AFP Sport picks out Wednesday's five standout matches as the French Open heads into the second round:

The epic squads collide in an unprecedented third consecutive NBA Finals starting Thursday at Oakland.

The Nest Cam IQ has facial recognition and a 12x digital zoom.

The return of 190,000 pensioners from abroad could cost the NHS an extra £1 billion a year, according to a think tank.

United become the first club to break the three billion euros (£2.7 billion, $3.4 billion) mark for enterprise value.

Uber's fired Anthony Levandowski, Android creator Andy Rubin launched a new smartphone, and SoundCloud has lost another top executive.

The charge, which is effective as of Thursday June 1, comes after the Home Office outsourced its visa enquiries to a French-owned outsourcing group.

Projection of hung parliament sets pound falling, Deutsche Bank fined for money laundering failures, UK consumer confidence edges up, and more.

And nobody will forget it — at least for now.

The daughter of the woman at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to the ousting of South Korea's president was arrested by prosecutors on a plane bound for Seoul, reports said Wednesday.

A murder suspect accused of killing two men during an anti-Muslim rant against two girls on board a train in Oregon appeared in court, shouting slogans and defending his act as "patriotism."

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Tuesday set down the timetable for the programme to change France's labour laws, one of President Emmanuel Macron's key election pledges.

Five UN workers at a refugee camp in northwest Kenya were allegedly involved in fraud and other serious misconduct, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged the world to raise its ambition in implementing the Paris climate agreement as the United States weighed pulling out of the landmark emissions-cutting deal.

Venezuelan police have arrested nearly 3,000 people in the two months since a wave of anti-government protests erupted, a judicial campaign group said on Tuesday.

The United States on Tuesday began providing small arms to Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, the Pentagon said, fulfilling a pledge that has infuriated Turkey.

"Everyone is safe."

Manchester police on Tuesday released three of the men arrested in connection with the May 22 terrorist attack at pop concert in the British city.

The US military said Tuesday it had intercepted a mock-up of an intercontinental ballistic missile in a first-of-its-kind test that comes amid concerns over North Korea's weapons program.

No suspect is in custody yet.