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Large swaths of the Atacama desert, the driest on the planet, have been covered with purple and white flowers after unusual rainfall patterns in northern Chile.

Delta reported lower quarterly profits Thursday despite still-strong travel demand as it moderated a plan to add capacity in the fall in light of industry overcapacity.

Kyiv said Thursday that it had seized a foreign cargo ship and detained its captain, alleging that the vessel had illegally exported Ukrainian grain from the annexed Crimean peninsula.

Jamie Smith marked his Test debut with an impressive 70 as England established a huge first-innings lead over the West Indies at Lord's on Thursday.

A fire that broke out Thursday in the spire of the cathedral in northern French city Rouen is "under control", local fire services said, just hours after the city's mayor shared a photo of a column of smoke rising from the Gothic landmark.

Melting sea ice in the fast-warming Arctic Ocean is not making it easier for sailors to navigate a legendary shortcut between Europe and Asia despite popular belief, scientists said Thursday.

Rory McIlroy put his US Open heartbreak behind him when he made an impressive start to the defence of his Scottish Open title on Thursday.

Ireland captain Peter O'Mahony has been relegated to the bench for the second and final Test against world champions South Africa in Durban on Saturday.

Fighting and bombardment shook Gaza's biggest city on Thursday, an AFP correspondent said, even after Israel's military declared an end to its operation in an eastern district that saw Gaza City's heaviest combat in months.

After spending over a decade bogged down in disappointment, Spain waltzed their way back to football's peak by reaching Sunday's Euro 2024 final in Berlin.

Two French international rugby players on tour in Argentina were being transferred Thursday from Interpol's Buenos Aires headquarters to the city of Mendoza, where they will be questioned over alleged rape.

Global equity markets rose Thursday as cooling US inflation data bolstered interest rate cut hopes.

The International Olympic Committee expressed its "full confidence" in the World Anti-Doping Agency on Thursday after a report said it had not mishandled the case of Chinese swimmers cleared to compete after testing positive for a banned drug.

US inflation cooled more than expected in June, government data showed Thursday, a positive development for President Joe Biden as he fights to win confidence on his economic record in his reelection bid.

Kenyan President William Ruto announced on Thursday the dismissal of almost his entire cabinet and consultations to form a "broad-based government" following widespread anti-government protests.

Caeleb Dressel knows the age-group days of "simply swimming" can never return for a seven-time Olympic gold medallist.

Germany said Thursday it will phase out the use of components from Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE in its 5G networks in the coming years due to national security concerns.

Jonas Vingegaard has chosen Tadej Pogacar as an unlikely ally in a bid to drop any new challengers for the title the duo have hogged these past four years, two-time Tour de France winner Bernard Thevenet told AFP on Thursday.

Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and seven-time winner Novak Djokovic can set-up a Wimbledon final blockbuster on Friday.

US inflation cooled more than expected in June, government data showed Thursday, a positive development for President Joe Biden as he fights to win confidence on his economic record in his reelection bid.

More than 60 news organizations, including some of the world's largest, signed an open letter Thursday calling on Israel to immediately end restrictions on international media entering and reporting on Gaza.

NATO leaders on Thursday looked to bolster ties with Asian partners after slamming China as a "decisive enabler" of Russia's war, before holding talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at the end of a summit in Washington.

The French government, under EU pressure for overspending, said Thursday it needed a total of 25 billion euros in budgetary cuts this year to keep its promise of getting deficits back under control.

Gudakesh Motie had a morning to remember as he dismissed England captain Ben Stokes and Joe Root but the hosts still piled on the runs against the West Indies at Lord's on Thursday.

A planet relatively close to Earth could be the first ever detected with a potentially life-sustaining liquid ocean outside our Solar System, according to scientists using the James Webb space telescope.

England's progression to a first ever major tournament final on foreign soil at Euro 2024 is the fruit of a decade of work on a player development programme that has turned perennial underachievers into serial contenders.

Israeli air strikes pounded parts of Gaza's biggest city on Thursday, Hamas said, after Israel's military declared an end to its operation in an eastern district that saw Gaza City's heaviest combat in months.

Asian and European stock markets rose Thursday following more record-highs on Wall Street as Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell hinted at a September cut to US interest rates.

A fire broke out Thursday in the spire of the cathedral in northern French city Rouen, its mayor said, sharing a photo of a column of smoke rising from the Gothic landmark.

When Stefanos Tsitsipas dropped out of the world's top 10 in February this year, tennis purists mourned the final nail in the coffin of the one-handed backhand, once the sport's signature shot.

A Moscow court on Thursday upheld a prison sentence against Nobel Prize-winning rights advocate Oleg Orlov, after the campaigner compared Russia's justice system to that of Nazi Germany.

South Korea on Thursday appointed K-pop girl band NewJeans "honorary ambassadors" as part of a drive to promote tourism, joining a long list of Korean celebrities to take up the role.