Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at amateur sports events in France. France's sports ...

IndyCar points leader Alex Palou has been docked five championship points after a postrace technical inspection found an assembly error on the No. 10 car he used in Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.

Edwardsville (27-9) won its eighth straight regional title and will play Belleville East (30-7) in a Class 4A softball sectional semifinal at Belleville West.

Tennis players at the French Open say they haven’t experienced conditions this hot at Roland Garros since the 2024 Paris Olympics. And the Olympics were held in July and August. Temperatures for ...

Stan Wawrinka has waved a fond goodbye to the French Open after losing 3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 to Jesper de Jong in the first round. The 41-year-old Swiss is a three-time Grand Slam winner and is ...

Injured forwards Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams have been included in Spain’s World Cup squad. Yamal and Williams sustained muscle injuries late in the season but coach Luis de la Fuente says ...

Four-time champion Iga Swiatek has required exactly one hour to eliminate 136th-ranked French Open debutante Emerson Jones 6-1, 6-2 in the first round. On another steamy day in Paris the only ...

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery. Leo’s own family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners. He delivered ...

Brazil is pinning its World Cup hopes on 66-year-old Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti. He took over the national team last year after leaving Real Madrid. Despite mixed results, Brazil is optimistic ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit. He made the call in a sweeping manifesto on ...

Lithuanian authorities are on high alert after a massive data leak involving over 600,000 entries from national registers. The Lithuanian general prosecutor's office announced Friday it ...

One byproduct of the automatic runner on second base is that extra innings are one of the few times managers can still stomach ordering up an intentional walk. It’s a strategy that was beginning ...