Ministers were trading concessions with just hours to go before the scheduled closing ceremony at the World Trade Organization's first conference in nearly five years. The global trade body's 164 members added on an extra fifth day of talks to try ...

Tunisia's main labour union holds a vast public sector strike Thursday to demand salary hikes and concessions on looming reforms, upping pressure on a president already facing a string of crises.

The 33-year-old Redmayne became an Internet sensation after dancing his way along the goal line as Peru's players prepared to take their penalty kicks in an attempt to put them off. He was lauded as a national hero in Australia with his save of Ale...

For the 44-year-old father-of-two, the war in Ukraine is about more than just defending one country from Russian aggression. "We are fighting alongside Ukrainians against our common enemy -- (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's imperialism," Elisas...

James Joyce's "Ulysses" was first published in February 1922 in Paris after printers in Britain had refused to handle the "obscene" novel. It remained banned there and in the United States for years. The anniversary four months ago was duly obser...

The 62-year-old star was expected at Westminster Magistrates' Court from 0900 GMT to face the charges, which he has vowed to fight. Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner for "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty", was formally charged by police in th...

With international attention focused on the war in Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be in a good geopolitical position to launch a new military operation against the Kurds in northern Syria. Despite US warnings, Erdogan ha...

As Formula One returns to the challenging Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for the first time in three years, it will be the 24-year-old Monegasque under most pressure – and probably with much sympathy from a knowledgeable crowd – as he seeks to end a ...

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi arrived in Kyiv to deliver “a message of European unity” on Thursday, Macron said, and are due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel...

Yet some historians believe its architect, Richard Nixon, risks being displaced as the norm-breaking exemplar of presidential corruption by Donald Trump and the firestorm over his role in the 2021 US Capitol assault. Nixon's underlying crime was co...

Eliyahu's ethereal music, partly inspired by his Jewish roots from the Dagestan region of the Caucasus, is gaining recognition in Israel. Yet despite the bitter hostility between the Israeli government and Tehran, which cut ties in the wake of the ...

Burakovsky, limited by injury in recent weeks, belted a shot from the right side to seal the win in a game that was tied for the last 26:21 of regulation. The Avs, who had a nine-day break after sweeping the Edmonton Oilers in the Western Conferenc...

Newly-minted England white-ball coach Matthew Mott has two uncapped players in David Payne and Luke Wood as well as Brydon Carse, Philip Salt and Liam Livingstone(three ODIs each) in his squad, with all expected to be keen to impress the selectors a...

Picamoles, 36, joined Christophe Urios' side last season and will hang up his boots at the end of the campaign. The two-time Top 14 winner with Toulouse made the last of his 82 Test appearances at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, during his second spell o...

The race was first run in 1928 and has been held at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne since 1996. It attracted record crowds in April when it returned for a race won by the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc after missing out in 2020 and 2021 because o...