Former guerrilla Dora Maria Tellez and student leader Lesther Aleman were tried at El Chipote -- one of the country's most notorious prisons where dozens of activists detained in the run-up to last year's election are being held. The trial of the T...

The encounter at the world's biggest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad is the first of a three-match series but will be played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. India passed 500,000 deaths from the virus on Friday, although infection ...

China has embarked on a crackdown in Hong Kong following massive and at times violent pro-democracy protests, imposing a sweeping national security law that criminalised much dissent. Wen Wei Po, a newspaper that answers to Beijing's Liaison Office...

Parrot said quitting snowboarding was "never an option" despite learning he had Hodgkin lymphoma just months after winning silver in slopestyle at the Pyeongchang Games. Instead, he used the prospect of competing in his third Olympics as "a huge mo...

Kilde clocked 1min 43.72sec down the 3.2km-long "Rock" course in blustery conditions in Yanqing that saw the start delayed by one hour. "It's always good to have a second run, it makes it easier to navigate," Kilde of the man-made piste of artifici...

In the final training run ahead of the men's heats on Saturday, Germany's Johannes Ludwig clocked 131.5km/h thundering down the 1.5 km-long track in the fastest time of 57.814 seconds at Yanqing National Sliding Centre. Ludwig, the overall World Cu...

Hasnain, 21, was reported for a suspect action during a stint with the Sydney Thunder in Australia's Big Bash Twenty20 league last month. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Cricket Australia (CA) had verified the report. In a press release, the...

The company's lawyers accused US-based StockX of "minting" NFTs using Nike trademarks and trading on the brand's "goodwill" to market them. StockX is "selling those NFTs at heavily inflated prices to unsuspecting consumers who believe or are likely...

The American beat Japan's Shoma Uno into second place in the men's single short programme of the teams event, with Chen scoring his highest of the season. Chen, who along with Uno's compatriot Yuzuru Hanyu is favourite in the individual event, had ...

Since returning to power in August the Taliban have cracked down on dissent by forcefully dispersing women's rallies, detaining critics and beating local journalists covering protests. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) sa...

The distinctive lattice-shaped arena took centre stage at the 2008 Games -- seen as China's coming-out party to the world -- and will do so again as Beijing becomes the first city to host both a Summer and Winter Olympics. Friday's opening ceremony...

Pyongyang conducted an unprecedented seven weapons tests in January, including launching its most powerful missile since 2017 as it hinted it could restart long-range and nuclear testing. The sabre-rattling raised tensions on the Korean peninsula a...

Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was grappling with its initial Covid-19 outbreak and locked down the central city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected. He is now readying to meet more than 20 leaders as Beijing kic...

Young, who was a game-time decision to play after being sidelined by a shoulder injury, made six of Atlanta's 20 three-pointers, his last basket from beyond the arc ending a 6-0 Suns scoring run and putting Atlanta up 122-113 with 37.7 seconds remai...

Below AFP Sport looks at six players hoping to make a mark this season: FREDDIE STEWARD (England) At 6ft 5 ins (1.96 metres) tall, the five-times capped Leicester full-back appears ideally equipped for the role of a Test No 15 given he is generall...