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UAB football player faces attempted murder charge after allegedly stabbing teammates

  • Incident happened hours before Saturday’s game

  • Two players in stable condition in local hospital

A University of Alabama at Birmingham football player allegedly stabbed two teammates on Saturday morning, hours before the team’s game against the University of South Florida, the university said in a statement.

“UAB’s top priority remains the safety and well-being of all of our students,” the statement said. “Given patient privacy and the ongoing investigation, we have no further comment at this time.”

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© Photograph: Diane Mwai/AP

© Photograph: Diane Mwai/AP

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European football: Olise inspires Bayern’s 6-2 comeback; Pogba returns to football as Monaco sub

  • German champions win in style; Undaz stuns Dortmund

  • Pogba makes first appearance for over two years after ban

Bayern Munich raced from two goals down to crush visitors Freiburg 6-2 in the Bundesliga, with Michael Olise scoring twice and setting up three more goals, to maintain the champions’ unbeaten run and lead the title race.

Bayern, whose 16-match winning run in all competitions ended with a 2-2 draw at Union Berlin before the international break, found themselves two goals down after 17 minutes.

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© Photograph: Matthias Schräder/AP

© Photograph: Matthias Schräder/AP

© Photograph: Matthias Schräder/AP

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Ukraine war briefing: defeating Russia an ‘illusion’, says Putin, as he welcomes Trump deal

Russia’s president says US-led plan ‘could form the basis of a final peace settlement’, bolstering concerns in Europe about one-sided nature of US-brokered deal. What we know on day 1,368

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© Photograph: AP

© Photograph: AP

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Trump’s DoJ sues California over college tuition benefits for undocumented students

Justice department challenges policy allowing in-state tuition for undocumented students at public universities

The justice department sued California on Thursday for allowing undocumented college students to pay in-state tuition for public universities, alleging the policy harms US citizens.

The lawsuit, filed in the US district court for the eastern district of California, marks the third time this week that the Trump administration has sued California. In addition to challenging the state’s in-state tuition policy, the lawsuit argues that California unlawfully extends eligibility for scholarships and subsidized loans to undocumented students.

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© Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters

© Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters

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Colombian scientists recover first treasures from ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’

Cannon, three coins and a cup taken from San José, a 1708 wreckage that could hold items worth billions of dollars

A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup are among the first objects recovered by Colombian scientists from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the legendary Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 after being attacked by a British fleet.

The recovery is part of a scientific investigation authorised by the government last year to study the wreckage and the causes of the sinking. Colombian researchers located the galleon in 2015, leading to legal and diplomatic disputes. Its exact location is a state secret.

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© Photograph: Colombian Presidency/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Colombian Presidency/AFP/Getty Images

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Eleven injured after grizzly bear attacks schoolchildren and teachers in Canada

Two critically hurt after attack on walking trail in British Columbia as police and conservation officers search for bear

Eleven people were injured, two of them critically, when a grizzly bear attacked a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in British Columbia, Canada.

The attack happened on Thursday in Bella Coola, 435 miles (700km) north-west of Vancouver. The Nuxalk Nation said the “aggressive bear” remained on the loose and police and conservation officers were on the scene.

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© Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

© Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

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Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist

The 1940 painting of Kahlo asleep in bed has surpassed the record set by the $44.4m sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 2014

A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m, A$84.7m) at a New York art auction, setting a new top sale price for a work by any female artist.

El sueño (La cama), or The Dream (The Bed), which depicts Kahlo asleep in a bed with a smiling skeleton wrapped in dynamite on the canopy above her, sold on Thursday night at a Sotheby’s auction of surrealist art after four minutes of bidding.

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© Photograph: Courtesy Sotheby’s

© Photograph: Courtesy Sotheby’s

© Photograph: Courtesy Sotheby’s

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Cop30 climate summit in Brazil disrupted after fire breaks out in venue

Event thrown into confusion and 13 treated for smoke inhalation after conference centre evacuated

Talks at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil were disrupted on Thursday after a fire broke out in the venue, triggering an evacuation just as negotiators were preparing to try to land a deal to strengthen international efforts to address the climate crisis.

Thirteen people were treated for smoke inhalation, organisers said in a statement, after the fire broke out in the pavilion area of the conference centre in Belém, Brazil.

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© Photograph: Douglas Pingituro/Reuters

© Photograph: Douglas Pingituro/Reuters

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Papua New Guinea ‘not happy’ as Australia walks away from bid to host Cop31

Australia had been pushing to host climate conference next year with south Pacific nations, which are increasingly threatened by rising seas and climate-fuelled disasters

Papua New Guinea has voiced frustration after Australia ditched a bid to co-host next year’s UN climate talks with its Pacific island neighbours.

“We are all not happy. And disappointed it’s ended up like this,” foreign minister Justin Tkatchenko told Agence France-Presse after Australia ceded hosting rights to Turkey.

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© Photograph: Kalolaine Fainu/The Guardian

© Photograph: Kalolaine Fainu/The Guardian

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Jets’ Aaron Glenn confident Kris Boyd will ‘walk away’ from NYC shooting

  • Jets’ Boyd in critical but stable condition

  • Glenn: player ‘upbeat’, expected to recover

  • NYPD releases images of shooting suspect

New York Jets coach Aaron Glenn says he has spoken to Kris Boyd and is confident the cornerback and special teams standout will be OK after being shot in midtown Manhattan early Sunday morning.

Glenn said the hospitalized Boyd was “upbeat” in their recent conversation.

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© Photograph: Adam Hunger/AP

© Photograph: Adam Hunger/AP

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