Gerst is not on the Moon, even if it looks like it. He is in the middle of Los Volcanes Natural Park on the island of Lanzarote in Spain's Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa. With its blackened lava fields, craters and volcanic tubes...

"Hitler is dead but Putin is alive and he is repeating history with the Ukrainians," declared Stanislaw Fidurski, a 95-year-old retired colonel at Friday's march, which was led by four hussars dressed in historical costumes. He said Poland could f...

The 2009 champions suffered last-ball losses to India and Zimbabwe to start their tournament but bounced back to surge into Sunday's final against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. "We have lost the first two matches, (but) the way we came b...

Araucania is home to groups of Mapuche, the country's largest Indigenous group, who are demanding the restitution of their ancestral land, much of which is currently in the hands of private logging companies. Boric said a Commission for Peace and U...

The dynamic wicketkeeper-batsman will lead England in the Twenty20 World Cup final on Sunday against Pakistan in Melbourne in his first major tournament since succeeding Eoin Morgan as white-ball skipper. "I've certainly had a few dreams about that...

"The trajectory of the relationship is nothing but positive," Biden told businesspeople who came to see the two vice presidents at a Beijing hotel, voicing "great optimism about the next 30 years". As the two leaders, now presidents, prepare to mee...

Starring with both bat and ball, the 24-year-old all-rounder helped energise Pakistan's flagging campaign when all seemed lost. After last-ball defeats to India and Zimbabwe, Shadab pulled them back from the brink with three wickets against the Net...

Boston's star duo paced a ruthlessly efficient Celtics offense that ended Denver's four-game winning streak, while elsewhere the San Antonio Spurs snapped a five-game skid with a 111-93 victory over the league-leading but injury-depleted Milwaukee B...

South Korea's captain and talisman suffered a fracture around his eye during a Champions League match for Spurs and then had surgery last week. "We are in contact with him and Tottenham's medical department," said South Korea's Portuguese coach Pau...

Launched in 2009, Singles Day is the world's largest shopping festival, dwarfing similar US events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday in terms of sales. Alibaba's sales last year hit 540.3 billion yuan ($76.1 billion), and many were watching to...

India were humbled by 10 wickets in the semi-finals with Buttler's composed 80 and Alex Hales's blistering 86 setting up a blockbuster showdown with Babar Azam's Pakistan. The England opener said Saturday there was "a huge amount of excitement" for...

More than 330 candidates, including a record 73 women, are competing to join the 40-seat council of representatives -- the lower house of parliament that advises King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, who has ruled since his father died in March 1999. This...

A retired metalworker, Jose Carlos Flamino, stood at his encampment on Friday near a military barracks in Sao Paulo and vowed to remain "as long as is necessary." He still doesn't accept that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president wh...

London has ambitious long-standing targets to help try to stop the increase in temperatures and has enshrined in law its 2050 pledge for carbon neutrality. It has vowed under the Paris agreement to cut carbon emissions by 68 percent by 2030, compar...

They have names like Jael, Juan and Francisco Antonio, and they flooded into Florida from other Gulf Coast states, and even from Mexico, to take on work. Many are perpetual nomadic workers, traveling from one natural disaster to another, toiling by...