The Australian top seed was all business on Rod Laver Arena, taking command early to race through the first set to love and wrap up the match 6-0, 6-1 in an ominous warning to her rivals. Ukraine's Tsurenko was no walkover. Despite being ranked 120...

The Saudi side are aiming for a fifth continental title, after triumphing in Asia's premier club competition last year with victory over South Korea's Pohang Steelers in the final. Al Hilal's Group A clashes with Istiklol will be closely watched a...

Oxfam said the men's wealth jumped from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, at an average rate of $1.3 billion per day, in a briefing published before a virtual mini-summit of world leaders being held under the auspices of the World Economic Forum. A co...

The 21-year-old American, ranked 43 and one of the ATP Tour's brightest prospects, won convincingly 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 in just over 100 minutes on day one of the opening Slam of the year. It was a remarkable effort by Korda, who was forced to withdraw f...

It is two days since the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano exploded, cloaking Tonga in a film of ash, triggering a Pacific-wide tsunami and releasing shock waves that wrapped around the entire Earth. But with phone lines still down and an undersea ...

China, where the virus first emerged in late 2019, has stuck to a strict policy of targeting zero Covid cases even as the rest of the world has reopened. But its approach has come under sustained pressure in recent weeks with multiple clusters acro...

A freight train from North Korea arrived at the Chinese border city of Dandong for the first time since early 2020 on Sunday, Japanese and South Korean media reported earlier. China confirmed those reports on Monday. "Due to the impact of the pand...

The Spanish great also said that he would have preferred it if his rival and defending champion Djokovic had been playing in the first Grand Slam of the year. The Serbian world number one jetted out of Australia on the eve of the showpiece having l...

British group GSK said at the weekend that it had received three unsolicited offers from Unilever for GSK Consumer Healthcare, but were rejected for being too low. The unit's products include Sensodyne toothpaste, pain relief drug Panadol and cold ...

Protests erupted last week in Maymana, capital of Faryab province, after an Uzbek Taliban commander was detained for alleged links to a kidnapping plot. The unrest sparked fears of tensions between Uzbek and Pashtun civilians and Taliban fighters, ...

Antonio Horta-Osorio's resignation was effective immediately following an investigation commissioned by the board, Switzerland's second-largest bank said in a statement released Monday. Board of directors member Axel Lehmann was appointed to take h...

The event sees Hindus, a sizeable minority in multi-ethnic Malaysia, show their devotion to the deity Lord Murugan. Hundreds headed to the Batu Caves temple complex outside Kuala Lumpur and walked barefoot up 272, multi-coloured steps to reach the...

Gauff, the youngest player in the draw at 17, was dominated by the world number 110 in just 73 minutes of action on Margaret Court Arena. Gauff's only bright spot in a one-sided second set came as she saved four match points from 5-0 down. She was...

The unvaccinated nine-time Australian Open champion Djokovic flew out of Melbourne on Sunday night after his last-gasp court bid to stay in the country failed. The visa saga cast a dark shadow over the opening Grand Slam of the year and few players...

Former Barcelona maestro Iniesta joined Kobe in 2018 in a deal worth a reported $30 million a year, and signed a two-year contract extension last spring. The club is owned by tech billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, one of Japan's richest men. Now Kobe ...