Reuters News Service

Madonna and Shakira will line up with K-pop supergroup BTS to headline the first-ever World Cup final halftime show at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FIFA said on Thursday. ...

Labour’s Wes Streeting resigned as health minister on Thursday to call for a leadership contest to oust Keir Starmer, accusing the British prime minister of overseeing political drift and ...

A top Philippine politician wanted by the International Criminal Court was no longer taking refuge at the Senate after what his wife called an “escape”, the Senate president said on ...

U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the Iran war with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, while new attacks on vessels near the Strait of Hormuz brought ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced the increasing prospect of a leadership challenge on Thursday, with his health minister reported to be ready to resign and his former deputy calling on ...

Scottie Scheffler enters this week’s PGA Championship as a hot favorite to become the event’s first repeat winner since Brooks Koepka in 2019, while a confident Rory McIlroy eyes ...

Pep Guardiola said Phil Foden supplied the kind of inspiration that cannot be drawn up on a tactics board after the England midfielder drove Manchester City to a 3-0 victory ...

Celtic’s Kelechi Iheanacho scored a controversial penalty with the last kick of the game to secure a 3-2 win at Motherwell on Wednesday, sending the Scottish Premiership title race ...

Russia carried out its largest aerial attack over a two-day period since the start of its war in Ukraine, pounding the capital Kyiv and other cities with hundreds of drones, ...

Protests broke out across the Cuban capital of Havana on Wednesday evening as the city confronted its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a U.S. blockade that has starved ...

A violent storm bringing rain and hail scythed across India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, killing more than 100 people, rescue officials said on Thursday, as the chief minister ...

China’s Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump that trade talks were making progress at the start of a two-day summit on Thursday but warned that disagreement over Taiwan could ...

British consumers, shaken by the widening economic fallout from the Iran war, cut their spending last month for the first time since November 2024 ​as they focused on essentials rather than ...

Heathrow Airport said this week that its passenger numbers ‌fell 5 per cent to 6.7 million in April as the Iran ​war disrupted travel plans, ​with traffic from the Middle ⁠East plunging ...

Gunshots broke out at the Philippine Senate on Wednesday and people ran for cover after a top politician wanted by the International Criminal Court said his arrest was imminent and ...

Turkey lifted some customs restrictions on Armenia on Wednesday, paving the way for direct trade links between the two countries in a further sign of normalising ties after over 30 years ...

Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and ...

Reform UK said it was talking to Britain’s parliamentary watchdog after a report its leader Nigel Farage was being investigated over a breach of the rules for accepting a 5 ...

As Toronto gears up for the World Cup, the city wants to help people score safely in the bedroom by offering free football-inspired condoms. With more than 300,000 visitors expected for ...

Israel has escalated its attacks in Gaza in the five weeks since halting its joint bombing with the U.S. in Iran, redirecting its fire back on the ruined Palestinian ...

Keir Starmerwas facing his biggest challenge yet on Wednesday when his health minister was reportedly readying his resignation to try to trigger a contest to replace a British prime minister ...

British police said on Wednesday they had recovered the bodies of three women from the sea in Brighton and were working to establish how the “tragic incident” had happened. Local ...

Ted Lasso actor Cristo Fernandez has taken his role as a footballer from the small screen to the soccer pitch after signing a professional contract with U.S. second-tier side ...

Southampton will play Hull City for a place in the Premier League after coming back from a goal down to beat Middlesbrough 2-1 in extra time of their Championship playoff ...