"As I leave your friendly country, it gives me great pleasure to express to your Excellency my deepest gratitude and appreciation for the warm reception and hospitality accorded to me and the accompanying delegation," bin Salman wrote in a message p...

Klopp's side came within two matches of football immortality, only to fall just short as Manchester City pipped them to the Premier League title on the final day of the season. Liverpool followed that near-miss by losing the Champions League final ...

The PlayStation maker announced in February it would buy Bungie for $3.6 billion, weeks after rival Microsoft unveiled a landmark pact to acquire "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard. Microsoft says its massive merger, valued at around $69 bill...

Theoretically, the 1970s MT-LB belongs to the Russian forces but they abandoned it in Ukraine's northeast, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the warring neighbours' shared border. It was found by tractor driver Vitaliy Denysenko, who grins, a mi...

Six years after she shook the culture with her powerful visual album "Lemonade," Beyonce's seventh solo studio work is a pulsating, sweaty collection of club tracks aimed at liberating a world consumed by ennui. Eminently danceable and rife with no...

The MiG-21 came down on Thursday night in the desert of western Rajasthan state near the city of Barmer, the defence ministry said. The crash was the sixth MiG-21 aircraft to have gone down since January last year, with five pilots killed. The I...

The Basilica Cistern he built for the capital of his Eastern Roman Empire in modern-day Istanbul has reopened after a five-year makeover that has transformed the water storage site into a refreshingly cool haven of underground sound and light. Buil...

In the wealthy Ikoyi neighbourhood, the flow of people chasing money never stops. All survive on informal jobs they find daily on the streets. For a handful of dollars, they help people park in front of expensive restaurants, bars and clubs, and he...

In August of last year the plaintiff, who remains unnamed and was identified only as J.C., had filed a suit alleging that Dylan abused her over a six-week period between April and May of 1965. It alleged Dylan "exploited his status as a musician" t...

After an extended period of pessimism on trading floors fuelled by soaring inflation and the central bank's monetary tightening campaign, investors are beginning to speculate that the market may have reached its nadir. The world's top economy shran...

Heading into Saturday's curtain raiser to the Premier League season, the pressure is on Haaland and Nunez to provide evidence they can justify their hefty price tags over the coming months. The pair represent over £100 million ($121 million) of go...

Celebrity sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner were some of the most vocal users to have posted messages on social media this week calling for the company to "make Instagram Instagram again" and stop trying to be like TikTok. The slogan sprang f...

Police say Tetsuya Yamagami targeted Abe because he believed the former prime minister supported a "certain group" to which the man's mother had made large donations. In a letter published by local media, Yamagami accused Abe of supporting the Unif...

The zoo overlooking Switzerland's largest city now has only five of the majestic creatures roaming its 11,000-square-metre (118,400-square-foot) elephant enclosure. Two-year-old bull Umesh was the first to fall victim to the Elephant endotheliotrop...

The scenario was raised by French newspaper L'Equipe on Thursday, which said the sport's governing body FIFA had informally approached "several" European football bodies to discuss the merits of moving the event closer to the southern hemisphere sum...