By Rory Carroll AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Nicolas Echavarria got his Masters week off to a promising start as he won the Masters Par-3 Contest in a playoff over J.J. Spaun on Wednesday on the eve of the year's first major championship. Echavarri...

The NBA on Wednesday rescinded the second technical which led to Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic's ejection in a road loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. The foul, which came at 7:40 of the fourth quarter and the Lakers leading 108...

The dozen LIV Golf players in the 2025 Masters field represents the fewest yet for the breakaway league -- down from 18 in 2023 and 13 last year. LIV players can punch their tickets to Augusta National in four ways: by being a previous Masters champio...

The Sacramento Kings will be without guard Malik Monk for the remaining three games of the regular season and into the postseason because of a left calf strain, ESPN reported on Wednesday evening. Monk, 27, will be re-evaluated in two weeks, per the r...

(Reuters) -British breaststroke titan Adam Peaty confirmed he will bid for more Olympic gold in the Los Angeles pool following a decision to add six 50-metre sprint events to the 2028 Games programme. Three-times Olympic champion and world record holde...

By Nicoco Chan SHANGHAI (Reuters) -In a studio tucked inside a Shanghai mall, Shirley Chen is living out her K-pop idol dreams. The 28-year-old is at Chen Go, a K-pop-inspired "idol experience centre", where customers get a chance to live like their fa...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For Viola Davis, seeing her first images of a "badass Black woman on television" when she was growing up became an inspiration for her role as the U.S. president in the thriller film "G20." The 1974 Amer...

(Reuters) - American tennis great Billie Jean King has been honoured with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. King, a 39-times Grand Slam singles and doubles champion who has become an advocate for social equality, is the first woman to be ...

By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. media giant Comcast Corp will build its first Universal theme park and resort in Europe in Bedford, north of London, opening in 2031, the British government said on Wednesday. The park will create 20,000 jobs durin...

LONDON (Reuters) -Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, revealed on Tuesday she was diagnosed with postpartum pre-eclampsia after giving birth to one of her children, a medical condition she described as rare and scary. In the first episode of her new podc...