"When the players prefer to play IPL over playing for the country, what can we say? I believe that every player should feel proud playing for their country," Dev, who led India to a World Cup victory in 1983, told ABP News. "I believe that your nat...

The 21-year-old, who plays for Adelaide United in Australia's A-League, is the only known gay footballer playing in a top-flight men's league. His announcement last month won plaudits from around the world, including from legendary Swedish forwar...

In a notification published late Sunday, the government said the move was in the "national interest", coming after seven police officers were killed in clashes during a days-long rally that began last month. The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan has stag...

Heavyweights India bowed out of the tournament after New Zealand beat Afghanistan to join Pakistan as the two semi-finalists from Group 2. Dubbed 'King' Kohli by the Indian media, the prolific batsman had announced that the marquee event would be h...

Nearly half of Sri Lanka's 25 districts have been hit by the deluge, with the worst affected areas in and around the island's tea-growing Central Highlands. "Five deaths and two disappearances were reported" across Sri Lanka since the rains began a...

A police official was injured after being stabbed with a knife in Cannes, southern France, and his assailant has been "neutralised", said French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Monday. 

France's bishops will on Monday set out their plans to compensate victims of child sexual abuse by members of the clergy in a scandal that stretches back decades.

The US Supreme Court on Monday will take up a case involving three Muslim men in California who say they were surveilled at their mosque by the FBI after the September 11, 2001 attacks based solely on their religion. 

After the pandemic caused a two-year pause to in-person events, Counter-Strike -- one of the world's most popular competitive video games -- was back in front of a live audience in the Swedish capital. Led by their star player "S1mple", hot favouri...

The group were attempting to scale Mingbo Eiger, a 6,000-metre (19,700-feet) peak near Mount Everest, and were last heard from via satellite phone from their camp on October 26. Bad weather hampered efforts to find the men and a member of the team ...

The hardliners' takeover of Kabul and the sudden collapse in August of the US-backed regime shocked the world and upended the freedoms of Afghans, which were particularly enjoyed by the urban middle class. But away from major cities, where little o...

A dizzying blitz of pledges to curb methane emissions, phase out coal-fired power, stop overseas fossil fuel financing, and halt deforestation would appear to have moved the dial towards the Paris Agreement's most ambitious goal of capping global wa...

More than 40 countries pledged to eliminate coal use within decades during the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, which aims to cap the warming of Earth since the Industrial Revolution to between 1.5 and 2.0 degrees Celsius. Australia, along with ...

Some 400 members of the party's powerful Central Committee gathered in Beijing for the four-day plenary, which -- like all meetings of China's secretive leadership -- is being held behind closed doors. State news agency Xinhua said Xi opened the me...

World number two Medvedev was speaking after Djokovic had come back from a set down to beat him 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final in Paris for a record-breaking 37th Masters 1000 title on Sunday. This came a day after the 34-year-old Serbian won his semi-...