The San Francisco 49ers are going to need an X-factor to step up and change the way the team is viewed if they want to make a run for the Super Bowl. ESPN recently named an X-factor for every team, but for the 49ers, there are three strong candidates.

Adelaide Strikers missed out on the Women's Big Bash play-offs after losing to Sydney Sixers by one run in an extraordinary finale. Strikers were chasing 174 after Ellyse Perry's 111 in Sixers' 173-4 and, having fallen to 86-5 in the 14th over, needed 18 from the last six balls with five wickets left.

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Friday that his father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has backed him for a presidential run next year, jilting markets that had bet on a more seasoned candidate consolidating support on the right.

Caitlin Kelly, 29, pleaded no contest to a felony charge alleging she left the scene of the crash that killed Vanda Makovetskiy

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety and the state's highway patrol have denied Lane Kiffin's claim that fans tried to run him off the road.

A Republican candidate, Chad Bianco, is currently in the lead ahead of California's gubernatorial primary election in 2026 on 13 percent of the vote, a new poll has found. He is followed by Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Eric Swalwell on 12 percent each, and Democrat Katie Porter on 11 percent.

Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for the identification of a driver wanted in a hit-and-run that killed a 22-year-old man in Gage Park in August.

Plymouth's annual Santa Fun Run has been cancelled due to concern about the strong winds and rain which have been forecast. On Saturday night event organiser Roger Punch said much of the course would be exposed to the bad weather.