Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching NASA's towering, next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown five days earlie...

Serena Williams went from learning tennis on public courts in a notorious American gangland neighborhood to becoming a superstar for a generation and perhaps the greatest player in history.

The 48th edition of the Deauville American Film Festival got under way on Friday, with actress Lucy Boynton, winner of this year's Nouvel Hollywood award, among the stars walking the red carpet. This year's event will see a total of 60 films screen...

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be laid to rest Saturday in a Moscow ceremony, but without the fanfare of a state funeral and with the glaring absence of President Vladimir Putin.

After leg-spinner Ryan Burl (5-10) played a starring role in dismissing the hosts for a lowly 141, Zimbabwe overcame a wobbly chase to beat the cricket powerhouse for the first time in Australia when they hauled in the target in the 39th over, trigg...

Thousands of people are expected to attend the mass in St Peter's Square where the former pontiff will become "blessed" -- the final step before becoming a saint. John Paul I, the son of a bricklayer from the Dolomite mountains and a particularly w...

A defiant Serena Williams bid an emotional good-bye to the U.S. Open with a third-round loss to Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday, in what may have been the last singles match of her glittering career.

If the massive Space Launch System (SLS) lifts off successfully, it will not only be awe-inspiring but also historic for NASA, marking the first of its Artemis program plotting a return to the Moon, fifty years after the final Apollo mission. The l...

The United States on Friday announced a $1.1 billion arms package for Taiwan, vowing to keep boosting the island's defenses as tensions soar with Beijing, which warned Washington of "counter-measures."

Williams, the winner of 23 Grand Slam titles, played what was almost certainly the last match of her 27-year career at the US Open when she slipped to a three-set defeat to Ajla Tomljanovic. "@serenawilliams you're literally the greatest on and off...

AFP Sport looks at 10 of the best worn by the 23-time Grand Slam title winner: 2002 - Catsuit, not wet suit -- When Williams won her second US Open in 2002, she did it dressed in a Lycra catsuit. #photo1 It dominated large parts of her opening rou...

AFP Sport looks at some of the American's most memorable and occasionally controversial quotes: "Thank you daddy, I know you're watching. Thanks mum. I want to thank everyone who's here, who has been on my side for so many years, literally decades....

Now, the 40-year-old legend is heading for retirement after almost certainly playing her last match, a three-set defeat to Ajla Tomljanovic at the US Open on Friday. "I'm ready to be a mom and explore a different version of myself," she said as she...

The American 23-time Grand Slam title winner, and six-time champion in New York, lost her third round clash 7-5, 6-7 (4/7), 6-1. "I'm feeling really sorry just because I love Serena just as much as you guys do. What she's done for me, for the sport...

With Russia isolated by its military campaign in Ukraine, no foreign leaders are expected to attend what will be a relatively low-key affair to remember one of the great political figures of the 20th century. Gorbachev -- affectionately known in th...