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Thousands line streets to celebrate Villa's Europa triumph

Thousands line streets to celebrate Villa's Europa triumph

Aston Villa fans turned out in their thousands on Thursday to celebrate the English side's Europa League final triumph -- their first silverware in 30 years.

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Clinical Gujarat end Chennai IPL hopes with 89-run win

Clinical Gujarat end Chennai IPL hopes with 89-run win

Gujarat Titans beat Chennai Super Kings by 89 runs with a clinical all round performance in Ahmedabad Thursday.

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What's behind the social unrest in Bolivia?

What's behind the social unrest in Bolivia?

"Out with Rodrigo Paz!" reads graffiti scrawled across the Bolivian capital just months after the center-right president entered office.

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Air France, Airbus convicted of manslaughter in 2009 Rio-Paris crash

Air France, Airbus convicted of manslaughter in 2009 Rio-Paris crash

A French appeals court Thursday convicted Air France and Airbus of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in France's aviation history.

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Trump pressures Supreme Court to rule for him on citizenship

Trump pressures Supreme Court to rule for him on citizenship

President Donald Trump on Thursday maintained his unprecedented campaign to pressure the Supreme Court, saying it would be a "disgrace" if the independent justices rule against him on US birthright citizenship.

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UK details rules for single-sex spaces after landmark ruling

UK details rules for single-sex spaces after landmark ruling

Britain's Labour government insisted that long-awaited new guidance on single-sex spaces published on Thursday still protects transgender people.

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Beloved Citroen 2CV revived as electric car

Beloved Citroen 2CV revived as electric car

The 2CV, an iconic Citroen model popular for much of the Twentieth Century, will be coming back after production ceased in 1990, reincarnated as an electric vehicle, Citroen announced Thursday.

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Court ousts leadership of Turkey's main opposition party

Court ousts leadership of Turkey's main opposition party

An Ankara court on Thursday annulled the 2023 leadership election of Turkey's main opposition CHP party, in a sharp escalation against the country's embattled opposition, court documents showed.

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US voices hope on Iran deal progress before Pakistan army chief visit

US voices hope on Iran deal progress before Pakistan army chief visit

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced hope on Thursday of progress on ending the war with Iran, with mediator Pakistan's army chief due to arrive in the Islamic republic for talks.

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Maguire 'shocked' to be omitted from England World Cup squad

Maguire 'shocked' to be omitted from England World Cup squad

England defender Harry Maguire said Thursday he was "shocked and gutted" to have been left out of Thomas Tuchel's World Cup squad.

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