Macau ordered compulsory coronavirus testing for all residents on Wednesday after a family of four was found to be carrying the Delta variant, breaking the city's record of over 16 months virus-free. Over the next three days authorities plan to tes...

World number one Nelly Korda carded a 67 to be just a shot off the lead Wednesday during a first round played in searing temperatures at the women's Olympic golf tournament which caused US star Lexi Thompson's caddie to pull out with heatstroke. Sw...

The Tokyo Olympics has added skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing to attract a younger demographic, but even a medal rush hasn't been enough to win over some Japanese youngsters. Skateboarding resumed Wednesday after Yuto Horigome, 22, won the...

Three Wallabies -- including stalwart winger Marika Koroibete -- have been dropped for Saturday's Test against the All Blacks after breaching team rules on drinking. Koroibete, Pone Fa'amausili and Isi Naisarani had "dinner and drinks" at the team...

Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya flew out of Japan on Wednesday and was expected to take refuge in Poland after saying she feared for her life if she was forced to return home. The 24-year-old sprinter has been at the centre of a ...

Sony upgraded its full-year profit forecast Wednesday on the back of a strong quarterly performance, although the pandemic boom enjoyed by the gaming sector is slowing. The Japanese entertainment and consumer electronics giant now predicts a net pr...

Breanna Stewart scored 23 points as the United States crushed Australia on Wednesday to set up an Olympic women's basketball semi-final against Serbia as they close in on a seventh consecutive title. Brittney Griner added another 15 points and A'ja...

Britain's most-decorated female Olympian Charlotte Dujardin has spoken of her sympathy for struggling US gymnast Simone Biles following her own battle with mental health problems earlier in her career. The 36-year-old dressage rider took her Olympi...

Sydney McLaughlin describes her ferocious-but-friendly rivalry with Dalilah Muhammad as iron sharpening iron. On Wednesday, the two greatest women's 400m hurdlers in track and field history dragged each other to gold and silver. The latest chapter...

Toyota's net profit soared more than fivefold in the first quarter as strong sales were fuelled by the recovery from the coronavirus crisis, but the firm left its annual forecast unchanged citing "uncertainties" ahead. The world's top-selling autom...

All 12 members of the Greek artistic swimming team are in isolation after five tested positive for coronavirus in the first cluster detected at the Games, Olympic officials said Wednesday. The team have withdrawn from remaining competition and the ...

Only shrubs grew naturally in the sandy acid soil that farmer Volker Miros chose as a site to test the potential for truffle production in South Africa. The determined mycophile saw no reason why the highly prized fungi could not grow on the pla...

Near the villages devastated by historic floods in Germany last month, waste centres are struggling to sort a pile equivalent to a whole year's worth of refuse. "There's not been anything like it in Germany," Sascha Hurtenbach, director of the wast...

Karsten Warholm's victory in the men's 400 metres hurdles final at the Tokyo Olympics, smashing his own world record by a huge margin into the bargain, will go down in history as one of the greatest races of all time. Sydney McLaughlin of the USA r...

Toyota said Wednesday that net profit jumped more than 460 percent in the first quarter, boosted by strong sales fuelled by the recovery from the coronavirus crisis. The world's top-selling automaker logged a 897.8 billion yen ($8.2 billion) net pr...