MotoGP champ Quartararo defies pain in 'push to the max'
MotoGP world champion Fabio Quartararo will defy pain this weekend in Japan after a nasty fall that blew the title race wide open with five grands prix to go.
Read moreNoble returns to West Ham as sporting director
Former West Ham captain Mark Noble is to return to the club as its sporting director, the Premier League strugglers announced Thursday.
Read moreJapan government intervenes to support cratering yen
Japan's finance ministry said Thursday it intervened in the currency market to bolster the yen, which has plummeted against the dollar in recent months on the widening policy gap between the US and Japanese central banks.
Read moreMarkets tumble again as Fed hikes rates, warns more pain to come
European stocks sank Thursday following sharp losses in Asia and on Wall Street, but the dollar spiked after the Federal Reserve signalled more hefty US interest rate hikes.
Read more'We keep running': Ukrainian rail unbowed in face of war
Ukrainian resilience in the face of the Russian onslaught also extends to its railways, proudly declares the head of the company that has kept trains running with nary a glitch since the war began.
Read moreFrench basketball bans Heurtel for signing for Russian club
France on Thursday said it would boot veteran point guard Thomas Heurtel off the national basketball team if he played for Zenit St Petersburg.
Read moreCatholic plurality fuels unification pressure in N.Ireland
Northern Ireland now has a Catholic plurality for the first time since the UK-run province was carved out as a Protestant fiefdom a century ago, census data revealed on Thursday.
Read moreRaducanu feels the love to surge into Korea Open quarter-finals
Emma Raducanu enjoyed support from the Korea Open crowd on the way to a straight-sets win over 396th-ranked Yanina Wickmayer and a place in the quarter-finals on Thursday.
Read moreNorway, Swiss central banks hike rates to tame inflation
The Swiss and Norwegian central banks announced hefty interest rate hikes on Thursday as global monetary policymakers ramp up the battle against runaway inflation.
Read moreChina's former justice minister faces life in prison for bribery
China's former justice minister faces life in prison after a court handed him a suspended death sentence on Thursday for taking bribes and "bending the law".
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