Over six million people are eligible to vote in Spain's most populous region where scorching temperatures are expected to cool slightly after a week of extreme heat which officials feared would hurt turnout. Polling stations opened at 9:00 am (0700...

The United States hit 11 Hong Kong and Beijing officials with sanctions two years ago after a sweeping national security law was imposed to snuff out dissent in the semi-autonomous city following the massive, sometimes violent democracy protests of ...

The cosplaying individuals were gathered at the second annual Thai air guitar championship for the chance to represent Thailand in the beloved World Championships in Finland later this year. The hallowed international event, founded in Finland in 1...

Troops fired in Visuvamadu, 365 kilometres (228 miles) north of Colombo, on Saturday night as their guard point was pelted with stones, army spokesman Nilantha Premaratne said. "A group of 20 to 30 people pelted stones and damaged an army truck," P...

Before the invasion, Datcha, the restaurant that Jarova manages in a 19th-century stately home, mirrored the atmosphere in this historic city of sailors founded by Catherine the Great: nostalgic and carefree. Odessa has so far escaped capture but R...

Abstention is expected to be high as voters face a stark choice between electing their first ever left-wing president or plumping for a maverick outsider dubbed the Colombian Donald Trump. "What we have now in the country are questions, uncertainti...

While her campaign is not centred around her ethnic background, it is attracting attention -- positive and negative -- in a country where politics is still a largely homogenous affair. Ethnic Uyghurs generally hail from China's Xinjiang province, w...

China is the last major economy welded to a zero-Covid strategy -- putting firms and workers at risk of snap lockdowns, freezing activity in the services sector and tangling supply chains crucial for factories to sell their goods. As the country ba...

Just this past week, the US Federal Reserve announced its biggest interest rate hike in almost 30 years, followed by the fifth straight increase by the Bank of England and the first in 15 years in Switzerland. "This week was a first. The craziest i...

Of the 110 employees at the Towson, Maryland shop, 65 voted in favor and 33 against, according to a live count broadcast Saturday by the federal agency overseeing the vote. The vote comes after a group of employees called AppleCORE (Coalition of Or...

"This is the first step towards the metaverse," Chaudhuri of French start-up Actronika told AFP at this week's VivaTech trade show in Paris. The vest can give users the sensation of being buffeted by the wind or even feel a monster's breath on thei...

If Whitelock is ruled out, with the first Test only two weeks away, it will reduce the All Blacks to only three fit second-row forwards in their squad -- Brodie Retallick, Scott Barrett and Tupou Vaa’i. Josh Lord had also been named in the All Bl...

The unbeaten 37-year-old Canada-based Russian scored three knockdowns and had Smith in deep trouble with just under a minute remaining in round two before the fight was stopped. Beterbiev improves to 18-0 – all by knockout – and can now set hi...

The two-time defending champion Lightning, who rallied from 2-0 down to beat the New York Rangers in six games in the Eastern Conference final, struggled all night in the face of Colorado's superior speed. Nichushkin put the Avalanche ahead at 2:54...

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are all the rage at the Art Basel fair in Switzerland, where the world of digital assets is taking off. Artist Jeff Koons plans to send 125 miniature sculptures to the moon with multi-billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX com...