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Six-times world snooker champion Ray Reardon has died at the age of 91 after being diagnosed with cancer, World Snooker Tour reported on Saturday. Welshman Reardon, who died late on Friday, ...

Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 30 Palestinians, according to health officials, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah. Among those ...

Bangladesh soldiers patrolled the deserted streets of the capital Dhaka on Saturday and set up roadblocks during a curfew meant to quell deadly students-led protests against government job quotas that ...

Donald Trump will hold his first campaign rally on Saturday since he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt one week ago and fresh from his nominating convention where his takeover of ...

One of the world’s youngest air forces is taking part in war games alongside cutting-edge stealth fighter jets as the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea boosts defence ...

Russian drones and missiles struck overnight in Ukraine, killing two civilians and hitting energy facilities and railway infrastructure across the country, officials said on Saturday. Oleh Syniehubov, regional governor for ...

HSBC Holdings Plc has appointed its Chief Financial Officer Georges Elhedery as its next CEO, the bank said on Wednesday, opting for continuity as it tries to kickstart growth. Elhedery, 50, ...

Pernod Ricard said on Wednesday it agreed to sell the majority of its wine portfolio to the owners of Australia’s Accolade Wines, disposing of a dragging division to focus ...

Air raid sirens wailed across Nicosia at dawn on Saturday as Greek Cypriots mourned, and Turkish Cypriots celebrated 50 years since the Turkish invasion. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime ...

By Zeba Siddiqui Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo ...

Services from airlines to healthcare, shipping and finance were coming back online on Friday night and Saturday after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long global computer systems ...

British house prices rose for a third month in a row in May, increasing by an annual 2.2 per cent after a 1.3 per cent rise in April, the Office for National ...

A Russian court found U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage on Friday and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony in what his employer, the ...

A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards ...

The United Nations’ highest court said on Friday that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed British government ministers on Friday, a rare appearance by a foreign leader at a cabinet meeting that new Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes will underline ...

A long-range Iranian-made drone hit the centre of Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday in an attack claimed by the Yemen-based Houthi militia that killed one man and ...

Global advertisers are hiring more female athletes to launch marketing campaigns ahead of the Paris Summer Olympics, a move aimed at capitalizing on recent record ratings for women’s sports ...

The United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday warned that “anarchy” was spreading in the Gaza Strip, with rampant looting, unlawful killings and shootings as the population faces an ...

A global tech outage disrupted operations in multiple industries in Cyprus and abroad on Friday, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off-air and everything from banking to healthcare hit by ...

Mercedes will be chasing a hat-trick in the heat of the Hungaroring on Sunday as Lewis Hamilton returns to a track where he has won a record eight times and ...

English journeyman Dan Brown birdied the last hole to card a first-round 65 and lead the British Open by one shot from Ireland’s Shane Lowry on Thursday. The 29-year-old Brown, ...

If Alphabet’s Google is successful in its effort to buy cloud security company Wiz, it would bolster its cloud security offerings for large organisations, a hotspot for hackers, and ...

Television news channels in Bangladesh were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted on Friday amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen ...