World champion Lewis Hamilton was Thursday given the green light to return to racing at this weekend's season-ending Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix after recovering from coronavirus. Hamilton, 35, missed last Sunday's Sakhir GP but the FIA and Mercedes both confirmed that he had passed a...

In another record-high daily death toll from COVID-19, the US for the first time has seen the number of fatalities top 3,000. According to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University, a total of 3,124 fatalities and more than 221,000 cases were recorded on Wednesday. The grim milestone...

An Egyptian court on Thursday opened the trial of Mahmud Ezzat, interim supreme leader of outlawed Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood, a judicial source told AFP. "The hearing was held before the State Security Court at Tora Prison" in the capital Cairo, the source said, on condition...

Landmines laid by groups fighting during the civil war in Syria have killed at least 2,601 civilians so far, a human rights group said on Thursday. As many as 2,601 civilians, including 598 children and 267 women, have died from mine explosions since the beginning of the war in March...