For the second time this season a match involving Lyon was abandoned following crowd trouble when their French Cup match at Paris FC on Friday was called off after half time.

Thousands of Afghans have also applied for new travel documents to escape a growing economic and humanitarian crisis described by the UN as an "avalanche of hunger". The authorities will start issuing the travel documents from Sunday at Kabul's pas...

Voters in the Chinese finance hub will pick new lawmakers under rules that have cut the number of directly elected seats in the legislature to 20 from a total of 90 seats. Most of the city's traditional pro-democracy opposition have either been jai...

The England captain has been in brilliant form in 2021, arriving for the Ashes with 1,455 runs from 12 Tests, including six centuries, at an average of 66.13. But the 30-year-old has never fared well on Australian soil. He came close to a maiden c...

Passengers on Friday rushed to beat a midnight deadline for travel to and from Britain and France, complaining of an overly-draconian reaction and costly last-minute ticket changes before tough new Covid-19 restrictions come into force.

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Friday to establish an independent investigation into abuses in the Ethiopian conflict, after a senior U.N. official said there had been violations on all sides and mass arrests under a government crackdown.

Russia said on Friday it wanted a legally binding guarantee that NATO would give up any military activity in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, part of a wish list of security guarantees it wants to negotiate with the West.

By dinner they were 140 for two, 333 behind Australia with Root unbeaten on 57 and Malan 68 not out on a cooler Adelaide day than the sweltering temperatures the England bowlers were forced to toil through on Friday. They resumed at 17 for two afte...

In March 2018, Smith was enemy number one in the wake of a ball-tampering scandal that shook cricket. It was a long road back -- a two-year leadership ban and one-year playing suspension. But the 32-year-old's redemption was all but complete last...

Curry's Warriors survived to win a tight game down the stretch after Golden State blew a 20-point lead against the undermanned Celtics. One game after breaking Ray Allen's all-time record for threes, Curry was facing Allen's former team at the Bost...

More than 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Typhoon Rai ravaged the southern and central regions of the archipelago, knocking out communications and electricity in many areas, ripping off roofs and toppling concrete power pol...

It is one of two neighborhoods out of dozens in greater Santiago where Kast, an apologist for Chile's brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, amassed more than half the votes out of the seven candidates then in the race. His rival in Sunday's runoff, lef...

President Joe Biden had set a January 4 deadline for companies with more than 100 employees to ensure full vaccination of their workers against Covid-19 -- a rule the administration said would affect more than two-thirds of the country's workforce. ...

The 61-year-old former patient of the clinic in Osaka was being treated in hospital, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing police sources. The fire raged for half an hour on Friday morning, gutting the fourth floor of the narrow commercial buildi...

More than 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Typhoon Rai ravaged the southern and central regions of the country, knocking out communications in many areas and toppling concrete power poles. Rai was a super typhoon when it sm...