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Protesters arrived at the Wizards exhibition game against a Chinese Basketball Association team to voice their support for the Hong Kong protests.

Donald Trump meets with China's Vice Premier Liu He in April 2019

French investigators believe Nicolas Zepeda, seen here in 2017, killed his ex-girlfriend in a jealous rage

The NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets faced off Thursday before adoring Chinese fans in an exhibition game overshadowed by a free-speech row ignited when an American basketball executive expressed support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.Questions had swirled over whether the game, the first of two planned in China, would proceed after a tweet last Friday by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey thrust the world's top basketball league into the centre of an escalating China-US dispute.

Two Rugby World Cup matches were cancelled in an unprecedented move on Thursday as Japan braces for potential damage and disruption from powerful Super Typhoon Hagibis.Organisers took the "very difficult decision" to scrap the games on Saturday -- England v France and New Zealand v Italy -- on safety grounds as Hagibis takes direct aim at Tokyo.The storm covers an unusually wide area and is currently rated as "violent", the highest level on the Japanese scale, packing maximum gusts of up to 270 kilometres (168 miles).

There had been speculation that the Xi-Modi talks might be postponed because of several disagreements

Starting October 12th to December 8th, a portion of the Ginza Sony Park in Tokyo, Japan will be transformed into a ghost-infested spot where four players can team up and fend off ghosts just like what Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz and Egon Spengler did in New York City.

China on Wednesday slammed NBA commissioner Adam Silver's defence of free speech, cancelling a basketball fan event and lashing him in the state-run press, as Apple was warned it could be the next Western firm punished for supporting democracy protesters in Hong Kong.The NBA had been looking to cement its already huge popularity in the lucrative China market this week with a pair of annual pre-season exhibition games, but those plans were thrown into disarray by a tweet from Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey backing the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

Iranian women are set to freely enter a football stadium for the first time on October 10 as Iran hosts Cambodia in a World Cup 2022 qualifier at Tehran's Azadi stadium

A man reacts as waves crash against the seafront on Enoshima Island on the coast of Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. Japan is bracing for a super typhoon this weekend as strong as the fiercest seen in decades

Japan is struggling with one of the world's lowest birth rates

In just six years, Oyo becomes the second most valuable startup in India after Paytm as it reached the $10 billion valuation mark thanks to a fresh injection of $1.5 billion from its investors.Participating in the funding round are SoftBank, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital.

The arrests of American Michael Calvey (L), founder of multi-billion-dollar investment fund Baring Vostok, and French banker Philippe Delpal have raised serious concerns among foreign investors in Russia

Chinese basketball icon Yao Ming is said to be very upset by the NBA scandal

Tiffany & Co have removed a tweet showing a woman covering one eye after Chinese consumers accused the jeweller of supporting the Hong Kong democracy movement

The Rockets are in Japan to play two exhibition games this week against the Toronto Raptors

South Korean tech titan Samsung leads the global smartphone market with a 23-percent share of the sector

Former NXT Champion Aleister Black returned to WWE during the Monday night RAW show.

The Rockets are in Japan to play two exhibition games this week against the Toronto Raptors

The Houston Rockets went to Asia for exhibition games but were plunged into a political firestorm following their general manager's tweet supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong

President Donald Trump's trade wars have profoundly disrupted trade ties for US farmers, who have borne the brunt of China's retaliation