Thousands of tourists and residents were evacuated and a thick cloud of smoke and ash hung over Athens Saturday as forests fires that have already killed two people raged for an 11th day in parts of Greece. At least 1,450 Greek firefighters were ba...

China proved its Olympic diving dominance once again on Saturday as Cao Yuan took gold in the individual 10m platform, with teammate Yang Jian scooping the silver. Bronze went to Britain's Tom Daley, who was back on the podium after an emotional go...

Philippine boxer Carlo Paalam lost his Olympic boxing final on Saturday but said he still treasured his silver medal -- because the recycled metal reminded him how far he has come since his days as a scavenger. The 23-year-old, who was vying to bec...

A strike by Canadian border agents has ended with an agreement on raises and other issues, a union announced. Thousands of agents joined the work-to-rule strike Friday, three days before the land crossing reopens to Americans fully vaccinated again...

Judicial authorities in Ivory Coast have freed dozens of people arrested during a violence-marred presidential election last year, President Alassane Ouattara said on Friday.

The Cuban government on Friday approved a law authorizing the creation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), a major shift in the communist-ruled country where state-owned companies are the norm. The change comes nearly a month after thousands o...

Britain's Galal Yafai defeated Carlo Paalam to win the Olympic flyweight title on Saturday, denying the Philippines a first boxing gold medal in the country's history. The men's middleweight final produced a shock as Ukrainian top seed Oleksandr Kh...

Wildfires raged uncontrolled through Greece and Turkey through Friday night, forcing thousands to flee by land and sea, and killing a volunteer firefighter on the fringes of Athens in a huge forest blaze that threatened the Greek capital’s most im...

World number one Nelly Korda held her nerve during a delay for a lightning storm to win Olympic gold on Saturday and make it an American golf clean sweep at Tokyo 2020. Korda carded a final-round 69 to finish at 17-under-par 267 and win by one stro...

Jeremy Lin has tested positive for Covid-19 and is receiving treatment in Shanghai, the former NBA guard and first Asian-American to win an NBA title said in a social media post Saturday. Lin announced in June he was rejoining the Chinese Basketbal...

Santos Bimbile is worried. He has been to four pharmacies in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, and not one of them has the drug that his sister-in-law needs to ease stomach pain. "It's very difficult to get your hands on certain drugs, and ...

When Eritrean teen Aman Mehari begins to feel the stress, he hits the basketball court in his new temporary home -- a village school turned migrant facility in southern Lithuania. The 16-year-old is one of thousands of people -- almost all of them ...

NBA All-Star Kevin Durant poured in a game-high 29 points to lead the United States past France 87-82 to win their fourth straight Olympic men’s basketball gold medal Saturday.

Japan's Kei Nishikori advanced to his first ATP semi-final in more than two years by defeating South Africa's 50th-ranked Lloyd Harris 6-3, 7-5 on Friday at the Citi Open. Nishikori had lost six consecutive tour-level quarter-finals, including one ...

Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir won a gruelling women's marathon and the United States are looking to extend their men's basketball reign as the Tokyo Olympics heads into its busiest day on Saturday. Jepchirchir timed 2hr 27min 20sec as runners battled w...