Authorities deployed thousands of personnel across central Delhi for a third straight day, erecting heavy metal barricades and closing key metro stations before a march called by opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. The protests were triggered by allega...

Zheng became the first Chinese player to clinch the Beijing title on Sunday by defeating reigning Roland Garros champion Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 6-4 in the final. It was Zheng's first WTA 1000-level triumph and her first title since winning Tokyo two y...

One year after they were unceremoniously swept by the Dodgers in the NLCS, the Brewers thrilled fans in Milwaukee, landing the first blow in the best-of-seven series that will send the winner to the World Series. The Dodgers are chasing a rare Worl...

The Omani co-pilot, now in custody in the UAE, had drawn inspiration from Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 suicide attacks, and carried out his attempt "with the aim of causing the greatest possible loss of life", according to the Emirati prosecutor's ...

Since the blast that injured three South Korean soldiers in the Seoul-controlled area of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), both countries have touted the test-firing of upgraded missile technology. "Our military detected around 09:20 (0020 GMT) several...

Global forecasters have been warning for months that this El Nino would likely become the strongest ever observed and the latest record has tumbled even before the episode's expected peak later this year. The warming phase of a natural climate cycl...

Enzo Maresca's men are sitting pretty at the top of the table with six consecutive wins, including statement away victories at their two biggest rivals after also beating Manchester United last month. Yet those points could count for nothing unless...

The jail, which opened in 1932 and has counted John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman, rapper Tupac Shakur, and Sex Pistols musician Sid Vicious among its residents, was due to shutter by 2027. That was a pledge by former mayor Bill de Blasio, res...

"I don't want to be naive," said Schomaker of the headwinds surrounding the biennial negotiations on protecting the natural world that start on October 19 in Yerevan, Armenia. "Clearly, geopolitics enter also the debate on biodiversity," the execut...

NATO officials have said US General Alexus Grynkewich -- the alliance's Supreme Allied Commander Europe -- will elaborate his "theory of victory" over any potential attack at a security conference in Warsaw. The move from the top military commander...

The so-called COP17 summit in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, will be a reckoning for the nearly 200 nations that joined the landmark "Paris Agreement for Nature" in 2022 but have been slow to act on its objectives. It set 23 targets for halting and...

Here are three talking points to emerge from a hot and humid weekend in Singapore: 'Brake, throttle, that's it' For the second weekend in a row, software glitches on the 2026 generation of cars caused problems. In Malaysia a week earlier the issue ...

Saturday's attack, the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade, was a sharp escalation in the Yemen war, where Riyadh has long militarily supported the internationally recognised government against the Houthis. The Iran-backed group on Sunday...

Rocky, a 29-year-old male dolphin, died Saturday night in the Selwo Marina park near Malaga in Spain, where he had been transferred in July, according to the Marineland park in France where he had been previously kept. Both Marineland, located on t...

The meetings run from Monday through Saturday in the Thai capital, and will see policymakers tackle some stark choices, with the IMF calling on governments to rein in spending even as vulnerable citizens' needs may be growing in the face of surging ...