PARIS (AP) – Alexander Zverev is no longer one of the best players never to win a major title. He’s finally a Grand Slam champion. In his fourth major final, Zverev beat Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 for the French Open title on Sunday.
LONDON (AP) – Tennis great Serena Williams is not ruling out a return to singles competition but suggested Sunday it’s not imminent ahead of her doubles comeback in the sport she dominated for two decades.
COPENHAGEN (AP) – Business in the front, party in the back. A packed Danish crowd celebrated on Saturday the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle, defined by very short hair at the front and longer hair at the back. Denmark’s raucous 2026 Mullet Championship attracted 12 well-coiffed competitors.
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Voters in Kosovo headed to the polls Sunday for an early parliamentary election, the third in less than 18 months, in an attempt to unlock a political impasse in the small Balkan nation that is striving to join the European Union and NATO.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran is taking “too long to negotiate a deal” and that “now they will have to pay the price.” What that means for Tehran wasn’t clear. His latest statement came after the U.S. launched airstrikes early Wednesday against Iran after Trump blamed Tehran for the crash of an American attack helicopter. Iran fired back at countries in the region.
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – Armenians voted in a parliamentary election Sunday as the incumbent government, under mounting Russian pressure, sought to loosen ties with Moscow and deepen cooperation with the West.
BORDEAUX, France (AP) – Australia won the rugby sevens world series when it saved its best for last and beat season-long front-runner New Zealand 26-19 in the Bordeaux women’s final on Sunday.
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) – On a drizzly Saturday morning late last month, the basement of the New Paltz United Methodist Church filled with old lamps, blunt knives, malfunctioning sound mixers and balky zippers.
Residents of St. Petersburg were told not to leave their homes after a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeted Russia’s second-largest city Saturday morning, underscoring Kyiv’s growing ability to hit deep inside Russia. The attack came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin refused an offer to meet his Ukrainian counterpart.
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