Athletics: American Lawson banned for four years for positive drugs test
American long jumper and sprinter Jarrion Lawson has been suspended for four years after testing positive for the banned substance epitrenbolone, the Athletics Integrity Unit...
Quakes in Albania damage 100 homes, four injured
Six earthquakes in the space of two hours, the first with a magnitude of 5.3, shook south-eastern Albania on Saturday, injuring four people and causing...
Mexican president hints at migration concessions to defuse U.S. trade spat
Mexico’s president on Saturday hinted his country could tighten migration controls to defuse U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Mexican goods, and...
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....