With just a little over two weeks before the opening day of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, co-host the Philippines finally welcomed on its shores a highly-anticipated, and highly-talented, reinforcement to bolster the Gilas Pilipinas basketball team which is set to play versus top-notch...
MELBOURNE (AFP) -- Two of the surprise packages of the Women's World Cup clash when Colombia faces Jamaica in Melbourne on Tuesday, Aug. 8, with a quarterfinal against England up for grabs. Jamaica's team celebrates qualifying for the last 16 following the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's...
BRISBANE (AFP) -- Nigeria's impressive run at the Women's World Cup may have come to an end on Monday, Aug. 7, but coach Randy Waldrum said their performances had made the football world sit up and take notice. Nigeria's coach Randy Waldrum. (AFP) The Nigerians bowed out when they went down...
WASHINGTON, United States of America - President Joe Biden is set to begin a series of visits Monday touting his climate agenda in the southwestern United States, which has suffered a blistering summer of record-breaking heat. The first stop on his tour will be to the Grand Canyon in Arizona...
MOSCOW - Russia said Monday it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years. The launch, which is scheduled for the early hours of Friday, comes as Russia's Ukraine offensive stretches into a second year,...
LOS ANGELES, United States of America - Three people were killed in California when their helicopter crashed into a hillside after colliding with another chopper as the team battled a wildfire, emergency officials said early Monday. The helicopters were dispatched to fight a fire that had erupted...
KVIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said Monday that 22 of its soldiers had been freed from Russian captivity, the latest apparent prisoner swap between the two sides. "Today, another 22 Ukrainian soldiers were returned home from captivity," Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine's presidential office said in a...
MOSCOW - Russia said Monday its troops had advanced three kilometres (two miles) along the Kupiansk front in northeast Ukraine over the last three days, as it seeks to regain territories it lost earlier in its offensive. The city of Kupiansk and surrounding areas of Ukraine's Kharkiv region were...
BEIJING - China said on Monday that a maritime clash in which it fired water cannon at Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea was "professional and restrained.” A foreign ministry spokesperson said a Chinese coast guard ship "lawfully stopped" two Philippine vessels, adding: "This...
PARIS, France - French police on Monday said they had arrested a German national after his wife was discovered after 12 years of captivity in the couple's home. A police source said the woman, also German, was naked with her head shaved when they found her in a bedroom in the apartment, and had...
BRISBANE (AFP) -- England scraped into the quarterfinals of the Women's World Cup, beating Nigeria, 4-2, on penalties in Brisbane on Monday, Aug. 7. England's players celebrate their victory after a penalty shoot-out during the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup round of 16 football...
PARIS (AFP) -- Noah Lyles says his priority is "medals first, records second" as he bids to become only the fifth man to achieve the 100/200 meters double at the World Athletics Championships. USA's Noah Lyles. (AFP) The 26-year-old American is seeking a third successive 200m world crown in...
