Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bowl first on Friday in the first of three one-day internationals against Bangladesh at Harare Sports Club. Bangladesh will be looking to carry on where they left off last year -- winning all three ODIs when Zimba...

The Pacific archipelago of Wallis and Futuna has declared itself Covid-free, with no cases among the French remote island's 11,500 inhabitants since April 1, authorities said. Many remote Pacific island nations have remained free of the virus after...

At least nine people were killed and dozens more are missing after a string of boats capsized in a storm that battered Indonesia's section of Borneo island, a local rescue agency said Friday. The accident happened early Wednesday in waters off the ...

Work is to begin Friday on wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in silvery-blue fabric as a posthumous tribute to the artist Christo who had dreamt of the project for decades. Bulgarian-born Christo, a longtime Paris resident, dreamed up plans for...

In a clinic in a remote Myanmar town, some of the few doctors still working after the coup emptied hospitals are battling to keep their Covid-19 patients alive as the virus resurges. Infections are spiking in Myanmar, with the State Administration ...

When a massive cyberattack took out everything from Swedish supermarkets to New Zealand kindergartens this month, a group of Dutch ethical hackers breathed a collective sigh of frustration. They had been so close to stopping it. If the Dutch Insti...

Australia and France will be looking to the future when they take to the field for the series-deciding third Test at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium on Saturday. While both teams will be desperate to claim the three-Test series, respective coaches Dave ...

He may be one of Mali's most popular photographers, endowed with an eye for spectacular landscapes or a slice of life, whose images were then printed on postcards that sold by the thousand. To the public who snapped up his pictures, Django Cisse's ...

With fewer parties, lots of masks and stars having to regularly fill tubes with spit for Covid tests, the 74th edition of the Cannes film festival has been less glamorous than normal. But with a backlog of great movies, and the film world delighte...

The death toll from devastating floods in Europe soared to at least 93 Friday, most of them in western Germany, where emergency responders were searching for hundreds of missing people. "I fear that we will only see the full extent of the disaster ...

All Blacks captain Sam Whitelock underlined "effort" as key for the team to rebuild respect in the second Test against Fiji in Hamilton on Saturday. Despite a 34-point winning margin in the first Test, New Zealanders voiced concern about Fiji winn...

The head of Russia's Olympic Committee, an organisation weighed down by a protracted doping scandal, believes his athletes are headed to the Tokyo Games with an unfair disadvantage. Still, Stanislav Pozdnyakov wants his Olympians to haul home dozen...

Moscow has a reputation for fiercely defending its standing on the world stage, but in a years-long and embarrassing doping scandal in sports, it's playing a different game. Russia is banned from the Tokyo Olympics this summer, a ruling stemming fr...

Australian Olympic basketball star Liz Cambage pulled out of the Tokyo Games Friday, citing a struggle with her mental health fuelled by the thought of "terrifying" isolation in the Olympic bubble. Cambage -- a stalwart of Australian women's Olympi...

Afghan forces clashed Friday with Taliban fighters in Spin Boldak after launching an operation to retake the key border crossing with Pakistan, as regional capitals stepped up efforts to get the warring sides talking. Dozens of wounded Taliban figh...