Author Archives: Syndicated Content

By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard's appearance at the 2020 Tokyo Games as the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics received mix...

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - A seismic year for soccer in Saudi Arabia witnessed the turbo-charging of its domestic league with expensive foreign superstars, an audacious bid to host the 2034 W...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Thursday confirmed two of its citizens were killed in an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon and said it was looking at Hezbollah's claims that one of the...

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - All sporting roads lead to Paris next year with the first post-COVID Olympic Games looming large on the horizon but the two-week extravaganza will merely be the cen...

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares touched five-month highs on Thursday as market wagers on ever-more aggressive rate cuts extended a huge rally in U.S. stocks and bonds, but also left plen...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Thursday as persistent fears over escalating tensions in the Middle East outweighed easing concerns about transport disruptio...

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar nursed steep losses on Thursday and was headed for a yearly decline after two years of strong gains as expectations of interest rate cuts from the Fe...

(Reuters) - The intrigues of Western countries whose dominance is ebbing away are largely responsible for pitching the world into turmoil, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview p...

MONROVIA (Reuters) - At least 40 people have died following the explosion of a gas tanker in north-central Liberia, the West African country's chief medical officer, Francis Kateh, said on Wednesday. ...

By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - Japanese pitching sensation Yoshinobu Yamamoto said the Dodgers desire to win is why he chose Los Angeles over the other teams perusing him and getting to join countryman S...