Matthews guides West Indies to first win in World T20
West Indian captain Hayley Matthews guided her team to their first win in the Women’s T20 World Cup when they beat Ireland by six wickets with one ball to spare at Newlands in Cape Town on Friday.
Read moreQatar bid for Man Utd as Saudis linked with takeover
The race to buy Manchester United became a little clearer on Friday when a consortium led by Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani, chairman of Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), announced that it had submitted an offer to take full control of the Premier League club.
Read moreWoods says tampon prank meant to be 'fun and games'
Tiger Woods insisted Friday he didn't mean to cause offense when he pranked playing partner Justin Thomas by handing him a tampon in the first round of the Genesis Invitational.
Read moreWoods's weekend in jeopardy after 74 at Riviera
Tiger Woods blamed poor putting after a three-over-par 74 on Friday left him one stroke outside the projected cut line midway through the Genesis Invitational second round.
Read moreMadrid offers citizenship to more Nicaragua dissidents
Madrid on Friday extended an offer of Spanish nationality to another 94 exiled Nicaraguan opposition figures dubbed "traitors" by their government.
Read morePrice sets world best in women's weight throw at US Indoors
DeAnna Price delivered a world best of 26.02 meters to win the women's weight throw on Friday at the US Indoor Track and Field Championships while world 200m champion Noah Lyles advanced easily in the 60m.
Read moreClashes at living cost protests in Suriname
Hundreds of people protested in Suriname Friday against rising living costs, clashing with security forces in the capital Paramaribo and looting city center shops, AFP observed.
Read moreRio carnival returns, celebrating 'life, democracy'
Rio de Janeiro's mayor declared the world's biggest carnival officially open Friday for the first full-scale edition in three years, calling it a celebration of life and democracy after the turmoil of Covid-19 and Brazil's bitterly divisive elections.
Read moreBulgaria finds 18 dead migrants suffocated in truck
Bulgarian authorities on Friday found the bodies of 18 people who suffocated in a truck smuggling them through the country.
Read moreBarcelona facing more questions over refereeing chief payments
Barcelona are facing further questions about payments of millions of euros made to a former refereeing chief's company following revelations that the amount in question was four times bigger than the one originally declared.
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