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The battle for the most powerful job in world sport is hurtling toward its climax as International Olympic Committee members descend on Greece this week to crown a new president. ...

CONMEBOL president Alejandro Dominguez apologised on Tuesday for saying that the Copa Libertadores without Brazilian teams would be like “Tarzan without Cheetah” after a club official had suggested sides could ...

Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival on Wednesday on charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group, in what the main opposition party called “a coup ...

U.S. President Donald Trump released material related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday, seeking to honor his campaign promise to provide more transparency about ...

The Bank of England is likely to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday and stick to its mantra of only gradual moves ahead as it grapples with the fallout ...

The Trump administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged that it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said federal agencies were working to bring all of them ...

Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, ending weeks of relative calm after talks to secure a permanent ceasefire stalled. Israel and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday to a proposal by U.S. President Donald Trump that Russia and Ukraine cease attacking each other’s energy infrastructure for 30 days, the ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe Sri Lanka began a wildlife census on Saturday to count monkeys, peacocks and giant squirrels, aiming to manage their populations as farmers complain of agricultural losses. Agriculture ...

By Will Dunham US bird populations are experiencing alarming declines due to factors such as habitat loss and climate change, according to a new report identifying 112 species that have reached ...

Western companies that “slammed the door defiantly” when they left Russia will not be allowed to buy back the businesses they quit for small amounts of money or fill niches ...

A public inquiry examining how British nurse Lucy Letby was able to murder babies in her care should be suspended because new evidence casts real doubt on her convictions, the ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who in two weeks will learn her fate in an embezzlement trial, says prosecutors demanding she face an instant five-year public office ban have ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party said that President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling alliance had offered no clear steps during closed-door talks on Monday meant to advance a peace process after Kurdish ...

Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor used a St. Patrick’s Day visit to President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday to criticize Ireland’s immigration policies, ...

Australia’s first openly gay soccer player Josh Cavallo said he receives multiple death threats every day and would find it difficult to encourage other footballers to come out due ...

Manchester United announced on Monday a rise of around 5% in season ticket prices at Old Trafford for 2025-26 in the latest effort to tackle the Premier League club’s financial ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after ...

Optimism was already building among economists on German and eurozone growth in a Reuters poll taken just before key political parties in Germany agreed a historic deal on debt, suggesting ...

Britain’s public finances, strained by growing debt and sluggish growth, face a crucial test this month that investors say could prompt another market shock to an economy that is ...

The US is weighing in with Lebanon’s government on the selection of the country’s next central bank governor in a bid to curtail corruption and illicit financing for ...

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said that it was important for Canada to strengthen ties with “reliable allies” in Europe, as he met French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ...

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by winning a three-hole aggregate playoff against J.J. Spaun to capture his second title at The Players Championship on ...

A “significant number” of countries are willing to provide peacekeeping troops in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ...