China on Monday issued the clearest sign yet its leader Xi Jinping will skip an important gathering of world leaders in New Delhi this weekend, as it confirmed Premier Li Qiang will be traveling to the event.

The mission required a medical retrieval team, a massive icebreaker ship and two helicopters.

Ukraine is facing a future with upward of 20,000 amputees, many of them soldiers who are also suffering psychological trauma from their time at the front

Volodymyr Zelensky said he has decided to dismiss his war-time defence minister Oleksii Reznikov and would ask parliament this week to replace him with Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s main privatisation fund. “I’ve decided to replace the Minister of Defence of Ukraine. Oleksii Reznikov has been through more than 550 days of full-scale war,” he said, adding that he “believes the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society as a whole”. The exit of lawyer-turned-politician Reznikov marks the biggest shakeup of Ukraine’s defence establishment during the war launched by Russia in February 2022. While he secured billions of dollars of Western military aid to help the war effort, Reznikov has been dogged by graft allegations surrounding his ministry that he described as smears. This comes as Russia launched a major drone strike on Ukraine’s grain exporting port in Odesa region this morning. The three and a half hour long drone assault damaged warehouses and set buildings on fire just hours before Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, were due to hold talks on the halted grain deal. Read More President Zelensky nominates Rustem Umerov as Ukraine’s new defence minister Russian cyber-attacks ‘relentless’ as threat of WW3 grows, expert warns Ukraine ‘targets critical bridge’ built by Putin as counteroffensive ‘breaks through on southern front’

Whit Merrifield hit a two-out, go-ahead RBI single in the top of the ninth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays went on to beat the Colorado Rockies 7-5 Sunday to take two of three in the weekend series

Liverpool's best and worst players from the comfortable 3-0 win over Aston Villa in the Premier League on Sunday.

New signing Dominik Szoboszlai has revealed that his first ever Liverpool goal came from a training ground routine.

The Dallas Cowboys and right tackle Terence Steele have agreed on an $86.8 million, five-year extension

Declan Rice scored his first Arsenal goal deep into injury time and Gabriel Jesus added another one past the 100th minute mark to give Arsenal a 3-1 win over Manchester United in the Premier League

Kyiv says its troops are gaining momentum in what continues to be a lengthy and bloody counter-offensive.

Hundreds have died and millions have been forced from their homes since fighting began in April.

The New York Yankees waived Harrison Bader, now a Cincinnati Red, and called up the youngsters. The proverbial white flag has been waved with New York poised to miss the postseason for the first time since 2017. Fangraphs gives them a 0.3% chance of making the postseason (an improvement, considering they've been as low as 0.1%).