Bangalore, led by Faf du Plessis after Kohli stepped down, sneaked in as the fourth side to make the final four after Delhi Capitals went down to wooden-spooners Mumbai Indians on Saturday. With eight wins in 14 league matches, Bangalore entered th...

Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on civil society, many focused on reining in the rights of women and girls to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam. Earlier this month, Afghanistan's supreme l...

Australia's Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.

Marseille clinched automatic qualification for next season's Champions League group stage on a final night of the French Ligue 1 season on Saturday that was dramatic beyond the announcement that Kylian Mbappe was staying at Paris Saint-Germain. 

One of the procession's tableaux, entitled "The Queen's Favourites", has been commissioned from Imagineer, an outdoor events company based in the English West Midlands city. Director Jane Hytch said the royal commission came as a "total surprise",...

"The situation in Donbas is extremely difficult," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address. The war in Ukraine looms large as the World Health Organization opens its main annual assembly Sunday, threatening to overshadow e...

"We are here to prove that there are not only Putinophiles in Bulgaria," IT expert Stanimir Ganev, 43, told AFP at a recent pro-Ukraine march in the capital Sofia, referring to supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Fellow protester Maria ...

Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on civil society, many focused on reining in the rights of women and girls to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam. Earlier this month, Afghanistan's supreme l...

After weeks of siege and strikes much of the city on the coast of the Sea of Azov has been reduced to a wasteland. As the last Ukrainian troops in the town surrendered to the Russians at the bombed-out Azovstal steel plant, passers-by mourned their...

Turning 75 this year, the world's leading film gathering knew it needed a shot of youth and made TikTok an official sponsor. That has brought some of the video platform's biggest stars to the French Riviera -- including Italian-Senegalese sensatio...

Fresh from a victory that ended a decade of continuous conservative rule, Albanese signalled an era of fairer, greener and less pugilistic politics for Australia. The 59-year-old Labor leader said Saturday's election was a "big moment" in his life,...

"The situation in Donbas is extremely difficult," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address. The war in Ukraine looms large as the World Health Organization opens its main annual assembly Sunday, threatening to overshadow e...

While dejectedly walking to her New Jersey family home, she vowed to her future self that she would soon acquire her own medals to add to her lapel. On Saturday, the 75-year-old rock legend made good on that promise, as France's ambassador to the ...

Pant dropped a catch and failed to review a caught-behind chance off Mumbai Indians batsman Tim David, who went on smash a match-winning 11-ball 34 on Saturday. Mumbai, the five-time winners who ended bottom of the 10-team table, chased down their ...

China's largest city has been almost entirely locked down since April, when it became the epicentre of the country's worst coronavirus outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. Unlike other major economies, Beijing has dug in its heels on a ze...