A brief history of the T20 World Cup:2007 in South AfricaFinal: India def. Pakistan by 5 runsFour years after England invented Twenty20 cricket, the first T20 World Cup (then World Twenty20) blasted off in the opening match where Chris Gayle scored the first international T20 century, 117 of...

BOURJ HAMMOUD, Lebanon (AP) — Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether it can use that stockpile to restore a crippled economy while its citizens are looking at gold as a way to protect their battered assets.Lebanon’s eco...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — It was designed to be as simple as buying airtime: a quick tap on the dispenser, a few shillings and a cooking canister refilled. Now, more than 3,000 Koko fuel supply points across Kenya sit idle, with no fuel and no clear answers for the households that relied on them...

MILAN (AP) — An unprecedented four-site, dual-cauldron Winter Olympics opening ceremony replete with references to Italian icons and culture — plus American pop diva Mariah Carey — was scheduled to officially start the Milan Cortina Games on Friday as the sports spectacle returns to a nation...

Alessandra Tarantino has been working with The Associated Press in Italy since 2005. Based in Rome, she mainly covers the Vatican, sports and politics. Here’s what she had to say about this extraordinary photo.Why this photo?I had been wanting to make a story about blindness for a long time,...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota reported a 43% drop in quarterly profit Friday, and announced Chief Financial Officer Kenta Kon will become its new chief executive and president.Kon, a Toyota veteran, replaces Koji Sato in both roles in April. Shareholders’ approval is expected in...

MOSCOW (AP) — A deputy chief of Russian military intelligence was shot and wounded in Moscow on Friday in an attack that follows a series of assassinations of senior military officers that Russia has blamed on Ukraine.Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, 64 was shot several time by an unidentified a...

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced following his conviction in a national security trial, according to the Chinese self-governing territory’s judiciary.The judiciary said on Friday on its website that it’s calling for the sentencing session on Monday morning.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of...

New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour has rejected criticism of his claims that colonisation was positive for the country’s Indigenous Maori population.Dozens of people started booing and shouting when Seymour stood on Friday to offer a prayer during a dawn service at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, where New Zealand’s fou...

The guest designer of the New York Botanical Garden’s 2026 Orchid Show spent his boyhood wanting to become Batman. Now he aspires to be a different superhero: Mr. Flower Fantastic.“I guess my focus is about saving nature,” he said, “which ultimately, I think, saves people.”Mr. Flower Fantastic — it’s his nom de bloom — spoke with m...

KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he’s finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana.Snails. Big ones.For every crawfish Courville dumps out of a trap, three or four snails clang onto the...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka Cricket has urged Pakistan to reconsider its planned boycott of a Twenty20 World Cup game against India in Colombo next week, saying a forfeited match could hit the tourism sector of a country still recovering from an economic collapse.“We have...

Voters in Thailand will head to the polls on Sunday amid deep political uncertainty, with the country having cycled through three prime ministers in as many years, and amid a tenuous truce with Cambodia following border clashes that killed 149 people.The snap polls pit Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s Bhumjaithai party, backed...

Washington, DC – The administration of United States President Donald Trump is entering the latest round of talks with Iran with a list of maximalist demands, even as their wider strategy remains unclear, analysts have told Al Jazeera.The talks in Muscat, Oman, on Friday are the first since the US attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes will be sentenced Friday on corpse abuse charges.Jon Hallford owned Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs with his t...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In some ways, 10-year-old Giancarlo is one of the lucky ones. He still goes to school.Each morning, he and his family bundle up and leave their Minneapolis apartment to wait for his bus. His little brother hefts on his backpack, even though he stopped going to day care wee...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ronald Hicks is set to be installed Friday as the 11th archbishop of New York in a ceremony at a revered Manhattan church where dignitaries and laypeople from all walks of life are expected to gather and celebrate.Previewing the Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to reporters on...

BOSTON (AP) — Actor Michael Keaton is set to be honored Friday as the 2026 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.The theater group, which dates to 1844 and claims to be the world’s third-oldest still operating, said Keaton will receive his Pudding Pot award at a c...

ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown’s multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ruins by the earthquakes in southern Turkey three years ago will help lo...

Noah Winter brags he’s been to way more Super Bowls than Tom Brady.Brady competed in 10 — more than any other player. But Winter will be part of the Super Bowl spectacle for his 30th straight year this year, not in uniform but as the guy in charge of the celebratory confetti after the game e...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian and Australian leaders signed a new bilateral security treaty Friday that both governments say will deepen ties between the often-testy neighbors.The treaty was signed in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, three months after Australian Prime Minister Anthony A...

When Savannah Guthrie made a heart-wrenching plea to the kidnapper of her 84-year-old mother to send “proof of life,” she addressed the possibility of people creating deepfakes.“We live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated,” she said. Before artificial intelligence tools...

