The comments from Anthony Albanese -- aired Sunday in an interview with Sky News -- came as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Fiji for closely watched meetings with the island nation's leaders and other Pacific foreign ministers. Wang, who b...

The vote takes place in a tense atmosphere, a year after a brutal security crackdown on street protests that were fueled by deepening socioeconomic woes. Polls show that many Colombians are pinning their hopes on Gustavo Petro, an ex-guerrilla and ...

The Russians had pushed a lot closer to her town of Soledar since Tetyana Barshchevska last set out her stall on the opposite side of the street from an already-destroyed grocery store. The local salt mine now had a chunk of it smashed in by a miss...

Experts and activists suspect it's not a coincidence, believing that some entrepreneurs want to get rid of unwanted rubbish sometimes imported from Europe. In Kartepe, an industrial town in the country's north-west, one of these sites was closed by...

But conservationists are concerned about dwindling numbers of one of the island's most distinctive visitors -- the Atlantic puffin. "The population was really booming in the 80s and 90s and then suddenly, a crash," David Steel, a manager at the nat...

The season will finally see action three months later than usual in three neutral cities, as China sticks to a strict zero-Covid strategy that has meant tens of millions of people have been locked down in cities such as business hub Shanghai. Analy...

Michelle Bachelet's long-planned trip this week took her to the far-western Xinjiang region, where the United States has labeled China's detention of a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities a "genocide." "We are concerned the conditions Beiji...

ITC, or Intelligent Traffic Control, was one of the artificial intelligence players at Tel Aviv's recent EcoMotion showcase where high-tech and AI firms hope to make transport more efficient and cleaner. Its AI software collects real-time data from...

The 36-year-old brewer plans to use the time to get involved in charity work, start a long-overdue course in particle physics, and spend more time with family. He and colleagues at the Pressure Drop brewery are taking part in a six-month trial of a...

The sight of the health workers, dressed in full protective kit, is one that has become common in the Iraqi countryside, as the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever spreads, jumping from animals to humans. This year Iraq has recorded 19 deaths among 11...

The dominant Blues lost their season opener, but have since rattled off 13 straight victories -- a franchise record -- to seal top spot in the 12-team table. Assured of a home quarter-final, coach Leon MacDonald rested his top players, including su...

Bradford Central Foodbank is helping twice as many people compared to pre-pandemic, as spiralling prices for energy, food and other basics leave a growing number of Britons struggling. "The numbers since I've been a volunteer have only multiplied a...

"Right now, on day 100 of BG's wrongful detainment, we are calling on everyone to use their platforms, no matter the size, to bring attention to her wrongful detainment, to get (Griner's wife) Cherelle that meeting with President Biden and to get ou...

One of her best-known murals graces the side of a building in the capital Amman, a giant work made from more than 2,000 plastic bottles, almost 1,000 shopping bags and over 150 hookah pipe hoses. A US citizen of Iraqi origin, Nissan said she became...

The "March of the Flags" threatens to exacerbate weeks of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, and comes as Israel marks "Jerusalem Day", commemorating the city's unification following the capture of east Jerusalem in 1967. Some 3,000 police...