Im and Kim, respectively ranked 19th and 51st in the world, have been selected in the four-man squad for team and individual competitions at the Asiad in September, the Korea Golf Association said. South Korea requires all able-bodied men to serve...

In an annual ritual at 10:00 am (0700 GMT), pedestrians froze in place. Drivers stopped and stood in silence beside their vehicles, honouring the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War Two. At Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memori...

The company said net profit stood at 219 million euros "primarily due to a 104 million euro ($230 million) provision related to Russia." Earlier this month Nokia announced a full withdrawal from the Russian market leading to the layoff of 2,000 loc...

His wife, Eduvina Becerra, had to wait 15 years to hear his murderers confess and ask for forgiveness. It happened during a historic two-day hearing of a special peace tribunal set up in Ocana -- a town in northeastern Colombia near to where the 43...

The archipelago nation is facing a domestic shortage of cooking oil as well as soaring prices, with consumers in several cities having to queue for hours in front of distribution centres to buy the essential commodity at subsidised rates. Authorit...

But with box offices bouncing back from the Covid-19 pandemic, and Netflix stock plummeting after its first loss of subscribers in a decade, Fithian predicts movie theaters could even help the streaming giant adapt to an uncertain future. "The thea...

Seattle skipper Lodeiro completed a remarkable fightback in the ninth minute of stoppage time, burying his second spotkick of the game to give the Sounders an improbable draw at Mexico City's Estadio Olimpico Universitario. Uruguay international Lo...

China is facing its worst outbreak since the peak of the first wave in early 2020, with eastern Shanghai recording dozens of daily deaths and the capital Beijing sealing off whole neighbourhoods where handfuls of cases have been detected. Under i...

The 36-year-old wanted to help -- so she joined a band of Ukrainian women taking part in an intensive demining course in Kosovo, a place all too familiar with clearing deadly explosives. The trainees have travelled hundreds of miles, hoping to prot...

Despite climbing prices and a slump in the yen to a 20-year low against the dollar, the Bank of Japan left its ultra-loose monetary policy unchanged. The bank revised upwards its inflation projection for the 2022-23 financial year to 1.9 percent --...

With elongated bodies and small heads, the prehistoric leviathans weighed up to 80 metric tons (88 US tons) and grew to 20 meters (yards), making them among the largest animals to have ever lived. They first appeared 250 million years ago in the ea...

The archipelago nation is facing a shortage of domestic supplies of cooking oil and soaring prices, with consumers in several cities having to wait for hours in front of distribution centres to buy the essential commodity at subsidised rates. Auth...

A Sydney magistrate dismissed the charges against the 52-year-old at a hearing on Wednesday, putting Slater into the care of a doctor for mental health treatment instead, according to court documents Thursday. Slater, who played Test cricket for Au...

The positive result came despite Covid-19 forcing a postponement of the Women's World Cup, which was to be held in New Zealand, and the Rugby Championship Tests being moved to Australia because of border restrictions and lockdowns. "We should refle...

They were urged on by the Lebanese-British barrister Amal Clooney, who said she feared "politicians calling for justice but not delivering it." "My fear is that you will get busy and distracted and that each day there'll be a little bit less covera...