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US' Noah Lyles receives medical attention after competing in the men's 200m final. Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP By Harry Poole, BBC sport journalist at Stade de France Botswana's Letsile Tebogo claimed a surprise Olympic 200m gold medal as Noah Lyles was denied a sprint double at Paris 2024. Tebogo, 21, stormed clear of his rivals to clock an African record of 19.46 seconds and finish ahead of American Kenneth Bednarek, who crossed the line in 19.62. Lyles, crowned the world's fastest man by five-thousandths of a second in a historically quick 100m final on Sunday night, was unable to compete at the head of the race and matched his Tokyo bronze in 19.70. It emerged after the race that Lyles had tested positive for Covid and the 27-year-old had to be helped off the track in a wheelchair...

Swift's three sold-out shows at the Ernst Happel Stadium have been cancelled. Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP By Vicky Wong, BBC News Austrian security officials say a 19-year-old arrested on Wednesday was planning to kill "a large crowd of people" in a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. Officials say the teen - who had previously pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group (IS) - confessed that he "intended to carry out an attack using explosives and knives". Swift's three sold-out shows at the Ernst Happel Stadium have been cancelled. More than 195,000 people had been expected to attend. Local media have also reported that the 19-year-old, the main suspect out of three, had stolen chemicals from his former workplace. The Kurier newspaper, citing sources, reported that he ...

A house is collapsed due to a massive earthquake in Osaki Town, Kagoshima Prefecture. Photo: Masato Oyamada / The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP By Shaimaa Khalil, BBC News, Japan and Flora Drury, BBC News, London Japan has - for the first time - issued a warning about an increased risk of a "major earthquake" striking in the near future. The advisory was issued on Thursday night local time, telling people to be alert but not to evacuate. It also stressed that the warning did not mean a large earthquake was imminent, but that the probability was higher than usual. It came hours after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off the southern island of Kyushu, which reportedly caused no major damage. But experts were put on heightened alert because of where the epicentre sat - at the edge of the Nank...

A house has reportedly collapsed in Miyazaki City due to an earthquake in southwestern Japan on 8 August, 2024. Photo: AFP/ Yomiuri Shimbun- Wataru Hatae An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, but there were no immediate signs of major damage. The quake initially triggered tsunami advisories for Japan's coastline, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, though national broadcaster NHK later said they had been lifted. There had been no reports of abnormalities at nuclear power plants following the quake, and the government is checking for damage and casualties, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters. The quake occurred about 4.43pm (0743 GMT) off Miyazaki prefecture on the western major island of Kyushu, the JMA said. In Miyazaki,...

A 19-year-old Austrian terrorism suspect had taken concrete steps in planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert. Photo: AFP / DAVID GRAY A 19-year-old Austrian terrorism suspect had taken concrete steps in planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert, with chemical substances found during a search of his residence, Austria's general director for public security said. The teenager, with North Macedonian roots, is considered the main suspect, working closely with a 17-year-old Austrian, general director for public security Frankz Ruf told ORF radio. The two males are part of a small group police are looking into, said Ruf, adding that the 19-year-old had pledged allegiance to the radical Islamic State group. "We are of course investigating their wider surroundings," said Ruf, adding tha...

The red X marks where an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday. Photo: Japan Meteorological Agency An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, triggering tsunami advisories, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, but there were no immediate signs of major damage. There have been no reports of abnormalities at nuclear power plants following the quake, and the government is checking for damage and casualties, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters. The quake occurred about 4.43pm (0743 GMT) off Miyazaki prefecture on the western major island of Kyushu, the JMA said. In Miyazaki, waves as high as 50cm have already been observed, public broadcaster NHK said. More to come. - Reuters Source link

By Brajesh Upadhyay, BBC News, Washington Photo: AFP US President Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November. In his first interview since he dramatically dropped out of the race last month, Biden told CBS News: "If Trump loses, I'm not confident at all." "[Trump] means what he says, we don't take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about 'if we lose it will be a bloodbath'." Trump's comment that it would "be a bloodbath for the country" if he loses the election, made as he was talking about the auto industry in March, triggered a wave of criticism. Democrats were quick to reiterate their campaign message that the former president poses a threat to democracy. The Biden campaign ...