Lakes dotted around the city have overflowed after three days of ferocious rain, submerging roads and flooding homes. Rescuers deployed inflatable life rafts to retrieve stranded residents while buses and motorised rickshaws carted commuters throug...

After a turbo-charged inoculation campaign in the spring, Germany's jab rate has struggled since the summer to climb to the 70-percent mark. Likewise, neighbouring Austria and German-speaking parts of Switzerland have seen their vaccine curve flatt...

Marcos Jr, who is among the frontrunners seeking to succeed Duterte in 2022, said in a statement he was tested Monday and had submitted the result to three police agencies. He told a local broadcaster he had tested negative. "I really don't feel t...

Rahkeem Cornwall was on 33 not out off a breezy 43 balls containing five fours and a six, while Joshua Da Silva was on nine at the interval. Jason Holder and Kyle Mayers resumed on the precarious overnight score of 113-6 needing to reach 187 to avo...

The Global Nutrition Report (GNR), a yearly survey and analysis of the latest data on nutrition and related health issues, found that 48 percent of people currently eat either too little or too much -- resulting in them being overweight, obese or un...

Test superstars Joe Root, Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson and Ben Stokes were among the first wave of players to land in Brisbane on November 6 with their Twenty20 World Cup contingent jetting in later. They have completed 14 days quarantine at a Gold...

The pardons will benefit seriously or terminally ill prisoners and those involved in traffic offenses that did not cause injury or death, the communications ministry said in a statement, without specifying how many would be released. The measure is...

Instead, after he reached the coast of Somalia, the smugglers demanded more money and dumped the 19-year-old when he couldn't pay up. Broke and alone, Fentahun had no option but to walk back the way he came -- a journey many hundreds of kilometres t...

For the past two decades, Mitrovica in northern Kosovo has straddled a simmering fault line between Serbs in the north and ethnic Albanians in the south. NATO underwrites the uneasy peace and the Ibar River effectively partitions the two communitie...

A cause has yet to be determined but officials believe a fire broke out on board and the bus crashed into guardrails. There were no other vehicles involved in the accident, which occurred around 2:00 am (2400 GMT) on a highway about 40 kilometres (...

The former vice premier (2013-18) has been accused by tennis champion Peng Shuai -- in a message promptly censored on Chinese social networks -- of forcing her to have sex during a long-term on-off relationship. The tennis world has expressed conce...

Hamid Noury, 60, has been on trial in Stockholm's district court since August on charges including murder, crimes against humanity and war crimes. They stem from the period between July 30 to August 16, 1988, when he was allegedly assistant to the d...

El Salvador, which has used the US dollar for two decades, became the first country in the world in September to legalize bitcoin as legal tender. "Given Bitcoin's high price volatility, its use as a legal tender entails significant risks to consum...

The reigning Super Bowl champions had been left reeling after back-to-back defeats to Washington and New Orleans in recent weeks, but got back to winning ways with a comfortable home win at Raymond James Stadium. The Bucs' task was made easier afte...

The initiative concerning 11 countries on the rim of the world's biggest desert was first launched to great acclaim in 2005, only to battle a lack of cash. But 2021 could be the year of change. Donors this year pledged $19 billion for the scheme,...