Tokyo opened a 15,000-seat swimming venue for the Olympic Games next year on Saturday, with a swimming star diagnosed with leukaemia last year demonstrating freestyle at the ceremony. The $542 million Aquatics Centre for swimming, diving and artistic swimming was completed in February,...

Through the financial support it provides to talented students from all over the world, Qatar Foundation breaks down barriers that can stand in the way of learning – and the best testament to what it makes possible comes from the aspiring change-makers that it benefits. The belief...

The number of confirmed coronavirus infections jumped over one million on Friday, the health ministry reported on its website. Over the past 24 hours, France registered 42,032 new cases, taking the total to 1,041,075. This makes France the seventh country to report more than one million...

Spain’s prime minister Friday said the real number of coronavirus infections in Spain is “beyond 3 million.”  Although the country has been detecting a record number of daily cases – nearly 21,000 on Thursday alone – Pedro Sanchez said the increase is due to more testing now...