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LONDON — Serbia striker Aleksandar Mitrovic scored his fifth Premier League goal of the season to earn Fulham a 1-1 home draw with Watford on Saturday. Watford, chasing a fifth victory from six league games, went in front after two minutes when Andre Gray latched on to a throughball from Will Hughes and beat goalkeeper

NEW YORK — The Washington Post. Time Magazine. The Atlantic. The Village Voice. The Los Angeles Times. All American media icons, all bought by billionaires in the past half decade. Some are thriving. One died. On the rest, the jury’s still out. Still, for beleaguered news organizations the prospect of a deep-pocketed savior — even

JOHANNESBURG — The U.S. military says it has carried an airstrike that killed 18 al-Shabab extremists after U.S. and local forces came under attack in southern Somalia. The U.S. Africa Command says in a statement the airstrike was carried out in self-defense on Friday about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northwest of the port city of

NEW ALBANY, Ind. — A cupola that once protected a southern Indiana church dating to the 1850s from the elements is now part of a garden honoring the church’s role in the Underground Railroad. Workers used a crane Wednesday to move the cupola to its new place atop a gazebo in the Second Baptist Church’s

MANCHESTER, England — Alex Ferguson has returned to Old Trafford for the first time since undergoing an emergency brain operation in May and will watch Manchester United host Wolverhampton in the Premier League later Saturday. Ferguson spent almost 27 years as manager of United before retiring in 2013 as the most successful coach in British

TENERIFE, Spain — The Latest on the FIBA Women’s World Cup (all times local): 1:35 p.m. Liz Cambage had 34 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks to help Australia beat Nigeria 86-68 on Saturday. Cambage, who led the WNBA in scoring this past season, got off to a fast start with 12 points in the

MALE, Maldives — Opposition supporters in the Maldives are demanding that officials ensure a free and fair presidential election, as the country prepares to vote in an election seen as a referendum on whether democracy will stay. The archipelago nation’s election chief, Ahmed Shareef, said Saturday that all measures have been taken to hold Sunday’s

In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, thousands of people in the Carolinas are still waiting to return to their homes. Those who have are assessing the damage. Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates insured wind and storm surge losses for Florence between $1.7 billion and $4.6 billion. The exact financial impact will become apparent over

MOSCOW — For yet another weekend, thousands rallied across Russia on Saturday to protest the government’s plan to raise the eligibility age for retirement pensions by five years. Several thousand people attended a Moscow rally organized by the Communist Party and other leftist groups, which was authorized by city officials. Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov

MOSCOW — Thousands have rallied across Russia to protest the government’s plan to raise the eligibility age for retirement pensions by five years. Several thousand attended a Moscow rally organized by the Communist Party and other leftist groups. Protests were also held Saturday in many cities across Russia’s 11 time zones. Most of them were

NAIROBI, Kenya — The Latest on capsized Tanzanian ferry (all times local): 2:05 p.m. A Tanzanian official says a survivor has been found in a capsized ferry two days after the deadly disaster on Lake Victoria. Mwanza regional commissioner John Mongella tells reporters that the engineer was found near the engine of the vessel. Only

MUNICH — The first keg has been tapped and the beer is flowing as the 185th Oktoberfest gets underway in Munich. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg on Saturday with two blows of a hammer and the cry of “O’zapt is” — “it’s tapped.” As tradition demands, he handed the first

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s army says a child has drowned after a boat carrying 39 migrants hoping to get to Europe capsized off the northern Lebanese coast. The army says Saturday all other passengers were rescued off the coast of Akkar. The army says the Syrian migrants were being smuggled to Cyprus. Lebanese Al-Jadeed TV reported,

NAIROBI, Kenya — A survivor has been found inside a capsized Tanzanian ferry two days after the disaster on Lake Victoria, an official said Saturday, while coffins arrived for at least 167 victims and counting. An engineer was found near the engine of the upturned vessel, Mwanza regional commissioner John Mongella told reporters. The Tanzanian

NAIROBI, Kenya — A Tanzanian official says the death toll from a capsized ferry on Lake Victoria has risen to 167 while wooden coffins have arrived at the scene. The government’s Chief Secretary John Kijazi spoke to reporters after the country’s president ordered the arrests of those responsible for the disaster. The badly overloaded ferry

SEOUL, South Korea — Ajla Tomljanovic has ended Hsieh Su-wei’s eight-match winning streak with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 win over the Taiwanese player on Saturday at the Korea Open. Hsieh won last week’s Japan Women’s Open at Hiroshima and the first three rounds in Seoul. In Sunday’s final, Tomljanovic will play second-seeded Kiki Bertens, who

VILNIUS, Lithuania — The Latest on Pope Francis’ visit to the Baltic countries (all times local): 1:50 p.m. Lithuania’s president has expressed gratitude to Pope Francis for paying tribute to Holocaust victims in the Baltic nation. Francis landed Saturday in the capital Vilnius for a four-day visit to the Baltics. He will visit a memorial

TENERIFE, Spain — The FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup gets underway on Saturday with eight games. The U.S. will tip off against Senegal in its quest for a third consecutive championship, something the Americans have never done in their storied history. While the U.S. has been the dominant force in the sport for the past

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Raw sewage flows freely in some streets of Zimbabwe’s capital, posing a deadly challenge to the recently elected president who has promised the troubled country a new dawn. A cholera outbreak has killed more than 30 people and sickened more than 7,000 as it spreads beyond Harare, posing the latest crisis for

How well do you know the Ryder Cup? Try this trivia quiz: FRIDAY FOURBALLS 1. Who has been part of the most Ryder Cup teams? a.) Nick Faldo b.) Hale Irwin c.) Phil Mickelson 2. Who is the only player to play five matches that all went 18 holes at the Ryder Cup? a. Curtis

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — A hole-by-hole look at Le Golf National, site of the 42nd Ryder Cup matches on Sept. 28-30: No. 1, 419 yards, par 4 A look from the first tee shows water all the way down the left side of the hole. Players are likely to hit a long iron or fairway metal

TENERIFE, Spain — Here we are on the eve of the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup getting started and I’m so excited to wear the USA jersey again. It’s been a fun few weeks since the WNBA season ended training with USA Basketball and my coach Dawn Staley. I’m glad I can be along on

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Keep the head up. Be aware if the quarterback got rid of the ball. Wrap up. Seems like a simple enough checklist for a defender to hit the quarterback. A roughing-the-passer penalty on linebacker Clay Matthews against the Minnesota Vikings might have raised new questions with the Green Bay Packers. The

OAKLAND, Calif. — First, his right forearm cramped turning his arm into the shape of a V as his hand bent back, and Jordan Bell could not move it for several minutes as he sat in the bathtub as he recovered post-workout. He yelled for his girlfriend’s help. The cramp briefly released, then quickly returned.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Pope Francis urged Lithuanians to use their decades of suffering under Soviet and Nazi occupations to become models of tolerance in an intolerant world as he began a three-nation tour of the Baltics on Saturday amid renewed alarm over the intentions of neighboring Russia. Francis was greeted by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite