In the midst of the packed tennis calendar, Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz and rising stars Rafael Jodar and Jakub Mensik are among the stars appearing in the exhibition at the O2 Arena from Friday to Sunday. The Laver Cup is a three-day tour...

Police deployed 22,000 security personnel to lock down Islamabad, officials told AFP, barring entry and exit to neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Khan's party rules. Key highways, entry points, and major intersections were obstructed,...

The bespectacled primary school student, who says he eats eel to prepare for contests, is the youngest athlete at the Games. He is also host country Japan's youngest athlete in Asian Games history. He competes in Puyo Puyo Champions, a puzzle game...

At a gymnasium on the outskirts of the port city of Nagoya, hosts Japan face another unlikely kabaddi pretender in South Korea. A few hundred school children shout for Japan's men in their pursuit of an Asian Games medal that would give the sport a...

But police believe they were really chemists sent by the Mexican Sinaloa crime cartel to set up an industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory on a game farm near the country town of Swartruggens, one of at least seven discovered across southern Afr...

The schoolgirl won all three individual races she swam this week in Tokyo with Asian Games records -- a series of performances that belied her tender age. Out of the pool she proved herself to be a typical teenager, joking around with team-mates an...

The biggest issue at the Aichi-Nagoya Games has been a shortage of rooms for the 17,000 participants, while some athletes have complained of cramped accommodation. That was compounded by delays at airports and hours-long waits to board a cruise shi...

Brown, a star receiver in Tom Brady's 2021 Super Bowl-winning Tampa Bay Buccaneers team, allegedly fired multiple shots at another man after grabbing a handgun from a security guard during an altercation at an amateur boxing event in Miami in May 20...

Pyongyang has legally enshrined its status as a nuclear-armed state, with its leadership repeatedly declaring the country's atomic arsenal permanent and irreversible. The foreign minister's remarks came a day after South Korean President Lee Jae My...

Pakistan's minister of information said its forces had struck 10 targets in Afghanistan -- without specifying where -- accusing its neighbour of allowing "terrorist sanctuaries" on its soil. The latest strikes come days after a deadly bombardment b...

One month on, AFP looks at the scale of the disaster triggered by a high-altitude glacial mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border, which scientists have linked to climate change. 'Bullet train' of debris On August 26 at 8:37 am (0252 GMT), a mas...

Had England held out for the final five minutes plus stoppage time against Argentina two months ago, they would have met Spain in the World Cup final. Instead Tuchel's men conceded twice after he had attempted to batten down the hatches with a seri...

The information emerged in a letter, seen by AFP, that was sent by Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao in response to questions from Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand about conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Reports of deteriorating living condi...

Netanyahu will also likely raise the case of Israeli ambassador to Washington Yechiel Leiter whose son, a soldier, was badly injured in an alleged Palestinian ramming attack in the occupied West Bank. Foremost among Netanyahu's enemies in New York ...

Authorities urged businesses in the touristy Caribbean city to open their doors after attacks by gang members subsided, but to no avail as locals remained fearful of further chaos. The self-styled Conquering Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada...