South Africa beat Australia by 176 runs in the third Test in Cape Town to win the series and return to the top of the world rankings. Australia collapsed to 111 while chasing 288, with Simon Harmer taking six wickets and Kagiso Rabada striking twice in the first over.
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South Africa made 329 and 387, while Australia scored 429 and 111.
Simon Harmer took six wickets for 16 runs, the best figures of his career.
Kagiso Rabada took three wickets for 39 and reached 350 Test wickets faster than any other bowler.
Australia lost two wickets in Rabada’s first over of the final innings.
Josh Inglis was run out for four after a call from Cameron Green.
David Warner, who retired from Test cricket in January 2024, called Australia’s batting “terrible” and “un-Australian” on Fox Sports.
South Africa’s victory gave the team the series win and the top spot in the world rankings.
Australia’s upcoming Test schedule includes four home Tests against New Zealand starting in December and a five-Test tour of India.
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Pope Leo XIV met with the Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams and about 7,000 U.S. fans at the Vatican on Saturday, ahead of the universities’ season opener in Rome. He said sports can bring people together and urged players and fans to treat rivals as competitors, not enemies.
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The Vatican audience took place in the Paul VI Audience Hall on October 31, 2026.
About 7,000 people attended after a private Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Villanova and Notre Dame’s men’s and women’s teams are scheduled to play a doubleheader in Rome on Sunday.
The season opener, called the Eternal City Tip-Off, will take place at the Palazzo dello Sport, an arena with 11,000 seats.
Leo graduated from Villanova in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.
Leo said sports can promote cooperation, solidarity and peace, and can help people connect despite distance created by technology.
Notre Dame president Robert Dowd said the event brought both teams and their fans together for a papal audience and season opener.
Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson Perez celebrated the Mass for traveling fans in St. Peter’s Basilica.
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West Indies beat Bangladesh by eight wickets in the first Test in Mirpur, taking a 1-0 lead in the two-match series. Brandon King scored an unbeaten 81 as West Indies chased 170 on the fourth day.
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Bangladesh were bowled out for 142 in their second innings.
West Indies reached the target in 35.1 overs.
Brandon King hit 10 fours and one six in his 115-ball innings.
Jomel Warrican took four wickets for 63 runs in Bangladesh's second innings and was named player of the match.
Roston Chase took five wickets for 36 runs in the second innings.
Nayeem Hasan scored 52, his maiden Test half-century, for Bangladesh.
John Campbell scored 49 before Shoriful Islam bowled him.
The second Test is scheduled to begin in Sylhet on November 5.
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Aston Villa says it will take legal action against pundit Jamie Carragher over remarks he made about the club and its supporters on the Stick to Football podcast. Carragher said he was joking and praised Villa manager Unai Emery, while the club did not specify the legal basis for its planned action.
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Carragher told Villa supporters to “shut the [expletive] up” and said the club would never be Manchester United.
He described a hierarchy in football and discussed speculation that Emery could move to Manchester United.
Villa chairman Nassef Sawiris said the club would pursue legal action over what he called unacceptable insults.
Villa did not explain what legal basis it would use for the action.
Carragher said on social media that his remarks were a joke following criticism from Villa supporters.
Carragher said he regarded Emery as one of the Premier League’s best managers.
Reuters said Carragher and Villa had not immediately responded to requests for comment.
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UFC welterweight champion Islam Makhachev said his next fight could be one of the last of his career. He wants to face the winner of the planned interim title bout between Carlos Prates and Michael Morales, which is scheduled for January 30, 2027.
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Makhachev made the retirement comment in a post on X on Friday night.
Makhachev has a record of 29 wins and one loss, according to the article.
He defended his welterweight title in August by defeating Ian Machado Garry by unanimous decision at UFC 330 in Philadelphia.
The win extended Makhachev's streak to 17 consecutive fights, surpassing Anderson Silva's UFC record of 16.
Makhachev said he wants to face the winner of the Prates-Morales bout to prove he is the best.
The Prates-Morales interim title fight is scheduled for January 30, 2027, at UFC 336 in Toronto.
UFC CEO Dana White said Makhachev chose to wait until after Ramadan to return to competition.
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Fallon Sherrock beat world darts champion Luke Littler in Netflix’s live “Beat Luke Littler” event in Manchester, winning £501,000. She was the 15th challenger to face him, and the result came after Littler had defeated the earlier contestants.
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The event took place at Manchester Central and was hosted by Gary Lineker and Richard Osman.
Twenty amateur challengers were set to compete for £501,000 by trying to beat Littler in one leg.
Sherrock was eligible under Netflix’s rules because she had never held a PDC tour card.
Sherrock has played at the PDC World Darts Championship and won the Women’s World Matchplay in 2022.
Littler praised Sherrock after the loss, calling her “world class.”
The event competed for viewers with the BBC’s “Celebrity Traitors” finale.
Sources told the article that Netflix’s audience numbers stayed steady during the rival programme and appeared to rise after it ended.
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PSG beat Le Havre in Ligue 1’s ninth-round opener to claim their ninth consecutive win and strengthen their hold on first place. Achraf Hakimi scored a hat-trick and assisted PSG’s other two goals.
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PSG defeated Le Havre at Stade Océane.
Achraf Hakimi scored the first hat-trick of his career.
Hakimi also provided two assists and contributed to all five PSG goals.
The win was PSG’s ninth in a row.
Le Havre remained at the bottom of the league table.
Lille beat Lens 1-0 in the Derby du Nord.
Olivier Giroud scored Lille’s winning goal in the 86th minute.
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Liverpool host Arsenal at Anfield on Sunday, November 1, in a Premier League match between title contenders. Arsenal are second with 21 points after eight matches, while Liverpool are fourth with 15 points and enter the game on a five-match winning streak.
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Kickoff is scheduled for 16:30 GMT at Anfield in Liverpool.
Arsenal have won seven of their eight league matches and lost once; they were eliminated from the League Cup by fourth-tier Fleetwood Town on penalties.
Liverpool have four league wins, three draws and one loss.
Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties midweek to reach the League Cup quarterfinals.
The teams have met 246 times, with Liverpool winning 95 matches, Arsenal 81 and 70 ending in draws.
Opta’s model gives Arsenal a 41.8 percent chance of winning, Liverpool a 32.7 percent chance and a draw a 25.5 percent chance.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said his team was looking forward to the match and noted it had been 14 years since Arsenal last won at Anfield.
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The 2026 Youth Olympic Games opened in Dakar, Senegal, the first Olympic event held on African soil. About 2,700 athletes aged 14 to 17 are set to compete in 153 medal events across 25 sports through November 13.
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Events are taking place in Dakar, Diamniadio and the beach resort of Saly.
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye was scheduled to declare the games open at the Diamniadio stadium.
The games were originally planned for 2022 but were delayed four years by the coronavirus pandemic.
Baseball5, Wushu, coastal rowing beach sprint and beach wrestling are making their Youth Olympic debuts.
A six-athlete refugee team based in Kenya and Uganda is competing in track and field, judo and taekwondo.
The first Summer Youth Olympic Games took place in Singapore in 2010.
International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry is its first African and first female president.
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Former Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson says he has little memory of much of his NFL career and fears that football affected his brain. He suspects he may have CTE, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head impacts, but the disease can only be confirmed after death.
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Johnson played seven NFL seasons and left professional football in 2011.
He says he can recall little of his career beyond about 2006 or 2007.
Johnson became a key player for the Chiefs after Priest Holmes suffered a season-ending neck injury in 2005.
Johnson rushed for 1,750 yards and 20 touchdowns in nine weeks during the 2005 season.
In 2006, Johnson ran for 1,789 yards on 416 carries, an NFL record for carries in a season.
A study of former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 found CTE in 74.5% of them.
