Solozano was at short leg on day one in Galle on Sunday when he was hit a sickening blow on the grille of his protective helmet from Sri Lankan captain Dimuth Karunaratne's full-blooded pull shot. Doctors and medical staff attended to the 26-year-o...

At lunch, Dinesh Chandimal was unbeaten on 33 with Suranga Lakmal on six. Dhananjaya de Silva, who resumed on 56, could only add five more on the second morning before being out hit wicket off the bowling of Shannon Gabriel in the seventh over. It...

Duterte made the remarks at an Asian regional summit hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who vowed his country would "never seek hegemony, and certainly not bully the small". China claims almost all of the waterway, through which trillions of d...

China's Lin Gaoyuan will play with the American Lily Zhang while Wang Manyu will join forces with Kanak Jha in the mixed doubles at the tournament this week, the International Table Tennis Federation said. The two American-Chinese pairings will "bu...

And later this month she will become the first Black woman to enter the Pantheon in Paris, the mausoleum reserved for France's "great men". Her adopted country is honouring her 46 years after her death not only as a mould-breaking entertainer but a...

The Lightning said the star center is expected to be out indefinitely, possibly casting doubt over his fitness for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics starting in early February where Point is expected to be a big part of Canada's team. Point was inj...

The decision has prompted a fierce backlash, with tens of thousands taking to the streets, some blaming the government for not doing more to avert the latest coronavirus wave crashing into Europe. As they wake up Monday morning, Austria's 8.9 milli...

Ardern said that from 11:59pm on December 2, New Zealand would adopt a new Covid-19 response -- first flagged last month -- that aims to contain the highly contagious Delta variant, rather than attempting to eliminate it completely. "The hard truth...

The NBA superstar was thrown out for just the second time in his career after striking Stewart in the face while the pair were battling for rebounding position. Stewart, who was cut above the right eye, tried to confront James. That led to a scrum ...

"We started losing customers one after another, and we kept losing stores until we closed down three shops," said Kopti, believed to be Jordan's oldest maker of handcrafted shoes. "In the past five years, our profession began to decline dramaticall...

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But South Korea's Steelers will have to overcome fervent home support with an expected 68,000 Al Hilal fans packing out the King Fahd Stadium after Covid crowd restrictions were lifted. Managed by the Portuguese Leonardo Jardim, Al Hilal of Saudi A...

Officials were still gathering information on the incident which occurred just after 4:30 pm (2230 GMT), as spectators in the town of Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, watched the annual tradition. "The Waukesha Christmas parade was taking place when a...

Launched in 2013 by an international trio of fintech entrepreneurs, the Sao Paulo neobank will make its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange on December 9, consolidating its meteoric rise. Nubank is hoping to raise some $3 billion...

The Bavarian giants are already guaranteed a last 16 place as Group E winners ahead of Tuesday's match at bottom side Dynamo Kiev. However, Kimmich, who declined to be vaccinated due to "personal concerns", was quarantined Friday for the second tim...