Shinji Okazaki's overhead kick gave leader Leicester a 1-0 victory over Rafa Benitez's Newcastle on Monday, a goal as spectacular as his team's improbable Premier League title challenge.

As Leicester restored its five-point lead at the summit over Tottenham with eight games remaining, former Real Madrid and Liverpool coach Benitez made a losing start to his reign as Newcastle manager.

An NFL official has acknowledged a link between football and the brain disease CTE for the first time.

Jeff Miller, the NFL's senior vice president for health and safety, spoke about the connection during an appearance Monday at a congressional committee's roundtable discussion about concussions.

Two U.S.-bound missiles that were found on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Serbia had been used as part of a U.S. military training for the Lebanese army and were being shipped back after the exercise concluded, the military said in a statement on Monday.

“The missiles were being sent from Beirut to the American company that produced them. They were in the army's possession for training purposes,” the statement said.

Serbia's authorities are investigating reports that a cargo package bound for the U.S. containing two missiles with explosive warheads was found on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Serbia, The Associated Press reported on Sunday.

N1 television said the package with two guided armor-piercing missiles was discovered Saturday by a sniffer dog after an Air Serbia flight from Beirut landed at Belgrade airport.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's party braced for a backlash at key state polls Sunday over the German leader's liberal refugee policy, while the right-wing populist AfD prepared to scoop up the protest vote from angry voters.

More than 12 million voters headed to the ballot box to elect three new regional parliaments for the southwestern states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as eastern Saxony-Anhalt in the so-called Super Sunday polls.

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Lebanon's cabinet that spent almost eight-hour in session was marred by what ministerial reports described as “outbidding and blackmail” in order for some ministers to roll up a bargain from the trash solution, An Nahar daily reported on Sunday.

The session which lasted for more than eight hours has witnessed “outbidding and blackmail” in order for some ministers to get the biggest bulk of the profits, prompting Prime Minister Tammam Salam to threaten to suspend the session and carry out his threat to resign from the cabinet, unnamed ministerial sources told the daily.

Doctors Without Borders has challenged Pfizer's application for an Indian patent for its pneumonia vaccine so cheaper versions can be available to children in poor countries and to humanitarian organizations.

The medical aid group, also known as Medicins Sans Frontieres, said in a statement late Friday that it was challenging Pfizer's patent application to allow Indian manufacturers to make affordable versions of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Saturday that the Arab League’s branding of Hizbullah as a terrorist group was “shameful” and “absurd.”

“The latest decision taken by the Arab League on Hizbullah is absurd,” said Muallem at a news conference he held in Damascus.

A top security official in Dubai warned Friday of a "clash of civilizations" if U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump becomes president, the latest sign of disquiet across the Middle East over the businessman's comments about Muslims.

Trump refused to back away from his recent statement that "Islam hates the West" during a Republican debate Thursday night in Miami, which comes after he called in December for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.