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Tries from Tommaso Menoncello and Leonardo Marin gave Italy a historic first ever victory over much-changed England in a tense 23-18 Six Nations thriller on Saturday.

For a moment Tehran resembled a city at peace, with birdsong, joggers and tranquil views of the snow-capped Alborz mountains in the distance. Then the sound of another explosion ripped through the air.

Atletico Madrid sporting director Mateu Alemany said striker Antoine Griezmann will be staying at the club despite strong links to Major League Soccer's Orlando City.

Lion-emblazoned flags of pre-revolution Iran fluttered in cities across the world on Saturday as demonstrators took to the streets a week after the start of the war in the Middle East.

Scotland ensured the Six Nations race will go to the final day with a 50-40 win at home to France on Saturday that derailed the holders' bid to wrap up the title early.

Bayer Leverkusen came from behind twice but gave up the lead late to draw 3-3 at Freiburg on Saturday, days out from their Champions League clash with Arsenal.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Latin American nations to use military power against the "cancer" of drug cartels and offered to support them with US missile strikes targeting narco kingpins.

Scotland winger Kyle Steyn said the key to his side's stunning 50-40 Six Nations victory over France on Saturday was striking first.

Iran launched waves of missile and drone attacks on its Gulf neighbours hosting US forces on Saturday and vowed no surrender despite threats from President Donald Trump to widen the conflict.

Wingers Darcy Graham and Kyle Steyn scored two tries each as Scotland ensured the Six Nations title race will go to the final day of the tournament with a superb 50-40 bonus-point win at home to France on Saturday.

World champion Tadej Pogacar won a record fourth Strade Bianche title as he made a triumphant start to his 2026 season on Saturday, with teenage French sensation Paul Seixas second.

An Israeli special forces operation that failed to find the remains of airman Ron Arad, captured in Lebanon in 1986, killed 41 people and wounded 40 in eastern Lebanon.

European champions England made it two wins from two in their World Cup 2027 qualifying campaign with a 2-0 win over Iceland at the City Ground in Nottingham on Saturday.

India skipper Suryakumar Yadav said on Saturday there would be "butterflies in the stomach" when he walks out for the T20 World Cup final against New Zealand, with expectations sky-high for the hosts.

Russia fired a volley of missiles and drones across Ukraine overnight on Friday to Saturday, killing 12 people and wounding more than a dozen, including children.

For the past 30 years, Halina Krauze has sat atop a 15-metre (49-foot) crane surveying the Gdansk shipyard, the birthplace of the Solidarnosc trade union.

Brazil's Olympic champion Lucas Pinheiro Braathen won the World Cup giant slalom in Kranjska Gora on Saturday to close the gap on discipline leader Marco Odermatt.

Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will miss his side's Champions League last-16 clash with Atalanta on Tuesday after picking up another calf injury.

Arsenal survived a scare to beat third-tier Mansfield 2-1 on Saturday and reach the FA Cup quarter-finals, staying on track for a historic quadruple.

Shohei Ohtani hit his second home run of the World Baseball Classic as defending champions Japan edged South Korea 8-6 in a nail-biter in Tokyo on Saturday.

Hinata Miyazawa and Riko Ueki both hit hat-tricks as Japan powered to the cusp of the Women's Asian Cup quarter-finals with a statement 11-0 demolition of an outclassed India on Saturday.

President Donald Trump threatened to escalate the bombing of Iran on Saturday as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed that he would never surrender, despite a fresh blitz of US and Israeli air strikes that set a Tehran airport ablaze.

Italian skier Laura Pirovano, winless in World Cup racing before triumphing in Friday's downhill at Val di Fassa, backed it up by taking a second victory in Saturday's downhill in the Dolomites.

Russia fired a volley of missiles and drones across Ukraine overnight on Friday to Saturday, killing 11 people and wounding more than a dozen, including children.

Nepal's rapper-turned-mayor Balendra Shah won a dramatic parliamentary contest on Saturday, defeating veteran leader KP Sharma Oli in the former prime minister's own constituency after staking his political future on the challenge.

Italian skier Laura Pirovano, winless in World Cup racing before triumphing in Friday's downhill at Val di Fassa, backed it up by taking a second victory in Saturday's downhill in the Dolomites.

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah unseated former Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency, Election Commission data showed Saturday, with his party also seemingly headed for a landslide victory nationally.

Wales coach Steve Tandy said despite a brave display in the 27–17 loss to Ireland, it did not give his team a "God-given right" to beat Italy next Saturday and end their 15‑match Six Nations losing run.

Sri Lanka will treat Iranian sailors rescued from a torpedoed frigate according to international law, a minister said Saturday, following reports Washington was pressuring Colombo to not repatriate them.

New Zealand will "not mind breaking a few hearts" in the T20 World Cup final against defending champions and hosts India, captain Mitchell Santner said on Saturday.

Ireland coach Andy Farrell said he and his team would gladly "take" the bonus-point win they secured over a dogged Welsh side that kept alive their slim hopes of the Six Nations title.

Russia fired a volley of missiles and drones across Ukraine overnight on Friday to Saturday, killing nine and wounding more than a dozen, including children, and destroying an apartment block in Kharkiv.