Champagne corks popped and sequins sparkled like a thousand tiny stars in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, where an international model casting was on the hunt for the face of the future. Elizabeth Elohor is sure that it will be an African one. T...

A new museum dedicated to the long-silenced trauma of German civilians forced to flee eastern Europe at the end of World War II opens next week after decades of wrenching debate. Perhaps reflecting what its founders call their delicate "balancing a...

Terance Mann poured in a career-high 39 points as the Los Angeles Clippers advanced to their first NBA semi-finals in franchise history, rallying to beat the top seeded Utah Jazz 131-119 on Friday. The fourth seeded Clippers won their four straight...

Congratulations poured in for Iranian ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday for winning presidential elections even before official results were announced. Iran's outgoing moderate President Hassan Rouhani said his successor had been e...

Retro-futurist video game Cyberpunk 2077 will be back in the Playstation store on Monday after a disastrous launch marred by bugs forced a 184-day time-out. But can a blockbuster game recover from the reputational hit of a failed roll-out? Sometime...

When he left Senegal, risking his life to make the dangerous boat trip to Spain's Canary Islands, Lamine Sarr never thought he'd end up selling fake goods on the streets of Barcelona. Known as "manteros" after the blanket on which they lay their wa...

President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party will hold its congress Saturday ahead of September parliamentary elections that come amid a sweeping crackdown on the beleaguered opposition. The gathering, which will determine the ruling party's cand...

Josh Anderson's second goal of the match in overtime lifted the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights in game three of their NHL Stanley Cup semi-final series Friday. Goaltender Carey Price was superb, making 43 saves fo...

Anti-coup protesters in Myanmar donned flowers in their hair Saturday to mark the birthday of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest and is due to face court again next week. Suu Kyi's elected government was overthr...

Ryan Lochte's bid to make a fifth Olympic team ended in an emotional 200m medley defeat at the US trials on Friday, almost certainly bringing down the curtain on the 36-year-old's Games career. "I still want to race," Lochte said. "As far as anothe...

Phil Mickelson sits seven strokes off the pace halfway through the US Open, but the six-time major champion says he's playing well enough to make a weekend charge for a historic victory. The 51-year-old left-hander closed with a tap-in birdie at th...

Ryan Lochte's dream of a fifth Olympics ended in a seventh-place finish in a 200m medley won by Michael Andrew on Friday at the US Olympic swimming trials. Andrew, 22, and assured of a first Games berth with is 100m breaststroke victory, was unstop...

Olympic shot put champion Ryan Crouser shattered one of the oldest world records in athletics on Friday, producing a mammoth heave of 23.37m as the US track and field trials got under way in spectacular fashion. The 28-year-old Crouser obliterated ...

Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers played with more urgency on Friday, using a collective offensive effort to come from behind and force a game seven in their second-round NBA playoff series. Tobias Harris and Seth Curry each scored 24 points ...

Olympic champion Ryan Crouser smashed the 31-year-old world shot put record here Friday, producing a mammoth 23.37m heave at the US track and field trials. Crouser obliterated compatriot Randy Barnes' previous record of 23.12 set in 1990 with his f...