Jake Paul will fight the unbeaten Gervonta Davis on November 14 at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia in a bout that will be streamed live on Netflix, promoters said on Wednesday. Davis has been the WBA lightweight champion since Devin Haney vacated the belt in 2023, but the American’s title will not be […]
Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori retained their US Open mixed doubles title on Wednesday, beating Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud to claim the $1 million top prize in the new-look competition that kicked off action at the last Grand Slam of the year. The Italians capped two days of intense work in the 16-team event […]
Luis Suarez scored a penalty in each half to give Inter Miami a 2-1 victory over Tigres UANL on Wednesday, stepping up to fill the void after Lionel Messi was ruled out of the Leagues Cup quarter-final clash. Messi, who has battled a “minor” muscle injury since a Leagues Cup group match on August 2, […]
The 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup starts on Friday, with players from 16 teams looking to make an impact on the global stage, be they professional, semi-professional or amateur. Below AFP Sport looks at five players who could make a significant mark upon what is set to be the best attended and most watched Women’s […]
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday said European powers had no right to trigger snapback sanctions under a moribund 2015 nuclear deal or extend the October deadline to trigger them. His remarks came after Iranian diplomats met in July with counterparts from Germany, France, and Britain — the first such talks since Israel’s attack on […]
The death toll from a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan has risen to 78, provincial officials said on Wednesday. Seventy-six people died in the accident in Herat province’s Guzara district on Tuesday night when the passenger bus hit a motorcycle and a truck […]
Israel approved a major settlement project on Wednesday in an area of the occupied West Bank that the international community has warned threatens the viability of a future Palestinian state. Israel has long had ambitions to build on the roughly 12-square-kilometre (five-square-mile) parcel known as E1 just east of Jerusalem, but the plan had been […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday visited the flood-affected districts of Swat, Buner, Shangla, and Swabi, where he emphasised that every available national resource will be mobilised to accelerate recovery efforts and restore normalcy in the affected areas. The prime minister was accompanied by the federal ministers and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, a press […]
Traffic in Karachi began moving again on Wednesday after authorities managed to drain much of the rainwater that had paralysed the city a day earlier, when a torrential monsoon downpour battered the metropolis and crippled daily life. The rains, which had so far spared southern parts of the country, struck Karachi on Tuesday with devastating […]
The First Descendant developer Nexon has issued a response following claims that the game was promoted using TikTok ads featuring AI-generated streamers, including one that appeared to resemble a real content creator. The controversy began after Reddit user ‘iHardlytriHard’ shared multiple adverts allegedly discovered within 15 minutes of browsing TikTok. Four of the clips showed […]