Alpine skiing-Odermatt wins last men’s super-G before Beijing
Swiss skier Marco Odermatt cemented his status as an Olympic favourite with victory on home snow in Wengen, the last men's Alpine World Cup super-G...
Novak Djokovic ‘playing by his own rules’, says Stefanos Tsitsipas
The 34-year-old, a vaccine sceptic, fuelled widespread anger in Australia when he announced he was heading to Melbourne with a medical exemption from requirements for...
Covid-19: France to relax travel rules from the UK
France will relax its restrictions for those travelling from the UK from Friday, the government has announced. Vaccinated travellers will no longer need a compelling...
French holiday bookings surge after rule change
French holiday bookings have jumped after Paris said it would ease restrictions on UK travellers, travel firms have said. Airline Jet2 said it had seen...
Why the brutally bashed Marvel’s Eternals would have made better sense as a Disney Plus series
No Marvel film has been bashed as brutally as The Eternals. Though the film earned $162 million in its opening weekend, it fell short of...
German court convicts Syrian man of crimes against humanity
Prosecutors alleged Anwar Raslan supervised the ‘systematic and brutal torture’ of more than 4,000 prisoners between April 2011 and September 2012. A former Syrian secret...
Russia raises stakes with the West over Ukraine
The deputy foreign minister said he would neither confirm nor exclude the possibility that Russia could send military assets to Cuba and Venezuela. Russia has...
Lionel Richie to receive Gershwin Prize for pop music
Before his solo career, Richie was a founding member of the Commodores, a funk and soul band that made waves in the 1970s. Lionel Richie...