But despite Osaka's win, GB took the match 2-1 with a deciding mixed doubles victory. Osaka was too strong for GB reserve and 276th-ranked Katie Swan, winning 7-6 (7/4), 6-1 as Raducanu watched from the sidelines. "I'm proud of how I fought," Osa...

Kenin, who won the Australian Open as a 21-year-old in 2020, recovered from a second-set lapse to outlast Ruse and set up a second-round clash against seventh seed Ekaterina Alexandrova. "My last match was in October so it was definitely weird. But...

The destructive 26-year-old has become one of the world's most exciting players across all formats with his attacking batting. But the gung-ho approach has not worked well in Australia, with his unbeaten 78 in the fifth and final Test on Sunday his...

Curry, back after missing a game with a sprained left ankle, had just nine points in a first half that saw the Warriors trailing 65-58 at the break. But he exploded in the third period, when Golden State out-scored Utah 42-31 to take control, never...

Batting after skipper Ben Stokes won the toss at a sold-out Sydney Cricket Ground, they steered the tourists to 211-3 when bad light forced the players from the field just before tea. Subsequent rain and the risk of lightning made no further play p...

"We will not accept any insult to Bangladeshi cricket, cricketers and Bangladesh under any circumstances," said Asif Nazrul, Youth and Sports Adviser in the interim government, in a statement carried by the state-run BSS news agency Sunday. "The da...

Not since 1888 have the hosts neglected to play a frontline slow bowler at the storied venue, once considered the country's spin haven. But with all-rounder Beau Webster selected for the fifth and final Ashes Test against England and Todd Murphy ov...

"We will not accept any insult to Bangladeshi cricket, cricketers and Bangladesh under any circumstances," said Asif Nazrul, Youth and Sports Adviser in the interim government, in a statement carried by the state-run BSS news agency Sunday. "The da...

The military grabbed power in a 2021 coup that triggered civil war, pitting pro-democracy rebels against junta forces, with thousands of activists since arrested. A dozen buses full of released prisoners exited Yangon's Insein prison on Sunday morn...

While a few hundred Maduro supporters gathered to clamor for his freedom, the streets were otherwise eerily quiet. "I felt the explosions lift me out of bed. In that instant I thought: 'My God, the day has come,' and I cried," Maria Eugenia Escobar...

Lee is the first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years and his four-day trip comes less than a week after China carried out massive military drills around Taiwan, the self-ruled island it claims as part of its territory. The exercise, f...

La Guaira was one of several areas in or near Caracas struck by jets during a stealth mission to snatch Maduro and whisk him out of the country. Deformed shipping containers, their contents spilling onto the docks, bore testimony to the force of th...

The on-field guard of honour ahead of the clash was accompanied by loud applause from the sold-out crowd. The biggest cheer came when hero Ahmed al Ahmed, who ran towards one of the attackers and wrestled the gun from him, walked out. Father and s...

Batting after skipper Ben Stokes won the toss at a sold-out Sydney Cricket Ground, they steered the tourists to 211-3 when bad light forced them from the field just before tea. Subsequent rain and the risk of lightning made no further play possible...

Ten days after signing with Baylor University, 7-foot (2.13m) Nnaji played his first US college game for the Bears in a 69-63 loss at Texas Christian University. Nnaji, booed by TCU fans whenever he touched the ball in just over 16 minutes on the c...