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...

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...

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...

The 40-year-old Williams -- who last month signalled she planned to retire after the Open -- was beaten 7-5, 6-7 (4/7) 6-1 by Tomljanovic in a gruelling 3-hour 5-minute battle. Williams, a sporting and cultural icon who amassed 23 Grand Slam single...

Climatologists say the kiln-like conditions in California, Nevada and Arizona are caused by a heat dome -- a huge bubble of stationary high pressure that is trapping ever-hotter air. And, they say, human-caused climate change is making these oppres...

"We don't have air conditioning at our house, we only have a fan," Amaya, a retiree, told AFP. "We come here because we can't stay at home." Amaya is one of hundreds of people in Los Angeles who are making use of the 40 cooling centers set up by ...

"My mom was an anti-vaxxer, so I found out that I had never had any polio vaccines as a child," the designer explained to AFP, after finally receiving a shot this week. Strickland was inoculated in Pomona, in New York's Rockland County where the fi...

Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, princeling of the Red Bull energy drink family, is accused of ploughing his sports car into police officer Wichean Glanprasert's motorbike in Bangkok's wealthiest neighbourhood a decade ago on Saturday. After dodging pros...

Kyrgios, whose natural talent is only equalled by his run-ins with officials, other players and occasionally spectators, has already caused controversy at the US Open. In his second round match against Benjamin Bonzi, he was warned for spitting and...