More than 100,000 people are expected to gather in Lisbon for the four-day Web Summit, the first full-scale edition since 2019 following the disruption of the pandemic. The conference attempts to bring together start-ups, investors, business leader...

Peter Thomson has been growing blueberries at his farm in Blairgowrie, northeast Scotland, for more than four decades, producing 300 tonnes of fruit per year. But now, he said, growers in Peru and South Africa can sell their berries in the UK at a ...

Several neighbourhoods in towns and cities just outside Manila remained under water after the storm raked across the main island of Luzon overnight, cutting power supplies and inflicting damage. The death toll from the storm rose to 48, the nationa...

Ledecky, in her first event of the season, won the final in 15mins 8.24secs to break the old mark of 15:18:01 set by Germany's Sarah Wellbrock in 2019 at Berlin. Brazil's Beatriz Dizotti was second in 15:48.82 with Canada's Laila Oravsky third in 1...

After a slow start in which Bangladesh made just 63-2 off the first 10 overs, Shanto led the charge to smack 40 off the next five before he fell for 71 with seven fours and a six in his 55-ball knock, helped by some sloppy fielding. Afif Hossain ch...

"So far, people who died have reached 100 and 300 are wounded, and the number for both the death and wounded continues to increase," he said after visiting the bombing location. Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the ...

The 28-year-old Dominican left-hander, a 17-game winner in the regular season, allowed only one run on four hits with three walks to frustrate Phillies batters. As a result, Houston equalized at 1-1 in Major League Baseball's best-of-seven champion...

Gordon Hayward scored 23 points for Charlotte and Kelly Oubre added 18 as the Hornets once again spoiled Warriors star Stephen Curry's trip to Charlotte, where he played high school basketball and his father, Dell Curry, starred for the Hornets. Th...

As major economies bounced back from the pandemic, companies had struggled to keep up with soaring demand, with manufacturing hit by factory shutdowns during virus outbreaks. The situation was worsened by a shortage of shipping containers, along wi...

Hunter, who became the most capped women's Test player, scored the first of seven tries in a match dominated by the English forward pack, who revelled in the wet, heavy conditions. Flanker Marlie Packer bagged a hat-trick as all seven tries went to...

On January 1, Croatia will bid farewell to its currency -- the kuna -- to become the 20th member of the eurozone. The former Yugoslav Republic, which joined the European Union nearly a decade ago, posted an annual inflation rate of almost 13 percen...

The war-scarred nation and major crude exporter is one of the world's five countries most impacted by key effects of the climate crisis, says the United Nations. Compounding the water stress, upstream dams, mainly in Turkey, have vastly reduced the...

Hussein Abu Saddam, head of the farmers' syndicate in Egypt which is hosting the COP27 global climate summit in November, told AFP he is already witness to a climate-induced exodus from the countryside. Agriculture in Egypt -- "one of the most arid...

Lula, a charismatic former president tainted by graft charges, narrowly won a first-round election and enters the finale the slight favorite with 52 percent of voter support, according to a final poll from the Datafolha institute on Saturday. Howev...