The 100m sprints are one of the highlights of any Games, but the 30,000-capacity Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium appeared to be only about one-quarter full on Friday night for the blue-riband events. Even the prospect of a women's pole vault gold for ...

Traditional music and tearful relatives welcomed the 45-year-old when he returned home on Friday after spending weeks recovering at a hospital in Kathmandu. "Life is precious. Hundreds of people have died but I survived," the father of two told AFP...

Indonesia has been battling fires for weeks in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, sending suffocating haze across the islands and neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore. Fires are currently burning within habitats containing 52 percent of Borneo's orangutan...

Chen stormed to victory in a Games-record 11.06sec in Nagoya to showcase her potential. Chen, who turns 18 in December, called Friday's emphatic victory "the best present for my birthday". But the teenager does not want to stop there. "Now I am t...

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt urged people to stay home after almost 300 millimetres (11.8 inches) of rain fell, while Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he was cutting short a trip to London to return. "The water keeps coming in. It's ...

The bespectacled primary school student, believed to be the youngest competitor at the Games in Aichi-Nagoya, won the Puyo Puyo Champions final 10-2. He is the youngest athlete in host country Japan's Asian Games history. Puyo Puyo Champions is a ...

The secretive nation has been the dominant force in global weightlifting since emerging from self-imposed Covid exile to smash six world records at the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023. They also won six golds. At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan...

The waterway key to the world's oil supply is central to the conflict between the US and Iran, which is at a stalemate after nearly seven months, though new mediation efforts took place this week. Iranian state media reported on Saturday that Presi...

More than a century after sparking an oil boom that transformed Venezuela, the small town of Mene Grande is again in the sights of investors. The United States has claimed a 20 percent stake in Venezuela's vast oil reserves -- including many local ...

President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping concluded a pomp-filled summit Friday, with the US leader confirming they would meet twice more this year. But even as Trump and Xi "are making nice," their countries "remain locked in a bit...

Ants are disappearing from the table in Brazil, one Danish chef is opting for cocoa-free chocolate and Japan is serving up warm-water fish, culinary stars disclosed at the Apapaxoa gastronomic festival on Mexico's Caribbean coast. United Nations ex...

Trailing 3-2 after Thursday's opening four-ball matches, the Internationals won all five of day two's foursomes to open up a four-point cushion heading into the weekend at Medinah Country Club. Canadian duo Corey Conners and Nick Taylor produced on...

Gambling has exploded in Brazil in recent years, dragging many into debt, and opinion polls show strong voter opposition to the industry, which Lula has labeled a "cancer." "It is no longer possible to deposit money into betting sites in the countr...

Only six of the 77 people on board the plane survived one of the worst tragedies in the history of football, on the night of November 28, 2016. Chapecoense were en route to the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Colombia's Atletico Na...

The Euro 2020 winner returned to the Azzurri for a second spell this summer, three years after controversially leaving the role to take a lucrative role as Saudi Arabia manager. Tasked with overseeing a turnaround in fortunes for the four-time wor...