LONDON, United Kingdom - London's Metropolitan Police has apologized and reached a settlement with a man who sustained a brain injury after an officer hit his head with a baton during a protest more than a decade ago. Alfie Meadows was injured on December 9, 2010, when he was a 20-year-old...
SANAA, Yemen - Flooding and lightning strikes in Yemen have killed eight civilians, an official and a doctor told AFP on Saturday, underscoring the threat of extreme weather in the war-ravaged country. The lightning strikes occurred on Friday in the Al-Layha and Al-Zahra districts of Hodeida...
CAIRO, Egypt - An Egyptian court has sentenced prominent dissident Hisham Kassem to six months in prison, his lawyer and political movement said, a move barring him from taking part in campaigning for next year's presidential election. It comes one day after Egypt's only candidate campaigning...
Tony Glover from the United Kingdom (UK) broke the Guinness World Records for the heaviest onion after cultivating a massive 18-pound and 11-ounce onion. Tony Glover, a backyard farmer from the United Kingdom, holds the heaviest onion, which weighs 18-pound and 11-ounce according to the Guinness...
MADRID (AFP) -- The crisis within Spanish football deepened on Friday, Sept. 15, as the women's World Cup winners demanded more heads roll at its scandal-hit RFEF federation whose disgraced ex-boss appeared in court on sexual assault charges. Luis Rubiales. (AFP) Just hours after Luis Rubiales was...
EUGENE (AFP) -- Noah Lyles and Armand Duplantis are among the world champions aiming to end 2023 on a high note as the World Athletics Diamond League concludes in Eugene, Oregon, this weekend. Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes during the Men Pole Vault contest of the Brussels IAAF Diamond League...
By MARK REY MONTEJO Gilas Pilipinas improved two places in the latest FIBA Men’s world rankings after finishing at the 24th spot in the recently concluded 2023 Basketball World Cup. Gilas Pilipinas. (FIBA) The Nationals climbed from No. 40 to 38 in the list and behind their Asian...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A European Union regulator hit Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok with a 345-million-euro fine over child data breaches on Friday, in the bloc's latest salvo against the business practices of tech titans. The fine, equivalent to $369 million, is the culmination of a...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will face another trial at the end of September, Malmo's public prosecutor said Friday, charged with "resisting arrest" at a July protest. Police forcibly removed the 20-year-old campaigner from a climate rally in the Swedish port city on...
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Serious water shortages plaguing Central Asian countries have become "irreversible" and will only get worse, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev warned Friday, as global warming and increased competition weigh on resources. Central Asian countries such as Uzbekistan face a...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The United Nations on Friday said Morocco could ask for aid "today or tomorrow" to help it recover and rebuild following a devastating earthquake that has killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. "We are expecting and hoping, but expecting from our...
MOSCOW, Russia - The Kremlin said Friday that no agreements had been signed during North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's ongoing visit to Russia, amid Western concern that the two isolated countries could be preparing an arms deal. Kim is on a rare trip out of his reclusive country in the Russian Far...
