"Chopra had called me earlier today from the US to convey his inability to take part in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games owing to fitness concerns," Indian Olympic Association secretary general Rajeev Mehta said in a statement. "Following his...

Located right next to the front line, this mining town in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region -- where several thousand people still live -- has been under constant shelling for more than three months. The terrifying sounds of explosions break the sil...

The army said it had destroyed the homes in Qarawat Bani Hasan, in the northern West Bank, belonging to Yusef Aasi and Yehya Miri, accused of perpetrating "a deadly shooting attack at the entrance to the city of Ariel, murdering the Israeli security...

The hosts had reached 22 at lunch in Galle for their second innings with openers wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella, on 11, and Oshada Fernando, on eight, at the crease. The left-handed Dickwella opened Sri Lanka's batting with skipper Dimuth ...

At least 471 people were killed, injured or missing as a result of fierce clashes this month between rival gangs in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, the United Nations said Monday.

Tu'ungafasi, 30, picked up the knock during the third Test loss to Ireland in Wellington, which saw the All Blacks suffer a first home series defeat since 1994. He will sit out New Zealand's Test matches in South Africa on August 7 in Mbombela and ...

About 1,700 people had been infected with monkeypox in France, Health Minister François Braun said on Monday.

Emmanuel Macron arrived in Cameroon on Monday to kick off an African tour that will also take the French president to Benin and Guinea-Bissau. Macron’s trip focuses on food security, French investments and governance. The latter is a fraught ques...

A "massive missile strike" hit the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine on Tuesday damaging port infrastructure, local officials reported. Russian energy giant Gazprom on Monday said gas flows to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would fall...

Bapir Kalkani, who is also a trade unionist, farms near the picturesque lake but has seen marked changes over the past three years as Iraq suffers prolonged drought. "There was water where I'm standing now" in 2019, the 56-year-old said. "It used t...

The borderline runs along a drainage divide -- the point at which meltwater will run down either side of the mountain towards one country or the other. But the Theodul Glacier's retreat means the watershed has crept towards the Rifugio Guide del Ce...

Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, is suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from high street business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Inc., an "official partner" of last year's pandemic-delayed mega-event. Kyodo news agency reported that could c...

"We didn't get what we wanted out of that series, so to come together and put in the work again is the best thing for this group," Foster told reporters after the All Blacks trained in Wellington. There has been a huge outcry in New Zealand, with s...

An unprecedented economic crisis has dealt a body blow to a free and universal healthcare system that just months earlier was the envy of the country's South Asian neighbours. Suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure that inflamed her joints...

An Olympic gold medallist and Champions League winner at club level with Wolfsburg, the Euro had been the bete noire of the 31-year-old's glittering career until touching down in England a few weeks ago. Her determination to play in Wolfsburg's Cha...