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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert insisted she remained the right person to lead the league on Friday as she responded to an avalanche of recent criticism from leading players over her stewardship of the sport.

With friendship bracelets on her wrist and feathers in her hair, Temple Daniel says she was never going to miss the film that accompanies Taylor Swift's new album.

A Salvadoran journalist who was deported from the United States said Friday he was expelled for reporting on the "unjust arrests" of migrants.

Sean Combs once had it all: riches, fame and the power to get anything he wanted.

US President Donald Trump said Friday he believed Hamas was ready for "lasting peace" and told Israel to stop bombing Gaza, after the Palestinian militant group declared it was ready to free hostages under his ceasefire plan.

Hamas on Friday said it was ready to start immediate talks on freeing the Israeli hostages it holds and the end of the Gaza war, welcoming US President Donald Trump's call for Israel to stop bombing the Palestinian territory.

From chic Sao Paulo bars to Rio de Janeiro's beaches, Brazilians are on edge after a wave of suspected poisonings from tainted liquor has left people dead, blind, or in a coma.

Munich airport was forced to halt operations again late on Friday over suspected drone sightings, a day after drones caused more than 30 flights to be cancelled there and left nearly 3,000 passengers stranded.

Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani says composure will be key when he makes his long anticipated Major League Baseball postseason pitching debut on Saturday in the Los Angeles Dodgers' series opener against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Hamas said Friday it was ready to discuss freeing the hostages it holds in Gaza under the framework of Donald Trump's recent ceasefire plan, prompting the US president to call on Israel to stop bombing the Palestinian territory "immediately".

US President Donald Trump said Friday he believed Hamas was ready for peace and told Israel to stop bombing Gaza, after the Palestinian militant group declared it was ready to free hostages under his ceasefire plan.

The attacker who targeted a British synagogue, Jihad al-Shamie, was a British citizen of Syrian descent who was on police bail for a rape charge, police said on Friday.

A man who launched a car-ramming and stabbing attack on a British synagogue on Yom Kippur may have been inspired by Islamist extremism, police said on Friday, as emotions ran high after the atrocity.

Antoine Semenyo scored twice as Bournemouth moved up to second in the Premier League with three late goals to beat Fulham 3-1 on Friday.

A Swiss company inaugurated two solar furnaces on Friday in a watchmaking city, aimed at melting down and recycling the key industry's steel offcuts by using green energy.

Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday for his conviction on prostitution-related charges.

Taylor Swift on Friday quickly set a streaming record with "The Life of a Showgirl," her new album of bouncy pop songs about love, sex, success -- and score-settling -- that had fans analyzing every word.

Japan's ruling party elects its fifth leader in as many years Saturday, charged with reviving its flagging fortunes as a new anti-immigration grouping snaps at its heels.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Friday that Kenya had made "significant and demonstrable progress" toward cleaning up its systems, delaying a threatened non-compliance order.

The US government shutdown is set to stretch into next week after senators voted Friday for a fourth time to reject a funding fix proposed by President Donald Trump's Republicans.

Prosecutors urged a judge to put music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs behind bars for more than a decade while his children pleaded for a lesser sentence at a court hearing Friday to decide his punishment for prostitution-related crimes.

Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina condemned on Friday what he said was an attempt to topple his government, as fresh protests flared against the political elite and years of misrule.

Czechs began voting on Friday in a two-day general election, which the party of self-described "Trumpist" Andrej Babis is expected to top, though without gaining an outright majority, spelling tricky negotiations ahead.

Local hero Robert MacIntyre overcame extreme conditions as the Ryder Cup golfer took the share of the clubhouse lead on Friday before the second round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship was suspended.

UK police said Friday they shot two victims, including one who died, as officers responded to an attack on worshippers at a Manchester synagogue marking a Jewish holiday.

Former England cricket head coach Andy Flower has left his role with Trent Rockets to become the coach of Hundred rivals London Spirit men, it was announced on Friday.

Artificial intelligence technology is in an "industrial bubble," Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told a tech conference in Italy on Friday, but the benefits to society will be "immense".

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Friday the temporary closure of Munich airport after drone sightings was a "wake-up call" on the threat from drones, which have caused a string of similar disruptions across Europe.

Jailed Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, the longtime leader of the island's pro-democracy movement, announced Friday that he had chosen to go into exile after suffering "torture" and "humiliation" in prison.

Prosecutors urged a federal judge Friday to sentence Sean "Diddy" Combs to more than a decade behind bars for his conviction on two prostitution-related counts, saying the music mogul had shown a lack of remorse.

Hundreds of thousands of people protested across Italy on Friday during a large-scale strike over the treatment of the Gaza aid flotilla and far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's cautious stance on the conflict.

Stock markets struck fresh records on Friday, driven by investor optimism over artificial intelligence and US rate-cut hopes, which overshadowed concerns about a government shutdown dragging on.

Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was in court on Friday facing a potential sentence of more than a decade behind bars for his conviction on two prostitution-related counts.

Taylor Swift is in a sparkling new era.

US President Donald Trump has given Hamas until 2200 GMT on Sunday to accept his 20-point plan for peace in Gaza, warning the Palestinian militant group faced "all hell" if it did not agree to the terms.

Lamine Yamal has been ruled out of Spain's World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Bulgaria this month after suffering a recurrence of his groin injury, Barcelona said on Friday.

With a yellow straw hat and a wicked toothy grin, he bobs among crowds of protesting youngsters from Asia to Africa to Latin America and Europe -- a smirking reproach to governments everywhere.

A prominent Greek wildlife group on Friday said it had confirmed the first case of a wolf-dog hybrid in the north of the country.

Ange Postecoglou believes Nottingham Forest are close to turning a corner despite supporters' calls for him to be sacked after less than a month in charge.