The foundation of chess, which she called an "intellectual sport," is equal: "I mean, there is no difference between men and women at the i...

Meanwhile, more than 60 cross-party British MPs have written to the editor of 'The Sun', Victoria Newton, to demand action be taken against...

Protesting against the denial of adjournment, the UDF staged a walkout with Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Assembly V D Satheesan allegi...

"With the war in Ukraine, the attitude of Latvians towards their Russian-speaking fellow citizens has deteriorated considerably," said Vlad...

Russia's war on Ukraine has given a renewed push to topple the last remaining Soviet monuments in nations that regained their sovereignty f...

Debutante Snigur, ranked No. 124 in the world, upset Halep in the first round.

Former European Council President Donald Tusk lashed out at EU capitals over their failure to agree on the toughest sanctions such as cutti...

The troops, which will be based at Adazi military base just outside the Latvian capital Riga, arrived around midnight local time, before ho...

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TENNIS-OPEN/HIGHLIGHTS (PIX):HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-Day nine at the U.S. Open

A city of many facets - many of them contradictory, all of them amazing - Riga is not unlike a microcosm of the tumultuous history of Europ...

Forget sleep, the Latvian capital does not even stop for a breath. The city wakes up at night and stays breathless until morning.

Latvia is to give second-largest bank Parex a $361 million injection of funds after the state took it over at the weekend.

Sergejs Cakss swerves his 2002 Volkswagen Golf around potholes in one of the poorest parts of the European Union (EU), near the Russian bor...

It's but a shortlight of 45 mintues to the little known city of Riga from Helsinki, capital of Latvia which is considered as weekend hop.

Emerging markets from the Baltic states to Latin America, awash in overseas capital, are paying a price for their popularity.