US ski legend Lindsey Vonn made an impressive return to competitive action almost six years after her last race finishing 14th in the women's World Cup super-G in St Moritz on Saturday.
Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury reprise their heavyweight "fight of the century" on Saturday with multiple titles and both fighters' place in history on the line.
George Eastham, a member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad, has died at the age of 88, his former club Stoke City announced on their website on Saturday.
Politics
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other politicians will Saturday visit the scene of a bloody car-ramming that targeted visitors to a Christmas fair in an old market city.
December 21, 2024
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Drone attack hits Russian city 1,000km from Ukraine frontier
Politics
December 21, 2024
Israel's military said Saturday it had failed to intercept a "projectile" launched from Yemen that landed in Tel Aviv, with the national medical service saying 16 people were lightly wounded.
December 21, 2024
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Russia and Ukraine on Friday accused each other of launching deadly missile strikes, with Moscow saying at least five were killed by a missile strike on its Kursk border region after a dawn attack on Ukraine's capital killed one man.
December 21, 2024
The Cleveland Cavaliers delivered a reality check to newly crowned NBA Cup champions Milwaukee on Friday, dominating the Bucks 124-101 to push their league-best record to 24-4.
December 21, 2024
US President Joe Biden approved $571.3 million in defense assistance for Taiwan on Friday, the White House said, as the Democrat prepares to leave office ahead of the January inauguration of Donald Trump.
December 21, 2024
Culture
Indonesian artist Arahmaiani has had many lives -- from an imprisoned then exiled anti-dictatorship activist to a hippie, art teacher and environmentalist -- which have inspired her works that test the limits of freedom.
December 21, 2024
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In the mid-19th century, Dutch colonial officials climbing an Indonesian volcano spotted an ancient statue meant to serve as protection against misfortune, looted it, and took it to the Netherlands.
Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it -- an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter.
Washington is scrapping a long-standing reward for the arrest of Syria's new leader, a senior U.S. diplomat said Friday, following "positive messages" from a first meeting that included a promise to fight terrorism.
Shocked survivors recounted the moment a car attack on Friday turned a glittering Christmas market in eastern Germany into a scene of death and carnage.
December 21, 2024
Politics
The US House of Representatives voted Friday to avert a government shutdown with just hours to spare, with Democrats joining Republicans to advance a funding bill keeping the lights on through mid-March.
December 20, 2024
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In his small Freetown workshop, engineering student James Samba tinkered with batteries and electrical parts he hoped could help clean up Sierra Leone's polluting public transport system.
A US strike targeting Amazon in the peak festive period extended into a second day Friday as the retail behemoth said the labor action would not affect its business.
A federal jury in the United States on Friday delivered a key win to mobile commputing titan Qualcomm in a licensing dispute with Arm, although proceedings between the chipmakers ended in mistrial.
US regulators on Friday approved the first drug treatment for sleep apnea, permitting the use of a weight-loss medication for the condition that affects millions of Americans.
December 21, 2024
- Germany in shock after new deadly Christmas market attack
- US Congress passes bill to avert shutdown
- German leader to visit site of deadly Christmas market attack
- 16 injured after Israel hit by Yemen-launched 'projectile'
- Russia says Kursk strike kills 5 after Moscow claims deadly Kyiv attack
- Cavaliers cruise past Bucks, Embiid shines in Sixers win
- US President Biden authorizes $571 million in military aid to Taiwan
- Arahmaiani: the Indonesian artist with a thousand lives