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PARIS, France: Serbian tennis legend Novak Djokovic and women's number one Aryna Sabalenka top the list of pairings entered for the US Open mixed doubles. However, both men's world number...

Zinedine Zidane was appointed France coach on Tuesday, as widely expected, following the departure of Didier Deschamps, the French Football Federation (FFF) announced. Zidane, 54, had long been viewed...

Some 60 museum-level works by artists such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso collected by a dealer who popularised the Impressionists will be auctioned in Paris in October,...

Comic book enthusiast Jon Bolerjack began filming with Stan Lee in 2014, hoping to document how the legendary Marvel creator was spending his 90s. Instead, his camera captured what he describes as...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Tuesday that several injuries, collapsed buildings and fires had been reported after a major earthquake in the country's southwest. "We are...

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President ​Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday, with wars in Iran and Ukraine at critical ​stages and his ties...

Riyadh: The Saudi defence ministry said it intercepted several drones launched by groups in Iraq on Monday, while the groups in Yemen also claimed attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure. Saudi Arabia...

Tehran: Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy stopped six vessels attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz through routes not approved by Iranian authorities, state television reported on Monday....

Manila: A homemade bomb detonated near the entrance of the Philippine justice ministry early on Monday, officials said, hours before a suspected unexploded device was found near the country's...

Tehran:  Iran said on Sunday it has halted retaliatory attacks against US allies in the Middle East after Washington stopped its strikes on the country for the past two nights. The Iranian...

London: London's Gatwick Airport said Sunday it was suffering from "a water supply issue", with toilets reported to be out of order and restaurants closed at Britain's second busiest air...

Tehran: Iran's army warned on Sunday that the Middle East war would widen if the United States chose to press ahead with attacks on the Islamic republic, ahead of the visit of Israeli Prime...

Tehran: Iran said on Sunday it had made progress in talks with the Sultanate of Oman on management of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway crucial for oil and gas trade that both countries...

Tehran: Iran accused Ukraine on Saturday of attacking one of its merchant vessels in the Caspian Sea, killing a sailor and wounding another, and warned it would not leave the incident unanswered. The...

Tehran: Iran's oil ministry on Saturday said it was able to sell a total of $18 billion worth of oil during the war and the ensuing ceasefire with the United States. "The ministry sold $11.5...

Sanaa: Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah claimed a missile attack on Saudi Arabia on Saturday as fighting between regional allies of the United States and Iran intensified on a new front. Houthi...

Paris: Out-of-control wildfires raging in France and Spain have forced the evacuation of more than 250,000 people in total, authorities in both countries said on Saturday. The French government said...

Indian ​ Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday he had resigned, handing a major victory to youth protesters nationwide who had demanded that he quit to take responsibility for...

New Delhi: Growing up with a chronically ill mother in a remote village in India, Rema Begum aspired to become a doctor until her dream was cut short by her own tragic death. After years of studying...

Sanaa:  Ansar Allah claimed a missile attack on Saudi Arabia on Saturday as US President Donald Trump mulled fresh strikes on Iran in the deepening Middle East war. The US military broke its daily...