The city's airport was previously one of the world's busiest but has been largely cut off throughout the pandemic as Hong Kong hews to China's strict zero-Covid policy. "Circuit breaker" rules mean any airline that brings in three or more infected ...

The artist, whose real name was Motoo Abiko, was found outside his home near Tokyo on Thursday, private broadcaster TBS and others said. Police declined to confirm the reports to AFP, but tributes to Abiko were tweeted by other artists and those in...

The latest move in the industry came on Tuesday from Amazon, which took a major step towards getting its $10 billion Kuiper constellation off the ground by sealing deals with three rocket companies. The US online retail giant wants to strengthen it...

IBF world champion "GGG" Golovkin (41-1-1, with 36 KOs) is favourite to beat Murata (16-2), who holds the WBA version of the title, in Saitama, north of Tokyo. The hard-hitting Kazakh will turn 40 on Friday and has not fought since December 2020, w...

Russian troops have been withdrawing from around the capital and Ukraine's north, leaving a trail of destruction behind them, as they prepare for an expected assault on the country's southeast. The scenes of carnage left behind by retreating troop...

"I irreversibly delegate to this presidential leadership council my full powers," President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi said in a televised statement early Thursday, the final day of peace talks held in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Hadi's internationally r...

Russian and Belarusian athletes living in their respective countries are barred from the April 18 race, the Boston Athletic Association said. However, Russian and Belarusian citizens not residing in either country would be allowed to take part, but...

In the middle of the Kruger National Park, South Africa's most celebrated wildlife reserve, this luxury train takes passengers -- but it never moves. Converted into a boutique hotel, the train provides a gilded lookout from which guests can gaze ov...

Broadcasters are already playing catch-up with online gaming giants in the battle for the attention of young audiences and the advertising dollars that follow. On the horizon is the so-called "metaverse" -- a loose term covering the growing eco-sy...

Online buzz has swelled ever since Tesla's colorful but controversial founder and chief executive Elon Musk tweeted word of the event, with reports of perhaps as many as 15,000 guests taking part in the official plant opening. Tesla owners posted p...

The latest sordid massacre saw 20 inmates killed -- some mutilated -- last Sunday in the El Turi penitentiary in the southern city of Cuenca. It was the fifth such mass murder in a prison riot since February 2021. The government blames these horro...

But with Russia's invasion of Ukraine driving an exodus of IT specialists to former parts of the Soviet Union, authorities in Uzbekistan are hoping to speed up plans to modernise an economy best known for its vast production of cotton. It took only...

Yasmine and Jacki, a couple from Israel, have dreamed of having a boy. Israeli laws strictly regulate selecting a child's sex. So the couple drove three hours from their home in the suburbs of Jerusalem to a clinic in Nablus in the occupied West Ba...

Tunisian authorities opened an inquest Friday into the death of a 16-year-old girl after she was mauled as she walked to school in the coastal city of Gabes. Residents have complained of a rise in the stray dog population and attacks on livestock i...

The 47 activists make up a swathe of the city's depleted democracy movement, from veteran former lawmakers to young firebrands and community organisers as well as academics and unionists. Charged with subversion, the majority have been held in cust...