Singaporeans are fiercely proud of their culinary traditions, which fuse influences from the country's multi-ethnic population, and are sensitive to botched attempts by outsiders to portray their cherished dishes. The controversy began when the Ti...

It's a presidential election year in France and 2022 is full of key dates marking the major official stages in the campaign ahead. Voters head to the polls for two rounds on April 10 and 24 to elect the French president. Amid all the uncertainty of ...

French voters will go to the polls to elect a new president – or re-elect incumbent centrist Emmanuel Macron – in two Sunday rounds on April 10 and 24. How does the two-round system work, how are campaigns financed and what restrictions are plac...

"When I was three years old I would tell my mother, I want to be an Olympic champion," she said on Monday after she led the Russians to gold in the team event. "I believe my next dream will come true too," she added, an apparent reference to the ...

But the 26-year-old American landed a ninth place after an emotionally draining week following two botched events that left her questioning her inner strength. Shiffrin had come into the Beijing Games as one of the most recognisable faces in winter...

Since Emmanuel Macron met Monday with President Vladimir Putin to try to defuse the crisis on the Russia-Ukraine border, US officials have either remained silent or even sounded skeptical about what European countries have called progress in avertin...

Now it is ringed by towering wind turbines whose night lights and whirring sounds are tantamount to daily "torture", locals say. "Longterm visitors ask us, why did you allow this crime to take place?" laments Stamatoula Karava, a local employee inv...

The dreadlocked Hirano, a silver medallist at both the 2014 and 2018 Games, said he "didn't understand" how he could be in second place behind Australia's Scotty James after a jaw-dropping second run in Friday's event. He simply got back on his boa...

Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as "endangered" on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and disease.

"We have got used to living here, we don't have a choice," she told AFP, standing in the doorway of the small room she shares with her disabled husband and elderly mother. Now, as fears swirl that over 100,000 Russian troops camped along Ukraine's ...

The tax is one of the biggest blows to alcohol consumption by a government often accused by its opponents of eroding the pillars of modern Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim nation but an officially secular state. The blow was felt particularly hard...

A heated debate has erupted over "The Betrayal of Anne Frank" by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan after it named a Jewish notary as the prime suspect in giving up Anne and her family. Dutch historians and Jewish groups have criticised the "sensati...

After concerns about Covid, human rights and man-made snow in the build-up to the Olympics in the Chinese capital, doping became the latest controversy to rock the Games. Reports of doping had swirled around the prodigious 15-year-old Valieva after...

In 2008, during the Summer Games in Beijing, Russia launched a devastating ground assault against the small Caucasus country on its southern border. Georgia was battling pro-Russian militia in its separatist region of South Ossetia, after they shel...

Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance, Games testers confirmed Friday, and the IOC is now appealing against Russia's decision to allow her to continue competing in Beijing.