The 19-year-old is due to play in the Madrid Open this week as she builds up to the French Open but said she felt she required a "new training model". The Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA) head of women's coaching, Iain Bates, will work with Raducanu...

The 24-year-old Singaporean-born yachtsman may never have experienced sailing in the Southern Ocean but history-making female mariner Dee Caffari, who competed in the 2009 Vendee Globe, believes he has the qualities to thrive in perhaps the toughest...

The incident is the latest in wave of unrest rocking the West Bank and Israel as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish holiday of Passover overlapped this month. The Palestinian health ministry said 20-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim Oweidat "succ...

AFP Sport looks at five talking points from the first half of the season. Smiling assassin Jos Buttler has smiled his way to the top of this season's batting chart with three sparkling centuries for Rajasthan Royals. The softly-spoken Englishman ha...

The high-level delegation arrived in the Pacific nation for talks with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare last Friday, three days after Beijing announced the deal had been signed. A draft version of the pact, leaked on social media in March, prompted...

Despite its reach and impact, the San Francisco-based one-to-many messaging platform has struggled to generate the kind of revenue seen by social media peers such as Facebook and TikTok. Since its founding in March of 2006, Twitter has amassed 217 ...

Packed together in white parcels, the titles rescued from Kharkiv fill up what was once the children's reading room. They are just a fraction of those at the shop's publishing house in the eastern city under Russian fire, she said. "Our warehouse ...

The London-based bank announced pre-tax profits of $4.2 billion for January-March, down 28 percent on-year but beating estimates, while reporting revenue declined four percent to $12.5 billion. "While profits were down on last year's first quarter ...

A soldier rushes up to the rockstar from the band Okean Elzy for a selfie. "We came to raise morale, to see the guys. Maybe I will sing something to them," the 46-year-old told AFP, guitar in hand. "Their mood is great," he said. "I mean, they're ...

The CinemaCon summit draws Tinseltown executives to giant casino ballrooms each year, where owners of theaters -- from global chains to tiny independents -- are treated to never-before-seen footage and A-list appearances. After a subdued edition la...

"The country has been thrown back in every sense, for me it's been set back 40 years," said Venediktov, who joined the station at its founding in 1990 and steered it through the 20 years of Vladimir Putin's rule, until the Russian president sent tro...

New Zealand Rugby confirmed the three-Test series will begin at Eden Park on Saturday, July 2, followed by Tests in Dunedin on July 9 and Wellington on July 16. Ireland have toppled the All Blacks in three of their last five meetings, including an ...

China is trying to contain a wave of infections in Shanghai -- its biggest city -- which has been almost entirely locked down for weeks and reported 52 new Covid deaths on Tuesday. Beijing authorities have ordered people in 12 central districts tha...

"We will continue to take steps to strengthen and develop our nation's nuclear capabilities at the fastest pace," Kim said, according to a transcript published by the official Korean Central News Agency. According to KCNA, Kim gave the speech late ...

Human activity and climate change have combined to turn the site into a barren wasteland with piles of salt. Abandoned hotels and tourist facilities here hark back to the 1990s when the salt lake, circled by sandy banks, was in its heyday and popul...