The 37-year-old took the last Bangladesh wicket to ensure New Zealand won the second Test in Christchurch and drew the series. With Bangladesh nine down, and the Hagley Oval crowd roaring for him to have a bowl, Taylor had Ebadot Hossain caught by...

A week after her delivery deserted her at the first of two Adelaide lead-in tournaments, Sabalenka suffered the same fate as she was stunned in three sets by world number 93 Rebecca Peterson 5-7, 6-1, 7-5. Sabalenka dished up 21 double faults and w...

Here are a few pointers on the life and legacy of France's most illustrious playwright. A little-known star Moliere, real name Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, left zero trace of his personal life: no journal, correspondence or even notes on his work. The o...

Usually a rather cerebral place, the National's audience was in stitches as O'Hare's character Tartuffe, from the classic 17th-century French play, tried to disguise his adulterous antics as a bit of horseplay. "The comedy translates across the ce...

Elected in 2019 as president, a role similar to that of speaker in a national parliament, his two-and-a-half-year mandate was dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. Good-natured Sassoli earned the parliament's respect with his sense of organisation...

"We will keep the current border control policy until the end of February while taking necessary measures from a humanitarian viewpoint and considering the national interest," Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters. Local media said t...

Embiid recorded his seventh straight 30-point game. He also had six assists and made all 13 of his free throws in front of a crowd of 13,600 at Toyota Center arena in Houston. Embiid is the second NBA player in history to score exactly 31 points in...

The 65-year-old Italian had been seriously ill in hospital for more than two weeks due to a dysfunction of his immune system. "David Sassoli passed away at 1.15 am on 11 January at the CRO in Aviano, Italy, where he was hospitalized," his spokesman...

The revelation came as chief executive Carrie Lam announced the suspension of all kindergarten and primary schools until after the Lunar New Year in early February. Like China, Hong Kong maintains a strict zero-Covid strategy that has kept cases lo...

Zhang Qing fled to the United States with the couple's children in 2009 after her husband Yang Maodong highlighted local corruption in a Chinese village and was imprisoned. Zhang was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer in January 2021 and died i...

Miura, known as "King Kazu", said he would "strive to help the team win on the pitch" after joining Suzuka Point Getters. The move was announced at 11:11am on January 11 -- with the former international forward set to wear the number 11 shirt next ...

Beijing is on high alert for new outbreaks as it prepares to host the Winter Olympics next month, sticking to a "zero-Covid" strategy of targeted lockdowns, border restrictions and lengthy quarantines. While those measures have kept the number of n...

"If I didn't work in this profession, I would have left, just like so many other people," said the 42-year-old trafficker, who asked to use a pseudonym when he spoke to AFP in the northern city of Tripoli. "Maybe I would have turned to someone to s...

It has been an improved batting performance from Bangladesh after being rolled for 126 in their first innings and forced to follow on 385 runs behind. New Zealand need to win to square the two-match series and each time the Bangladesh batsmen have...

In multi-confessional and multi-ethnic Iraq, the formation of governments has involved complex negotiations ever since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Parliament only met for the first time since the October 10 vote on Sun...