The 25-year-old conquered the 34.2 kilometres (21.2 miles) circuit in 40min 2.78sec to edge Swiss powerhouse Stefan Kung by 2.95sec. Belgium's Remco Evenepoel, fresh from winning the Vuelta a Espana Grand Tour this month, was 9.16sec adrift in thir...

"To the King, God bless him," the dozen or so people standing in a semicircle facing Rose say as they knock back the pungent grog -- pleased that, for the first time since Queen Elizabeth II died earlier this month, they got the words right and toas...

Weeks after the Taliban seized power in August last year, the hardline Islamists reopened high schools for boys on September 18, 2021, but banned secondary schoolgirls from attending classes. Months later on March 23, the education ministry opened ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued a rare "special warning" for the Kagoshima and Miyazaki regions in Kyushu prefecture -- an alert that is issued only when it forecasts conditions seen once in several decades. By Sunday morning, heav...

Mexico's Alvarez was in charge for most of an electric 12 rounds at the T-Mobile Arena, winning a unanimous decision to spark wild scenes of celebration among the Mexican fans who made up most of the sell-out crowd. One judge scored the bout 116-11...

In a moving ceremony in Los Angeles filled with singing and dancing, the Academy publicly apologized to Littlefeather, who was feted by activists in the wake of her protest, but blackballed by the movie world. Littlefeather, who is Apache and Yaqui...

Mexico's Alvarez was in charge for most of an electric 12 rounds at the T-Mobile Arena, winning a unanimous decision to spark wild scenes of celebration among the Mexican fans who made up most of the sell-out crowd. One judge scored the bout 116-11...

Soaring prices have pushed annual inflation to a 40-year high, inflicting pain on American consumers and businesses, despite the welcome drop in gasoline prices at the pump in recent weeks. The disappointing consumer price report for August, releas...

But the "hanging gardens" of Djebba El Olia have been put to the test this year as the North African country sweltered through its hottest July since the 1950s. That has exacerbated a long drought that has left Tunisia's reservoirs at just a third ...

The country is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases driving global warming, and President Xi Jinping has vowed to reduce coal use from 2026 as part of a broad set of climate promises. Beijing has committed to peaking its carbon emiss...

The 56-year-old, who goes by one name like many Indonesians, is a self-taught conservationist with no formal background in botanics. He has dedicated his career to cultivating plants he compares to gemstones, and has been on a one-man mission to s...

The 35-year-old was the final rider down the ramp and chased down Brown's blistering early pace to win by 12.73 seconds in 44min 28.60sec and clinch another title, having also won in 2013. Switzerland's Reusser was third, 41.68 sec adrift at the op...

Birdsong, insects chirping, the sound of wind brushing through tall grass or over sand dunes -- all these form part of what the 44-year-old Frenchman calls his "sound art". "Sound art is a discipline where the principal medium is sound and where t...

The long-awaited return of England comes five months after a trouble-free tour by Australia, their first in 24 years, which helped Pakistan's rehabilitation as a safe place to play cricket. International cricket has gradually returned to Pakistan f...

Kwon's whereabouts have been thrown into question after the Singapore Police Force (SPF) statement late Saturday, and his tweets did not reveal where he was. The collapse of Terraform Labs earlier this year wiped out about $40 billion of investors'...