Oliver Smith

RIO DE JANEIRO - Retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered to pay US$950,000 in "moral damages" for making racist and homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton. The 70-year-old…

Cincinnati hired former Memphis coach Katrina Merriweather as its new women's basketball coach Saturday. Merriweather, who starred for the Bearcats from 1997-01, helped the team reach four consecutive postseason…

WASHINGTON - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene swept into the District of Columbia jail to check on conditions for the Jan. 6 defendants, with Republican lawmakers handshaking and high-fiving the prisoners, who…

BERLIN - Pope Francis on Saturday accepted a resignation request from a German bishop who asked to step down because of his mistakes in handling sexual abuse cases. Franz-Josef Bode, who has been the…

BERLIN - Germany and the European Union announced Saturday that they have reached an agreement in their dispute over the future of cars with combustion engines, allowing the registration of new vehicles with…

CAIRO - The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they were imposing severe restrictions starting Saturday on U.N. and other humanitarian flights arriving in the capital, Sanaa. The Houthi-run Civil…

MUQDADIYAH, Iraq - Hussein Maytham and his family were driving past the palm tree grove near their home after a quiet evening shopping for toys for his younger cousins when their car hit a bomb planted on the…

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban government is trying to take charge of more Afghan embassies abroad, a spokesman said Saturday, amid their continued international isolation because of restrictions on women and girls.…

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up sexual abuse cases, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming…

WASHINGTON - Vice President Kamala Harris will try to deepen and reframe U.S. relationships in Africa during a weeklong trip that is the latest and highest profile outreach by the Biden administration as it…