After a breakout Tokyo Olympics where she dethroned American great Katie Ledecky in the 200m and 400m freestyle, the dominant Titmus carried her form into the Australian championships in May. After narrowly missing the long-standing 200m world reco...

Rajapaksa fled his country on July 13, after his official residence was stormed by thousands of protesters who had demonstrated for months against the island nation's painful economic crisis. He first escaped to the Maldives in a military plane and...

Security minister Juan Manuel Pino told AFP in a short message that the roads were "all open" for the first time since the protests began. Earlier, police had announced on Twitter that "the roads that had been kept closed by protests have been clea...

The 24-year-old said that he sustained a groin strain during the World Athletics Championships in Oregon last week, where he won silver. Chopra was the reigning champion at the Commonwealth Games, which start in Birmingham on Thursday, but he withd...

Beach attendants at the seafront in the central region on Wednesday set up a device that emits ultrasonic frequencies in a bid to repel the cantankerous creature, the city said. A sign has been put up warning dolphin fans not to touch the animal. ...

A 170 carat pink diamond -- dubbed The Lulo Rose -- was discovered at Lulo mine in the country's diamond-rich northeast and is among the largest pink diamonds ever found, the Lucapa Diamond Company said in a statement to investors. The "historic" f...

The hosts reached 297 for seven at lunch after they resumed day four on 176-5 in Galle. De Silva, on 84, and Ramesh Mendis, on eight, were batting at the break. Overnight batsmen De Silva and the left-handed Karunaratne, who made 61, put together 1...

Jewish community representatives on Tuesday voiced alarm after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban spoke out against creating "peoples of mixed-race".

Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, is suspected of receiving more than $300,000 from high street business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Inc., an "official partner" of last year's pandemic-delayed mega-event. That could reportedly constitute bribery because Taka...

"I want to win the World Cup, but I want to win it with two different countries. I haven't said it publicly before, but it would transcend," Robertson told The Big Jim Show, a podcast hosted by former Scotland lock Jim Hamilton. "It would be great ...

"There are no olives on these. Everything is dry," the 68-year-old said. He and his son own a 100-hectare (250-acre) olive farm in the southern province of Jaen in sun-drenched Andalusia, a region which produces the bulk of the country's olive oil....

The male simian was seized while roaming the grounds of a high school in Yamaguchi city -- but it may not be the end of the furry, twisting tale, with other monkeys feared to be at large. City officials have been trying for weeks to track down the ...

Requests for Russian natural gas flows through Nord Stream 1 into Germany nearly halved from 8am CET on July 27, data from the pipeline operator showed on Wednesday. British military intelligence said Wednesday that the Russian private military gro...

Former Real Madrid player Alvaro Fidalgo's 82nd-minute penalty denied Real victory in a game played on a makeshift surface at Oracle Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. America took the lead with a shock early goal after just ...

AFP looks at five things the All Blacks must fix in their opening Rugby Championship fixture against the Springboks on August 7 in Mbombela. Stop opposing drives The All Blacks' new forwards coach Jason Ryan saw how the home side was out-muscled b...