RIO DE JANEIRO - Shakira launched her first worldwide tour in seven years from Rio de Janeiro this week for her latest Grammy ...

London Irish rugby club have been bought out of administration by a consortium led by former Formula One team boss Eddie ...

Mathieu van der Poel said on Wednesday he will skip this year's world road race championships in favour of a tilt at the ...

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Zelensky had suggested exchanging Ukrainian-held chunks of Russia's region of Kursk for Russian-controlled territory in ...

Mediators Qatar and Egypt were pushing to salvage the Gaza ceasefire Wednesday, a Palestinian source told AFP, after Israel ...

Ugandan former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye has gone on hunger strike, his lawyer told AFP Wednesday, months into his ...

More than 250 people rescued from online scam centres in Myanmar were handed over to Thailand on Wednesday, a senior Thai ...

Former England assistant Steve Holland won his first game in charge of Japan's Yokohama F-Marinos, beating China's Shanghai ...

Several US citizens remain in Russian prisons. Here are some of the most high-profile cases. Stephen Hubbard, 72, is serving ...

Talks to form Austria's first far right-led government stalled on Wednesday, with the negotiating parties airing ...