Close to 200,000 hectares (495,000 acres) of forest in Spain have been lost to fire so far this year, more than in any other nation in Europe, according to the European Union's satellite monitoring service EFFIS. Portugal has lost just over 48,000 ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will address a virtual press conference at 1300 GMT, the WHO announced in a statement late Friday. It did not reveal what would be announced. Monkeypox has affected over 15,800 people in 72 countries, according to a tall...

His fields are nothing but desolation, with rice stems slowly dying in the sandy ground. "Under normal circumstances, I would never have been able to ride my motorcycle over the field," Vicini explained to AFP. "At this time of year, the plants...

"When we come to the playground, people go: 'Ah, the Ukrainians have come, let’s get out of here'," said Sokur, 41, a Czech married to a Ukrainian who lives in the town of Holubice north of Prague. "I have overheard them complaining that we get t...

The American clocked an astonishing 50.68 seconds for gold at Hayward Field, obliterating her own world record by more than half a second. But questions were immediately posed about a potential switch, with McLaughlin insiting all would come down t...

Toronto needed just five innings to break their previous record of 24 runs, set on June 26, 1978 against the Baltimore Orioles. When they added two more to make it 27 in the sixth it looked like they could break MLB's modern record of 30 runs in a ...

In a consummate display of front-foot running, McLaughlin left a loaded field for dead from the gun, haring through the tape in an astonishing 50.68 seconds. It sliced more than half a second of her previous world mark of 51.41sec set last month. F...

The 22-year-old American prodigy left rivals trailing in her wake at Hayward Field as she took gold in a stunning time of 50.68sec -- the first time any woman has ducked under the 51-second barrier. McLaughlin's incredible performance sliced more t...

Norman, who failed to advance from semi-finals in the Doha worlds in 2019 with a thigh injury, clocked a winning time of 44.29 seconds. Three-time Olympic medallist and 2011 world champion Kirani James of Grenada claimed silver with 44.68sec, while...

Barber, a bronze medallist at the Tokyo Olympics, threw a best of 66.91 metres. There was drama in the battle for silver and bronze, however, as China's Liu Shiying and another Australian, Mackenzie Little, saw their medal hopes go up in flames in ...

Miller-Uibo, who was deprived gold in Doha in 2019 by Salwa Eid Nasr of Bahrain -- since banned from the Tokyo Games and these championships after three missed doping tests -- timed a world lead of 49.11 seconds at Hayward Field. Marileidy Paulino...

"Allyson Felix will run the 4x4 prelims," a US team official told AFP in Eugene. To much fanfare, Felix had initially signed off her glittering career with a 19th world medal as she helped the US team to bronze in the 4x400m mixed relay in Hayward ...

The 46-year-old died in a missile strike on June 30, one of the many victims of Russia's February invasion of pro-Western Ukraine. His final resting place outside the Siversk culture centre is but a small mound of earth, covered with two concrete s...

Macron will begin his July 25-28 tour, also the first venture outside Europe of his new mandate, with a visit to Cameroon, before moving on to Benin and then finishing the trip in Guinea-Bissau. Top of the agenda in the talks will be food supply is...

Forty years ago, the man now fondly known as "Uncle Percy" escorted England batsman Chris Tavare on the pitch at the P. Sara Oval in the capital Colombo while holding a Sri Lankan flag. Now 85, he has been a regular feature since, allowed on to the...