• 

  Pussy Riot WC pitch intruders jailed for 15 days

  Reuters. Moscow | Updated at 10:43am on July 17, 2018

  A Moscow court on Monday handed down 15-day jail sentences on four members of the Pussy Riot protest group who interrupted Sunday's World Cup final...

• 

  French give hero welcome to world champions

  Reuters. Paris | Updated at 10:40am on July 17, 2018

  Hundreds of thousands of ecstatic French fans celebrated the return of their World Cup winning football team on Monday, jumping and chanting "We Are The...

• 

  Croatia fly flag for the little guys

  Reuters . Moscow | Updated at 12:05am on July 17, 2018

  A World Cup of surprises showed once again how small teams are finding a way to compete with the big boys, as was the case...

• 

  Soaked but smiling, Croatian president wins admirers

  Reuters . Zagreb | Updated at 12:05am on July 17, 2018

  Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic has won many admirers for own performance at the World Cup final in Moscow, where she stood in driving rain...

• 

  Portuguese inmates sing Mozart opera

  Reuters . Lisbon | Updated at 08:59pm on July 16, 2018

  Inmates from one of Portugal’s biggest youth prisons took to the stage at a prominent Lisbon music venue this week to perform Mozart’s ‘Così fan...

• 

  Hathurusinghe, Chandimal banned

  Reuters. Dubai | Updated at 08:22pm on July 16, 2018

  Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal, coach Chandika Hathurusinghe and manager Asanka Gurusinha have been banned for four one-dayers and two Tests for acting against the...

• 

  Trump meets Putin after denouncing ‘stupidity’ of US policy on Russia

  Reuters | Updated at 05:35pm on July 16, 2018

  The US and Russian leaders opened an historic summit in Helsinki on Monday, with Donald Trump promising an ‘extraordinary relationship’ and Vladimir Putin saying it...

• 

  Mob kill nearly 300 crocodiles in revenge attack

  Reuters | Updated at 04:33pm on July 16, 2018

  Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a...

• 

  Over a billion people struggle to stay cool as Earth warms

  Reuters | Updated at 12:03pm on July 16, 2018

  More than a billion people are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and...

• 

  Trump, Putin to hold first summit talks as twitchy West looks on

  Reuters | Updated at 10:38am on July 16, 2018

  After months of exchanging long-distance compliments, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sit down on Monday for their first ever summit, a potential political minefield at...