Max Verstappen brought the curtain down on the 2020 Formula One season with a lights-to-flag cruise to victory Sunday in the year-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Dutchman led every lap of what turned out to be a processional race in his Red Bull to cross the line 15.9 seconds ahead of...

Two masked men opened fire on a checkpoint for Tahrir al-Sham group in northern Idlib province, killing one fighter and wounding another, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said Sunday. The masked men, who were riding a motorcycle, have attacked the Hamra checkpoint in the western countryside of...

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok arrived in Ethiopia on Sunday with what a senior Sudanese government source said was an offer to mediate in the conflict in its northern Tigray region, a proposal Ethiopia's government dismissed as unnecessary. Hamdok, who was accompanied by Sudanese...

Just days after bushfires threatened an Australian World Heritage site, thousands were bracing for floods on the subtropical east coast on Sunday, with beaches closed and the authorities urging people to sandbag their homes. With as much as 475 millimetres (18.7 inches) of rain in the...