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By Martyn Herman IZU, Japan (Reuters) - Italy produced an electrifying finish to beat favourites Denmark for gold in a thrilling men's team pursuit final at the Izu Velodrome on Wednesday. Powered hom...

By Martin Petty TOKYO (Reuters) - Podium protests are rare at the Olympic Games, but few are less likely than an athlete protesting against himself. British boxer Ben Whittaker was so disappointed by ...

By Sam Nussey and Rozanna Latiff TOKYO (Reuters) - Poland's Aleksandra Miroslaw took an early lead in the women's Olympic climbing qualifiers in Tokyo on Wednesday with a 6.97 second run in the openin...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Rocket warning sirens sounded in northern Israel near the Lebanese border on Wednesday, the Israeli military said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The mi...

KYIV (Reuters) - Kyiv police detained a man who forced his way into Ukraine's main government building on Wednesday morning and threatened to detonate a grenade, head of the National Police Ihor Klyme...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - An accountant, two lawyers, an agronomist and a Swiss humanitarian worker have formed Gaza's first rock band, giving voice in English to the pain of war in the Pa...

With fans in Los Angeles expressing their venom, the Houston Astros were able to shut out the noise as well as the Dodgers in a 3-0 victory Tuesday behind the pitching of Lance McCullers Jr. Yordan Al...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top decision-making body last Friday said it would pursue its peak carbon and carbon neutrality plans in an "orderly" manner, and would correct any "campaign-style" carbon ...

By Mariano Valladolid and Jon Nazca SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - A Spanish company has devised a system to extract drinking water from thin air to supply arid regions where people are in desperate need....

By Jimin Kang SAO PAULO (Reuters) - E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc started to offer its Brazilian Prime subscribers free one-day delivery in 50 cities on Wednesday, amid fierce market competition in ...