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Sprinter Kariman Abuljadayel has made history, becoming the first woman to compete for Saudi Arabia in the 100m sprint.

Regime and rebel forces have sent in hundreds of fighters and extra military equipment to join the crucial battle for Syria’s second city Aleppo, a monitoring group said Monday.

Dogan news agency said the suicide bomber had mixed in with the guests before detonating the charge. Suddenly, a larger explosion knocked the sister to the ground.

More than 900,000 Yemenis gathered in Sana’a with flags and pictures of the newly-elected Political Council leader Saleh al-Sammad to show their support on Saturday.

But it was the “soft legacy” of the undeniably great sport that has been delivered over the last fortnight that seemed to excite the former Olympic fencing champion most of all.

The president of the Philippines has threatened to quit the United Nations in response to criticism from UN human rights officials over hundreds of extrajudicial killings of drug suspects that have occurred in the country since he took office. He said he may even look to set up...

The 2016 Olympic women’s volleyball tournament wrapped up on Saturday, and China has won the gold medal in a 3-1 victory over Serbia.

RIO DE JANEIRO France’s Tony Yoka beat Britain’s Joe Joyce to win the men’s Olympic super-heavyweight title on Sunday and match the lightweight gold medal won by girlfriend Estelle Mossely earlier in the week.

Obama discarded that strategy while trying to keep enough USA influence there to prevent those two countries from crumbling.

Late Saturday, a suspected suicide bomber linked to the Islamic State (IS) group attacked a wedding thronged with guests in Turkey’s Gaziantep.

A double suicide bomb attack claimed by Islamist insurgents al-Shabaab has left at least ten people dead on Sunday in Galkayo in central Somalia.

“He’s a father figure to me”, Phelps said of Bowman, his coach since age 11 who he followed to Arizona when Bowman was named ASU’s swim and dive coach a year ago.

As of Monday afternoon, it was only 5 percent contained.

The Texas Tribune reports that Jeffery Wood was granted a stay of execution on his 43rd birthday on Friday, just six days before he was scheduled to be executed for the robbery in which he killed no one. Wood’s mental capacity has been at the forefront of the argument...

Snowden, a former contractor for the NSA who leaked thousands of documents detailing a long-term surveillance program by the USA government, said the hack of NSA servers is not unprecedented, but the trumpeted publication is what is new. The relevant code was part of a program...