A team of doctors successfully completed open heart surgery inside a Russian hospital that caught fire on Friday as firefighters battled the flames from the outside, regional emergency services said. The wooden roofed building in the far eastern c...

Candidates for public office in Hong Kong will have their entire history vetted, its top justice official said Saturday, after China announced a radical overhaul to ensure only "patriots" run the city. Beijing imposed sweeping changes on Hong Kong'...

Caroline Baron is wearing shoes she has not worn in a year and a big smile as she walks into The Shed, one of the few major venues in America's cultural capital New York to begin hosting live performances again for the first time since March 2020. ...

A bipartisan group of US senators on Friday sent letters to major digital ad exchanges, including Google and Twitter, asking whether user data was sold to foreign entities who could use it for blackmail or other malicious ends. In the real-time bid...

A rebel group has accused Myanmar's military of deploying "excessive force", saying on Saturday that continuous air strikes have displaced more than 12,000 unarmed civilians, including children. Late last month, the ethnic armed group Karen Nation...

Survivors of Taiwan's worst rail crash in decades have recounted their desperate efforts to find loved ones in the twisted wreckage of the train at what should have been the start of a holiday weekend. Friday's crash, which killed at least 50 peopl...

Thailand's Patty Tavatanakit maintained her one-shot lead at the LPGA's ANA Inspiration ahead of Chinese veteran Feng Shanshan Friday, with a host of big names within striking distance. Patty, a 21-year-old in her second season on the LPGA tour aft...

A New Zealand television presenter has publicly apologised for using a mock Asian accent when referring to Otago Highlanders's Japanese international Kazuki Himeno after a Super Rugby Aotearoa match on Friday. Joe Wheeler, a former Highlander who a...

A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by Hollywood blockbuster "La La Land" has hit China's cinemas, portraying a rural idyll of ethnic cohesion devoid of repression, mass surveillance and even the Islam of its majority Uyghur popula...

Italian teen Jannik Sinner rallied past Spanish seventh seed Roberto Bautista Agut at the Miami Open on Friday to book a meeting with Hubert Hurkacz in the biggest final of his young career. Sinner, who reached last year's French Open quarter-final...

Salvage teams began removing mangled train carriages on Saturday after Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people, as flags flew half-mast across an island plunged into mourning. Officials said Friday's devastating collision ...

Sports fans will be allowed to return to indoor arenas in California later this month under new guidelines announced by state authorities on Friday as the Covid-19 situation improves. The California Department of Public Health said new rules would ...

Severe leg injuries in a February car crash ensured Tiger Woods won't be playing in this year's Masters on the 20th anniversary of his "Tiger Slam" victory at Augusta National. But the 45-year-old superstar, whose 15 major titles include five Maste...

Rory McIlroy is struggling to find consistency ahead of the 85th Masters, chasing the green jacket to complete a career Grand Slam a decade after an epic Augusta National collapse. The 31-year-old from Northern Ireland hasn't won a major title sinc...

Augusta National is back at its formidable best, ready to welcome the world's top golfers next week for the 85th Masters with lightning-fast greens and blossoming spring flowers. Five months after a rain-softened layout surrendered a course-record ...