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(Reuters) - Focus on baseball at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * Baseball returns to the Olympics after being voted off following the 2008 Games in Beijing. * Six teams will be set into...

By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Japan and South Korea strut in as favourites at the Tokyo Olympics baseball tournament after drafting the top players from their domestic leagues while the ot...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Rescuers in Japan waded through mud, rock and splintered wood in search of 24 people still missing on Tuesday after heavy rain triggered massive landslides in the seaside city of Ata...

By Ju-min Park and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympic organisers have capped the number of spectators allowed into venues, but will offer Japanese students special access under a programme that wo...

By Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - Boxing will start with a clean slate for the Tokyo Olympics following an acrimonious contest at the 2016 Games, with the sport's troubled governing body and all 36 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, reported 18 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday as authorities battle to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious Del...

Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Dave Stewart said he has informed team officials that he won't attend the upcoming celebration of the 40-year anniversary of the team's 1981 World Series championshi...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Israel agreed on Monday to provide about 700,000 expiring doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine to South Korea, the Haaretz newspaper reported, citing Israeli Prime Minister...

(Reuters) - Jessica Springsteen, daughter of rocker Bruce Springsteen, was named to the Tokyo Olympic show jumping team USA Equestrian said on Monday. Springsteen and her 12-year-old stallion Don Juan...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Just days after video of a massive ocean surface blaze near a Pemex oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico went viral, Mexico's national oil company has declared that environmental ...