Saturday's gala at the 30,000-capacity stadium officially launched the continent's premier sporting event, with Japan's emperor and empress in attendance. Fireworks brought the show to a rousing conclusion, but while parts of the arena were full, o...

Hojo finished the 750m swim, 20km bike ride and 5,000m run in 52min 56sec, nine seconds clear of China's Zhang Xirui in silver with Kazakhstan's Arlan Zhanabay a further six seconds behind. "As it's our first gold medal it's given the Japanese team...

Asia's biggest sporting spectacle, which opened on Saturday in the Japanese city of Nagoya, has split with past Games by having no traditional athletes' village. To save costs, the more than 17,000 Asian Games participants will stay in temporary hu...

Yu became the youngest swimming world championships medallist in history last year when she won bronze as a 12-year-old as part of China's 4x200m freestyle relay team. She also finished a whisker outside the medals in fourth in three world individu...

Japan's Takumi Hojo won the men's individual triathlon with China's Zhang Xirui second and Kazakhstan's Arlan Zhanabay taking bronze. It was the first of 469 gold medals to be awarded at the two-week spectacle in Aichi-Nagoya that has more athletes...

When elected to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on May 8, 2025, the former Robert Francis Prevost from Chicago had on-the-ground experience from more than two decades as a missionary in Peru, as well as insider knowledge of the Vatican and Ro...

Pope Leo XIV's visit to France from September 25 to 28, which includes events at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Champs-Elysees, will involve some 15,000 members of the security forces. The groundwork for this visit -- the first papal trip to Pari...

Merz, 70, has scheduled a crisis meeting of his centre-right CDU party leadership to discuss the first results as they come in from the regional polls in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The chancellor, in power for 16 months, has also cle...

The singer, who had previously maintained an apolitical stance, broke his silence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his first show since the controversy involving US rapper Macklemore. "What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiab...

"Today I announced that I have decided not to continue with my candidacy for the position of secretary-general of the United Nations," Bachelet, who served as Chile's first female leader, said in a video posted on her social media accounts. "Some m...

Hansi Flick's side moved six points clear of Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid, who visit Atletico Madrid in a derby clash on Sunday. The Spanish champions were given the biggest test of their season to date but overcame Sevilla at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizj...

The 32-year-old has struggled with injuries since winning gold at the 2024 Games and also endured a fractious relationship with the Belgian athletics federation. But she delivered a perfect comeback at the Talence venue where she had also won in 20...

With both sides holding perfect records heading into the top-two clash in the capital, it was an early season glimpse of what may well be the Scudetto race this term. Gian Piero Gasperini's Roma have arguably been the most impressive team in Italy ...

The Czechs knocked out the Americans at the same second qualifying round stage in a decider at Delray Beach a year ago, when Jakub Mensik beat Frances Tiafoe to secure a surprise victory. Tomas Berdych's men repeated the feat in similarly dramatic ...

A ministry source told reporters the public debt would reach 119.3 percent of GDP in 2026 and 121.7 percent in 2027 -- more than double the 60-percent-of-GDP reference limit EU member countries are required to aim for. Those figures are unprecedent...