Profit after tax slumped to just $112 million (98 million euros) compared with $3.2 billion in 2020, the pharmaceutical company said in a statement. However, revenues including Covid-19 vaccine sales rebounded 41 percent to $37.4 billion. The Covi...

Finnegan Elder, 22, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, were convicted in May 2021 by a Rome court for the death of police officer Mario Cerciello Rega during a late-night encounter in July 2019 while the two were on summer holiday. The stabbing of Cerc...

The Qatari organisers of the 32 nation event that starts November 21 and runs till December 18 said they are "cautiously optimistic" it will be the first mass gathering of sports fans for a global sports event since the coronavirus pandemic erupted ...

Zheng Yin, who goes into Friday's final two heats of the men's event in seventh position, sports a motif on his helmet inspired by a general from the Han dynasty. "We had a local designer come up with the design," said the 25-year-old. "The top of...

Victory in the northern state of over 200 million people, and strong performances in four other state polls in the coming weeks, would boost Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party ahead of 2024 national elections when he will likely seek a third ...

His parents, Chinese immigrants Hetty Wang and Chen Zhidong, got him figure skates instead -- and changed the course of the sport in the process. The 22-year-old Chen on Thursday upstaged reigning champion Yuzuru Hanyu at the Beijing Games to claim...

The duke of Cambridge will also learn about efforts to fight the illegal wildlife trade and will tour Dubai's Expo site on his first official visit to the wealthy Gulf state. "Excited to be arriving in Dubai," he tweeted on Wednesday, along with a ...

Langer was always going to miss the five-match series, opting to rest after a long stint on the road, during which he led Australia to the T20 World Cup title and a 4-0 Ashes Test hammering of England. But his shock exit last weekend after unsucces...

Strolz, sitting fourth after the opening downhill, produced the fastest slalom run to clock a combined time of 2min 31.43sec to top the podium just as his father Hubert did at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde added silver...

Opinions suggest that the proposal by animal rights defenders is highly unlikely to pass. But if it did, "Switzerland would be the only country internationally with such a ban," said Yves Fluckiger, president of the Swiss universities lobby group. ...

The agreement was announced as Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto met his French counterpart Florence Parly in Jakarta. "We agreed on the purchase of 42 Rafale. The contract signed today is for the first six, which will be followed by 36...

The highly-regarded McDonald, who had been an assistant to Langer since 2019, will lead the side during their Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka starting Friday in what is being seen as an audition for a permanent stay. He took the reins after Lange...

Shiffrin produced two unusual mistakes in both the slalom and giant slalom, skiing out early in both races. It was the first time the American had done that in consecutive technical races since 2011, when she was 16 and in her inaugural World Cup s...

The vote in the Basel-Stadt canton, which is home to the city of the same name and to one of Europe's best-known zoos, is being keenly followed by animal rights activists. Giving primates 'integrity' Triggered by the campaign group Sentience under S...

"A family photo, my favourite toy and some food so that I don't get hungry," she tells her mother Natalia as they debate what they would need most should their traumatised country plunge into an even bloodier war. Shanovska's town of Krasnogorivka ...