Lyles targets Olympic medal haul to underline 'rock star' status
Noah Lyles will look to banish his Tokyo demons when he takes to the Olympic track in Paris in his continuing bid to fill the void left by Usain Bolt.
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Nadal v Djokovic lights up Olympics as 'goofy Tassie' eyes more gold
Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will do battle once more when they meet at the Paris Olympics on Monday while Australia's Ariarne Titmus is hotly tipped to win her second swimming gold of the Games.
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Finance minister to reveal fiscal audit of 'broke' Britain
Finance minister Rachel Reeves will on Monday claim Britain is "broke and broken" when she reveals the findings of an assessment into the country's public finances ahead of a forthcoming budget.
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Venezuela awaits election results with bated breath
With bated breath, Venezuela awaited the results Sunday of a fraught presidential election in which socialist incumbent Nicolas Maduro faced the biggest challenge yet to his party's 25-year hold on power.
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Coughlin wins Canadian Women's Open for first LPGA title
Lauren Coughlin birdied two of the last four holes on Sunday to win the Canadian Women's Open and capture her first career LPGA title.
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UN cybercrime text faces new scrutiny from tech firms, rights groups
UN member states meet Monday seeking to finalize an international treaty on the fight against cybercrime, a text strongly opposed by an unlikely alliance of human rights groups and big technology companies.
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Latino voters' economic concerns narrow Democrats' edge against Trump
A naturalized US citizen, Nicaraguan-born Linda Fornos believes uncontrolled immigration is harming her family's ability to care for itself, and says she will be casting her ballot for Donald Trump in November -- having voted Democrat in 2020.
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Groundbreaking Irish writer Edna O'Brien dead at 93
Tributes poured in on Sunday for Edna O'Brien, the radical Irish writer whose groundbreaking first novel "The Country Girls" was burned and banned in her native country, after her death at 93.
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Scandal-hit Canada keep Olympic football hopes alive with last-gasp win
Scandal-hit Canada kept alive their hopes of reaching the Olympic women's football quarter-finals with a last-gasp 2-1 win over France on Sunday as the United States joined Spain in the last eight.
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Wind, temperatures pick up as fire scorches northern California
Crews continued to fight a massive fire in northern California on Sunday, as authorities in the western US state warned of increasing winds and rising daytime temperatures.
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