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India have been fined 100 percent and Australia 80 percent of their match fees for slow over rates in the World Test Championship final, the International Cricket Council said Monday.

Groups of killer whales have rammed hundreds of small boats off the coast of Spain in recent years in "terrifying" behaviour that has baffled scientists.

Investors traded cautiously Monday as they awaited key US inflation data and the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision later this week.

At least 600,000 soldiers who died in France during the First World War are still officially missing, their resting places unknown and unmarked.

A pre-trial hearing for the man accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was cancelled Monday after a suspicious object was delivered to the court, local media said.

Zarza, a much-loved Staffordshire terrier, ended up at a South African animal hospital with a bite from a Mozambique spitting cobra on her snout.

German courts will from Monday begin examining a series of claims over adverse effects suffered after coronavirus vaccinations, more than two years after one of the world's fastest and most extensive innoculation campaigns.

A pre-trial hearing for the man accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was cancelled Monday after a suspicious object was delivered to the court, local media said.

UBS said Monday that it had finalised the takeover of its former rival Credit Suisse, clearing the way for a Herculean task of integration that will be closely watched by clients, employees and Swiss political leaders.

NATO will begin the largest air force deployment exercise in Europe in the alliance's history on Monday in a display of unity toward partners and potential threats such as Russia.

The French Open ended on Sunday with Novak Djokovic and Iga Swiatek crowned champions after two weeks which featured geopolitics, controversies over sportsmanship as well as marathon matches.

The nuclear arsenals of several countries, especially China, grew last year and other atomic powers continued to modernise theirs as geopolitical tensions rise, researchers said Monday.

As a young woman, Tran To Nga was a war correspondent, a prisoner and an activist. Now, at 81, she is waging a court battle against US chemical firms to win justice for the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.

Australia's World Test Championship triumph was hailed on Monday as "momentous" -- but warned it will quickly be forgotten if they do not win the Ashes.

Tom Stoppard's play "Leopoldstadt," a look at how one Jewish family confronts anti-Semitism and loss, and intimate tragicomic musical "Kimberly Akimbo" earned the top prizes Sunday at the Tony Awards, the highest honors in American theater.

At his workshop in Tunisia's capital, Khaled ben Khemis pieces together a type of bagpipe once banned from airwaves but now embraced by artists infusing its sound into new musical styles.

A bus carrying wedding guests overturned and killed 10 people in an "unimaginable" night-time crash in a popular wine region near Sydney, police said Monday -- Australia's deadliest road accident in 16 years.

UBS is poised to complete on Monday its takeover of Credit Suisse, but integrating the former rival is a Herculean task that clients, employees and Swiss political leaders will closely watch.

Asian investors traded cautiously Monday as they awaited key US inflation data and the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision later this week.

"I'm hungry" and "my mom is dead" were the first words uttered by the four children missing for 40 days in the Colombian jungle when they were found, members of the rescue group said in a televised interview Sunday.

Japan head coach Jamie Joseph believes his team's "unorthodox" style can make life difficult for England at the Rugby World Cup, saying: "We can achieve anything."

Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone knows the mind can play tricks on players when it comes to crunch time in the NBA Finals, so he's trying out some mental games himself.

The voice on the phone seemed frighteningly real -- an American mother heard her daughter sobbing before a man took over and demanded a ransom. But the girl was an AI clone and the abduction was fake.

Details continued to emerge Sunday of the 40-day ordeal that four siblings in Colombia experienced after a plane carrying them crashed in the dense Amazon jungle, as their father and rescuers spoke to media about what the children recounted.

Nick Taylor sank a stunning 72-foot eagle putt on Sunday's fourth playoff hole to defeat England's Tommy Fleetwood and become the first home-nation player since 1954 to win the Canadian Open.

The odds are stacked against the Miami Heat as they head into Monday's game five of the NBA Finals trailing 3-1 to the Denver Nuggets but one member of the team knows full well that all is not yet lost.

Defender Mohamed Abdelmonem equalised on the night as Al Ahly of Egypt drew 1-1 at Wydad Casablanca of Morocco on Sunday to win the CAF Champions League for a record-extending 11th time.

South Africa's Ashleigh Buhai, the reigning Women's British Open champion, fired her second consecutive six-under par 65 on Sunday to win the ShopRite LPGA Classic by one stroke.

Kyiv announced on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had retaken three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk, the first reported gains of their new offensive.

An overpass on one of America's busiest highways collapsed early Sunday, caused by a tanker truck bursting into flames underneath it, authorities said.

Montenegro's new pro-European party held a slim lead in parliamentary elections on Sunday, according to results from a leading pollster, likely spurring days of coalition building before a government forms.

The mother of the four Indigenous children rescued after 40 days lost in the Colombian jungle remained alive for four days before succumbing to her injuries suffered in the May 1 plane crash, her widower said Sunday.