Unlike fellow members of the Quad alliance Japan, Australia and the United States, India has abstained in three UN votes deploring Moscow's actions, calling only for a halt to the violence. Earlier this month in a four-way call, Kishida, US Preside...

After waiting so long for top-class racing to return, Indonesia's motorbike-mad fans were given a treat in incident-packed qualifying on the steamy island of Lombok on Saturday. France's Quartararo, who went fastest in practice on Friday on the new...

It overlooks Laongo, a rural community not far from Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, and is the sort of groundbreaking design that helped Kere scoop architecture's most prestigious award, the Pritzker Prize, this week. In so doing, the 56 year-...

The global success of Turkish television series -- often with government-pleasing narratives -- has made the country a small-screen superpower. But "The Club" and its sumptuous recreation of 1950s Istanbul is a first, not least because some of the ...

"Le President est-il devenu fou?" (Has the president gone mad?) by Patrick Weil takes a fresh look at US president Woodrow Wilson (1913-21), who helped forge the Treaty of Versailles after World War I and tried to establish lasting peace through the...

"We as artists have talent and we need to use this talent to say what we believe in," Ukraine's Ivan Putrov, co-organiser of the event to be held at the English National Opera's London Coliseum, told AFP. "Art has a voice and is the voice that we u...

Pakistan's second-biggest city and its Gaddafi Stadium have not hosted a Test since the attack on the Sri Lankan team bus left six security personnel and two civilians dead. It drove international cricket away from Pakistan, forcing the home team t...

Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for meaningful talks with Moscow on Saturday to end the war as Russia said its soldiers had entered the centre of the besieged city of Mariupol, "tightening the noose" around the key port.

Voters lined up outside polling stations at the crack of dawn to choose between a record 16 candidates led by two revolutionary heroes in incumbent Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres and former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta. F...

The National Health Commission said both deaths occurred in Jilin, the northeastern province which has been hardest-hit by a nationwide rise in cases that has prompted lockdowns or tight restrictions in several cities. The deaths were the first r...

As bitter fighting between local forces and Russian troops rages across the country more than three weeks into the invasion, the two sides are already holding negotiations remotely. But so far, as in previous rounds, the talks have yielded little p...

Quartararo's Yamaha cut out, just like it did in practice on Friday, but the Frenchman roared back on that occasion to power to a leading time of 1 min 31.608sec. Quartararo's time was never threatened on Saturday in third and final practice becau...

The fatalities were the first reported in China since January 26, 2021, and bring the country's total death toll in the pandemic to 4,638. In all, China reported 4,051 new cases on Saturday, down from 4,365 the day before, the commission said. Th...

The Southeast Asian nation closed its borders to visitors in March 2020 at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to prevent rising infections. Myanmar was further isolated after a coup last year saw huge protests and a bloody mili...