Chester-le-Street (Durham),  Sri Lankan cricket suffered a major embarrassment on Monday after three of its players -- Niroshan Dickwella, Kusal Mendis and Danushka Gunathilaka -- were suspended for breaching the teams bio-bubble here on Sunday night.

The three will be flown back home, but it is unlikely

Kuala Lumpur,  The Sudirman Cup Finals 2021 and the BWF World Tour Finals, two key badminton tournaments this year which were originally planned to take place in China, have now been moved to Vantaa, Finland and Bali, Indonesia respectively, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said on Monday.

Announcing

Dhaka,  At least seven people were killed and dozens of others injured in the collapse of a commercial building after a massive explosion in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka on Sunday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Shafiqul Islam told journalists that "seven peo

Washington,  Temperatures are expected to increase across the US Pacific Northwest through Tuesday following a weekend of record-breaking heat in the region, according to the weather service.

Portland, the largest city in Oregon, and Seattle in Washington were both forecast to break all-time record highs

Dubai,  UAE flag carrier Emirates has announced that it expects to resume its Dubai-India flights from July 7 after operations have remained suspended in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the South Asian country.

"We're expecting to resume our flights from India to Dubai as from Jul

Wellington,  New Zealand on Monday reported 10 new coronavirus cases in managed isolation, while there were no infections in the community, according to the Ministry of Health.

The 10 infected persons came from Russia, the Maldives, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Oman, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Xinhua

Male,  The Maldives has received over 550,000 tourists between January and June this year, data from the Ministry of Tourism revealed on Monday.

The Ministry data showed that 555,494 tourists visited the country by mid-year, with 24.3 per cent of them coming from Russia and 18 per cent from India, report

Kabul,  Afghan civilians have started taking up arms in an effort to defend their towns and villages falling to the Taliban as violence has intensified in the war-torn country in recent weeks, according to a media report.

So far, hundreds of locals have taken up arms in support of the government forces a

Wellington,  New Zealand will use a new natural disaster insurance model which is set to come into effect on June 30 and was hailed as "world first" by Minister Responsible for the Earthquake Commission (EQC) David Clark on Monday.

The collaboration between eight private insurers, EQC and the I

Addis Ababa,  The anti-terror and constitutional affairs bench of the Ethiopian Federal High Court on Monday sentenced the killer of the east African country's late army chief to life imprisonment.

Seare Mekonen was killed by his bodyguard Mesfin Tigabu on June 22, 2019, as part of what Ethiopian aut