Departing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday hailed his likely successor Antonio Guterres as a ‘superb choice’, ahead of the former Portuguese prime minister's expected backing by the Security Council.
Maria Sharapova said she could not wait to return to tennis next April after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced the former world number one's two-year drugs ban by nine months on Tuesday.
Malaysia extended a moratorium on bauxite mining to the end of the year, from Sept. 14, and said the government could stretch the ban by another six months ...
Austrian conservative politicians called for a ban on full body veils on Thursday, saying the veils would hinder women to integrate into the mainly Catholic Austrian society.
Australia's cricket board has banned two players for betting on matches and given a suspended ban to a third as part of its ‘zero tolerance’ approach to gambling-related corruption.
A court has slapped a two-year ban on journalists who triggered the closure of the Maldives’ only newspaper
The International Olympic Committee is unlikely to overturn world athletics' ban on the Russian track and field team at the Rio de Janeiro Games, IOC Vice-President John Coates said ...
UEFA president Michel Platini on Wednesday made a formal appeal against his six-year ban from football at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the tribunal said.
FIFA's disgraced president Sepp Blatter returned to the headquarters of world football's governing on body to face an appeals committee he hopes will overturn his eight-year ban from the sport.
Cars were partially banished from the streets of Milan and Rome yesterday as Italy battled a build-up of health-threatening pollution caused by freakishly dry and warm winter weather.
