Four Olympic medalists, in a squad of six Cuban boxers, will make their professional debuts in Mexico on Friday, "for the first time in the history of boxing," event organizer Gerardo Saldivar said. Cuba has long been a powerhouse of Olympic boxing...

Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record expected to be broken again this year amid mass displacement inside war-torn Ukraine. Around 38 million new internal displacements were reporte...

AFP Sport looks at the seven men to have won majors while still in their teens: BJORN BORG -- In 1974, Sweden's reluctant superstar Borg won the first of his six French Opens having just passed his 18th birthday when he defeated Manuel Orantes 2-6...

Taijul bowled Kusal Mendis for 48 and then removed first-innings centurion Angelo Mathews for a duck with a return catch to reduce the visitors to 128-4 at lunch at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. Skipper Dimuth Karunaratne held on with an unbeaten...

The visits are being touted as proof that the United States is building on recent moves to cement its years-long pivot to Asia, where rising Chinese commercial and military power is undercutting decades of US dominance. But highlighting competing d...

The 38-year-old Malaysian is now an SEA Games silver medallist in a pastime which, according to players at the regional competition, is growing in popularity. Also known as Chinese chess, xiangqi is a two-player board game dating back thousands of ...

The men's team beat giants of the sport Malaysia, Denmark and then 14-time winners Indonesia to win badminton's equivalent to the Davis Cup in tennis. Team manager Vimal Kumar hailed the victory as the "biggest achievement" for a country whose rare...

In the one-road hamlet of Souboz, nearly 900 metres (300 feet) up in the Jura mountains, the nature-loving Gyger brothers distill whatever they forage, such as gentian roots and juniper, in a bid to sustain the local economy. Switzerland is trying ...

Scholz, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are in power with the Greens and the liberal FDP, has faced a barrage of criticism over his perceived weak response to the war, including his hesitancy over sending heavy weapons to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Green par...

Socially progressive Taiwan is at the vanguard of Asia's gay rights movement, and became the first in the region to legalise same-sex unions on May 17, 2019. But the law still contains restrictions that heterosexual couples do not face, including l...

After his tumultuous title victory in Abu Dhabi last year, the 24-year-old Dutchman has become one of the world's highest-paid sports stars and a leading figure in F1's new generation of drivers. But this Sunday, as always, he will shut out all dis...

Many young forwards have been hyped up as the new Messi, but Bojan -- who even had the same floppy hair as the Argentine -- genuinely looked destined for the very top. At 17 years and 19 days, the Spaniard in 2007 became the youngest player to repr...

Canada was the latest country to report it was investigating more than a dozen suspected cases of monkeypox, after Spain and Portugal detected more than 40 possible and verified cases. Britain has confirmed nine cases since May 6, and the United S...

Three days after Doncic destroyed the Phoenix Suns with a virtuoso performance, the Slovenian star found the going harder against a ruthless Golden State at San Francisco's Chase Center. Dallas had rained in buckets against Phoenix in Arizona on Su...

Local authorities have become increasingly desperate to get their money back from the 24-year-old, who has said he will return the cash "even if it's going to be bit by bit". The blunder by authorities in the remote town of Abu and the man's failur...