Kylian Mbappé scored the only goal of the game from a second-half penalty as France beat Paraguay in a cagey Round of 16 tie in Philadelphia on Saturday. Les Bleus will take on Morocco in the quarter-finals on Thursday in Boston.

At the foot of Mount Olympus, home of the Greek Gods, these scenes are repeated during the four-day-long Prometheia Festival at the start of every summer. For more than thirty years, hundreds of people who worship ancient Greek deities have been c...

Masood, 36, took over from Azam in December 2023 and led the side to 12 defeats in 16 Tests. Pakistan finished ninth and last in the last World Test Championship cycle. They again lie ninth in the current cycle after a 2-0 series defeat in Banglade...

The July 7-8 summit, which is being hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will bring together leaders from the military alliance's 32 member states. Last month, Trump promised to make Erdogan "very happy" when asked about Turkey looking to secu...

Located on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands, the Halki seminary opened in the mid-19th century and was the main theological school for the Eastern Orthodox Church until it was closed under a Turkish law in 1971. Despite decades of pressure ...

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Rare Taiwanese-language films -- known locally as "taiyupian" -- flourished briefly from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s under the Kuomintang (KMT) government, which fled to Taiwan following its defeat by the Chinese Communist Party. Until it lifte...

Popovic sparked criticism from some high-profile former Australia players for substituting first-choice goalkeeper Patrick Beach deep into extra-time in the last-32 clash in Dallas on Friday as penalties loomed. He instead turned to Mathew Ryan, w...

The brakes were first put on the Spin Boldak market when cross-border violence with neighbouring Pakistan prompted the near-total closure of the frontier in October. "When the border was closed with Pakistan, we also exported via (Iran's) Bandar A...

Fineanganofo was on the All Blacks bench for their 34-32 win over France and came on for the final 11 minutes in place of left wing Caleb Clarke. But that was only after he overcame a serious bout of stomach-churning nerves. "I was sitting on th...

For Mohammad Mannan, 25, and Fatima Akhter, 16, their thoughts are fixed on the upcoming surfing competition at the Asian Games, to be held in Japan from September 19 to October 4. The surfers from Cox's Bazar -- one of the world's longest beaches ...

🇫🇷⚽️ Les Bleus secured their place in the World Cup 2026 quarter-finals after a very tense match against #Paraguay 🇵🇾, marked by numerous fouls that went unpunished. Despite the intensity, the #French players reacted with composure...

The 33-year-old midfielder has the opportunity to prove that that tough experience paid off by leading the Swiss into the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 1954 if they beat Colombia on Tuesday. Those early years, though, when he an...

Forty years ago in Mexico City, Diego Maradona defeated England in the World Cup quarter-finals in a match that is still remembered for the Argentine great's "hand of God" goal, when he punched the ball into the net. This time England must beat one...

"France couldn't find the answers, and it took a bit of individual skill and a penalty given by VAR to make the difference which their football had not been able to do," Alfaro said after the game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Kylian ...