The game of basketball has certainly evolved globally and USA’s loss at the hands of Germany is a testament to that as far as head coach Steve Kerr was concerned. Team USA is a picture of disappointment as Germany celebrates its historic win (Ali Vicoy/MB) Kerr believed the world has...
MANILA (AFP) -- Serbia's Marko Guduric said he and his teammates are ready to play "the biggest game of our lives" after beating Canada to reach the Basketball World Cup on Friday, Sept. 8. Team Serbia celebrate victory after the end of the FIBA Basketball World Cup semifinals match between Serbia...
WASHINGTON, United States - SpaceX's Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, must remain grounded while Elon Musk's company completes dozens of corrective actions to prevent a repeat of the spectacular explosion that marred its first orbital test flight, regulators said Friday. The 63...
WASHINGTON, United States - The manufacturer of a widely used abortion pill asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to toss out a lower court ruling that would restrict access to the drug. A US federal appeals court imposed restrictions last month on mifepristone but the ruling was put on hold...
NEW DELHI, India - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to forge consensus Saturday on a host of contentious issues from Ukraine to climate change, as G20 leaders hold their annual summit in New Delhi. Divided over Russia's war in Ukraine and gridlocked on finding agreement to slash...
BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazilian rescue workers were on Friday searching for almost 50 people still missing after a devastating cyclone unleashed torrential rain and flooding in the south of the country. ( Photo from AFP) Five days after the cyclone, which left 41 dead, the country is taking...
CASABLANCA, Morocco - A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Morocco late Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, causing people to flee their homes in a panic. The quake hit 44 miles (71 kilometres) southwest of Marrakesh at a depth of 18.5 kilometers at 11:11 pm (2211 GMT). It sent...
The mighty has fallen at the hands of the underdogs. Germany caught the biggest fish in its unbeaten run so far in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, pulling the rug from under the fancied Team USA, 113-111, to advance to its first-ever finals appearance at the Mall of Asia Arena on Friday, Sept....
TBILISI, Georgia - Two people died in western Georgia where heavy rains triggered floods and landslides, officials said on Friday, as rescuers continued to evacuate dozens of trapped villagers. "Rescuers found the bodies of two dead, one of them a minor," the Caucasus nation's interior ministry...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - A disgraced Turkish crypto founder who fled to Albania and his two brothers have been sentenced to 11,196 years in jail each, the Anadolu state news agency reported Friday. Prosecutors had asked for Thodex boss Faruk Fatih Ozer, 29, to be sentenced to 40,562 years in prison for...
ROME - Italy's far-right government is clamping down on juvenile crime after a recent spate of gang rapes blamed on teenagers, but critics warned Friday that harsher penalties alone would not stamp out delinquency. The decree law published by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's cabinet late Thursday...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - A US explorer trapped deep in a Turkish cave with internal bleeding said in a video released to AFP on Friday that he needed "a lot of help" getting out. Mark Dickey, 40, reported falling sick last Saturday while exploring the Morca Cave in southern Turkey's Taurus Mountains with...
