Holder Stan Wawrinka was sensationally dumped out of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday as his form collapsed following an early 4-1 lead. The Swiss three-time Grand Slam winner was beaten 7-6...
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, said Tuesday that telecoms operator Asiacell will offer free access to the website to its nearly 12 million mobile phone customers...
Spain has appointed its first Minister of Sex whose job will be to get people busy between the sheets. The government hopes to boost Spain’s falling birth rate, which is one of the lowest in the...
In a first for the streaming industry, Amazon Studios and Netflix walked away with Oscars, underlining their emergence as major players in the entertainment business. Amazon won two Oscars Sunday for...
Mercedes and Ferrari had impressive starts to pre-season testing as Red Bull and McLaren hit trouble. Lewis Hamilton was fastest as Mercedes completed 152 laps with both their drivers at Circuit de...
Netflix is "thrilled" that the documentary "The White Helmets" which it distributes about rescue workers in war-torn Syria picked up an Oscar, the head of the US video streaming service said Monday....
Galician senator and demographics expert, Edelmira Barreria Diz, has been appointed government commissioner with special responsibility for challenging the nation’s sliding birth rate. Last year...
Polisario separatists have dismissed as "window dressing" Morocco's announcement of a pullback from a zone of the contested Western Sahara that has raised tensions with their Algiers-backed movement....
One of the world’s biggest and successful football clubs, Barcelona is launching a football academy in Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos. The Football Academy in one of Africa’s largest city is...
Jose Mourinho has challenged his Manchester United stars to use their dramatic League Cup final win against Southampton as a springboard to bigger prizes. Mourinho lifted the first major trophy of...
One of the world’s biggest and most successful clubs, Barcelona, is launching a football academy in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub. The academy, in Africa’s biggest city, is the first of its...
A five-man delegation from Spanish football giants FC Barcelona is in Accra to explore potential sports- business and soccer partnerships. The feasibility and fact finding team is led by a senior...
The official global introduction of 5G is set for 2020, but a number of global mobile industry giants today declared their support for the acceleration of 5G New Radio (5G NR) standardization to...
Britain’s tallest man who stood at 7ft 7in has died aged 36. Basketball player-turned-actor Neil Fingleton suffered a lethal heart failure on Saturday. He most famously played the giant Mag the...
Chinese telecoms giant ZTE unveiled Sunday what it said is the world's first smartphone compatible with the lightening-fast 5G mobile internet service that networks expect to have up and running by...
Greece must not be granted a "bail in" that would involve creditors taking a loss on their loans, Germany's deputy Finance Minister said in an interview broadcast on Sunday, reiterating the German...
The United States has rekindled interest in ultra long-term debt, including possibly a rare century bond, to lock in the current very low borrowing rates. "I think it's something that we should...
Cesc Fabregas insists he “100 per cent” sees himself at Chelsea next year and has not had any thoughts of leaving the club this season. The 29-year-old’s future at Stamford Bridge has been...
Manager Claudio Ranieri has been sacked by Leicester City, nine months after leading them to the Premier League title. The Foxes are one point above the relegation zone with 13 matches left. “The...
A member of Ghana’s coaching staff at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations is staging a sit-in at a hotel in the capital Accra in a row over his salary. Nearly three weeks on from this year’s...
