loss, researchers warned on Wednesday.

Brazil's high court opened the first trials Wednesday over the January 8 riots in Brasilia by supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who were demanding the ouster of his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.