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (AP) — A tropical storm set off flooding and a landslide in the southern Philippines, leaving at least four people dead, displacing more than 6,000 and trapping residents in houses in two flooded villages, officials said Friday.Tropical Storm Penha slammed ashore...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus carrying a wedding party veered off a mountain road in west Nepal and tumbled down a slope in a crash that killed at least 13 people while 34 more were injured, police said Friday.The bus carrying members of a wedding party was returning home when the bus fell a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBA scoring leader Luka Doncic has left the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against Philadelphia on Thursday night with a left leg injury.Doncic limped to the locker room with 3:03 left in the first half after apparently hurting his leg on the far end of the court moments earlier...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking back on the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump boasts that he has resurrected the American economy by imposing big import taxes on foreign products. He made his case in a recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, chiding the paper and criti...

HONG KONG (AP) — U.S. futures and Asian shares traded mostly lower on Friday, tracking Wall Street’s losses as technology stocks again dragged on markets. Bitcoin sank to roughly half its record price, giving back all it gained since U.S. President Donald Trump won the White House for his se...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Lawyers for conservation groups, Native American tribes, and the states of Oregon and Washington are returning to court Friday to seek changes to dam operations on the Snake and Columbia Rivers, following the collapse of a landmark agreement with the federal government...

Here is where things stand on Friday, February 6:Fighting Nighttime ‌shelling by Ukrainian forces inflicted “serious damage” on the Russian city of Belgorod, the region’s Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “The enemy has shelled the civilian city of Belgorod. Everyone knows we have no military targets. There has been serious damage....

United States President Donald Trump has launched a new website that he says will lower the cost of prescription medicines, which have long stood out for their sky-high prices in the US compared with similar products around the world.Trump announced the launch of the new website called TrumpRx, which allows consumers to buy discoun...

The United States military has said that it killed two people in its latest attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean.US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees US military operations in Latin America, said on Thursday that “two narco-terrorists were killed during this action”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of...

US and Iranian officials are holding talks in Muscat amid escalating tensions and a US military buildup in the Gulf.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Democrats unveiled a proposed U.S. House map Thursday that aims to give their party four more seats in the latest effort to fight President Donald Trump’s redistricting push, even as an ongoing legal challenge makes use of that map for the midterm el...

CLINTON, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man accused of threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pleaded guilty Thursday, a year after President Donald Trump pardoned him for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Christopher P. Moynihan, 35, also agreed to serve three years...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Thursday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.U.S. Southern Command said on social media that the boat “was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern P...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jalen Suggs had 15 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his first career triple-double, Desmond Bane scored 23 points and Paolo Banchero added 22 to lead the Orlando Magic to a 118-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.Playing 29 minutes in his seventh game a...

MUSCAT, Oman (AP) — Iran and the United States stood poised Friday to hold negotiations in Oman at least over Tehran’s nuclear program after a chaotic week that initially saw plans for regional countries to take part in talks in Turkey. The two countries have returned to Oman, a sultanate on...

AL-HOL, Syria (AP) — Basic services at a camp in northeastern Syria housing thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State (IS) group are slowly returning to normal after government forces seized the facility from Kurdish fighters, a United Nations official said Thursday.Syria's...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Mitch Marsh’s Australia squad has had a chaotic buildup to the Twenty20 World Cup, he’ll fully agree.Pat Cummins was ruled out because of injury, Steve Smith wasn’t selected, Mitchell Starc has retired from T20s, and Josh Hazlewood was sidelined for the start of th...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s pro-democracy former media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced Monday following his conviction in December under a Beijing-imposed national security law.Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, could face up to life in prison in the c...

United States President Donald Trump has shot down an offer from Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin proposing a voluntary extension of recently-expired limits on the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons.Trump said on Thursday that he wants negotiators from both countries to sit down and hammer out a new agreement, calling the ol...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing the possibility it could run out of funding next week, as Democrats press for reforms to its immigration enforcement tactics.But Republican leaders on Thursday pushed back against the Democratic proposals, rejecting them as moot.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3ICE ag...

Mike Tirico doesn’t have many firsts left in what has been an extraordinary broadcast career.However, this isn’t a normal February for Tirico.On Sunday, Tirico will call his first Super Bowl. Immediately following the conclusion of the Seattle-New England game, Tirico will transition to his...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandi Carlile isn’t hedging.When the multi-Grammy winner steps onto the field at Super Bowl to sing “America the Beautiful,” Carlile said she’ll perform fully live — with no prerecorded safety net, embracing the same risk she believes audiences take every day simply by...

