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Manchester City midfielder Rodri said on Monday he will wait until after the World Cup to address his future, amid reports linking him with a move to Real Madrid.

Spanish club Villarreal announced on Monday the appointment of Inigo Perez as coach on a three-year contract, following the departure of Marcelino Garcia Toral.

If he were no longer physically able to play Scrabble, 86-year-old Tan Jin Chor said he would "shut the lights and call it a day", but his love of the word game has kept the veteran verbophile competing.

Flavio Cobolli said he made the mistake of "thinking" before he steadied on Monday and clawed into the French Open quarter-finals, beating Zachary Svajda 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/5).

A Czech court said on Monday it had decided to extradite a German neo-Nazi provocateur accused of abusing Germany's gender laws to serve a sentence in a women's prison.

As the French Open breaks a recent tradition by scheduling a woman's match for the prime-time evening slot Monday, tournament director Amelie Mauresmo suggested five-set men's matches were always more likely to take the marquee slot.

Serena Williams confirmed her return to tennis after an absence of nearly four years on Monday, with the American great set to play women's doubles at Queen's club later this month.

Serena Williams will make her return to competitive tennis in the women's doubles at Queen's later this month, tournament organisers announced on Monday.

Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska extended her remarkable run at the French Open by cruising into the quarter-finals with a straight-sets win over Diane Parry on Monday.

US rapper Travis Scott angered fans in Istanbul after a performance that barely lasted 20 minutes, with the audience booing as he left the stage early Monday, footage on social media showed.

Israel said Monday it would once again target Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold mostly spared heavy attacks since April, as it stages its deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades.

An ex-Syrian general and a former senior Syrian police officer pleaded not guilty on Monday to torturing opponents of ousted president Bashar al-Assad as their trial started in Vienna.

Oil prices jumped and equities slid on Monday as Middle East peace talks stumbled and tensions mounted between Iran and the Unites States.

A giant statue of football superstar Lionel Messi was taken down in India on Monday after it was spotted swaying dangerously in the wind, authorities said.

World Cup-bound South Africa departed for Mexico on Monday, a day later than planned after visa delays that were heavily criticised at home, including by the government.

Laptop chipmakers such as Intel and AMD should be worried about their new rival Nvidia, experts say, after the US hardware titan announced Monday a push into the personal computer market.

Hundreds of protesters marched through Kenya's capital on Monday against the high number of killings of women and children.

Four-time Grand Slam champions Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka will go head-to-head in the first French Open women's night match in three years on Monday, while Flavio Cobolli and Anna Kalinskaya booked their places in the quarter-finals.

Former England and Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has revealed he has stage four cancer.

Flavio Cobolli on Monday clawed into the French Open quarter-finals, beating Zachary Svajda 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/5).

Russian 22nd seed Anna Kalinskaya scrapped her way to her second Grand Slam quarter-final on Monday, edging out Anastasia Potapova in a tense French Open fourth-round tie.

Almost 50 percent of young adults in six major economies think AI romantic companionship will improve human happiness through emotional support in the next decade, the results of a large survey suggested Monday.

Israel said Monday it would once again target Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold mostly spared heavy attacks since April, as it stages its deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades.

Former England midfielder James Milner has announced his retirement from football at the age of 40 after 24 seasons in the Premier League.

Russia fired a record number of long-range drones at Ukraine in May, an AFP analysis of Ukrainian air force data showed Monday, as Kyiv appealled to allies for air defence support.

Oil prices jumped and equity markets diverged Monday as Middle East peace talks stalled and investors continued to pour into AI-linked stocks.

Peru's right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori promised on Sunday to crack down on crime, while leftist Roberto Sanchez vowed to tackle the "political mafia," in the final debate before the country's June 7 runoff election.

President Emmanuel Macron said he was expecting "record" foreign investment amounting to 93 billion euros ($108 billion) at an international conference Monday, including for artificial intelligence and data centres.

Arne Slot says he is leaving Liverpool "exactly where it belongs: amongst Europe's elite", in an emotional letter to fans after his sacking as head coach.

Chinese companies in 15 key industrial sectors received vastly more state support than their international competitors between 2005 and 2024, according to an OECD report released on Monday.

Roland Garros and the French Tennis Federation on Monday hit Adolfo Daniel Vallejo with a $65,000 fine for his remarks about the woman who umpired his second-round defeat at the French Open.

France said on Monday it had detained a Russia-linked oil tanker in the Atlantic over the weekend, with the Kremlin comparing the latest seizure aimed at tackling Moscow's sanctions-busting shadow fleet to "piracy".