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Toulon will suspend Australian international James O'Connor after Paris police charged him with possession of cocaine, the Top 14 club's...

Syria's opposition on Monday urged Russia, a key ally of President Bashar al-Assad, to put pressure on Damascus to help...

The head of Nigerian football's governing body is at loggerheads with his executive committee after he endorsed Madagascar's Ahmad Ahmad...

UN humanitarian aid chief Stephen O'Brien warned Monday in Yemen that the war-torn and impoverished country faces "serious risk of...

Israeli forces were set Monday to evacuate and demolish nine settler homes built on private Palestinian land, after the supreme...

Poachers killed 1,054 South African rhinos for their horns in 2016, a 10 percent dip on a year earlier, the...

An Israeli Jew was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday for stabbing another Jew he thought was an...

Kenya will ban government adverts in private media, according to a leaked memo seen by AFP on Monday, as the...

Sri Lanka on Monday named Rangana Herath as skipper to replace Angelo Mathews who was dropped from next week's two-Test...

It's goodbye for now to the grand Art Deco lobby and celebrities crossing paths en route to "The Towers" at...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin warned the United States that President Donald Trump's controversial travel restrictions could torpedo any hopes of...

Online sales website Gumtree said Monday that it had banned advertisements offering donkeys in South Africa to prevent inhumane killings...

Sri Lanka Monday vowed to honour government bonds of up to 1,780 billion rupees ($11.86 billion) even as the central...

The Pentagon was due to present the White House on Monday with possible new battle plans to defeat the Islamic...

South Africa have kept faith in coach Allister Coetzee despite a dismal 2016 season, the national rugby union announced on...

Former Republican president George W. Bush offered a tacit criticism of his successor Donald Trump Monday, in rare public comments...

The shocking best picture mix-up wasn't the only Oscars night flub. During the event's "In Memoriam" segment honoring film industry...

President Donald Trump's first budget proposal includes a substantial $54 billion dollar increase in defense spending, with corresponding cuts in...

Wall Street drifted lower on Monday, starting the week in negative territory after the Dow's record streak of all-time highs....

The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility on Monday for a suicide bomb attack in east Algeria which police said...