Israel Folau signed up to play for a second-tier Australian rugby league team Friday in his latest bid to end a sporting exile sparked by his homophobic social media posts. The former rugby union international told a press conference he planned to ...

Japan formally approved Moderna and AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccines on Friday, but the latter will not be used immediately because of lingering concern over very rare blood clots. The decision comes just over two months before the pandemic-postpone...

An Indian court Friday acquitted the former editor of a leading news magazine accused of raping a female colleague seven years ago in a high-profile case that made headlines across the country. Tarun Tejpal was acquitted of charges of rape, sexual ...

Chile, Latin America's richest country but deeply unequal, faces an uncertain economic future after mostly left-leaning independents swept elections to dominate a body that will rewrite the country's free market-friendly constitution. Over the cour...

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have verbally committed to a third fight, ESPN reported Thursday night, days after an arbitration ruling halted fight talks between Fury and British champ Anthony Joshua. After the independent arbitrator ruled Monday t...

Brazil has spent the past three weeks immersed in wall-to-wall coverage of a Senate inquiry into why Covid-19 exploded so horribly in the country -- a parade of damning, sometimes comical testimony likely to damage President Jair Bolsonaro. The let...

Gyrating with gusto to the sounds of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", a group of middle-aged Poles is fighting off lingering Covid symptoms with gym circuits. But this is no ordinary fitness workout. It is taking place 130 metres (427 feet) undergro...

Nurses measure out vaccine doses in a sunny room with giant windows offering views of the grounds' rampant bougainvillea. By the end of the day, 90 residents and staff at the Evanna Tehuis retirement home will have received Covid-19 jabs. The home...

Hundreds of Greek firefighters fought to master a large forest blaze burning for a second day on Friday, with better weather conditions providing hope the flames could be subdued. Nearly 300 firefighters battled throughout the night to keep the fi...

Australia on Friday pressed over-50s to get their coronavirus shots, as fears mounted that vaccine hesitancy could be priming the country for disaster. Australia is one of the few countries in the world to eliminate community transmission of Covid-...

China have won 28 of 32 gold medals awarded at the Olympics, but their supremacy could face its biggest test yet in Tokyo this summer. Few countries have dominated a sport quite like China has in table tennis -- winning every gold for the last thre...

Samoa's appeals court on Friday rejected a last-minute bid to prevent the opposition from taking power, paving the way for the Pacific nation's first change of government in almost 40 years. The ruling means parliament can sit on Monday, when the o...

Mountaineer Akash Neggi is fully prepared to take on the world's highest mountain -- after spending several weeks sleeping in a tent in his living room in New Jersey. As Nepal battles Covid-19, a growing number of climbers are using oxygen-deprivat...

Rugby World Cup winner Cheslin Kolbe said his Toulouse side need to "crack the final" open if they want to beat La Rochelle on Saturday and clinch a record fifth European Champions Cup. Top 14 leaders Toulouse play the team second in France's top f...

Seriously ill Covid-19 patients in African countries are more likely to die than those on other continents, which could be because of a lack of critical care equipment, a study published Friday said. Africa's populations have so far been less badly...