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Rounding out the top 10 movies this week, as estimated by studio accountants projecting ticket sales in the USA and Canada, were “Pete’s Dragon” ($11.3 million), “Bad Moms” ($8 million), “Jason Bourne” ($8 million), “The Secret Life...

Lochte kept repeating how “immature” his behavior had been and how sorry he was, and that he was trying to learn from his actions.

Djokovic, chasing the Olympic gold medal that is the only major honour missing from his glittering CV, lost to Del Potro in the bronze medal match at the 2012 Games.

James Feigen – one of the four USA swimmers, including Ryan Lochte, involved in a robbery scandal in Rio de Janeiro – will donate around $10,800 to charity and then leave Brazil, his lawyer said, according to the Associated Press. The gold-medal winners were...

He added that, ‘To put these new procedures in place, we will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most unsafe and volatile regions in the world that have a history of exporting terrorism’.

The England goalkeeper was left out by Pep Guardiola for the Premier League season opener against Sunderland on Saturday, casting doubt over his future at the Etihad Stadium.

The 2016 Olympic women’s volleyball tournament wrapped up on Saturday, and China has won the gold medal in a 3-1 victory over Serbia.

Nine Australian Olympic athletes were detained overnight and fined for tampering with their identity cards to be able to watch their home country’s basketball semi-final, officials said today.

RIO DE JANEIRO France’s Tony Yoka beat Britain’s Joe Joyce to win the men’s Olympic super-heavyweight title on Sunday and match the lightweight gold medal won by girlfriend Estelle Mossely earlier in the week.

Spain, the highest scorers in qualifying, opened the first apparatus with a 17.800, and Russian Federation, performing third, could only manage a 17.600, despite opting for the exact same difficulty.

Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 72 yards in 3-for-4 passes. Petty, who would seem to be the quarterback most in danger of losing his roster spot, made the most of that playing time Friday by completing 16 of 26 passes for 242 yards, with two touchdowns and no interceptions. Also,...

If sports teams are like a marriage, with us our whole lives, Olympians are brief but exciting recurring romances. Li, who now runs a sportswear empire, won the most medals as an individual athlete in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 89.

Obama discarded that strategy while trying to keep enough USA influence there to prevent those two countries from crumbling.

The sale of AC Milan was the most high-profile of the recent spate of Chinese investments but any deal for Liverpool, the world’s ninth richest club by revenue according to Deloitte, is nearly certain to eclipse that. The Guardian had run a story right after...