Israel's Homefront Command has announced it is easing restrictions that closed workplaces across the country. Businesses are able to reopen providing that there is a shelter nearby. Schools will remain closed. Daily life across the country remain...

On Thursday, Tehran said it had hit Iraq-based Kurdish groups "opposed to the revolution", as reports said the United States was looking to arm Kurdish guerillas to infiltrate Iran. The conflict that began Saturday with US-Israeli strikes that kille...

US Senate Republicans backed President Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran on Wednesday, voting to ​block a bipartisan resolution aiming to stop the air war and require that any hostilities against Iran be authorized by Congress.

Images from the US Department of Defense show the destroyer USS Bainbridge launching Tomahawk cruise missiles, while the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford conducts military aircraft take-offs as part of “Epic Fury” operation against Iran....

Marseille’s disastrous year continues. After being eliminated from the Champions League on the last day of the league stage, suffering a 5-0 loss to rivals PSG, and firing their coach a few days later, Marseille hit a new low by losing to Toulouse...

The 20-year-old suspect, named only as Wassim Al M., was convicted of attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and attempted membership of a terrorist organisation, the court said. The stabbing in February 2025 inflamed an already heated debate on mi...

Media minister Nalinda Jayatissa said the second Iranian warship was just outside Sri Lankan waters, but gave no further details. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was meeting top officials Thursday to discuss a response to an Iranian request to e...

The continent is "structurally exposed" to the Middle East war, said Hubert Kinkoh, senior researcher at the CARPO think tank. "Energy imports, foreign military bases, and its proximity to maritime chokepoints mean the war's effects reach African s...

Spain sends Cyprus protection Spain will send its most advanced frigate to protect Cyprus after a drone strike on a British base on the Mediterranean island sucked it into the Middle East war, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The "Cristobal Co...

The fresh-faced Briton held off teammate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull's Max Verstappen in a thrilling three-way fight that went all the way to the season finale in Abu Dhabi. It made him McLaren's first world champion since Lewis Hamilton secured the...

Pace spearhead Henry returned figures of 2-34 in New Zealand's crushing nine-wicket win over South Africa in the first semi-final in Kolkata on Wednesday. Opener Finn Allen blasted the fastest-ever T20 World Cup hundred in 33 balls to lead his team...

As more women are having to fend for themselves amid economic hardship, they are increasingly venturing into trades previously dominated by men. Khalid's pink three-wheeled electric rickshaw stood out on the frenetic streets of the region's commerc...

A conflict ignited Saturday with US-Israeli attacks that killed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spread rapidly since, snarling global shipping and energy markets, and sowing panic and chaos in previously safe-haven Gulf nations. In...

Opener Allen hit the fastest-ever T20 World Cup century, off 33 balls, to give his side a crushing nine-wicket win over South Africa and set up a final against India or England in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Allen blasted 10 fours and eight sixes as New Z...