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Typhoon Hagibis is the worst storm that Japan has faced in six decades.

Heavy rain from Typhoon Hagibis caused rivers to burst their banks in nearly a dozen places in Japan

It felt like a relief to get rugby back on the pitch after Hagibis passed

The Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao rematch is reportedly progressing but Mikey Garcia could be talking about Pacquiao as his next opponent.

Daniel Ricciardo was the first major surprise of the day as his Renault struggled with balance in the gusts and could only clock 16th fastest to be eliminated in the first session

Typhoon Hagibis hits the Tokyo region just weeks after another powerful storm that killed two people

Indian police detain Tibetan students protesting in Chennai the visit of China's President Xi Jinping -- Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is an aggravation for China and based in northern India

The approaching typhoon is expected to cause transport chaos over a holiday weekend in Japan, with many forced to cancel travel plans

Happier days: Bollore (R) and Senard ahead of a French Senate hearing on September 24, 2019

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Consumers may feel a 'geopolitical premium' at the pump if there are further attacks on oil infrastructure and tankers in the Middle East

All the Japanese Grand Prix activities on Saturday have been canceled due to Typhoon Hagibis, which is expected to hit the country the very same day. 

Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel backed the cancellation of Saturday's programme

Naomi Osaka has decided to give up her US citizenship to represent her birth country, Japan, in next year's Tokyo Olympics. 

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

Sebastian Vettel and Charles LeClerc downplayed the tensions at Ferrari following Russian Grand Prix misunderstanding. There is still a lot of competition though ahead of the upcoming Japanese Grand Prix this Sunday.

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).