AFP Sports Agenda for Saturday, December 28 (all times GMT): -- Italian Serie A: Empoli v Genoa, Parma v Monza (both 1400), Cagliari v Inter Milan (1700), Lazio v Atalanta (1945). Picture ...

Australian supermaxi LawConnect took back-to-back line honours in the Sydney-Hobart ocean race early Saturday, leading a fleet shaken by the deaths of two sailors in wild weather conditions.

Fog grounded flights at several major UK airports on Friday, the air traffic control authority (NATS) said. Cancellations and delays of several hours to landings and take-offs struck hubs including ...

Netflix's debut NFL broadcasts on Christmas Day received positive reviews and record streaming ratings but still attracted fewer viewers than the linear broadcasts last Christmas.

Wall Street stocks stumbled Friday as major companies saw their shares fall towards the end of a holiday week.

Five-time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo said on Friday it was "unfair" that Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior missed out on this year's award.

The UN Security Council on Friday gave the green light to a new African Union force in Somalia that is meant to take on the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab, with the soldiers due to deploy in January.

English Championship side Stoke sacked manager Narcis Pelach on Friday after just 19 games game in charge. The Spaniard, who was appointed in September at the age of 36, won just three of the 18 ...

A car bomb exploded late Friday in the centre of the flashpoint northern Syria town of Manbij, causing damage but no casualties, a war monitor said.

Slovakia on Friday confirmed its readiness to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, despite Kyiv's accusation that it ...

Malaria and common respiratory infections, compounded by malnutrition, caused an hitherto unexplained spate of deaths in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that "several" wounded North Korean soldiers died after being captured by ...