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Seven-times Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz suffered a shock 7-5 7-6(4) defeat by unseeded Belgian Zizou Bergs in the Shanghai Masters round of 32 on Monday, a result that also confirmed Alexander Zverev as the ATP's year-end world number one.

Ten people were arrested and a police officer suffered a serious facial injury after crowd trouble at Manchester City’s 3-0 Premier League win at Liverpool on Sunday, Merseyside Police said on Monday.

Australia extended their lead over South Africa to 280 runs but lost four wickets in reaching 174-4 at lunch on the fourth day of the first Test in Durban on Monday.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen has delivered a commanding performance to win the Singapore Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday, securing his second straight victory of the season after a perfect weekend that included a sprint race triumph.

Blades Brown has finished second to Austin Hitt at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship on Sunday in Glen Allen, Virginia, to lock up his PGA Tour card at just 19 years and four months old

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, has praised the progress of the Dubai Cashless Strategy, with cashless transactions now accounting for 90.1 per cent of all transactions in the Emirate.

The Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority (DIEZ) has announced the doubling of the venture capital fund managed by its investment arm, Oraseya Capital, from AED500 million to AED1 billion.

The United Arab Emirates has ranked first worldwide in Artificial Intelligence integration, with 70.1 per cent of its working-age population using AI.

A UAE delegation is set to participate in the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG), taking place in Thailand's Bangkok from October 12-18.

Beauty World Dubai has wrapped up its 30th edition at the Dubai World Trade Centre, drawing more than 62,000 visitors from over 170 countries

The UAE Cabinet has approved a budget of AED 292.5 billion for 2027-2029, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and the Ruler of Dubai, announced on Monday.

A group of people have been arrested in Dubai for posting false, negative reviews on a company’s Google Maps page in an attempt to damage its reputation and cause financial losses.

The UAE has strongly condemned continued Houthi attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which injured a number of civilians.

Etihad Airways and flydubai have cancelled more flights between the UAE and several cities in Saudi Arabia following the airport attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday.

The Saudi civil aviation has extended the suspension of operations at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh on Monday following attacks on the facility.

Hundreds of opposition party demonstrators marched to India's Supreme Court on Monday to protest the removal of millions of names from voter lists that has sparked days of unrest in the Indian capital and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

US academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize on Monday for decades of work developing ground-up models currently used by central banks and finance ministries across the world to stabilise economies.

A French middle-school student shot and wounded a headteacher and a female staff member with a hunting rifle at a school near Marseille on Monday, the local mayor said.