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BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: Ayoub El Kaabi scored a hat-trick as Olympiakos stunned Aston Villa 4-2 on Thursday to close in on the final of the Europa Conference League on home soil in Athens later...

Hong Kong - A record-breaking heatwave is broiling parts of Asia, helping drive surging demand for cooling options, including air-conditioning.AC exhaust units are a common feature of urban landscapes...

Kathmandu - Internet providers in Nepal warned Friday the Himalayan republic was facing widespread outages because of payments owed to Indian companies, a day after service disruptions that affected...

Hong Kong last month recorded its hottest April since meteorological records began in 1884, according to the city's weather observatory.Last month's average temperature of 26.4 degrees Celsius (79.5...

South Africa has one of the world's highest rates of female parliamentary representation in the world while boasting one of the most progressive constitutions. Yet the country is yet to produce a...

Unusually hot weather in the Philippines was expected to last until mid-May, a forecaster said Sunday, after the temperature hit a record high in the capital Manila.Extreme heat has scorched Southeast...

Paris: France and Germany on Friday firmed up plans to jointly develop a next-generation battle tank equipped with artificial intelligence and laser technology, billed as a game changer in modern...

Athens: Greece on Friday handed over the Olympic flame of the 2024 Games to Paris organisers in a ceremony at the Athens marble stadium where the competition was revived nearly 130 years ago.Hellenic...

Los Angeles: The Denver Nuggets rallied to push LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers to the brink of elimination from the NBA playoffs on Thursday as the Philadelphia 76ers, fueled by 50 points...

Les Marécottes, Switzerland: Thibau Nys grabbed the overall lead in the Tour de Romandie on Thursday when he had enough energy left to outsprint the remnants of a day-long breakaway. The 21-year-old...

Sheffield: Ronnie O'Sullivan is open to offers from a potential rival snooker tour as the former world champion warned he would walk away from the sport if he felt under-valued.O'Sullivan and other...

TEL AVIV: A delegation from mediator Egypt is travelling to Israel on Friday, a source close to the Israeli government said, in what local media said is a bid to reignite stalled captives-release...

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world's biggest economies should be "partners, not rivals" as the two sides pressed for headway on a range...

Paris: Two athletes sharing Olympic gold in a near-empty stadium in Tokyo caught the imagination of an expectant audience across the world, which was at the time ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic....

The vast amount of rubble including unexploded ordnance left by Israel's devastating war in the Gaza Strip could take about 14 years to remove, a United Nations official said on Friday.Israel's...

LONDON: Liverpool crashed out of the Europa League after a 1-0 win against Atalanta that wasn't enough to overturn their quarterfinal deficit, while Bayer Leverkusen's 1-1 draw at West Ham took the...

MULLANPUR, India: Mumbai Indians managed to fend off a valiant effort by Punjab Kings batsman Ashutosh Sharma to win by nine runs in a fiercely fought IPL thriller on Thursday.Invited to bat first,...

CAPRI: Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations said Friday they opposed a "full-scale military operation in Rafah" by Israel as that would have "catastrophic consequences on the civilian...

KYIV: Russian strikes against Ukraine on Friday killed at least eight people, including two children, as Kyiv said it shot down a Russian strategic bomber for the first time.Moscow said a military...

TAGULANDANG: A remote Indonesian volcano sent a tower of ash spewing into the sky Friday, after nearly half a dozen eruptions earlier this week forced thousands to evacuate when molten rocks rained...