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Three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg on Tuesday said childhood trauma had shaped almost all of his work as he prepared to accept a lifetime achievement award at the Berlinale film festival.

A Romanian court on Tuesday extended the detention of Andrew Tate, the controversial influencer being investigated along with his brother for alleged human trafficking and rape.

Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne will miss Wednesday's Champions League last 16 first leg with RB Leipzig, after he was left out of his side's squad for the game.

Equities slid on Tuesday, with investors brushing off positive data as a risk that central banks will push interest rates higher and economies into recession.

Germany condemned as "inhuman" a death sentence an Iranian court handed down Tuesday against an Iranian-German national who supporters say was abducted abroad and forcibly returned to Iran for a show trial.

Minella Times, who Rachael Blackmore rode to 2021 Grand National glory when she became the first woman jockey to win the world's most famous steeplechase, has been retired, it was announced on Tuesday.

England made a record total and crushed Pakistan by 114 runs to secure top place in their Women’s T20 World Cup group at Newlands in Cape Town on Tuesday.

Gondolas lay beached along a series of Venice's famed canals this week, as low tides and a lack of rain left would-be punters high and dry.

Weakened on the international arena since its nationalist government came to power in 2015, Poland's image has been transformed over the past year by its leading role in the coalition supporting Ukraine.

Political parties and civil groups in Burkina Faso voiced their backing for the ruling junta Tuesday following an ambush in which dozens of soldiers were killed by jihadists.

Rescuers scrambled Tuesday to find survivors among dozens of people reported missing after the heaviest rains in Brazilian history caused floods that killed at least 44 people over the weekend.

Countries around the world have been ramping up their aid for Ukraine on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion.

Leeds on Tuesday announced the appointment of former Watford boss Javi Gracia as the new manager of the relegation-threatened Premier League club.

Ukrainian designers sent out a defiant message at London Fashion Week Tuesday with clothes made from the neck ties their menfolk no longer wear and butterfly motifs to symbolise the "fragility of life".

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday suspended Moscow's participation in a nuclear arms treaty with Washington and accused the West of escalating the conflict in Ukraine, ahead of a key speech by US President Joe Biden.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are to appeal to CAS to sanction Russian figure skating prodigy Kamila Valieva for a positive dope test they said in a statement on Tuesday.

A Nigerian street trader, who accuses the country's former deputy senate president of trying to harvest his kidney in the UK, told a British court on Tuesday that he begged police officers to "save my life".

Suzann Pettersen will captain Europe in the next two editions of the Solheim Cup, the Ladies European Tour announced on Tuesday.

Danni Wyatt and Nat Sciver-Brunt hit half-centuries and Amy Jones made 47 as England powered their way to a Women’s T20 World Cup record total of 213 for five in their match against Pakistan at Newlands in Cape Town on Tuesday.

Barcelona forward Ferran Torres turned to a psychologist for help escaping "a bottomless well", he said Tuesday.

France has matched its record dry spell of 31 days without significant rainfall, the country's weather service said Tuesday, amid concerns over water reserves in parts of Europe still reeling from last year's severe drought.

Israel's parliament took a step towards approving a controversial judicial reform Tuesday despite weeks of mass protests against the legislation critics see as a threat to democracy.

World champion Remco Evenepoel had another good day at the UAE Tour Tuesday as his Soudal-Quick-Step team won a 17.3km team time-trial round the port of Khalifa.

Syrians have been moved by the fate of a brave nine-year-old girl called Sham that has captured the tragedy, hope and heartbreak of the earthquake which devastated her war-ravaged country.

Swedish pole vault world record-holder Armand Duplantis will not defend his title at next month's European Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul, the Swedish Athletics Association said.

Nigeria's ruling party candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday took the last lap of his presidential campaign to his Lagos power base, where he received a triumphant welcome at a packed stadium.

Walmart reported better-than-expected profits over the critical holiday-season quarter Tuesday, but offered a disappointing outlook as inflation weighs on consumers.

British actor Helen Mirren said Tuesday she thought former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, whom she portrays in a new film, would be "utterly horrified" by the country's current political state.

Tanzania's government gave its approval on Tuesday for the construction of a $3.5 billion crude oil pipeline despite human rights and environmental concerns about the mega-project.

The IOC said on Tuesday the governments who had asked for "clarification" over how Russian and Belarusian athletes would be able to compete as neutral athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics had not addressed "explicit human rights concerns".

The European Union said Tuesday that it would increase its investments in Kenya by hundreds of millions of dollars, looking to bolster ties in the face of competition from China.

Wales coach Warren Gatland is confident that Saturday's strike-threatened Six Nations clash against England in Cardiff will go ahead despite delaying his team announcement.