The question of whether Russia will take part in next year's Olympic Games was no clearer on Thursday after IAAF president Sebastian Coe held a news conference dominated instead by his personal relationship with Nike.
Cam Newton sprinted to a corner of the $1.2 billion showplace of the Dallas Cowboys, pointing a camera at celebrating Carolina fans while gesturing to them with a wide smile.
Brett Favre had one more memorable moment with the Green Bay Packers.
The US House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them.
New Zealanders began voting on Friday to select a potential new flag, part of a controversial push for the South Pacific country to drop Britain's Union Flag from its national banner.
The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea agreed on Friday to have working-level contact next week to discuss the timing, venue and agenda for intergovernmental talks, which the two sides had agreed to hold in late August.
A 1,111-carat "high quality diamond", said to be the biggest find in more than a century, has been discovered at a mine in Botswana.
Bangladeshi village soccer coach Mofiz Uddin only decided to form a girls' team in 2011 out of frustration at the local boys' failure to bring home any trophies.
China hammered 12 unanswered goals past hapless Bhutan on Thursday as it ramped up its World Cup qualifying hopes with its biggest win in 15 years.
FIFA on Thursday approved five candidates to stand in February's vote to replace Sepp Blatter as president of world soccer governing body, but Michel Platini has not yet made the list.
Other golfers beware. With an ultra-competitive domestic tour and a seemingly limitless supply of young, talented players willing to sacrifice everything for success, South Korea's dominance of world women's golf is not going away - and if anything, it could get even stronger.
Justin Rose may need to overtake Lucas Bjerregaard again on Chinese soil if he is to seize pole position in the Race to Dubai after the Dane moved three shots clear at the BMW Masters on Friday.
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