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Sergio Garcia is pursuing the termination of his LIV Golf contract, a potential path out of the league.

Ireland drew 2-2 with Austria in the Nations League on Thursday in a game disrupted after tennis balls were thrown onto the pitch at the Aviva Stadium by those protesting against the Irish team fulfilling their fixtures against Israel.

The UAE Jiu-Jitsu national team has won three gold medals and two silver at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

Belgium's Matthis Besard, Finland's Tapio Pulkkanen and Ireland's Liam Nolan will share the halfway lead at the Abu Dhabi Challenge after moving to nine under par at Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting & Golf Club.

The Emirates Jumping Team won silver at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday, following a thrilling Team Final at JRA Equestrian Park that saw the battle for gold go down to the very last rider.

The Ministry of Finance has announced the official listing and commencement of secondary-market trading for its second five-year Sovereign Retail T-Sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai on Friday, following the successful completion of subscription, allocation, and settlement.

Abu Dhabi has announced plans to invest AED 300 million to upgrade its public transport system with smart tech.

A US judge has entered an order on Wednesday allowing Paramount to close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., ending a months-long holdup, as the company named Mattel's Ynon Kreiz as co-CEO to help run the combined business.

Alphabet's Google has announced a new top-tier artificial intelligence model to anchor its Gemini 4 generation of models on Wednesday in a fresh bid to catch up to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in the AI race.

The UAE General Budget Committee has reviewed the draft federal budget framework for the 2027-2029 fiscal period as part of preparations for the government's next medium-term strategic plan.

Dubai Police have arrested 14 members of an international criminal network and foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs, weighing 2.3 tonnes and estimated to be worth over AED 115.1 million, hidden inside 113 cartons.

The UAE has strongly condemned a Houthi drone attack on the Taiba power distribution station in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.

An Emirates flight from Dubai to London Heathrow was diverted to Frankfurt due to a medical emergency involving a passenger onboard.

Dubai's private schools saw 406,563 students enrolled for the 2026-27 academic year, marking an annual increase of 4.6 per cent, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) announced on Thursday.

UAE Attorney-General Dr. Hamad Saif Al Shamsi has ordered the formation of a team from the Public Prosecution to investigate the incident involving flydubai flight FZ1073 on Wednesday.

Etihad Rail has partnered with Q Mobility and Parkin to develop and operate smart parking services across its passenger station network.

Dubai's Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) is developing a standardised policy that will set guidelines for the ethical use of AI in private schools, which will roll out in 2027.

His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, welcomed Jordan Minister of Justice Dr. Bassam Samir Al-Talhouni in Abu Dhabi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced renewed pressure on Friday as the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party and a separate coalition of student and activist groups stage fresh protests, demanding the resignation of the elections commission chief over a controversial voter roll revision.

The number of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has surpassed 4,000, government data showed on Friday, as the worst epidemic in the country's history resists containment efforts.

About 400 schools in France are expected to remain closed on Friday after student protests that began over education-related grievances escalated into violence in some places.

Yemen's armed forces spokesperson said on Friday its warplanes carried out around 40 precision strikes targeting Houthi movements, reinforcements, gatherings, personnel, vehicles, and military equipment in Taiz province.

The Arab League has condemned the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by more than 1,300 Israeli settlers and the performance of religious rituals in its courtyards, warning against attempts to alter the mosque’s established historical and legal status quo.

Organisers scrapped a final high-profile debate in Brazil's presidential election on Thursday after both frontrunners, leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, opted to skip the event.

At least 15 workers were killed when an avalanche buried a mountain camp they were preparing in central Nepal for foreign climbers, a rescue official said on Thursday, in the deadliest incident of the autumn climbing season ending this month.

A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday with a crew of two US astronauts, a Canadian astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut headed to the International Space Station (ISS) for a science mission devoted to human health and performance in orbit.