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Millions of sports fans are speaking out against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing a fighter who was disqualified from a 2023 tournament for allegedly having male chromosomes to face a female opponent on Thursday.

Moldova´s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday it has expelled a Russian diplomat after two Moldovan officials were detained.

Forty-six seconds. That was the sum total of time a female Italian boxer lasted in the ring at the Paris Olympics before she retired from a bout against an Algerian fighter caught in an eligibility furore.

A central Dutch province is urgently warning parents not to take young children to a popular forest area near the city of Utrecht.

17-year-old charged with murder and attempted murder after an attack on a children’s party killed three and critically injured several others.

French drag queen Hugo Bardin on Thursday vehemently rejected criticism of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. He said the mass input of LGBTQI+ performers presented a snapshot of modern France under President Emmanuel Macron, adding the fact former U.S. President Donald Trump was offended meant performers had “done our job.”

One of the stranger facets is the apparent agreement by its creators that part of the purpose was to refute a French conservative theme park.

Actor-comedian and “Saturday Night Live” alum Rob Schneider is boycotting the Paris Olympics over its opening ceremony — which involved a parody of the Last Supper featuring drag queens — saying the anti-Christian performance “openly celebrates Satan.”

Canadian triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk threw up after emerging from the waters of the Seine River after competing at the Olympic Games Wednesday.

The heavy rainfall in Paris is not only wrecking scheduling and travel; it also made the cycling portion of Wednesday’s women’s triathlon more reminiscent of a demolition derby.

Actor Josh Hartnett, known for his roles in films like “Black Hawk Down” and “Pearl Harbor,” has lived far away from Hollywood for years, raising his children with his wife, actress Tamsin Egerton, in the English countryside. In a recent interview, he revealed that he and his wife try to shield their kids from the entertainment industry’s influences.

As transgender fighters Imane Khelif (Algeria) and Lin Yu-Ting (Taiwan) prepare to enter the ring against female fighters later this week, one of Khelif’s former opponents is sounding the alarm over the dangers the men pose.

WNBA and Olympian Diana Taurasi and Team USA Women’s Coach Cheryl Reeve used the Olympics to push Kamala Harris for president.

An Australian swimmer who has won gold and silver thus far is slamming the “ridiculous,” woke, eco-friendly Olympic village schemes as not conducive to high-performance athletics, and it may have cost her a record finish.

An Islamist cleric reportedly called upon his followers to raise money to buy an island in Scotland to establish a de facto Islamic State.

Two people injured at a seaside machete battle were among those arrested over the disorder on Tuesday night at an English seaside town.

Before Monday, Olga Kharlan was primarily known as the Ukrainian fencer who refused to shake her Russian opponent’s hand. Now, she’s the Ukrainian fencer who refused to shake her Russian opponent’s hand and the winner of Ukraine’s first 2024 Olympic medal.

Since the new Labour Party government came into power earlier this month, over 3,000 illegal boat migrants have crossed the English Channel.

Huw Edwards, the BBC’s former top news presenter, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of making indecent images of children.

Newly British interior minister accused of double standards after responding with fury to a riot following a mass stabbing of young children.

Riots broke out in the English seaside town of Southport after the gruesome mass stabbing left three young girls dead and 10 wounded.

A French DJ and LGBTQ activist is taking legal action over online abuse regarding her role in the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony’s “Last Supper” display. Barbara Butch’s attorney, Audrey Msellati, wrote in a statement posted to Butch’s Instagram that

Four restaurants in Ohio have announced they will not televise the Olympics to their patrons after the “insulting” displays during the opening ceremonies in Paris on Friday.

A school bus parked in a Jewish neighborhood in Toronto was firebombed on Monday, while anti-Israel graffiti messages like “Free Palestine” were painted on a kosher grocery store and Jewish community center.

Olympic organizers were forced to order 4,000 pounds of meat and eggs quickly after athletes decried the fake meat and non-dairy options.

International Olympics Committee (IOC) spokesman Mark Adams declared that the Commission “fully supports” two fighters with male chromosomes who are set to compete this week against females.

Nearly half of Americans say the United States does not have a responsibility to help Ukraine, according to a poll released Monday.

Concern for public safety and raw emotion runs high after a mass stabbing of young children in the United Kingdom.

U.S. Tennis Olympian Coco Gauff was in tears Monday while arguing a call with the chair umpire before her loss to Croatia’s Donna Vekić.

A Chinese state outlet mocked French culture for its “sense of relaxation” on Monday, blaming it for errors at the Paris Olympics.

U.S. men’s gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik triumphantly won a bronze medal in pommel horse Monday, bringing the USA its first team medal in the sport since 2008.

Row upon row of empty seats at the Paris Olympic Games has reportedly sent organizers into a panic, prompting them to offer tourists tickets at fire-sale prices.

11 children and two adults were stabbed at a mother and baby support centre dance party, three children fatally.

The leftist-populist Slovak government announced it will not attend the closing ceremonies of the Olympics over the “insult” to Christianity.

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for directing a terrorist group, days after he was convicted in Woolwich Crown Court.

Dismal electric car sales have reportedly forced German car parts giant ZF Friedrichshafen AG to cut jobs. The layoffs are in response to “the changes in the mobility sector, particularly in the field of electromobility.”