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Katie Ledecky set up another Olympic showdown with Australia’s champion Ariarne Titmus for the 400 metres freestyle title, the American great qualifying fastest for the final as the Paris swimming ...

China’s Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao won the first gold medal of the Paris Games on Saturday in the 10 metres air rifle mixed team event. Keum Ji-hyeon and Park ...

South Korea expressed regret that its delegation of athletes at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday was introduced as from rival North Korea and has demanded assurances from organisers ...

Coca-Cola (KO.N) raised its annual sales and profit forecasts earlier this week, as a round of price increases failed to deter consumers mainly in international markets from spending more ...

Computer mouse maker Logitech International (LOGN.S) raised its full-year sales and profit outlook this week, saying it expected full year sales growth of up to 3 per cent after a ...

Shares in SAP (SAPG.DE) rose as much as 7 per cent to reach an all-time high earlier this week, after Europe’s largest software maker reported better-than-expected quarterly operating income, ...

The White House will offer deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 11,500 Lebanese nationals already in the U.S., due to conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, ...

Alleged Mexican kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges after he and a son of another prominent Mexican drug lord were arrested ...

Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including the largest fire in the United States, which was rapidly expanding near the Oregon-Idaho ...

Cyprus athletes among early countries at River Seine parade Crowds braved queues at security checks and heavy rain showers as they lined the banks of the Seine river in Paris ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged countries around the world to stop armed conflict as part of the Olympic truce, with the Paris 2024 Olympics set to open later on ...

The Kremlin on Friday welcomed Donald Trump’s comments on Russia being “a war machine” that had defeated Napoleon and Hitler, but said it was not wearing rose-tinted spectacles when ...

Eurostar said it would cancel a quarter of all services on its network and asked passengers to postpone their travel where possible on Friday after its rail services between London ...

Russia will carefully consider how to respond to the European Union’s transfer to Ukraine of 1.5 billion euros taken from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ...

The World Health Organisation is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was ...

Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle endorsed Kamala Harris’ bid for president on Friday in a roughly one-minute long video that captured a private phone call between the ...

Turkey’s central bank is not even considering a rate-cutting cycle at this time because easing too early could reignite inflation and extend the pain for an economy on the ...

The Norwegian delegation engaged in some good-natured ribbing of their hosts over comments about food quality and small portions at the athletes’ Olympic village, claiming to have more medals in ...

The Bank of England’s first interest rate cut since 2020 hangs in the balance next week, with greater uncertainty than usual as key policymakers have not spoken publicly for more ...

Oil prices were little changed on Friday but on track for a third consecutive weekly decline, pressured by muted demand in China and expectations of a Gaza ceasefire deal that ...

Eurozone consumers stopped reducing their inflation expectations in June after four consecutive monthly falls, a European Central Bank survey showed on Friday. The ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey is one ...

Russia attacked Ukrainian energy facilities in two regions between the capital Kyiv and the Russian border with drones overnight, leaving tens of thousands of people without power, Ukraine’s national ...

Vandals targeted France’s high-speed train network with a series of coordinated actions that brought major disruption to some of the country’s busiest rail lines ahead of the Paris ...

Max Verstappen returns to his favourite track seeking to end a run of three races without a win by extending a sequence of three successive Belgian Grand Prix victories at ...