Top seed Kevin Anderson said he is ready to kick-start his Roland Garros run-up at the Estoril Open, preferably by winning his maiden clay title. The world number eight, beaten in last year's US Open final by Rafael Nadal, has a bye to the second round where he will face either the runner-up from Barcelona, Greek tyro Stefanos Tsitsipas, or Spai ...

Top seed Kevin Anderson on Monday pronounced himself ready to kick-start his Roland Garros run-up at the Estoril Open. The world number eight, a US Open finalist last September, has a bye to the second round where he will face either the weekend Barcelona runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas or Spain's Pablo Andujar. South African Anderson last compe ...

Three quarters of freshwater species endemic to East Africa's Lake Victoria basin face the threat of extinction, conservationists said Monday, warning the biodiversity there was being decimated . A fresh report backed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessed the extinction risk of 651 freshwater species like fish, m ...

Comoros President Azali Assoumani is considering announcing and contesting nationwide elections in 2019 if a controversial constitution-altering referendum is passed in July, one of his advisers said Monday. Assoumani is believed to be seeking to consolidate his power with the constitutional changes so that he can remain in power beyond 2021 whe ...