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'Upset' Messi suspended over MLS All-Star no-show: league

'Upset' Messi suspended over MLS All-Star no-show: league

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami team-mate Jordi Alba have been suspended after the duo skipped Major League Soccer's All-Star Game earlier this week, the league said Friday.

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Ponting says 'no reason' why Root cannot top Tendulkar's run record

Ponting says 'no reason' why Root cannot top Tendulkar's run record

Ricky Ponting is convinced there is "absolutely no reason" why Joe Root cannot surpass India's Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricket's all-time leading run-scorer after the England star leapfrogged the Australian into second place on Friday.

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NFL players, employees fined for selling Super Bowl tickets: reports

NFL players, employees fined for selling Super Bowl tickets: reports

More than 100 NFL players and dozens of club employees are to be fined or suspended for selling their allocations of tickets for this year's Super Bowl on secondary markets, US media reported on Friday.

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World's smallest snake makes big comeback

World's smallest snake makes big comeback

A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to have been "lost" to science.

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Trade on agenda as Trump lands in Scotland for diplomacy and golf

Trade on agenda as Trump lands in Scotland for diplomacy and golf

US President Donald Trump landed in Scotland on Friday for a five-day visit set to mix diplomacy, business and leisure, as a huge UK security operation swung into place amid planned protests near his family-owned golf resorts.

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UN chief blasts 'lack of compassion' for Palestinians in Gaza

UN chief blasts 'lack of compassion' for Palestinians in Gaza

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday slammed the international community for turning a blind eye to widespread starvation in the Gaza Strip, calling it a "moral crisis that challenges the global conscience."

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Trump administration expected to say greenhouse gases aren't harmful

Trump administration expected to say greenhouse gases aren't harmful

President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to upend a foundational scientific determination about the harms of greenhouse gases that underpins the US government's ability to curb climate change.

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Hamilton suffers unprecedented spinning knockout in Belgian GP sprint qualifying

Hamilton suffers unprecedented spinning knockout in Belgian GP sprint qualifying

A downcast Lewis Hamilton said he had never before had a spin like the one that knocked him out of sprint qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday, while Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc qualified fourth.

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European powers urge end to Gaza 'humanitarian catastrophe'

European powers urge end to Gaza 'humanitarian catastrophe'

Britain, France and Germany on Friday urged an end to Gaza's "humanitarian catastrophe" as the UN food agency warned almost a third of people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory were not eating for days.

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Messi, Alba suspended over MLS All-Star no-show: league

Messi, Alba suspended over MLS All-Star no-show: league

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami team-mate Jordi Alba have been suspended after the duo skipped Major League Soccer's All-Star game earlier this week, the league said Friday.

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