Protests had erupted across Peru in recent days due to a hike in fuel prices and tolls, during a time of rising food prices. In an attempt to appease protesters, the government eliminated the fuel tax over the weekend. But truckers and other trans...

The pioneering event has a purse of $750,000 and kicks off Thursday at Waterside Course at Siam Country Club in Pattaya. Golfing action will wrap up Sunday and features 60 Ladies European Tour (LET) and 60 Asian Tour golfers. The line-up includes ...

The court must decide if the deputy speaker of the assembly violated the constitution by refusing to allow a no-confidence vote against Khan at the weekend. The move allowed Khan to get the presidency -- a largely ceremonial role taken by a loyalis...

In 2012, the 60-year-old married three women simultaneously in his church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He repudiated one for "bad behaviour", but now has four aged between 26 and 48 through other marriages. Zagabe's situation shows that...

The "Youseum" in Stockholm has no works of art on its walls. Instead its brightly-decorated rooms are meant to serve as fun backgrounds for visitors' selfies or videos. "You can take cool pictures and create cool content for your Instagram... Thi...

Protests had erupted across the country in recent days due to a hike in fuel prices and tolls, during a period in which Peru is also suffering from a rise in food prices. In an attempt to appease protesters, the government eliminated the fuel tax ...

Japan typically accepts just a few dozen refugees a year from thousands of applicants, and while it has cracked open its doors to Ukrainians, it calls them "evacuees" rather than refugees. The 20 Ukrainians flew with Hayashi from Poland, where he w...

The invasion of Ukraine by her ancestral homeland Russia nearly six weeks ago had come as a massive shock, Marta Albertini told AFP, adding that she immediately realised she needed to help refugees. "It was instinctive," said the 84-year-old, who i...

While Saturday's shock 4-1 home defeat against Brentford was hardly ideal preparation for the quarter-final first leg against Real, Chelsea boss Tuchel has dealt with worse setbacks during a turbulent period for his club. When Chelsea owner Roman A...

The speech, Zelensky's first to the body since Russia's invasion, comes after he made an emotional trip to Bucha outside the capital, where dozens of bodies were discovered after the withdrawal of Russian troops. Horrific images of corpses lying in...

The top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks had trailed 40-25 at half-time against the eighth-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. But a superb second-half performance saw Kansas reel in North Carolina to claim a dramatic 72-...

Severe shortages of food, fuel and other essentials -- along with record inflation and crippling power cuts -- have inflicted widespread misery across the island nation, which is enduring its most painful downturn since independence from Britain in ...

It was Roman Abramovich, the billionaire Russian tycoon and owner of Chelsea Football Club, who has long sought to strike a balance between cordial ties with the Kremlin and a jet-setting lifestyle in the West. What was he doing at the Istanbul tal...

European Union officials were discussing new measures against Moscow after reports -- denied by the Kremlin -- that troops had executed civilians. Among the punishments could be a ban on imports of Russian crude, following a similar move by the Uni...

"The images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us to now match our words with action," US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in a tweet Monday. "We cannot let a member state that is subverting every princ...