Women will take to the streets in cities across Brazil on Saturday in a wave of protests against the candidacy of the right-wing frontrunner in next week's presidential elections, Jair Bolsonaro. Marches organized by a social media campaign under the hashtag #EleNao (Not Him) are...

Former world number one Andy Murray has brought his season to a premature end, pulling out of the China Open in Beijing after reaching the quarter-finals at the Shenzhen Open. The 31-year-old Briton is battling to regain top form and fitness following hip surgery in January but British...

Nearly 400 people were killed when a powerful quake sent a tsunami barrelling into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials said Saturday, as hospitals struggled to cope with hundreds of injured and rescuers scrambled to reach the region. The national disaster agency put the...

Monaco slumped to their sixth defeat in all competitions this season when they lost 2-0 at Saint Etienne, a worrying setback just days before they face Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League. Monaco, runners-up in Ligue 1 to Paris Saint Germain last season, remain third from bottom...

Jose Mourinho believes Manchester United have been found wanting for motivation in a difficult start to the season, but is expecting a big response from his side in Saturday's visit to West Ham. United begin the weekend sitting seventh, eight points off the top of the Premier League,...

A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake has struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Friday. The epicenter of the quake was 78 kilometers north of Palu at the depth of 10 kilometers. A tsunami warning has been issued, the USGS added.

At least three Palestinians were killed and 47 others injured by Israeli army while taking part in ongoing demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. In a statement, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said that Iyad Khalil al-Shaer, 18, and...

At Nasr Hospital's emergency room in the Yemeni city of Daleh, a little boy struggles to breathe. He is too tired, or too hungry, to cry. Born with a degenerative neurological disease, his muscles have atrophied to nothing, his tiny joints visible through his pale skin, his stomach...

Sebastian Vettel topped the times for Ferrari in Friday's opening free practice for the Russian Grand Prix as championship leader Lewis Hamilton wound up third. The four-time champion German, who trails Hamilton by 40 points in the title race, clocked a best lap in 1min 34.488sec round...

More than 300 hawksbill turtles have hatched on beaches in Singapore this month and been released into the sea, authorities said Friday, in a boost for the critically endangered creatures. They hatched on three beaches across the tropical Southeast Asian country, according to the...

Voters across the Balkan state of Macedonia will decide Sunday whether to re-name their country North Macedonia, an emotional vote that could end a bitter row with Greece and unlock a path to NATO and the EU. It is a loaded question for many in the nation of around 2.1 million, which...

Diego Simeone described Atletico Madrid's sluggish start to the season as a wake-up call but it was Real Madrid's nightmare in Seville that threw a whole new complexion on Saturday's city derby. Atletico were seven points adrift of the top of La Liga after drawing to Eibar two weeks ago, and...

Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for one game after his red card against Valencia in the opening game of the Champions League 2018/19 at the Mestalla. The Portuguese was shown a straight red for appearing to grab the head of defender Jeison Murillo in the first half of Juventus' eventual...

UEFA, football's top governing body in Europe, on Thursday picked Germany to host the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. According to UEFA, Germany received 12 votes and Turkey, four. There was one abstention.  After congratulating both football associations for...

© SOS MEDITERRANEE/AFP/File | The head of MSF Italy urged a solution be found to allow Aquarius to continue with migrant rescues in the Mediterranean despite Panama revoking its flag as a trio of Swiss lawmakers urged their government to allow the vessel to fly a Swiss flag ROME (AFP)...

Employees of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Thursday called for a series of measures to be taken in response to recent policy decisions by the agency’s administration.  The UNRWA employees union has called for a “civil disobedience” campaign to include...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday dismissed Lieutenant-General Jamil al-Shammari, an army commander in Basra, against the backdrop of ongoing violent protests in the country’s south. The move came only hours before parliament was scheduled to vote on whether or not to...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Germany Thursday for a controversial three-day state visit that both sides hope will help rebuild relations that have been battered in recent years. Ties between the NATO allies plummeted after Erdogan's government arrested tens of...

Six people were killed in mounting violence ahead of local elections in Kashmir as Indian authorities imposed a curfew and suspended mobile internet services in the disputed territory on Thursday. There were at least four separate shootings in the restive Himalayan region, where an...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met in New York on Wednesday to discuss Gaza and reviving peace talks with the Palestinians, officials said. During the meeting, which lasted nearly two hours and took place on the sidelines of the...