India smashed 216-3 off their 20 overs, the highest women's total in Asian Games history, with 18 fours and 13 sixes. Richa Ghosh and Bharti Fulmali plundered 25 off the final over from the hapless Mithali Ayodhya, who did not help her cause by con...

The historic match celebrating 75 years of diplomatic relations took place at Japan's modest Sano International Cricket Ground. It was Japan's first T20 game against a full-member nation. India, who retained their T20 World Cup crown at home earli...

There's the inroads of the far right, but also the broader desire for change. Introducing Berlin's answer to Zohran Mamdani: Elif Eralp, who led the far-left Die Linke party's historic win in Sunday's municipal elections in Berlin. We ask if the 45-...

Macron spoke with Trump after arriving in New York ahead of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. "We had a very good discussion. It was very constructive," he told reporters after the meeting. Macron said there was a "willi...

Marchand ruled the pool with four individual golds at his home Paris Olympics in 2024 and he remains the man to beat heading towards the Games in two years' time. Marchand is attending the Asian Games in Japan, where he has had a first-hand look at...

The United States operates more than 800 F-35 jets, its most costly weapons system, which is also flown by many of its defence allies, including Australia. News outlet Politico said a shipment of F-35 parts, including a canopy with radar-resistant ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in Assam state, crisscrossed by the Brahmaputra river, live on "chars", or temporary river islands and sandbars where access to even basic healthcare can be a challenge. More than 2,000 such islands dot the state whe...

Around 20 countries including the US and China will be represented at the meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, held amid international pressure on Phnom Penh do more to tackle the multi-billion-dollar online scam industry. Southeast Asia has emerged ...

World Cup-winner Zaheer, a left-arm pace spearhead who played 309 internationals for India, succeeds Stephen Fleming, a former New Zealand skipper. Fleming parted ways with five-time champions Chennai earlier this year after 18 years as coach of on...

Italy-based Fariba Hashimi powered home second in the women's road race near Nagoya in Japan, calling the triumph "something special". "I can't explain my feelings now," said the 23-year-old, before reflecting on how she was attacked with stones an...

Young speedcuber Lian Yunzhi broke the women's 3x3 average world record twice this month at two World Cube Association certified competitions in Wuhan and Guangzhou, according to state broadcaster CCTV on Monday. She posted averages of 4.52 and 4.2...

Zinédine Zidane has led his first training session as manager of Les Bleus.

US President Donald Trump's first meeting with a foreign leader on the sidelines of the UN general assembly was with French President Emmanuel Macron. The French president said that the talks, which focused on Ukraine and the Middle East, were "quit...

The typhoon moved away from Japan's coast and out into the Pacific by morning, allowing authorities to lift or downgrade most heavy rain and landslide warnings. Dujuan had already led to the early closure in the capital of the one of the world's bi...

Yu smashed the Games record in winning the women's 200m butterfly on Sunday in Tokyo and then repeated the feat in Monday's 200m individual medley. The schoolgirl's 2min 06.10sec in scorching to victory in the medley was the fastest time in the wor...