"As a team in this Asia Cup we are showing that Afghanistan have quality batsmen, quality bowlers and quality fielders," said all-rounder Nabi after Afghanistan thrashed Bangladesh by seven wickets on Tuesday. "In these two games we showed we can c...

The new circuit has sparked a bitter split that threatens to tear golf apart and sparked accusations of "sportswashing" of Saudi Arabia's human rights record. Saudi Arabia has drawn major criticsm over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi ...

The filing provides the most detailed account yet of the motivation for the FBI raid this month on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, which was triggered by a review of records he previously surrendered to authorities that contained top secret information. ...

The village of Bhambro is in a poor district of Sindh province, hard-hit by record floods that have destroyed more than a million homes and damaged critical infrastructure including health facilities across the country. Bhambro is surrounded by vas...

Japan's defence spending has risen almost annually over the last decade, but pressure has grown for more following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and China's growing pressure on Taiwan. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has promised sweeping upgrades, ...

The 25-year-old is not at the US Open, currently being played in New York, but he has been named in Germany's team for the group stage of the Davis Cup finals, which come a week before the Seoul tournament. The Tokyo Olympics gold medallist will be...

World leaders were quick to pay tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who oversaw the collapse of the USSR and lifted the Iron Curtain, marking a pivotal turning point in world history. Gorbachev died at a hospital in Moscow on Tuesday ag...

Ukraine's schools are set to reopen September 1 after six months of remote learning. But the challenge of reopening classrooms after months of war means school administrators have been forced to add bomb shelters and repair buildings damaged by Ru...

They had swapped the sticky Lahore summer for the cooler climes of the northeastern mountains last week when they became embroiled in one of Pakistan's worst disasters -- one that has left more than 1,100 dead and a third of the country submerged by...

Abe's alleged assassin resented the church over his mother's involvement with and hefty donations to the organisation, and targeted the former prime minister believing he was linked to the sect. In the wake of his murder, revelations of links betwe...

"White Noise" stars Driver as a Hitler studies professor in a town experiencing an "Airborne Toxic Event", reuniting him with director Noah Baumbach following their lauded "Marriage Story". Netflix will also premiere the highly anticipated "Blonde...

The Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe's biggest, is on the front line between Russian and Ukrainian forces, and the area has been shelled repeatedly in recent days, with the two sides accusing each other. "We are now finally moving," IAEA chief Rafael Gro...

Four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka, a winner at Flushing Meadows in 2018 and 2020, was beaten 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 by 19th-seeded American Collins in a battle of two big hitters. Collins, finalist at this year's Australian Open, now advances to a second...

The Taliban declared Wednesday a national holiday and lit up the capital with coloured lights to celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan after a brutal 20-year war.

The annual award, established in 1957 and named after a Philippines president who died in a plane crash, honours those who have performed "selfless service to the peoples of Asia". The foundation that runs the award announced four winners in an onl...