Every year in India's megacity Kolkata, the world's oldest trade gets fleeting respect from an ancient custom -- when soil ...

Many amateur French sports clubs are struggling to cope with a wave of enquiries and a boom in wannabee players sparked by ...

Zhang's 6-4, 6-2 victory over Magdalena Frech was her fourth win in Beijing and all in straight sets -- having come into the ...

The UN Security Council has extended its authorisation of the Kenya-led multinational policing mission to Haiti, but without ...

Taiwan closed schools and evacuated thousands of people in the south of the island Tuesday ahead of the arrival of Super ...

Indian-administered Kashmir was voting Tuesday in the third and final round of polls to elect its first government since the ...

Nelson Amenya caused an uproar by exposing secret talks for an Indian firm to take over Kenya's main airport. He has no ...

Women's football in Asia can close the gap on Europe and North America with this week's launch of the AFC Women's Champions ...

Former Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte takes over as NATO's secretary general on Tuesday as the Western military alliance ...

A former doctor goes on trial on Tuesday accused of genocide in Rwanda, three decades after the massacre of the African ...

Shigeru Ishiba was set Tuesday to become Japanese prime minister, seeking to restore the ruling party's popularity and tackle ...

The Detroit Lions sent the Seattle Seahawks spinning to their first defeat of the NFL season on Monday with an emphatic 42-29 ...