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UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall will return from his eye injury the "most dangerous" fighter he has ever been, training partner Modestas Bukauskas believes.

UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall will return from his eye injury the "most dangerous" fighter he has ever been, training partner Modestas Bukauskas believes.

Ukraine's sports minister calls Gianni Infantino "irresponsible" and "infantile" for saying Fifa will look at lifting a ban on Russia.

Ukraine's sports minister calls Gianni Infantino "irresponsible" and "infantile" for saying Fifa will look at lifting a ban on Russia.

A French national facing a possible death sentence in Malaysia on eight drug-related charges was acquitted Tuesday, freeing him after nearly two and a half years in detention.

Scientists believe they may have explained the Bermuda Triangle mystery after discovering methane gas and environmental forces beneath the ocean surface could have caused historic disappearances

Jeffrey Epstein's 75-acre private Caribbean island, known as Little Saint James, was allegedly the site of sexual abuse and human trafficking, according to survivors including Sarah Ransome and Chauntae Davies

Two men are set to be charged with murder in Malaysia following the discovery of the charred skeletal remains of six people – including three young children – in a remote, abandoned house in Johor state. Johor police chief Ab Rahaman Arsad confirmed on Tuesday that the grisly findings were made on January 9 in Kangkar Pulai. The remains were discovered by a 48-year-old local man who had been searching for his family after losing contact with them three months prior. “The man claimed that his...

Unusually heavy snow killed at least 30 people in Japan in the past two weeks, officials said on Tuesday, as the government deployed troops to help clear huge drifts that left residents in the country's north struggling to leave home.

The sudden death of a top fund manager in Shanghai – the latest in a string of similar cases – has raised alarm in China’s financial sector, as worries grow over the health risks posed by the industry’s intense work culture. Shen Xianbing, a founding partner of the private fund Qilin Investment, died on Monday at the age of 40, the company announced the same day, without explaining the cause of his death. The former University of Science and Technology of China graduate had served as a founding...

A systemic ‘Great Dispossession’ is being beta-tested in India. It is a playbook for the end of food sovereignty, driven by the debris of the Bretton Woods system and the insatiable need for ‘market confidence’. India—the World Bank’s largest-ever borrower—is being forced to swap its indigenous agrarian economy for a model that serves credit-rating agencies …

I pay far less attention to China’s growth numbers today. What matters more is where fiscal capacity is flowing. China has entered a phase where population ageing, security needs and industrial upgrading all draw on the same budget. This shift follows a structural adjustment in property. Income from land sales – once a pillar of local government finance – has fallen sharply and is unlikely to return. Balance sheets will have to be reset. The question is no longer how much stimulus Beijing can...