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CAPE TOWN: South Africa spinner ⁠Simon Harmer took a career-best 6-16 and Kagiso Rabada became the fastest by balls bowled to reach 350 Test ​wickets as the hosts thumped Australia ​by 176 runs...

⁠Iran's Supreme Leader ​Mojtaba Khamenei ​has ordered the armed forces to respond immediately and without "geographic ⁠limits to any ⁠enemy threat", according to a statement published...

Two ⁠men were found dead aboard a migrant boat ​that reached Spain's ​Canary Islands early on Friday after departing from Gambia, and a baby was airlifted to hospital in a critical...

Dockworkers went on ​strike across Europe and beyond on Friday, disrupting shipping and ferries as they protested against the use of their ports for arms shipments and the number of seafarers killed...

* Zverev secures world number one ranking for the first time * First top-ranked man ⁠from Germany since Becker in 1991 * French Open and US Open triumphs fuel Zverev's breakthrough * Zverev was...

NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks retreated on Thursday, led by the tech-focused Nasdaq after disappointing results from Google parent Alphabet exacerbated concerns over whether the global technology boom...

LONDON: Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes is "fully committed" ⁠to the club and will remain captain, manager Michael Carrick said on Thursday ahead of ​Saturday's Premier League game...

SINGAPORE: Restoration is ⁠underway on 252 million hectares (973,000 square miles) of degraded ecosystems ​across 149 ​countries, the United Nations' environment agency said on Thursday,...

ADEN: ​Yemen's Ansar Allah group attacked Aden airport on Wednesday, government officials said, after the group warned people to evacuate the facility as fighting escalated in the impoverished...

DUBAI/ADEN: Yemen's Ansar Allah on ​Wednesday ​called on people to evacuate immediately from the international airport in Aden, where the internationally recognised, ⁠Saudi-backed...

MADRID:  At least 64 people have died after a major collision involving two high-speed passenger trains in the central Spanish province of Toledo. The accident prompted the suspension of the line...

 Ex-Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's top drug war enforcer said on Wednesday that a government bounty placed on his head put his life in "serious danger", and asked the Supreme Court to...

HONG KONG: China is now supporting more people aged 65 ​and above than ​children, underscoring the impact of its rapidly ageing population and a declining birth rate. * Data from China's...

DUBAI:  Yemen's Ansar Allah said on Tuesday ​they had ​launched an attack on Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, located on the Gulf west of the...

Luka Doncic scored 52 points and added 10 assists ⁠and eight rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 132-123 victory over the Utah ​Jazz on Sunday in Salt Lake ​City. Doncic made 8 of 18...

JERUSALEM/LONDON: Israel's markets have soared despite three years ​of war and political turmoil, but some investors see further upside if the ​opposition defeats Prime Minister Benjamin...

DUBAI:  An oil spill from a damaged tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates has widened, satellite images showed, triggering more beach closures and raising environmental concerns. Images...

PORT HURON, Michigan: US ​President Donald Trump on Sunday ​escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the...

 Major currencies traded in tight ranges on Monday at the start of a busy week of central bank decisions and corporate earnings, while a pullback in oil prices and Treasury yields weighed on the...

Top officials from the Mecca Pact countries Saudi Arabia, Turkiey and Pakistan ​are set to meet Iranian officials ​in Tehran on Monday to discuss regional coordination, two people with knowledge...