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Simone Biles could join an elite club of greatest female Olympians as she goes for titles eight and nine in the balance beam and floor exercise finals on the last ...

Stock markets tumbled on Monday and Japanese shares plummeted a gut-wrenching 13 per cent as fears the United States could be heading for recession sent investors rushing from risk while wagering ...

Protesting students in Bangladesh have called for a march to the capital Dhaka on Monday in defiance of a nationwide curfew to press Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign, a ...

The U.S. is deploying additional military might in the Middle East as a defensive measure with a goal of de-escalating tensions in the region, a White House official said. ...

Major video game publishers including Electronic Arts and Take-Two will likely stave off a big hit from the strike by voice actors and motion-capture artists due to their in-house studios ...

Companies worldwide are lowering full-year sales and profit guidance as higher interest rates and weakness in China’s economy hurt global consumer sentiment, taking the shine off earnings growth in ...

Apple’s (AAPL.O) upcoming artificial intelligence features will arrive later than anticipated and will miss the initial launch of upcoming iPhone and iPad software overhauls, according to a report ...

Kiteboarding made its Olympic debut on Sunday, with the men and women taking off to cheers from the beach in Marseille on featherweight foiling boards, their huge arching kites powered ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday condemned what he described as “far-right thuggery” after days of violent anti-immigration protests culminated in an attack on a hotel, saying perpetrators would ...

Novak Djokovic completed his career Golden Slam as the 37-year-old Serb fought off Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in a magnificent Olympic men’s singles final battle at Roland Garros on ...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday that it targeted a Liberia-flagged container vessel in the Gulf of Aden, claiming its first attack on shipping lanes since Israel carried ...

An Israeli airstrike hit a tent inside a hospital compound in central Gaza, killing at least five people, bringing the total of Palestinians killed on Sunday to 19, Gaza health officials ...

 France and Italy on Sunday urged their citizens in Lebanon to leave the country due to the risk of military escalation in the Middle East, their foreign ministries said. Tensions ...

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi will travel to Iran on Sunday in a rare visit to discuss regional developments with his Iranian counterpart following the assassination of Hamas leader ...

A Palestinian attacker stabbed and killed a woman and wounded three others in central Israel on Sunday before being shot by police, Israeli authorities said. The stabbings took place during ...

The Philippines and Germany have committed to concluding a broader defence cooperation arrangement, their defence ministers said in a joint statement on Sunday. German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius met with ...

Tropical storm Debby formed late Saturday and was expected to surge up into a hurricane before it slams into Florida’s northern Gulf Coast shoreline on Monday, the National Hurricane ...

Global hedge funds ditched bets against European stock markets at the fastest pace in 10 years amid a raft of better-than-expected company results, according to a Goldman Sachs (GS.N) note ...

Violent disorder swept across several British cities on Saturday, injuring police and damaging property in the most widespread rioting in the country for 13 years, following the murder of three young ...

McDonald’s (MCD.N) reported a surprise drop in sales and missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Monday, as the burger giant struggled to draw in cash-strapped customers ...

Diageo (DGE.L) is set to post its first yearly sales decline since 2020 next week, when it needs to convince investors that plans to turn around its North American and ...

YouTube speeds in Russia are set to sharply decline on desktop computers due Google’s failure to upgrade its equipment in Russia and its refusal to unblock channels of Russian ...

Julien Alfred delivered a brilliant gun-to-tape performance to win the women’s 100 metres final on Saturday and claim Saint Lucia’s first-ever Olympic medal, though the controversial absence of Shelly-Ann ...

An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced persons in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians on Saturday, hours after two strikes in the occupied West Bank killed nine militants ...