Lebanese official media said fresh Israeli strikes on the country's south on Saturday killed five people, despite a new ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group announced a day earlier.

Saturday's one-night, sold-out performance stars Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi, who told AFP she intends to make the role her own in the 2,500-year-old amphitheatre renowned for its exceptional acoustics. "I don't want to copy, I don't want to imita...

"In the Indian tradition, we work on the body, the breath, the mind..." he said, saying yoga in the West is "reduced 95 percent to asanas (postures) and very little to prana (breath)". Veer, who opened a studio in New Delhi in 2023 after teaching t...

The scene unfolds not in a church but in the basement of a small shopping centre a short walk from the vast esplanade of Portugal's Fatima shrine, one of the Catholic Church's most visited pilgrimage sites. The gathering was part of a series of mon...

Former Newcastle player Almiron was given his marching orders in first half stoppage time after covering his mouth while he appeared to direct a comment at Turkey's Mert Muldur during the two teams' World Cup Group D game in Santa Clara, California....

The five-time World Cup winners bounced back from an underwhelming 1-1 draw with Morocco, as Matheus Cunha scored twice in Philadelphia and Vinicius Junior struck for the second game running at the tournament. Brazil's win lifted them to the top of...

Ayari overshadowed his better-known teammates Alexander Isak and Viktor Gyokeres in the 5-1 win on Sunday and is expected to start against the Netherlands on Saturday. Born in Solna in Sweden to a Tunisian father and a Moroccan mother, the 22-year-...

A brilliant second-minute strike by Ismael Saibari settled the Group C game in Morocco's favour at the Gillette Stadium near Boston, leaving the Atlas Lions on four points and Scotland on three with one match still to play. Steve Clarke's team beat...

After a much-criticised display in their opening 1-1 draw with Morocco, the five-time world champions underlined the gulf in class with outsiders Haiti, who became the first country to exit this World Cup. Cunha's scruffy goal in Philadelphia gave ...

On the same day, he got a call from authorities asking him to turn in his official documents and those of his infant. In the next days, Ali, 31, his daughter and his wife were forced to leave for Iran, never to return. He tried to fly to the United...

Julie Collins told a press conference the disease had been found in a migratory sea bird, a brown skua, in remote Western Australia, and the result confirmed by the national science agency. Samples from another sick bird, a giant petrel found in th...

Under the US-Iran agreement announced earlier this week to end the Middle East war, fighting is also supposed to cease between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. In Israel, the agreement is widely viewed as undermining ...

World number one Scheffler fired a two-under par 68 on Friday to stand on level par 140 for 36 holes, his day highlighted by a 40-foot birdie putt at the par-five 15th. "I did a good job of keeping a pretty clean card. That's always nice when you'r...

Hedayat Mombeyni, the secretary general of the Iranian football federation, was speaking to reporters the day after his organization said it would lodge a complaint with FIFA, claiming the team was being subjected to travel restrictions that were je...

World number two McIlroy fired a one-over par 71 to finish 36 holes on level par 140, seven behind leader Wyndham Clark entering the weekend at windy Shinnecock Hills. "If there's a course where you feel like you still have a chance if you're seven...