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,...

 While much of Washington is twisted in knots over the upcoming election, there's another contingent already busy trying to figure out how to stage an inauguration for the to-be-determined next president during a pandemic. Visitors to the U.S. Capitol and the White House can already see...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has claimed that the Kurdish militias and administration in north-east Syria would not have released low-level former Daesh fighters without being pressured to do so by the United States. Speaking at a news briefing yesterday, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...

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...