Serie A are to appeal the rescheduling of this weekend's Rome derby which city authorities moved from Sunday to Monday to avoid clashing with the Italian Open men's final.
Georgia on Tuesday enthroned a new patriarch of its powerful Orthodox Church in a ceremony attended by the ex-Soviet country's top political leaders and hundreds of believers.
A French court has ordered Volkswagen to pay 100,000 euros ($117,000) on charges of "consumer harm" over the Dieselgate emissions fraud, an advocacy group said Tuesday, as around 950,000 clients in France await a class-action ruling on compensation.
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Vladimir Weiss will return to coach the Slovak national football team after Italian Francesco Calzona stepped down last month, the Slovak football association (SFZ) said on Tuesday.
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The Japanese Olympic Committee's vice president has resigned, the organisation said Tuesday, after he apologised for making "utterly unacceptable" remarks that reportedly included an anti-Korean slur.
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Australia will avoid recession even if a prolonged Middle East war pushes the oil price to $200 a barrel, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Tuesday, outlining a national budget "heavily hostage to events overseas".
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World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told his top team Tuesday that he was getting on with governing, defying mounting calls from ministers and MPs to step down.
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An Australian court ordered iron ore giant Fortescue on Tuesday to pay Indigenous people more than Aus$150 million ($108 million) in compensation for mining on their traditional lands.
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German agrichemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer reported Tuesday a bump in first-quarter profit, driven by its agricultural business even as high-stakes lawsuits over its glyphosate weedkillers drag on in the United States.
A new London museum conceived with and for under-30s is seeking to draw younger generations by tackling themes such as climate and gender.
Japan's leading potato chip maker is feeling the crunch from shortages linked to the Iran war, swapping its signature orange-and-yellow packets for black and white.
Oil prices climbed on Tuesday as US-Iran talks stalled, while South Korean calls for a social tax on AI profits dragged down the tech-rich Kospi index.
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Nature
When a mosquito tries to bite biology professor David Inouye during fieldwork among orchids in Colorado, he pauses before swatting the bug. If it's dusted with pollen, he lets it live.
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Russia ended a three-day ceasefire with Ukraine on Tuesday by launching a wave of more than 200 attack drones that damaged energy facilities and apartment buildings, killing one person, Ukrainian officials said.
At least 372 Afghan civilians were killed in conflict between government forces and Pakistan in the first three months of the year, the United Nations reported on Tuesday, with more than half the deaths attributed to airstrikes on a drug rehab facility in Kabul.
The head of Japanese bobsleigh apologised on Tuesday and admitted making "utterly unacceptable" remarks that reportedly included an anti-Korean slur.
When US President Donald Trump meets Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, the shadow the Iran conflict casts over the summit might appear to give China's leader a clear advantage.
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