The 35-year-old middle-order batsman said he would be available for selection and remain with the team, but was giving up the captaincy with immediate effect. "It's my genuine opinion that the mantle should go down to the next generation," de Silva...

The world number three said his body was still adjusting to playing demanding matches after coming back from a wrist injury that sidelined him from April until the US Open in August. But he comes into Shanghai having won the Japan Open on Tuesday, ...

The move comes after Israel ordered the closure of the consulate in September as retaliation after London led Western sanctions over violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar s...

Min Aung Hlaing touched down on Wednesday, invited for a two-day visit to discuss thousands of Myanmar migrants being sent back under a repatriation scheme touted by Anwar. Malaysia has historically offered safe haven to those exiled from Myanmar b...

Rahm's decision to leave LIV due to "unacceptable" terms deals a significant blow to the divisive tour as it attempts to relaunch itself after declaring bankruptcy. Along with Bryson DeChambeau, double major winner and former world number one Rahm ...

North Korea has rejected claims it was behind the explosion that injured three soldiers last month inside the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the heavily mined buffer area that has divided the two Koreas since their 1953 armistice. A joint Seoul-United N...

Other drivers on the grid enjoyed luxury private planes for the short flight between Sunday's Bahrain GP at the Sepang circuit near Kuala Lumpur to the Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore, which borders Malaysia. But Bottas, a keen cyclist, instead go...

The sudden-death contest was played for the first time at Melbourne Park this year ahead of the opening Grand Slam of the year, pitting 24 professionals alongside 24 amateurs and celebrity wildcards. Each match consisted of just one point -- win an...

Rennie said he harbours no resentment towards Australian rugby ahead of Saturday's opening Bledisloe Cup Test at Eden Park, where the All Blacks put a formidable 23-year unbeaten streak in Auckland on the line. He brushed off suggestions he would h...

Environmental inspectors who rushed to two fires discovered 318 tonnes of toxic industrial dust that had been stored for months in a chrome factory, AlbChrome, with no transfer contracts for its treatment or safe disposal. The site, owned by the Tu...

Andy Pages put prior post-season disappointments behind him to deliver a go-ahead two-run single in the seventh inning for the Dodgers, who beat the Braves 4-1 to complete a 3-1 victory over the Braves in their best-of-five National League division ...

Four-Test Queensland Reds midfielder Henry will start at outside centre in the first Bledisloe Cup Test at Eden Park on Saturday, two months after making his debut against Japan in Osaka. The return of 27-year-old Henry is the only change to the st...

There is no public shortlist for the Nobel, and since the nominees and the jury deliberations remain sealed for 50 years, Stockholm's literary circles engage in frantic guessing ahead of the announcement. Antiguan-American author Jamaica Kincaid, 7...

The spark was ignited on September 23 when 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from her lifelong Madrid home on a stretcher after the real estate firm that owned the apartment drastically hiked the rent. Abascal, who died on Wednesday, becam...

Zhao Fugang, director of the Overseas Chinese Service Centre in Fiji's capital of Suva, engaged in "significant corruption" on behalf of actors in China, according to Washington. "Zhao abused his public position by paying bribes to Fijian citizens ...