Indian offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin has maintained the top spot among bowlers, while England’s Joe Root toppled Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne to become the world’s top-ranked batter in the ICC Test rankings.

A Nepal court last week lifted the ban on Hindi films, including Prabhas-starrer “Adipurush”, asking authorities not to halt the screening of any movie passed by the country’s censor board.

Spin duo of Shreyanka Patil and Mannat Kashyap starred with the ball after a sedate batting effort to guide the India U-23 team to the Women’s Emerging Asia Cup T20 title with a 31-run win over Bangladesh in the final. Electing to bat, India...

Two Pakistani men have been jailed for life in Greece for gang-raping an 18-year-old British girl on her sunbed after she went for a morning swim. The two men, aged 27 and 24, raped the Briton on a beach in Rethymno, a city on the north coast...

The 18-year-old Rehan Ahmed has been added to the England squad for the second Ashes Test as cover for Moeen Ali. Ahmed, the Leicestershire leg spinner, has never played a Test match in England. His only game in the format was in Pakistan in...

Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been accused of tampering with police records to hamper investigations into mass graves discovered in an area where he was a military officer at the height of a bloody Marxist rebellion in 1989.

Pakistani authorities said they have arrested seven alleged key figures in a human trafficking ring following last week’s sinking of an overcrowded smuggling vessel off Greece that left over 500 migrants missing, including Pakistanis.