Sluggish Thiem into French Open fourth round
Last year’s runner-up Dominic Thiem of Austria overcame a second-set blip as he huffed and puffed into the fourth round of the French Open with...
Scores injured in blasts at Russian military plant
Seventy-nine people were injured when several blasts at the explosives plant Kristall shook the central Russian town of Dzerzhinsk on Saturday, the Russian health ministry...
Venezuela healthcare collapse: Four children die in same hospital this month
Under a wooden arch decorated with white balloons in a small house in Caracas’ largest slum, the body of 11-year-old Erick Altuve lay in a...
Cycling: Carapaz on verge of Giro victory after chaotic stage in Dolomites
Richard Carapaz was on the brink of winning the Giro d’Italia after he retained the overall leader’s pink jersey in Saturday’s penultimate stage in the...
Danube cruise captain arrested as floods halt search near shipwreck
A Hungarian court on Saturday ordered the arrest of the captain of a passenger cruiser that collided with a pleasure boat that capsized on the...
Pope urges ethnic Hungarians, Romanians to put troubles behind them
Pope Francis urged ethnic Hungarians and Romanians to put their troubled past behind them on Saturday as bad weather disrupted his visit to Transylvania, forcing...
Soccer: Former Arsenal and Sevilla player Reyes dies in car accident
Former Sevilla and Arsenal winger Jose Antonio Reyes has died in a traffic accident, aged 35, several of his former clubs said on Saturday....
Tennis: Zverev reaches fourth round after another five-set marathon
It took Alexander Zverev all five sets again as he reached the fourth round of the French Open with a 6-4 6-2 4-6 1-6 6-2...
French Open bids adieu to much-loved ‘Bullring’
Few showcourts draw crowds as close to the thunderous power of modern-day tennis as Roland Garros’ ‘Bullring’, a brutalist-but-adored concrete arena that on Saturday is...
Tennis: Tsitsipas sets up mouth-watering Wawrinka clash in Paris
Greek sixth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas dug deep to set up a potentially explosive fourth-round clash against Stan Wawrinka at the French Open, completing a 7-5...
