August2023

During a rare peek into the sporting body’s finances, India’s cricket board earned a $1.5 billion surplus in the five years to 2021-22, the country’s parliament heard. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)...

Late Wednesday, Pakistan’s president dissolved parliament, paving the way for a caretaker administration to usher in elections in which the country’s most popular politician, Imran Khan, has been sidelined. The country has been in political turmoil...

Uncertainty about Kylian Mbappe’s future looms over French football as the new Ligue 1 season begins this weekend. The Paris Saint-Germain star has won France’s player of the year award four years in a row and...

Hundreds of flights and high-speed trains were canceled, and businesses were closed in Busan, South Korea, after Tropical Storm Khanun made landfall Thursday, bringing heavy rain and severe gusts. The storm, which pummeled Japan before taking...

Temperatures surged in Spain and Portugal on Wednesday, as the two countries endured their third summer heatwave. As massive forest fires blazed throughout southern Portugal for the sixth day in a row, Spain’s weather agency warned...

Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran has reopened, according to Iranian official media, following a thaw in relations seven years after the mission was closed. Following a deal mediated by China in March, Shiite-majority Iran and Sunni...

US President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will visit Vietnam “shortly” in an effort to strengthen ties with Hanoi as Washington seeks to offset China’s influence in the region. “I’m going to be going to...

As he made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence here today, World Bank Executive Director Parameswaran Iyer said developing nations should learn from Bangladesh’s development model. “Bangladesh made phenomenal...