Tennis: Lopez beats Simon to Queen’s title in thriller
Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez won the Queen’s Club grasscourt title for the second time in three editions as he outlasted Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-2 6-7(4)...
Australian Barty reaches WTA summit to complete remarkable rise
Ashleigh Barty will become the first Australian in 43 years to climb to the top of the WTA singles ranking after she won the Birmingham...
Turkey’s AK Party candidate says opposition leading Istanbul vote count
Turkey’s AK Party candidate for Istanbul mayor Binali Yildirim said on Sunday his opposition rival Ekrem Imamoglu was ahead for now, offering his congratulations and...
Turkey’s opposition leads based on initial results in Istanbul re-run
Turkey’s main opposition was leading with 53.6% of votes versus 45.4% for President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party in Istanbul’s high-stakes re-run mayoral election, with nearly...
Politicians need to move fast as Facebook & Co move into finance: BIS
Politicians need to quickly coordinate regulatory responses to new risks from technology companies like Facebook moving into finance, though banks won’t be squeezed out anytime...
Ethiopia’s army chief, three others killed in failed regional coup
Ethiopia’s army chief of staff and the head of the northern state of Amhara were killed in two separate but related attacks when a general...
Venezuela detains six military, police officials: family members, activists
Venezuelan authorities have arrested six members of the country’s military and police forces over the weekend, according to relatives of the detainees and human rights...
Czechs stage biggest anti-government protest since communist era
Czechs turned out in their thousands on Sunday in Prague to call for the ousting of Prime Minister Andrej Babis, in the biggest show of...
German police remove climate activists from occupied open-cast pit
Hundreds of climate activists broke through police lines near Germany’s Garzweiler open-cast mine on Saturday and entered a lignite pit to protest against coal-fired power...
At least 14 dead, 50 injured after large tent collapses in India
At least 14 people were killed and 50 injured on Sunday when heavy rain and a thunderstorm caused a huge tent to collapse in the...