FOOTBALL – The Africa Cup of Nations will in future be held every four years instead of every two years, the Confederation of African Football said yesterday. The surprise decision was made at the ...

BADMINTON – Christo Popov became the first French player to reach the title match at the World Tour Finals where he faces world champion Shi Yuqi today, while Paris Olympics gold medallist An Se-young ...

FOOTBALL – Bayer Leverkusen staged a two-goal comeback in four minutes to earn a 3-1 victory at RB Leipzig yesterday, snapping their hosts’ unbeaten run at home this season and climbing into third ...

Seven elephants were killed and one injured when a Delhi-bound train collided with a herd in northeast India early yesterday, district police chief VV Rakesh Reddy said. The incident in the Hojai ...

Britain’s Prince William took his oldest son, Prince George, to a homelessness charity in London where the pair helped make Christmas lunch for people in need, Kensington Palace said yesterday.

David Walliams, a best-selling British children’s author, was dropped by HarperCollins UK yesterday after the Daily Telegraph reported the publisher had investigated claims he had harassed some of its ...

FOOTBALL – Sultan Alsalatna scored a brace as Bahrain Club routed Al Shabab 4-0 in an eighth-round match of the Nasser Bin Hamad Bahrain Football Premier League yesterday. Alsalatna scored Bahrain ...

The thousands of documents released by the US Justice Department related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were filled with the names of some of the world’s most famous people, ...

City’s win put them on 37 points, one more than the Gunners ahead of their late kick-off, but that lead lasted for only a few hours as Arsenal striker Viktor Gyokeres scored from the spot midway ...

CRICKET – Kavem Hodge’s unbeaten hundred helped West Indies avoid the follow-on and reach 381-6 on day three of the third and final Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui yesterday. The tourists, ...

Hadi, 32, a key figure in the student-led uprising last year that toppled longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was shot in the head by masked assailants in Dhaka last week while launching his ...

FOOTBALL – Kylian Mbappe equalled Cristiano Ronaldo’s record of 59 goals in a calendar year for Real Madrid with a late penalty in his side’s 2-0 home win over Sevilla in LaLiga yesterday, with the ...