US European Command released footage of the Tuesday encounter between a US surveillance drone and the Russian fighter jets as it played out over the Black Sea.
The newly declassified video depicts critical moments in the mid-air encounter, which the (...)
An extremely rare Mercedes has smashed the world record price for a car sold at auction, according to RM Sotheby's.
The 1955 Mercedes Coupé 300 SLR Uhlenhaut — one of just two prototypes built — was sold on 5 May at a confidential auction at the (...)
Daimler's chief executive Ola Kallenius suffered a grim first year in 2019 as profits tumbled at the Mercedes-Benz parent company due to billions in costs from the "dieselgate" scandal while thousands of job cuts lie ahead.
"We cannot be satisfied (...)
Nikita Nagornyy won the individual vault final for his third gold medal at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, while teammate Artur Dalaloyan ensured a one-two Russian finish on Sunday.
Nagornyy nailed his first Dragulescu vault with a (...)
Britain's Max Whitlock won his third pommel horse title at the gymnastics world championships in Stuttgart on Saturday to ensure an ideal preparation for next year's Tokyo Olympics.
The Olympic champion, who fell on the horse during Wednesday's team (...)
Carlos Edriel Yulo of the Philippines became the first gymnast from his country to ever win a gold medal at the world championships, edging Israel's Artem Dolgopyat in the floor exercise final in Stuttgart on Saturday.
Yulo, the youngest competitor (...)
Russia's men clinched their first-ever team title at the gymnastics world championships on Wednesday, edging China in a tight contest in the finals in Stuttgart.
The Russians never missed a beat as they posted a score of 261.726 across six apparatus (...)
The United States women cruised to their fifth consecutive team title at the gymnastics world championships in Stuttgart on Tuesday, with Simone Biles becoming the event's most decorated woman.
The Americans hardly made a mistake in the finals, with (...)
Russia's men led on day three of the qualification events at the world championships in Stuttgart, with their combined scores dominating the field on the six apparatus on Sunday.
Nikita Nagornyy, the 2019 European champion, topped the all-around (...)
Italian Matteo Berrettini cruised into the Stuttgart Open semi-finals after making light work of American Denis Kudla with a 6-3 6-3 win in just over an hour on Friday.
The 23-year-old world number 30, who beat second seed Karen Khachanov in the (...)
World No. 1 Naomi Osaka defeated Hsieh Su-wei 6-4, 6-3 in her first clay court match of the season in Stuttgart on Thursday.
US and Australian Open champion Osaka, who lost to Taiwanese veteran Hsieh in Miami last month, secured a place in the (...)
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus held on to move into second of the WTA Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart Wednesday.
The former number one Azarenka defeated Vera Zvonareva of Russia 7-5, 6-4.
World No. 1 Naomi Osaka will have a chance for revenge on (...)
France's Lucas Pouille saw off his compatriot Benoit Paire in the grass-court tournament at Stuttgart Saturday to set up a final against Feliciano Lopez.
The world No. 16, seeded fourth, came through a tight match 7-6 (7/5), 7-5, with his crucial (...)
Feliciano Lopez upset Tomas Berdych 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4 and Mischa Zverev ended veteran Tommy Haas' participation in the Stuttgart Open quarterfinals Friday.
Lopez saved all nine break points he faced against the third-seeded Berdych.
Zverev defeated (...)
Roger Federer suffered a shock defeat to 39-year-old Tommy Haas at the Stuttgart grass court tournament Wednesday in the Swiss great's first match after almost three months out of action.
Haas, a former world number two but now down at 302, won 2-6, (...)
Tommy Haas lined up a second-round meeting with Roger Federer, while seeded players Gilles Simon and Viktor Troicki both made an early exit from the Stuttgart Open on Tuesday.
The 39-year-old Haas, playing for the last time at the grass-court (...)
Maria Sharapova advanced to the quarterfinals of the Porsche Grand Prix by beating Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 6-1 Thursday.
In her second match after a 15-month doping ban, Sharapova hit nine aces and held serve throughout. She converted three of her (...)
A day before Maria Sharapova was to play her first tennis match since being banned for doping, the debate about the Russian's wild-card entry for the Porsche Grand Prix continued Tuesday. Simona Halep and Alize Cornet joined the growing legion of (...)
Porsche SE , Volkswagen's majority shareholder, said it has no information about former VW chairman Ferdinand Piech's talks with the carmaker's controlling families about a possible sale of his stake.
"We are only informed about the fact that talks (...)
"Game of Thrones" actor Liam Cunningham paid a surprise visit on Tuesday to a teenage Syrian refugee now in possession of a German visa and living in Stuttgart, a month after first meeting him in Jordan.
Cunningham, who plays Ser Davos Seaworth in (...)
Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser has been installed as the new head of U.S. Africa Command, AP reported. Waldhauser took over Monday at a time of conflict and crisis in Africa, including in South Sudan and Libya.
Once installed at a change of command (...)
Austrian Dominic Thiem won the ATP event in Stuttgart Monday after rain caused the grasscourt final against German Philipp Kohlschreiber to be held over.
Kohlschreiber had been leading Thiem 3-2 in a first-set tiebreaker Sunday when play was halted (...)
Roger Federer uncharacteristically failed to nail two match points as Dominic Thiem stunned the top seed on the grass in the rain-disrupted Stuttgart semifinals Saturday.
The Swiss legend, who is returning from a back injury that ruled him out of (...)
Roger Federer beat Florian Mayer 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-1) Friday to reach the Stuttgart grass court semifinals, claiming another record in the process.
The world No. 3 moved ahead of Ivan Lendl to stand second in career match wins with his 1,072 (...)
In his first match in a month, Roger Federer overcame a stiff challenge from American teenager Taylor Fritz to reach the Mercedes Cup quarterfinals with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 win Thursday.
The match began the day before but was halted by rain with the (...)