- Verstappen claims sprint win in Austin, Norris third
- 'Don't leave tennis', Djokovic tells Nadal after Saudi showdown
- Arsenal shocked by Bournemouth, Man Utd ease pressure on Ten Hag
- Ten-man Arsenal stunned by Bournemouth
- Kane hat-trick sends Bayern top past Leipzig
- Netanyahu says Iran-backed Hezbollah tried to kill him
- Ten-man AC Milan hold on to squeeze past Udinese
- Ten Hag urges goal-shy Man Utd to build on Brentford win
- G7 defence ministers concerned by attacks on peacekeepers, vow Kyiv support
- Life's a ditch as Neuville's world rally title hopes suffer
- Boeing and workers reach tentative deal to end strike
- Man Utd ease pressure on Ten Hag, Spurs run riot
- 'Are you crazy?': Mainz fans slam Klopp's Red Bull move
- Outsider Anmaat stars on British Champions Day
- Man Utd hit back against Brentford to ease pressure on Ten Hag
- Boniface sends Leverkusen past Frankfurt, Leipzig go top
- Gaza rescuers say 400 killed in two-week Israeli assault in north
- On-form Maqala fires Bayonne past Farrell-less Racing
- Liam Payne's sister posts poignant tribute to her late brother
- 'Our world collapsed': Brazil dam disaster victims seek justice in UK
- Threats and diplomacy: Iran's dual strategy on Israel
- Spurs destroy West Ham in eight-minute blitz
- Japan 'zombie' train spooks passengers ahead of Halloween
- Spurs run riot to beat West Ham
- New Zealand beat Britain to defend America's Cup
- New Zealand need 107 to win after Sarfaraz, Pant heroics
- G7 defence summit considers Gaza, Lebanon as conflicts rage
- Austrian far-right radical arrested after defying Swiss entry ban
- New Zealand hit back after Sarfaraz, Pant heroics in rain-hit India Test
- Jailed Guatemalan journalist Zamora granted house arrest
- Netanyahu residence targeted as Hezbollah launches barrage at Israel
- Green leads at LPGA in South Korea as Jeeno surges
- Electricity blackout puts Cubans on edge
- North Korea troop deployment locks in Russia military alliance
- New Zealand and South Africa face off in Women's T20 World Cup final
- Maresca defies expectations with Chelsea revival
- G7 defence summit convenes during 'historic moment'
- Harris, Trump deploy celebrity power in must-win states
- Bella Nipotina wins world's richest turf race, The Everest
- Sarfaraz ton powers India to 344-3 in rain-hit Test
- Man arrested after 'Molotov'-like bombs tossed at Japan ruling party HQ
- Jane Goodall warns on 'false promises' at UN biodiversity meet
- Romantasy and dark college: young readers drive new literary trends
- King Charles given military honours on first day of Australia tour
- Martin extends championship lead with Australian MotoGP sprint win
- Chinese drone maker DJI sues Pentagon over blacklisting
- Lynx edge Liberty to force game five in WNBA Finals
- Indonesia's Prabowo targets growth spurt with big projects
- Spectre of royal meddling haunts Charles in Australia
- Pyongyang says recovered remains of South Korean drone
Olympic legends: from Steve Redgrave to Usain Bolt - Part 4
AFP continues its look back at the history of the Olympics to pick out some of the legends that have lit up the Games.
- Steve Redgrave: awesome oarsman -
British rower Sir Steve Redgrave is the only endurance sport athlete to have won gold medals in five consecutive Olympics: 1984 (coxed fours), 1988, 1992, 1996 (coxless pairs) and 2000 (coxless fours).
After his fourth gold at the Atlanta Games Redgrave, who suffered for years with debilitating ulcerative colitis, announced his retirement.
Soon after that he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes but he decided to put his 38-year-old body through a punishing training regime one last time in 2000 and went on to win a fifth gold in Sydney.
"I decided that diabetes had to live with me, not me live with it," he said.
- Cathy Freeman: Aboriginal star -
In a moment that captured a spirit of reconciliation between Australia's Aborigines and the descendants of European migrants, Aboriginal sprint legend Cathy Freeman, wearing a custom-made silver bodysuit, lit the Olympic flame at the 2000 Sydney Games.
Ten days later she became the first Australian Aboriginal to collect an individual gold medal when she won the 400m final, this time in a high-tech hooded green and gold racing suit.
Freeman had already known Olympic glory, having won silver in the 400m at the 1996 Atlanta Games. But taking gold in front of an ecstatic home crowd was a different matter.
After crossing the line she dropped to her knees before running a victory lap wrapped in both the Australian and Aboriginal flags.
Freeman retired three years later and has since founded a nonprofit organisation that focuses on Indigenous children in Australia.
- Michael Phelps: swim titan -
Phelps was just 15 when he competed at his first Games in Sydney 2000, the youngest American swimmer at the event since 1932.
He came fifth in the 200 metres butterfly, but over the next three years toppled a slew of world records to become one of the most famous swimmers of all time.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, the "Baltimore Bullet" scooped up six golds and two bronzes.
In Beijing four years later, he increased his tally, winning eight golds -- seven of them in world record times. To this day it remains the record for the most golds won in a single edition of the Summer Games.
By the time he retired in 2016, he was the most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals (23 gold, three silver, two bronze).
- Usain Bolt: lightning fast -
The laid-back Jamaican known as "Lightning Bolt" smashed the 100m, which he already owned, and 200m world records at the Beijing Games in 2008, making him the record holder in both. He improved both at the world championships a year later, setting records that still stand.
He was the first man to run both events at the Games since Carl Lewis in 1984 and he outdid the American by becoming the first runner to repeat the double, in London in 2012 and again in Rio in 2016.
He also anchored Jamaica to 4x100m wins in all three Games, although the 2008 team was disqualified over doping involving another runner.
Bolt, whose lightning bolt pose after his wins has been immortalised in a statue in his hometown of Kingston, retired in 2017 with eight Olympic golds and 14 world championship medals.
A.Mahlangu--AMWN