The World Series champion Dodgers, led by Japanese slugger Ohtani, will open the new Major League Baseball season with two games against the Chicago Cubs at the Tokyo Dome next week. Ohtani is an icon in Japan and excitement is reaching fever pitch...

The number of people prosecuted for spying for Beijing has soared, with retired and serving members of Taiwan's military the main targets of Chinese infiltration efforts, official figures show. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has t...

The Briton came tantalisingly close to dethroning Red Bull's Max Verstappen as world champion in 2024 and is widely expected to be battling at the front of the grid again this year. "It's motivated everyone even more from a team perspective," he sa...

Security forces said they freed more than 340 train passengers in a two-day rescue operation that ended late on Wednesday after a separatist group bombed a remote railway track in mountainous southwest Balochistan and stormed a train with around 450...

The Dutchman claimed his fourth straight world title in Las Vegas in November with two races to spare. The 27-year-old is now bidding to join an even more exclusive club with only Michael Schumacher winning five championships in a row. But while h...

Rubio arrived in the town of Charlevoix on the banks of the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday for meetings with foreign ministers from the club of the world's industrialized democracies. He is expected to brief on the US-led effort to pause three ye...

The 23-year-old, who was already under contract until 2026, signed a multi-year extension with the British team ahead of the season-opening race in Melbourne. "It felt like just a very natural progression to sign for even longer term," Piastri said...

After 12 years with Mercedes he will race for the first time in the Ferrari red at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix this week, knowing expectations are high. The seven-time world champion officially began work at the Scuderia in January aft...

Richer nations committed at the UN COP29 summit in November to boost spending on climate action in developing countries to $300 billion a year by 2035, an amount decried as woefully inadequate. Since then, President Donald Trump has frozen US contr...

Deep-sea mining in international waters involves taking minerals like nickel, cobalt and copper -- crucial for renewable energy technology -- from the sea floor. But researchers and environmentalists have long warned it risks destroying habitats an...

The trial of Urfan Sharif and his wife Beinash Batool caused waves of revulsion in the UK as the horrific abuse suffered by the 10-year-old girl was revealed in a London court. There was anger too at how the bright, bubbly youngster had been failed...

Gilgeous-Alexander enhanced his credentials as favorite for the Most Valuable Player award with a superb performance to silence Boston's TD Garden home crowd in an absorbing duel settled by a burst of fourth-quarter Thunder scoring. The Canadian po...

Willie Mullins has nurtured many great champions but the 68-year-old is in no doubt as to Galopin des Champs being the best he has ever trained. "He has to be, you'd have to say that," said the Irish training titan ahead of the blue riband of the s...

Les Bleus are in pole position for the title as they host Scotland, having demolished defending champions Ireland in Dublin last weekend. Edwards, 58, has been in charge of France's defence since 2019 after leaving the Welsh set-up and could add a...

Les Bleus' dominant 42-27 defeat of double-defending champions Ireland in Dublin last weekend took them top of the table, a point clear of second-placed England. And with France's game at home to Scotland the third and last of the tournament's conc...