Knicks lose Sims for NBA playoff run after shoulder surgery
New York Knicks center Jericho Sims underwent successful right shoulder surgery, the team announced on Thursday, but will miss the remainder of the team's NBA playoff run.
Read moreAnother Kenyan pastor accused in mass deaths of followers
Kenya said on Thursday that one of the country's highest-profile pastors would face charges over the "mass killing" of his followers, just days after the discovery of dozens of bodies in mass graves linked to another church.
Read more'Football Leaks' hacker faces court verdict
Hacker Rui Pinto, the man behind "Football Leaks" and "Luanda Leaks", faces sentencing in Lisbon on Friday at the end of a trial that started in September 2020.
Read more'I just want to be judged': Halep still waits on doping hearing
Simona Halep has insisted she did not "knowingly" take performance-enhancing drugs, as she waits for a doping hearing seven months since being provisionally suspended.
Read moreLegendary US talk show host Jerry Springer dies aged 79
Longtime US talk show host Jerry Springer, whose program became a symbol of low brow television with its on-air fights, swearing and infidelity revelations, died Thursday at the age of 79.
Read moreEx-insurance salesman elected unlikely mayor of Berlin
Berlin appointed its first conservative mayor in more than two decades on Thursday after the Christian Democrats (CDU) unseated the ruling left-wing coalition.
Read moreIran seizes oil tanker off Oman, says two missing in collision
Iran seized a US-bound oil tanker off Oman on Thursday, saying it had crashed into an Iranian vessel leaving two crew missing -- the latest disruptive incident in the crucial but troubled waterway.
Read moreBeijing-led talks on Ukraine a 'trap' for the West: analysts
China and Ukraine's leaders speaking this week raises the unflattering prospect of Kyiv and the West having to reject a Chinese proposal to end the Ukraine war, analysts say.
Read moreFinland's PM-designate to seek alliance with far-right
Conservative politician Petteri Orpo, who won Finland's April general election, said Thursday he plans to form a coalition government that includes the far-right runner-up Finns Party.
Read moreSpain hit by summer-strength heat in April
An unusually early heatwave in drought-hit Spain is set to peak on Thursday and Friday with temperatures expected to break April records in the south of the country.
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