But after just six days of cricket they are 2-0 down with three matches to play, with their "Bazball" style of ultra-attacking cricket under fire following crushing eight-wicket defeats in Perth and Brisbane. AFP Sport looks at what has gone wrong ...

The tourists were crushed in the first two Ashes Tests in Perth and Brisbane by eight wickets and only a win at Adelaide Oval this week will be enough to keep the five-match series alive. McCullum confirmed they would stick with the same top seven,...

French prodigy Wembanyama -- playing after a 12-game absence following a month-long injury layoff -- led a superb performance from the Spurs to send Oklahoma City crashing to just their second defeat of the season. Reigning NBA champions Oklahoma C...

The streets around the university in Providence, Rhode Island, were filled with emergency vehicles hours after the shooter opened fire on Saturday at a building where exams were taking place. The violence is the latest in a long line of school atta...

Australia were on top in England in 2023, winning at Edgbaston and Lord's, before the hosts won two of the last three Tests with the other drawn. Despite the series ending 2-2, Pat Cummins' side retained the Ashes as holders. "That's a good remind...

"This is unfair," he said after being told to pay 1,000 rupees ($3.60), with the threat of having his truck impounded if he did not "fix" the problem. "I was coming from Lahore after getting my vehicle repaired. They pressed the accelerator to make...

Higa carded a four-under-par 68 in Saturday's final round at Dirab Golf and Country Club, near Riyadh, to finish on 16-under, seven behind the winner Bjorn Hellgren of Sweden. It was enough to see Higa top the standings ahead of Zimbabwe's Scott Vi...

But the controversy that exploded across social media has only sparked renewed interest in Bao Ninh's haunting classic and forced bookstores to scramble to keep pace with surging demand. "I only knew about this novel because of these online discuss...

China is already the world's largest market for industrial robots, and the government is pouring billions of dollars into robotics and artificial intelligence to boost its presence in the sector. The answer for many is a hybrid approach, experts a...

"We spray our vineyard to protect it, but it is futile: the leafhoppers carrying the disease move to untreated vineyards or wild vines nearby and return infected," the 45-year-old told AFP. Hungary, the world's 14th-largest wine producer, according...

He was anxious, this was no year-end vacation to visit his relatives. Andy was moving to his ancestral country to reunite with his father, recently deported as part of President Donald Trump's aggressive policy to expel undocumented migrants. "The...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to create Europe's strongest conventional army with outlays of hundreds of billions of euros, accelerating a build-up that began after Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The rush to rearm, mirrored acr...

French prodigy Wembanyama, who has missed the Spurs' last 12 games after suffering a left calf strain last month, produced a dominant performance at both ends of the court to set up a thrilling 111-109 victory at Las Vegas's T-Mobile Arena. The 7ft...

Mendoza, who was named the 2025 Big Ten conference Offensive Player and Quarterback of the Year, led Indiana to a 2025 Big Ten Championship upset victory over Ohio State and the top seed in the College Football Playoff. He is in his first year at I...

Star point guard Brunson scored a game-high 40 points to book a showdown in the mid-season tournament against the San Antonio Spurs or the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Knicks' in-form offense proved too hot for injury-hit Orlando, claiming a semi-fin...