Dubai: The White House indicated that Israel's strikes on Iran should end direct exchange of fire between the two enemy countries, while warning Tehran of “consequences” should it respond. A...

Sydney: David Warner's lifetime captaincy and leadership ban has been lifted by Cricket Australia, a move which could see the retired test player captain the Sydney Thunder in the Twenty20...

Rawalpindi (Pakistan): England crumbled to 24-3 against Pakistan spinners after Saud Shakeel hit a century in the third and final Test on an engineered dry wicket Friday. Left-handed Shakeel exhibited...

Beirut:  Israeli strikes killed 36 people, many of them children, in Gaza and three journalists in Lebanon on Friday, as worries grew about supply shortages in Gaza and international pressure...

Baghdad: A banned Kurdish militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defence company in Ankara that killed at least five people. A...

Newport, Rhode Island (USA):  Maria Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion known for plenty of on-court grit and off-court attention, and Bob and Mike Bryan, twins who won a...

Deir al-Balah (Gaza Strip):  An Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip killed at least 16 people on Thursday, Palestinian medical officials...

Doha: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Doha on Thursday to meet with Qatari officials who have been key mediators for Hamas, as the US struggles to break...

Tyre (Lebanon): Israeli jets struck multiple buildings in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre on Wednesday, sending large clouds of black smoke into the air. The state-run National News Agency...

Kazan (Russia):  Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hosted China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, part...