Spurs have embarked on an aggressive summer of spending to boost their fortunes after avoiding the drop by coming 17th, but it was a nail-biting outcome that went down to the wire. Big-money signings include midfielders Mateus Fernandes from West H...

France fire stable The fire in France's southwest Gironde region was stable overnight, local authorities said. "At this stage, the situation remained stable overall overnight, without any major developments," the local prefecture wrote in a med...

The Spaniard officially began the job on July 1 and will take charge of his first competitive fixture in Sydney on Tuesday when they face Western Sydney Wanderers. He faces a huge task to get Chelsea back in the running for major honours after thei...

After a long breakaway, Mathieu van der Poel found himself in front alongside Tadej Pogacar, before resisting the peleton's comeback. Pogacar won his fifth Tour de France.

Sooryavanshi's second half-century in four days steered India to 192-5 before Zimbabwe were restricted to 157-7 to complete a 3-0 series win on Sunday. "Very mature. And that's what I really appreciate about Vaibhav," said Laxman. Sooryavanshi tem...

The versatile Rogers was signed from Aston Villa last week for £117 million ($157 million), a record for a British player. Alonso said he was "delighted" to lure the 23-year-old to Stamford Bridge ahead of his first match in charge, a pre-season f...

The race to build data centres that power artificial intelligence has fuelled a global memory chip shortage while causing business to boom for the companies that produce them. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is the world's fourth-largest maker ...

In his 41st professional season, the grey-haired veteran nicknamed "King Kazu" netted Japan third division side Fukushima's fifth in an Emperor's Cup qualifier against Iwaki Furukawa FC, his first goal since November 2022. Miura latched on to a 52n...

President Prabowo Subianto has accepted the resignation of Perry Warjiyo, who had served as Bank Indonesia's governor since 2018, State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi told reporters in Jakarta. Perry, whose second term was meant to expire in 2028, cited u...

The film, "Satluj", tells the story of Jaswant Singh Khalra, a rights activist allegedly tortured and killed by police in 1995 after having investigated thousands of cases of disappearances and presumed extrajudicial killings during a brutal governm...

She and her family fled, leaving behind everything they had. It was only the latest ordeal in a war that had already claimed her father's life, destroyed their family's home and forced them into repeated displacement. Yet against overwhelming odds...

That's the pitch from a wave of new AI tools letting readers do exactly that. "You are dealing with a book as if it is a living object -- it's totally different," says Ahmed Kamel, CEO of Sinai.ai, a platform now in testing. With these tools, user...

On daily tourist boat trips, "the number of whales and dolphins we're seeing is less than we would on a normal year," Lesser, a 39-year-old naturalist at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, told AFP. The warming of the ocean surface is forci...

Smoking rates are at a six-decade low among American adults and the lowest in a quarter-century among youth. And yet, searches for the term "smoking pose" on the image-sharing platform Pinterest have soared 70 percent among 18- to 24-year-olds, acc...

"Everyone had to get out of the village quickly -- it was a critical situation and people were scared," Olga Congacha, 50, told AFP on a highway where police had closed off access to her home commune, Robledo de Chavela. "My husband and I left with...