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In 2015 a teenage Zhao Xintong told a documentary that he wanted to be like trailblazer Ding Junhui.

Aston Villa climbed back into the race to qualify for the Champions League as Youri Tielemans sealed a crucial 1-0 win against Fulham on Saturday.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is a craft beer afficionado who loves "fighting Tories", clawing his way to the nation's highest office from hardscrabble blue-collar beginnings.

Donald Trump's stinging trade tariffs may have helped Australia's left-leaning prime minister snatch a resounding election victory Saturday, analysts say.

Australia's right-leaning opposition leader Peter Dutton lost his parliamentary seat Saturday, adding humiliation to a night of crushing defeat for his conservative coalition.

New Delhi widened tit-for-tat measures against Islamabad on Saturday, blocking access to the social media accounts of Pakistani actors and cricketers, as well as extending trade blocks and stopping postal services.

Australia's left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese triumphed Saturday in national elections, crushing his conservative rival in a contest swayed by economic upheaval and Donald Trump.

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who has been heavily linked with the Brazil post, said Saturday he will reveal his future plans on May 25 after their final La Liga game.

Hotels are empty and roads deserted at the start of what is normally peak tourist season amidst the towering peaks and lush valleys of Pakistan's Kashmir valley, as the threat of attack from India looms.

Left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese triumphed Saturday in Australia's general election, according to media projections, prevailing in a vote shaped by inflation woes and Trump tariffs.

Thousands of Bangladeshi Islamists rallied in Dhaka on Saturday, one of their biggest public shows of strength in years as religious activism surges.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed a three-day truce ordered by Russian leader Vladimir Putin as theatrics but said Kyiv was ready for a full ceasefire.

The cardinals of the Catholic Church held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings at the Vatican on Saturday ahead of the election of a new pope.

Pakistan's military said it carried out a "training launch" of a surface-to-surface missile weapons system on Saturday, further heightening tensions with India after last month's deadly attack in disputed Kashmir.

Prosecutors said Saturday that 21 suspects in a series of coordinated attacks on French prisons had been charged, including two teenagers.

Pakistan's military conducted a training launch of a surface-to-surface missile weapons system on Saturday, it said in a statement, upping tensions with arch-rival India.

Australians voted Saturday in a general election shaped by inflation woes and Trump tariffs, with a string of polls pointing to victory for left-leaning incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

On India's heavily fortified border with arch-rival Pakistan, residents of farming villages have sent families back from the frontier, recalling the terror of the last major conflict between the rival armies.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's dream of gaining city status for his SpaceX spaceport in the southern US state of Texas could become a reality on Saturday, with voters set to green light Starbase as a new municipality.

The Houston Rockets rode a crushing fourth quarter to a 115-107 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Friday to set up a game-seven showdown in their NBA Western Conference playoff series.

US boxer Ryan Garcia was knocked down once on the way to a unanimous decision defeat to Rolly Romero in his return from a doping suspension in a welterweight bout held in New York's iconic Times Square on Friday.

Japan's annual "Golden Week" holiday period gets into full swing Saturday, but inflation and hotel prices sent soaring by record inbound tourism have left domestic travellers less eager to pack their bags.

President Donald Trump spent his first 100 days issuing a blitz of executive orders to deliver rapidly on campaign pledges, drastically downsize the government and reshape America's role on the global stage.

At dawn, container ships from Asia unload at a huge Pacific port in Mexico that so far appears to be weathering the storm unleashed by US President Donald Trump's tariffs.

At the Port of Los Angeles, the frenetic choreography of cranes unloading containers from Asia has slowed to a tiptoe, and the noise of the busiest docks in the US is quieting.

Ryu Hae-ran shook off a slow start with an eagle and four birdies in a five-under par 67 on Friday that gave her a two-stroke lead midway through the LPGA Black Desert Championship in Utah.

Singaporeans cast their votes Saturday in an election where Prime Minister Lawrence Wong faces his first major test against a rejuvenated opposition in uncertain economic times for the trade-centred nation.

Australians are voting in a general election Saturday, a hard-fought contest between party leaders with sharply contrasting visions for the country.

Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler shrugged off a six-hour storm delay to fire an eight-under par 63 and seize command in Friday's second round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson tournament.

Israel launched more than 20 air strikes inside Syria late Friday, a war monitor said, following up an attack near the presidential palace in Damascus which was condemned as a "dangerous escalation" by the country's Islamist rulers.

Quadruple Olympic gold medallist Leon Marchand was still waiting for his first win of the Tyr Pro Swim meeting in Fort Lauderdale on Friday after Bobby Finke snatched a 400m individual medley victory over the world record-holder.

Apple on Friday relaxed its App Store payment rules in the face of a scathing court order, with Spotify quick to reap the benefit.