Wyss, 86 and founder of the medical device manufacturing firm Synthes, told the Swiss newspaper Blick that he had been sounded out on Tuesday, alongside three other people. Abramovich revealed Saturday that he plans to place his ownership of the Eu...

Scholz toured Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and laid a wreath. He was later due to meet Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and visit the Knesset, or parliament. The two heads of government -- both relatively...

Leading from the front as one of the modern game's best batters, India under Kohli became a force to be reckoned with outside the subcontinent but never won a multinational tournament. The brash social media star and advertising hot property -- mar...

Paing Takhon, 25 -- a star in both Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand -- had been active in the mass protests that rocked the country following last year's coup, leading rallies and advocating through his massive social media following. He was arres...

The vote on the draft resolution is being touted by diplomats as a bellwether of democracy in a world where autocracy is on the rise in countries from Myanmar to Venezuela, and comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces bear down on Kyiv whi...

The delegation, led by ex-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and retired admiral Michael Mullen, arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing over the self-ruled island as well as the crisis sparked by ...

Russia, a 'pariah' state Moscow's offensive marks a turning point for the whole world. Above all, Russia's attack shattered "the hope that post-Cold War Europe would be spared a large-scale land war," said Ali Wyne, Senior Analyst with Eurasia Group...

The airborne operation came as US President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a "dictator", warning the sanction campaign to cripple Russia's economy would escalate and its oligarchs were being targeted. In Biden's first State of the Union address, ...

Doncic sparked a fourth-quarter fightback for Dallas, transforming a six-point deficit with just over seven minutes remaining into a five-point lead to help set up a 109-104 Mavs win at the Crypto.com Arena. It was another frustrating outing for Le...

The State Department upgraded Hong Kong to its highest "Do Not Travel" warning "due to COVID-19 related restrictions, including the risk of parents and children being separated". "In some cases, children in Hong Kong who test positive have been sep...

Djokovic was deported on the eve of the Australian Open in January and on Monday lost his number one ranking to Russian Daniil Medvedev. "Marian has been by my side during the most important and memorable moments in my career," said the 34-year-ol...

Previous legislation imposed by delegates at the National People's Congress (NPC) has included a draconian national security law on Hong Kong and reversals in the one-child policy. At the same time, delegates make dozens of suggestions to solve var...

The death toll rose to 12 in a week-long disaster that has washed cars from roads and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as waters lapped at balconies and roofs. "This is terrible. This is terrible. One life lost is too many...

Ending a previous light-touch approach, hundreds of officers used perspex shields and pepper spray to force back protesters, who responded by pelting them with chairs, bottles and paint bombs. When it became apparent that police were winning the ba...

President Joe Biden won standing ovation upon standing ovation Tuesday in a rousing State of the Union speech seeking to transform bipartisan support for confronting Russia into momentum for broader unity as the United States finally emerges from th...