HM Revenue & Customs opened the probe following the publication of leaked club emails in the German weekly Der Spiegel in late 2018, the FT said, citing "people with knowledge of the situation". The investigation -- which does not involve allegatio...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Tuesday demanding better conditions in high schools. That same evening, President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and other key minister...

The Houthis, who control most of northwest Yemen, captured swathes of coastal land from Yemen's pro-government forces last month after the country's civil war reignited in July. The internationally recognised government this week declared a counter...

The wars in Iran and Ukraine have laid bare the fragility of energy supply chains, and Greece is positioning itself to become a key hub in southeastern Europe for natural gas transport. Rubio, who arrived from Iceland on Tuesday, is set to meet Gre...

Global chip companies, including Micron, have been major beneficiaries of soaring demand for artificial intelligence. But as their earnings skyrocket, many workers are demanding a bigger cut of profits. Micron, which makes around 50-60 percent of ...

Min Aung Hlaing has been a pariah in many capitals abroad since his putsch unleashed a civil war, but Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim invited him for talks about returning 5,000 Myanmar migrants. The opaque repatriation scheme has been criti...

The case has triggered outrage in Japan, where any crimes involving US forces have long inflamed criticism of the troops' presence. The governor of Okinawa, where the bulk on the 54,000 US military personnel are based in Japan, is due to meet the J...

At the site of the Nova music festival, where Hamas militants in trucks and paragliders opened fire around dawn on October 7, 2023, family members bowed their heads in silence -- although at least one instead put on techno music in tribute to the fa...

Messi, who scored a goal and provided two assists in the victory at the Monumental Stadium, took to the field after the win to express gratitude to fans and teammates as he reflected on his 21-year career with Argentina. "It was a huge source of pr...

The 1-0 win lacked the dynamism, fluidity and multiple goals of wins against Mexico, Chile and Peru, but was another vindication for Pochettino's policy of blooding fresh talent in the post-World Cup window. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, who had scored ...

An imperious Verstappen took his first chequered flag of the year at the wide open and fast Sepang Circuit at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia on Sunday. But it was in a race delayed for an hour and a half after a chaotic formation lap saw cars,...

Christa Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death for a murder she committed when she was a teenager, received two supposedly lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital at a Tennessee prison a week ago. She survived the injections, however, and was rushed t...

The winner or winners of the award are scheduled to be named by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm at 11:45 am (0945 GMT). Last year, the jury honoured Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar Yagh...

The Strait of Hormuz closure has forced Asian countries to buy more coal as an alternative to disrupted gas supplies, analysts and miners said. Instead of falling, as predicted by the International Energy Agency in December, global coal demand will...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee knows it will be under close scrutiny: since his return to the White House in January 2025, the billionaire Republican has campaigned intensively for the prize and hasn't hidden his disappointment at not winning it yet....