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...

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...

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...

Turkey is seizing on its geographic advantage to woo companies as the skyrocketing cost of sea freight and pandemic-related disruptions to supply chains push some European companies to reduce their dependence on Asia. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

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 world economy began to recover from the pandemic last year but the rebound has been accompanied by rising inflation, with prices for raw materials and energy soaring. But luxury good makers can respond by hiking their prices and actually look m...

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...

The 26-year-old Shiffrin came into the Games as one of its biggest stars but leaves it without a medal of any description to add to her golds from 2014 and 2018. The mixed team parallel was her last opportunity to salvage something from the wreckag...

Towns' record point total for a final round placed him just ahead of the Atlanta Hawks' Young and Los Angeles Clippers' Kennard, who both had 26 points on Saturday night in Cleveland, Ohio. First out of the gate, Towns -- a nearly 7-foot center who...

Cotton, linen, silk and wool, as well as synthetic materials derived from petroleum, faced surging prices in recent months, boosted also by the global supply-chain crunch. As a result, red-hot inflation is now a major talking point at the industry'...

Germany's Friedrich is the first pilot to win back-to-back Olympic golds in two-man and four-man bobsleigh by defending the titles he won in Pyeongchang four years ago. Having already taken the two-man gold Tuesday, Friedrich piloted his German cre...