Among nearly 400 donated brains examined in the study, 93.5% showed evidence of CTE.
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Achraf Hakimi scored three goals and set up two more as Paris Saint-Germain beat Le Havre 5-1 in Ligue 1. PSG moved to 20 points after nine matches, two points ahead of Lille, while Le Havre remained bottom with two points.
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Le Havre took an early lead through Josh Maja.
Hakimi assisted Mika Godts for PSG’s equalizer and scored the go-ahead goal in the 28th minute.
Hakimi scored from a free kick in the 55th minute and completed his hat-trick in the 69th.
Hakimi helped create PSG’s fourth goal, scored by Senny Mayulu in the 62nd minute.
The win was PSG’s ninth consecutive victory in all competitions.
Lille beat Lens 1-0, with Olivier Giroud scoring the winning goal in the 86th minute.
Nice beat Rennes 5-2, with Elye Wahi scoring a hat-trick.
Le Havre suffered its fifth consecutive defeat and has two points.
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A photograph of Inter defender Marco Materazzi resting his elbow on AC Milan’s Rui Costa became a lasting image of the teams’ rivalry. Reuters photographer Stefano Rellandini captured it during the 2005 Champions League quarter-final, a match abandoned after fans threw flares and other objects onto the pitch and injured Milan goalkeeper Dida.
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The image shows Materazzi leaning on Rui Costa’s shoulder as the players looked toward smoke and flares.
Photographer Stefano Rellandini said he noticed the moment and captured a single frame of it.
The second leg was abandoned after 73 minutes when objects and flares thrown from the stands reached the pitch.
A flare struck and injured Milan goalkeeper Dida.
Milan led 3-0 on aggregate when the match was abandoned, and UEFA later awarded the tie to Milan.
The article links the unrest to Inter supporters’ anger after Esteban Cambiasso’s goal was disallowed.
Milan had eliminated Inter from the competition two years earlier, in the 2003 semi-final.
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Leylah Fernandez defeated Kamilla Rakhimova 7-5, 6-3 to reach the Pan Pacific Open final in Tokyo. She will play Diana Shnaider or Mia Pohankova on Sunday as she seeks her seventh WTA Tour title.
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Fernandez is ranked No. 23 in the world.
She hit nine aces in the semifinal.
Fernandez won her first title of the season in Singapore last month and reached the Ningbo Open final last week.
Elena Rybakina beat Fernandez in the Ningbo final.
Fernandez reached the Tokyo semifinals after Rybakina withdrew with a neck injury.
Rakhimova, ranked No. 66, entered the main draw as a lucky loser after losing in qualifying.
Rakhimova was seeking her first WTA Tour final appearance.
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Alan Shearer says he expects someone to break his Premier League record of 260 goals, possibly Erling Haaland, who has scored 120. In an interview, Shearer also discussed leaving home at 15, returning to Newcastle United, and his career after retiring from football.
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Shearer scored 260 Premier League goals during 14 years in the league.
Haaland has scored 120 Premier League goals in just over four seasons, according to the article.
Harry Kane scored 213 Premier League goals before moving from Tottenham Hotspur to Bayern Munich in 2023.
Shearer said he thinks the scoring record will eventually be broken.
Shearer moved from Newcastle to Southampton at age 15 to pursue his football career.
He won the Premier League title with Blackburn Rovers before joining Newcastle United in 1996.
Shearer spent 10 years at Newcastle and scored 206 goals in 405 appearances across all competitions.
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Philadelphia beat New York 98-93 in an NBA Cup group-stage game, led by Tyrese Maxey’s 27 points and LeBron James’s 20. Dallas, Golden State and Miami also won, while Stephen Curry moved to 18th on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.
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James added nine rebounds and eight assists and scored a late tip-in that helped secure Philadelphia’s win.
Jalen Brunson scored 24 points for New York, and Karl-Anthony Towns had 22 points and 12 rebounds.
