More than 100 North Koreans are set to compete in 14 sports at the Games, which take place in Nagoya-Aichi and officially open on September 19. Nuclear-armed North Korea suspended participation in international sporting competitions during the pand...

Elversberg, a village with a population of just 13,000 and no train station, became the smallest in German league history to host a top-flight side this season. The minnows have not been awed by the bright lights, either. Elversberg have won two f...

The former Manchester United and Chelsea ace has enjoyed a late-career resurgence and was voted the domestic A-League player of the year in 2025-26. But the 38-year-old has decided not to play on at the club as he mulls "the next steps in his caree...

The critically endangered animals were found Tuesday by rangers patrolling in the Balasore district of India's eastern Odisha state. Authorities suspect the primates, known for their shaggy red fur, were trafficked into India, sparking a criminal i...

Hansen lost just 10 of the 107 New Zealand Tests he oversaw during his reign from 2012 to 2019 and steered them to World Cup glory. Since leaving the All Blacks the 67-year-old New Zealander has been focused on strategic leadership, mentoring and h...

Much of the pre-game talk had surrounded the two California-based teams' wildly different approaches for navigating the epic flight and 17-hour time zone difference to Melbourne and its iconic 100,000-capacity cricket stadium. The Rams had jetted in...

In Saturday's final Rybakina will try to deal another blow to Sabalenka, having knocked her out of the number one world ranking just by reaching the semi-finals. "I feel like I definitely need to step my game up, serve much better than today and st...

The closely watched national security case was seen as a bellwether for freedom of expression in the Chinese city. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, Chow Hang-tung, 41, and Albert Ho, 74 were leaders of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance, and have been behind bar...

The Brazilian remains one of the key players of the modern Madrid era, having scored the winning goal in the Champions League final in 2022 and netting again as Madrid won the showpiece in 2024. However, along with superstars Kylian Mbappe and Jude...

Alongside last season's top two, only newly-promoted Hull remain unbeaten but their brilliant start faces an acid test against Xabi Alonso's free-scoring Chelsea. At the other end of the table, Fulham have yet to register a point under Alvaro Arbel...

The fire that tore through the M/V June Aster on Wednesday evening near the tourist hotspot of Coron, Palawan has killed at least five people, while another 84, including the ship's captain and chief engineer, remain unaccounted for. "Everything ha...

They are feeding the NASA file stash into one of the world's most powerful supercomputers so artificial intelligence can speed up and expand vital weather and climate forecasting, and spot patterns scientists could not have seen. AI models are incr...

The 13-year-old school girl with a pixie hair cut stunned the sporting world last year with a series of eye-popping times. At the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore she helped China reach the 4x200m women's freestyle relay final. She ...

"Songs of Forgotten Trees" from Roy, just 28, picked up the best director prize in the secondary Horizons section of the festival in 2025 and she is back in the Italian city this week with a follow-up. But her joy at returning to one of the world's...

Meet TremendousCircus, Japan's self-described radical feminist theatre troupe that embraces the flamboyant Gothic Lolita aesthetic as a powerful symbol of womanhood and defence against sexual violence. The global #MeToo movement hasn't caught on i...