A nine-year-old Black girl was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed by police in the US city of Rochester, footage released Sunday showed, sparking new outrage over excesses committed by the country's law enforcement. Deputy Police Chief Andre Anderson sa...

France's Corentin Moutet burnished his credentials with a battling come-from-behind win over American Frances Tiafoe, but his veteran compatriot Richard Gasquet crashed at the first hurdle as the ATP Tour resumed Monday. NextGen star Moutet, 21, po...

Away from the lavish air conditioning and hand-manicured turf of Qatar's World Cup Stadiums, two of which will host the world's best clubs from Thursday, sits Doha Sports Stadium. The modest ground, the first in the Gulf with a grass pitch, nestle...

Israel's nationwide lockdown was extended Monday to contain the coronavirus which has continued to spread rapidly as the country presses ahead with an aggressive vaccination campaign. The current lockdown, declared on December 27, is the third i...

Japanese giant Nintendo reported new bumper results Monday, with unprecedented demand for its hit games and consoles continuing to soar as new virus lockdowns boost the sector. While new waves of infections have dashed economic recovery hopes in ma...

An aggressive Serena Williams stepped up preparations for another tilt at a 24th Grand Slam title with a straight-sets victory over home hope Daria Gavrilova in the Yarra Valley Classic Monday. The 39-year-old appeared physically strong and in cont...

European Union efforts to secure Covid-19 vaccines received a much-needed boost after AstraZeneca promised to increase deliveries, while US Republicans were set to meet President Joe Biden to try and build bipartisan support for a huge national reli...

At least five people were killed in an hours-long Al-Shabaab attack on a Mogadishu hotel which ended around midnight on Sunday, Somali police said. The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the Hotel Afrik at a busy junc...

The incoming US administration joined governments around the world in condemning Myanmar's military coup on Monday, calling for the release of elected leaders, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi issued a pre-emptive call for people to reject any coup, before she was detained by the military on Monday, her party said. Suu Kyi called on people "not to accept a coup", according to a post on the offi...

The French government begins a public consultation exercise on Monday aimed at devising ways to increase public confidence in the police following repeated scandals over racism and brutality.

After 40 years, New Zealand Cricket boss Martin Snedden is ready to laugh at the underarm bowling row at plunged Kiwi-Australian sporting relations to an all-time low. On February 1, 1981, Australia were desperate to prevent New Zealand scoring a s...

Two activists were killed and five wounded in El Salvador's capital on Sunday after an assailant opened fire on members of the leftist FMLN party, officials said, in one of the worst political attacks in decades. No group has taken responsibility f...

Detained Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was in court Monday trying to win bail in the first major legal challenge to a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city last year. The landmark case puts the city's independent judiciary o...

Australian media organisations have admitted violating a gag order in Cardinal George Pell's now-quashed sex crimes case, in a surprise plea deal that saw charges against individual editors and journalists dropped. After nearly two years of legal w...