Eoin Morgan has been cleared to lead England in an upcoming Twenty20 series against Pakistan it was announced Wednesday after he missed their one-day international clean sweep following a Covid-19 outbreak within the hosts' camp. England had to se...

Australia will take a group of ambassadors snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef Thursday in a last-minute lobbying effort to keep the World Heritage site off UNESCO's endangered list. The United Nations cultural agency last month recommended that ...

France will mark its national day on Wednesday, July 14, after the annual military parade down the Champs-Élysées was cancelled last year due to the threat of Covid-19. The traditional parade on France's national day will return to the Champs-Élys...

China's table tennis chief has bemoaned Covid-19 safety rules at the Tokyo Olympics, saying they are making life "extremely difficult" as his team look to sweep the golds once again. China have won 28 of the 32 table tennis titles awarded at the Ol...

Nine Chinese workers were among 13 people killed on Wednesday when a blast on a bus sent it careering down a ravine in northwestern Pakistan, government and police officials said. While Pakistani officials said the nature of the blast was under in...

The United Arab Emirates opened an embassy in Israel Wednesday, housed in Tel Aviv's new stock exchange building, in the latest normalisation move under a deal brokered by Washington last year. The venue in the heart of Israel's financial district...

The Taliban said Wednesday they had captured the strategic border crossing of Spin Boldak along the frontier with Pakistan, continuing sweeping gains made since foreign forces stepped up their withdrawal from Afghanistan. The interior ministry insi...

France is gradually opening its borders, but many restrictions are still in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the country is only accepting fully vaccinated overseas visitors who have received one of the four jabs approved by...

July 14 marks the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris in 1789, an uprising that helped spark the French Revolution. In 1880, it became a national holiday. In recent years it's become tradition for thousands to gather on the Champs Elysées to wa...

Three weeks after Britney Spears sensationally called for an end to her "abusive" guardianship, the pop singer's legal battle returns to court Wednesday in Los Angeles. Spears gave explosive testimony on June 23 in which she pleaded with a Californ...

For most French people, Bastille Day is synonymous with military pomp and parties, but in the southern city of Nice the country’s national holiday also conjures up visions of horror.

"Wesh, "wesh", "wads", "ska", "fol"... the hunt was on for that elusive word in French that would ratchet up the bonus points and unlock the top prize. Dozens of Scrabble players jousted in leafy schoolgrounds late last month in Senegal's capital, ...

An ocean liner on a "cruise to nowhere" was forced to make an earlier-than-scheduled return to Singapore Wednesday after a coronavirus case was detected on board, reports said. The cruises -- starting and ending in Singapore, with no stops -- were ...

Wearing a face mask and social distancing were a part of Magdalena Moskal's life long before the coronavirus pandemic hit. The 36-year-old Madrid resident had a double lung transplant in 2008 to tackle her cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder in whi...

Wildlife rescuers in New Zealand were scrambling to keep a stranded baby orca alive Wednesday, as volunteers scoured waters off Wellington to find the calf's mother. The killer whale, a male aged four to six months, washed ashore on rocks just nort...