The price of tickets means that most of those who waited up to two hours for the chance of a selfie next to the gold trophy will not see the games that start November 21. South Asia has contributed the biggest contingent to the army of labourers th...

Bang opposite, the Russians control the other bank of the Dnipro, the river that divides Ukraine between east and west. Planted in the sand is a slightly rusty sign asking people to pay attention -- a polite warning requesting not to disturb a neig...

Welcome to a Moscow exhibition depicting NATO's "crimes" amid Russia's military campaign in Ukraine. "NATO. A chronicle of cruelty" opened at the Museum of Contemporary Russian History in Moscow in early April, over a month after President Vladimir...

Victory in Monday's election would cap a decades-long effort to rehabilitate the Marcos legacy after the patriarch was deposed and the disgraced clan chased into US exile. But the prospect of Ferdinand Marcos Jr moving back into the presidential pa...

"The sale is expected to complete in late May subject to all necessary regulatory approvals," the football club said in a statement late Friday. "More details will be provided at that time," it added. Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich put t...

Victory in Monday's election would cap a decades-long effort to rehabilitate the Marcos legacy after the patriarch was deposed and the disgraced clan chased into US exile. But the prospect of Ferdinand Marcos Jr moving back into the presidential pa...

"The sale is expected to complete in late May subject to all necessary regulatory approvals," the football club said in a statement late Friday. Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich put the Premier League club on the market in March, just days ...

Embiid missed the Sixers' double-digit losses in the first two games after he suffered a concussion and orbital fracture in the first-round series-clinching win over Toronto. With his return confirmed just shortly before tip-off in Philadelphia, Em...

The event, starting at 0900 GMT at the Elysee Palace, kicks off a series of key steps as Macron begins a new five-year term filled with international and domestic challenges. Macron faces a daunting agenda of implementing the reforms he vowed when ...

Christie's expects Warhol's 1964 "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" to become the priciest 20th century artwork when the auction house puts it under the hammer on Monday. Not to be outdone, competitor Sotheby's is offering $1 billion of modern and contempora...

Virtual YouTubers like Iizuka, who voices and animates a character called Yume Kotobuki, have transformed a niche Japanese subculture into a thriving industry where top accounts can rake in more than a million dollars a year. The videos are designe...

"For eight days, the bursts of bullets flew non-stop but we thought that the police were going to intervene," he said. But the police never showed. So like thousands of others, 29-year-old Jackson -- taking nothing but the clothes he was wearing --...

More than a decade after leaving office as the most popular president in Brazilian history, the charismatic but tarnished 76-year-old is expected to officially declare a new run at a huge rally in Sao Paulo. It was hardly a secret Lula, who has enj...

Former British and Dutch colony Guyana has emerged as one of the main low cost oil production countries and is preparing to auction offshore oil blocks at the end of the year. "In terms of oil and gas, we have a Brazilian giant called Petrobras for...

Making the most of reliability problems for world champion Max Verstappen and the Red Bull team, the 24-year-old Briton clocked a best lap in one minute and 29.938 seconds to outpace championship leader Charles Leclerc of Ferrari by 0.106. His perf...