Afghanistan news

Thirty one per cent of adults worldwide – approximately 1.8 billion people – did not meet the recommended levels of physical activity in 2022, according ... More

Oliver Lee OBE will be taking the position of CEO at Places Leisure from July. He will replace Paul McPartlan, who announced in April that ... More

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the majority of adolescents worldwide are not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at ... More

Australian fitness franchise F45 has secured deals to open sites in emerging markets across the Middle East and Africa – taking the number of countries ... More

The Military Museums (TMM) in Calgary, Canada, is planning to build a new permanent CA$50m (US$37.9m, €33.4m, £29.8m) museum devoted to the Afghanistan mission. Covering ... More

A number of heritage projects in the Middle East and Africa have been given millions in funding by Britain's Department Department for Digital, Culture, Media ... More

A British diplomat who served as ambassador to Afghanistan has taken a new role as director general of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Dominic ... More

The governing body for cricket in Ireland has been handed a major boost in its ambition to make the sport part of the nation’s mainstream ... More

Ohio’s Cincinnati Art Museum has received the largest gift in the institution's history: a US$11.75m (€10.6m, £9m) donation to establish an endowment for Asian art. ... More

An eight-time Invictus Games gold medal winner nicknamed the ‘prince of the pool’ has been appointed as the open water swimming/water safety ambassador for the ... More

The 2017 edition of the Invictus Games – the international para-sport event for wounded service people – will be held in Toronto, Canada. Revealed by ... More

A refugee centre in Greece will host part of the Olympic torch relay ahead of the Rio 2016 Games – with the torch being carried ... More

The original founder of British Military Fitness (BMF), Harry Sowerby, has reassumed the top rank having been appointed as the company’s new managing director. Sowerby ... More

An Argentinian design team, headed up by Carlos Nahuel Recabarren, has won a UNESCO design competition to create a Cultural Centre in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. From ... More

The Oculus Rift virtual technology has provided a unique solution for stolen works at galleries and museums, with one developer showcasing lost works through a ... More

A new independent gym in Leeds is aiming to drive numbers through an innovative reward scheme whereby members pay less the more they train. Launching ... More

Harry Sowerby, the original founder of British Military Fitness (BMF) in 1999, is returning to the company as chair, 11 years after he left to ... More

The Indian government has awarded Afghanistan's cricket board a US$1m grant toward the creation of a new cricket stadium in Aino Mena, Kandahar – a ... More

Major stakeholders at the Medical & Wellness Tourism Summit 2014 in New Delhi, India, discussed the need for a national accreditation body for the sector, ... More

London's Imperial War Museum (IWM) has marked the centenary of World War One with the reopening of its museum following the completion of the first ... More

Non-profit organisation Skateistan has branched out into Africa to launch its third skateboarding project in Johannesburg, South Africa. Skateistan has built on its continuing projects ... More

British troops in Afghanistan have undergone what is believed to be the first group cycling instructor training course to take place in the country, as ... More

Residents in the battle-hardened capital of Afghanistan have been treated with a new US$5m (£3m, €3.6m) waterpark in the heart of Kabul. The new facility, ... More