The 17-year-old cut more than half a second off the previous mark of 2:05.48 held by China's Qin Haiyang. Qin's record had stood since July 2023. Ohashi had already won the 100m breaststroke gold this week in Tokyo after a dead heat with China's D...

Xi was greeted in Washington on Wednesday evening local time by Trump, kicking off a pomp-filled state visit where the two leaders are expected to discuss everything from AI and trade to Iran. In Beijing, a 59-year-old resident surnamed Huang calle...

Nene Royal, whose real name is Rattikarn Amloy, took home the $1 million prize as winner of "America's Got Talent", after wowing judges with blistering guitar solos and rock ballad shrieks. The teen from the island of Phuket has been a social media...

In the midst of the packed tennis calendar, Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz and rising stars Rafael Jodar and Jakub Mensik are among the stars appearing in the exhibition at the O2 Arena from Friday to Sunday. The Laver Cup is a three-day tour...

Police deployed 22,000 security personnel to lock down Islamabad, officials told AFP, barring entry and exit to neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Khan's party rules. Key highways, entry points, and major intersections were obstructed,...

The bespectacled primary school student, who says he eats eel to prepare for contests, is the youngest athlete at the Games. He is also host country Japan's youngest athlete in Asian Games history. He competes in Puyo Puyo Champions, a puzzle game...

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Dimitry Elias Léger, journalist and author of "Death of the Soccer God". He begins with an extraordinary but largely forgotten moment in sporting history: the Haitian-born Joe Gaetjens scoring the goal that gave the...

Like France under Zinédine Zidane, Germany and the Netherlands are entering new eras with their new managers. Both the Netherlands and Germany exited the World Cup frustrated following painful eliminations. Both nations are rebuilding and will face...

From market stalls to taxi ranks, voters across the archipelago of 210,000 people say they want the next government to create jobs and opportunities for a generation increasingly looking overseas for its future. In the small parliamentary democracy...

The young protesters were euphoric when they were joined by soldiers from the Capsat military unit in October last year, a turning point in weeks of anti-government demonstrations. President Andry Rajoelina fled the Indian Ocean island and the mili...

Around a hundred battery energy storage system (BESS) sites are now operating, most of them built in the past two years. The large-scale projects take advantage of former industrial sites and airfields or are integrated into existing power stations...

At a gymnasium on the outskirts of the port city of Nagoya, hosts Japan face another unlikely kabaddi pretender in South Korea. A few hundred school children shout for Japan's men in their pursuit of an Asian Games medal that would give the sport a...

But police believe they were really chemists sent by the Mexican Sinaloa crime cartel to set up an industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory on a game farm near the country town of Swartruggens, one of at least seven discovered across southern Afr...

The schoolgirl won all three individual races she swam this week in Tokyo with Asian Games records -- a series of performances that belied her tender age. Out of the pool she proved herself to be a typical teenager, joking around with team-mates an...