Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani blamed the country's deteriorating security Monday on Washington deciding "abruptly" to withdraw its troops.

The Israeli government on Monday agreed on a state budget for the first time in three years after a political crisis that saw four general elections. The budget must be approved by the Knesset, or parliament, by November 4, and garner at least 61 v...

Simone Biles is set to return to competition at the Olympic Games for the closing women's gymnastics beam final on Tuesday. The US superstar's name was included on the list of eight finalists for the beam released on Monday. Biles, the four-time O...

Four-time Olympic diving gold medallist Shi Tingmao has revealed her struggles with depression, joining US gymnastics superstar Simone Biles in openly discussing her mental health at the Tokyo Games. China's Shi comfortably won the 3m springboard t...

It would be an honour if Europe were to grant political asylum to Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said on Monday. 

The history of the Olympic Games is awash with inspirational tales of athletes overcoming adversity to shine on the biggest stage of all. Olympic gymnast Rebeca Andrade's long and at times bleak climb from the favelas of Sao Paulo to the Tokyo podi...

Millions of people were confined to their homes in China Monday as the country tried to contain its largest coronavirus outbreak in months with mass testing and travel curbs. China on Monday reported 55 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases, as...

Indian badminton ace P.V. Sindhu awaits a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after she became the country's first woman to win two individual Olympic medals. "GOAT - Grittiest Of All Time", the Indian Express front page read on Monday, riffi...

Kai Koyama was standing outside Tokyo's Olympic Stadium as fireworks burst overhead during the opening ceremony but unlike many of those around him he wasn't cheering, but protesting. For months, polls showed strong opposition to the Games in Japan...

Marie-Solène Letoqueux, a kindergarten teacher in a small town in Brittany, burst into the social media limelight during the first lockdown in France when she created a YouTube show that won her accolades and thousands of followers and, eventually...

Huan Huan, a giant panda on loan to France, gave birth to twin cubs very early Monday, according to the Beauval zoo. 

What if Earth's atmosphere was infused with extra carbon dioxide, mused amateur scientist Eunice Foote in an 1856 research paper that concluded the gas was very good at absorbing heat. "An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temp...

Hurdler Jasmine Camacho-Quinn claimed Puerto Rico's first Olympics athletics gold on Monday but Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya was absent from the women's 200m after claiming her country had forced her to leave the Games. Also on day fou...

Australia on Monday named wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade captain for the five-match Twenty20 series against Bangladesh in the absence of the injured Aaron Finch. Finch aggravated a knee injury in the lead-up to the recent T20 series in the West ...

Rescue ships picked up more than 700 people trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift vessels this weekend, mainly off the coasts of Libya and Malta, a migrant aid group said Sunday.