Angela Merkel's conservatives were heaving a sigh of relief on Monday after a convincing win in the last regional vote before a general election that also exposed the weaknesses of the Green party, their main rival at the national level.

India's capital New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai began a gradual easing of restrictions on Monday as coronavirus infections in the country fell to a two-month low. Hospitals in the megacities -- which have a combined population of some 40 million...

Mali's Colonel Assimi Goita will be sworn into office as the troubled country's transitional president on Monday despite international condemnation of his latest power grab, the second coup he has led in nine months.

Fiji has transformed its largest hospital into an emergency Covid-only facility, as the country reported a record number of new cases and a surge in the quick-spreading Delta variant, first identified in India. The South Pacific island nation went...

Gareth Southgate has chosen Ben White to replace the injured Trent Alexander-Arnold in England's Euro 2020 squad after an impressive performance in the 1-0 win over Romania. The 23-year-old Brighton central defender made his international debut in ...

Toyota has apologised and vowed to tackle workplace harassment after settling with the family of an employee who killed himself following repeated abuse by his boss. The 28-year-old engineer died by suicide in 2017, after being regularly abused by ...

The trial of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will begin next week, her lawyer told AFP Monday. Myanmar has been in uproar since Suu Kyi was deposed in a February 1 coup, with near-daily protests and a nationwide civil disobedience movement, ...

Pakistan Super League cricketers will have to contend with soaring temperatures and empty stadiums when the Covid-hit Twenty20 competition resumes far from home in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. With day-time temperatures hitting 40 degrees Celsius (104 F...

Australia's three Olympic women marathoners boast a combined age of 118, and the eldest of the group Sinead Diver is adamant that being 44 isn't a hindrance. The mother-of-two will incredibly be making her Olympic debut while fellow mum Lisa Weight...

Philippine investigators have lodged criminal complaints against a former executive of collapsed German payments firm Wirecard and others for alleged bank fraud and cybercrime offences, the justice secretary said Monday. Wirecard was once a rising...

Top French Open quotes from the first week of action at Roland Garros: "The truth is I have suffered bouts of depression since the US Open in 2018 (when she beat Serena Williams for her first Slam title) and I have had a really hard time coping wit...

A defamation trial opened Monday pitting one of Australia's most decorated soldiers against three major newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith, a former member of Australia's elite Special Air Services regiment...

At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into carriages from another express that had earlier derailed, officials said. An unknown number of people were still trapped in the tangled ...

A Chinese shopping app has been blocked on social media after a post on the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, as Beijing's censorship kicked into gear around the sensitive date. The Weibo page of Xiaohongshu, a Pinterest...