Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pontiff while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary ``Francesco,'' which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival.
The papal thumbs-up came midway through the film (...)
Brazil's captain put their impressive 5-0 win over Bolivia down to the single-minded way the five-times world champions addressed their opening World Cup qualifier in Sao Paulo on Friday.
“Without a doubt, we have to highlight the fact that we took (...)
Striker Luis Suarez said Thursday his former club Barcelona treated him so unfairly that he spent days in tears before his departure to Atletico Madrid.
In another sign he can still deliver to his teams, Suarez scored Uruguay's first goal from the (...)
FIFA decided on Thursday that clubs can stop their players from participating in international matches until the end of the year depending on COVID-19 conditions in the countries to which they are traveling.
The announcement comes one week before (...)
World Tourism Day (WTD) has been marked every year on 27 September since 1980 to raise awareness of the importance of tourism socially, culturally, politically and economically worldwide. Tourism is one of the world's most important economic sectors (...)
Russia's sovereign wealth fund and its partner Chemrar will supply the COVID-19 drug Avifavir to 17 additional countries, the fund said in a statement on Thursday.
Avifavir gained approval from the Russian health ministry in May and is based on (...)
Lionel Messi can play in Argentina's opening World Cup qualifier next month because the statute of limitations has run out on the ban he was given during last year's Copa America, the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) said on (...)
Maya Zbib is not only a Lebanese theatre maker of brilliant accomplishment, she is also a world renowned artist. Her company, Zoukak, which she cofounded in Beirut, is its own authoritative brand across the Arab world and the transnational (...)
Inter Milan forward Alexis Sanchez has said he was ready to end his ill-fated spell at former club Manchester United after only one training session with the Premier League side.
United had signed Chile international Sanchez in January 2018 after he (...)
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck near the coast of Northern Chile on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said, and some damage and minor landslides were reported in areas near the epicenter, according to local media.
A number of (...)
U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus were approaching 6 million on Sunday as many Midwest states reported increasing infections, according to a Reuters tally.
Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota have recently reported record one-day (...)
It has not been a very good year, to say the least. In fact, it has been so far another annus horribilis.
Most people surveyed have labelled it “the worst year of their lives” and for good reason.
Except for war years there has never been a year as (...)
Saudi Arabia will soon begin Phase III clinical trials on around 5,000 people for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's CanSino Biologics Inc, a Saudi health ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Last month, CanSino's co-founder said the company was (...)
Serie A club Inter Milan have signed forward Alexis Sanchez on a permanent three-year deal from Manchester United, both clubs confirmed on Thursday.
British media reported that United had cut their losses and terminated the Chilean's contract to get (...)
U.S. coronavirus cases were approaching 4 million on Thursday, with over 2,600 new cases every hour on average, the highest rate in the world, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections in the United States have rapidly accelerated since the first (...)
إبراهيموفيتش ساهم في هدف ميلان الأول بمرمى بولونيا خلال المباراة التي جمعت
الفريقين السبت لحساب الجولة ال34 من عمر "الكالتشيو" لكن إيبرا لم يكن سعيدا بتبديله.
إبراهيموفيتش يدخل في مشادة مع مدرب ميلان اعتراضا على تبديله
وكشف موقع calciomercato حدوث (...)
Italy on Thursday banned entry to people coming from 13 countries that it said presented an excessive rate of COVID-19 infections.
The list compiled by the health ministry comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, (...)
A Reuters tally showed new U.S. COVID-19 cases rose by nearly 50,000 on Wednesday, the biggest one-day spike on record, a day after the government's top infectious diseases expert warned that daily cases could double to 100,000 if the necessary (...)
For months, experts have warned of a potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some of the world's wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in poor or war-torn countries ill-equipped to contain it and sweeps (...)
Brazil has registered 32,091 cases of the novel coronavirus cases on Tuesday, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to 739,503, according to the Brazilian Health Ministry.
This is the fourth day the South American country has recorded (...)
President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus (...)
Pep Guardiola is set to appoint his former mentor Juanma Lillo as his assistant coach at Manchester City, according to reports in the Spanish media on Friday.
City did not replace Mikel Arteta when he left his role as Guardiola's assistant to become (...)
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 6 million on Saturday, however it has claimed more than 367,000 lives worldwide, though the true number is thought to be higher as testing is still limited and many countries do not include fatalities outside of (...)
New coronavirus cases dropped to zero in China for the first time Saturday but surged in India and overwhelmed hospitals across Latin America - both in countries lax about lockdowns and those lauded for firm, early confinement. The virus hit a (...)
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent on Friday even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States.
Many governments say they have to shift their (...)
