The US military establishment is walking a tightrope as it seeks to balance such demands and avoid nuclear escalation, according to public statements by American leaders and AFP interviews with several officials who spoke on condition of anonymity t...

A Champions League last-16 tie against Paris Saint-Germain, with all the noise, the drama and the intrigue, will carry greater significance for Madrid’s president Florentino Perez than any of their other 39 fixtures so far this term. In 2018, Zin...

Moscow's offer to evacuate residents was condemned because most of the routes led into Russia or its ally Belarus, and as the invading forces maintained a devastating shelling campaign. The Ukrainian military said Tuesday, nearly two weeks into the...

Police said it was "suspected" the pair are a missing mother and son whose car was abandoned in a stormwater canal. Tens of thousands of Sydney residents have been told to evacuate their homes as severe storms and flash flooding inundated swathes o...

The 24-year-old Olympic champion was banned for eight weeks and fined an additional $25,000 following his Mexico meltdown. The world number three had already been fined $40,000 for verbal abuse and unsportsmanlike conduct. However, both the ban an...

Sixers big man Embiid had 14 rebounds and two assists as Philadelphia pulled away in the fourth quarter for a convincing 121-106 win. It was the 10th time this season that Embiid has posted 40 points or more as well as 10 or more rebounds in a sing...

Rai, born in a farmer's home in eastern Nepal, emerged as a trail running prodigy in 2014 after her racing debut in a steep 50-kilometre race in Kathmandu. Within a year she finished first at the 80-kilometre Mont Blanc Ultra in Chamonix, and was ...

In socially conservative South Korea, every president except one has been male and come from one of the country's two major parties. The next president will also be a man -- the front runners are both male. As a four-time parliamentarian and season...

At a first glance, the community's grid plan, low houses and surrounding fields resembles any other rural Uruguayan village -- but a scratch below the surface reveals the history of a site founded more than a century ago by Russian peasants. Althou...

Suspected of being Al Qaeda's intended 20th hijacker for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured by interrogators at the US military base in Cuba where he has been detained for nearly two decades. ...

"As I have stated before, elections have the potential to be a nation-building moment, or a catastrophe," the UN envoy for South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom, told the Security Council. "Much depends on the political will and leadership of the South Suda...

Dive instructor Poosak Posayachinda's family has owned the traditional teak-walled So Heng Tai for eight generations, but it lives on thanks largely to his decision to convert it into a scuba academy. The survival of the building, originally built ...

The Vienna-based UN body said Ukrainian authorities reported an attack took place on Sunday, adding that no increase in radiation levels had been reported at the site. Because the site's "inventory of radioactive material is very low" and kept at a...

"Nof Hagalil is built on immigration," said Plot, 67, who arrived in Israel nearly 50 years ago from Moldova. "We will absorb as many people as we can." After the Russian invasion began, Plot posted on Facebook, inviting Ukrainian "olim", or Jewish...

Having hastily gathered her belongings when the sound of gunshots inched closer to her village, she'd forgotten to take menstrual pads. So on their exhausting seven-day trek to neighbouring Nigeria in 2018, the 33-year-old had to make do -- like ma...