Dallas beat Houston 116-111 after trailing by as many as 11 points; Kyrie Irving scored 35 and Cooper Flagg scored 33.
Golden State defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 112-95 after erasing a 23-point first-quarter deficit.
Curry scored 31 points and passed Dominique Wilkins to reach 26,674 career points, placing him 18th on the all-time list.
Giannis Antetokounmpo recorded 31 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists in Miami’s 145-125 win over Indiana.
The NBA Cup group stage runs through November, with the final scheduled for December 11 in Indianapolis.
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Eighty-three-year-old Dave Obelkevich is preparing to run the New York City Marathon for the 50th consecutive year. He spoke with ABC News’ Linsey Davis about the record streak and the race tradition he shares with his family.
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Dave Obelkevich is 83 years old.
He is preparing for his 50th consecutive New York City Marathon.
ABC News’ Linsey Davis interviewed Obelkevich ahead of the race.
Obelkevich described the marathon as a tradition for him and his family.
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Fallon Sherrock beat reigning world champion Luke Littler in a one-leg darts match in Manchester to win £501,000. The Netflix-broadcast event featured amateur players who qualified through a competition, and Sherrock advanced after viewers voted for her to face Littler.
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Sherrock started the deciding leg and hit a 180 before finishing on double 20.
Littler had beaten 14 amateur challengers before facing Sherrock.
About 25,000 people applied to take part in the event.
Sherrock won 75% of the viewer vote in a selection against Germany's Jarod Becker.
Sherrock previously became the first woman to beat a male opponent at the PDC World Championship in 2019.
She won £25,000 for reaching the third round of that championship.
Littler said he planned to donate the £501,000 prize to charity.
Sherrock's win ended the event, leaving five amateurs without a chance to play Littler.
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England beat the United States 55-12 in New Jersey, returning to winning ways after two losses to Canada. Claudia Moloney-MacDonald scored four tries, but England’s set-piece and attacking play still need work before the Women’s Six Nations begins in April.
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England scored nine tries, while the United States scored two.
Claudia Moloney-MacDonald scored four tries, including two in the opening 12 minutes.
The United States’ Hope Rogers scored its first try from close range.
Kate Zackary scored for the United States on the final play of the match.
England had lost twice to Canada during the previous fortnight.
England struggled at the line-out and scrum, and the United States led in territory, possession and metres at halftime.
The United States entered the match after a five-game winning run.
The match took place at Sports Illustrated Stadium in New Jersey.
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Aston Villa says it will take legal action against football pundit Jamie Carragher over comments about the club and its fans. Carragher said Unai Emery might want to manage Manchester United and told Villa fans to “shut up”; he later said the remark was a joke and pointed to his past praise of Emery and Villa.
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Villa published a statement on social media on Friday, signed by chairman Nassef Sawiris.
The club described Carragher’s comments as “unacceptable insults” and said it would initiate legal action.
Carragher made the remarks on the Stick to Football podcast.
He said Emery might be interested in becoming Manchester United’s head coach.
Carragher said Aston Villa would “never be Manchester United” and told Villa fans to “shut up.”
Carragher later said on social media that the comment was a joke following criticism from Villa fans.
Carragher works as a pundit for Sky Sports and the U.S. broadcaster CBS.
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Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian “Bash” Croft won the second series of The Celebrity Traitors after the players banished the last two traitors, Maya Jama and King Kenny. The pair will share the £83,000 prize between refugee charities Refugee Council and Choose Love.
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The final began with seven contestants, from 21 original participants.
The faithful team banished Maya Jama and King Kenny, who were the remaining traitors.
Bash persuaded Romesh to vote out Kenny when Kenny and James Blunt were tied in a vote.
James Blunt chose another vote and was then banished, leaving Romesh and Bash as the winners.
The prize was £83,000, to be split between Refugee Council and Choose Love.
Michael Sheen was murdered at the start of the final episode, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock was banished during the endgame.
The article reports that more than 15 million people have been watching this series.
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