A double blow of the coronavirus and a new salary cap has seen the bottom fall out of Chinese football's transfer market, while Odion Ighalo led what could become an exodus of foreign stars.Shanghai SIPG smashed the Asian transfer record when they signed Osca

An Australian boy with dwarfism whose distress from bullying became a viral video will donate hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in donations to charity rather than a trip to Disneyland.The clip of nine-year-old Quaden Bayles showed him crying and repeatedly say

Jurgen Klopp recently labelled Juventus as the favourites to succeed his Liverpool side as winners of the Champions League, and Lionel Messi has also talked up the Italians' chances, but they looked nothing like contenders to lift the trophy as Cristiano Rona

Former two-time world 100m freestyle champion Filippo Magnini of Italy had his four-year doping ban overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday.The 38-year-old had been banned in November 2018 by Italy's anti-doping agency (Nado), after

France on Thursday dismissed as "not only false but also unacceptable" claims by Mali of rowdy behaviour by French soldiers stationed in the West African nation to help it combat an Islamic insurgency.Making such allegations while French troops are risking t

The Cleveland Cavaliers posted their fourth win in five games with a 108-94 victory on Wednesday over the Philadelphia 76ers, who lost all-star Joel Embiid to an injury.Collin Sexton scored 28 points, Larry Nance collected 13 points and a season-high 15 reboun

Sri Lanka have recalled all-rounder Thisara Perera to the 15-member Twenty20 to play two matches against the visiting West Indies.The cricket board said right-arm medium-pacer Nuwan Pradeep, who was dropped from the three-match Twenty20 series against India ea

Japan is at a "crossroads" in its bid to prevent a major coronavirus outbreak and may need to reconsider the Olympics if domestic transmissions are not brought under control, an expert advising the government has warned.Norio Ohmagari, an infectious disease

Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head -- and the agony of the tattoo he was given to celebrate their victory.He is a proud member of the Lainong, one of dozens of Na

Zinedine Zidane said Real Madrid are down but not out in the Champions League yet the stark reality is their season could be over in March for a second year running if they keep unravelling in the Clasico on Sunday. In more than half a century of playing in Eu

A gunman killed five co-workers at one of America's best-known breweries on Wednesday before turning the weapon on himself in the latest burst of mass gun violence in the US.More than 1,000 employees were at the Molson Coors brewing complex in Milwaukee, Wisc