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Bayer Leverkusen found some solace at home on Sunday after a Champions League humbling by Paris Saint-Germain with a 2-0 defeat of Freiburg in the Bundesliga.

Brazilian 19-year-old Joao Fonseca secured the biggest title of his career so far by downing Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the ATP 500 event in Basel on Sunday.

Matty Cash's first-half goal fired Aston Villa to a 1-0 victory over Manchester City on Sunday, as the club celebrated Unai Emery's third anniversary as manager with a memorable win.

Jannik Sinner clinched his fourth title of the season on Sunday as the Italian rallied from a set down to beat Alexander Zverev in the final of the Vienna Open.

Hurricane Melissa, already a major category 4 storm, gathered steam Sunday as it took aim at Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, with forecasters predicting catastrophic flooding and urging residents to seek shelter immediately.

Arsenal stretched their Premier League lead to four points as Eberechi Eze's goal beat his former club Crystal Palace 1-0, while Manchester City lost 1-0 at Aston Villa on Sunday.

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has said in a British newspaper interview he would not now perform in Israel, eight years after the band defied pro-Palestinian activists to play a Tel Aviv gig.

Eberechi Eze scored his first Premier League goal for Arsenal as the leaders' set-piece expertise secured a 1-0 win against his former club Crystal Palace on Sunday.

Argentines voted Sunday in legislative elections that will determine the future of President Javier Milei's reform agenda and likely trigger market turmoil if voters desert him, despite unprecedented US aid.

Jannik Sinner clinched his fourth title of the season on Sunday as the Italian rallied from a set down to beat Alexander Zverev in the final of the Vienna Open.

Protesters flooded Spain's southern city of Seville on Sunday as public outrage grows over failings that led to hundreds of women not receiving the results of breast cancer screenings.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday signalled a tentative deal with China to de-escalate their damaging, tariff-fueled trade war -- just days before a summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

A US warship arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday for joint exercises near the coast of Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on drug traffickers and Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery, already the largest in Africa, aims to become the biggest in the world in three years' time with an expansion doubling its capacity, its owner said on Sunday.

Defending champion Marco Odermatt sped through the fog to win the first men's World Cup race of the season, a giant slalom in Soelden on Sunday.

Marc Cucurella has urged Chelsea to show a killer instinct after their failure to finish off Sunderland in Saturday's damaging 2-1 defeat.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would decide for itself when to strike its foes and which countries could join an international security force in Gaza, as Egyptian recovery crews arrived.

Liverpool were tipped to turn the Premier League title race into a prolonged coronation this season, but instead the champions find themselves mired in an unexpected crisis after their latest shock defeat.

UK police on Sunday arrested an Ethiopian asylum seeker and convicted sex offender, whose crimes had sparked anti-immigration protests, after he was accidentally released from prison in an embarrassing blunder by officials.

Britain's scandal-tarred Prince Andrew faced continued scrutiny Sunday of his contentious living arrangements and titles, amid reports of talks with King Charles III about vacating his 30-room royal residence.

Sharia-enforcing police in Nigeria's northern city of Kano have cancelled a wedding of two TikTok celebrities that was ordered by a court after a viral kissing video, an official told AFP Sunday.

Former champions England produced a textbook all-round performance to crush New Zealand by eight wickets in their final Women's World Cup league game in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.

Polls opened Sunday in Argentina for legislative elections that would determine whether President Javier Milei can expand his party's hold on parliament in the second half of his term.

With no shoes to protect their tiny dust-covered feet, Hiam Muqdad's grandchildren toddled unfazed through the bombed-out ruins of their Gaza City neighbourhood in search of clean water.

French authorities have detained two of the suspected robbers believed to have stolen precious crown jewels from the Louvre in a museum heist that stunned the world, officials said Sunday.

Thousands of grieving Thai royalists lined the streets of Bangkok on Sunday, saluting a procession bringing former queen Sirikit's body to lie in state for a year-long funeral at the capital's Grand Palace.

The Zimbabwe ruling party's backing of a term extension for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which requires a change to the constitution, has fuelled anger and fears of deepening authoritarianism.

Minjee Lee led the way as Australia stunned the United States in the final to win the LPGA Tour's International Crown for the first time on Sunday in South Korea.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced Sunday a successful final test of a new nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik, amid Moscow's ongoing Ukraine offensive and uncertainty over a new summit with US leader Donald Trump.

French authorities have detained two men suspected of being part of the four-man crew who stole precious jewellery from the world-famous Louvre museum last week, two sources close to the case said Sunday, confirming media reports.

An emotional Miguel Tabuena fell to his knees and kissed the turf at his home Sta. Elena Golf Club after winning the International Series Philippines on Sunday for the biggest victory of his career.

The Kurdish militant PKK said Sunday it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq, urging Ankara to take legal steps to protect the peace process.