The British driver, 37, was speaking for the first time since he lost the championship in controversial circumstances to Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi on December 12. "I never ever said I was going to stop," said seven-time champion Hamilton at the l...

Since Monday, an IAEA taskforce has been in Japan to assess the country's plan to gradually release the water, which has been processed to remove most radioactive elements, into the ocean. The organisation's deputy director general Lydie Evrard sai...

Thomas has dominated US collegiate women's swimming recently as a student athlete at Penn State, where just a few years ago she competed as a man. Her case has divided opinion, with some arguing she has an unfair physiological advantage while other...

"Never," the 48-year-old Ukrainian said in Russian. "There is no-one to save here. There is no discrimination. It is utter nonsense." The treatment of ethnic Russians -- many of them living in Ukraine's industrial southeast -- has been an obsession...

The 32-year-old lost all hearing in his right ear and 85 percent in the other after suffering from meningitis as a small child. That has not stopped him competing at the last two Winter Games as brakeman behind Czech pilot Dominik Dvorak. They fi...

The Ukrainian joint command centre for the eastern front said the rebels had violated the ceasefire 20 times between midnight and 9.00 am while the Donetsk and Lugansk separatist groups said the army had fired 27 times. The reported attacks came on...

Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia were selected as the first recipients of technology from the WHO's global mRNA vaccine hub, in a push to ensure Africa can make its own jabs to fight the Covid and other diseases. "No other ...

Beijing is hosting the Winter Games amid international alarm over rights violations against minority groups, particularly its mostly Muslim Uyghur population. Airbnb is one of the Olympics' biggest backers with a reported $500 million sponsorship d...

The Chinese financial hub is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering thousands of confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach breaking point. Hong Kongers live in one of the world's most densely packed cities and re...

Going into the final weekend of the Games, the Germans have won 12 of the 24 medals at Yanqing National Sliding Centre, including seven of the eight golds. Together with the expertise and determination of their athletes, Germany's success is down t...

The child, named Haidar, slipped Tuesday to the bottom of a well being dug in Shokak, a parched village in Zabul province, around 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of the capital Kabul. "With great sorrow, young Haidar is separated from us forev...

Coordinated attacks in western Gujarat state's commercial hub in 2008 killed 56, launching shrapnel through markets, buses and other public places. An Islamist group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility, saying the blasts wer...

The state had indicted the two men in November for failing to act on early warnings from an Indian intelligence agency that local jihadists were planning a string of suicide bombings in April 2019. The three-judge panel dismissed all 855 charges ag...

The latest row over Istanbul's skyline has seen opponents of the new building attack botched restoration work and calls for historical edifices to be protected. "The disrespect, there is no recognition of any proportion or any limit," Esin Koymen, ...

It's his ticket out of the grim migrant camp he has called home for the past year, but there's a caveat: he has to cut his ponytail. "Health and safety protocol," his interviewer explains. Hashim, who won asylum in Greece a month-and-a-half ago, ...