Olympic men's basketball champions the United States will play France in their Tokyo Games opener on July 25 -- three days after the end of the NBA Finals -- organisers said Monday. The mighty US, aiming to win their fourth straight gold and 16th i...

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder says his side's hopes of staying in the Premier League are all but over after their 21st league defeat of the season, at home to Liverpool. The 53-year-old Englishman guided the Blades to an impressive ninth-pl...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused arch-foe Iran on Monday of a recent attack on an Israeli-owned ship, noting his country was "striking back" the morning after a raid on Syria. The latest escalation between the sides came as the internation...

Britain's Prince Harry, who has blamed press intrusion for contributing to his mother Princess Diana's death in 1997, has told US chat show host Oprah Winfrey he was worried about history repeating itself. Harry and his wife Meghan Markle rocked Br...

Alexandra Wong disappeared for more than a year into mainland China's opaque judicial system because she joined Hong Kong's democracy rallies. But that did not deter her from joining protesters outside Hong Kong's West Kowloon court on Monday as m...

Papua New Guinea security services called for calm Monday, as incidents of rioting and looting followed the death of a beloved former prime minister. Police Minister William Onglo warned officers would "step in to fully restore order" after disturb...

The "shocking" collapse of champions Jiangsu FC is a watershed for Chinese football that should prompt a rethink from top to bottom, state media said. Jiangsu, who are owned by the conglomerate Suning -- which also owns Italy's Inter Milan -- said ...

The Golden Globes on Sunday experimented with a virtual format and cemented "Nomadland" as the film to beat this Hollywood awards season. Here are five key takeaways from the night: - Netflix arrives (sort of...) - When it lost the first few awar...

The high-stakes battle by Chinese Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou against extradition to the United States enters its final stage in a Canadian court on Monday, after more than two years of legal skirmishes and diplomatic barbs. The daug...

China is using the Covid-19 pandemic as "yet another way to control journalists", a press group said Monday, warning that Beijing has introduced extra surveillance and restrictions for health reasons as tools to frustrate reporters' work. Although ...

Anyier sits at the side of the road gasping for breath as the beating sun and 3,700-meter (12,000-foot) altitude take their toll. It has been seven hours since she entered Chile from Bolivia on foot -- her fifth border crossing since leaving Venezu...

The United Nations said it hopes to raise $3.85 billion on Monday to prevent large-scale famine in Yemen, warning that life in the war-ravaged nation was unbearable, with children enduring a "special kind of hell". More than 100 governments and don...

Netflix's take on the British royal family, "The Crown," reigned over the television categories at the Golden Globes on Sunday, winning four prizes including best drama, while "Schitt's Creek" earned another victory lap after its final season. It w...

From a tracksuited rapper to a bumbling Kazakh TV reporter in a green mankini, Sacha Baron Cohen has made his name with outrageous characters who expose real people's prejudices and hypocrisy. On Sunday, Baron Cohen's wild portrayal of the journali...

LeBron James scored 19 points and had plenty of time to sit back and enjoy the Los Angeles Lakers' 117-91 NBA victory over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday. James, playing in his 1,300th regular-season game, added six rebounds, four assists, two...