The 23-year-old cut ties with Malaysia's badminton association this month to play as an independent, but the body hit back by prohibiting him from competing in tournaments for two years. The ban triggered fury, with top international players conde...

The last time North Korea tested this many weapons in a month was in 2019, after high-profile negotiations collapsed between leader Kim Jong Un and then-US president Donald Trump. This year Pyongyang has embarked on a fresh flurry of sanctions-bust...

Last week, a home security video that showed a man from the northwestern city of Xi'an assaulting his wife during a citywide Covid-19 lockdown spread on Chinese social media. The police response to the incident triggered an even wider uproar, with ...

Bosch and VW software subsidiary Cariad are aiming to "make functions available that will allow drivers to temporarily take their hands off the steering wheel" in vehicles sold under the Volkswagen Group brand, according to a statement. These will ...

A blizzard on Monday shut Istanbul Airport down for the first time since it took over from the Ataturk Airport as the new hub for Turkish Airlines in 2019. It had warned that operations would be suspended throughout the night after grounding to a h...

The Spanish sixth seed edged the Canadian 14th seed 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 in 4hr 8min of thrilling action on Rod Laver Arena to advance to his seventh semi-final in Melbourne where he will face either Matteo Berrettini or Gael Monfils. It was a g...

Hirano finished second behind three-time halfpipe gold medallist White in an epic encounter at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, giving the Japanese rider silver for the second Games running. Now the dreadlocked 23-year-old is aiming for the top prize...

And with polls suggesting the upstart faction, which has just one seat in the outgoing parliament, could emerge from the election as the third-largest party, many Roma are worried about the impact this will have on their lives. Jose Fernandes, a re...

"I feel like I have my Afghanistan in my hand," says Sakhi, one of the world's most renowned performers on the country's national instrument, the rubab. He is jet-lagged after flying in from California to perform at London's Barbican concert hall t...

"Ashab wala Aaz" -- one of countless remakes of the Italian comedy-drama "Perfetti Sconosciutti" (Perfect Strangers) -- features renowned actors from Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan. The movie is about a group of friends meeting for dinner and deciding ...

The 30-year-old is one of more than 370,000 people left in limbo by Japan's coronavirus border rules, which bar almost all new arrivals and are the strictest in the G7. Even as other countries with tough virus restrictions like Australia reopen, Ja...

The January 15 eruption generated huge tsunami waves and blanketed the Pacific kingdom in toxic ash when it obliterated an uninhabited island with explosive forces more powerful than a nuclear bomb. Australia has led international relief efforts, r...

"The clash broke out last night (Monday) at 11 pm. It was a prolonged conflict from a clash on Saturday," Sorong police chief Ary Nyoto Setiawan said in a statement. One victim was stabbed and 17 more died in the blaze at the "Double O" nightclub, ...

Pacific nations, many just dots in the vast ocean, successfully used their isolation as a buffer to the pandemic when they closed their borders in early 2020. But two years later, the hyper-transmissible Omicron variant has breached those defences....

In the men's draw, Rafael Nadal was looking to continue his march to a record 21st Slam title as the tournament reached the quarter-final stage. But a hot morning on Melbourne Park's centre court, Rod Laver Arena, belonged to the unseeded world num...