Beijing hands the Olympic flag to Milan-Cortina on Sunday after a Games that will be remembered for the extremes of its anti-COVID-19 measures and outrage over the doping scandal that enveloped 15-year-old Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva. ...

Traditionally much stronger in the Summer Games, China earned an unprecedented nine gold medals during its home-hosted winter edition after the state ploughed resources into training. By Sunday afternoon, at least four trending hashtags related to...

The world number 30 overcame gusty conditions and a host of chasing male rivals to shoot a closing five-under-par 66 at Cobram Barooga Golf Club and clinch the title. It is the first time a woman has won a 72-hole mixed tournament on any major worl...

Rescuers spotted the man on the stern of the stricken vessel as it was being towed to port. "Tell me I'm alive," the 21-year-old truck driver who said he was from Belarus, told rescuers, according to the Proto Thema news website. Clad in tan short...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially inaugurated electricity production from the country's mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, a milestone in the controversial multi-billion dollar project.

Rohit, 34, was appointed Test captain on Saturday ahead of the two-Test Sri Lanka series next month which will be preceded by three Twenty20 internationals beginning on Thursday. The swashbuckling opener was a unanimous choice for the Test job afte...

The crowded Chinese financial hub is in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering thousands of confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach breaking point. A strict zero-Covid policy like China uses kept infections at bay for two y...

Russia scored first on a power-play goal by Mikhail Grigorenko 13 minutes into the game after Finland's Hannes Bjorninen was sent to the penalty box for high-sticking. But the more cohesive Finnish attack controlled the puck for much of the match a...

Canadian police on Sunday are making possibly the final push to clear the capital city of demonstrators who have paralysed it by parking and camping on the streets for more than three weeks in a self-styled "Freedom Convoy" to protest against pandem...

But the American will return home from China with nothing to show from what she dubbed an "epic under-performance". The 26-year-old failed to add to the two Olympic golds she won in the 2014 and 2018 Games in Sochi and Pyeongchang. Not only did S...

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to speak to Russia's Vladimir Putin on Sunday in a “last possible” diplomatic bid to avert an invasion of Ukraine as US President Joe Biden will convene a rare Sunday meeting with his national security tea...

Eve Muirhead's women's curling team won gold in the closing hours of the Games on Sunday after the men had taken silver 24 hours earlier. Those late successes saved Team GB from returning home from a Winter Olympics empty-handed for the first time ...

AFP Sport picks out five memorable moments from the Beijing Olympics: Valieva's disturbing collapse In what will go down as one of the most excruciating performances in Winter Olympic history, the 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva dis...

The southern hemisphere tournament has undergone yet another revamp this year with the addition of two Pacific islander teams for the first time to compete alongside the best from Australia and New Zealand. South African sides pulled out in 2020 as...

Here are some of the best quotes from the last few days: "Why did you let it go? Why did you let it go? Tell me." -- Kamila Valieva's coach Eteri Tutberidze after the Russian teenager fell multiple times in the figure skating final. "It was chill...