Fighting began late Thursday with an assault by more than 100 IS insurgents on the Kurdish-run Ghwayran jail in Hasakeh city -- which housed the largest number of jihadists in the country -- marking the group's most significant operation since its "...

The Socceroos face Vietnam in Melbourne on Thursday with Arnold's deputy, former Manchester United assistant coach Rene Meulensteen, taking the reins. Football Australia chief executive James Johnson said no one else in the set-up had failed a test...

Shapovalov downed the Tokyo Olympic champion 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 in 2hr 21min on a steamy Margaret Court Arena and will now play 20-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals. It leaves Zverev, 24, still chasing a first major title...

The 20-time Grand Slam champion needed all of his experience and resolve to go on and claim a 7-6 (16/14), 6-2, 6-2 victory on Rod Laver Arena to reach the last eight. It is the 35-year-old Spanish great's 14th quarter-final in his 17th visit to Me...

The 26-year-old undefeated Magsayo won on points on two of the three judges' scorecards as he handed Russell his first defeat since 2015. Two judges had 115-113 for Magsayo while the other scored it even, 114-114. "This is my dream since I was a ki...

The former doubles world number one is absent from the Grand Slam and there are fears for her wellbeing after she alleged online in November that she had been sexually assaulted by a Chinese former vice-premier. Her allegation was quickly censored ...

But that could be surpassed this year, as British annual inflation hits a 30-year high of 5.4 percent in December, as real wages fall, and food and energy costs rise. "We think we're likely to feed 20,000 people in 2022," said foodbank manager Mike...

Bismack Biyombo scored 21 points for Phoenix, who had won five consecutive road games before facing the Pacers at home. The Suns have also won nine of their last 10. Leading scorer Devin Booker finished with just 11 points as the Suns supporting ca...

The heavy underdog 49ers avenged a similar loss to the Packers earlier in the season when Green Bay beat them 30-28 on a walk off 51-yard field goal. This one took place on a frosty Lambeau Field in Green Bay with snow falling steadily as temperat...

The vehicle collided with a dump truck near Danville, Pennsylvania on Friday afternoon, en route to a laboratory in Florida. Police said on Twitter that four monkeys had "fled the crash scene into the surrounding area." Three were later captured, ...

The 21st seed stormed through a first-set tiebreaker and kept her foot to the gas in overpowering the Greek 7-6 (7/0), 6-3 on Margaret Court Arena. She will play either world number one and title favourite Ashleigh Barty or Naomi Osaka's conqueror ...

French Open champion Krejcikova easily overcame Azarenka, who was struggling with a neck problem, 6-2, 6-2, to book a quarter-final with unseeded Madison Keys. The Belarusian Azarenka won the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013 but had no answer to th...

The announcement came days after China's postal service ordered workers to disinfect international deliveries after authorities claimed mail could be the source of recent coronavirus cases. Some 30 infections have been detected in the past week in ...

The fourth seed won the baseline battle to oust the veteran Belarusian Azarenka, who was struggling with a neck problem, 6-2, 6-2 on Rod Laver Arena. Victory set up a showdown with the unseeded Keys for a berth in the last four, after the American ...

The Zen master, whose reach within Buddhism was seen as second only to the Dalai Lama, died aged 95 on Saturday at the Tu Hieu Pagoda in the city of Hue. Thich Nhat Hanh spent nearly four decades in exile after he was banished from his homeland for...