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South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker has won silver in the 100m women’s butterfly in her first Olympic finals. Schoenmaker’s victory is the first by a female swimmer from South Africa in 21 years. She hopes the medal, which is the…

Barcelona have reached an out-of-court agreement with their former player Neymar to end their legal dispute in "amicable fashion". Brazil forward Neymar, 29, claimed Barca refused to pay him £37.2m in owed loyalty bonuses after his £200m…

Japanese superstar Naomi Osaka suffered a surprise exit in her home Olympics as Czech Marketa Vondrousova earned a straight-set win in Tokyo. Osaka, 23, has been one of the faces of the Games in the Japanese capital and had the honour of…

With a population of just 63,000, Bermuda became the smallest nation or territory to win an Olympic gold medal at a summer Games when Flora Duffy won the triathlon in Tokyo. Making her fourth appearance at an Olympics, the 33-year-old…

The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari on Thursday expressed satisfaction with the policies and programmes of the AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led administration, calling them pro-masses and saying the Governor is doing well. The Emir…

The African Union will deliver six million jabs of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to 27 African countries next week. The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says these countries have…

Guinea's government has reversed its decision to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics, a day after saying its delegation should not attend the Games, which officially open on Friday. Sports Minister Sanoussy Bantama Sow said on Wednesday…

More than 732,000 people have been displaced by violence with more than 335,000 children made homeless in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province due to terror attackss,the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, has said. They make up almost half of the…

Anthony Joshua's world heavyweight title defence against Oleksandr Usyk will take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 25 September. Joshua, 31, will put his IBF, WBA and WBO belts against the Ukrainian, who is his mandatory challenger.…

Thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are paying tribute to Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo - a widely respected former Roman Catholic archbishop who championed democracy and human rights. President Félix Tshisekedi and his…