US sports have increasingly sought to break into the African market, with the NBA launching a high-profile Basketball Africa League in 2019, based in Rwanda. Recent days saw a third annual flag football competition staged by the National Football L...

As the Major League Baseball season reached the mid-season All-Star Game break on Sunday, the Dodgers boasted the best record at 61-36 despite a 5-3 home loss to Arizona. Ohtani, who homered off the first Arizona pitch Sunday, was to skip the All-S...

Fisk got up and down for par from greenside bunkers at each of the first two playoff holes and sealed the win with a two-putt par as Canada's Pendrith made a bogey after finding a fairway bunker off the tee. "It's what we play for," Fisk said. "I c...

James, a four-time NBA champion and four-time Most Valuable Player, has announced he will leave the Los Angeles Lakers, with a fistful of teams seen as logical spots to be the next home for the 41-year-old forward. Much of the talk about James goin...

People ran screaming out of the venue on the outskirts of the Thai capital on Sunday evening as flames shot out of the entrance, several with their clothing burned or ablaze. AFP journalists saw several body bags on the ground outside the Rong Beer...

Zverev had a chance to follow his first Grand Slam title at the French Open in June by winning Wimbledon after taking the first set in the showdown with Sinner. But the 29-year-old was unable to topple the relentless world number one as Sinner hit ...

The four-day clash against India, which concludes on Monday, takes place 142 years -- and 150 matches -- since the London ground first staged a men's Test. It is also 50 years since Lord's hosted its first women's match, a one-day international bet...

Ahead of that game AFP Sports looks at five of the best past encounters between the nations: Arconada's howler, France's first title 1984 European Championship final: France 2 Spain 0 The first competitive meeting of the European neighbours came i...

The world number one outlasted Alexander Zverev in a bruising encounter 6-7 (7/9), 7-6 (7/2), 6-3, 6-4 in the final at the All England Club. It was Sinner's first Slam triumph since winning his maiden Wimbledon title 12 months ago, despite reeling ...

The latest toll offered by the government on its official Telegram account listed 4,490 as dead -- about 150 higher than the day prior -- and 16,740 injured. It did not give an estimate for the number of people still unaccounted for. On June 24, t...

McCullum, who remains England's limited overs coach, paid the price for a run of seven defeats in nine Tests, including a woeful 4-1 Ashes series loss in Australia. The former New Zealand captain was retained as Test coach despite the Ashes humilia...

And the Irish star who lost in 69 seconds at UFC 329 in Las Vegas vowed to make another comeback once he recovers from his latest setback. McGregor injured himself when he planted his right leg to make a leaping roundhouse kick at the start of the ...

The 24-year-old, who had tumbled down the world rankings, showed his quality with a superb final round of 64 to finish on 17 under par at North Berwick. Australia's Min Woo Lee was the runner-up as local hero Robert MacIntyre faltered in pursuit of...

The Italian defeated French Open champion Alexander Zverev in four sets on Sunday to close within two Grand Slam titles of his great rival Carlos Alcaraz. The pair are the dominant forces in men's tennis, although Alcaraz has missed the past two Sl...

Bhatia's 113 was the cornerstone of India's second-innings 341-7 declared on Sunday that left England needing a mammoth 427 to win the inaugural women's Test at Lord's. At stumps on the third day of four, England had slumped to 130-6 with India wel...