The versatile Phil Collins, post-punk and electronic dance music renegades Joy Division/New Order and the velvet-voiced late Luther Vandross also joined the rock pantheon at the ceremony held in Los Angeles's Peacock Theater. But several of the 202...

The government of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis wants to switch from funding Czech TV and Czech Radio through licence fees paid by viewers and listeners to payments from the state budget. Opponents say the move will stifle media freedom a...

Two days after being bundled out for just 131 in Perth, the visitors needed to hit back in Adelaide and did so emphatically with their highest ODI total in Australia. Banton led the way with his second ODI century but he was well supported by Joe R...

Two tries in the opening five minutes did the damage, and there were four more before half-time to send the Jillaroos to the break with a commanding 34-6 advantage. Despite applying pressure, they were unable to add to their score as the humid cond...

Sayers was on the tour of South Africa but did not play in the third Test at Cape Town, where sandpaper was used to help make the ball swing. A Cricket Australia probe concluded only then-skipper Steve Smith, his deputy David Warner and Cameron Ba...

The head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, who underwent lung cancer surgery a month ago, refused to cut the visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site from his itinerary, despite Cusco's location at over 3,400 meters (11,000 feet) of altitude. On...

Miami, who started the NBA campaign with a dismal four-game losing streak, improved to 7-6 to move above .500 for the first time this season with a burst of scoring either side of half-time. After outscoring the Pistons 31-21 in the second quarter,...

But at this year's global climate conference -- the first since the United Nations said the 1.5C threshold would be missed -- nations appear unsure how to take the news. The world has already warmed about 1.4C above pre-industrial times and the UN ...

After living through revolution, war and years of displacement, Mustafa and his fellow musicians in "Aswat al-Madina" (Arabic for Voices of the City) have reunited in the Egyptian capital, returning to both recording and live performance. "I still ...

Once grown by Indigenous farmers in Taiwan in case their staple crops died, oil millet largely disappeared from fields more than 60 years ago as rice became more available. Over the past decade, Ismahasan and his elderly parents have worked to revi...

Rising popularity of hybrids -- which can run on either gasoline or an electric charge -- has been a source of US sales increases for Japanese and South Korean carmakers in 2026, prompting fresh investments from both established and new players in t...

Japan shocked the five-times world champions 3-2 in a friendly in Singapore on Saturday, with substitute Tatsuhiro Sakamoto scoring an injury-time winner. The victory came just more than a year after Japan beat Brazil for the first time in a friend...

The lawyer, writer and diplomat known for denouncing dictators and defending the Indigenous received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967. He lived in Paris before he died in Spain aged 74 in 1974, during the last years of the Franco dictatorship....

Trump is scheduled to arrive Tuesday, near the summit's conclusion, a visit that will include a meeting with the leaders of his fellow Quad countries India, Japan and Australia -- the first such sit-down of his second term. But it was the US leader...

Goals from Christian Pulisic (2), Auston Trusty, Julian Hall, Weston McKennie and Folarin Balogun gave the US a commanding first leg advantage to all but settle the outcome of the quarter-final before Tuesday’s second leg in Cincinnati. The build...