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 Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri on Wednesday rejected the notion that users could be clinically addicted to social media, as he testified in a landmark California trial over whether his company knowingly...

 Bangladesh voted Thursday in its first election since a deadly 2024 uprising, as parties crushed under Sheikh Hasina's rule return to the fray with a powerful political heir facing an...

 Doha: Iga Swiatek came from a set down to defeat Daria Kasatkina on Wednesday and keep her bid for a fourth Qatar Open title alive, as Elena Rybakina also reached the quarter-finals.The world number...

 Doha: Coco Gauff suffered a surprise second-round exit from the WTA 1000 event in Doha on Tuesday, losing in straight sets to Italian lucky loser Elisabetta Cocciaretto.The fourth seed, who was...

Colombo: Captain Mitchell Marsh backed his Australia players to "get the job done" as they launch their T20 World Cup title charge against Ireland on Wednesday following a torrid build-up.The 2021...

 Almost three weeks of heavy snowfall has killed 46 people and injured 558 others in Japan, fresh data from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency showed Tuesday.Continued snowfall since late...

Tehran - Iran is prepared to dilute its highly enriched uranium if the United States lifts all sanctions on the country, the head of its atomic energy agency said Monday after talks resumed with...

 Los Angeles, United States: Chris Gotterup won the PGA Tour Phoenix Open on Sunday, topping Hideki Matsuyama with a birdie at the first playoff hole as the Japanese major-winner found the water just...

Havana - Cuba has warned airlines it is suspending jet fuel supplies for a month because of an energy crisis prompted by the US attack on Venezuela, an official at a European carrier said Sunday.Cuba...

New Delhi - Italy has won the football World Cup four times, but when it comes to cricket, they are minnows making a historic debut among the game's elite.The Italians play Scotland in the T20...

 Los Angeles, United States: Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred made an impressive season debut over 60m on Saturday, clocking 7.00sec at a minor meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas.The 24-year-old...

Seoul - A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange apologised on Saturday after mistakenly transferring more than $40 billion worth of bitcoin to users, which briefly prompted a selloff on the...

Riyadh - Al Nassr fans showed their support for Cristiano Ronaldo on Friday as the Portuguese star missed a second straight game after reportedly growing frustrated over transfers.The 41-year-old was...

Paris: British scientists said on Thursday that a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate...

Australia in December became the world's first ​country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's...

A top Russian military intelligence general was shot in a Moscow apartment building on Friday and hospitalised, Moscow said, in what it said was an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine.There...

Japanese premier Sanae Takaichi won US President Donald Trump's full endorsement on Friday, two days before snap elections that polls suggest may see her coalition romp home with a...

MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pleaded for caution from flood-hit residents on Friday as more rain was expected to drench parts of the Iberian Peninsula already saturated by a deadly...

ATHENS: The Greek government has firmly backed its coastguard, insisting it is "not a welcoming committee" as questions grow over a collision in the Aegean Sea this week that killed 15 asylum...

TOKYO: Toyota has named a new CEO to "accelerate" decision-making, the Japanese auto giant said on Friday as it hiked its profit and sales forecasts for the current fiscal year despite the impact of...