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Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history and a five-time champion as a player with the Boston Celtics, died on Sunday, his family announced. He was 86.

Dutch rider Demi Vollering took the Tour de France Femmes overall title in style on Sunday, winning the hilly final stage to extend her lead on nearest rival Kasia Niewiadoma, who finished second overall after a tense struggle.

BMW has spent several years exploring the idea that a vehicle’s exterior need not remain a permanently fixed surface. With the iX3 Flow Edition, presented at Auto China 2026 in Beijing, that vision has taken a decisive step away from experimental spectacle and towards something that could eventually be engineered, manufactured and offered on a series-production vehicle.

BMW is entering one of the most consequential product transitions in its modern history. What is now taking shape is not merely a routine sequence of facelifts and derivative launches, but a broad industrial and technological reset designed to carry the brand through the remainder of the decade.

Mikel Arteta has backed Bruno Guimaraes to "ignite something different" in Premier League champions Arsenal.

Russian strikes killed two people and wounded dozens across Ukraine overnight Saturday and Sunday, while a Ukrainian drone attack killed three people in Russia's Belgorod region.

Como have completed the signing of England centre-back Trevoh Chalobah from Chelsea for a reported fee of 30 million euros ($34.5 million), the Serie A club announced Sunday.

Aston Villa left-back Lucas Digne has joined Paris Saint-Germain on a three-year deal, the European champions announced Sunday.

Dutch rider Demi Vollering won the Tour de France Femmes on Sunday by winning the hilly final stage to extend her lead on nearest rival Kasia Niewiadoma, who finished second overall.

World number one Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open due to a right knee injury, the Italian announced Sunday.

Andoni Iraola's first Anfield match as Liverpool manager ended in a 3-2 friendly defeat by Monaco on Sunday after his side squandered a two-goal lead for the second week in a row.

Aprilia-Trackhouse's Spanish rider Raul Fernandez won the British MotoGP Grand Prix on Sunday, claiming just the second race victory of his career.

Horrific drug violence plagued the Mexican state of Zacatecas for years, until relative calm set in. Then one morning in July this small town woke up to find five bodies dangling from a bridge -- a grim calling card that showed the bloodshed never really left.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that they would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the United States complied with a list of demands, including paying compensation for war damage.

Argentina football icon Lionel Messi bid farewell Sunday to his father, the global star's emotional anchor and agent since childhood who passed away following a battle with cancer aged 68.

Kasper Hogh scored a hat-trick, his first goals for Celtic, as the Scottish champions made light of the absence of manager Martin O'Neill with a 5-1 win away to Kilmarnock on Sunday.

Aprilia-Trackhouse's Spanish rider Raul Fernandez won the British MotoGP Grand Prix on Sunday, claiming just the second race victory of his career.

London’s first licensed robotaxis are preparing to carry passengers, but the person behind the wheel is not disappearing just yet. Transport for London has authorised a small fleet of autonomous electric vehicles developed by British technology company Wayve for journeys booked through Uber. The decision moves autonomous ride-hailing beyond closed demonstrations and engineering tests, while stopping well short of approving a genuinely driverless service.

Europe’s argument over Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised system has moved beyond the familiar contest between technological optimism and regulatory caution. It is now a dispute about evidence: how much the public should be allowed to know when a driver-assistance product is cleared for use on ordinary streets.

South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus said on Sunday the injury sustained by captain Siya Kolisi in a 17-10 Test victory over Argentina in Buenos Aires "does not look too bad".

Mercedes-AMG’s new electric GT family was introduced with headline-grabbing output figures and a four-figure-horsepower flagship. The GT 53 takes a more measured route. As the new entry point to the 2027 AMG GT 4-Door Coupé range, it trades the three-motor architecture of the GT 55 and GT 63 for two synchronous motors, but retains the 800-volt battery system, all-wheel drive, active aerodynamics and grand-touring practicality.

For much of modern motoring, the luxury-car business rested on a straightforward promise. A prestigious badge offered access to richer materials, quieter cabins, superior performance and technology that ordinary vehicles could not match. In 2026, that promise is becoming harder to defend. Increasing numbers of American buyers are discovering that a generously equipped mainstream vehicle can deliver most of the comfort, digital capability and everyday refinement they want, while leaving tens of thousands of dollars in their bank accounts.

In-form Swiss athlete Audrey Werro said she was focused on winning a medal in a loaded 800m field at the European championships and not on Jarmila Kratochvilova's 43-year-old world record.

Dozens of bereaved students, parents and teachers queued at a Buddhist temple in Thailand on Sunday to pray over the body of a 12-year-old girl, one of eight victims of a home and school shooting two days earlier.

Changan’s appearance at the 41st Luanda International Fair was not simply a product display. By placing the all-electric DEEPAL S05 beside the range-extended DEEPAL G318, the CHANGAN CS75 PLUS and the new CHANGAN UNI-S, the Chinese manufacturer presented a deliberate picture of how it intends to grow in Africa: not through a single propulsion technology, but through a broad portfolio supported by dealers, spare parts, service capacity and increasingly localised operations.

Luke Jacobson will captain New Zealand for the first time when they face the Sharks in Durban on Tuesday in the second match of the 'Greatest Rivalry' tour of South Africa.

Europe has become one of Honda’s smallest major car markets, but the Japanese manufacturer is not preparing to retreat. Under regional president Hans De Jaeger, its new strategy is built around a deliberately modest recovery: move annual European sales back towards roughly 100,000 vehicles within the next two to three years, preserve pricing power and avoid the costly discounting that has become increasingly common as new brands fight for recognition.

Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in densely populated eastern China on Sunday, meteorological authorities said, after the storm triggered more than 1,000 flight cancellations, evacuations and a top-level alert.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday they would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, vital to the world economy, until the United States met Tehran's conditions set out the day before, including compensation for war damages.

South Korea's under-fire football association has apologised over a series of controversies ranging from accusations of using unfair practices to appoint a coach to allegations that it provided sexual entertainment for foreign referees.

Lionel Messi was absent following the death of his father as Inter Miami lost 2-1 to visiting Monterrey on Saturday in a Leagues Cup match.

Indonesian authorities have closed access to a national park on Java Island as firefighters battle a wildfire raging there for nearly a week.