Cairo, Egypt - In the shadow of the Grand Egyptian Museum, souvenir shop owner Mona has been readying for the...
Tokyo, Japan -- Hundreds of rowdy spectators, many heavily tattooed, roared Monday at a Tokyo arena usually reserved for boxing...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia---Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo still needs to serve a two-match English Football Association ban before making his Al Nassr...Ronaldo was slapped with the ban in November for hitting a mobile phone out of a teenage fan's hand after Manchester United, his club at the time, lost to Everton.
Al Nassr has not yet registered Ronaldo because the Saudi club have exceeded their quota for foreign players.
In a statement announcing measures to disrupt financiers of the Islamic State group, the State Department wrote of joint action...The embassy websites in Ankara of Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand write Turkiye, while the British, Irish and South African embassies use Turkey
Turks have long been upset by cartoons and other references that associate their country's name in English with the bird
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia--Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo faces a wait to make his Al Nassr debut because the Saudi club have exceeded...When he was unveiled with great fanfare on Tuesday, the 37-year-old said he was keen to play as soon as possible, starting with Thursday's home game against Al Ta'ee.
But Ronaldo, whose deal is worth an estimated 200 million euros to June 2025, is Al Nassr's ninth foreign player -- one more than the eight allowed by Saudi football authorities.
- Al Nassr's surprise capture of football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is the latest in a string of high-profile sports acquisitions by...
The 2029 Asian Winter Games will be held at NEOM, an under-construction $500 billion megacity that is planning a year-round winter sports complex.
Saudi money has created a schism in the golf world with the heavily funded LIV Tour, which has lured some top players.
- Cairo, Egypt---Egypt announced Monday the recovery of a sarcophagus lid dating back nearly 2,700 years that it said had been smuggled...
The lid, measuring nearly three metres (3.3 yards) in length and 90 centimetres (35.5 inches) in width, was among 17 artefacts recently recovered from the US.
Over the past decade, Egypt has recovered about 29,000 antiquities found to have been taken abroad through illegitimate means.
The Middle East region welcomed 2023 with fireworks at Burj Khalifa as revelers rang in the New Year without being...The Middle East region welcomed 2023 with fireworks at Burj Khalifa as revelers rang in the New Year without being subjected to Covid-related curbs for first time since pandemic
The turbulent 12 months marked by war in Europe, price rises, Lionel Messi's World Cup glory and the deaths of Queen Elizabeth, Pele and former pope Benedict is finally over
Brazilian football icon Pele, a three-time World Cup winner who transformed the "beautiful game" and is widely regarded as the...A flood of tributes instantly poured in from the football world and beyond, with messages from figures including current superstars Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe
Named athlete of the century by the International Olympic Committee in 1999, Pele is the only footballer in history to have won three World Cups -- in 1958, 1962 and 1970
The emirate went into the tournament under scrutiny for its treatment of foreign workers and LGBTQ people but one of...As a major supplier of natural gas and an intermediary in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Qatar already possessed diplomatic clout but struggled to gain public recognition.
The public airing of the Palestinian cause in stadiums and Morocco's surge to the tournament's semi-finals also boosted feelings of Arab pride.
- More than 260,000 Bedouins in Israel are part of the country's Arab minority, which is roughly a fifth of its...
Bedouins consistently rank as Israel's poorest group and, like other Arab people, complain of marginalization.
A long-standing source of friction is that many Bedouin villages are not recognised as official municipalities by Israel and lack basic utilities.
- The French President delivered a wide-ranging performance at the World Cup final that was not to everyone's taste.
He was an unmissable presence at the game at the Lusail stadium in Qatar, even making an appearance in the team's changing room to deliver an emotional post-game pep talk.
"We must not politicize sport," the incoming leader of the ultra-left France Unbowed party Manuel Bompard, wrote ironically on Twitter.
