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‘Box-Office’ Stokes Deserves IPL Windfall
Ian Botham says "box-office" Ben Stokes deserves every penny of the more than £1.7 million ($2.1mn) that the England...
Gambia’s Barrow Replaces Armed Forces Chief
Gambia's President Adama Barrow has fired the head of the armed forces, General Ousman Badjie, a former loyalist of the...
Toulon To Suspend O’Connor Over Paris Cocaine Bust
Toulon will suspend Australian international James O'Connor after Paris police charged him with possession of cocaine,...
Opposition Seeks Russian Support At Syria Talks
Syria's opposition on Monday urged Russia, a key ally of President Bashar al-Assad, to put pressure on Damascus to help...
Uproar In Nigeria Over Federation Boss’ CAF Pick
The head of Nigerian football's governing body is at loggerheads with his executive committee after he endorsed...
Yemen Faces ‘serious Risk of Famine’
UN humanitarian aid chief Stephen O'Brien warned Monday in Yemen that the war-torn and impoverished country faces...
Israel To Destroy 9 Illegal West Bank Settler Homes
Israeli forces were set Monday to evacuate and demolish nine settler homes built on private Palestinian land, after the...
S. Africa Rhino Poaching Dipped In 2016, Stays Above 1,000
Poachers killed 1,054 South African rhinos for their horns in 2016, a 10 percent dip on a year earlier, the environment...
Israeli Gets 11 Years For Stabbing Jew He Mistook For Arab
An Israeli Jew was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday for stabbing another Jew he thought was an Arab in a...
Kenya To Pull Government Adverts In Private Media
Kenya will ban government adverts in private media, according to a leaked memo seen by AFP on Monday, as the presidency...
Herath To Lead Sri Lanka Against Bangladesh
Sri Lanka on Monday named Rangana Herath as skipper to replace Angelo Mathews who was dropped from next week's two-Test...
Waldorf Astoria, Legendary New York Hotel, Closes For Facelift
It's goodbye for now to the grand Art Deco lobby and celebrities crossing paths en route to "The Towers" at the Waldorf...
Trump Travel Restrictions Could Wreck US World Cup Bid, Says UEFA
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin warned the United States that President Donald Trump's controversial travel...
Gumtree Bans Donkey Sales In S.Africa Over Skin Trade
Online sales website Gumtree said Monday that it had banned advertisements offering donkeys in South Africa to prevent...
Sri Lanka To Honour $12 Bn Debt Despite Dispute
Sri Lanka Monday vowed to honour government bonds of up to 1,780 billion rupees ($11.86 billion) even as the central...
Pentagon Readies New Anti-IS Plan For Trump
The Pentagon was due to present the White House on Monday with possible new battle plans to defeat the Islamic State...
South Africa Stick With Struggling Coetzee
South Africa have kept faith in coach Allister Coetzee despite a dismal 2016 season, the national rugby union announced...
Bush Offers Critique of Trump’s Media Bashing
Former Republican president George W. Bush offered a tacit criticism of his successor Donald Trump Monday, in rare...
Oscars Showed Photo of Wrong Woman During ‘In Memoriam’ Segment
The shocking best picture mix-up wasn't the only Oscars night flub. During the event's "In Memoriam" segment honoring...