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With less than a year to go until France hosts the 2024 Olympic Games, thousands of job vacancies remain unfilled, including those for security personnel. The country's public employment agency, Pôle Emploi, has subsequently embarked on an ambitious programme to recruit 15,000 security officers. But it is being accused of summoning job seekers without properly considering their profiles.

Saudi Arabia said on Monday it was launching an annual Esports World Cup, which will include the most popular games in the world and have the largest prize pool in esports history.

NBA legend Dwight Howard has denied sexually assaulting a man he met on Instagram and has requested a dismissal of the lawsuit. His accuser, Stephen Harper, alleges that Howard performed nonconsensual sex acts on him in the basketball player's home.

Argentina forward Papu Gomez blames a failed doping test on his son's cough syrup after Serie A club Monza announce that their World Cup-winner has been handed a two-year ban.

Gymnast Kara Eaker has announced her retirement from gymnastics amid alleged abuse from a coach at the University of Utah. The 20-year-old is also withdrawing from the university as a student and cites a lack of support from the school’s administration.

Paris is cleaning up the Seine in preparation for the 2024 Olympic Games Organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games want to make use of the Seine River, even for some swimming events. Cleaning up the city's famous waterway is proving difficult though.

The Wizards and Deni Avdija have agreed to a new four-year deal worth $55 million, his agents Doug Neustadt and Matan Siman-Tov told ESPN. Avdija, who was the 9th overall pick for Washington in the 2020 NBA Draft, secured his rookie scale extension the day before the deadline. The 22-year-old has become an important member of the franchise, starting 40 of 76 games last year.

In the skyline of France's Provence region, Mont Ventoux culminates at 1,909 metres. Each year, its steep slopes are the setting for an epic stage of the Tour de France cyling race. The bald mountain fascinates professional and amateur cyclists alike. The most determined of them even attempt the "Nutters' challenge": climbing Mont Ventoux three times in one day on the three different roads to the summit. We went to meet some of them.

Mainz 05 winger Anwar El-Ghazi has been suspended by his club over an Instagram post about the Israel-Gaza conflict. The former Aston Villa winger, in a since-deleted post, wrote “Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea”.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino attended the opening match of the new African Football League on Friday.

Cricket World Cup: India rout Pakistan by 7 wickets

South Africa dump hosts France out in a captivating clash. New Zealand show their class, as the Irish quarter-final curse strikes again. England squeeze past Fiji and Argentina end Welsh hopes in Marseille. Leo McGuinn is joined in the studio by Ian Borthwick to discuss all the weekend's Rugby World Cup quarter-final action.