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Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain arrived at the Venice Film Festival Friday with a provocative new film, "Memory", and an impassioned message in support of the Hollywood strikes by actors and writers.

Serena Williams may be one year into her retirement but American teenager Coco Gauff will be proudly carrying the tennis icon's legacy when she takes on Aryna Sabalenka in the US Open final on Saturday.

US President Joe Biden and other G20 leaders gathered in New Delhi on Friday for their annual summit, as deep divisions between heavyweight members and a no-show by China's Xi Jinping called the bloc's relevance into question.

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema will begin an official visit to China on Sunday, as the heavily indebted African nation works to secure financial relief after a restructuring agreement reached in June.

Stock markets wobbled Friday as traders increasingly bet on the Federal Reserve sticking to its policy of raising US interest rates as the world's biggest economy shows resilience despite inflation staying high.

Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain offered impassioned support for ongoing Hollywood strikes as she appeared in Venice to promote her new film "Memory" on Friday.

Stock markets wobbled Friday as traders increasingly bet on the Federal Reserve sticking to its policy of raising US interest rates as the world's biggest economy shows resilience despite inflation staying high.

Spanish public prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against football chief Luis Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips without her consent, the prosecutors office said Friday.

Teti Tela was on Thursday handed the heavy playmaking responsibility of starting at fly-half in Fiji's opening Rugby World Cup Pool C match against Wales.

Veteran Taulupe Faletau's injury recovery handed Wales a boost on Friday ahead of their tricky Rugby World Cup Pool C opener against Fiji in Bordeaux.

Helicopters and lifeboats have been deployed to reach hundreds of stranded villagers in central Greece, as the death toll from deadly flooding rose to seven, authorities said Friday.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has stripped Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of the French capital's highest honour after he made remarks about the Holocaust that echoed anti-Semitic tropes, her office said on Friday.

Ukraine denounced what it called "fake elections" being held by Moscow on its occupied territory Friday, while Russian air strikes across the country killed four people and wounded dozens more.

Children in eastern DR Congo are facing unheard-of violence, the UN warned Friday, cataloguing rapes, killings and use of youngsters by armed groups, including a case of infant twins taped to a booby-trapped bomb.

Mercurial fly-half Finn Russell will pull the strings for Scotland when they take on South Africa in Marseille on Sunday after coach Gregor Townsend named the squad for what is a crucial World Cup clash.

Netflix has spent years trying to adapt Japanese manga and anime into live-action TV with little success, but its latest effort, "One Piece", may finally have cracked the code.

Japan head coach Jamie Joseph went for experience on Friday as he named nine survivors from the last World Cup in his starting XV to face Chile in Toulouse.

Britain's top police officer on Friday said an investigation into how a terror suspect escaped from prison would look at whether he had help.

Britain is experiencing a record-breaking period of hot September weather with Friday expected to be the fifth consecutive day of temperatures climbing above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit).

A suicide attack targeted a military base in northern Mali on Friday, the army said, a day after deadly strikes on an army camp and a passenger boat by suspected jihadists killed 64 people.

Hosts France kick off the Rugby World Cup against three-time champions New Zealand on Friday in a mouth-watering appetiser to a tournament that will provide a key test of the country's organisational skills ahead of the 2024 Olympics.

Alex Mitchell said his surprise call-up as scrum-half for England's crucial World Cup opener against Argentina in Marseille on Saturday had been a "rollercoaster" after missing out on the initial squad.

Global rice prices reached a 15-year high in August after top exporter India banned some overseas sales of the grain, the Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.

Ukraine on Friday said four people were killed and dozens injured as Russia launched a new wave of air strikes in the centre and east of the country.

Stock markets slid Friday as traders increasingly bet on the Federal Reserve sticking to its policy of raising US interest rates as the world's biggest economy shows resilience despite inflation staying high.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that he prevented a Ukrainian attack on a Russian Navy base last year by declining Kyiv's request to activate internet access in the Black Sea near Moscow-annexed Crimea.

All-rounder Cameron Green will miss a substantial part of Australia's Cricket World Cup build-up after being struck on the head by a ball from Kagiso Rabada during the first one-day international against South Africa on Thursday.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in China on Friday, he posted on social media, as the oil-rich socialist country seeks to shore up its ailing finances.

A disgraced Turkish crypto founder who fled to Albania and his two brothers have been sentenced to 11,196 years in jail each, the Anadolu state news agency reported Friday.

G20 leaders began to descend on New Delhi Friday, hoping to make progress on trade, climate and a host of other global problems despite the Chinese and Russian presidents skipping the summit.

A policeman waves reporters away from a desert prison in Xinjiang, part of a network of detention facilities transformed by China's shifting policies in the northwestern region.

Homes of people who went missing in China's crackdown on its Muslim minorities stand locked and silent in Xinjiang's rural heartland.