On Friday, Liverpool's majority owners Fenway Sports Group announced the sale of a minority stake in the club a consortium including Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Savarin. Former Queens Park Rangers owner Amit Bhatia is expected to beco...

Trump has repeatedly said the strait, which Tehran effectively closed at the start of the Middle East war in late February, is under US control -- an assertion the Islamic republic denies. "The Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian, and wil...

Nazar Khan, 65, is among a four-member team of "monkey whisperers" hired to stop rhesus macaques from gatecrashing the showpiece event, which begins Monday at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium. The venue has an unenviable reputation. During the In...

The home side ran in seven tries to the visitors' three in Townsville for another boost to new coach Les Kiss, who got his reign off to a winning start with a tense 35-32 victory in Osaka last weekend. Josh Nasser, Angus Bell, debutant Massimo De L...

The tourists lost opener Yashasvi Jaiswal for 32 after he was run out following a mix-up with Rahul, with both batters ending up at the non-striker's end. The duo put on 47 runs for the first wicket to give India a steady start in the country's lan...

The pieces from Matisse's limited-edition 1947 art book "Jazz," valued at around $200,000, were found at a home in the town of Sao Bernardo do Campo. Brazilian authorities accused 53-year-old Laessio Rodrigues of masterminding the theft. A former l...

Palestinian residents of three houses in Qusra near Nablus in the occupied West Bank say they have been effectively cut off from food and other supplies since the siege by Israeli settlers began on Sunday. But the Israeli military has not done anyth...

Like many European countries, the Netherlands has been hit by a historic summer drought caused by a prolonged dry spell, exceptional heat and intense evaporation. The Dutch -- with their dikes, dams and vast waterworks--have long been admired for ...

Modi said the initiative was aimed at easing the financial burden on millions of families caught up in the country's fiercely competitive education system. The 75-year-old leader made the announcement while speaking from the ramparts of New Delhi's...

Pallister led all the way to win in 3min 58.42sec, setting a blistering early pace and hanging on as nine-time Olympic gold medallist Ledecky charged late to take silver in 4:00.15. "It felt good until it didn't," said Pallister, who arrived in Irv...

Modi said the initiative was aimed at easing the financial burden on millions of families caught up in the country's fiercely competitive education system. The 75-year-old leader made the announcement while speaking from the ramparts of New Delhi's...

At the close Australia trailed the visitors by 67 runs in their second innings, with Cameron Green on 43 and Alex Carey 19. After being dismissed for 426 shortly after lunch, Bangladesh seamer Hasan Mahmud stunned Australia when he claimed both ope...

Rescue official Fathur Rahman told AFP at least 20 people were confirmed dead on the popular tourist island and six others reported injured. At least two people were known to be trapped alive under rubble following the 7.7-magnitude quake, he said....

Shinjiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni shrine took place 81 years after Japan's surrender in World War II, an anniversary when crowds, including a small number in military-style uniform -- and senior political figures -- throng the site. There ha...

"I was in a park with a friend and we both needed to use the bathroom. He could go for free, but I had to pay 50 cents. I thought to myself: How is that possible?" Melanie Gradik, 27, told AFP in the Austrian capital's Augarten park. "I want everyo...