While Dressel's name was still on the start lists, his lanes were empty when the swimmers dived in for the last heats of the men's 100m butterfly and, later, the 50m freestyle. Dressel, the reigning Olympic and world champion in both events, withd...

The closely-watched monthly purchase managers' index (PMI) by S&P Global fell from 54.8 in May to 51.9. A figure above 50 indicates growth. The slowdown, caused by a "cost-of-living shock", is "the most abrupt recorded by the survey since the heigh...

Myanmar has been in turmoil and its economy paralysed since the February 2021 coup that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was transferred from house arrest to solitary confinement in prison this week. Efforts by the 10-member Association...

"In accordance with criminal laws... (Aung San Suu Kyi) has been kept in solitary confinement in prison" since Wednesday, Zaw Min Tun said in a statement. Since her ouster in a coup last year, Suu Kyi had been under house arrest at an undisclosed l...

No, this is not some time warp Soviet settlement lost in the Arctic wastes, but a corner of Norway where Moscow can -- theoretically at least -- mine, build, drill and fish what it likes. Welcome to Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard a...

Grass is growing on blackened mountainsides under the carcasses of burnt trees and birds are singing again. And while the woods and meadows that once produced some of Greece's best honey will likely need two decades to recover, experts say the best...

"The approval we got in 2019, when we only sold maybe a few hundred doses, all of a sudden became very, very relevant for international health," the company's vice president Rolf Sass Sorensen says with a smile at the biotech company's headquarters ...

Three months later, now living in exile, Ovsyannikova, 43, is afraid to return to Russia and her two children, 11 and 17, for fear of being thrown straight in jail. But she is also facing an increasingly hostile response from Ukraine and the West, ...

A Russian naval blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports has stopped grain shipments from the world's fourth-largest exporter of wheat and corn, raising the spectre of shortages and hunger in low-income countries. The knock-on effects of the food shor...

Kadri flashed a shot past Bolts goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy deep into the first period of sudden-death overtime at Tampa Bay's Amalie Arena to put the Avs 3-1 up in the best-of-seven series. Colorado can clinch NHL championship on Friday with a v...

The government action has pummelled some of China's biggest tech firms, wiping out hundreds of billions of dollars in market value since last year. But with the Chinese economy hammered by Covid lockdowns, the government has rolled out a series of ...

Andrea Fuentes leapt in to rescue Team USA's Alvarez, who had sunk to the bottom of the pool and was not breathing after completing her routine during Wednesday night's solo free final. "It was a big scare. I had to jump in because the lifeguards w...

When Pierre-Henry Broncan arrived at Stade Pierre Fabre two years ago he was in charge of recruitment. Not long after, he became head coach under director of rugby Mauricio Reggiardo with Castres struggling near the relegation zone. By March 2021 ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had been conducting a "telephone marathon" on his country's behalf in the run-up to the meeting, making his country's case to 11 European leaders on Wednesday alone. "We are preparing for the historic ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from the worst-hit parts of the region, which includes Guangdong province, a manufacturing and logistics hub that is home to China's tech capital Shenzhen. China's ministry of water resources on W...