France began its Six Nations title defense with five tries and a bonus point after a dominant 36-14 win against Ireland on Thursday. France scored a tournament-record 30 tries last year and a rout ...

U.S. job openings fell to the lowest level in more than five years, another sign that the American labor market remains sluggish. The Labor Department reported Thursday that vacancies fell to 6.5 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules that restrict when food companies can claim their products have no artificial colors. The agency announced Thursday that food labels may claim ...

The two artificial intelligence startups behind rival chatbots ChatGPT and Claude are bracing for an existential showdown this year as both need to prove they can grow a business that will make more ...

Hokkaido Prefectural Police have arrested an unemployed 18-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a 20-year-old man with a knife on a street in Sapporo, last November ...

Hiroto Ogiwara of Japan topped qualifying for men’s big air as snowboarding kicked off at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Thursday. The 20-year-old Ogiwara finished atop the scoreboard with 178.5 points ...

The San Francisco 49ers will be the team facing the division-rival Los Angeles Rams in the first-ever regular-season NFL game in Australia next season, the league said Thursday. The league had ...

Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein. But the British prime minister’s job is under threat because of the fallout from the late sex offender’s global web of relationships. Friendship with Epstein ...

U.S. singer-songwriter Barry Manilow has announced the cancellation of his upcoming run of shows in Las Vegas, but assured fans he was recovering well from surgery to remove lung cancer. The ...

Acute malnutrition has reached famine levels in two more areas of North ‌Darfur, Sudan, a global hunger monitor said on Thursday, amid a civil war that has displaced millions and triggered waves of ...

The price of bitcoin continued its monthslong slide Thursday, falling another 11% to $67,000, and is now worth less than it was when President Donald Trump was elected into his second term of office.

Japanese giant Sony hiked its full-year forecasts on Thursday, as a weaker yen compensates for its ageing PlayStation games console and a memory chip crunch. Sony now expects net profit of 1.13 ...