THE Miami Heat entered the playoffs as the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference but are in an unfamiliar position ahead of Game 2 of the NBA Finals — down 1-0.Despite starting every series in this year’s playoffs on the road, the Heat managed

PARIS — Lionel Messi will leave Paris St Germain at the end of season after two years at the Ligue 1 club, Paris St Germain said on Saturday.PSG host Clermont in the final round of Ligue 1 later on Saturday.“After two seasons in the French

The Heat didn’t look at all like vast underdogs when they met members of the media following Game One of the National Basketball Association Finals. It didn’t matter that they headed into the set-to with long odds, and that they then lost it after having

WASHINGTON — President Joseph R. Biden on Saturday signed a bill that suspends the US government’s $31.4-trillion debt ceiling, averting what would have been a first-ever default with just two days to spare. The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the legislation this week after

A GENERAL VIEW of skyline buildings in Hong Kong, China May 28, 2020. — REUTERSHONG KONG/TAIPEI — Hong Kong (HK) police said on Sunday they had detained eight people near a park, four of them for “seditious intention and disorderly conduct,” as authorities tightened security

AERIAL VIEW of St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City — ALAN LIU-UNSPLASHVATICAN CITY — A special purification rite was held at the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday after it was desecrated by a man who stood on it naked to protest against the

REUTERSSINGAPORE — Senior officials from about two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.Such meetings are organized by the Singapore government and have been

BALASORE, India — Ompal Bhatia, a survivor of the three-train crash in India on Friday, had first thought he was dead. When the train he was traveling in went off-track, Mr. Bhatia was with three friends on his way to Chennai for work.The 25-year-old had

Sen. Cynthia Villar expressed confidence that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will prioritize the signing into law of a bill condoning loans of farmers and agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs).Villar, chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Food, and Agrarian Reform, said Senate Bill 1850 or the New