Murali Vijay and Virat Kohli shared an unbroken half-century stand after India lost two wickets in two balls on the second day of the second Test against South Africa on Sunday. India, the world's top-ranked cricket nation, were 80 for two at tea in reply to South Africa's first innings total of 335 at SuperSport Park. South Africa are chasin ...

Guinea-Bissau's Prime Minister Umaro Sissoco Embalo has submitted his resignation to the president, in a bid to end a two-year political crisis in the poor west African nation. Guinea-Bissau has been in the throes of a power struggle since August 2015, when President Jose Mario Vaz sacked former prime minister Domingos Simoes Pereira. Embalo, ...

With the Islamic State group all but vanquished from its self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the US-led coalition that has been fighting the jihadists for more than three years is transforming its mission. Eager to avoid a repeat of 2011, when America completed its troop withdrawal from Iraq only to watch in horror as IS later overran ...