Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing of the country’s latest anti-aircraft missile system on Thursday, ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee on the first ballot, making her the first ...

Coventry was chosen over six other candidates, including Lord Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr, to succeed Thomas ...

Opening the 3rd Regional Aviation Ministers’ Meeting in Suva, Gavoka stressed that the outcomes of the gathering could ...

Princess Kate has revealed her true feelings about Prince William's beard during a candid moment at St Patrick's Day celebrations with the Irish Guards. The Princess of Wales, 43, made the comments ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — The IOC is the undisputed champion of running the most tightly managed sports election, one compared by veteran Olympic watchers to a conclave to pick a pope.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison on Saturday as prosecutors complied with a court decision to overturn the arrest of the leader impeached for his shock ...

But South Africa’s Olympics trials will still be segregated, and its neighbors are unsatisfied. Complaining that black South African Olympians would be merely “trained monkeys who would be ...

The president falsely claimed on social media that the South African government was confiscating farmland, echoing previous statements that the country was mistreating white people. By John Eligon ...

This week’s question: If you could add any sport to the Olympics, what would it be and why? Our question for next week is: If the government were to give every teenager in Hong Kong a HK$5,000 e ...

South Korean fighter jets accidentally bombed homes during a live-fire drill with US forces, injuring more than two dozen people on Thursday, Seoul’s military said. Eight MK-82 general-purpose ...