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A Kobe Bryant jersey worn during his Los Angeles Lakers pre-season and regular-season debuts was sold for $7 million at Sotheby’s in New York City on Thursday, the auction house ...

Carlos Alcaraz has lifted the lid on his secret for winning his first Wimbledon title in 2023 and defending the title a year later – partying hard in Ibiza. In a new ...

The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion, six sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Reuters, saying the proposal was ...

Nestle (NESN.S) on Thursday said the indirect impact of US tariffs was “unclear” and posted better-than-expected first-quarter organic sales growth, as the world’s biggest packaged food company hiked ...

Global ratings agency S&P Global downgraded Bahrain’s outlook to “negative” from “stable”, citing ongoing market volatility and weaker financing conditions that could increase the government’s interest ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday he was ready to travel to Europe for talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, with France indicating European powers were also ready ...

A 15-year-old boy killed a fellow pupil and wounded three others in a stabbing attack at a high school in the western French city of Nantes on Thursday before he ...

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday ordered a lower panel to reconsider Israel’s objections to the court’s jurisdiction over arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders ...

Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 12 people in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year and drawing a rare rebuke from Donald Trump, ...

Thousands of people marched through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp in Poland on Thursday in an annual ceremony organisers said would be joined by 80 Holocaust survivors to mark ...

Britain’s government borrowed almost 15 billion pounds more in the financial year that just ended than official budget forecasters had estimated a month ago, according to data that heaped more ...

eicester City striker Jamie Vardy will leave the Premier League club at the end of the season following their relegation, bringing the curtain down on an era where he established ...

Pakistan closed its air space for Indian airlines and rejected New Delhi’s suspension of a critical water sharing treaty on Thursday in retaliation for India’s response to a ...

Russia and Ukraine traded new barbs over faltering peace efforts on Thursday, with Moscow accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of blocking diplomacy and Kyiv saying Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted ...

Greece will deploy a record number of firefighters this year in anticipation of “bad scenarios” ahead, its climate crisis minister said on Thursday, after a succession of destructive wildfires. Weather ...

Britain’s communications regulator said on Thursday that online platforms hosting pornographic and other content considered harmful must enforce “highly effective” age restrictions by July 25 to prevent children accessing the ...

An Israeli airstrike hit a police station in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, local health authorities said, and Israel’s military said it ...

Former United States manager Bruce Arena has criticised the appointment of Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino as U.S. coach, saying the job should have gone to an American. Bruce Arena, who ...

Oil prices recovered some losses on Thursday after falling nearly 2 per cent in the previous session, with investors weighing a potential OPEC+ output increase against conflicting tariff signals from the ...

The World Bank has granted Lebanon a $250 million loan aimed at helping alleviate persistent power cuts worsened by last year’s war between Israel and Hezbollah, the country’s finance ...

Arsenal kept Liverpool’s Premier League title-winning champagne on ice, but only just, as they were twice pegged back at home by Crystal Palace with Jean-Philippe Mateta scoring a superb ...

An overnight Russian combined missile and drone attack triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing nine people and injuring more than 70, the ...

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy clashed again on efforts to end the three-year-old war in Ukraine, with the US leader chiding Zelenskiy for refusing to recognize ...

Ronnie O’Sullivan began his quest for a record eighth world snooker title with a 10-4 defeat of fellow Englishman Ali Carter on Wednesday but admitted he arrived at the ...