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LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile operator Vodafone reported a better-than-expected 3.3% rise in first-quarter service revenue on Friday, including a one-off gain of around 1.0 percentage point following COVI...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Naomi Osaka has had her opening match in the Olympic women's singles event pushed back by a day to Sunday following a request from Tokyo 2020 organisers, t...

(Reuters) - China is delivering two million COVID-19 vaccine shots to Myanmar this week to help fight a growing outbreak in the border area, officials said, as a spike in infections in the Southeast A...

By Omar Mohammed TOKYO (Reuters) - American pole vaulter Sam Kendricks said on Friday he was looking forward to elevate his game and challenge world record holder Sweden's Armand "Mondo" Duplantis for...

By Richa Naidu TOKYO, Japan - Four key men's doubles teams - dubbed by the Badminton World Federation as "the group of death" - will take over two courts side-by-side on Saturday just after noon in To...

By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Aaron Saldanha (Reuters) - The semiconductor shortage that has gripped the world could last well into 2022 and hit smartphone production next, foreshadowing deficient sup...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Focus on road cycling at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * Road cycling is split into two events for each gender -- a road race and a time trial. * The men's race in Tok...

By John O'Donnell and Tom Sims BAD MUENSTEREIFEL, Germany (Reuters) - Bad Muenstereifel's transformation from picturesque but sleepy German tourist town into an outlet shopping centre put it on the ma...

TOKYO (Reuters) - All 29 athletes in the Olympic refugee team will march behind the Olympic flag at the Tokyo Games opening ceremony on Friday, an organiser said, to represent the more than 82 million...

PARIS (Reuters) - European Central Bank member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday it was totally justified to keep an accommodative monetary policy for now. Villeroy, who is also the governor ...