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MULTAN, Pakistan: Spinner Noman Ali took eight wickets as Pakistan crushed England by 152 runs in the second Test to level the series on Friday in Multan.Noman grabbed 8-46 and Sajid Khan took 2-93 as...

BENGALURU: India hit back with a batting blitz after New Zealand's Rachin Ravindra struck 134 to guide the visitors to a lead of 356 on day three of the rain-hit opening Test on Friday.The hosts were...

DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka: Kusal Mendis hit an unbeaten 68 to help clinch Sri Lanka's first T20 international series win over the West Indies with a thumping nine-wicket victory in the third and final game...

BARCELONA: Emirates Team New Zealand moved to the verge of America's Cup triumph with two commanding victories over Ineos Britannia on Friday to claim a 6-2 lead.After the British team won both of...

RIYADH: Rafael Nadal admitted his fitness level was well off the tour's top players after falling on Thursday in straight sets to fellow Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, who described the exhibition match as...

Beirut - The Israeli military launched strikes in southern Beirut on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, saying it would leave Hezbollah...

Washington - Israel has assured the White House that a planned retaliatory attack on Iran won't target nuclear or oil facilities, US media reported Monday.Israel has vowed to counterattack after Iran...

Warsaw - Cristiano Ronaldo scored for a third successive Nations League game as Portugal maintained their perfect record with a 3-1 victory over Poland on Saturday.Bernardo Silva and Ronaldo put...

Amazon is bolstering its e-commerce empire while continuing a march deeper into people's lives, from robots to healthcare and entertainment.Innovations unveiled in recent days by the Seattle-based...

Kamala Harris is making a major push for male voters, after an appeal by Barack Obama to Black men to drop sexist attitudes highlighted a key issue for the Democrat in next month's US presidential...

Beijing - China said Saturday it will make $325 billion in fiscal support available to its economy over the next three months, offering help to bolster banks, shore up the property market and free up...

Oslo: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Japan's Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors and anti-nuclear campaigners, at a time when states like Russia...

PAPHOS: Leaders from nine European countries around the Mediterranean Sea met in Cyprus Friday to discuss the wars in the Middle East, which they fear will fuel migration and threaten their own...

Los Angeles: Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled what he said was a robotaxi capable of self-driving, predicting it would be available by 2027 — about a decade after he first promised an autonomous...

MULTAN, Pakistan: England's bowlers, led by spinner Jack Leach, tore through the Pakistan line-up to secure victory in the first Test in Multan on Friday after a record partnership between Harry Brook...

PARIS: A 94th-minute winner by Vangelis Pavlidis gave Greece a 2-1 victory on Thursday against England in a Nations League clash overshadowed by the death of Greek player George Baldock on the eve of...

The United States urged its ally Israel to avoid Gaza-like military action in Lebanon, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it could face "destruction" like the Palestinian territory. Israel's...

United Nations, United States: United Nations officials warned Wednesday that Lebanon was staring down a "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis as the number of internally displaced people hit 600,000...

Here is a list of the 15 most recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, ahead of the announcement of this year's laureate on Thursday:2023: Jon Fosse (Norway)2022: Annie Ernaux...

Hurricane Milton crashed into the Florida coast Wednesday, packing furious winds and triggering life-threatening storm surges across a region still reeling from another massive storm two weeks...