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Tokyo: Former Toyota head Hiroshi Okuda, credited with championing the pioneering Prius hybrid and turning the Japanese automaker into a global titan, has died aged 93, the firm said Wednesday. Okuda...

Cristiano Ronaldo and his long-time partner Georgina Rodriguez married on Tuesday in a ceremony in the Portuguese resort of Cascais, said the football superstar's representatives. The wedding...

Washington: Aurélia END Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that he secretly switched planes because of a threat to his life, after the Washington Post revealed the US president was smuggled out of Air...

Washington: A US helicopter fired missiles on Tuesday into the engine room of a Panama-flagged cargo ship that attempted to break the American blockade of Iran's ports, the United States...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Monday it would be "a terrible mistake" to replace Gianni Infantino, the embattled Fifa president who tried, and failed, to sell off part of the World Cup...

TORONTO: Former world number one Iga Swiatek cruised into the Toronto Masters semifinals on Monday to set up a clash with Elina Svitolina who fought back from a set down to reach the last four....

Pereira, Colombia: Colombian volunteers and rescuers cleared rubble with their bare hands and buckets to search for survivors early Tuesday after the country's strongest earthquake in a decade...

Airbus is sending experts to New Delhi on Tuesday to assist investigators probing an Air India flight that plunged dramatically, injuring 17 in terrifying mid-air ordeal, the company said. The probe...

Hong Kong: Oil prices extended hefty gains Tuesday as hopes for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz fade, fanning fresh inflation fears and ramping up bets on at least one US interest rate hike this...

Paris: Nick Perry Western Europe experienced its hottest June-July on record as climate change fuels an historic summer of heat, drought and wildfires across the region, the EU's global warming...

LONDON: Kasper Hogh scored a hat-trick, his first goals for Celtic, as the Scottish champions made light of the absence of manager Martin O'Neill with a 5-1 win away to Kilmarnock on Sunday....

Tehran: Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday they would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, vital to the world economy, until the United States met Tehran's conditions set out the day...

BANGKOK: The ⁠Thai teen behind a deadly school shooting outside Bangkok had an air ​gun confiscated by a teacher ​last year and had watched violent content online, police said on Sunday, as the...

Safety regulators launched an investigation on Sunday into a "near collision" between two passenger aircraft at Australia's busiest airport that injured a crew member. The incident, which...

Iran set preconditions on Saturday for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, including compensation for war damages, complicating a potential deal to open the waterway essential to the world economy....

MONTREAL, Canada: Ben Shelton threw down eight aces and produced three love games in the second set in dominating Zizou Bergs 6-3, 6-2 on Friday in reaching the fourth round of the ATP Montreal...

Dubai: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday said Iran had targeted a tanker belonging to the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The...

WASHINGTON: Progress ​is ​being made between Iran and Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, and "we expect a deal soon," ⁠a U.S. official told ⁠Reuters on Friday. Once a deal is announced to restore...

Two weeks after youth-led protests forced India's education minister to resign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is grappling with the fallout from one of its toughest political...

TORONTO: Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka advanced to the fourth round of the WTA Toronto Masters on Thursday by defeating China's Zhang Shuai 6-3, 6-4. The 28-year-old reigning US Open champion from...