NEW YORK (AP) — In 2015, Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, went on a trip to Washington, D.C. With the help of their friend Jeffrey Epstein, they were able to tour the White House. Allen’s friendship with Epstein has been known for years, but emails in the huge trove of records relea...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have not identified any suspects or persons of interest in a desperate, five-day search for the missing mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie. But even without proof, investigators are holding out hope that 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie is alive.Police thi...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s political parties geared up Friday for their last campaign rallies before voters head to the polls on Sunday for a general election being held against a backdrop of chronically slow economic growth and heightened nationalist sentiment.There also have been accusation...

An amnesty law that would provide clemency to political prisoners in Venezuela has passed an initial vote unanimously in the National Assembly, stirring hopes among the country’s opposition.On Thursday, members of both the governing socialist party and the opposition delivered speeches in favour of the new legislation, known as the...

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi is in Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi is in Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

A Houston doctor has been indicted on charges of falsifying medical records for five patients, making them ineligible to receive a liver transplant, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday.Dr. John Stevenson Bynon Jr. was indicted by a grand jury in Houston last month on five counts of fal...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner will be sentenced Friday for stashing nearly 200 decaying human bodies in an office building over four years.One of the bodies was the mother of Derrick Johnson. The 45-year-old learned from the FBI that the ashes he had buried beh...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has scheduled a March execution date for a man sentenced to death for a fatal shooting during a 1991 robbery even though he didn’t pulled the trigger.Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday set a March 12 execution using nitrogen gas for Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75. Burton w...

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi is in Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi is in Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui’s Haleakalā Volcano, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place looking over her grandchildren. Then the FBI called.It was Feb. 4, 2024, and Johns...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Kadjahtou Balde has a hard time parting with some of the vintage gems that make it into her Harlem thrift shop — a silk skirt adorned with traditional Palestinian embroidery, a pink wool sweater and an embellished blazer in perfect condition.“Look at the level of detail on t...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Poland announced on Thursday that the United States will have “no further dealings, contacts, or communications” with Włodzimierz Czarzasty, the speaker of the lower house of the Polish parliament, over what Rose called “outrageous and unprovoked...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t have the authority to call a special session to redraw Florida’s congressional map in the middle of the decade since that power belong to lawmakers, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.The Republican governor’s proclamation last month...

Thirty-one families that lost relatives in two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to revive a criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer.Paul Cassell, a lawyer for the families, urged a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau plans to use a survey form with a citizenship question as part of its practice test of the 2030 census, raising questions about whether the Trump administration might try to make a significant change to the once-a-decade headcount that failed durin...

PARIS (AP) — Paraguay midfielder Julio Enciso scored twice as Strasbourg beat Monaco 3-1 at home to reach the French Cup quarterfinals on Thursday.Winger Martial Godo put Strasbourg ahead in the seventh minute to quickly end Monaco’s bid for a fourth straight clean sheet.Enciso struck twice...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln, has died. He was 86. Boritt had been a professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania for many years, founding the Civil W...

Super Bowl week will unfold across several days in the Bay Area, with the game itself serving as the final act in a tightly coordinated mix of sports, music, media and celebrity appearances.From league-run press events to invitation-only gatherings in San Francisco, the jam-packed week draws...

United States President Donald Trump has used his social media platform to back fellow right-wing leader Viktor Orban before Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections.Trump’s endorsement came in a Truth Social post on Thursday, where he praised Orban as a “truly strong and powerful leader”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1...

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

ParisStade de FranceThursdayFrance 36 (Louis Bielle-Biarrey 2, Matthieu Jalibert, Charles Ollivon, Theo Attissogbe tries; Thomas Ramos 4 conversions, penalty), Ireland 14 (Nick Timoney, Michael Milne tries; Sam Prendergast 2 conversions). HT: 22-0

PARIS (AP) — France began its Six Nations title defense with five tries and a bonus point after a dominant 36-14 win against Ireland on Thursday.France scored a tournament-record 30 tries last year and a rout looked on the cards at a rainy Stade de France. France led 29-0 thanks to prolific...

The 10th edition of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup will be held from Saturday to March 8 against a backdrop of a diplomatic standoff and rising tensions among South Asian neighbours.The 30-day tournament will feature 55 matches across eight venues, five in India and three in Sri Lanka.The T20 format is a fast form of cricket compa...

An explosion at an illicit coal mine in northeast India has killed at least 18 people, according to local authorities.Police on Thursday said they had pulled 18 bodies from the blast site, located in a remote part of East Jainta Hills district.Eight others were wounded in the incident, said local official Manish Kumar. It is unclea...

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

Organisers of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that Israel seized at sea last year say they are planning a new, larger mission next month.The Global Sumud Flotilla announced Thursday that it will sail more than 100 boats carrying up 1,000 activists, including medics and war crimes investigators, to Gaza in March.Recommended Stories list o...

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Japan’s mastery in snowboarding might very well go beyond the halfpipe.Hiroto Ogiwara finished at the top of the scoreboard in qualifying for big air Thursday night —- making the 20-year-old a legit gold-medal contender at the 2026 Winter Olympics for the country that b...